Today's update adds new ways to search, craft, and enjoy island life, alongside fixes for movement, collections, and comfort.
Crafting, trading & skills
- Added Craft All for each species and necklace quality, plus Sell All for the selected species and quality at Koa's stall.
- Added Tooth Pulse: briefly highlight nearby exposed tooth search spots, with separate duration and range upgrade branches. Unlocks at level 10 and costs 8 skill points; branch upgrades cost 5, 8, and 12 points each. These are earned in-game skill points, not paid purchases.
- Added Koa's 7,500-coin night flashlight upgrade. Nearby active search spots in its beam give off gentle, intermittent glints at night.
- Collection protection now protects only pristine teeth, leaving worn and fine teeth available for crafting.
- Completing a species' museum jaw removes its automatic pristine crafting reservation. Your manually selected pristine protection still applies.
Museum & collections
- Added six ammonite wall displays with increasing fossil costs: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32. Displays vary in size and sit flush against the wall.
- Added a celebration when you collect the 20th pristine tooth for an unfinished jaw exhibit.
- Epic and Legendary pristine finds receive their own celebrations, with a bigger flourish at the 20th tooth.
- Updated Steam achievement integration and corrected collection totals when ammonites are spent on museum displays.
Island exploration
- Koa has a new character model with his existing trading, conversation, walking, and daily-routine animations.
- Tide times now shift across days, with stronger and gentler tidal ranges over time. Forecasts reflect the changing schedule.
- Fixed repeated resets after stepping off a dock. Recovery now places you farther inward on solid decking and clears falling momentum.
- Improved storm/high-tide recovery checks so solid shoreline ground and rocks do not incorrectly trigger a water reset.
- Cleared obstructing rocks and foliage from walking trails and sandbar routes, including the North Crags obstruction, and adjusted foliage grounding.
- Smoothed shop-floor movement and shoreline boulder tops, added reverse-side beach sign lettering, and improved search-spot contrast on Pearl Cay.
- Added beach chairs for sitting and watching the horizon, with options to wait for sunrise or sunset. Fixed next-sunrise waiting across day boundaries.
Settings & presentation
- Added Fullscreen, Borderless, and Windowed display options.
- Added a background-audio option so music can continue when the game is unfocused, plus an optional aim dot.
- Reduced storm rain volume.
- Commission delivery text is now burnt orange when unavailable and bright white when ready.
- Removed the outdated sifting-kit text from the pause/exit screen.
- Added the Tooth & Tide tooth-and-wave Windows application icon.
Existing saves
No new game is required. This update retains existing save slots and progression; save loading and recovery were checked, including loading an existing save in the updated build.
Thank you for playing Tooth & Tide and helping us improve the island!