Merchant of the Skies - 1.3.0 - Quality of Life

Hey Merchants!

The 1.3.0 update is here! We did our best to improve the caravan/map navigation experience and enhance gameplay settings.



Here's a video summary of what's new:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


On a side note, we are looking for more German and Spanish community translators - if you like the game and are interested in helping out with making it available in your language, come join our discord.

• Added two new biomes
  
• Two new resource-producing islands added: spice / tea islands
  
• Two new buildable buildings added: spice / tea gatherer
  
• Windmill now also produces dyes out of spices
  
• Replaced sawmill sprite
  
• Replaced ship workshop sprite
  
• Non-central island biomes with shipwrights are guaranteed to have houses now
  
• EXPERIMENTAL: basic resource island are biome-independent now (can occur in red / lightblue / yellow biomes more frequently)
  

• Caravan ship will stay at the tradepost _until_ it sells all its items
  
• Caravans can now sell items at bazaars (all sorts of items, price is reduced but the chance to sell them is at 100%)
  
• Can click on any caravan ships on the map (in any mode) to adjust its routes
  
• Hotkey to add a new caravan point
  
• Improved gamepad controls on caravan route creation (island selection now focuses the map properly + b button now cancels island selection)
  
• Can pick caravan island targets from price panel
  
• Can pick caravan island targets from quicknav panel
  
• Can add caravan right from the map if you have spare unused ships in caravan office. See "new caravan" button on the bottom menu
  

• Letter delivery quests will attempt to pick the same biome
  
• Reduced storm event hitbox on the map
  
• Reduced letter quest exp reward from 120 to 60
  
• Remapped fast-forward button gamepad hotkey on the map to LB + RB (to be held at the same time)
  

• Quicknav panel added on the map: find important islands quickly
  
• Visit island button increased by 1.5x times. Is now static (stays under the island)
  
• Week summary panel remade
  
• By request, has clickable pause button on the bottom right menu
  
• Mouse pan to scroll the island view (just hold the left mouse button and try moving your mouse around)
  
• Can now hold spacebar to keep focusing on your ship, rather than pressing it once (you can also go back to ship by pressing Q key)
  
• Esc/ gamepad B button closes setting window
  
• Can now sort price panel by clicking on the resources
  
• Distance value added to price panel, can sort islands by distance left
  
• Can click on caravan panel cities to navigate to them (if caravan is selected - the caravan places a point there; otherwise your ship navigates there if you do it in the navigation view)
  
• Message above the island on map window when storage is full (every new day)
  
• Message above the island on map window when new stock arrives to trading post (every new day)
  
• Made the warning message a bit more explicit in a specific case: when you buy a new ship and _have_ to sell the old one if your caravan office is full
  
• Map camera will focus on the ship when you tow it back
  
• Improved island selection with mouse a bit (island info will not disappear in some edge cases)
  
• City name written at the bottom panel in the island view
  
• Added "focus on the ship" button on minimap (and the tooltip for it)
  

• Now shows the amount of ships stationed in caravan office
  
• Now shows the bank debt/investment
  
• Lighthouse shows its upgrade costs if not yet fully completed
  
• Shows resources produced by buildings
  
• Shows building upgrade costs on your own island (can be turned off in settings)
  
• Shows fuel price of recharge posts
  

• capped frame rate removal
  
• disable custom mouse cursor
  

• disable weekly summary
  
• skip docking animations
  
• mouse wheel sensitivity
  
• island scrolling speed
  
• disable showing building upgrade costs in island info panel
  

• Tea island: can gather tea with baskets
  
• Added missing scythes module (can now gather wheat / spices manually)
  
• Island resoruce gain effects are actually going to be displayed above map islands (and not move with a camera like before)
  
• Reduced red biome inn y coordinate by 1 (so that captain does not look afloat when visiting it)
  
• Adjusted red biome trade guild waypoints (so that captain can't walk beyond the island)
  
• If you rapidly press "E" when the map loads, you are no longer taken to giant island
  
• Fixed leaves particle spawn points in house sprite
  

That seems to be it for now. I know there are other QoL things left to do, but hopefully this patch will make your experience playing the game better. Keep reporting stuff / let us know your suggestions, we are happy to read them. Hope you enjoy the patch.

Best,
Vladimir