Dev Server Updates - July 2026

July 22

• Removed a number of unused shader references (reduced build size and memory footprint).

• Adjusted material for Halt's VFX.

• Set appropriate culling layer and static shadow casters on resource nodes.

• Removed out of date billboard rendering pass in our vegetation system.

July 21

• Fixed a rare exception in the crafting UI.

• Fixed an exception on IKController on teardown.

• Fixed color on white scale vambraces.

• Increased drop rate for Alchemy Quest's tablet.

• Sentinel's Weaken no longer requires combat stance.

• Added mental damage to King's Potion.

• Updated Unity Engine minor revision to the latest version. This brings some minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Optimizations:

  • Reduced the density of grass by 20% in all zones.

  • Reduced the complexity of rendered grass.

  • Adjusted the LOD distance factor for rendered grass to be consistent throughout scenes.

  • Potato & Performant quality now only renders a single mesh for grass (no LOD).

  • Restricted which vegetation LODs can render shadows for lower quality levels. This can significantly improve shadow performance in areas with many trees depending on your quality setting.

    • Potato & Performant: only render shadows for the nearest LODs

    • Balanced: only render shadows for the nearest 2 LODs

    • High Fidelity: no change

  • Removed motion vector pass from Rock shader.

• macOS & Linux:

  • Adjusted compile flags to improve code execution speed.

  • Enabled instanced indirect vegetation rendering for both platforms.

  • Fixed a shader compile error that was causing dynamic resolution instabilities that showed as shimmering vegetation. Things should be much more stable with Unity STP dynamic res enabled.