Developer posts and news about this game.
Hello, here is a quick small patch to address a few issues I've seen crop up over the last couple months. The biggest thing is a fix to some incorrect spawn logic which could cause certain encounters to spawn at the center of a location which would often be inside an island. This
Hi all, here's the latest patch with a couple important fixes, along with some smaller bugfixes. This should be hitting the rest of the platforms fairly soon as well! Thanks for your continued support and bug reports to the game, it's all very helpful! 1.7.5 Bugfix : Fix potentia
Hey everyone, happy to see ya'll enjoying the new Croaker update! This is a quick hotfix in response to a report of an old save failing to load. If you experienced a black screen when selecting your save but a new save loaded fine, this is likely the fix! - Fix case where a save
Welcome to the Battle for Croaker Command update! This huge update brings a new Croaker quest and faction ship, new features, tons of bug fixes, and various other improvements and content. Bug reporting If you find a bug you can report it directly from the game, using the 'Feedba
Hi everyone, the next update is nearly ready and so I'm making it available early in the usual public preview branch on Steam. This update adds a bunch of things, including a new Croaker quest line and a sort of new game plus option that allows you to play through the campaign ag
Ahoy! Here's another very small patch, with rather large implications. I recently discovered a quite annoying bug in the game which meant that the UI indicating the best way to adjust your sails was actually wrong . In certain cases, this could mean that if you followed the UI hi
Hi! This is a small bugfix patch which also includes a hotfix from Unity to address a recently discovered security exploit in their engine. As part of applying the hotfix, I've also updated the Unity engine by several major versions which may yield minor performance gains. In add
Hello, this is just a tiny patch that does not change the version number in order to sync with the 1.6.6 that is going out to consoles and epic today. The biggest thing is making the ship shape shop not attack you when you have negative civilian standing. It was kind of fun but w
Hello, here's a quick Christmas patch with some fixes and tweaks! This includes a couple changes that should hopefully address some issues people have encountered with the open world. The first one is the introduction of a timed auto save feature. An unintended side-effect of the
Hi, glad to see people enjoying the Before the Wind update! I got a couple bug reports and some feedback and have made some small changes to address these. 1.6.5 Improvement: Add shell spells to the Moontide Shell Shop for controlling the weather. Useful for sailors hunting those
1.6: Before the Wind Hello, it's been a while, but I'm happy to formally release the 1.6.0 update to Sail Forth, which I'm calling Before the Wind! This update contains a wide variety of features and improvements that are focused around both responding to community feedback and b
Hi everyone, I've been working on a pretty large update to the game which includes quite a bit of stuff, and I think it's about time to make it available in the experimental branch for testing. It still has a ways to go so I expect it to remain in the preview branch for a while l
Hello! I'm back from a trip and getting back into work on Sail Forth. This patch fixes a few bugs and also contains some nice quality of life improvements to crew management. Some of you are apparently racking up hundreds of sailors below deck, and managing this screen plus findi
Ahoy! This is another small patch which fixes one *big* thing I came across in my own testing, plus a few smaller tweaks and fixes to things I've seen reported. This does include one new feature, which is that boats can now turn (slowly) in place! This uses the boats oars (and ro
Greetings! This is a small bug fix patch to smooth out a few issues I've come across and seen reported. 1.5.6 Fixed some cases where the map would sometimes freeze or display islands incorrectly Fixed a bug where the Angler Emporium liberation battle would sometimes fail to regis
Ahoy! This update features a revision to the Skull Summoning Circle encounter, along with numerous bug fixes. The game has now been downloaded several million times(!) on Epic due to the free week which as you can imagine has resulted in many new issues being found! 1.5.5 Revised
If 2023 hits Dave the Diver and Dredge have you clamoring for another high-seas adventure with impeccable vibes (be they spooky or cozy), then free Epic Games Store release Sail Forth is a game you need to check out. Available as a free game for the next few days, the open-world
Hey everyone! With the influx of new players from Epic in conjunction with the new updates there have been *a bunch* of new feedback and bug reports so I’m doing everything I can to address things as quickly as possible. These early patches are intended to address the issues with
1.5.1 Hello and welcome to the Maelstrom update! This adds support for the Maelstrom DLC in addition to a host of new features, content and fixes to the base game. The biggest new feature is the addition of the ship cosmetic system, which allows you to equip special cosmetic item
Open Seas Update Ahoy! The next big update to the game is called Open Seas and it is available right now! This update dramatically expands the exploration and sailing aspects of the game with a fully open world, there are no longer any boundaries between locations or loading scre