New Version 19.03.04

Hi all, we’ve pushed a new version to Steam and itch. This version should be compatible with older version. This version fixes some critical bugs, and adds some instrumentation to help us track down the root cause more crashes in the future. As we’ve been holding off on new features the crashes we’re finding are getting more and more rare, and are harder to reproduce.

Changes

• Optimizations to the way dwarfs sense enemies. This should result in a slight performance boost.
• Add instrumentation and null checks while generating new worlds. (This is an attempt to find the root cause of a common crash that hasn’t yet been fixed.)
• Fix crash while adventuring dwarfs are attempting to eat.
• Introduce an “invalid resource” that will be generated when a resource doesn’t exist in the game’s library (like a particular kind of dirt, ore, etc.) rather than crashing the game. This will “fix” a few common crashes, but doesn’t address their root cause (which we haven’t discovered yet).
• Clear out bad textures from the texture cache whenever the graphics device gets reset.
• Fix minor exploit which allows the player to build at the top layer or on bedrock by holding ALT and using the scroll wheel.
• Fix more rare crashes during world generation.