v4.2.5 patch

For those that are curious what else I've been working on, I have been working on a couple of other more substantial projects, which I look forward to sharing with you down the line.

Changelog below. Any issues, let me know.

v4.2.5 Changelog - 19/05/2025

• AddedUIAdded latin names as search tags to all animals.

• UI: Close Window button and hotkey now closes build menu, research windows, prestige window and message window.

• UI: Fix typo on Family Poster description.

• FixedUIFixed bug 'needs light' now works correctly as a search term in the search menu.
• AdjustedUIImproved placement on heights other than y=0, especially land masses.
• FixedUIFixed bug wrong sprite was used when Science income was not sufficient to keep Abyssal Tank operational.
• FixedUIFixed panning in perspective mode.
• FixedUIFixed typo causing Boeseman's Rainbow to not have a latin name.

• UI: You can no longer place the same substrate on top of itself.

• AdjustedUIImproved layout of save/load box with more even distribution of columns, especially in 4:3 ratio.
• AdjustedUIImproved layout of Sandbox menu, especially in 4:3 ratio.
• RemovedGraphicsRemoved some lights from Kreisel tank to improve look.
• FixedGraphicsFixed bug where Oblique-Lined Dottyback, Long-Nosed Chimaera, Long-Tailed Duck and Adélie Penguin didn't animate when you hovered over them in the menu.
• FixedBalanceFixed bug where some objectives were generated for sandbox where the required animal was 'Congeners Only' making Tank Point Value objectives impossible.
• AdjustedBalance3. Elmshorn, improved Toadstool Coral side objective structure to make it easier to follow.
• RemovedBalanceFixed bug where 'Requires Observation' on a modded animal was still causing health to drop even when Deep Freeze is disabled.
• FixedJapaneseFixed a bug where [empty string] was written in the cashflow window.

• Chinese: Renamed Marbled Serpent Starfish.

• AddedChinese/ModdingAdded requested characters for better names in mod support.
• AddedModdingAdded support for floating point (decimal/fractional) number to be used for tank.waterHeightAdjustment. This lets you put floating objects at any height.
• AddedModdingAdded feature to disable automatic mod disabling when an error is encountered during post-processing. gui.data -> dontDisableModsOnFailedLoad. Please don't change this setting unless you are a mod creator in the middle of tweaking a mod. It will disable automatic recovery meaning you'll be locked out of the game until you manually fix/delete/disable the mod causing the error.