- Steam App
- The Sapling (997380)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 5 January 2024 - 08:06:29 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
This patch is focused on improving the 'late game' experience, adding things requested by the more experienced players. New performance related settings: * Alga, plant and animal caps! * A setting to limit how many species are prebuilt when loading a world: fewer means faster loading, more means more accurate plant and animal models (less reusing other species' models) Optimizations: * Removed unused box colliders for plant body parts, adding ~10FPS in situations with many plants * Simplified check if a growing plant reached its target size, adding ~2FPS in situations with many plants * Skip checking for gliding and flying animations if the animal cannot glide or fly, adding ~2FPS in situations with many animals * Added a low poly variant of the stilt root, with the smaller parts disappearing if the camera moves away, adding ~5FPS in situations with many stilt roots * Preload the stilt r...