Seismica 1.7.0 — Changelog

A big update — lots of new stuff added! If you find any bugs, please report them.

New Features

• Seismic Television (Beta) — A new block that plays a live earthquake news broadcast on its front face. Shows a bird's-eye terrain map of the area with the epicentre marked, expanding red shock rings, a scrolling "BREAKING NEWS" ticker, and a news-anchor scene. The picture breaks up with static during strong shaking. Crafted using a Seismic Radar. During a tsunami it switches to a colour-coded danger map (red = low ground that floods, yellow = at-risk hills, green = safe high ground).
• Tsunami (Beta) — Powerful ocean earthquakes now trigger a tsunami: a wave that spreads out in all directions, floods the terrain it passes over, and recedes automatically after 3 in-game days. Wave reach and height scale with magnitude.
• Seismic Damper Mk.IV — A new top-tier damper (purple), stronger and with a larger protection radius than Mk.III.
• Damper overhaul:
  • All four tiers are now repaired/strengthened with plain iron ingots.
  • When a damper is destroyed it bursts with an explosion and a lantern-shatter sound whose size and pitch scale with its tier (Mk.I small/high → Mk.IV large/deep).
  • Broken dampers show a cracked, darkened texture.
  • Dampers now remember their remaining health when broken and re-placed.
• Dogs sense quakes early — Wolves and tamed dogs bark and growl during the P wave, before the strong S-wave shaking arrives, as an early-warning cue.
• Quake rattle sounds — Furniture and timber creak and rattle around you while the ground is shaking.
• In-game beta notice — A message on world join flags the TV and Tsunami as beta features.

Balance / Tuning

• Shaking duration now scales with felt intensity (MMI): small or distant quakes give a brief tremor; strong local ones last much longer, up to ~12 seconds at MMI XII.

Performance

• Major optimisation of tsunami processing (roughly 3× cheaper on the server).
• Fault Map and Radar screens redraw far more efficiently — the advanced Fault Map with ~100 faults no longer tanks FPS when opened.
• Reduced constant network traffic from the Fault Map and Radar blocks.

Fixes

• Fixed a client crash when rendering the Seismic TV (pose-stack imbalance, seen with performance mods like Embeddium/Sodium).
• Fixed an OutOfMemory crash on world load caused by the tsunami saving too much flood data.

Optional Integration

• MrCrayfish's Refurbished Furniture (optional) — if installed, strong quakes (MMI VIII+) knock out the power on that mod's generators. Not required.

Known Issues

• The floating health-bar visual above dampers is still being worked on in the 1.21.1 build (right-click a damper to see its integrity in the meantime).