Holiday Cheer, Hull Repairs & a Whole Lot of Polish

The seas have turned cold… but your boat just got a whole lot cozier!

This year’s Christmas Update brings festive fixes, smoother sailing, better stability, and a heap of holiday charm ❄️

We’re also launching the Dreadline x Mineral Madness Bundle - more on that at the end! 🧪💎

🎁 Holiday Event Highlights

🎄 Christmas Event System

• Seasonal event framework activated

• Holiday rewards, festive fishes & winter prep features included

  

🧦 Holiday Cosmetics

• New Christmas bobber variant

• Seasonal wardrobe sync fixes (Saves through steam)

• Cosmetic restoration issues (e.g., missing titles/hats) resolved

🔔 Event Audio & VFX

• Fixes to alarms, electrical cues & event SFX

• Better muting/unmuting of audio during malfunction or cold-engine states

🛥️ Gameplay & System Improvements

⚡ Electrical Malfunction Improvements

• Complete fuse-box minigame now stable

• Middle fuse interaction errors fixed

• Malfunction lamps, blinking lights & spotlight behaviour cleaned up

⚙️ Engine & Boat

• Reverse steering fixed (again!)

• Engine death → menu transition no longer drags sounds with it

• Hull damage persistence fixed across sleep/reconnect (it will now repair when sleeping as intended)

• Boat destruction correctly disables affected systems

• Screen shake added to all hull impacts

• Audio no longer loops, cuts out, or sticks between sessions

🌩️ Weather & Lighting

• Dynamic storms stabilized

• Fog & water colours properly biome-linked

• Gamma settings corrected (up/down parity, brighter max)

• Spotlight rotation & cabin lights syncing for all players

👁️ Eyelurker Overhaul

Dreadline’s stealth-horror monster received its largest polish pass yet.

• Teleport smoothness & attack timing fixed

• New “heads up” cues

• New audio & VFX polish

• Aggro reset, last-stage behaviour & hit feedback corrected

• Desync issues cleaned up

🎣 Fishing & Gear

• Float rod range extended

• Hooked fish now sell properly

• Big Fish jump behaviour repaired

• Fish stealer reliability improved + snatch hitbox fixed

• Custom bobber audio cooldown added

• “Throw” renamed to Cast

• Fish-on-hook desync issues resolved

• Fishing reaction timing fixed

🧰 Tutorial & Onboarding

• Ladder collision fixes

• Tutorial area equipment unlock improvements

• Onboarding text/UI pass

• Spotlight & electrical behaviour corrected inside tutorial

📦 Interface & QoL

• Shop UI cleanup: fixed dropdown overlap & button resolution

• Disconnect confirmation added

• Receipts now enlarge correctly

• Compass model fix + new font polish

• Quota freeze bug resolved

• Title screen script cleanup

🐛 Notable Bug Fixes

• Drowning animation inconsistencies

• Fish rotation issues

• Crab jittering fixed

• Emote sound syncing

• Footstep spam reduced

• Engine sound no longer leaks into menus

• Joining under the map resolved

• Duplicate characters removed

• Alarm sounds triggering reliably

• Tutorials no longer softlock on interactions

• Various collider, map-layer & object-placement fixes across islands

(Dozens more small fixes are included - this is a big polish push!)

💎 Dreadline x Mineral Madness Bundle

For the holidays, we’re teaming up with Mineral Madness! You can now grab both games in a discounted bundle - perfect for players who love exploration, progression, and chaos.

Keep an eye out for cross-promotional goodies 👀

❄️ TL;DR

🎁 Christmas Event activated

⚙️ Electrical, engine & weather systems polished

🎣 Fishing fixes galore

🛥️ Boat & multiplayer stability massively improved

💎 New Dreadline x Mineral Madness bundle live

🚀PSST we are prepping for our full launch this year!