Progress Update 19/12/2024

It’s the final week before the release of 0.7.1 and we are shifting our focus more towards bug fixing and polishing of already developed features. We finally implemented long-anticipated dynamic environments and many other cool features!

Excited to see all these features yourself? Feel free to download our 0.7.1 release candidate and give it a spin! Afterwards feel free to share your experience with us and have fun playing!

Programming

New DevBuild for our patrons:
- The world now starts off with no oxygen and photosynthesis once evolved will add oxygen to the world
- Metabolosomes are now locked until reaching a patch with oxygen
- Iron respiration no longer requires oxygen to keep it viable in the vents biome
- Added a new music track for the ice shelf biome
- Added a microbe background distortion shader effect that can be enabled in the options (this may become the default in the future)
- Added an experimental bloom effect that can be enabled
- Changed membrane bump map UVs to not distort with the membrane animation
- Reworked patch and some UI icons as SVG files
- Auto-evo can now generate flagellum length mutations
- Reduced pulling cilia power a bit when there are many of them
- Added missing models to the art gallery model viewer
- Fixed a bug where the editor showed patch compounds as they were during the previous generation
- Fixed showing how long gas compound storage takes to fill up, which didn’t make sense as cells don’t store the gas type compounds
- Fixed regression in fossilization dialog not working
- Made cloud benchmark spawn all types of clouds
- Organelle tooltips are now dynamically generated from the organelle JSON data
- Updated wiki text content
- Updated translations