Speed loading game objects! Hooray for optimization!

Happy patch day! We’ve been hammering away to improve performance and framerate, speed up loading times, and lower memory usage so the game runs more smoothly for everyone. Plus, that annoying FPS stutter/freeze every 30 seconds or so is fixed. *fist pump* (Thanks for your reports on this!) Try out your multiplayer adventures, fruit farming, and crazy creature hatching with better, stutter-free performance!

Here are the full patch notes with all the optimizations we’ve done...

Patch Notes

• Completely overhauled the pooling system and related subsystems to greatly optimize game performance
  
  • Gameobject count has been reduced by 93%! This means better memory usage and 13x faster garbage collection performance (which was causing the main large stutter while moving through world).
    
  • Note: Really large buildings with lots of blocks may still cause some framerate stuttering. We’ll have a small patch coming out soon to fix this!
  
  
• Optimized code that was allocating too much memory per frame, which would cause stutters even when not moving through world
  
• Optimized world assembly routines to keep framerate more consistent
  
• Removed an error log message from networking that was crippling framerate
  
• Optimized art assets to increase graphics-related performance
  
• Refactored asset pipeline to easily allow bringing in future content
  
• Many small bug fixes