I've also been seeing bursts of lag/desync when there are a lot of bots active on a different surface. I have been watching my FPS/UPS and notice during this time, my UPS is actually higher than it should be (capping at 95 UPS so far). After a few seconds, it does taper back down to the expected 60 ...

This is definitely a new issue since updating from 1.1.8. I don't see any options for this in settings, so please fix it

Thank you for fixing the bug. Are the trees supposed to be creating pollution as well as consuming it? I'm not quite sure how that would work, but even in my new game [0.17.27], the trees are currently creating 6.4/m pollution.

Also, my game started in 0.17.26 was completely destroyed by massive ...