• Enhanced Gun Customization Feature: Drop gun parts directly into the gun workshop, no need to carry everything in your inventory.
  
• Reworked Electricity System: Returned to the fuel consumption system for better convenience and balance. The updated electricity gameplay brings more benefits to overall progression compared to previous versions.
  
• Many New Locations
  
• New Base Structures: Fish ponds, heavy machinery workshop, inventory management robot, and more
  
• Polished Late-Game Experience
  
• New Guns: AUG, FAMAS, AK-12, etc.
  
• Refined Gun Handling
  
• Rebalanced Enemy Difficulty
  
• Overall Progression Improvements, including crafting resource balance, research requirements, and blueprint availability
  
• Improved AI and Hitboxes: AI hides, flanks, charges, and throws grenades
  
• Upgraded Base Defense Mechanisms
  
• Multiple Bug Fixes
  
• General frame rate optimization

How to Opt-In:
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• Bug Fixes: Fixed multiple bugs and some map-related issues, such as flying objects.
  
• Simplified Electricity System: We’ve made it more user-friendly and convenient to use.

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We're releasing the test build for Update 0.5.02, which includes a major graphic overhaul, new locations and islands, a dynamic weather system, additional items, and more base-building options. This version is in the testing branch, therefore it may not be stable and have some bugs. Please keep this in mind before opting into it.

How to Opt-In:
To switch to version 0.5.02, go to your Steam Library, right-click on the game, and select 'Properties'. Click on the 'BETAS' tab and choose 'publictest' from the drop-down menu.

Due to the drastic changes to the world map, we do not recommend continuing your previous game, as your base may end up in the air or other locations or could create other conflicts.

If you encounter any issues, please report them on our forum in the bugs section together with the Test Build note in the header.

Thank you for your support.

Since many of you mentioned that you'd like to see some parts of our development progress, we've decided to give it a try. Here's a video showcasing how we create a more enhanced and captivating seabed. Let us know if you like it and if we should continue making these updates!

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Dear Sunkenlanders,
We’re excited to share that a significant update is coming to Sunkenland, packed with features we believe you’ll love.

Enhanced Graphics

We’ve made overall improvements to lighting, post-processing effects, and underwater rendering. You'll notice more diverse biomes and a richer underwater environment, complete with more fish and corals, enhancing the visual experience.

Improved Gun Customization

We’ve simplified gun customization to make it more intuitive. Crafting guns will now require fewer resources, and we’ve added more attachments like gun grips and silencers for you to experiment with.

Refined Survival Mechanics

To add a bit more challenge, we’ve made food scarcer, especially early in the game. This change makes fishnets and planters much more valuable as you work to survive.

Immersive Underwater Exploration

We’ve enhanced underwater exploration, making diving feel more immersive. As you dive deeper, the water will darken, requiring you to use lights. We’ve also revamped underwater ruins, making them more explorable with larger interiors. The new underwater biomes, like seaweed and coral fields, will add to the immersion.

Improved Island Exploration
Our islands are now more than just small rocks. They’re larger, with unique points of interest and diverse flora and biomes, providing more to explore and discover.

Dynamic Weather System

We’ve added a complete weather system, including rain, clouds, and storms, to make the environment feel more dynamic.

Enhanced Day and Night Cycle

Our improved day and night cycle makes the game world feel more dynamic, enhancing the overall experience of your adventures.



Updated UI

We’ve redesigned the user interface to match the new graphics, aiming to increase immersion and provide a more cohesive experience.


Why It Took So Long

This update took quite some time because we are making major changes to the core system. These changes are very time-consuming but are necessary to improve the game, make it more interesting, and streamline the development process for the future. We hear your feedback and want to deliver the best gaming experience possible. It's not a quick fix; it requires a lot of time and effort, but we are committed to it.

We’re grateful for your support and patience as we’ve worked on these updates. We believe they’ll make your experience in Sunkenland even better.

Thank you for being part of our community, and we hope you enjoy the new features.

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• After long-term observation by the production team, the targeted blueprint system did not fulfill its purpose of guiding players to explore all locations. Instead, it led to players missing some locations and lacking items at certain stages of the game, thereby reducing the gaming experience. The targeted blueprint system has now been completely removed, and all blueprints are obtained from safes and advanced supply cabinets. Some key items, such as the crossbow, have been moved to the research line.
  
• Fixed an issue with incorrect electricity storage.
  
• Reduced rainy days, now sunny days account for 60% of the weather.
  
• Reduced the cost of some items, such as flippers.
  
• To simplify concepts, all animal skins, including shark skin, are now unified as leather.

We are excited to inform everyone that the power system has been updated!

Unfortunately, the old and new power systems are not compatible, so when you log in, you will find all the wires between generators and electrical appliances disconnected. This was an unavoidable action, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused. For a long time, players could only generate power using fuel, which was not environmentally friendly and wasted precious fuel, and the electricity consumption of various household appliances was very high. This was very unreasonable!

To optimize the power system, we have made the following changes:

• Weather System: Now, the weather in the game will change periodically. Currently, the game features sunny, cloudy, and thunderstorm weather.
  
• Sunny: Little wind, strong sunlight.
  
• Cloudy: Moderate wind, weak sunlight.
  
• Thunderstorm: No sunlight, strong wind, and it will continuously be cold, accompanied by thunder and lightning.

Future game content will interact with the weather, such as ghost ships appearing only during thunderstorms and active rare fish schools only on cloudy days.

New Power Facilities

• Introduced three new power generation facilities: wind turbines, solar panels, and lightning rods.
  
• Wind Turbines: Clean and pollution-free generators. The higher they are built, the stronger the power generation. Try to build them high up!
  Can only be built on rubber floors.

• Solar Panels: Facilities that generate electricity using sunlight. Height affects their power generation capacity but only to a limited extent; building them on rooftops 15 meters high is sufficient.
  
  They cannot generate power at night or during stormy weather.
  
  Can only be built on rubber floors.

• Lightning Rods: Generate electricity using stormy weather. There is a chance to store the electricity from lightning in the power grid during thunderstorms.
  
  Can only be built on specialized bases.

• Power Grid: To make the entire power consumption network more transparent, a Power Center building has been added. The Power Center and transformers (which can only be built in the next version) are considered power intermediaries. Generators and electrical appliances must be connected through these power intermediaries to function; direct connections between generators and appliances are not allowed.
  
  The role of the Power Center is to display the current energy storage status of the power network, indicating whether the overall electricity loss is positive energy storage or negative energy consumption.

Now, each generator comes with a certain battery storage capability. Once the power generation function is activated, it will start storing energy in its associated power grid.

If you feel that your power grid's storage capacity is insufficient, you can also build standalone batteries to connect to the grid to increase the storage limit.

• Junction Box: Use a junction box to optimize your wiring routes.

• Fuel Generators: Significantly improved efficiency and increased construction cost. If wind and solar power can't meet your needs, then prepare a fuel generator. As long as there's fuel, power will be uninterrupted.
  
• Various Electrical Appliances: Balanced the power consumption of various buildings and items.

Map Markers

Now, all players can use markers on the map. The method is quite simple, just four steps:

1. Open the map
2. Click the left mouse button on a certain spot on the map.
3. Enter the name for the marker and click confirm!

Clicking the left mouse button on the marker allows you to change its color.
When you no longer need this marker, you can delete it by clicking the right mouse button on it.
New Item

To avoid players having to backtrack, we've introduced a new item: the Sleeping Bag! Essentially, it's a one-time use respawn point that you can craft.

Once crafted, it will exist as an item.

You can place it at any location.

You can rename the sleeping bag to avoid confusion with others.

If not needed, you can pack it up with a "Packing Box" for reuse.

• Logging Adjustment: For a long time, spears and axes have had overlapping roles. In this version, we introduced the concept of chopping value; the higher the chopping value, the more efficient the tree cutting.
  
  We reduced the health of trees to decrease the time players spend on cutting trees. We also reduced the attack damage of axes; axes are meant for chopping trees, not for combat. We removed the ability to chop trees with combat knives, but you can use machetes instead.
  
• Combat Location Adjustments:
  -Minor Adjustment: Added water fortress clusters to Iron Skull Base and Iron Helmet Base.
  -Major Overhaul: Twin Rocks has been completely redone and now requires a helicopter to reach.

Vehicle Adjustments

• The method of learning to build helicopters has changed from random blueprints to targeted blueprints at the big bridge.
  
• Helicopter health has been increased to 20,000, while manufacturing costs have been reduced.
  
• We have significantly optimized the way helicopters are controlled and increased their flight speed.
  
• The control methods for other vehicles have also been optimized accordingly.

Clothing Recycling

• Recycling machines can now recycle various types of clothing, not only yielding cloth but also a chance to obtain small items like lighters.

Weapon Adjustments

• The cost of iron axes has been reduced, with the required iron ingots reduced from 15 to 2. This makes the axe a transitional tool, as its previous cost was too expensive.
  
• The costs of some initial weapons, such as wooden spears and scrap spears, have been lowered.
  
• Serrated axes, machetes, and combat daggers now require damaged components as prerequisite materials for crafting, and their manufacturing cost has been significantly reduced.
  
• Excess damaged components can be decomposed at a decomposition station.
  
• To save space in players' inventory, the stack number for melee weapons that cannot be modified has been increased from 1 to 20.

• Machine gun damage has been increased from 180 to 220.
  
• .50 caliber bullets production per batch has been increased from 60 to 100 rounds, with the stack size per group increased from 1000 to 2000.

• Bug Fix: Corrected sound effects that were not playing correctly while walking.
  
• Bug Fix: Resolved alignment and construction issues with triangular foundations.
  
• Bug Fix: Addressed the absence of some national voiceovers.
  
• Bug Fix: Fixed the issue where some automatic firearms lacked a semi-automatic firing mode, reduced unnecessary model polygons, and enhanced game performance.
  
• Bug Fix: Overcame inaccuracies with ranged weapons by discovering and correcting inherent logic flaws in the base code, leading to a complete overhaul of the shooting code module.
  
• Bug Fix: Identified and rectified causes for some enemies not respawning, particularly addressing scenarios where enemies had been cleared but could not be occupied.
  
• Bug Fix: Implemented a change where enemies on an island will not respawn as long as a player remains on the island, only refreshing once the player departs.

To switch to version 0.2.5, go to your Steam Library, right-click on the game, and select 'Properties'. Click on the 'BETAS' tab and choose 'publictest' from the drop-down menu.

(To switch back, just follow the same procedure and select 'None - opt out of all beta programs'.)"

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• Modified the position of the "Insert Items of the Same Type" feature for box-like structures to the top right corner of the interface, improving accessibility for some lower-resolution screens that were unable to use this button previously.
  
• Updated the multi-language invitation for friends to join the game, making it easier to understand.
  
• Fixed incorrect underwater ruins due to terrain modification errors, such as the inability to pick up blueprints at amusement parks.
  
• Added a checkbox option on the server join screen to "Only show servers created by Steam friends."
  
• Added a checkbox option on the server creation screen to "Allow only Steam friends or invited players to join the game." If one is not a friend of the server host, they will not be able to see the game listed when this option is enabled on the server join screen.

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Bug Fixes and Adjustments:

• Bug Fix: Fixed frame rate drop issues when using certain languages ​​in the operating system.
  
• Bug Fix: Fixed the problem of enemies incorrectly refreshing in water.
  
• Bug Fix: Fixed the issue of still showing the player's flag on the island after dismantling an occupied flag.
  
• Adjusted the player's position when getting off the ship to optimize the ship's experience.
  
• Optimized enemy behavior tree logic, improving in-game frame rates, such as improving the game performance of Dreadville by 10-20 frames.

Feature Updates:

• Right-clicking on clothes can directly change equipment.
  
• Added blinking effect to the task button when it is red.
  
• Added a button to the chest: to put in items of the same type and rearrange the UI buttons of the chest so that the position of the "organize" button matches the player's backpack UI.
  
• Fixed some issues with items not disappearing after being picked up in Dreadville.

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