Dev logs and updates on the drone, the Expedition Ledger, the Bay and everything else going into the build — posted as it happens, no fabricated milestones, no invented numbers.
The whole game makes sound: a motor that churns with your speed, ambience that darkens with the depth, roaring beasts, real explosions — and a mixer in Setup to shape or silence all of it. Plus a Field Manual on O that can fly you to what it's teaching.
Read the notes →A brand-new pilot launches with 10 Fine Mesh Nets, 5 Braided Nets, 5 Heavy-Gauge Nets, 30 Signal Rockets and 10,000 crystals, plus a guided first dive that walks hauling, breaking a rock, the aim ring, net tiers, the Ledger, your machine's Console, the parts Workbench and restocking — one step at a time, skippable from the first card, replayable any time from Setup.
Read the notes →A cockpit-wide cleanup: every screen now closes from the same X in the same corner, the shop refuses you once and clearly instead of three times quietly, the Fleet moved into the HUD where its hours already lived, and the Ledger turns back to page one on request.
Read the notes →Hauler, Scout and Salvager stopped being the same drone in three accent colours. The Scout keeps the stock AV-1 shell; the Hauler is a pressure boat with a conning sail and a screw; the Salvager is an open box-truss rig with a derrick and a cutting boom. Every fitted part still bolts to all three — no stat moved.
Read the notes →A day in the dry dock: the game no longer hijacks your first click into fullscreen, the Workbench's crystal glyphs stopped crying poverty at millionaires, the oil splash lands on the catch instead of the caster, and your region flag is finally read from where you are — not which English your keyboard types.
Read the notes →A new Board tab in the Console ranks pilots by drone power rating — every row a real drone, drawn from its pilot's actual parts and livery. Select a name and their machine takes the stage: fitted equipment, class abilities at trained levels, and how deep they've flown.
Read the notes →Cargo Surge is retired. In its place the Hauler's W ability is Ballast Oil: a dark bead that blooms into a teal-rimmed slick and stuns whatever it catches — a fleeing runner in open water or an Arena boss's attack clock. Every level grows the slick and the hold it takes.
Read the notes →The old cargo-capacity stat splits in two, honestly this time: Fleet Haul is now only the offline Fleet Dispatch ceiling, Calibration's Hold path buys real inventory squares instead, and a shrinking respec ships the overflow home with a receipt — into the Warehouse while it has room, waiting at the dock when it doesn't.
Read the notes →Luck stopped sitting on the instrument panel reading a flat dash. Every part drop and Pearl shell find, and now every rocket you fire at an Arena boss or a World Leviathan, all roll off the same curve — and Calibration threads two new lines per class to raise it.
Read the notes →Every boss signature now costs a real slice of your hull plus a stun, hidden healing in the Arena draws from a finite reserve instead of running forever, and every World Leviathan hunts you the moment you're close. Caught without a rocket in the drum? The fire key still does something.
Read the notes →The Skills tab's Calibration view got rebuilt from a flat ten-node list into a radial chart — three named paths per class, rings that stay fogged until you actually reach them, and points banking from your very first level-up instead of waiting until Level 16. Plan a whole build before you spend anything, then install it in one press.
Read the notes →Press the Naut chip in the HUD and a real shop panel opens — a handful of pack sizes, checkout on Stripe's own hosted page, and Nauts landing in your account the moment it clears. No pay-to-win, still: Nauts buy convenience, never a depth or a recipe you haven't earned.
Read the notes →Calibration at Level 5 still seats all three of your class's abilities into Q/W/E at once — but only Q actually fires that day. W waits for Level 10, E for Level 15, and a locked tile says exactly which level opens it.
Read the notes →The Beastkeeper's fight stopped being a text list and a CSS diorama. The pit is a drawn arena now — flora, stone shelves, water — you pilot your actual drone into it and fight with the actual ability bar, all eight beasts carry a named signature attack with its own tell, and a boss can now disengage mid-fight to heal unless you break it.
Read the notes →Four class abilities have new names to match what they actually do, Q is now the same Boost Surge on every chassis, and the Salvager's E slot holds a brand-new skill: Abyssal Bulwark, a shield that takes the hit for you. Separately: material stacks in the Warehouse and Inventory — Abyssal Filament, the Scrap tiers, all of it — can be inspected, moved, and dropped like any other cargo now, with the Forge Book still one tap away.
Read the notes →Pearl shells and crystal fields now live in the Kelp Forest, which has been opened from 640 m down to 3,000 m and widened for a proper expedition. The rest of its creatures remain there too, plus a six-hour Pearl Devourer hunt with a guaranteed Abyssal-or-Leviathan Pearl reward.
Read the notes →Press L now and the Inventory slides in from the right, straight over the open water — no dimming, no pause, you keep flying while you sort. At the Berth, Stowmaster Quill has taken up his own counter at the far end of the deck; press T and the Warehouse opens beside him, from the left.
Read the notes →The cargo board is named Inventory now — on its button, its title, in every coach line and refusal, and across this manual. L opens it directly, no detours through the Rig.
Read the notes →The drone's cargo stopped being a number that goes up. It's a real 5×10 board now — every salvage haul, material, pearl and spare part takes an actual square, a bigger hull opens more of them, and a full Hold never costs you a find. It ships home to the Warehouse instead.
Read the notes →A rock still reforms 15 minutes after it breaks — but most no longer settle back on the exact spot they fell from. Each keeps a handful of resting spots in its own patch of seabed, the same idea as a shell. The four rocks guarding a Pearl shell skip the roll entirely and travel with the shell instead.
Read the notes →A shell still reopens 15 minutes after you prise it — but most no longer reopen on the exact spot you left them. Each keeps a handful of resting spots in its own stretch of water and settles onto one when it returns. You learn the area now, not the pixel.
Read the notes →Materials used to live in two places a pilot could never see at once — the five tier currencies in one screen, the Breachstone's own five materials locked inside the grotto. Both sit in one list now, and every row is a door: click it and see exactly what it builds and how close you are.
Read the notes →The siege used to reset into the exact same stone every time, and the second one in line paid nothing at all. Four stones stand in rotation now, each sealing its own creature and its own livery, and every single one of them pays out.
Read the notes →Cave walls used to be pure obstacle, nothing more. Every one of them has real integrity now, cracks as it falls, and pays out when it goes — and the rock itself has spread well past the Lower Dark, standing in every band from the Sunlit Reef down. Blast, salvo and rocket capacity, three numbers that sat on every weapon card doing nothing at all, finally do something.
Read the notes →Fauna used to sit exactly where the map put it. Now every creature swims its own patch, faces where it is going, and answers your approach one of five fixed ways — indifferent, wary, darting, patrolling, or curious enough to come and look at you.
Read the notes →Prising used to be a straight line: hold T, watch a bar fill. A shell is a hinged scallop now — it bites down, fights the arm three times over, cracks, and finally gives, each beat read straight off the same progress number that was always driving the reel.
Read the notes →The stone was a fixed silhouette. It reads as a slow vortex of rock plates now, the whole mass rotating as one piece and tinting with the siege as it falls. And the fault line's own console has a new fire tile beside the aim key, with a rocket sitting on it.
Read the notes →Firepower used to ride on the same claw that hauls your wrecks and prises your shells — upgrade one and you were quietly re-tuning the other whether you meant to or not. Nine weapons exist now, in a slot of their own, and a rocket is an item you hold rather than a stat baked into the gun.
Read the notes →Cave walls used to be scenery you could drift straight through. Five of them sit in The Lower Dark today, each a real, solid shape — no two the same size — and every one collides. Hit one hard enough and it bills your hull for the contact; drive at it from any angle and it will slow you, never seal you in. (They've since spread well past the Lower Dark and learned to break outright — see the note below on rock finally paying out.)
Read the notes →Every interact point in the water used to only mark itself as touchable on a phone, leaving the actual verb to a separate labelled button. Now the ring itself is the control: tap it and it talks, opens, hauls or throws directly. Miss, and the game tells you why instead of staying quiet about it.
Read the notes →Wear landed as a meter you could only watch. Now you can close the loop from the same card: an ordinary repair, a failed restore, or a crystals-only buyout, each priced live off the part in front of you. A small hull flask is back on the HUD, and worn parts finally show it on the drone itself.
Read the notes →Cave walls, kelp, thermal vents, electric fauna, your own depth rating, an overloaded arm — every one of them can now wear a real part down to 0%. Said just as plainly: a part at 0% is inert, not gone. It stays fitted, stays visible, stays yours. And a second system landed alongside it — Pearl shells, the salvage arm's other haul.
Read the notes →Ten fixed stat axes, every hardware and wardrobe part measured against all of them — even the ones it does nothing on. Five new tier-mates joined the catalogue. And a fully-kitted Leviathan drone now visibly lights up the hull, not just the item card.
Read the notes →We pulled a crystals-only 'Buy outright' button before it shipped rather than leave a placeholder with a guessed price on a real screen. It's back now, wired to a real price, and it only ever buys speed inside a tier you've already unlocked — never access to one you haven't. The Tools rack also learned to show what you actually own.
Read the notes →No new slot to fit, no new key to learn beyond the one you already press on a cover. Point your claw at a wreck heavy enough to need real pulling, cast the line, and reel it home against its own weight — nothing is handed to your Hold by fiat.
Read the notes →Hauler, Scout and Salvager used to differ only in which three abilities they granted. Now the moment you choose one, it permanently shifts real stats on your drone — genuine strengths and a genuine weakness, felt inside a single dive, that Parts can soften but never erase.
Read the notes →Press U now and you get the Shop — the Workbench, on its own rail tile beside Console and Chart, not buried in a tab. We also tried a crystals-only "Buy outright" button for craft parts and pulled it before it shipped, rather than leave a dead control with an invented price sitting on a real screen.
Read the notes →Press H and Hardpoints & Pearls finally has a screen: unlock a socket, fit a Pearl, refine it up the fair-line ladder. Fusion shipped too, and it isn't the deterministic trade we once described — it's a disclosed 50/50 that can cost you three Pearls and a fee for nothing.
Read the notes →The F key, the "assign a drone to a charted field" prompt, and the amber auto contact on the sonar scope are all gone. A charted field was quietly outearning an actual pilot by seven or eight times over, parked and forgotten with the tab just left open — that loophole is closed outright, not throttled. The line that holds now: away, the fleet earns for you; playing, you hunt.
Read the notes →Six overlays became one Console with a tab rail. The joystick got a home. The Chart learned to show you every region you know about, locked ones included, and say exactly what's standing in the way. Abilities are class-locked now, drilled and bought rather than free. And the objective chip finally answers "what do I do now" for real.
Read the notes →Somewhere in The Lower Dark sits a fault the scope refuses to read — now a real, playable siege. Twelve strikes a day, five hard-gated walls, and a promise: paying can only move the day forward, never the wall.
Read the notes →A socket cut into a part, a graded stone to fit it, deterministic Fusion, and a +1–10 Refinement ladder with published odds. The whole system is real, tested and save-safe — and we're saying plainly that the cockpit console to actually touch it isn't built yet.
Read the log →Every dive now banks XP on one account-wide ladder to Level 100. Cross Level 5 and it isn't a menu — it's a bench lighting up at the Berth, three drone classes waiting, and a choice that's yours to make.
Read the notes →The Expedition Ledger is a real book now: thirty pages, each undiscovered creature held as a silhouette until you find it. Complete a page and its bonus is no longer a promise — it is wired straight into the fleet's stats, permanently.
Read the log →Ten drone parts are in the content catalog now — headlights, hull plating, engines, claws and the rest — five of them earnable upgrades over the stock coastal-tier loadout. And a first stand-in for wreck salvage: five one-time milestones, from charting the Twilight field to a full creature sweep, each granting a part the moment you reach it.
Read the notes →The custom Canvas2D engine now runs a dive end to end: descent, lamps, currents, cargo and the climb back to the surface, at a steady frame rate on a five-year-old laptop. Nothing is drawn that does not need drawing. The first playable build follows from here.
Read the notes →Every creature you record is drawn into your own field journal — silhouette first, then the entry, then the page bonus that pays your fleet from that day on. We are building the Ledger before the shop, because what a pilot keeps matters more than what a pilot buys.
Read the log →Bathys: deep. The mark is a wide-tracked serif with a lure light suspended over the Y — the smallest possible piece of bioluminescence, and the only thing in the wordmark that moves. Palette, type and voice are settled. The page you are reading is the first thing built from them.
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