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🌿 Terrarium II — Patch Notes Summary Version 0.0.0.5 Performance & Graphics Added Low Graphics Mode for players on weaker hardware.

Simplified sky rendering

Lightweight clouds, stars, sun, and moon

Reduced lighting calculations

Removed heavy weather effects

Simplified tile rendering (no lighting, no particles, no EXP orbs)

Correct tile scaling preserved to prevent stretching

Optimized Normal Graphics Mode tile rendering:

Reduced allocations

Cached scale, brightness, and color values

Faster per‑tile math

Lower CPU overhead during world draw

Improved overall rendering pipeline structure for clarity and performance.

Beams & VFX Added Low Graphics Beam Mode:

Clean cyan core beam

Soft glow layer

Only 2 draw calls per beam

Removes spirals, lightning arcs, wiggles, pulses, particles, and sparkle bursts

Full beam mode remains unchanged for high‑graphics settings.

UI & Settings Added Settings Menu toggles:

Music ON/OFF

Low Graphics Mode ON/OFF

Fixed mouse input logic using proper LeftMousePressed edge detection.

Corrected and widened click‑zones for smoother UI interaction.

General Improvements Cleaned up tile‑window culling logic.

Improved rendering order consistency.

Reduced redundant math and dictionary lookups across rendering systems.

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