Masonry 0.0.1.17 (Build #17)

What's New

[2026-03-26] Cap Mushroom Creatures & Adaptive Creature Time Budget

Milestone: 0.0 — Foundations & Performance
Files changed: src/game/worldgenerator.cpp, src/game/creaturemanager.cpp

Changes

• Cap mushroom creatures at 200: Previously spawned at 4% of underground area (6,200 at size 400!). Now uses random placement with a hard cap of 200, matching surface animal spawning pattern.
• Adaptive creature time budget: Was hard-coded 2ms. Now scales qBound(2, creatures/200, 5) — small colonies stay snappy, large maps get up to 5ms to process more creatures per tick.
• Entity counts in get_perf: Added creature/plant/gnome counts to benchmark output for visibility.

Benchmark Results (before → after, 100 ticks)

Size	Creatures Before → After	Tick μs Before → After
200	1,079 → 162	3,304 → 940
300	2,613 → 162	3,538 → 1,099
400	4,510 → 162	3,570 → 1,226

Technical Details

• Mushroom spawner now uses random position + walkability check loop (max 2000 attempts for 200 creatures)
• Creature count flat at ~162 regardless of map size (500 surface attempts + 200 mushroom cap)
• Tick time now scales with plant count (only thing proportional to area) — sub-linear growth
• Surface animal placement unchanged (numWildAnimals=500 with per-type caps)

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Build: #17 | Commit: 6f13d04

Downloads

• Windows: Masonry-Windows.zip — extract and run Masonry.exe
• macOS: Masonry-macOS.zip — extract, right-click Masonry.app → Open (first time)
• Linux: Masonry-Linux.tar.gz — extract and run ./masonry.sh