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Unstable 2 has been released! You won't see anything in the way of content in this patch (Sorry!), but I've greatly optimized the game's underlining code. You should see huge performance improvements if your bottleneck was your CPU! Guys with lower end GPUs should also see some improvements, but the big changes are on the CPU side of the house.

I look forward to hearing your feedback on the new performance changes. Let me know down in the comments the specs of your machines, and the performance improvements you've seen! :)

You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 20 Unstable 2 Change Log

Optimization

• Greatly improved the internal mob sorting system, improving the game's performance across the board.
  
• Improved mob aggro performance when there's are no nearby hostile targets, but a large amount of friendly mobs.
  
• Improved worker assignment detection performance in large villages.
  
• Improved all path finding, searching, range map generation and light map generation algorithms slightly.
  
• Tons of small micro-optimizations in the AI.
  

• A new work tab has been added to the left hand GUI, where you can assign worker across the entire village in one panel.
  
• Buildings no longer house workers, rather they provide more maximum worker slots for their job type.
  
• Workers are no longer assigned jobs instantly. Instead, you set how many desired workers you'd like (up to the maximum allowed), and the available villagers will go to the nearest work site and assign themselves.
  
• You can set the desired workers higher than your population, and as new villagers grow into adults, they will try to fill those open slots. Additionally, if a villager dies, his slot will open up and an unassigned villager will take his place if one is available.
  
• If you set the desired workers lower than the amount of current workers you have, your workers will go to their work site and quit their job as soon as they have time.
  

• Inverted mouse scrolling now works on the world map.
  
• Sandbox tools tab button now highlights properly when selected.
  

• AI no longer randomly wanders to their work site.
  
• AI no longer flees to their work site.
  

• Villagers will assign themselves as builders as soon as they teleport in when starting a new game in the World Map.
  
• Recall no longer can recall villagers to a work site.
  
• The background on tool tips are now darker.
  
• Updated bundled Java JREs to 8u29.
  
• Many small areas on the GUI have been updated to reflect the new work assignment system.
  

• The in-game tip and loading screen messages have not been updated, and will reference tips from the old work system.