New texture to reduce eyestrain and Anarchid's crystal rings around metal spots

The lava texture? If you have a better one I'll add it to the pack.

Invincible mexes ftw

I'd suggest marking as unsupported if this isn't fixed.

Unkillable mex and error spam

Un-everythinged.

quote: Whose fucking idea was it to add those crystal rings to the mexes without checking if they have fucking hitboxes?

In features\crystal.lua it says
hitdensity

"0", blocking=false, footprintX

0, footprintZ = 0, - perhaps someone thought he had taken care of it.
But iirc "blocking" is not for projectiles, "hitdensity" never existed and footprints get clamped to be at least =1. (see wiki)
(hitdensity-tag is one of the old myths that somehow refuse to die, despite open source.)

Btw why is the addTideRhym() stuff never used? Tide goes up, tide goes down, you can't explain that!

The usefulness/functionality of the feature blocking tags was removed some time between Spring 94.1 and 95.0. This was done as part of Kloot's program to remove unit/feature/weapondef tags which could be runtime modifiable and make them the responsibility of gadgets.

I wrote a gadget to fix the game side features and it is probably affecting the map features as well.
https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/blob/master/LuaRules/Gadgets/feature_blocking_tag_implementation.lua

quote: Blocking seems to work, it's the collision volumes that are problematic. Anyway, yes it's possible to fix in featureDef by setting collisionVolumeScales = [[0,0,0]].

This makes the features disappear.

quote: Btw why is the addTideRhym() stuff never used? Tide goes up, tide goes down, you can't explain that!

Lavalevel was locked to 0 so hovers could float on top of lava. Seemed like a good idea at the time, in practice it's something that I never see used on the map.