Patch Notes 1.9.8 - Additional Collections, New Perks
Voxel Turf Patch Notes — May 18, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
In this patch you may now do "Additional Collections" to spend 10 reputation to get 10 ticks of income. You need a net income of at least $1,000/tick to use it. This will also give you 10 aggression, which will hurt your income while it ticks down. The button is on the map screen.
I have added two new perks. The first is "Collection Gangs", which doubles the income from "Additional Collections". The next perk is "Athletics". This gives a small 10% HP boost, increases sprint speed by 25% and quadruples your sprint and swim timers. Your sprint meter will recharge at the same rate, but decrease at 1/4 of the un-perked rate. This makes your character go fassssst
Finally I multithreaded texture decoding on game startup. Before the game would load each texture one-by-one. Now a thread pool loads each file, decodes it, does DXT compression and mipmap generation. Finally it is uploaded to opengl singlethreaded. Because it is multithreaded we can decode a texture while another one is being fetched from disc. This decreases game load time on my maching from ~9.5s down to 1.5s. Disc i/o is still a bottleneck, the speed up is most noticable when the files are cached by the OS.
In Turf 2 news, I have been busy working on World Generation. In Voxel Turf, the map is divided into lots and you control territory surrounding a base. In Turf2, the world is divided into Neighbourhoods (about 2x the size of VT's base radius), Suburbs (groups of ~16 neighbourhoods), City Tiles (groups of 16 Suburbs) and Supergroups (groups of ~16 City Tiles). Rivers will flow from inland sources to the sea, and they will either flow around city tiles (making good natural borders) or flow through the middle of city tiles (making a good place for settlement). Not every City Tile will be a city, some will be farmlands, mountains, deserts, etc.
Above: A part of the world divided into superregions, City Tiles and Suburbs.
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EDIT: Hotfix on 19/05/26 adds a flag to enable the dGPU on hybrid laptops
Full Changelog:
VERSION 1.9.8 - 18/05/26
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- - You can now do Additional Collections. This costs 10 reputation, gives you 10 aggression but instantly gives you 10 ticks of income
- - New Perk - Collection Gangs. Doubles the income from Additional Collections.
- - New Perk - Athletics. Increases sprint speed and time, and lets you stay underwater longer. Also gives +10% HP.
- - Multithreaded texture loading at game start. On my machine it lowers loading time from 9.5s -> 1.5s. Loading is still bottlenecked by disc i/o, but loading, DXT compression and mip-map generation is now down by thread pool.
- - Added some flags so that NVidia Optimus/AMD PowerXpress will enable the dGPU on hybrid laptops
- - Fixed selecting inventory item using mouse scrollwheel on linux
- - Fixed stun/auth server domains