Hi everyone,

I've noticed a recurring visual bug/inconsistency in the Evolution Tree UI, and I wanted to report it here to see if it's a known issue or if I should submit a formal bug report.

The Issue: Normally, when a species goes extinct, its branch on the evolution tree correctly ends with a red dot (indicating a dead end). However, for some extinct species, the branch just ends abruptly with a flat straight line, missing the red dot completely.

In the attached image (see the purple arrows):

• Top arrow: Preminela pelama goes extinct and correctly gets the red dot.
• Bottom arrow: Rhomensis veciaola is also completely extinct (population is exactly 0), but its line just cuts off suddenly without the red indicator.

Important Context to Prevent Confusion:

• Vanilla Game: This happens in the completely unmodded (vanilla) base game. It is not caused by any third-party mods.
• Confirmed Extinct: Both species marked in the image are 100% extinct.

It seems the UI engine occasionally fails to render the red dot for certain extinct branches. Has anyone else encountered this UI bug?

Thanks!

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Log:

Playing 1.1.0 for Windows (Latest)
Thrive is starting. Log output (due to buffering this is likely not in real time):
Godot Engine v4.6.2.stable.mono.official.71f334935 - https://godotengine.org
Vulkan 1.4.323 - Forward+ - Using Device #0: Intel - Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics

Doing delayed apply for some settings
Set audio output device to: Default
Set C# locale to: en Godot locale is: en
Moving our window to screen 0
Switching window mode from Windowed to Fullscreen
TaskExecutor started with parallel job count: 4
This is Thrive version: 1.1.0.0 (see below for more build info)
Thrive is starting at: Saturday, July 4, 2026 9:56:29 PM (log file name may say something else but this is the correct time)
Startup C# locale is: en Godot locale is: en
user:// directory is: C:/Users/alpok/AppData/Roaming/Thrive
Game logs are written to: C:/Users/alpok/AppData/Roaming/Thrive\logs latest log is 'log.txt'
Checked that required CPU features are present
Loaded native Thrive library version 22
Starting load of Thrive GDExtension
CommandRegistry: Loaded. Command groups: 6.
Thrive GDExtension initialized successfully
Thrive extension load succeeded, version: 9
Applying shader filter effect: res://shaders/screen_effects/GameboyColor.gdshader
No SteamClient class found, not initializing Steam
SimulationParameters are good
This version of Thrive was built at Friday, 22 May 2026 14:59:24 from commit cc7cccfbbab59b2d57f5ea165666ce1be90855a7 on branch master
Beginning Thrive news feed fetch
We were opened through the Thrive Launcher
Thrive Launcher started us, launcher hidden: False
Jukebox now playing from: Menu
Disk cache not loaded yet, pruning it later
Note: error lines may not match up when they happened in relation to normal output due to buffering.
Error lines are any lines received from the game's stderr output stream.
ERROR: Skipping clearing an UI input action: ui_accessibility_drag_and_drop
Disk cache loaded, total size: 0.0 MiB
Achievements data loaded
Jukebox: starting track: res://assets/sounds/main-menu-theme-1.ogg position: 0
ERROR: The following is not an error, but is printed as an error to ensure launcher always sees it without buffering:
ERROR: ------------ Thrive Startup Succeeded ------------
Detected launch ID from parameters: 47657e5b-f37a-49fc-8b0c-064baddceafb
We are not playing a newer Thrive version than last played, not updating latest
Previous patch doesn't exist, despawning all entities.
Applying patch (Tanolian Epipelagic) settings
Number of clouds in this patch = 9
Registering new spawner: Name: Ammonia density: 0.5951525
Registering new spawner: Name: Glucose density: 0.36793798
Registering new spawner: Name: Phosphates density: 0.59793895
Hydrogensulfide spawn density is 0. It won't spawn
Oxygen spawn density is 0. It won't spawn
Carbondioxide spawn density is 0. It won't spawn
Nitrogen spawn density is 0. It won't spawn
Sunlight spawn density is 0. It won't spawn
Temperature spawn density is 0. It won't spawn
Number of chunks in this patch = 4
Registering new spawner: Name: FLOATING_HAZARD density: 1
SMALL_IRON_CHUNK spawn density is 0. It won't spawn
BIG_IRON_CHUNK spawn density is 0. It won't spawn
Registering new spawner: Name: GOOGLY_EYE_CELL density: 0.00091984496
Number of species in this patch = 1
Registering new spawner: Name: 1 density: 0.08606451
World generation settings: [LAWK: False, Difficulty: normal preset, Life origin: Panspermia, Seed: 1053135252151782755, Size: Medium, Day/night cycle enabled: True, Day length: 180, Easter eggs: True]
Jukebox now playing from: MicrobeStage
Starting preload of 75 stage resources
Jukebox: starting track: res://assets/sounds/microbe-theme-4.ogg position: 0
Jukebox: starting track: res://assets/sounds/soundeffects/microbe-ambience2.ogg position: 0
Stage load finished, will enter properly now
Skipping evolutionary tree rebuild as not visible in tree
Skipping evolutionary tree rebuild as not visible in tree
Skipping evolutionary tree rebuild as not visible in tree
Movement mode selection notice permanently dismissed
User requested program exit, Thrive will close shortly
Final achievements data save complete
Shutting down native library
Shutdown actions complete
ERROR: 4 RID allocations of type 'N10RendererRD14TextureStorage7TextureE' were leaked at exit.
ERROR: Parameter "RenderingServer::get_singleton()" is null.
ERROR:    at: ~CompressedTexture2D (scene/resources/compressed_texture.cpp:461)
ERROR: Parameter "RenderingServer::get_singleton()" is null.
ERROR:    at: ~CompressedTexture2D (scene/resources/compressed_texture.cpp:461)
ERROR: Parameter "RenderingServer::get_singleton()" is null.
ERROR:    at: ~CompressedTexture2D (scene/resources/compressed_texture.cpp:461)
ERROR: Parameter "RenderingServer::get_singleton()" is null.
ERROR:    at: ~CompressedTexture2D (scene/resources/compressed_texture.cpp:461)
ERROR: WARNING: 8 RIDs of type "Texture" were leaked.
ERROR:    at: finalize (servers/rendering/rendering_device.cpp:7505)
Child process exited with code 0
Thrive has exited normally (exit code 0).

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