- Fixed browser-demo startup on hosts that automatically decompress bitmap-font files. Font integrity checks remain enabled.
- Reduced unnecessary work when drawing offscreen city shadows and checking water beneath wakes and ship shadows.
- Road rendering no longer accumulates tiles from earlier parts of a voyage.
- Ambient sounds can recover from a transient decoder failure instead of staying silent for the rest of the session.
- Improved placement of the tutorial's hauling key/button hint around HUD panels.
These improvements apply to the full game and demo where relevant. Saved voyages are preserved.