Patch Notes - version 0.44.91a

Features

• Eggs can now be carried and removed from nests
• Eggs can now be placed / stored in Nests
• Eating poisonous or improper foods now causes illness, damaging health and stomach.
• Terrestrial insects now walk
• New Sea Urchin food source!

Gameplay

• Grabbing / striking food will no longer deal damage unless the animal is in 'aggressive' Mood
• Improvements to camera focus behavior when focused on objects in close proximity to the player
• Inertial momentum added to animal movement when turning, and stopping
• Improvements to camera follow an acceleration field of view
• Groups will now follow their group leader more closely

Minor

• Increased non-active limb reach to allow 'middle' limbs to remain active more often
• Improvements to Neck rotations to prevent joint crimping
• Improvement to procedural foot placement when turning to reduce leg / body clipping
• Pausing game now pauses waves, global wind, and particle systems
• Camera can no longer focus on player's carried item
• Plankton, Krill, and Fish school food sources mobility has been removed until some needed orientation improvements can be made

UI

• Added Tutorial toggle tip to help identify how to disable tutorial UI
• Added color coding to Relationship text in Target Summary
• Reduced Relationship text in Target Summary

Bugs

• (Fixed) Animals sometimes wander away from group when 'following' leader
• (Fixed) Wiggling animals (flatfish, jellyfish, etc) to twitch when moving
• (Fixed) Animals consuming but not destroying edible carriables when eaten.
• (Fixed) Water surface not translucent when below surface.