- Steam App
- The Sapling (997380)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 17 March 2026 - 08:03:43 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Working on land animal evolution Made the evolution of land animals more likely Animals with aquatic eggs that can only walk very slowly are now considered land animals if they also swim very slowly If there are only very few land species, subspecies branch off into their own species earlier Visualization: only reuse a model for an existing species if the subspecies has the same limbs. If not, a more accurate model will be used, but it will be recolored to match the original species color so you can quickly spot what animals are what species. Other changes to the simulation Animals no longer reproduce if they have a lot of neighbors, preventing extremely crowded simulations Fixed a grass mutation bug that could cause green areas without a visible grass (thanks, Azul1462!) Improvements for the cladogram The simulation in the background now pauses if you open the cladogram, and resumes aga...