Patch notes 2023-04-20 (Experimental)

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Optimizations

The optimizations will continue until the morale improves.

Updated the animation system for buildings. This should slightly improve the game’s performance. (A similar update for character animations was already included in the original Update 4 release).

Balance

We’ve realized Hydroponic Garden could use a little more variation in its recipes.

Mushroom: cost reduced to 40 water (from 50), growth time reduced to 8 days (from 10), yield reduced to 45 (from 60).
Algae: cost increased to 60 water (from 50), growth time increased to 12 days (from 10), yield increased to 70 (from 60).
Food Factory: output for Algae rations increased to 6 from 3 (production time and cost remain unchanged).

Audio

Added new sounds for Fermenter and Wood Workshop.
Water-requiring buildings will no longer play their water-ish sounds even when placed in water-free areas. Muh immersion!

Misc.

Platforms can once again be placed on top of Medical Beds - now with 94,3% less clipping!
Natural resources such as trees no longer aggressively self-spread onto higher tiles and threaten the beavers with “The Last of Us” scenario.

Bug fixes

Fixed a crash caused by deleting Rubble right as it was to be picked up.
Fixed a bug with lazy distributors that wouldn’t care enough to pick up single leftover pieces of goods.
Fixed a bug with corner-cutting distributors that would just rush to their destination, ignoring the paths carefully placed by the player.
Fixed the broken custom goods recovery rate available as part of the custom difficulty setup.
Fixed Fermenters and Coffee Breweries using up energy even when not working.
Fixed some visual bugs with backpacks and carried goods.
The settlement panel will no longer crash when the player interacts with a dead beaver.
Fixed a weirdly specific visual issue with Tapper’s Shack doorstep interfering with decorations’ AoE indicators.