Update v0.79.0 - Vegetation update, positional sounds, improved snow, more!

Game loaded from the previous version shouldn't have any problem, but could miss some additions.


FULL CHANGELOG





- Added Taxus Tree.
- Former "Apple" renamed to "Taxus Berry", which is produced by the Taxus Tree.
- Former generic Conifer renamed to "Pine Tree", and now produces "Pine Cone".
- Pine Cone can be used as fire fuel.
- Pine Tree is more common than Taxus Tree, and made balance changes to the tree mechanics.
- Vegetation under-the-hood mechanics reworked: from seed spreading with wind, rooting conditions to energy balance. The result is overall a more coherent and balanced ecology simulation.
- Seeds can be "stored" in arid terrains, and released when the terrain turns into fertile, allowing vegetation to reclaim the island after long and severe periods of drought (this is also true when starting with a totally barren island).








- Nearly all ambience sounds (birds, howls, crickets, etc) are positional, as well as thunder sound.
- Added some new variation to the day ambience sounds.
- Ambience sounds volume calculation improved, rain and wind are more gradual.
- [God] Ambience sounds gradually become less intense as you zoom out the map.






- Terrain snow texture replaced with a new, better one.
- Terrain snow mechanics reworked to be more coherent and dynamic, along with better visuals.
- Terrain snow system reworked to only draw a single tiled sprite, instead of multiple ones for each terrain, considerably improving performance (especially on larger maps).








- Seeds calculation reworked to happen with variables instead than with actual mini-sprites, which should improve performance (especially on larger maps).
- [Survival] When using a Bow while holding arrows with the right hand, if having a Quiver with additional arrows, the Character will prioritize using the ones from the right hand.
- [Survival] Body Weight calculation reworked to be exponential at higher Muscle/Fat, and have a less impact when they're low.
- Sun exposure continues to persist throughout sunset, instead of reaching always 0 at the start of it.
- Added a new page to the guide introducing to "Landmarks".
- Fixed a bug that occasionally caused sea waves sound to stutter, also causing a serious memory leak.
- [Survival] Fixed fishing action being interrupted by pressing E, which made fishing impracticable using the key.
- MANY more improvements and fixes...




These are only the most relevant changes, as always there are tons of other in this update, check the full changelog for the complete list!




Dan