Changelog

Version: 0.3.4
Date: 2026-09-23
  Changes:
    - Reworked natural stromatolite placement to use a native map-generation colony anchor, mirroring GZ-Terra river-crossing stone autoplace.
    - Removed the Gleba-biome exclusion gate for natural Calcite, Phosphate, and Carbon stromatolites.
    - Added Terra coastal beach sand, including black/red beaches, as valid natural colony habitat alongside shallow water.
    - Colony anchors are converted on chunk generation into compact 4-5 plant colonies and then removed.

Version: 0.3.3
Date: 2026-09-23
  Changes:
    - Increased natural Calcite, Phosphate, and Carbon stromatolite colony frequency from 0.24 to 2.0 colonies per eligible shallow-water chunk at Normal settings.
    - Reduced natural stromatolite colonies from 8-12 plants to 4-5 plants.
    - Reduced the minimum connected shallow-water footprint and colony spread to make small coastal pockets valid spawn sites.

Version: 0.3.2
Date: 2026-09-23
  Changes:
    - Added a Stromatolites map-generation control for the new Calcite, Phosphate, and Carbon strains.
    - New natural stromatolites generate as deterministic random colonies of 8-12 on shallow water.
    - Native Gleba and Terra's imported Gleba biome are excluded from the new colony generator.
    - Iron and Copper stromatolite autoplace behavior is unchanged.

Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2026-09-23
  Fixes:
    - Corrected stromatolite plant remove_decoratives to use Factorio's required string enum.

Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2026-09-23
  Changes:
    - Merged the active Beekeeping, wild beehive-tree, Honeypot, and directional Fishing Port systems from the 0.2.3 branch into the current Aquaculture/Stromatolite branch.
    - Kept the current Aquaculture Tower name and stromatolite progression instead of restoring the obsolete Algaculture Tower prototype.
    - Restored the complete blue Aquaculture crane artwork from the 0.2.3 branch.
    - Preserved the fixed hidden Aquaculture fluid-interface bounding box required by Factorio 2.0.
    - GZ Ecology continues to register with Gizmod and now advertises the merged ecology capabilities.

Version: 0.2.3
Date: 2026-09-21
  Changes:
    - Fishing Port boats now make wider sweeps through the directional 12x8 work area instead of hugging the dock edge.
    - Roaming targets favor offshore positions, require meaningful travel distance, and retarget less aggressively.
    - Boat roaming no longer resets at brief crafting-cycle boundaries.

Version: 0.2.2
Date: 2026-09-21
  Changes:
    - Moved Fishing Port research into GZ Ecology progression after Agriculture.
    - Fishing Port now costs 50 Automation + 50 Logistic science instead of the standalone mod's Captivity/Fish Breeding late-game gate.

Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2026-09-21
  Changes:
    - Integrated the stripped-down Fishing Port system and its boat/assets directly into GZ Ecology.
    - Fishing Port works a directional 12x8 water area and consumes Cooked Biter Bait for a 10% chance to catch 5 Raw Fish.
    - Cooked Biter Bait is smelted from GZ Chitin shell fragments.
    - Standalone fishing-dock is now incompatible to prevent duplicate prototypes.

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-09-21
  Changes:
    - Renamed the Beehive item to Honey Bee Hive.
    - Bee Funneltrunk remains the cultivated tree name.

Version: 0.1.9
Date: 2026-09-21
  Fixes:
    - Consolidated duplicate locale section headers so each [section] appears only once.

Version: 0.1.8
Date: 2026-09-21
  Changes:
    - Honeypots are now explicitly non-repairable.

Version: 0.1.7
Date: 2026-09-21
  Changes:
    - Beehives now spoil after 10 minutes into 4 Honeycombs.
    - Beehives can be planted by Agricultural Towers as cultivated Bee Funneltrunks.
    - Mature Bee Funneltrunks yield 5 wood, 1 guaranteed Beehive, and a 55% chance for a second Beehive.
    - Removed the obsolete manual Open Beehive recipe; Honeycombs now come from hive spoilage.

Version: 0.1.6
Date: 2026-09-21
  Changes:
    - Replaced literal bee indicator graphics on beehive trees with a more noticeable orange floating swarm particle effect arranged in a loose spiral.

Version: 0.1.5
Date: 2026-09-21
  Performance:
    - Reworked beehive-tree selection to avoid expensive per-tree map-gen reads and hashing.
    - Reduced old-save beehive backfill from four dense chunks per second to one chunk per second.
    - Cached the map seed once per surface and reduced hive-selection work to roughly one roll per 200 trees.

Version: 0.1.4
Date: 2026-09-21
  Fixes:
    - Algaculture Tower now inherits all crane shadows and reflections directly from the Space Age Agricultural Tower while retaining the custom blue visible crane sprites.

Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2026-09-21
  Features:
    - Added wild beehive trees at roughly 1 per 200 trees.
    - New chunks are scanned once at generation; existing saves are backfilled lazily around active players.
    - Beehive trees show a warm glow and lightweight attached bee indicators.
    - Mining a beehive tree yields one Beehive item.

Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2026-09-21
  Changes:
    - Moved Honeypot biter-attraction runtime behavior into GZ Ecology.
    - Honeypots attract enemy units within 500 tiles using the staggered GZ-Tweaks scheduler.