Rivers reborn - every river now starts at a mountain spring, runs down to one of the three lakes, and the lakes drain to the sea; deeper pools and wider reaches along the way, no more streams out of nowhere
New island map - the M map redrawn with the new rivers, springs and lakes
Open sea - swim or fly out past the island and it keeps going: an endless sea floor, haze on the horizon, and a current that turns you back before the edge
Reefs - rock outcrops, pinnacles and shelves on the deep ocean floor, some of them huge
Swimmers - Megalodon and Mosasaurus hunt the open ocean; Deinosuchus patrols the lakes and river mouths and hauls out on the banks
Flyers - Pterodactyl flocks, Archaeopteryx and Rahonavis soar across the island, land to drink and hunt, and take off again
Favourite foods - every species has five favourites; eating one gives one and a half times the food
Level 20 - every dino now levels to 20; unlocks are exactly where they were
Stat points - earn up to 20 per dino (spending them comes later)
Peas and carrots - dinos no longer pee; they drop peas and carrots instead
Home ranges - species now have places they favour across the island: Brontosaurus in the centre, raptors in the western woods, tyrants in the south-east
Broccoli and Ritz cracker - two new power-ups that work like the brownie and the mac and cheese
Moving power-ups - a collected power-up comes back somewhere else, never in the same spot
Fewer rocks - fewer rocks on land, and small ground rocks no longer collide
Deep water - plants and rocks on the deep bed are only drawn while you're in the water, for smoother frames everywhere else
Big trees - trunk collision matches the bark, and the largest trees use their real trunk shape
Forgiveness - a light accidental bite on a herd mate no longer turns the herd on you
Loners with a leader - solitary species that never herd with AI will follow a bigger or dominant player of their own kind
Carnivores - half as many roam the island
Family - a mate or your own hatchlings no longer attack you after a shared kill
Terrain - seams and jitter along the kilometre lines are gone
Swimming - no longer drains stamina; only sprint swimming does
River banks - Deinosuchus and other low dinos can climb out of rivers again
Multiplayer - joining players could only turn in place, and players took no damage from AI