Hydrofarm

Energy Cell structures no longer show see-through seams along their edges. The metal frame didn't quite reach the block edge, leaving a thin strip with no geometry — and because a cell hides the block behind it, what showed through the strip was empty space. Most visible on the horizontal edges of a large bank, and around the sides of any hole cut into one.

Fixed the seam inside a hollowed-out bank. Break a single cell out of the middle of a solid cube and look down: the cell below was left without any of its frame, because the frame only appears where two faces meet in the open. Its face panel then had an open rim you could see straight through.

Fixed flickering on the frame corners. Two parts of the frame occupied the same corner, so the game had to choose between them every frame and the corners shimmered. The frame pieces no longer overlap at all — each corner now belongs to exactly one piece, checked against every possible arrangement of neighbouring cells.

Energy Cell structures no longer show see-through seams along their edges. The metal frame didn't quite reach the block edge, leaving a thin strip with no geometry — and because a cell hides the block behind it, what showed through the strip was empty space. Most visible on the horizontal edges of a large bank, and around the sides of any hole cut into one.

Fixed the seam inside a hollowed-out bank. Break a single cell out of the middle of a solid cube and look down: the cell below was left without any of its frame, because the frame only appears where two faces meet in the open. Its face panel then had an open rim you could see straight through.

Fixed flickering on the frame corners. Two parts of the frame occupied the same corner, so the game had to choose between them every frame and the corners shimmered. The frame pieces no longer overlap at all — each corner now belongs to exactly one piece, checked against every possible arrangement of neighbouring cells.

Energy Cell structures no longer show see-through seams along their edges. The metal frame didn't quite reach the block edge, leaving a thin strip with no geometry — and because a cell hides the block behind it, what showed through the strip was empty space. Most visible on the horizontal edges of a large bank, and around the sides of any hole cut into one.

Fixed the seam inside a hollowed-out bank. Break a single cell out of the middle of a solid cube and look down: the cell below was left without any of its frame, because the frame only appears where two faces meet in the open. Its face panel then had an open rim you could see straight through.

Fixed flickering on the frame corners. Two parts of the frame occupied the same corner, so the game had to choose between them every frame and the corners shimmered. The frame pieces no longer overlap at all — each corner now belongs to exactly one piece, checked against every possible arrangement of neighbouring cells.

Energy Cell structures no longer show see-through seams along their edges. The metal frame didn't quite reach the block edge, leaving a thin strip with no geometry — and because a cell hides the block behind it, what showed through the strip was empty space. Most visible on the horizontal edges of a large bank, and around the sides of any hole cut into one.

Fixed the seam inside a hollowed-out bank. Break a single cell out of the middle of a solid cube and look down: the cell below was left without any of its frame, because the frame only appears where two faces meet in the open. Its face panel then had an open rim you could see straight through.

Fixed flickering on the frame corners. Two parts of the frame occupied the same corner, so the game had to choose between them every frame and the corners shimmered. The frame pieces no longer overlap at all — each corner now belongs to exactly one piece, checked against every possible arrangement of neighbouring cells.

Big multiblocks no longer lag the game. Every multiblock in the mod — Liquid Tanks, all four bed types, and Energy Cells — rediscovered its own shape independently, so a structure with N blocks did the same work N times over. The cost grew with the square of the size, which is why small builds felt fine and large ones fell off a cliff. One block now does that work and shares the result with the rest of the structure.

Measured in-game on a 9×9×9 (729-block) tank warehouse:

A 441-bed hydroponics farm shows the same improvement. In practice: the stutter when placing blocks against a large structure is gone, and a big tank wall no longer costs frame rate just by being on screen.

An "anti-stutter" feature had never actually worked. Periodic jobs (cluster refreshes, crop growth, cull timers) were meant to be spread across different ticks so they never all fire at once. The maths behind it collapsed to depend only on a block's height, so every block on the same layer got the identical schedule — a flat bed farm ran every one of its beds on the same tick, forever. Now properly spread out.

Energy Cells could gain energy across a save and reload. Rearranging a cell bank could leave a cell's chunk unmarked, so on reload it came back holding energy it had already given away. Cell banks now save correctly in every case.

A cell next to a newly-placed generator could ignore it for a few seconds. Cells remembered what used to be at a neighbouring position rather than checking, so replacing a cell with a generator left it skipped for 2-3 seconds. Now checked live.

Sprinklers and Monster Repulsers could carry data between singleplayer worlds. Leaving one world and loading another kept the first world's positions in memory. Harmless in most cases, but it permanently disabled the Repulser's fast path for mob spawning until the game was restarted.

Fluid and energy transfers no longer touch parts of a structure they cannot change. Checking how much a tank wall could give would run through every tank including the empty ones, sending needless block updates to every nearby player for a transfer that moved nothing.

Big multiblocks no longer lag the game. Every multiblock in the mod — Liquid Tanks, all four bed types, and Energy Cells — rediscovered its own shape independently, so a structure with N blocks did the same work N times over. The cost grew with the square of the size, which is why small builds felt fine and large ones fell off a cliff. One block now does that work and shares the result with the rest of the structure.

Measured in-game on a 9×9×9 (729-block) tank warehouse:

A 441-bed hydroponics farm shows the same improvement. In practice: the stutter when placing blocks against a large structure is gone, and a big tank wall no longer costs frame rate just by being on screen.

An "anti-stutter" feature had never actually worked. Periodic jobs (cluster refreshes, crop growth, cull timers) were meant to be spread across different ticks so they never all fire at once. The maths behind it collapsed to depend only on a block's height, so every block on the same layer got the identical schedule — a flat bed farm ran every one of its beds on the same tick, forever. Now properly spread out.

Energy Cells could gain energy across a save and reload. Rearranging a cell bank could leave a cell's chunk unmarked, so on reload it came back holding energy it had already given away. Cell banks now save correctly in every case.

A cell next to a newly-placed generator could ignore it for a few seconds. Cells remembered what used to be at a neighbouring position rather than checking, so replacing a cell with a generator left it skipped for 2-3 seconds. Now checked live.

Sprinklers and Monster Repulsers could carry data between singleplayer worlds. Leaving one world and loading another kept the first world's positions in memory. Harmless in most cases, but it permanently disabled the Repulser's fast path for mob spawning until the game was restarted.

Fluid and energy transfers no longer touch parts of a structure they cannot change. Checking how much a tank wall could give would run through every tank including the empty ones, sending needless block updates to every nearby player for a transfer that moved nothing.

Big multiblocks no longer lag the game. Every multiblock in the mod — Liquid Tanks, all four bed types, and Energy Cells — rediscovered its own shape independently, so a structure with N blocks did the same work N times over. The cost grew with the square of the size, which is why small builds felt fine and large ones fell off a cliff. One block now does that work and shares the result with the rest of the structure.

Measured in-game on a 9×9×9 (729-block) tank warehouse:

A 441-bed hydroponics farm shows the same improvement. In practice: the stutter when placing blocks against a large structure is gone, and a big tank wall no longer costs frame rate just by being on screen.

An "anti-stutter" feature had never actually worked. Periodic jobs (cluster refreshes, crop growth, cull timers) were meant to be spread across different ticks so they never all fire at once. The maths behind it collapsed to depend only on a block's height, so every block on the same layer got the identical schedule — a flat bed farm ran every one of its beds on the same tick, forever. Now properly spread out.

Energy Cells could gain energy across a save and reload. Rearranging a cell bank could leave a cell's chunk unmarked, so on reload it came back holding energy it had already given away. Cell banks now save correctly in every case.

A cell next to a newly-placed generator could ignore it for a few seconds. Cells remembered what used to be at a neighbouring position rather than checking, so replacing a cell with a generator left it skipped for 2-3 seconds. Now checked live.

Sprinklers and Monster Repulsers could carry data between singleplayer worlds. Leaving one world and loading another kept the first world's positions in memory. Harmless in most cases, but it permanently disabled the Repulser's fast path for mob spawning until the game was restarted.

Fluid and energy transfers no longer touch parts of a structure they cannot change. Checking how much a tank wall could give would run through every tank including the empty ones, sending needless block updates to every nearby player for a transfer that moved nothing.

Big multiblocks no longer lag the game. Every multiblock in the mod — Liquid Tanks, all four bed types, and Energy Cells — rediscovered its own shape independently, so a structure with N blocks did the same work N times over. The cost grew with the square of the size, which is why small builds felt fine and large ones fell off a cliff. One block now does that work and shares the result with the rest of the structure.

Measured in-game on a 9×9×9 (729-block) tank warehouse:

A 441-bed hydroponics farm shows the same improvement. In practice: the stutter when placing blocks against a large structure is gone, and a big tank wall no longer costs frame rate just by being on screen.

An "anti-stutter" feature had never actually worked. Periodic jobs (cluster refreshes, crop growth, cull timers) were meant to be spread across different ticks so they never all fire at once. The maths behind it collapsed to depend only on a block's height, so every block on the same layer got the identical schedule — a flat bed farm ran every one of its beds on the same tick, forever. Now properly spread out.

Energy Cells could gain energy across a save and reload. Rearranging a cell bank could leave a cell's chunk unmarked, so on reload it came back holding energy it had already given away. Cell banks now save correctly in every case.

A cell next to a newly-placed generator could ignore it for a few seconds. Cells remembered what used to be at a neighbouring position rather than checking, so replacing a cell with a generator left it skipped for 2-3 seconds. Now checked live.

Sprinklers and Monster Repulsers could carry data between singleplayer worlds. Leaving one world and loading another kept the first world's positions in memory. Harmless in most cases, but it permanently disabled the Repulser's fast path for mob spawning until the game was restarted.

Fluid and energy transfers no longer touch parts of a structure they cannot change. Checking how much a tank wall could give would run through every tank including the empty ones, sending needless block updates to every nearby player for a transfer that moved nothing.