Dear farmers,
A remote tropical archipelago with... open world farming for survival... numerous explorations and adventurous discoveries... story driven quests... supernatural dangers.... ancient mysteries... pirate setting... in a low-poly art style! That's the best way to summarize Stranded Sails.
With the developer, Lemonbomb, we will soon set sail and embark on an adventurous journey. Are you onboard? Well, then put the game on your wishlist right now!
Become part of the crew and experience a cheerful and relaxed single-player farming adventure in a tropical island paradise!
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Update 2.7.3.: Japanese localization & various fixes
Dear farmers,
Our Japanese hobby farmers now have the opportunity to play the game in their native tongue. We hope this will increase the enjoyment of the game in the "Land of the Rising Sun" as well as inspire those who don't speak English so well. For everyone else we have made various improvements, such as:
Changelog 2.7.3 - Enhanced & improved the tutorial
- Japanese language
Bugs - Stock all now stocks the additional slot, too
- Game no longer shuts down when over-filling a chest with multiple items at the same time
- Shop and smithery now properly shows the correct costs for all items
- Animation fixes
- Sprinkler no longer turns when deactivated
- Weekday-display sometimes didn't show up properly
Beta Testers Wanted - Stranded Sails!
Hi everyone,
We are looking for intrepid farmers who would like to become the first explorers of the cursed islands. Imagine you're ship-wrecked on a mysterious, uninhabited archipelago. As a crafty farmer, you immediately know what to do to prevent starvation. But you must also prove yourself as a dauntless adventurer to finally escape the islands!
Would you love to test a unique mix of adventure and farming simulation? Well, apply as a Beta Crew by subscribing to our Mailing List
We'd love to send out a version for testing to each and every one of you and stay in touch. However, for organizational reasons, that's not possible, and we can only accept a limited number of testers.
How do we pick our testers? To make sure that everybody has a fair chance and we get a good selection of testers with different gaming profiles we'll be sending out a questionnaire about your gaming habits and preferences along with our newsletter shortly. It will provide us with all the basic info we need - of course, anything you enter will be treated as confidential and only be used for beta testing. We won't make your data available to any 3rd parties.
For all of you, who won't be able to join us as beta testers, we're already preparing quite a treat that will also provide more insights into the game!
In addition: We'd love to invite all of you to our group chat on Discord where you can get in touch with our team, the developers and other players. Stay up to date and get first-hand info! Join us now!
Unique mix of adventure and farming simulator: Prove yourself as a dauntless adventurer and crafty farmer!
Exploration, crafting and farming: You will need better and better equipment and enough food for your journeys deep into the heart of the islands!
Story-driven quests: Quests tell the game's story and lead you from one adventure to the next!
Tricky puzzles and challenges: Fire up those tiny grey cells to solve the many exciting riddles!
Creation and expansion of a survivors' camp: Manage your provisional camp to survive!
Mysterious islands and dangers: Solve the secret of the cursed islands and fight against supernatural threats!
Take a first peek at the game with our Pre Alpha-Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MObtP-h4-Qg&t=
New Update 2.6.6: Balancing and other fixes
Dear farmers,
From now on there are closing times for the shops in the village and we added more environmental animals amongst other fixes.
Changelog 2.6.6 in detail:
- The shop & smithery will now ocassionally offer delivery-quests (announced in the newspaper), this way you can gain gold and empty your stock faster
- We reworked and improved fishing, it should feel more smooth now and the upgrades&skill-level have more impact
- Fences now support three- and four-way junctions
- Steam big picture support
- Steam-Controller support
- Controller support in Editor improved
- We added more environmental animals (rabbits, ducks and fish)
Balancing - The town's smith and shop are closed on sundays now
- Logs value reduced to 20 (from 25)
Bugs - Sometimes the player got stuck when declining an escort-mission
- Available escorts and quests weren't available after a game-restart anymore
- Game didn't always show the "Game Saved" notification
- Newspaper related to dog will only appear after rescuing the dog now
- Newspaper-achievement works now properly again
- Clock will no longer show 60 minutes (which it sometimes did before)
Update 2.6 - Some major fixes
Dear farmers,
Many thanks for your new reviews! Please keep writing to us! The reviews are an important source for improvements and motivate us to continue working on the game. This update includes some major bugs that we have fixed. And beware: vegetables decay now if they don't get enough water!
Here is a detailed overview:
Changelog 2.6.0
- Controller-Support for woodcutting and farm-editor and improved in other areas
- Additional environment animals
- Animals will now fall asleep during the night
- Vegetables will now rot if you don't water or harvest them for several days
- Players can build now benches to nap (not very comfy) on
- Escorts and other missions from the shop, restaurant and smithery will be announced in the newspaper (via a note) now
Graphic - Additional graphical feedback for users about what is happening
Balancing - Children won't visit the farm after dusk anymore
- Additional newspaper-entries (easier to get the achievement now)
- Smithery and shop are now closed during the night
Major Bugs - 4:3 UI bug fixed (in hotfix a few days ago)
- Fishing-tutorial sometimes got stuck (in hotfix a few days ago)
- Players occassionally got stuck while loading into an escort-mission
- "Stock all" now correctly stocks all 4 inventory slots
- Animation bugs
- Dog-Quest couldn't be completed in some occassions due to the dog not being responsive
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Unique mix of adventure and farming simulator: Prove yourself as a dauntless adventurer and crafty farmer!
Exploration, crafting and farming: You will need better and better equipment and enough food for your journeys deep into the heart of the islands!
Story-driven quests: Quests tell the game's story and lead you from one adventure to the next!
Tricky puzzles and challenges: Fire up those tiny grey cells to solve the many exciting riddles!
Creation and expansion of a survivors' camp: Manage your provisional camp to survive!
Mysterious islands and dangers: Solve the secret of the cursed islands and fight against supernatural threats!
Take a first peek at the game with our Pre Alpha-Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MObtP-h4-Qg&t=
New Update 2.5: Italian & Spanish localizations and big polish
Dear farmers,
We are happy to announce a new update including new localizations (Italian & Spanish) as well as a big polish. Our improvements in detail:
Changelog 2.5.0
- Improved performance
- 4 new character-models
- New buildable object: Sprinkler, which use up energy to water your crops
- New buildable object: Well
- New languages: Spanish, italian, traditional chinese
- Added "stock all" button for chests and shop
- Lots of new sounds
- Environment animals
- Hints (from grandpa) can now be deactivated in the options
Graphic
- Graphical rework (performance)
- UI improvements to increase user-experience
- Troughs will now show their fill height (water and fodder)
- New animations & improvements
- Fence-Gates improved to stand out better
- Week-day window altered so it wouldn't stand out as much
- Rain-Graphic reworked
Balancing
- Shop-sales increased
- Linux savegame problem solved
- Placing the same type decoration on another will not cost any gold anymore, so that the player can decorate the farm the way he wants less costly
- Generator runs slower to make it easier
- Splitting wood into logs will now gain 2 instead of 1 log
- Droplings & Eggs will spawn less often
- Apples cost reduced from 20 to 10
- Player will only wake up automatically during 7am and 8pm
- Berry-bushes cost less but can not be picked as often
- Lumberjack levels up a bit slower
- Animals will follow the player longer after getting fed by hand
Bugs
- (Controller) Volume is updated right away instead of when the options are opened the next time
- (Controller) Volume can now be dropped to 0% properly
- Localization fixes
- Players sometimes accidently fed animals several times in a row
- Players sometimes accidently filled troughs several times in a row
- Intro-carriage runs smoother
- Tutorial-inconsistencies improved and indicator added to show when a player action is required
- Sometimes the spouse wore her old job's mailbag
- Mouse-Movement adjusted to feedback
- The player's cat will now spawn back at the farm if it was deleted accidently in one of the early versions of the game
In the meantime, if you are interested in getting access to preview versions of our games or our newsletter with lots of insider information, please feel free to put your name on our 100% spam free mailing list on https://www.rokapublish.de/mailing-list .
New Update coming soon
Dear farmers,
We know you haven't heard from us for a while. The reason is that we put all our attention into the game that we're working on continuously. And the harvest for you is near! Soon there will be a new update, which will surely please you. And even better: We are planning a multiplayer mode! We just ask you for a little patience! So, stay tuned... ;-)
In the meantime, if you are interested in getting access to preview versions of our games or our newsletter with lots of insider information, please feel free to put your name on our 100% spam free mailing list on https://www.rokapublish.de/mailing-list .
Community Spotlight: Guide to 100% Achievements
Simply farming is not enough for you?
You are not just a farmer but also a hunter, on the hunt for every achievement in Harvest Life? Need some guidance on your way to 100%?
Look no further!
Thanks to cheekiyaya, there is an excellent guide for that! :-)
Check it out:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1437986820
