Alpha v0.17.1169 - Minor Update

This update addresses a lot of player feedback and many bug reports we received. It should drastically improve the game's stability and also a provide more balanced experience. We'll work on at least one more smaller update like this one to ensure the game is a stable and smooth as we can get it before before we start working on larger content additions.

Changes/Additions

• Increased max hull of all ships (including player and enemy ships).

• Status icons for health, morale and hunger now pulse when they're low.

• Red vignette effect is applied to the screen when the player's health is low.

• Improved enemy ship AI. If the side facing you doesn't have any working cannons, they'll turn towards you so their other side faces your ship.

• Improved how enemy crew handles threats on their ship. They're less likely to abandon their posts to handle threats, especially when their ship is in good shape.

• Port traders now always have currency so you can trade more easily with them.

• Rebalanced many events that spawn creatures so that they scale with how far you are in the game.

• Changed man/unman commands so that they toggle in a more intuitive way.

• Made the event that happens when a player stalls too much much more punishing (it gives fewer rewards and is more dangerous).

• Added support for Kickstarter backer only edition.

• Hull patches are no longer auto forbidden. Instead they're not automatically repaired during combat (you can still manually assign crew to repair them).

• Added separate 'repair' item in role menu. Repairing is no longer part of the construction role item.

• Strip deck now gives 5 wood instead of 1

• Reduced cannonball cost and rarity.

• Removed max range for cannons. This might be re-added later when both the enemy AI and the UI have better support for this.

• Crew will automatically unman cannons when there are enemies nearby.

Fixed

• Game getting soft locked due to continue journey timer not appearing after events. This typically happened the event after you've fled combat.

• Enemy ship not always being cleaned up after certain events, causing the game to be in a buggy state where the player sails with an empty enemy ship next to them.

• Fishing spots, hammocks and sleeping spots being stackable.

• Enemy crew not always manning cannons when they should.

• Cannot open map right after loading a save

• Cooking job being part of crafting role item instead of cooking

• Operate role item not impacting steering wheel jobs.

• Issue with boarding hooks staying on characters.

• Fixed man/unman cannon commands sometimes not showing.

• Cancel command not letting crew unman cannons.

• Other small issues/errors that might not have a noticeable impact.