Improved Build "Feel"

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. Today's update brings Make Sail's build menu a few steps closer to realizing this soothing and unnervingly sensual ambition.

Learn tricks, get pieces

In addition to improved visual feedback for a range of actions, there's a new tutorial. Earn unique pieces while learning advanced maneuvers like cloning whole groups of pieces!

What's next?

We're not done improving building! More convenience and power is already in the works. Plus more gameplay elements and other surprises. I'm not naming dates, but I will say that creative mode is coming along nicely. Thanks for joining us on our journey through the blue oceans of Early Access! Stay tuned!

Full change list

• New optional build tutorial: Learn advanced tricks and win unique pieces

• New cheat: Super Glue. Really strong boat connections.

• Inventory icons grouped together by piece type to save space

• Inventory icons show number of how many available

• Inventory icons show number of how many obtained on mouse over

• Inventory icons bounce on hover

• Inventory icons have attention badge to indicate new types

• Inventory tray can be dragged and scrolled without affecting the build area

• Inventory category icons now highlight the selected category

• Grabbed pieces represented as icons when held over the inventory menu

• Pieces can be removed from the boat by dragging them over the inventory

• Fixed: Ctrl-z could cause boat position to jump

• Fixed: Multi-part pieces (like sails) were highlighting incorrectly

• Fixed: Moldy plank and Long Squid plank were jittery

• Fixed: Grabbed pieces could auto release when dragged from inventory

• Updated suggested key background image to be a soothing blue

• Improved lighting when building during twilight or fog

• Improved predictability of piece placement when dragging on and off a boat

• Prevented pieces from being placed too high or low

• Disabled underwater camera when building to allow better visibility looking up from far below