Overview
- Kraken Express released patches that cut in‑game disk writes and added automatic backups every 10 minutes.
- Independent tester Pixel Operative measured a 60–75% drop, with sailing now around 10–16 MB/s and roughly 20–30 writes per second, and far lower when idle.
- Before the fix, tests showed the game writing about 108GB per hour and far more data than Enshrouded or Valheim over the same span.
- Reporting attributes the heavy load to a RocksDB‑based save system with three databases and a very small cache that forced frequent writes to disk.
- The game remains in Early Access and has sold about 1.5 million copies, widening the pool of players who could have been affected and intensifying community scrutiny.