• Fixed an issue where selling an equipped cue would crash the game

• Puzzle Tuning – Rebalanced several mid- and late-game levels for better pacing, difficulty progression, and solution clarity.
  
• Visual Polish – Improved lighting, block materials, and background animations across all environments for a more immersive 3D experience.
  
• UI & UX Improvements – Streamlined menus and in-game interface for better usability.
  
• Bug Fixes & Optimization – Fixed reported issues with block clipping, save data inconsistencies, and improved performance on low-end hardware.

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Ahoy!

It's been a busy few weeks since announcing Thalassic Dice and I'd like to thank everyone for the kind words and excitement for the game!

I've been hard at work focusing on implementing feedback that I got after launching the steam page, so here's some highlights from that!

Dev Log

I've focused a lot on visual effects, improving how the game looks and adding some much needed movement!

• Screen Shake + damage particles when the ship takes damage

• Weather Effects (snow, rain, heat distortion, etc. )

• Added some movement to the Sails of the Ship

I've updated the die model and textures to better fit the visual theme.

Also working on some other things I'm not quite ready to talk about yet! But keep an eye out here for more updates!

All of the changes can be seen in the updated gameplay trailer:

Bonus: I got some good music inspiration by going to a really good jazz concert featuring Mischa Blanos & Anthony Gutierrez and Chico Freeman - Reto Weber Duo which I highly recommend. (no, there unfortunately won't be any actual jazz in Thalassic Dice)

Calm Seas,

TidalDog

• Added a new plausibility system dubbed "Enhanced plausibility evaluation". It's stricter and can trigger for things that aren't physically impossible but seem overpowered or unreasonable

• Added plausibility check for changing locations (can be bypassed by creative mode option)

• Changed most implausible actions to fail in the story instead of be blocked outright, which seems to improve the experience for when a borderline action gets marked as implausible

• Added a shorter turn length option which keeps story turns concise and reduces the chance the AI takes actions on your behalf

• Split "creative mode" options to make it more customizable

• Added moddable implausibility txt file implausibility-condition.txt

• Added some plausibility cheat codes (instructions in console when pressing ~)

• Removed old unused styles for Wombo image generation

• Followers now heal with the “reg” cheat code

• Fixed bug where player description would sometimes fail to save

• Fixed item abilities failing to generate when playing in Russian

In other news, a big update with even more changes (not this one) is currently available in the alpha channel, but please note it's very buggy at the moment, so only try it out if you don't mind risking your save file.

We'll launch multilingual versions after stabilizing the Simplified Chinese release.

Thank you for your patience.