WorldPulse Changelog

Added

• Hunger-driven food searches for 20 configured native predator roles, with native navigation, bounded searches and local ecology notices.
• Population and breeding support for eligible natural map-marker and ambient-beacon fauna, while retaining pet, monster and scripted-encounter exclusions.
• Expanded /wp inspect and /wp stats diagnostics for foraging eligibility, hunger, activity and runtime cost.
• Bundled WorldPulse logo resources.

Changed

• Preserved explicit foraging lists, empty lists, opt-outs and existing valid configuration during upgrades.
• Validated compatibility with eligible WildTale 5.2 wildlife and capture/taming transitions without modifying the external asset pack.

Fixed

• Corrected species labels and repeated ecology notices after hunting, travel and return to previously visited regions.
• Corrected native flock reservation accounting and fractional healthy spawn targets so valid refill slots are not rejected.
• Hardened growth, taming, unload/reload and shutdown persistence while preserving independent native model and stat changes.
• Refunded birth quotas and parental cooldowns after confirmed spawn failure or cancellation, with idempotent journal replay.
• Completed regional clearing of habitat and breeding state; bounded journal-tail repair memory instead of reading the full journal on each append.
• Isolated predator and spider template installation, validated changed layouts and restored the affected native template after rejected loading.

Added

• Automatic wildlife discovery through registered role metadata and resolved categories, including eligible mobs from other mods without per-pack species lists.
• Physical breeding and juvenile growth, using native young roles when identifiable or a scaled original model, with reduced young health and damage.
• Chat notices naming each affected species for decline, scarcity, recovery, hunting pressure, completed births and adulthood.
• Habitat-aware recovery, hunting pressure, demographic pacing and statistical recolonization from suitable neighbouring regions.
• Food relations learned from repeated predator-attributed kills, with local prey availability influencing future predator spawning.
• /wp inspect <role> for eligibility, model/lifecycle capability, food evidence and native quota diagnostics.

Changed

• New configurations use a 4-day baseline recovery period. Existing valid settings are retained.
• Breeding and growth respect native quotas, flock sizes, pending spawns, parent cooldowns, habitat and collision clearance.
• World saves include ecology state, breeding bookkeeping, persistent young animals and learned food relations.

Fixed

• Hardened population and food persistence with committed journals, atomic checkpoints, restart replay and recovery past an unfinished final record.
• Isolated food-data failures so population checkpoints can still complete; invalid committed data and unsupported formats preserve original files.
• Preserved animal identity, health fraction and independent model/stat overrides during growth and taming transitions.
• Corrected spawn accounting and quota enforcement across regional boundaries and world save/restart transitions.

Added

• Regional wildlife populations: each 8 x 8 chunk region tracks the health of every wild species on its own
• Each player kill of a naturally spawned animal lowers that species’ health in that region
• Fewer animals of a depleted species spawn in that region; neighbouring regions keep vanilla spawning
• Populations recover on their own, from 10% to 90% in about 3 in-game days
• Covers land animals, fish and birds from every zone, wild predators included. Monsters, undead and animals from spawn markers are ignored
• Kills by other mobs, commands or the console do not count, and neither do animals spawned by commands
• Populations are saved per world and survive restarts
• /wp here, /wp set, /wp tick, /wp reset and /wp stats for admins
• Config mods/durkz_WorldPulse/WorldPulse.json (checkForUpdates, default true)