245.0

Released - 28 July, 2016


 * TheCenter mega-update! (New Biomes, New Islands, New Caves & Creature Spawns, etc)
 * New Official Total Conversion: Primitive+, optimized, 'completed', and packaged as Free DLC
 * New Creature: Pelagornis!
 * New Creature: Allosaurus!
 * New Item: Fishing Rod + Fishing Mechanic! (Just Sap and Leech Blood baits for now, but many more baits will be added in the next day!)
 * New Structure: Industrial Grinder: grinds items into a portion of their crafting resources, converts resources into simpler resources
 * New Structure: Spiral Staircase (Stone/Wood/Metal)
 * New Mechanic: Optional Hitmarkers for ranged attacks (server can toggle them, as well as client if the server allows it). Default enabled, "?AllowHitMarkers=false" to disable. Also, server crosshair is now enabled by default, "?ServerCrosshair=false" to disable. There are now client options to disable these effects locally as well.
 * Building Attack/Destruction TribeLogs
 * UI Option to colorize item name texts based on quality level.
 * Offline Raid Protection mode now disables PIN Locking, and Structures in Caves no longer get ORP.

Patch notes for TheCenter
https://twitter.com/evilmrfrank/status/758422084070629376

Features

 * Added Redwood Forest Biome
 * Redid the Boss Arena from scratch, now actually works properly!
 * Extended map tremendously for the new redwood forest biome (About 50% larger now)
 * Added giant new land bridge connecting the snow/grasslands biome to the new redwood biome
 * Added giant new underwater caverns which includes, spider cavern, underwater ruins, crystal cavern, jumping puzzle. New caverns also provide a foot path for players to walk from the center of the earth to the top, and a new underwater path for players to get their water dinos in and out of the center of the earth.
 * Added a secondary cloud layer to give the sky a little variation/life
 * Added distant mountains
 * Added GIANT mountain range on southern edge of map
 * Huge Lighting update, vastly improved lighting all around
 * Massive Optimizations
 * Brand new player map, now includes 100% of playable space
 * Added new pitch black deep sea canyon (Scuba Goggles will not work here)
 * Lots of secrets added!
 * Added murder boxes in the floating island to melt anyones face who has glitched into and built bases inside.
 * Expanded the oceans to the south

Fixes

 * Fixed the pathways leading up from under the center being blocked off at the top
 * Fixed a couple of holes under the center that allowed players to get under the map
 * Fixed some large holes in the landscape in the grasslands that people could fall into
 * Added dmg bonus for building in the monster head island
 * Fixed dinos disappearing from monster head island
 * Removed mosa/plesi spawning in the large lake with the iceberg
 * Fixed the tall grass in the northern and southern islands that didn't go away with the rest of the clutter
 * Fixed the undenworld grass being overly shiny/reflective
 * Added Mosa spawns back in
 * Bear spawns added to Redwood Forest
 * Titan spawns added to Redwood Forest
 * Lowered some of the deep ocean spawn numbers (Dunky, etc...)
 * Added more harvestable stones to tropical sections of the map
 * Lowered the height of the tall clutter grass pieces
 * Fixed Eastern Oceans not having any foliage/rocks
 * Made moonlight brighter
 * Fixed several areas in the floating island that allowed players to glitch inside and build bases
 * Made the lava biome darker more forboding
 * Fixed the large half lava/half tropical island not having any trees on the tropical half
 * Added metal/crystal resources to the half tropical half lava island
 * Fixed numerous holes in the underworld that allowed players to escape the world/get under the map
 * Various other bug fixes too many to count <3