The Winds Have Changed

Make Sail

Make boats and sail them. Survive an ocean of storms and beasts to find better pieces to make your ship bigger, faster, stronger, prettier, stranger, wilder: more yours.

There's a beautiful new tool to [b]paint your own wind patterns[/b] 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. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31103305/f32ea449d139621d1bf88904bc442b453355e676.gif[/img] [b]New wind patterns are unlocked as you play[/b] to reduce repetitious traversals and create challenging new situations and opportunities. Every time you expand the ring or need to return from the edge to the center, the wind changes to a carefully selected pattern designed to enhance your trip. At first, the new patterns will expedite your journey, pulling you in faster or providing quick paths out to the edge. Later the winds can speed you along but also require a bit more mastery to handle. Near the end of the game, the wind can be downright antagonistic. [previewyoutube=8oVuIT9cKEk;full][/previewyoutube] The wind is much more of a living character and a participant in your experience. I think the result makes for a more engaging adventure with [b]more opportunities to make clever plans and test your creations[/b]. Do you need to start the game over? No: wind patterns will unlock on your existing save. But I recommend it to experience the new challenges and joyful quick return winds. If you're most excited about painting your own wind patterns, jump right in to it in creative mode or turn on cheats in the adventure. Full change list: [list] [*] New feature: Wind discs! The tower changes the wind patterns frequently and gives you patterns on disc you can choose from yourself. [*] New feature: Paint your own wind. Unlocked in creative and late in adventure mode. [*] New feature: Wind maps are image files than can also be edited outside of the game. [*] New feature: Layers menu on map. Show and hide islands, obstacles and jellyfish. [*] Fix: Prevented a ghost piece from being left when undoing a placement with symmetry turned on. [*] Fix: Solved multiple problems which could cause energy sails not to return to inventory while building. [*] Fix: The graph checkboxes were broken in creative mode. [*] Fix: Better handling the deletion of the save folder. [*] Fix: Boat widgets turn off when jumping straight from boat to land. [*] Fix: Wind on map no longer pops through the clouds sometimes. [*] Fix: Blueprint map markers are now always above the clouds. [*] Fix: Slight visual improvement when panning map to extremes. [*] Fix: Improved text layout for longer popup messages [*] Fix: Prevented map clouds from being pitch black at night. [*] Fix: Fixed a typo on the end-game screen. [*] Fix: Wind multiplier slider in creative mode would not reset after exiting and re-entering creative mode. [*] Removed: Collection menu. It was broken and did not bring me joy. [/list]