Hey everyone,

A much better update this time around. 🎉

The last couple of weeks have been a grind, but we finally broke through most of the tough stuff. Combat on ships works the way it's supposed to — you can actually target and attack sea creatures from the deck now, your merchant crew fights back, and the targeting system on tablets is finally dialed in after chasing a nasty coordinate scaling bug that was making taps land in the wrong spot. If you've been testing on a tablet, you know how much that one mattered.

What's new since the last update:

• 🎯 Targeting fixed — double-tap to attack, tap-and-drag for health bars, and single-tap to select all work reliably on tablet now
• ⛏️ Ship & sea combat — merchant trade routes sail between real port stops, beached ships can un-stick themselves, sea creatures (Kraken, Sea Serpent, Water Elemental) actually swim, and crew fight back with ranged weapons
• 🎵 Audio stability — Android OGG music crash is fixed, distant spell and creature sounds are now properly gated to what you can actually hear
• 📦 Loot chests — world event reward chests are lockable, pickable, and trapped with tier-appropriate difficulty
• 💾 Autosave — the noisy FOREIGN KEY errors that were spamming logs on every save are gone
• 🛠️ World-builder protection — ground item cleanup now always preserves your Admin-placed decorations, event spawns, and house lockdowns, so your hand-built world is safe
• 📱 Tablet stability — GL context recovery, per-subsystem performance profiler, improved freeze/simulation tiers for off-screen mobs

Where we are:

I'm down to roughly a dozen critical bugs on the list. Once those are cleared, the next milestones are submitting to the Google Play Store for an open beta, and then taking a run at Apple TestFlight for iPad. I'm not going to promise a date — I've done that before and been wrong — but I can say for the first time in a while that it feels close.

— Steven ⚔️