Prototype 1.019

For this update, I focused on improving performance again. This time, it was improving the speed of the lighting engine. I figured that many people might be having problems with lighting eating up too much CPU time. I also made improvements to the way water spreads, and added a keyboard edit mode. Here’s the full list of changes:

1.019

• – Switched to the Reach profile to support DX9 and some older computers
• – Dramatically improved lighting calculation speed
• – Fixed some chunk boundary issues with lighting. Some other chunk boundary issues still persist.
• – Made liquids spread more uniformly and faster
• – Fixed some issues with dynamic objects not getting their light updated
• – Improved speed of water calculations
• – Fixed a few crashes in AI
• – Allowed the player to modify certain keyboard controls
• – Holding Alt, Left/Right Clicking, and using the mouse wheel now makes the selection box go up and down.
• – The AI debugger is no longer accessible
• – The default biome for flat land mode is now grassland rather than desert.
• – This version now automatically checks for updates from the internet

You can get it here.