I have just released a new map, a remake of the classic TheRockJungle by SirArtturi. It is an east vs west teams map with spawns up to 8vs8 in mind. Lots of vegetation and shallow water.

Smart area reclaim has been the source of a lot of crashes and lag spikes of late, thanks to people accidentally (or not so accidentally) using it to queue up map-wide reclaim commands. It now has limits to the total area and number of commands it can issue to alleviate this problem. Read on for more details!

Factory guard has been changed from a global toggle in the settings to a toggleable setting per-factory, next to other factory settings such as move state and fire state. It defaults to off, so make sure to check each game if you're used to this feature!

This engine release is a set items piled up during the feature freeze, a large set of wonderful updates by ivand, Sprung, A-Lias, Loveridge, Lamer, Beherith and more.

- Pawns faster - Grunts slower - Demon builds slower - Maces and Thugs learn to respect and enforce their personal space

Go to the [replay site](https://bar-rts.com/replays/?page=1&limit=24&hasBots=false&endedNormally=true) and try it out!

A bunch of small items were just merged, nothing groundbreaking but maybe these will give you some relief if you've run into them. Fixed mex handling on several metal maps (note, this won't affect AI), fixed some line drag behavior and added an option related to it, fixed not being able to place buildings on top of other commands (e.g. move), fixed pregame building placement not indicating when a spot is blocked. More details below!

After an extended testing period, Fire and Lightning boats from the T2 sea mod option have migrated into base game along with the updated 'carrier'/anti ship. My updated Dragons, Demons, and Salamanders from Release Candidates are now in base game, and Drone Carriers have now moved to Release Candidate Units.

Unfortunately camels back has been broken by one last straw, and unbacom has been removed from BAR, and will remain removed indefinitely. In short, it is too unstable and causes too many bugs to remain in its current state. Read on for more details!

Here's a slightly delayed update on a moderation policy change. Because we're volunteers with limited time on our hands, we're going to be skipping steps on the escalation ladder for in-game actions, such as griefing, in modded Raptors games, which take a very long time to watch and process. We thus want to dissuade people from doing so in the first place, and hope the modded Raptors community passes this along by word of mouth.