v0.2.6b

v0.2.6b:

• Stability improvements:

• Fixed memory leaks causing gradual degradation over long sessions

• Fixed various death/spawn lifecycle edge cases that could cause errors

• Performance improvements:

• Significantly reduced CPU cost of slime mold networks at scale

• Fixed GPU upload path running at full cost every frame

• Particle system now scales to actual cell count instead of fixed max

• Consistency improvements:

• Fixed moving cells becoming unclickable

• Fixed strain renaming creating duplicate entries

• Fixed strain naming prompt appearing when harvesting on already-tracked cells

• Fixed first plasmodia not growing branches in some cultures

• Untracked strain variants now count towards contracts

• Balance tweaks:

• Added nutrient sliders for finer tuning of nutrient composition. Nutrient diversity slider now controls variation, 3 sliders control amino/lipid/sugar.

• Sparser default world generation

• Dish cost scales with size

• Heat retuned to be more transient in nature. Faster decay, more gradual cumulation, and higher lethality

• Visual tweaks:

• Adjust mitosis daughter size ramp and placement

• Nutrient colors reworked: reddish aminos, green/blue sugars, yellow lipids

• Cell diet changes cell body color

• QoL:

• Background power save toggle