Sunkenland v0.8.55 Overhauels Ship Combat and Fixes Multiplayer Bugs

The August 25 update to the post-apocalyptic survival title Sunkenland arrives as a tightly scoped patch, with its headline work concentrated on naval combat and network stability.

What changed

Ship combat and AI

• Ship AI behavior has been improved.
• Ship-mounted weapons now use a multi-factor targeting system: distance weighting, nighttime weighting, and focus-fire weighting are all new inputs.
• A target-loss rule drops a submerged target once it descends beyond 8 meters — a mechanic that adds a tactical dimension to underwater evasion.

Network and performance

• Network connections and scene loading have been optimized to reduce timeout problems between hosts and clients.

Bug fixes

• Crafting at a Stove or Ammunition Bench could lose all but the first item type after a save-reload cycle; this is resolved.
• Weapon-crafting achievement progress was only being recorded for the host in multiplayer sessions — now counts for all players.
• Fish Traps, Shipyards, and other structures could not be placed on water inside a captured Military Port; fixed.
• Buildings could occasionally lose health without cause; fixed.
• Several issues with the Character Save Recovery interface have been addressed.
• Players could become stuck inside buildings on Radio Island; fixed.

Taken together, the targeting overhaul meaningfully expands naval tactics, while the multiplayer achievement fix corrects a progression disparity that had quietly penalized co-op players since it was introduced.