New Features & Content

• New Point of Interest to find in the forest region!
  
• Hazel's hint reworded.
  
• Fixed invisible walls in some odd places.
  
• Victoria now asks for slime.
  
• Snuffy hints towards his flask.
  
• Snuffy's starter rum weapon is easier to get and has been renamed.
  

• Fixed issues with crops displaying incorrectly.
  
• Victoria's Pitchfork can now harvest crops.
  
• Quest for Victoria's Pitchfork now has a farming level requirement.
  
• Fix saplings' chance to appear at shops.
  
• Harvesting, planting, and watering all share a collider. Size can be adjusted by perks.
  
• Fixed issue where some crops wouldn’t be highlighted with arrows when in range.
  

• PVP ship health rebalance.
  
• PVP shop adjustments.
  
• Fixed problems interacting with shop.
  
• Start panel moved so players can chat pre-game.
  
• Fixed issue where you couldn't leave PVP battles.
  
• Poison Cannonball now has a cooldown.
  
• Davy Jones ability now has a cooldown.
  
• Stances now have more effect in combat.
  
• Fixed some ability issues.
  

• Ye' can be a bald pirate.
  
• A third body type to choose from has been added.
  
• Custom drops for voyage boss.
  
• Controller/Steamdeck profile update.
  
• Controller/Steamdeck preparation.
  
• Translation fixes.
  
• General loot distribution revisions.
  
• Adjustments to outpost building costs.
  
• Applied profanity filter to name entry.
  
• Fixed issue where silver, buffs, or ranking would persist between voyages.
  
• Only tier 1 weapons are now sold in shops.
  
• Slightly higher guild creation cost.
  
• Some areas are now public instead of instanced.
  
• Removed some abusable ore spawns.
  
• Auctions now assume no buyout price if none entered instead of a toggle.
  
• Chat filter adjustments.
  
• Restart notices now show in minutes instead of seconds.
  
• Admins can now morph other users. Muahahaha.
  
• Fixed some possible item duplication bugs.
  
• Added loot expiry time.
  
• Hats should display correctly during emotes.
  
• New pirate boss SFX.
  
• Fixed some possible exploits.
  
• Neutral gender available at character creation.
  
• Proper destruction of some instances.
  
• Can no longer leave group during land combat.
  
• Lots of internal fixes.
  
• Improvements to help players with some lag issues. This is an ongoing issue that we’ll continue to address. These playtests help us identify where lag might be coming from
  

• Fixed warping with world map.
  
• Fixed GUI issues in tutorial.
  
• More information on tooltips.
  
• Petting animals now shows a hand cursor.
  
• Warning when guild name already exists.
  
• Some panels now load quicker.
  
• Fixed message when trade is declined.
  
• Users are no longer able to use formatted text in chat.
  
• Some UI glitchy-ness fixes.
  
• We can make arrows point at stuff in-game. Guess I could do it here too. Wishlist button over there at the top. -->
  

• Players can now track their active and complete quests with the new quest log seen in the picture above!
  
• Easily check your active quests, progress, and know where they need to be turned in!
  
• View friendship levels with NPC's you've met
  

• Fixed bar keep in port haven showing quest notification but no quest loaded
  
• Fixed npc quest bug related to quest requirements
  
• Fixed dynamic dialogue replacements for ship/players/etc
  

• Players can now trade directly with each other.
  
• NPC's names now show above them.
  
• New thematically correct boss for first voyage.
  
• Steam Rich-Presence added.
  
• Leaderboard Rework.
  
• Do-Not-Disturb option (DND) with chat command.
  
• There’s now a fee to create a guild.
  
• Spore Wars & Glacial Barrier have uniquely themed power-up shops.
  
• Larger maps in voyages.
  
• Added a chance to have more loot bags drop when you fight more monsters in land combat.
  
• You can use backspace or delete to remove props from housing.
  
• Players are now invulnerable when warping into an open world map until an action is taken.
  
• The auction system now allows gold refund for users who bid and lost.
  
• Updated visit sign asset artwork.
  
• Instance warping improvements.
  
• Admin-exclusive guild icons.
  
• Mark-All-As-Read option in mail.
  
• Increase the radius when trying to interact with chest.
  
• Allow players to submit bug reports on loading screens and other situations.
  
• Auctions can no longer be canceled when the auction has received a bid.
  
• Auctions can be posted anonymously.
  
• Puzzle lever enhancements.
  
• Hazel's bar is now named something more chat filter friendly.
  
• Tutorial end directs players towards the open world.
  
• Alternate graveyard route.
  

• Fixed bug where lifeboat does not show in certain scenarios
  
• Added refund gold for ships that have had invalid stats generated during older build versions
  
• Damage from low food cannot be healed.
  
• Brigantine & Nao ship prices corrected.
  

• New default rum attack ability.
  
• Rum ability adjustments & balancing
  
• Fixed ability cooldown carrying over to the next land battle
  
• Added default ability rum "Bottle Toss"
  
• Fixed venom residue to be destroyed when the horror boss is eliminated
  
• Fixed players being able to join an empty land combat.
  
• Fixed pvp bug causing users to not display their status or health bar
  
• Aquatic Assault now slows with a higher chance to proc.
  
• "Davey Jones" ability damage reduction
  

• Loot distribution rework. Lower tiered items and blueprints will be available in regional towns, middle tier at POI's, and high tier in voyages. Higher tier weapons are only available from voyage blueprints.
  
• Fixed level requirements on some gear.
  
• Seed & Sapling tooltip updates.
  
• Shop pricing tweaks
  
• Rum weapons & recipes available
  
• Saplings/bush starters are now spread across the shops in each region.
  
• Fixed armor sprite swapping bug
  

• Added new music and other fx
  
• Fixed sound effects for sending/receiving friend requests
  
• Added new background music for land combat while enemies are alive
  
• Added death sound sfx for players losing duels
  

• Added “slow text” option
  
• Added do not disturb notifications
  
• Added npc friendship level progression to each dialogue
  
• Fixed waypoint button appearing with pvp chat announcements
  
• Fixed typing chat canceling emotes
  
• Improved notices coming from server during server reset
  
• Fixed local area banner and quest notifications for NPC
  
• Updated location banner for player farm and house
  
• Updated region names in the notice board
  
• Added the Pine Peaks and Lost Frost regions in the notice board panel
  
• Added slot effect text option for option screen
  
• Fixed issue where typing E in chat causes interacting/action trigger
  
• Performance improvements for inventory panel loading
  
• Fixed crafting panel highlighted item selection bug
  
• Added ui panel blockers during triggering of data fetch for inventory and crafting panel
  
• Fixed bug causing inventory to open when in the process of warping
  
• Updated options panel UI
  
• Improved inventory panel item filtering to prevent blank slots and updated spacing of panel
  
• Improved player right click menu to prevent compression
  
• Fixed bug for close button not working on shipyard panel
  
• Fixed bug causing item shortcuts in hot bar to have invalid icon indicator even if its valid
  
• Fixed bug where deleting waypoint still has the waypoint shown
  
• Fixed issue where PVP instructions panel would remain showing for players sent back to hometown after game closed.
  
• PVP instructions panel checks to ensure it's not showing in a location it shouldn't be.
  
• Updated blueprint item description when details panel prompts in auctions panel
  
• Updated panel to show who is selling and who bought the item
  
• Added toggle in crafting panel to enable/disable refine-able items
  
• Improved scroll speed for screen resolution drop down in options panel
  
• Fixed voyage entrance to be labelled as League in world map panel
  
• Fixed silver tooltip missing
  
• Added a message showing why an outpost can't be built
  

• Fixed “ghost crops” from other areas showing
  
• Fixed bug causing perk points to reset
  
• Fixed some login issues for certain users
  
• Fixed loot bug where users who damaged a sea monster will not receive treasure bags
  
• Fixed bug where watering or harvesting crops in your personal or guild farm would affect crops in other locations too
  
• enable droplet indicator for tree only on watering action type
  
• Fixed outpost bug where adding material when reaching the max cap causes items to still deduct
  
• Fixed mail issues with the auction house
  
• Tweaked chat filters
  
• Fixed bug where player gets stuck when entering voyage if another player spawns in the area at the same time
  
• Fixed other equipment item sprite color palettes
  
• Ensured players are not spawned in a town they haven't unlocked after a PVP game.
  
• Sailor XP will only be gained if a player returns to land via dock, not teleport.
  
• Fixed perks not being applied when a player logs in at sea
  
• Fixed bug causing group members to receive loot bag drops for land combats they did not participate in
  
• Can no longer refund the starter ship.
  
• Fixed bug where clients on multiple farms could receive crop updates twice when joining map
  
• Fixed issue where crop objects could receive updates twice in some circumstances.
  
• Fixed instance warping of POI maps
  
• Fixed bad vines in player housing map
  
• Fixed tree growth timers
  

• Players can now track their active and complete quests with the new quest log seen in the picture above!
  
• Easily check your active quests, progress, and know where they need to be turned in!
  
• View friendship levels with NPC's you've met
  

• Fixed bar keep in port haven showing quest notification but no quest loaded
  
• Fixed npc quest bug related to quest requirements
  
• Fixed dynamic dialogue replacements for ship/players/etc
  

• Players can now trade directly with each other.
  
• NPC's names now show above them.
  
• New thematically correct boss for first voyage.
  
• Steam Rich-Presence added.
  
• Leaderboard Rework.
  
• Do-Not-Disturb option (DND) with chat command.
  
• There’s now a fee to create a guild.
  
• Spore Wars & Glacial Barrier have uniquely themed power-up shops.
  
• Larger maps in voyages.
  
• Added a chance to have more loot bags drop when you fight more monsters in land combat.
  
• You can use backspace or delete to remove props from housing.
  
• Players are now invulnerable when warping into an open world map until an action is taken.
  
• The auction system now allows gold refund for users who bid and lost.
  
• Updated visit sign asset artwork.
  
• Instance warping improvements.
  
• Admin-exclusive guild icons.
  
• Mark-All-As-Read option in mail.
  
• Increase the radius when trying to interact with chest.
  
• Allow players to submit bug reports on loading screens and other situations.
  
• Auctions can no longer be canceled when the auction has received a bid.
  
• Auctions can be posted anonymously.
  
• Puzzle lever enhancements.
  
• Hazel's bar is now named something more chat filter friendly.
  
• Tutorial end directs players towards the open world.
  
• Alternate graveyard route.
  

• Fixed bug where lifeboat does not show in certain scenarios
  
• Added refund gold for ships that have had invalid stats generated during older build versions
  
• Damage from low food cannot be healed.
  
• Brigantine & Nao ship prices corrected.
  

• New default rum attack ability.
  
• Rum ability adjustments & balancing
  
• Fixed ability cooldown carrying over to the next land battle
  
• Added default ability rum "Bottle Toss"
  
• Fixed venom residue to be destroyed when the horror boss is eliminated
  
• Fixed players being able to join an empty land combat.
  
• Fixed pvp bug causing users to not display their status or health bar
  
• Aquatic Assault now slows with a higher chance to proc.
  
• "Davey Jones" ability damage reduction
  

• Loot distribution rework. Lower tiered items and blueprints will be available in regional towns, middle tier at POI's, and high tier in voyages. Higher tier weapons are only available from voyage blueprints.
  
• Fixed level requirements on some gear.
  
• Seed & Sapling tooltip updates.
  
• Shop pricing tweaks
  
• Rum weapons & recipes available
  
• Saplings/bush starters are now spread across the shops in each region.
  
• Fixed armor sprite swapping bug
  

• Added new music and other fx
  
• Fixed sound effects for sending/receiving friend requests
  
• Added new background music for land combat while enemies are alive
  
• Added death sound sfx for players losing duels
  

• Added “slow text” option
  
• Added do not disturb notifications
  
• Added npc friendship level progression to each dialogue
  
• Fixed waypoint button appearing with pvp chat announcements
  
• Fixed typing chat canceling emotes
  
• Improved notices coming from server during server reset
  
• Fixed local area banner and quest notifications for NPC
  
• Updated location banner for player farm and house
  
• Updated region names in the notice board
  
• Added the Pine Peaks and Lost Frost regions in the notice board panel
  
• Added slot effect text option for option screen
  
• Fixed issue where typing E in chat causes interacting/action trigger
  
• Performance improvements for inventory panel loading
  
• Fixed crafting panel highlighted item selection bug
  
• Added ui panel blockers during triggering of data fetch for inventory and crafting panel
  
• Fixed bug causing inventory to open when in the process of warping
  
• Updated options panel UI
  
• Improved inventory panel item filtering to prevent blank slots and updated spacing of panel
  
• Improved player right click menu to prevent compression
  
• Fixed bug for close button not working on shipyard panel
  
• Fixed bug causing item shortcuts in hot bar to have invalid icon indicator even if its valid
  
• Fixed bug where deleting waypoint still has the waypoint shown
  
• Fixed issue where PVP instructions panel would remain showing for players sent back to hometown after game closed.
  
• PVP instructions panel checks to ensure it's not showing in a location it shouldn't be.
  
• Updated blueprint item description when details panel prompts in auctions panel
  
• Updated panel to show who is selling and who bought the item
  
• Added toggle in crafting panel to enable/disable refine-able items
  
• Improved scroll speed for screen resolution drop down in options panel
  
• Fixed voyage entrance to be labelled as League in world map panel
  
• Fixed silver tooltip missing
  
• Added a message showing why an outpost can't be built
  

• Fixed “ghost crops” from other areas showing
  
• Fixed bug causing perk points to reset
  
• Fixed some login issues for certain users
  
• Fixed loot bug where users who damaged a sea monster will not receive treasure bags
  
• Fixed bug where watering or harvesting crops in your personal or guild farm would affect crops in other locations too
  
• enable droplet indicator for tree only on watering action type
  
• Fixed outpost bug where adding material when reaching the max cap causes items to still deduct
  
• Fixed mail issues with the auction house
  
• Tweaked chat filters
  
• Fixed bug where player gets stuck when entering voyage if another player spawns in the area at the same time
  
• Fixed other equipment item sprite color palettes
  
• Ensured players are not spawned in a town they haven't unlocked after a PVP game.
  
• Sailor XP will only be gained if a player returns to land via dock, not teleport.
  
• Fixed perks not being applied when a player logs in at sea
  
• Fixed bug causing group members to receive loot bag drops for land combats they did not participate in
  
• Can no longer refund the starter ship.
  
• Fixed bug where clients on multiple farms could receive crop updates twice when joining map
  
• Fixed issue where crop objects could receive updates twice in some circumstances.
  
• Fixed instance warping of POI maps
  
• Fixed bad vines in player housing map
  
• Fixed tree growth timers
  

Arcane Waters is sailin' into Next Fest!

We've added new areas to explore, the ability to create outposts with your guild, a new help panel, a new event panel so you can see what's going on, and patched up some bugs!

Be sure to leave your thoughts in our Feedback Forums.

Join the discussion on Discord.

Guilds:

• Outposts can now be deployed and guild members can contribute materials to complete the building.
  

Combat:

• Enemy spawning is now updated to prevent ships from spawning too close to players in world maps
  
• Balanced voyage difficulty scaling of enemy ships, ship health now scales depending on number of voyage members
  
• Fixed bug where ability buttons and keys become unresponsive after fighting a while in land combat
  
• Fixed bug where engaging with a pirate skeleton boss shows an enemy with shield inside combat
  
• Fixed bug where pirate captain joins the minions combat even after it was defeated
  
• Updated burning and poison damage to proc only if the target health is greater than 0, allowing users to land a finishing blow
  
• Updated ability casting conditions when spamming buttons and triggering abilities while others are cooling down
  
• Fixed bug where user fails to join a combat that they are already engaged in after disconnecting or logging out
  
• Fixed bug causing duplicate player battlers when spamming pvp invites
  
• Reduced chance to stun on some land combat abilities.
  

Optimizations:

• Optimized area creation for maps to have prebaked collisions, for performance improvements
  
• Improved other functionalities related to generating areas for performance improvements
  

Ships:

• Added food cost for dashing
  
• Ship HP bonus perk now only applies to max HP when spawned in a world map area
  
• Ship storage and perk bonuses are now applied at the world spawn instead of storing in the database
  
• Added a cap to the amount of bot ships we will allow to be spawned in pvp matches.
  
• Bot ships and Sea Structures now aim slightly past their target, to help with some cases where they would often miss targets.
  
• Increased wave spawn interval in pvp games, so there is an interval where no ships are at the enemy tower.
  
• Fixed issue where bot ship cannonballs sometimes wouldn't damage enemy bot ships in pvp games.
  
• Bot Ships and Sea Structures now aim at the targets center more accurately.
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug where crops are spawned in non house areas
  
• Fixed bug where users are spawned in same area but does not see other users due to duplicated instances generated
  
• Fixed bug where tutorial area is being duplicated needlessly
  
• Improved redirection of users between servers
  
• Fixed an issue where demo restrictions could cause players to be unable to progress to the next voyage map.
  
• Fixed issue where small sands banner would show when the waterfall secret entrance was opened.
  
• Fixed issue when warping to private maps
  
• Moved go home to list of buttons to be shown when user has character
  
• Fixed issue where player chop collider could block webs from finding a clear landing destination.
  
• Fix for penalties expiration datetime
  
• Fixed sometimes unable to respawn in PVP
  
• Fixed players being sent to single player instances if an empty one is available in their destination server
  
• Skeletons in the graveyard give the proper experience.
  

UI:

• Special suffixes are added to character names that have been deleted
  
• Fixed bug where pvp score in pvp board does not show to user when they join the pvp game late
  
• Fixed bug where perks are being reset when you fail character creation
  
• Perk icon colors are now updated to match the appropriate colors
  
• Added a confirmation panel before soulbinding an item, 2 small exception fixes
  
• Fixed minimap placement for buildings
  
• Added the notice board panel, containing the biome activity tab. Moved the pvp arena panel to a tab in the notice board
  
• Fixed PVP stat panel can't be closed
  
• Fixed player can still shoot when game is over
  
• Fixed Option not showing in character screen
  
• Fixed notice board panel remaining in the panel stack when closing it with the X button.
  
• Bugfixes for chat related issues, pvp stat panel and add close button for npc panel
  
• Replaced 'biome' by 'region' in the notice board panel
  
• Made steam login button become not interactable as soon as you click it
  
• Toggle reply button if recipient can reply or cannot reply to a mail
  
• Fixed recipient can reply to automated mail
  
• Add mail button to bottom of UI. New mail should indicate like an invite does for the friend button
  
• Added tooltips to the regions characteristics icons in the notice board
  
• "Help" panel (Added Help button to the Options Panel)
  
• Add friends current instance to the friends page (Added Room Instance Id)
  

Items / Inventory:

• Fixed bug where new crafting ingredients do not show info in the UI
  
• Inventory text cut off fixed, fixed typo found in ship panel
  
• User equip able items are now blocked if level requirement does not match, added warning in chat panel
  
• Fixed bug where level restricted items are reversed
  
• Updated UI indicator for items that are level restricted
  
• Fixed bug where level restriction shows up in blank equipment slots
  
• Fixed bug where invalid item is shown after interacting with treasure chest
  
• Fixed bug where weapons do not load properly for hotbar and inventory
  
• Disabled items no longer show in inventory panel for regular users
  
• Fixed level requirements on weapons not working correctly
  
• Removed the crop quick-grow buff that was incorrectly remaining active after tutorial completion.
  
• Coal takes less wood to craft
  
• Ingots recipe accessibility fixed
  
• Rusty Sword wasn't rusty enough.
  
• Extra skeleton parts from tutorial are worth a tiny bit more.
  
• Saplings are available randomly at the item shop in Port Haven.
  

SFX:

• Food Sfx is now added when food units in ships get reduced
  
• Added Sfx for achievements
  
• Added Sfx after winning land combat
  

Sprites:

• Sprite achievements are now updated, added
  

Maps:

• POI's are now instanced
  
• The Ives' Estate has been redecorated.
  
• New areas to find and explore.