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TL;DR

  1. When the new navmesh is enabled,
  2. We still spent time multithreading and optimising the new navigation system, at least doubling its performance since the last patch.
  3. Growing and caring for your livestock will allow you to access some new resources and rewards.
  4. To help keep your new livestock under control, we've added new animal gate and fence deployables - perfect for keeping your pet animals safe (ish!).
  5. The critters are heavily budgeted and have dedicated behaviours to ensure they don't take up any more server (and client) performance than strictly necessary. For now, they are mostly set dressing, and their performance limits are set with that in mind.
What do the tags mean?
  • Buff green = made stronger
  • Nerf red = made weaker
  • Fix yellow = bug fixed
  • New blue = added content or feature

Lines are quoted from the official notes; on cards, the › bullet and left stripe use the game's colour, not a tag; tags are auto-assigned, so check the full notes for edge cases.

Buffsmade stronger3

  • So when we increase the population, the server doesn't directly lose FPS, instead NPCs just become slower to react because we distribute the load across frames automatically when over budget.
  • Milk and Cream can also be used in a variety of crafting recipes. Milk will generally increase the duration of tea effects, while Cream can be used to increase the potency of those effects.
  • Over the last 6+ months we have seen security feature adoption grow at a steady pace and we're ready to switch more servers to secure, continuing with the following Facepunch servers:

Nerfsmade weaker1

  • Performance-wise, the new IK saves us around 1ms of frame time with 100 players in the scene, this will probably be a lot less drastic if you play on a lower-population server and only end up seeing 5-10 players at once.

Fixesbug fixed1

  • You should see increased game stability going forward as we can respond to crashes much more effectively now.

Newadded content or feature1

  • NEW WORKSHOP SKINNABLE - ALL LADDER HATCHES

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  • Using new Heavy Fuses, the power plant can be fired back up to unlock several new gameplay features for everyone around the island.
  • Heavy Fuses can be found as loot and must be inserted into the new special fuse boxes located at the power plant. Not everything will be unlocked all at once - some things connected to the power plant require more fuses than others to become functional.
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