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[p]Monoliths have awakened![/p]
[p][/p][p]A huge update is here, overhauling a ton of game systems and adding a bunch of new stuff![/p]

🐻 - Subspecies
🧬 - Genes
🗣️ - Languages
⛪ - Religions
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 - Families
✨ - Tons of new powers
🦾 - Loads of new units
🎵 - New sounds
🕰️ - Ages upgrade
🏰 - Clan traits
🖥️ - New UI
📈 - Graphs
💾 - More saves
👻 - Unit possession!
🏞️ - New biomes
🧱 - Walls
⚙️ - New settings
🖼️ - New illustrations
🥚 - Easter eggs
🏆 - New achievements
🛠️ - Thousands of fixes
🐞 - And, of course, some new bugs
🕳️ - [HIDDEN]



Here are the last raw Betalith patchlogs:

added:
- animation to un-explored trait
- swimming animations for hovering units, when hover is removed. Like bees, etc
- when you hover over nameplate with disabled zones view - king/leader/armies icons would highlight
- sapient tab to subspecies list window
- non-sapient tab to subspecies list window
- more icons in saves windows
- show unlocked goodies in achievement popup
- new art for world laws
- support for multiple phenotypes in subspecies
- planes
- hypercube
- bees? Bees
- dunglords
- more words for alliance names
- current tile in background for unit avatar in UI
- fully synergy chromosome would be shown as gold
- now can drag/drop ages in ages window
- sliders has something to say
- maps has something more to say
- worldlaws now can be reordered
- ages now have drag and drop behavior
- creatures can be made mindless just in one click
- tooltip descriptions to statistics and graph items
- joined/left/moved/migrated stats to kingdoms and cities
- track renown in stats
- track money in stats
- track defender and attacker money in stats
- track renown in alliance stats
- war winners and losers are now shown in kingdom banners
- 50,000 and 100,000 years time scales in graphs
- more circle brushes
- missing plot tooltip in the plots list
- plot progress tooltip now shows percentage of completion
- graph tooltips now show the delta (change) from the previous value
- Graphs now hide repeating points and lines that contain only zero values
- removed monthly deaths/kills/births in favor of total values (to reduce redundancy)
- evolution is no longer considered a death type
- graph x-axis year display corrected
- format long numbers using culture-based separators for readability
- shortened number display on vertical chart axes
- graphs now show 0 values in the middle of the chart again
- track joined and speakers converted stats in languages
- number formatting in tooltips now shows “1” instead of “1.0”
- pasting text with line breaks no longer breaks save files or onomastics
- inactive buttons are now skipped when navigating powers using Ctrl + arrow keys
- can't drag two items at once — releasing now no longer leaves one hanging
- special cursor for when you hover over unit/meta 
- special cursor for when you hover over ui elements
- new artwork for history menu
- achievement icon would change to gold if all achievements unlocked
- sprite for a button when unit species exists in the world + less darker effect for unit icon
- added priority to kings, leaders, favorite units to ignore default(non world law) meta limits
- arrows symbols to graph tooltips
- added past kings entry to kingdom window
- added past leaders entry to city window

optimizations:
- some optimizations for general stuff
- nameplates were rendering under power bar, even when not visible
- optimized little fps drops related to sprite loading
- some windows now preloaded during game load, and opens faster during gameplay

changes:
- adjusted traits inheritance formula, so babies won't receive almost all parent's traits
- only ambitious and inspired units would want to split culture/language/religion
- meta splits only happen if meta existed for a long time and origin meta has a lot of people
- icons in tooltips for meta on top changed from left to right for consistency
- seeds texts updated
- battle markers won't show up if non sapient species fight or player kill somebody with eraser, etc
- unicorns building set changed
- sponge would stop fires on burning buildings/trees
- alliance plots only can be created if kingdom has 60 renown
- new wars can only happen if kingdom has at least 50 renown
- during fractured kingdom event due to ruling clan death - kingdom would leave it's alliance as well
- same for shattered crown event
- make all animal civs be able to build full set of buildings
- polishing to flower biome art
- new icons for new world laws
- new icon for border brush
- new icon for hematophagy
- improved effect for taking roots and uprooting sprites
- new skeletons would be created from subspecies
- necromancer staff allows user to spawn skeletons. Even without religion/gifts traits
- other staffs too
- xenophobes of same culture and subspecies won't be killing citizens of other city
- garlic people and undead are sworn enemies
- more traits a filtered from random spawn. Like heartbeat, whirlwind, energized, blood of eons, etc
- refactor unit ui avatar logic
- more pleasure to kill talented creatures
- reveal the secrets hidden by achievements
- grin reaper won't trigger on opened window
- units won't die when you exploring in ui
- thorns can hit attacker on final hit
- buildings polish for armadillo, bandits, candy, capybara, chicken, crystals, demons, dog, druid, mages, fox, frog, garlic, hyena, lilliar, monkey, necromancer, penguin, piranha, rabbit, rat, rhino, scorpion, sheep, snake, snowman, turtle, wolf
- grass wall polish
- use architect mood in save window elements
- subspecies population limits won't be added/removed during subspecies mutations
- units will make idle sounds not only during talks, but also during laughing, crying, singing, etc as well
- sounds polish for gnapkin, reptiloid, crablin, garlic, nibling, baakin, snok, chicken, buffalo, cat, fairy, fly, bee
- sounds polish for fireworks
- various description polishing
- some default traits in species changes
- added fins to crabs
- increased damage from heat ray
- subspecies in meta windows sorted by population order now
- mini health bars won't show if unit has full health
- hammers have chance to stun targets
- banners doing swaps
- eternal and favorite items are more eternal now
- species caster logic now adapts based on where they’re casting and where they're from. E.g., casting skeletons in an enemy town uses local species
- color customization window tooltips now show the hovered color
- more support for hybrid input devices (mouse + touchscreen)
- tooltip positioning on mobile — appears above the finger, left side if possible
- species with extremely short lifespans can no longer receive the "pretty old" trait to avoid reincarnation loops
- adjusted adult age calculation based on species
- circle brushes now more rounder and use Bresenham's Algorithm
- Handsome migrants now join cities immediately
- decreased range for newly spawned units-nomads to join existing villages
- creatures that are immune to fire won't be killed by heatray
- when gaia's shield is active - unit's spell spawn grass - won't work
- unit spawn age would be more based on subspecies age
- changed neuron for starting new civ to be in more priority
- spawning units would make their age based on species adult age
- some bee animations
- beetle taxonomy names

fixed:
- too many skeletons subspecies in same city
- families not created for some single parent reproduction methods
- opposite traits could exists in metas after splits
- units can fall in love with related units
- family window crashes sometimes
- some crashes related to books
- some ui crashes
- some decision crashes
- stability in general, etc
- world law civ babies didn't work
- world law animal babies didn't work
- can remove iron wall fix pickaxe
- eye of insight lie sometimes
- eye of insight didn't trigger for unit traits
- baby always gets metas from second parent
- some unit head sprites fixes
- lightning effect when outside map borders
- units can replace cursed items when they making new items
- clicking on zones, when border zones are turned off - opened windows
- unit mutated to white square in ui avatar
- kings wearing heads of other species on top of their own. If somebody was budding in the world
- mass of some units was so huge that it attracted tooltip's content
- some units didn't want to show their resources in unit window
- unit's carrying resources weren't saved with map
- subspecies with lithotroph diet - die, because they didn't actually consume rocks. Just looked at them with desire
- poisonous trait didn't work
- grin reaper doesn't get activated on pause
- babies created with 0 phenotype shade
- city and kingdom showing wrong founder species, if rulers are different species from initial ones
- forbidden knowledge shortcut on world generation didn't trigger correctly
- autosave button size sometimes break
- genes stats was wrong sometime after loading save
- some ships projectiles damaging coastline tiles with acid
- projectiles from boats hit units when they should have fly over their heads
- projectiles that land far away, for example when shooting from boat during possession - shows explosion in wrong place
- some baby kings are missing heads
- fenix born could result in creation of new subspecies during resurrection
- knowledge window showing everything unlocked with forbidden knowledge
- soft crash when shift click on unit with no layers enabled
- fixed noticeable invisible one frame lag when you see unit's frame for the first time in session
- aliens have no diet set
- nameplates not showing sometime, when zoomed-in to the ground. Because of wrong calculation of visible zones withing camera
- some reproduction fixes
- angle tower not spawning units
- godfinger is shown as question mark in tooltip
- disasters weren't shown in world history logs
- attacks against enemy units stun too much when possessed
- old rendered mini map pixels sometimes flicker for a moment during zoom out
- mage hunting is great again
- soft crash when baby is born and parents lack inheritable traits
- soft crash when cities had no tiles left
- soft crash in clan list when the chief was dead
- soft crash when boats tried to unload units after taxi request cancellation
- soft crash when war arrows tried to reference a dead war
- transmutation of range weapon to melee could lead to crash
- insect meat diet units were still targeting meat diets incorrectly
- stats were not tracked during the first year of a world
- kingdoms that rejoined wars appeared as both “past” and “current” participants
- dragon slayer trait was not being assigned correctly
- units sometimes retained or assigned items incorrectly (belonged to cities or wrong units)
- units dying between window open and window load could cause errors
- missing tooltip descriptions on some window tabs and toggles
- wrong year displayed on graph x-axes
- tooltip didn’t show plot progress correctly
- square selection triggers unit inspector sometimes and fuels frustration
- transmutation is using non available equipment
- mushrooms from old saves convert to mushroom trees
- sexual reproduction balance tweaks 
- rounding error if unit only has 1 max offspring preventing him having babies

free mobile version:
- autosaves are now free
- more saves slots are now free
- time control now unlocks for 12 hours

modding:
- added custom save data to map stats 

There's still a lot to wrap up - translations, various loose ends, and all those finishing touches. That's what we'll be tackling in the next patches.

New mechanics and UI will keep getting refined and upgraded in future updates.

The Monolith update is all about laying the foundation. We spent a lot of time on the groundwork - building out code and UI systems to streamline development going forward, for both current Monolith features and everything still to come.

We're roughly at the halfway point with core systems, and we really can't wait to start developing the next ones!

A huge thanks to all the beta testers and everyone who sent in reports - your feedback helped us make this release more stable across all platforms!

Enjoy WorldBox and Monolith!

- Team WorldBox

heyo! patch 4 is up!

[h3]added:[/h3]

• Credits with handsome people are updated!
  
• New world law – Gene Spaghetti
  
• New world law – Mutant Box
  
• New world law – Glitched Noosphere
  
• New world law – Drop of Thoughts
  
• New world law – Grin Reaper
  
• New subspecies trait – Grin Mark
  
• New neuron for units with teleport spells that allows them to teleport to their home city
  
• Show passenger count in boat tooltip
  
• Show passenger species icons in boat tooltip
  
• Show carried resources in unit tooltip
  
• Meta windows now show the number and % of different subspecies for kingdoms, cities, alliances, languages, cultures, and religions
  
• Culture, language, clan, and religion now have a chance to get a few random traits on creation
  
• Border brush
  
• Wars now accumulate renown based on what happens during the war
  
• Split war duration (how long it lasted) and age (how long ago it started) for better comparison
  
• More info in war list elements
  
• Sort wars by renown
  
• Sort wars by duration
  
• Sort ended wars by time ended
  
• Sort wars by army size
  
• Sort wars by population
  
• Sort favorite items by the cities they are stored in
  
• Sort favorite items by their owners
  
• Species icon added to religion, culture, and language nameplates
  
• Skeletons now have subspecies
  
• World laws – added new category: Spawn
  
• Sparks effect on tiles draw
  
• Bowling ball charging
  

[h3]changes:[/h3]

• Improved header for war window
  
• Polished credits art
  
• Some summoned units via rites would join the caster's kingdom
  
• Grey goo that cannot move (Gaia's Law) will only make sound while visible
  
• Meteors and lightning strikes will now count toward the kill stats of whoever caused them
  
• Adjusted the "conversion" event: it now happens only in the plotters's own city and won’t affect outsiders
  
• Reduced the distance of conversion
  
• Connected the Chosen One trait to unlock instead of Regeneration
  
• Plant fertilizer won't surprise units anymore
  
• Biome mutation is now more rare
  
• Renamed world law to "Rat King"
  
• Mythril ore can now spawn in Celestial and Paradox biomes
  
• Adamantine and Mythril will no longer spawn in deserts
  
• Gems can now spawn in Clover and Rockland biomes
  
• Crystal plants and trees will now drop gems instead of Mythril
  
• Increased the chance to get a combat trait after dummy training
  
• Rebellion rite would ignore loyalty checks
  
• Player-forced rebellion plots will also ignore loyalty checks
  
• All cannibalistic creatures will now fight when hungry, not just wolves
  
• Changed how the Hotheaded trait works — it now triggers less often
  
• A city will be destroyed if no units are inside its borders when it’s attacked and can't be captured
  
• Handsome migrants won’t arrive if the subspecies population limit is reached
  
• All newborn babies now receive metas from their parents by default
  
• Changed how the culture trait "Ancestral Knowledge" works: it now gives half of the best learned attribute from each parent to the newborn
  
• Mute people won't show talk bubbles above them, but can still socialize
  
• Fixed bandit boat sprite
  
• New icon for zone toggle
  
• New icon elements for the war window
  
• Mages have Ancestral Knowledge by default
  
• Fireworks are less loud
  
• Firebombs and grenades are quieter
  
• Improved formula for natural deaths
  
• When spawning a new unit near an existing subspecies, default species traits won’t be added — only traits from the subspecies birth
  
• Magic rites now cost significantly more gold to cast
  
• When spawning a new unit that joins a city, it will immediately get metas (religion, culture, language) from that city
  
• Parked/waiting boats will now make units go inside more eagerly
  
• Living houses and vegetation now inherit the age of the object they were made from
  
• Units from spawners would use same subspecies of other units from spawner, even if they are far away
  
• Chart Comparison window will not clear previously selected items if they're still alive
  

[h3]fixes:[/h3]

• When a skeleton is spawned by a sapient unit, it will now join the caster's city and kingdom
  
• Religion/culture/language traits were not inherited after splitting
  
• Join or die – kings would switch while still being kings
  
• Dust will now make kings forget that they are kings
  
• Kings will now have to abdicate before switching to a city of another kingdom
  
• Using a tooltip on something right after a bomb destroyed it may have caused an error
  
• Ruined volcano was damaging units
  
• Fish not used by carnivores from storage
  
• Progress cloud saving between PCs
  
• A new civilization could convert a king without a city to their side
  
• Too many beehives
  
• Units were happy that another city was conquered even after they themselves were captured
  
• Using sleep on a dragon made it move weirdly
  
• Units of the same species but different subspecies couldn't fall in love
  
• Skeletons always spawned with bows
  
• Civ versions of mobs (like evil mages) were still attacking everything
  
• Units joined "neutral" cities instead of forming a kingdom
  
• Icons for boats were missing in tooltip and selected unit tab
  
• Language traits were not added from biomes
  
• Multi-unit selection wasn’t triggered when the cursor was out of world bounds
  
• When a kingdom scattered, other royal clan members – even if they were kings – could abandon the kingdom and form a new one
  
• When switching cities, units would stay in their old city armies
  
• When kingdoms joined alliances, and there was a war where the alliance was on one side, and another war with the same party on the opposite side, both wars would continue instead of ending one
  
• If a list was open and someone in that list died since it was opened, the window now refreshes
  
• an issue where a war list would crash if a dead kingdom was, for example, a bee kingdom
  
• Active wars are now counted properly in the power tab tooltip
  
• Active war statistic was off because it counted recent or favorited dead wars as well
  
• Tabs in the history window stopped working
  
• Count stats of all defenders/attackers after a war has ended, including those who left
  
• Show kingdom banners in war list elements of dead kingdoms and kingdoms that left
  
• Armies and bannermen won’t be moved into a new city after it’s founded
  
• Boats were sometimes cancelling orders for no reason
  
• Unit birth stat only counted 1, even when twins or more were born
  
• King's rule years were reset after loading
  
• Some animal civs wouldn’t build boats
  
• Babies always inherited the same traits from parents
  
• Items was rendered for eggs
  
• Some typos
  

heyo! third patch is up!

added:
- limit to number of family and city nameplates shown at the same time on zoom out
- only xenophobic cultures will kill other species and destroy cities; others will capture cities instead. Or try

changes:
- warriors won’t return to cities to drop off resources when outside borders
- adjusted warrior neuron activation rates to make them follow army leaders more closely
- lighter icons for non existing species in the power bar
- social buttons now display updated numbers
- lowered requirements for starting some plots
- small celestial trees are now more spread out
- polished buildings for aliens, acid gentlemen, and alpacas
- handsome migrants now start with the city's culture, religion, and language
- when a unit kills another, it will take all their resources
- culture/religion/language splits won’t happen in capital cities
- splits won’t happen if the origin kingdom is the same as the current one
- splits won’t happen if the origin clan is the same as the unit’s
- subspecies loyalty won’t be shown if the city's species is different from the kingdom’s
- if species differ, a new species loyalty check is triggered. If the leader is xenophobic, it applies a -40 loyalty penalty
- units won’t teleport resources to city storage when a task is cancelled
- book plots take longer

fixes:
- Cold Ones, Bandits, and Aliens were missing unique baby heads
- fixed Bandit boat sprites
- some civ head sprites were incorrect
- units were often holding carried resources instead of weapons during attacks
- carnivorous animal civs were hunting units from their own kingdom
- unstable genome trait didn’t work
- some units spawned as babies from disasters and magical rites
- kings were following their lovers to cities in other kingdoms…
- kings could start a rebellion… against themselves
- units were settling in biomes they had no adaptation for, with no progress
- units from rites were spawning as babies and eggs
- handsome migrants won’t migrate to cities they’re not adapted to
- fixed Middle Earth achievement
- drag&dropping traits while hammering keys threw an error
- removed auto-tester tab from debug menu in builds
- history from an old world was shown when loading/creating a new world
- war manager could show an error when too many wars existed
- war banner threw an error when trying to show a recently destroyed kingdom
- opening the graph comparison window from a list window (while the list was inactive) showed an error instead of selecting the top 3 items
- graph comparison button showed up in the plots list, even though plots have no graphs
- migrant law caused a crash when no cities were present
- dead ancestor families caused the family window to refresh repeatedly
- save window tooltip was counting mob civs as mobs
- home button in the unit window appeared distorted
- saved map window displayed the age of the current map instead of the saved one
- crash when inspecting a kingdom that just lost its capital during pause
- war outcomes were displayed in lowercase
- resources tooltip in unit window showed mass instead of carried resources
- some destroyed buildings were saved into files, making them unloadable

heyo! seconds patch is up!

added:
- forbidden setting
- can hover over unit's mass now to see what they got
- added swearing when unit doesn't like you possessing them
- can see resources unit is holding right now in unit window
- motivated status
- new bad news world law
- new handsome world law

changes:
- angel eggs are back
- child kings/leaders can claim land now
- adjusted starting subspecies traits for butterfly
- unit spawn icon will be a bit greyed out if creature doesn't exist in the world
- adjusted sexual reproduction logic and housing limits for babies
- more graph options are enabled by default
- graph data with 0 values won't show on a graph
- resources (like meat and bones) received from animals and kills will be proportional to unit's weight
- without savage trait, units will skip collecting resources from their own species
- more varied resource drops from units
- civ couples can make their first baby even without a house
- fat trait upgrade
- added regeneration default trait to some species with photosynthetic skin
- adjusted default ages
- achievements rewards

fixes:
- carnivores and omnivores didn't eat fish from city stock
- wrong text for negative loyalty (different language/culture/religion)
- unlock progress didn't transfer between different PCs
- thieves could steal cursed items
- locus without neighbor sides acts as amplifiers
- Super Mushroom achievement not working
- book-related crash

hey liths! First patch is live. Thanks for testing!

added:
- when you rain biome seeds on units - their subspecies will get the adaptation trait for that biome automatically, so they can settle there
- meta tooltip now shows when hovering over nameplates!
- can open meta window by clicking on nameplates
- new map zones button toggle. Now you can turn on/off meta names and zones separately
- new world law to toggle magic rites

changes:
- death from old age won't happen for all at the start of a year. Instead, it's more organically spread out
- bowling boulder refactored to work the same way at any game speed
- comma in minefield achievement description
- angle, demon, etc. towers will now spawn adult units
- plague from rats won't start if natural disasters are off
- changed plague start requirement from 10 rats nearby to 20
- traits locked under achievements can now be removed from creatures even if not unlocked
- adjusted plot editor buttons' look
- some plot order in plot menu
- plots that are not possible to start will be greyed out
- adjusted when you can force some of the plots
- metas of characters will stay after evolution event
- king won't be removed after evolution event, when he evolves
- when a unit transforms into zombie, skeleton, evolves, etc. — they will keep genealogy, parents, lovers, best friends, loot, money, level, etc. now
- adjusted rating values used for equipment switching after kills
- fewer small celestial trees will spawn
- increased amount of progress needed for plots to finish
- removed sand adaptation trait

fixes:
- typo "when when"
- antimatter bomb damages tiles with Gaia's Covenant world law
- clone wars signal checks not-alive units
- equipment unlocking by drag and drop
- loading background game load resize glitch
- earthquake event damages tiles with Gaia's Covenant world law enabled
- "storm of a hundred twisters" achievement unable to be received
- scroll to trait group not scrolled fully
- minefield achievement checked for 100 years instead of 1000
- GMO subspecies trait added to all subspecies on spawn
- favorite icon bugged when unit is on a boat/inside house
- incorrect amount of traits to unlock achievement
- unlocking any fire elemental except humanoid doesn't unlock their spawn button
- just-unlocked genes aren't able to be drag and dropped
- trait and equipment rain shows non-unlocked items
- stats from traits sometimes didn't activate after loading the game due to cache issue
- connections in gene pool having different colors after loading saves
- ascension plot didn't work usually for civ units
- fixed ascension plot not evolving other clan members, only the plotter
- crash when baby tries to write a book but doesn't know a language?
- glitches with "talking" sounds on higher speeds
- cities built over monoliths
- cities built over big celestial trees
- some species like insects having lifespan more than defined in genes
- trait rain editor scroll to section not working
- tornado damages tiles with Gaia's covenant law