[2021] Prehistoric Kingdom - Christmas Update - Beta 0.3.22

Welcome, park managers!

With Christmas officially upon us, we felt there was no better way to close 2021 off with a festive holidays content patch!

Additions

• Animals
  
  • New Animal Enrichment: Blood Pumpkin
    
  • New Animal Enrichment: Frozen Fruit Block
• Buildings & Scenery
  
  • New Guest Facilities: Modern Table (x4)
    
  • New Props: Table Umbrella (x2)
    
  • New Official Prefabs: Shaded Table Modern (x4)
    
    
  • Lamp Decorative Hanging (x2)
    
  • Lamp Decorative Straight (x2)
    
  • Lamp Decorative Vertical (x2)
• Foliage
  
  • Alaskan Yellow Cedar (x3)
    
  • Douglas Fir (x3)
    
  • Alpine Bearberry (x3)
    
  • Alpine Currant (x3)
• Biomes
  • Added the Boreal Biome with all its substrates: Snow, Withered Grass, Gravel & Rock
• Audio
  • Speeding up time will now play time-specific sound events for better feedback

Changes

• Buildings & Scenery
  • Introduced collision checks for bins, benches, and tables
    
  • Decreased default scale for Wheelbarrow
• Foliage
  • Updated icons for Scrubland foliage
• Rendering
  • Reduced bright blue hues in the screen-space reflections
    
  • Reflection probes now account for clouds
    
  • Generally improved water rendering, particularly sky color reflection accuracy
    
  • Improved underwater graphics
• Audio
  • Certain entity sounds now remain audible when time is sped up e.g. animal growls, calls, etc.
    
  • General mix adjustments for when the game is sped up

Bug Fixes

• Critical
  • Fixed power node refreshing events to trigger at the expected times - previous performance improvements had accidentally messed this up
    
  • Should have fixed a critical selection error that caused double clicking to lock up player input
• Buildings & Scenery
  • Fixed saved light coloring resetting on new placement
• Rendering
  • Resolved distant atmospheric flickering
    
  • Fixed downscaled resolution for underwater effects
    
  • Fixed animal outline popping up on demolition actions
• Construction
  • Fixed flashing grid on modular action end
• UX
  • Fixed weather transitions not applying correctly on different timescales

Performance

• Slightly improved performance of rain particle effects
  
• Improved water CPU efficiency

The team will take a short winter vacation, but we'll be back in full swing come early January, so see everybody then!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!