The bugs are gradually being pushed to extinction, performance is recovering rapidly and both the simulation balance and polish are thriving in their new home! I released the .9 hotfix yesterday with a number of polish and stability improvements and the .10 hotfix just now with more of the same, plus some unexpectedly substantial performance gains. Full changelist for both hotfixes: * Fertile underwater biomes now form in deeper water, further from the shore. * Underwater biomes can now be grazed to non-existence the same as land biomes, and will gradually regrow over time. * Rewrote the temperature/fertility influence shaders. Trees should no longer affect temperature, and heating/cooling devices should no longer affect fertility. * Grass grows back faster now. * Can now use numpad for camera control * Optimized stat change performance * Optimized emotion change performance * Fixed hotkeys not responding consistently * Fixed Tilde (~) not pausing the game when pressed * Fixed a survival strategy where creatures could gain energy by suffocating themselves (no, really. The little bastards will exploit anything) * Fixed bug where some creatures were Unselectable * Fixed bug where creatures could breed multiple times on a single frame, or while paused, without paying the energy cost. (This occasionally resulted in one creature giving birth to a cap-breaking horde when you paused the game) * Fixed common clade-diagram related crash during speciation. * Fixed a possible crash when creating a world. * Fixed crash when creating too many rovers (You'd be surprised how many bug reports can be summarized with: "the game didn't stop me when I deliberately tried to break it"). * Fixed a second, less-common crash related to rovers. * World Seed displaying correctly after loading a save game Known issue: accidentally disabled mouse-edge scrolling. Apologies to anyone who was using it! I'll take the opportunity to implement an option to turn it on/off, since I know it was causing grief to windowed-mode users. Full disclosure: I accidentally uploaded a broken version of 0.11.0.10 just prior to release for a few minutes. I backed it out immediately, but if you got it you would have noticed creatures acting extremely strangely, breeding rapidly to cap and making a beeline for one corner of the map. If you ended up with this version, just restart Steam to get it to download the fixed copy.