0.10.10 — In Their Element, and Lithium

Chocobos Reborn 1.1.9 and Lithium. Everything else stays as it is in 0.10.9. Existing saves load as they are; no quest ids change. 106 mods. Clients and servers must update together.

Chocobos Reborn

• Every shortcut pays. A climber bounds up a ridge in two or three ticks instead of crawling up it like a ladder, lands on top running and keeps its pace through the drop off the far end. A bird on terrain it suits is in its element there: a climber races along the ridge top, a river bird skims the water, a lava bird rides the lava. Every water, ridge and lava crossing on all 48 courses was timed against the way round, and the bird that suits it now comes out ahead.
• A tougher field. The regular racers keep up with a trained bird: at the start of a heat they take a floor off the best rider's bird, a step behind Teiyo and Jolo, and they dash harder and drive tidier. A trained bird driven well still wins, but it is a race, not a lap.
• Smoother races. Other birds are no longer drawn far behind where they really are at Class A and S pace, and a hen coming into view mid-race no longer stutters the game.
• Courses rebuild themselves the next time they are raced (a shortcut gantry past one ridge stood too low).

Performance

• Lithium joins the pack: general server and game-logic optimisations with no gameplay changes. On a copy of the live world, the median server tick fell by about 14 % at Loom's End, 19 % in Chocobo Square and more in the March. Four of its patch groups are switched off where ModernFix or Saturn already patch the same code.