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Patch v12.29

Fixing instinct UI


  • The color pickers now show the colors as the animal sees them, unless you are hovering a handle
  • Made sure all dropdown panels are always visible and not out of screen
  • Improved hitboxes of all dropdown panels, so you don't accidentally hover a button under a dropdown panel
  • When selecting something (like an action), the dropdown panel will not immediately close anymore, so you can also set further parameters
  • Fixed white circles (slot indicators) showing through the diet and hormone views
  • Removed the glitchy white circle for the compact instinct view (in the organism and species detail view)
  • Only show the 'display' option if the animal actually has something to display (that is, bodyparts that have a 'folded' state)
  • Polished positioning of the color pickers
  • The lower part of the range indicators in the color pickers now also shows being hovered
  • Added labels to the 'see alga', 'see plant' and 'see animal' instinct condition parameters
  • Fixed the skin pattern buttons disappearing and incorrectly showing whether selected or not


Fixing hormone UI


  • Fixed a problem where various buttons stopped responding if you used the 'ready' button in the hormone list
  • When removing hormones, also remove all instincts that reference it
  • You can no longer click 'feel a hormone' if the animal has no hormones


All animal traits can now be different for different sexes (not saved yet!)


  • Different sexes can how have different instincts
  • All sexes will share their hormones, but can have different hormone behavior (starting and change per day)
  • Different sexes can now have different diets
  • Different sexes can now have different nesting behaviors
  • Different sexes can now have different egg laying behaviors
  • Different sexes can now have different poison/venom statistics


Worked on animal sounds


  • Added new sound effects to ballistic tongue mouth
  • Removed default sound from various mouths that were not supposed to make sound


Other fixes


  • The random mutation chance view now scales with the screen size (and is no longer controlled by the GUI scale setting)
  • Fixed problem where creating a fungus directly after an alga lead to putting the alga in the world again (instead of the fungus)


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