Changelog

1.0.0

First public release. 41 patches, 37 switches, 35 patches enabled by default.

Vanilla fault repairs

Five guards that remove per-frame exception floods. Each skips only the frame whose data is missing and defers to the untouched original otherwise.

• RunBasedValues — null run-data dictionaries during serialization
• RopeSegmentGuard — empty rope segment list while climbing (184 exceptions in one session)
• IKItemGuard — item prefab missing hand nodes during an equip (135)
• EmoteWheelGuard — incomplete local character while spectating, respawning or quitting (2315)
• PocketBehaviorGuard — unlinked Character.player during the join window (14)
• Parachute — conservative cache clear on incomplete character/slot/backpack state

Equivalence-proven optimizations

Same result as vanilla, less work. Squared distances, hashed Animator parameters, dictionary lookups, merged scans, and identity filters that skip a write only when the write provably changes nothing.

Campfire, CampfireProtectionMerge, HeatEmissionScan, RagdollPhysicsMats, ItemCollisionMode, GenericOptimizerRange, ItemDatabaseNameLookup, IsLookedAtScan, ItemAudioManagerHash, BarAfflictionLayout, AnimatedMouthMaterial, CollisionCharacterLookup, AnimatorValuesHash, PlayerNameUiWrites, BodypartDragIdentity, BodypartMovementForceIdentity, LightVolumeSampleCache, CollisionContactsNoAlloc, SnowballContactGuard, ZombieScanRange, ZombieSpawnScanRange, SleepingZombieScan, WeightRefreshCoalescing, ItemScaleRedundantWrite, RemoteItemInterpolationThreshold, EyeLookComponentCache, TumbleWeedTargetScan

Visual reduction, on by default

• ExplosionScale — 13 orbs per explosion down to 7, with further reduction for clustered and distant explosions. Explosions are visibly smaller; this is the difference between a playable and an unplayable moment when a lobby throws dynamite together.

Opt-in, off by default

• RemoteClusterAnimationThrottle — remote animation graph evaluated every other physics tick (25Hz stepping, unchanged speed)
• DetailBodypartThrottle — remote fingers, jiggle bones, toes and jaw at ~16Hz
• RemoteRagdollLod — remote players past 60m become passive ragdolls (one switch, four patches)
• CollisionCallbackReuse — engine stops allocating a Collision plus ContactPoint[] per reported collision
• Graphics.CapBoneWeights — two bone weights per vertex

Notes on what was removed before release

• The only Transpiler was dropped. IL rewriting proved unreliable alongside IL preprocessors, and its win only existed while someone stood on a bridge.
• A shadow distance and cascade cap was dropped: it silently overrode the in-game Shadow Distance setting, and forcing a single cascade made distant shadow edges shift while walking.
• An MSAA override was dropped: turning anti-aliasing off is a visual decision that belongs to the player.
• A Mesa heat-haze suppressor was dropped: the value it targeted measured 0.016 at runtime, i.e. effectively already off.
• Every numeric config entry was replaced by a switch. A number in a config file cannot be validated by the person editing it, and a wrong one fails quietly.