Release notes

Updated genome

• Highlander disease fixed. This disease could make your Norns live forever by destroying their ageing mechanism
• You can now choose to hatch Norns that show a wider and more obvious range of facial expressions as well as retaining the original creature�s genomes

Other fixes/updates

• The Delay Gate connecting agent has been tweaked to eliminate a possible error condition
• The rare case where a creature and/or the learning machine could lose the ability to speak has been fixed
• Medical Agents have been made less sensitive to certain trace elements. This could have resulted in �false positive� results for diseases or infection
• Track Norn: Problem with selected Norn and learning room fixed
• The user interface now correctly displays the current Sound and Music Options
• The Egg Laying machine now has agent help for the information bar and developer stability has been improved. In addition, the egg name is shown
• The Creator machine can now successfully make a portable chemical graphing machine
• Developer stability for the Creator machine has been improved; the new creator will also work better with 3rd party COBs
• Camera code reworked and improved
• The reported issue with the Beat-box (infinite loop) has been fixed
• Special characters are now supported in names for Creature exporting
• Map changed slightly in Grendel area to prevent a possible Grendel trapping problem
• Issues with a brain lobe creation with 0 neurones are fixed
• Some users reported cases where autosave/save reported �float reference written twice�. This is now fixed
• Open air cabin attribute: Works properly now
• Creatures can no longer grab things from the inventory
• The CAOS command DELR is now working
• Fixed a strange problem with the CAOS command TINT
• Minor issues with the following agents have also been addressed: Pumperspikel, Piranha, Grazer, Bridge airlock, Kingfisher and Ettin accessway
• Many agents have been increased in size to bring them in line with the European versions
• Minor updates to medical pod, screens and the anti-bacterial spray
• Image plane changed in many of agents (numeric output tool, anti-bacterial spray, antigen detector, single chemical graphing gadget, pregnancy indication device) so that they appear in front of creatures
• The error that resulted in the Creature Selector user interface component vanishing has been fixed
• New Creator Machine works better with 3rd party agents
• Creator machine has a remove button as below (button with "X" on it)
  

Updated engine

• For developers, there is a new CAOS command called GLOB
• Creatures blink more often