Progress Update 08/23/2025

First week after the release of 0.8.3, and most of the standard post-release procedures, as well as tweaks, are occurring. Along with developer forum discussions, some decent work is occurring behind the scenes, which can be accessed on our dev build.

Programming

• New build of the day
  • Made hydrogen sulfide decay speed up with the presence of oxygen
  • Tweaked and improved the currents
  • Added a new currents trail effect in surface patches
  • Fast speed mode is now automatically disabled if the available CPU power is not enough to keep up with the fast speed
  • Switched the game to default to only showing new tutorials rather than all. The option to replay all tutorials still exists but must be selected now when starting a new game.
  • Added a workaround for player becoming extinct due to being removed from the current patch populations due to another bug (that has not been discovered yet)
  • Slow currents pushing a cell now no longer trigger the movement ripple effect
  • Fixed the Yum achievement not triggering for chunks
  • Fixed the wrong patch being highlighted in the patch map that is shown on extinction when going extinct in multiple patches in a row
  • Changed quick save and auto save limits to 100 (up from 50)
  • Updated xunit and gdUnit4 to newer versions
  • Updated translations

Graphics

• Nothing Substantial

Gameplay

• Discussion on plans for the next release are occurring.
• IoSono’s assessment and vision of Thrive is generating thoughts surrounding replayability and objectives of the Microbe Stage and more.

Sound

• Nothing Substantial

Theory

• Nothing Substantial

Outreach

• Nothing Substantial

Other

• Nothing Substantial