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Speed & Gratitude! Speed! Simulating water physics is a big part of what makes Make Sail unique, and if your boat gets big, it's also a big part of what makes Make Sail slow. This update has been a long time in the making but I've finally finished it: A full rewrite of the wa
There's a beautiful new tool to paint your own wind patterns and lots of bug fixes, but the real heart of this update are the new progressively changing wind patterns designed to solve a big problem. New wind patterns are unlocked as you play to reduce repetitious traversals and
Teaser: The Wind Update! Lest you think I've fallen asleep over here, I will now tease you with thrilling tidbits about the next update in the works: The Wind Update! Make Sail's wind has long been over-engineered. Meaning, I wrote way more complex behaviors for it than the game
Today we release our biggest update yet: Creative Mode! Creative Mode Make Sail is was already a game about your ideas and your creations. Now, there's a whole set of new toys for you to play with! Creative Mode is a new option right from the start menu. Its an open ocean where y
Mail SailS Here at Popcannibal, we're committed to empowering you to make bold and questionable nautical designs in the safety of your own home. Previously there were some limitations regarding how many sails you could operate at once. And no way to operate both square and triang
Why click twice when once will do? Building just keeps on getting better! Press the spacebar while building to toggle symmetric building on the forward axis of your boat. Symmetry can work in combination with cloning (hold alt) and grabbing groups (long press mouse). Duplicate co
Better Boat Building Buttons, Baby! Menus can't just look good, they have to feel good. They should to invite you into their GUI embrace with a tender whisper: Together we will enact your will with ease and clarity. Today's update brings Make Sail's build menu a few steps closer
Giant Sea Turtles At 5,000kg, our majestic sea turtle weights about as much as the tongues of two blue whales. (Or one t-rex for those of you who prefer traditional measurements) They instinctively swim upwind, so consider attempting to climb aboard for a ride. Maybe even land yo
By request: a center of mass indicator! For all you boat crafters working to achieve greater design perfection, we now have a little green dot showing the center of mass. If your hand was giant and inside the game, this is the point where you could balance the boat on your finger
A bunch of little fixes and.... Smarter Creatures It used to be that creatures stopped thinking as soon as they went out of view. Now creatures have thoughts, paths and actions that persist at all times and are part of your save game. You may notice some improved behaviors now, b
Easier, simpler, faster. The last two weeks have been about making Make Sail's building system require less precise input while delivering more precise results. Instead of all the points you COULD connect to, you now see only the points you WILL connect to and a predictive outlin
Building had a really unfortunate bug which caused pieces to rotate slightly and make snapping very difficult. This only affected some computers. So the tools worked for some people (me) and were maddeningly unusable for others (sorry if that was you). That's fixed, but just usab
Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access. This week, Fraser s setting off in a rickety boat in Make Sail . It looks a bit like Wind Waker, but you get to build your own vessel. Sadly, it doesn’t talk. Once a year, usually around the
It's been one whole grand week drinking from the firehose of Early Access. The feedback (good and bad) has been amazing. Keep it coming, we're listening! Today's update is about speed and convenience. Performance: Using 17% less RAM Performance: Using 14% less GPU RAM Performance
It's been one whole grand week drinking from the firehose of Early Access. The feedback (good and bad) has been amazing. Keep it coming, we're listening! Today's update is about speed and convenience. Performance: Using 17% less RAM Performance: Using 14% less GPU RAM Performance
Thanks for all the launch weekend love! So many videos and streams. Make Sail peaked at over 30k simultaneous viewers on Twitch! We've learned a ton from watching you all play. Today's update is just the start of our work to polish Make Sail until it gleams! * Feature: MUCH easie
Thanks for all the launch weekend love! So many videos and streams. Make Sail peaked at over 30k simultaneous viewers on Twitch! We've learned a ton from watching you all play. Today's update is just the start of our work to polish Make Sail until it gleams! * Feature: MUCH easie
Pickup the nearest table, rip the curtains off the wall and drag them towards the closest body of water: It’s time to make a boat! Make Sail is now live in Early Access! Bonus: It’s 10% off for a limited time! Many thanks to all the streamers and discord folks who’ve been testing
Pickup the nearest table, rip the curtains off the wall and drag them towards the closest body of water: It’s time to make a boat! Make Sail is now live in Early Access! Bonus: It’s 10% off for a limited time! Many thanks to all the streamers and discord folks who’ve been testing
Make Sail is hitting Early Access on March 30th! In just over two weeks, you will be hoisting your mainsail and dodging jellyfish as you cruise between icebergs and ruins searching for the best new parts for your custom made ship. Streamers! It's time now! Streamers and Let's Pla