Early Access Hotfix 8.4.5

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• Performance and Stability
  • Fixed lag and stability issues on frozen planets; rubberbanding reduction continues as part of phased deployment; overall server stability improvements.
  • Identified major source of server crashes and corrected it; incidence significantly reduced.
  • Loaded timeout extended to speed up zone loading; loading times should improve and timeout less likely.
  • Performance improvements and stability fixes across multiple areas, including frozen planets and general lag sources.
• Inventory Management
  • Added a 'merge all' option on right-click to combine all of a resource type, averaging stats like single-stack merges.
  • Merge:Merging has been made more robust to prevent item loss during merges.
  • Merge:Merging now supports quantities under 1 unit; no more fractional amounts getting stuck.
  • Inventory UI gains a Type selection to filter items more efficiently.
  • Addressed item loss when moving items in and out of the toolbelt under latency conditions.
  • Recipes are now marked as Stackable to reduce clutter.
• Movement Speed Adjustments
  • Terrain-based speed modifiers adjusted: grassy baseline ~10% faster; mud/slower surfaces; bare terrain slightly faster; roads faster yet.
  • Stamina:Stamina usage increased cadence allows sprinting more often; recovery rate reduced to balance higher usage.
• Fabrication and Crafting Updates
  • Tier II now requires Metal Plate and Hardpoint Mount from Machine Shop I; Tier IV requires Polymer Sheet from Fabrication Lathe III; Tier VI requires Smart Polymer from Fabrication Lathe V.
  • Lab Bench I now requests Any Rock.
• Water and Fire Fixes
  • Fresh Water and Salt Water now extractable via Terraformer; reliability depends on mining material/state.
  • Cactus and Mature Saguaro can yield Fresh Water.
  • Matrix Manifold Heat and Charged Canister now accept Any Reactive Gas; Fire items convert to Methane.
  • Fire is no longer included in the developer gas crate; existing Fire items convert to Methane.
  • Ballhogs now have a smaller chance to drop Methane.
• Homesteads and Storage
  • Placement now confirms position; can return to inventory if placement fails. Applies to zoning lots as well.
  • Homing of placements allows placing on ground surface with fewer underground complications.
  • Fixes to preview distance vs actual target so previews match final placement.
  • Preview missing when placing from inventory fixed; consistent behavior when placing from consumables menu.
• Bank, Vendor and Market Improvements
  • Vendor kiosks are now craftable with the Business skill; players can open shops.
  • Market/vendor interface performance improved; items display and listing integrity improved; search and type filters added; sortable columns.
  • Crate appearances adjusted; tier 2 capacity increased to 10; tier 3 capacity increased to 25 with art updates.
• Other changes
  • Canned Emotes correction ensures zone-wide emission now radius-based on player location.
  • Easy/Hard missions renamed to near/mid/far based on travel distance for clarity.
• Known issues
  • Sell tab sometimes unresponsive on first open; closing/reopening fixes it.
  • Storage crates appearance changed; not a bug, intended design update.
  • Bank now shows a grid of empty tiles for empty slots.