Patch v13.27 (beta only)

Introducing save file format 13

• Includes steepness of the terrain

• Remembers manual mode in the soil statistics view

• Updated the loading view explanation (which formats are supported)

Working on flight with insect wings

• Animals with insect wings no longer stop moving when flying at normal time speeds

• Actually play the fluttery flight animation in the game

• Added aerial idle animations for rapid and fluttery flight styles

• Cleaned up buzzing noise, made it loopable, and start and stop it together with the flight animation

• Regular noise and flight noise are no longer mixed up

• Made the buzzing noise you hear (as example) in the editor much shorter

• No longer visualize movement noise with a growing sphere (like how calls and generic noise are visualized)

Fixes for sessile animals

• Upright bodies no longer become thin at the base when there are sessile feet (thanks Cody Beaver!)

• Made 'sessile foot' limb connect to the torso seamlessly

• Putting the ballistic mouth on top no longer crashes the game

Working on limb body parts

• Fixed labels of small and large bas bags, and added the latter to the statistics file

• Fixed the membrane positions for 'thin membrane for gliding', 'membrane from long finger for flying', 'small gas bag' and 'large gas bag' during animation

• Added animation weights to 'adhesive' and 'sprawling foot with long toes' limb types

• Improved animation weights for 'attractive vestigial wing' and 'cartilage fin'

• Revised the 'venomous spines' model, so it works with animation this time

Small fixes for the legend when looking at soil statistics mid simulation

• Centered it

• Also show one for steepness

• Remove it for climate zones

Cleanin up other UI

• The top row button animations is now way faster, so you don't have to wait for (thanks Julenissen!)

• The new soil statistic view no longer mixes overlaps with other views

I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions, suggestions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or thesaplinggame@gmail.com.