Weekly Changelog: v0.116

Weekly Changelog: v0.116

It's been another very good week for Sinking Eternity! The whole Early Access game world is now built, and I am currently working on making each biome as unique and beautiful as possible.

Better shadows/lighting in-game:

I worked a lot on upgrading the underwater shadows/lighting this week, and I really like the result.

It really upgrades the visuals and makes things more natural.

I also uploaded a new version of the demo, with these upgrades:

-Added more level design in the distance past the demo walls, especially when going towards the robotic signal.

-Did some more basic level design upgrades to the shallow waters

-Improved the campfire model

-Improved the crafting station model

-Improved the basic bed model

-Modified the Basic Bed quest so it requires padding from the cryopod instead of filament, to make the quest more unique

-The game now cancels building placement if the player goes underwater when it's a land-only building

-Added pretty cool lightning/thunder to the future era

-Improved the rain in the future era to make it more chaotic

-Reduced the analysis glow strength of the Moldarax in the Future Era

-Made sure the first chest piece (Cryosuit) gets wet and soaked if the player goes under rain, as it's the only suit in-game that is not water resistant

-Updated the in-game FAQ with the new core feature of "Repairing the Future"

-Removed the roadmap from the FAQ, as things change too fast to be able to have a stable 3-6 months roadmap for now

-Improved the skill gain text from new area discoveries popup to make it more visible

-Added a headlamp in-game for darker areas. It's not possible to acquire the headlamp in the demo area, but I still added the "Light" key in the key mapping menu and a popup when the key is pressed explaining that the player doesn't have the headlamp yet.

-Added better spawn behavior to the school of fish and ambient solo fish

-Added more fish schools

-Stopped fish schools from moving when the player opens menus

-Made sure fish don't spawn too close to the surface of the water

-Prevented the Umbrox (larger fish in the starting area) X and Z angles from rotating, as it was causing some issues when it bumped into the player

-Added more mass to some larger fish to prevent them from being pushed around too much

-Improved the ambient volumetric fog code so it doesn't spawn in/out of the regions where the player currently is

-Bug fix: The player was able to swim without slowing down on the water surface when encumbered. This is now fixed, and the player will now properly sink like a rock if encumbered :)

-Bug fix: The swim acceleration sound was playing in some menus while using a gamepad. This is now fixed.

-Bug fix: Made sure the Umbrox doesn't swim up too much, as it sometimes tried to get out of the water

-Bug fix: Fixed how games are saved and loaded in the future era

Thanks so much again for your support! We're still on track for Early Access launch in Q1-2026! :)