First of all, thank You very much to everyone who bought the game on Winter Sale! I hope that recently released 0.53 is smooth/crash free enough that You'll be eager to wait and see what's coming in development soon.

Update 0.6 will bring 4 important changes (alongside many other, obviously):

- Much higher maximum active plant limit, possible thanks to new optimizations.
- Vivarium tab, allowing for much easier tank customization and first implementations of features like temperature or water acidity simulation.
- Full first tier of animals. Crustaceans, slugs and horseshoe crabs will join flatworms and fishes.
- And many fixes to still happening crashes, mostly related to using DNA Editor/Almanac.

Everything above should get implemented with release of 0.6, somewhere in first half of February. Soon after, a 0.61 should follow with first implementations of Steam Cloud, Linux native client and long postponed texture pack support.

No further hotifxes for version 0.53 are planned right now, and as i'm pretty far into 0.6 development, fixes to all crashes reported in last 2 weeks are aimed to get released with 0.6 too.

EDIT: I've issued tonight revision to hotfix crash on startup for people who've used persistant inventory.