v3.1.6

3.1.6 - Companion Performance Hotfix - 2026-08-14

Fixed

• Reduced companion load stalls. Role appearance data and optional model APIs are now cached, trait and progression repair share one load pass, and exact NPC identity lookups use an index.
• Reduced bonded companion database work. Expiry warnings now use committed runtime lease state, known-empty worlds skip recurring SQLite queries, capture-event recovery polls only while delivery is pending, and retention cleanup uses a slower one-minute cadence.
• Reduced mounted NPC tick work by limiting interactable safety and nameplate visibility scans to ten passes per second in each world.
• Reduced idle tranquilizer tracking work by checking loaded NPC effects once per second instead of ten times per second.
• Updated the embedded runtimes to Alec's Telemetry 1.2.1 and Patchwork 1.3.1.