Added new area: I2 Mountains. These can be found in Ostrich Ferns (in I2). At the center of these mountains is a new weapon mode for your Laser: the Cold Beam. This costs two ammo but freezes monsters for 2.5 times the amount of time as the standard fire.

Added new area: Beta Cube. This can be found in the main treasure area inside Ying Trees. This is intended for very hard difficulties, where monsters limit which areas you can go. In a Beta Cube you can get RejuvenX and EMP upgrades.

Load time of the xar package has been improved by bundling Lua script files together.

There are a few more window API functions added for modding.

Recall that for several technical reasons, the engine cannot make changes to chunks that are not part of the active chunk tree. However, there is a loophole: The engine can read and write chunk files for chunks not in the active chunk tree (chunk files are "random access"). In this update we are starting to take advantage of this loophole.

In addition to the Creation Manual PDF, there are now lists of functions and their arguments in HTML form. These lists can be found in the creation manual page on the game's website.

Made certain side displays a little smaller.

The side display system has been improved. You will need to select which side displays are visible again. There is a new menu to select the order in which the displays appear on your screen (you can change the order by dragging your mouse). Side displays can now specify which height they want to use. It is intended that they always set the height to be a multiple of the default side display height. That way the user can change the default side display height and that will affect all displays. The "small" side displays are now smaller. Finally, side display Lua scripts are no longer all loaded when you load a game. Instead, each script is only loaded when it is needed.

Support for partially transparent blocks is now in beta.