Patch v13.71

Balancing and fixes for animals

• Various legs besides the body now have special requirements for the animal to have more than 1 set of limbs, to make them look more natural (already in the previous patch logs, but now it's working)

• Sessile animals with moving juveniles now actually move to the ocean floor and stop moving as adults (thanks, Cody Beaver, Cringus Ringus, Spectator, Acarlis, mic biology!)

• Idem for ocean floor walkers (thanks, Ancient Relic!)

• Optimized species population size tracker in situations with many species

Balancing and fixes for plants

• Grass is now removed from a cell when eaten (thanks, esportfrank!)

• Wildfire now removes grass, and grass won't be able to grow there for a while

• Plant subspecies will now always have the same color as their parent species, to make it easier to identify which plant is which species

• Tweaked the chance of algae evolving into plants

Working on the weight system

• Made max weights for flying and in particular gliding higher, so development of flight is more likely

• Weight now increases with body size, making giant flying things less likely (thanks, Warlor-vir!)

• Individual torso segments now have less influence on the final weight to compensate for the above

• Now the 'halve weight' icons are used everywhere, so you can see the weight in more detail

• Removed ugly floating points that could sometimes pop oup in the UI

Introduced savefile format 16

• Memory/savefile optimization: the game now prunes extinct subspecies that the player couldn't see anyway

• Added support for automatic continental drift

• When loading, fixed the explainer text about which formats are supported

Various little editor fixes

• Adding seasons and then hitting 'randomize all' no longer messes up the planet tilt (thanks, SethMMX!)

• Plus and minus keys now also control zoom in the alga and fungus editors (thanks, Daruka!)

• When dragging the 'slow moving tube feet' and 'sessile foot' body parts, they now have the correct color instead of white

Misc

• Clicking a species in the cladogram view now shows a subtree starting from that species, making it easy to study part of very large trees

I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions, suggestions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or thesaplinggame@gmail.com.