Flying creatures now splash water while skimming its surface! If you haven't completed the "Curious Triad" creature quest yet, give it a try again because this patch contains rebalancing and bugfixes that make your Beetle-life quicker and easier. The ongoing focus on improving the existing product first before moving on to new features continues with this build. Here's an overview!

Improvements & Bugfixes:

• Multithreading support added for flying creatures' pathfinding. It is now possible to spawn many more flying creatures and have them respond to the world almost instantly!
• Population levels of all creatures increased! thanks to the recent performance and multithreading work. The world looks so alive now! :D
• Critical bugfix for walking creatures' pathfinding. Ants can now find their way up to any target much better. Beetles beware!
• Creature consumption visuals vastly improved.
• Flower perch locations fixed for walking creatures. They now no longer glitch/intersect while resting on flowers.
• Honeydew particle fx fixed. Now you can see the ants farming mealybugs properly :)
• Sandbox spawn camera angle reworked so you always see flowers around.
• Sandbox brush tool now highlights the fauna you're placing separately so you know it's a brush preview (and not an actual creature in the world!)
• Sandbox brush tool spawn height improvements - you now get a nice random spread while placing creatures
• Fixed random spinning of flying creatures in certain situations
• Dragonfly no longer takes off upon seizing an already fallen prey
• Prey subdual bar now hides itself after an aerial grapple is complete
• Imperata Cylindrica (grass) visual glitch fix
• Water splash effect fixed for tutorial map while restarting to a prior checkpoint
• New: Water gliding effects added for flying creatures skimming across any water surface! :D
• Camera Zoom feature now prevents zooming in beyond the creature being controlled. Zoom settings are now carefully tuned for every creature in the game.
• Spacebar can now be used to toggle fly/walk for flying creatures (in addition to the existing ctrl).
• Short-jumps for flying creatures is now removed.
• Fixed end-game messages to show up properly upon exhaustion/starvation/ant-stings/etc

Gameplay/Species rebalancing

• Increased Ladybug walk speed
• Increased Ladybug pre-flight hop height. This makes it easier to start flying without bumping into obstacles/etc.
• * Increased short-flight duration for Ladybug, lowered stamina cost
• * Decreased Mealybug consumption duration
• Creatures that escape a grapple clutch no longer fall, but are instead rooted to a nearby floor. In the future this may be limited to Easy difficulty
• (per above) Mealybugs dropped by Ladybugs now fall right onto the stalk and carry on where they left off (instead of heading for bottom of the stalk). This makes it easier to catch them again after you've chased away the ants!
• Dragonfly is now permitted to hover in mid-air (spacebar key) and still snatch prey while hovering (previously you needed to attain a minimum flight speed)
• Dragonfly is now permitted to hunt while groudned (results in auto-take off post snatch)
• Dragonfly can no longer teleport across flowers to snatch prey. This makes hiding under flowers viable again! Esp relevant for PvP (not in the game yet, but still!)
• Reduced Mealybug grappling strength to allow larger creatures to easily overcome them.
• Intro text changed for Curious Triad Creature Quest.
• Hint messages on dealing with ants improved to encourage players to use the Beetle's flying skills to carry opponents away as a viable strategy for winning the quest.

"What's New?" feature added to main menu