The Sapling News

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

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

• 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)
  

I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or [email protected].

• Added current locations of organisms
  
• Added origin (birth) location of species (not saved yet)
  

• Shells can now only be placed on top of an animal, and always face the right way
  
• Added a 0.5 second cooldown after placing body parts, which prevents that the 'quick flicker' if a bodypart modifies the torso shape
  

• Fixed the save action failing if there was an animal in the deep sea
  
• Fixed mixing up fungus species after saving and loading
  
• Fixed super old age of fungi after saving and loading
  

• Places where an animal can survive, but only in the deep sea, will now be orange
  
• The text indicating whether the animal will survive will change color to indicate importance (orange if the animal can only survive in the deep sea, yellow if the eggs won't survive)
  
• The ocean current speed will now be correctly recalculated if you lower the ocean height and then raise it again
  
• Fixed the color of the fastest ocean current speed in the information view (was pitch black)
  

• A juvenile animal no longer copies its statistics from the parent; it might be completely different after all
  
• Fixed current resistance of 6 dots (max should be 5)
  
• Added attack to electric tail
  
• A plant's temperature range is now infinite if it sheds its leaves and flowers before they freeze/burn
  
• The trunk mouth now gets a lot more energy from eating soft plant tissue (reason: it has less time to eat now animals sleep at night)
  

• Fixed plant branches not being available in the daily challenge
  

I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or [email protected].

• Added neotony, a special mutation where the adult stage takes on the characteristics of the juvenile stage
  
• Added a 25% chance that some mutations are only applied to juveniles
  
• Babies that have a different sex than their parent will no longer copy their statistics from the parent
  
• It's now possible that only the juveniles (and not the adults) have a shell or vice versa
  
• Fixed a bug where manually changing the juvenile stage color also changed the adult stage color
  

• When adding a new sex, its offspring sex distribution is divided over all available sexes by default
  
• When removing a sex, any references to it in the offspring sex distribution of other sexes are automatically removed
  
• When adding sex B for the first time, sex A will already have its distribution set to 50% sex A, 50% sex B by default.
  
• Added a deathcause type for when organisms died of old age, but without reproducing
  
• Individuals that can only reproduce sexually will no longer reproduce asexually
  
• To make obligate sexual reproduction feasible, make it possible to mate (and store sperm) already before being ready to give birth
  
• Fixed a glitch that occurred when two sexes of the same species had different limbs
  
• Fixed sex distribution chances: you no longer only see the first two sexes
  
• Fixed a bug where the game showed the animal model of the wrong sex for children of manually placed animals
  

• Added mutation of the secondary color
  
• All traits in the mating tab now also mutate at random
  
• Body parts will now also mutated for the non-default sex (sex B-F)
  
• Bodyparts that have been upgraded or downgraded will now have the correct values for new statistics like attractiveness, defense, etc.
  
• Sexes can now also be added and removed at random
  
• Limited the enormous list of useless instincts after running random mutations for a while
  
• Fixed a crash when the mutation system was touching diet
  
• Fixed a crash when the main sex lost a torso part while another sex still had body parts there
  
• Fixed a crash when mutating an animal with 6 sexes
  

• Species taken from the archive no longer get a new random name, but keep the name they had in the archive
  
• Widely different sexes of one species will no longer be classified as separate species
  
• Evolving a new sex is now a reason to be classified as a separate species
  
• When creating a new animal classified to be part of an existing species (because it is so similar), that species' statistics will now be updated to match the ones of the more recent creation
  

• Changed the default secondary color to something brighter, so bioluminescence in various bodyparts is visible without tweaking sliders
  
• The primitive stigma pollination organ can handle higher temperatures
  
• Fixed glitch with illegal fruit shapes in the plant editor
  
• Added support for comments in the statistics YAML files
  

• The plant cell requirements panel now also uses the new nutrients icon
  
• Fixed accidentally going into the organism detail view (zooming into a plant, for example) when trying to place fungi
  

I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or [email protected].

Work on the species detail view:
* It now support renaming species * It now supports fungi!
* The options buttons no longer block the family tab
* Fixed a bug where the statistic dots were the wrong color

Implemented spore distribution methods (wind, animal touch, raindrops) for fungi:
* Fungi dependent on animal touch will no longer spread to areas without animals
* Fungi dependent on raindrops will no longer spread to areas without moisture
* Fungi that depend on wind and are close to the ground will no longer spread to new areas, so always have an expected offspring count of 1
* Fixed the game glitching when fungi had a 'spore travel distance' of 0
* Fungi that are not dependent on wind, will now always travel a minimum distance of 2

Fixes relating to editing and mutating organisms:
* When mutating a fungus, the correct buttons are now preselected
* Various fixes to fungus organism counts, so the game knows when the player is allowed to mutate
* When not in the sandbox mode, non available options in the fungus editor are now locked
* The correct sleep patterns and egg types are selected now when you edit or mutate an animal
* The correct egg types and skin types are unlocked now when you mutate an animal
* It no longer shows two locks on the land carapaces
* You can no longer unlock body parts by going to the juvenile stage and back

Finalized rough version of body part stats:
* Implemented defense for shells
* Filled out everything for attractive body parts
* Improvements to eye statistics, as suggested by Did/ULTRANEON
* Removed incorrect carnivory from the 'proto petal' flower (https://the-sapling-encyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Bud_Flower)

Improvements for the organism builders:
* Improved positioning of fungus caps when there is no stipe (stem)
* Improved positioning of animal bodyparts that are not in the center subslot

Fixes to the editors:
* Fixes rotating with arrow keys for plant and animal editors
* Added rotating with arrow keys for alga en fungus editors
* Sliders that can be disabled are no longer whited out when enabled
* You can no longer invert day/night/twilight indicators in the day night period slider in the planet editor

Designed new icons:
* Added a button for the merch web shop in the main menu
* Added a new 'nutrients' icon to the soil stat dropdown

Fixed bugs in the world view:
* Fixed a crash when adding animals from the archive in the daily challenge
* Fixed the game crashing when there was seagrass along the edge of the map
* Fixed a missing material to pipe leaves (shown a bright pink) when placed in the world

I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or [email protected].

The editor camera is no longer extremely slow at low quality settings! Low camera settings often caused high FPS, and in some situations the camera didn't respond correctly to this and slowed down; my assumption that I had made it independent of FPS was incorrect... but not anymore!

Work on fungi:
* Mushroom stipes (stems) now have a more realistic shape and longer ones have rings
* Random mutations have been added
* You can now filter by fungi in the species list view
* Mushrooms no longer all face the same way (random rotation)
* The bulldozer tool now also removes fungi (and deep sea animals)
* If you click a fungus to zoom in, it now shows information about this organism
* Decreased chance fungi and plants grow in the exact same location
* Added the number of fungus species to the time skip view
* Fixed a bug where opening the fungus archive directly after creating a world would cause the game to glitch

Work on the fungus editor:
* Added a new tab with bioluminescence and poison settings
* The red handle to scale the cap is now always at the same height as the cap
* Large cup fungi no longer block the red handles in the editor
* Fixed a bug where the starter cap had its minimum temperature decrease (instead of increased) when the cap was scaled up
* Polished the scale and positions of various UI elements

Tweaking the look of twilight and night mode in the editors:
* Twilight mode now relies more heavily on color correction post processing (as opposed to just changing the background color)
* Fixed over the top bloom effects caused by counter shading and back lighting
* Added a twilight and night mode to the fungus editor
* Also unlock the secondary color sliders if an animal has bioluminescence (as you need them to change the light color)

Entering more (rough versions of) body part statistics:
* Carnivorous plant body parts
* Mouths
* Limbs
* Mushroom caps
* Attractive body parts (unfinished)

More work on species labels shown when hovering an organism:
* Hovering an egg now shows the species inside, as well as its diet.
* Labels no longer show through the success message, shown when beating or losing a level.
* Algae and plants that started their life invisible (for optimization reasons) now also show their species when hovered.

I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or [email protected].