Hey Beekeepers! Thanks again for everyone who's been playing the new demo, and for those patiently waiting for some of the more annoying bug fixes!
This update is quite a lot of performance updates and fixes, I spent a long time chillin' with the profiler and digging into a bunch of know performance drop stuff like:

• Picking up lots of items
• Having lots of dropped items sitting around
• Night-time in general
• Walking around on slower machines

Changes

• Various changes to the game for performance increases
• Updated the settings menu to include an inverse scroll option, plus a bsync option (we dont know what it does)
• Added a notice on NPCs when they have something new to say!
• When fully conserving a species you'll now get written about in the local news! (issues 1-3 can be at your nans place!)
• Added new sections to the bee book when hovering over the anatomy and trait sections to make things clearer
• Added a small badges to each chapter in the bee book to mark having got a blessed bee, having got special produce, and having conserved the species
• The game will now pause when books are open, the settings/controls menus are open, or the discovery/conservation magazines are open
• While the game is paused you can't move and time will be frozen!
• The bottler has been upgraded and you can now bottle all liquids to be sold!
• Added a cap to the map/world in the demo so there's not just a bunch of empty ocean that you can complain about being empty ;)
• Added two new intro chapters to the bee book to cover the rest of the bee traits as well as inheritence
• Updated Skipper's dialogue for true gender neutral speech when directed at the player
• You can now close discovery popups with ESC
• Reduced cost of Treetaps from 10 sticks + 10 planks to 5 sticks + 5 planks, 2fer1!!
• Gamepad mode is no longer automatic based on a connected device - you need to go to the settings menu and you'll be able to toggle it from the controls section
• Updated the lamp sprite

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a performance issue with picking up lots of items
• Fixed a performance issue with having lots of dropped items sitting around
• Fixed a performance issue with night-time in general
• Fixed a performance issue with walking around on slower machines
• Fixed beehives not creating exact clones of the queen with some rescessive traits
• Fixed the map being blank lol super useful map there thanks Skipper
• Fixed microscope showing numbers being 1 off (i.e. showing a '3' but in the 4th box)
• Fixed an issue with picking up multiple items on the ground - should reduce the bit of lag you get when picking up an entire forest!
• Fixed game crashing when hammering Sir Sengir Statue and trying to place items on or near the tile where the statue was
• Fixed issue with night-time lighting not scaling with the screen
• Fixed aquatic seeds outright lying and saying that they can be planted on grass
• Fixed being able to trash your friends (why would you tho :(((((()
• Fixed progress in the bookshelf and file select screen being wrong
• Fixed the music track "Cerana" not playing anything in the jukebox
• Fixed Beenjamins hints not being told for the next undiscovered bee (so much for an expert!!)
• Fixed Jukeboxes playing at the same time as game music, game music will now pause
• Fixed fullscreen/window setting not saving on reload
• Fixed auto-sort causing random single non-stackable items when sorting a bunch of stacks of the same item
• Fixed a performance issue where lights were not being cleaned up
• Fixed a performance issue where lighting was being drawn (invisibly) in the day (like you do)
• Fixed bee 'icon' buttons in the bee and flower book crashing when clicked on
• Fixed shiny bees not showing their lil flash animation (the most important feature honestly)
• Fixed jukebox not using the music level set in the settings and just blasting music 24/7
• Fixed flowers sometimes not being marked as discovered properly
• Fixed being able to middle click on non-stackable items, destroy any other of that item in the menu (oops)
• Fixed raintank not setting filled canisters as "water" even though they get filled
• Fixed wax canisters not being able to be used in Infusers
• Added a fix to help the game resize the window to an even number when resized manually and not fullscreen
• Fixed a rogue pixel on wooden windows