Tellus: Atlas & Wildlife 0.8.5 - Climate Fauna Maps + Discovery Audit

Apply over TAW 0.8.4.

1. FAUNA WORLD MAP CLIMATE COLORS

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The 0.8.4 world-map detail page now colors distribution overlays by broad visual habitat/climate instead of using one green color for every GeoBox.

Non-aquatic ranges are split by latitude only for rendering:

• HOT: 30 S to 30 N (warm coral)
• TEMPERATE: 30 to 55 degrees N/S (leaf/sage green)
• COLD: poleward of 55 degrees (cool blue)

Water-associated fauna use AQUATIC teal/cyan across their whole range.

This is deliberately a VISUAL classification. Spawn geography remains the authoritative GeoBox database and is completely unchanged. A broad GeoBox can therefore display two or three climate colors without adding a second range database.

Aquatic display classification covers:

• all Hybrid Aquatic fauna
• Aquaculture fauna except Box Turtle
• explicit aquatic/amphibious Alex's Mobs, Naturalist and Critters species

PERFORMANCE: At most five small rectangle draws per non-aquatic GeoBox while the selected fauna detail page is actually visible. No tick, cache, networking or data is added.

2. KANGAROO DISCOVERY FIX

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Kangaroo was NOT missing from TAW. It was already:

• in ALEX_REAL
• geographically allowed in Australia
• a Terrestrial Spawn Assist target
• a curated wildlife advancement (+5-level reward)
• part of Australian Icons

The problem was the 0.8.3 close-discovery rule: Kangaroo still used the normal 8-block radius. It is now in the existing large/exception class:

• Kangaroo discovery radius: 18 blocks
• line of sight: still required

This uses the existing exception mechanism and adds no processing.

3. CATALOG REVIEW / AUDIT HARDENING

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No clear missing real-fauna entries were found in the currently targeted catalogs during this pass.

Source-level checks confirmed:

• Alex's Mobs port registry: TAW accounts for all 116 EntityTypes (59 real fauna + 57 excluded/helper/fantasy).
• Hybrid Aquatic current 1.21.1-multiloader registry: TAW accounts for all 136 EntityTypes (126 real fauna + 10 excluded/helper/fantasy).

Naturalist remains 47 real animals in the integrated 2.0.2 catalog; Aquaculture and Critters retain their previously audited catalogs.

To make future jar drift easier to detect, runtime registry verification now also applies to Alex's Mobs and Hybrid Aquatic when /taw audit is run. Previously command-time runtime verification was limited to Naturalist, Aquaculture and Critters.

The registry scan remains COMMAND-ONLY. It never runs from spawning, ticks, Journal rendering or Wildlife Discovery.

VERSION

0.8.5