Diod v0.1.0.6 — Light and life
Stage: Pre-alpha · 21 October 2026
Changes since v0.1.0.5

More readable lighting
- Brighter neutral fill and broader lamps in the bunker; remove underground
  volumetric fog even on High. The near-black interior ambient setting is gone.
- More readable outdoor shadows through a stable color/sky fill, gentler ambient
  occlusion/contrast and lifted exposure. Night retains its mood with a soft
  directional fill rather than leaving orientation entirely to darkness.
- Scene brightness is adjustable from 75–160% in Esc > Settings. The same
  brightness floor applies across Low/Medium/High. Saved time is unchanged.

The first environmental soundscape
- Birds/forest ambience and wind outdoors, night insects after dark, quiet
  bunker ventilation indoors and nearby burning-fire crackle.
- Outdoor layers fade when entering the bunker. Recorded ambient beds crossfade
  at loop boundaries. Fire fades by distance and pans with your viewing direction;
  extinguished fires do not produce crackle.
- Varied footsteps respond to grounded distance travelled. No walking sounds
  while standing still, jumping, mounted, using menus or teleporting.
- Quiet feedback for actual pickups, equipment changes, crafting, books/menus,
  chopping, digging/mining, bow release and damaging landings.
- Overall, nature/ambience, footsteps/actions and menus/inventory each have a
  volume control. Zero mutes the selected category. World audio pauses with
  menus; menu feedback remains separately controlled.
- Brightness and audio preferences are saved on this computer, separately from
  your world and graphics-quality preference. Settings apply immediately.

Updating and saves
Close Diod, back up your save and replace the application (or the complete
Windows/Linux extracted folder). Existing worlds, inventory, knowledge, quick
slots, terrain edits and settlement/horse progress retain their save locations.
No new game or clock reset is needed. No normal player save was used for tests
or included in the download. All audio is packaged for offline play; no login
or external audio service is needed. Source/license details accompany the build.

Validation and known limits
The actual Linux export passed 23 atmosphere checks (lighting across quality/
time/interior, audio decoding/mapping/gating, bounded voices, preferences and
settings), 32 existing experience checks and release identity/content/Earth/
legacy-save-path verification. All selected raw audio hashes were verified.
Small Linux software-rendered fixtures were reviewed at 160% brightness; the
game default is 100%. Windows icon/version metadata and Mac bundle identity/
version/both architectures passed. The Mac app is freshly Developer ID signed,
Apple notarized and stapled (submission 72c66624-102f-4e65-82cf-8e371d05afaf).
These checks cover packaging and basic lighting/audio behavior; full-world visual and listening acceptance on the owner's
Mac/Windows machine remain pending. The software-rendered fixtures are not a
GPU performance benchmark or a calibrated full-world comparison. Current action
foley is an initial mix, including provisional material/bow cues. Weather/water
layers, horse/wildlife voices, settlement chatter, full spatial occlusion and
music remain future work. Generic ambience is not species/location-specific.
Earlier art, movement, moving-target hunting, horse-to-bunker and river issues
remain subject to local feedback. Windows publisher signing is absent.

https://diod.world/updates.html#v0.1.0.6