This update adds a new obtainable ship model. Note that the models of the King's Galleon and the Battlemaster's Voyager ships have been changed to this new model. If you already have one of these ships, you'll notice your decorations will not match up with the new model. If you inspect the ship item in your inventory, there is an option to quickly retrieve all of your placed decorations on that ship.
We have also added some new dungeons and a quest line originating from an inhabitant of the recently introduced marshland islands. Find him within the mist and discover what kind of deep trouble he has gotten himself into.
Coming Next
Next we plan to work on some additional features for the map interface as well as the normal bug fixes and small improvements.
Changes
Added a new ship model. The King's Galleon and Battlemaster's Voyager ships have been updated to have this new model. If you had one of these ships previously, your decorations will not match up with the new model. Inspect the ship item to find the option to retrieve all decorations from a ship if needed.
Added new point of interests.
Added a new quest line that can start on Marshland Islands.
You can now turn in some side quests at a mailbox in addition to returning back to the quest giver.
Fixed an issue where you could not mark some islands on the map that are where large islands used to exist.
Fixed cure poison recipe not showing up at cooking stations after it was learned.
Lowered the recipe requirements of some ship decorations.
Thick rawhide now drops more often.
Increased chance for silver and gold ore to drop at higher levels.
The ancient rope for the "Rope Request" quest not drops from all ancient chests, both locked and unlocked.
Added a nightbloom flower that can only spawn at night.
Added nightbloom flower as a requirement to some crafting recipes.
Fixed some areas in caves where you could get stuck.
Fixed some exploitable areas in caves allowing you to get out of the level bounds.
Fixed some typos.
Fixed an issue where the trap door in the innkeeper's cellar could teleport you out of bounds.
Fixed an issue with the Songbird's Medallion and Sea Stained Heart epic items having the wrong stats.
Increased the chance for the Mistwalker spider to. spawn.
Fixed a bug where the prefix of equippable items could be different than indicated in the recently looted UI.
Added an icon to spirit's burden effect.
Lowered the amount of white truffles required in some recipes.
Increased herbalism and cooking xp.
Increased fishing xp at higher levels.
Fixed an issue where you could get locked out of the Marauder's Guild Chambers.
Fixed an issue with the Marauder's Guild Map Secrets quest where you could complete the quest but leave the dialogue before starting the next quest.
Fixed an issue with the Crime and Punishment quest starting again when you kill a prison warden even after you've completed the quest.
Decreased consume chance on some rare fishing lures.
Decreased the ancient key crafting recipe requirements.
Fixed an issue with the Marauder's Revenge quest not having the correct quest text.
Fixed an issue with the Moonrock Amulet applying its effect during the day instead of night.
Fixed some journals not having tooltips when moused over.
Fixed some points of interest on the Marshland Islands without a shack being named "Abandoned Shack".
Fixed Quartermaster's Ring having lower stats than other rings of equivalent rarity.
Fixed talent UI not scaling correctly with wide resolutions.
Pirate king islands now have a unique map island icon when marked on the map.
A Look At The Next Update
Today we wanted to give you a preview of our next content update, which we plan on pushing out within the next week. This update will also hit the beta branch first very soon so if you want to help us test and find bugs, you can opt into the beta branch.
Here's a look at what's coming.
New Ship Type
A lot of you have been asking for more ships and so this in this update we are including a new larger ship type for you to craft and discover. This update will include three color variations of the new ship with different rarities and speed. The new vessel is much bigger than the current Wave Skipper and includes a large interior deck for you to decorate and store your treasure. We have replaced some placeholder ships with the model, so if one of your ships looks different in the next update, you'll know why. We've included a pop up tutorial to show you how to easily gather all your decorations so you can set up your new ship as seamlessly as possible.
Of course there are more ships to come but we wanted to go ahead and get at least one new type out for you in this update.
New Questline
This update will also feature a brand new questline featuring a unique skeleton character named "Mr. Bones" and will eventually take you to Davy Jones Locker, a scary and atmospheric dungeon with a unique boss fight and loot. You may even be able to get a hook for a weapon. This dungeon will also be repeatable so you can farm for better gear as you level up.
New Points of Interest
In addition to the new areas featured as part of the questline, we've also added more points of interest to the marshland island type introduced in the last update. This means more caves and ruins for you to discover, as well as some new puzzles.
Balancing Changes, Quest Changes, and Bug Fixes
This patch will also feature a slew of balancing changes and bug fixes. We are constantly monitoring your feedback and adjusting spawn chances, recipe costs, and other things that affect the balance and progression of the game. In this update we've also made it to where you can turn in some side quests at a mailbox, instead of being required to go back to the quest giver. Previously you could only turn in quests found at a commission board to mailboxes. We've now extended this to most quests you get from lone NPCs found in the world. Note this does not apply to guild quests or longer questlines but it should prevent you from having to backtrack a long way for single delivery type quests.
Future Plans
After this update our plan is start working on additional map features. We know you really want the ability to mark more information on your maps and so that's top priority for us. As soon as this update is live we'll be switching gears to focus on adding new map features.
Thanks for reading and expect this update out soon!
New Island Type - Marshland Islands
What's new
In this update, you can find a new island type - the marshlands island. But stay away if you are squeamish of spiders. Along with the visually different island and new enemy type, you can also find new caves and other points of interests, new resources, and new loot.
Along with additional content are some fixes and improvements. Most notably, if you leave loot on an enemy when you exit an area or quit the game, it will be there when you return in the form of a bag on the ground. This resolves the particularly annoying issue of missing out on loot if you died before you were able to loot a freshly slain enemy.
As with any of our updates that change islands, be aware that the island that you were last on may be changed or gone when you return. Our particular apologies that some who last left the game in a very peaceful meadow or cozy coastal nook may find themselves surprised upon returning to a spider-infested marsh.
What's Coming
For the next update, we have been working on a new quest line and a new ship model. Afterwards, we will add new features to the in-game map to make it more useful when exploring the world.
Changes
Added a new marshland island type.
Added new quests.
Added new armor and weapons.
Added new mineable ore: moonrock.
If you leave loot on an enemy's corpse when you leave an area or exit the game, it will appear in a bag on the ground when you return.
Fixed areas in some caves where you could get stuck.
Fixed some typos.
The Vengeful Spirit is now a more difficult boss battle.
Fixed The Vengeful Spirit not having boss music.
Updated some talents to specify exactly how much damage they do.
Adjusted some player combat animations.
Added speed reduction when blocking and drawing bow.
Fixed stalagmites blocking arrows in a larger area than their meshes.
Environmental damage no longer cause armor effects to activate.
Added new hunting quests for spiders.
Cooking oil is no longer required to make cooked bear, cooked venison, and cooked boar.
Reduced the amount of ingredients that require sage.
Morning Dew no longer requires yellow flowers to make.
Reduced recipe requirements of some weaving materials.
Herbalist merchants now sell more potion recipes.
Increased chance to find points of interest on large natural islands.
Increased the amount of mining ore that can be found on large islands.
Increased the amount of crafting materials merchants can sell.
Increased the chance for the bear iris to drop from grizzly bears.
Fixed an issue with some containers not being lootable in the sea scholar's treasure room.
Fixed some areas in caves where you could get out of bounds.
Hotfix
Changes
Fixed nebula sword dealing too much damage to undead.
You can now push or re-deploy your ship by interacting with the model.
Fixed an issue where you could sometimes purchase an item accidentally when clicking a dialogue option to open up the merchant interface.
Added track and abandon buttons to quests interface.
Added complete button to the quest interface that will only appear for rare cases where a bug caused the quest to not complete properly.
Hotfix
Changes
Fixed retrieving decorations from a ship other than your current ship causing the decorations on your current ship to disappear.
Fixed ship storage interface going back to the all tab after moving a stackable item.
The game automatically tries to place you on solid ground if an island's terrain has changed where you load in.
Holding shift while transferring stacks of items to and from ship storage will transfer the whole stack.
Bug Fixes and some Quality Of Life Improvements
This patch contains some fixes, balance adjustments, and quality of life improvements.
One large focus of this update was to change to the way the game saves data. The purpose of this was to try to address an issue where the game would sometimes not read the save file properly. Additionally, it reduces the size of the save files and makes the save system a little more robust for future updates. If you notice anything about your save did not load properly after this update, please let us know on the Steam forums, or through an in-game bug report.
Some islands have changed shape slightly. Large islands have become a little more mountainous for instance. If you were last standing on an island that changed, you may re-appear under the island geometry when you return.
If this happens to you, don't worry. You can easily swim out from under the island or use the teleport feature from the ESC menu.
A similar thing can happen if you saved in a cave located on an island that has changed shape. When you exit the cave, the entrance to the cave may no longer be where it was before, and you may exit below the terrain.
Changes
Updated the way the game saves data. This reduces the size of save files, and potentially addresses an issue where the game temporarily fails to read save files.
Crafting stations on your ship now take into account items in your ship storage. Crafting stations that are not on your ship will not.
You can now inspect some things in the world to glean more information about the lore and history surrounding it. Higher skill levels in different skills will unlock additional information you can learn about these objects.
Small pirate islands now have slightly different foliage colors from natural islands to differentiate them better.
Large natural islands are now more mountainous.
Added remove all decorations option when inspection ship items. This will remove all objects that you have placed on that ship and put them back in your inventory.
The reticle is now hidden when in ship storage and count selection.
You can now split stacks when transferring items to and from your ship storage.
Added buttons to count selection interface.
Fixed stackable items indicating they are new when some of the stack is transferred to another container.
Fixed there not being enough inventory pages to display all of your items if you had more than 9 pages worth in both normal inventory and ship storage interface.
Added an option to change the appearance of the reticle.
Slightly reduced the volume of the lavaboots logo splash screen.
Combat skills such as Slashing, Bludgeoning, etc. now gain more xp when you fight higher level enemies.
Fixed heals being treated as critical hits.
Fixed skill levels not capping at level 50.
Removed heavy armor skill for now since it is not being used, and renamed light armor skill to "Armor".
If an island that you marked on your map previously is no longer valid (due to world changes with updates), the icon will automatically be removed.
Fixed bug where things would not respawn properly.
Merchant inventories will now refresh after an hour.
Disabled collision with fox corpses.
Fixed some typos.
Fixed merchant coin interface not scaling right with different resolutions.
Made it easier to pick up items on top of dressers.
A cure poison potion can now be found and crafted.
Increased the drop rate of staves.
Cheese and potatoes no longer spoil as quickly.
Lowered the recipe requirements for some basic weapon recipes.
Increased the chance for rare crafting mats to drop at higher levels.
Grizzly bears can now spawn on natural islands.
Added a destroy button when inspecting items.
Adjusted lockpick recipe requirements.
You can now find job boards at lone merchants and guild headquarters.
Fixed an issue with hammer weapons not awarding bludgeoning experience.
Increased experience gained for blacksmithing, cooking, woodworking, and tailoring.
Added a maximum amount of time that can occur when fishing before catching a fish.
Fixed typos.
Fixed some rare weapon effects not occurring.
Increased mining experience gained from silver and gold ores.
Autosave no longer occurs immediately after entering the game.
Fixed axe master talent affecting swords instead of axes.
Silver ore is now a little more likely to spawn at world tier 3+
Increased fishing experience gained.
Increases bludgeoning, slashing, piercing, and archery experience gained.
Ghosts can now only spawn at night.
Fixed an issue that would rarely cause an infinite loading screen.
Fixed longer NPC names not displaying correctly.
Improved stats on some world boss gear.
Added open player log button in bug report window.
Added announcements section in main menu.
Fixed torch holder ship decoration sound not affected by volume settings.
Blood decals no longer project on Hammer handheld models and pirate crowns.
Local backup save files are no longer created if have not created any saves.
A Look At The Marshlands Update
Ahoy mateys!
Today I wanted to give you a preview of what's to come in the next patch we are calling The Marshland Update. We expect this update to be out within the next few weeks and can't wait for you to try out the new content.
Also, today we've pushed a new update to the beta branch which includes some save changes to hopefully address issues with the game rarely not loading a save, balancing changes, and visual changes to some islands to make them more distinct from one another. That update will be out soon but if you want to test it or read the patch notes, you can do so here.
Here's a look at what's coming in The Marshlands Update.
Brand New Island: The Marshlands
In our next update we're introducing a new island complete with new atmosphere, points of interest, loot, and enemies. Just in time for Halloween, you'll be able to occasionally come across a foggy island out at sea called The Marshlands. This island has low visibility and is crawling with spiders and skeletons. Rumor also has it a rare enemy known as The Spider Queen can be found wandering these islands.
With this island type will also come new dungeons, quest, loot, and resources. If you've played Salt 1, you'll be happy to see the return of the Moonrock Ore Vein out in the wild. This rare ore glows under the moonlight and provides moonrock as a resource. We've added new recipes in this update for weapons and other items that can be crafted with moonrock.
New island Visuals
Another new change we have made is adjusted the visuals of some islands already in the game. We've changed the color palette and terrain formation of pirate islands to make them a bit different from natural islands. We've also made Seaport islands more open and flat, and large islands are now much more mountainous with high peaks and valleys.
In addition to the changes mentioned above, we are also planning to add a new pirate ship for you to obtain. This will have different visuals than the current Waveskipper and give you a bit more room for all your decorations.
We'll have more info soon on when you expect this update to be out. Thanks for reading!
Bug Fixes, Balance, and More
Hey everyone! We have received a lot of very helpful feedback during the first week of Early Access. We greatly appreciate you all taking the time to let us know about bugs you've run into, what you find fun and not fun, and what you'd like to see as development continues.
As you play, please keep the feedback coming as it helps us to find issues, and prioritize what we need to work on for upcoming updates.
This update primarily focuses on bug fixes and balancing tweaks, with some additional content sprinkled in. As we get early bugs squashed, we will start to be able to focus more effort on adding missing content such as more map features, talents, and ship models.
One of the more annoying issues that some people have encountered is saves temporarily not loading. If this happens to you, You can find discussion and possible solutions in this thread. This update has some changes to address a potential cause of it, but it's something we are still investigating.
Changes
Added some extra error handling to hopefully address an issue where some players would not be able to load their saves.
Added descriptions on ships and ship recipes about what base model it uses.
Fixed some of the non-60 target frame-rate options targeting 60 instead of what they are supposed to.
Fixed arrows going through stuff they shouldn't.
You are no longer required to be crouched to land a sneak attack as long as you are undetected.
Added a message when your num lock is on and try to rebind something to an arrow key (until we fix the underlying issue).
You are now more likely to find mining ores at your level on natural islands.
Music now occurs more frequently.
You are no longer required to talk to the Cartographer after buying your crafting stations for the New Craftsman quest in order to complete the quest.
Ancient moss and ancient stone shards now drop more frequently.
The Spirit Blade now does more damage.
Reduced the crafting requirements for ingots.
Reduced the consume chance on some lures.
Increased the amount of food you get from some items.
Fixed an issue with some items being able to be looted in cartographer shops even though they weren't supposed to be.
Fixed an issue with the "New Remedy" quest awarding more money than it was supposed to.
Fixed some typos.
Fixed resetting to default settings not affecting certain settings.
Added help menu section explaining the different types of coins.
Added tutorial popup about coins after you get your first silver.
Fixed target frame-rate drop down selection not updating correctly when you reset to default.
Fixed ship wheel rotation being frame-rate dependent.
Added view recent patch notes button in main menu.
Fixed time not pausing in escape menu if you had previously played and quit to the main menu.
Fixed a bug with clams dropping multiple pearls at once.
Added new ship decoration items.
Reduced the amount of plant fibers required to make arrows and plant oil.
Increased the difficulty of the Skeleton Warlord and Old Tree Guardian Boss.
You can now loot tankards.
You can now read closed books.
Reduced the distance at which some islands can start spawning. Note this means some islands will change types and you may find yourself on a different looking island than when you last played, or potentially under the island geometry. You can swim out or use the return to ship feature in the escape menu if this happens. Your in-game map items will update automatically to reflect new POI locations.
Ships now have increased speed based on their rarity. You can view a ship's speed in the inspection pop up window.
Increased how quickly you level up early in the game.
Increased the amount of experience you get from quests.
Added a Guide NPC to Seaports that offers helpful advice.
Added a quest tutorial popup the first time you interact with a job board quest.
Updated the description on some new ship recipes and lowered their cost.
Reduced the cost of the mailbox ship upgrade item.
Added a "Map Buttons" element on the map UI to make it more obvious you can click the buttons.
Reduced the frequency of pirate and merchant idle sounds.
Increased the amount of healing you get from strong health potions.
Increased the interaction distance on some items.
Increased the amount of mining ores you can find on islands.
Arrows now only require one flint to craft instead of two.
Fixed an issue with the Draught of Vitality potion not having a cooldown.
Fixed an issue with the sleeping bag ship decoration item defaulting to the retrieve action instead of the sleep action.
Fixed an issue with ship decoration candles slightly floating.
Fixed an issue with some pots not being lootable in loot caves.
Updated some caves that were similar to each other to now look a bit different.
Added some rare items to early loot drops.
Improved Warlord's Cleaver stats.
Fixed issue where the force small waves option was not saving.
Updated formatting on load local backup file names displayed in game.
Fixed being able to sneak attack rocks.
Added 60 fps limit to lavaboots logo scene, hopefully to help address some crashes on startup.
Hotfix Patch Now Available
Changes
Increased damage on basic bows.
Improved the audio quality of the equip sound for the nebula cutlass and spirit blade cutlass.
The home island bear is now a bit more difficult to kill.
Mining ores now have colliders.
You are now less likely to get stuck on stalagmites.
Fixed an issue with the "Drinking Games" quest loot not dropping.
Fixed visual issues in some points of interest.
Fixed some areas in caves you could get stuck in.
Fixed some typos.
Added target frame rate option, which defaults to 60fps in order to help with some heat issues some players were experiencing.
Ship storage now defaults to the all tab.
Fixed "Open in Explorer" button not working in the Restore Save File interface.
Loot and loot all rebindings are now tied to the interact rebinding and fixed it not saving correctly.
Fixed interaction rebind not changing the binding for interacting with items in your inventory.
Added tutorial popup when you interact with your ship storage for the first time.
Fixed move rebindings not affecting ship steering and moving while placing an object.
Unequip item sound is now affected by volume settings.
Recipe learned sound is now affected by volume settings.
Also, thanks to everyone who has and continues to take the time to provide us with bug reports and feedback. It is extremely helpful for us to prioritize both fixes and the next content/features that we work on.
Early Access Now Available!
Ahoy mateys!
Salt 2 is now available on Steam Early Access. We've been working on this game for over two and a half years and we are so happy to finally have it out. First, we want to say a big thank you to everyone that has helped us test the game over the last few months and to everyone who supported us during our Kickstarter campaign. We are so excited for the future of Salt 2 and have a lot of good updates planned.
Here's a quick look at just a few planned features on our roadmap which you can also view in-game. Of course a huge part of what we add in the game will be based on your feedback and what you'd like to see.
If you encounter any bugs in the game, you can use the in-game bug reporting tool, or you can report them on the Steam discussion forums.
Also, feel free to hop on over to our Discord and chat with other players, provide suggestions, or ask us questions! Thank you all so much and we look forward to seeing you on the high seas!
