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Make Sail

Also known as Make Sail, make sail, 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.

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19 May 2026

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Patch notesPublished 29 Nov 2021

Speed and Gratitude Update

Speed & Gratitude! Speed! Simulating water physics is a big part of what makes Make Sail unique, and if your boat gets big, it's also a big part of what makes Make Sail slow. This update has been a long time in the maki…

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August 2021
The Winds Have ChangedThere's a beautiful new tool to paint your own wind patterns 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. New wind patterns a…Announcement15 changesFixWorkshop03 Aug 2021
June 2019
Teaser: The Wind Update! Lest you think I've fallen asleep over here, I will now tease you with thrilling tidbits about the next update in the works: The Wind Update! Make Sail's wind has long been over-engineered. Mean…Patch notes25 Jun 2019
November 2018
Today we release our biggest update yet: Creative Mode! Creative Mode Make Sail is was already a game about your ideas and your creations. Now, there's a whole set of new toys for you to play with! Creative Mode is a ne…13 changesFixGameplayPatch notes05 Nov 2018
September 2018
Mail SailS Here at Popcannibal, we're committed to empowering you to make bold and questionable nautical designs in the safety of your own home. Previously there were some limitations regarding how many sails you could…2 changesGameplayWorkshopPatch notes13 Sept 2018
August 2018
Why click twice when once will do? Building just keeps on getting better! Press the spacebar while building to toggle symmetric building on the forward axis of your boat. Symmetry can work in combination with cloning (h…10 changesFixGameplayPatch notes27 Aug 2018
July 2018
Better Boat Building Buttons, Baby! Menus can't just look good, they have to feel good. They should to invite you into their GUI embrace with a tender whisper: Together we will enact your will with ease and clarity. Tod…14 changesFixGameplayPatch notes16 Jul 2018
June 2018
New creature: Giant TurtlesGiant Sea Turtles At 5,000kg, our majestic sea turtle weights about as much as the tongues of two blue whales. (Or one t-rex for those of you who prefer traditional measurements) They instinctively swim upwind, so consi…Announcement6 changesFixBalance20 Jun 2018
May 2018
Center of MassBy request: a center of mass indicator! For all you boat crafters working to achieve greater design perfection, we now have a little green dot showing the center of mass. If your hand was giant and inside the game, this…Announcement4 changesFixBalance25 May 2018
Smarter Creatures, Smarter UpdatesA bunch of little fixes and.... Smarter Creatures It used to be that creatures stopped thinking as soon as they went out of view. Now creatures have thoughts, paths and actions that persist at all times and are part of…Announcement8 changesFixGameplay20 May 2018
April 2018
Building Overhaul!Easier, simpler, faster. The last two weeks have been about making Make Sail's building system require less precise input while delivering more precise results. Instead of all the points you COULD connect to, you now se…Announcement6 changesFixGameplay28 Apr 2018
Better Building and MoreBuilding had a really unfortunate bug which caused pieces to rotate slightly and make snapping very difficult. This only affected some computers. So the tools worked for some people (me) and were maddeningly unusable fo…Announcement8 changesFixWorkshop14 Apr 2018

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