Forgotten Seas News

If you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so as we are part of the Steam Winter Sale! Catch the game on sale from December 19th until January 2nd!

Make sure to check out other great indie games on sale during the Winter Sale to add them to your collection.

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[h3]Early Access — A community driven journey[/h3]

🗺️ Explore the Bermuda Triangle with the new Dynamic Map (open with M key)
🏴‍☠️ Discover useful information and secrets sprawled across the map!
🏆 Uncover the map and earn a Steam Achievement “Bermuda Explorer!”
🙏 Thank you to all our community members for helping us develop this map!
🌟 Special thanks to HandsOnWithBLG and FatherJack for their in-game cartography efforts.

[h3]New Base Building Items — spread Holiday Cheer![/h3]

• You might find some new holiday items in the Traders!
  
• Dropped items may drop on the ground in holiday satchels.
  
• Treasure Chests may appear as Gift Boxes!
  

[h3]Frost Your Cannons — Add Frost Damage to your attacks![/h3]
New Item at the Trader that turns your Cannon attacks into a plume of frost, dealing heavy frost damage. This damage may help takedown Frosty Forts and other Frost Enemies.



[h3]Limited Time Event — Snow Fort Encounters [/h3]
Snow Forts have appeared in the ocean! Destroy them for a good ol stock up on gold and other materials needed to advance in the game. Be advised these forts are surrounded by Frosty Ghost Ships, so go prepared! These forts are harder in the farther areas of the oceans so be careful. A special item at the tropical trader can help 😉



[h3]Quality of Life Changes:[/h3]

⏯️ New Pause feature for Single Player (press ESC key)
⛙ New Merge feature which sends same items found in storage from player inventory
🖰 New Shift + Right Click feature will send all stacks of same item to the open storage chest
↕️ New Sort button added for Storage Chests

[h3]Other Changes:[/h3]

• Optimized and improved lighting in certain zones
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing depth of field setting to not save on certain computers
  
• Added more Hurricane Chests at Deadman's Island to provide mode copper
  
• Reduced Health of Plane Crash
  
• Added Cloth to the Cargo Crates from the Plane Crash
  
• Poison Spear no longer requires a Stone Spear to craft
  
• Sailing Winds event now shows up in earlier player levels
  
• Reduced crafting time of drying Leather in Drying Rack
  
• Added Raw Hide and Poison to Shark loot
  
• Reduced cost of Cartography Table Blueprint
  
• New highlighted background displays on current ammo in the Ship inventory
  
• Increased stack sizes of metal bars, logs and Rare Mushrooms
  
• Increased chance of Common Treasure Caches from Shipwrecks
  
• Decreased weight of some items
  
• Optimized some crafting stations
  

[h3]Forgotten Seas is included in the Steam Autumn Sale![/h3]
If you have not embarked on your journey yet, now is the time! Get the game now and Save 20%!
Check out games from our publisher (Indie.Io) that are included in the Autumn Sale.



[h3]A Note from your Devs[/h3]
👧 We are a small, family-run, Indie Dev Team of 2 🧑
We do not have the resources of larger teams and larger game studios. We are developing a game with a big scope and larger than life expectations. It is going to take time and your support. In time we will make this game all it can be!

🙏 Reviews are the bread and butter of us small Indies! Please leave us your honest reviews 🙏
🤟 A special thanks to all our players, backers and supporters - you all ROCK 🤟

Note: Forgotten Seas is in Early Access, and still under development. We have big plans!

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We have a friendly and helpful community. Hop on board this incredible journey!

Please join our Discord👈

[h3]Fire and repair directly from the ammunition in the Ship's Hold[/h3]
Cannonballs and Ship Repair Kits can now be consumed while in the Ship's inventory. If there are no cannonballs/ship repair kits in the ship inventory, then they will be consumed from the player's inventory.
Note that the ship always fires the Last Cannonball in the hold (last in first out)

[h3]Ship Resistances and Fittings![/h3]
Ship UI now reflects the ammo type to be fired, the resistances of the ship, amount of repair kits, and crew supplies in the ship's hold. Total of Bulkhead Levels and Crew levels are also displayed in the center of the ship wheel icon.



[h3]New Repeatable Fleet Battle Bounty Mission[/h3]
New Repeatable Quest at the Pangea Bounty Board "Dread Pirate Fleet".
A fleet will spawn at one of four random locations on the map. Upon destroying the fleet, players will obtain the stamp rewards. Note that this is a harder encounter than most missions in the bounty board. You will need a well prepared ship to beat this encounter.



[h3]Other Changes[/h3]

• Increased weight of Cutter, Soul Queen, Dark Soul Queen, and Mary Rose.
  
• Increased Warboat and all larger ships' resistance by 2-5% per level.
  
• Increased Mary Rose dreadnaught class damage increased from 200 to 500 (while stationary).
  
• Cutter Interceptor Class Damage increased from 100 to 150 (while in motion).
  
• Increased zoom out view for Soul Queen, Dark Soul Queen, and Mary Rose.
  
• Ship shortcuts have been moved to the right side of the Hotkeys while mounted
  
• Message in a Bottle in the Forest permanent island allows "set spawn point" when the player is 31 or higher.
  
• Golden Shovel and Fishing Pole are now repairable at Captain Nyx.
  
• Plasma can now be sold to Trader using Exchange.
  
• Crated Goods at small islands and Merchant Fleet can now be broken with Pickaxe, Spear, Knife and Sword as well as the Axe.
  
• Added recipes to the Workbench that were only available in the Player Crafting "C" window: Ship Repair Kit, Building Repair Kit, Crew Supplies, Advanced Campfire, Chopping Stump, Small Storage Chest.
  
• Increased damage of Axes and Pickaxes when hitting Treasure Caches and Cargo Crates.
  
• Increased the amount of copper found in Stone and Copper Hurricane Chests as well as the Ghost Camp Chest.
  
• Added Raw Hide to the loot for bunnies in the forest.
  
• Updated Journal text in Ship section that cannonballs will be consumed from the ship's inventory.
  
• Updated tooltip of Ship Repair Kit that it needs to be in the ship's inventory.
  
• Updated tooltip of cannonballs Copper, Poison, Iron and Bio that they need to be in the ship's inventory.
  
• "Sort" button is now visible clearly on the player inventory
  
• Added shortcut on Login screen for Escape key to open the Login Settings window.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed an issue where Market Stalls were difficult to place on the trading dock.
  
• Fixed an issue where melee weapons were taking durability damage during Naval Combat
  
• Fixed an issue with Target cycling using keyboard shortcut T that was not always targeting nearby enemies
  
• (Now, pressing T will cycle through nearby targets, prioritizing what is in front of the player rather than behind)
  
• Fixed an issue where Dark Soul Queen sails were conflicting with the ocean.
  
• Fixed an issue where Sun Lounger and Round Stool had the wrong title
  
• Fixed an issue with movement for Gorgoss and Captain Khar enemy ships.
  

A special thanks to all our players, backers and supporters - you all ROCK!

Note: This game is an Early Access Tite, and still under development.
Please join our discord to submit feedback and interact with our helpful community!
Join our discord

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[h3]Improved Visuals[/h3]

• Improved visuals for tropical biomes including lighting, new grass, rocks, flowers, and land details.
  
• Improved visuals for forest biomes including new trees, bushes, grass, flowers and ground details.
  

[h3]Scope Mode: New, Improved Combat System[/h3]

• A Scope may be accessed while mounted by pressing right click
  
• All cannon boats now have a right click to scope and left click to fire feature
  
• A Player may target enemies simply by hovering their mouse on the enemy in scope mode.
  
• A Player may now fire the cannons while in scope mode by simply pressing left click
  

[h3]Other Changes:[/h3]

• Player ship speeds increased by 150%
  
• Increased zoom speed while mounted on a ship and also while mounted in Scope Mode
  
• Optimized the fog in certain areas for better performance
  
• Players can now speed up the night by sleeping in a bed or hammock
• Optimization tweaks in mid-game.
  

[h3]New Missions and Items[/h3]

• New Dread Pirate II Stamp Quest at the Bounty Board.
  
• Accepting the quest will spawn the Dread Pirate Ship at a random location
  
• New Treasure Map Stamp Quest at Captain Nyx.
  
• New Tropical, Forest and Swamp Surveyors can be accessed at Sir Jim's Stamp.
  
• Hidden Islands can now be controlled by the players by using a surveyor (see note)
  

Note: Placing a surveyor will guarantee the "hidden island" of your choice to spawn next (within 1 hr).
Placing more than 1 Surveyor on the land at a time will result in the last placed Surveyor's island showing. Surveyors automatically disappear after a few hours and may need to be obtained again.

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed an issue where screen resolution drop down was not reflecting current resolution
  
• Fixed an issue where the front pyramid door doesn't always spawn.
  
• Fixed an issue where the vault could have incorrect items on multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue with the hurricane clouds where light would flash significantly brighter or darker based on sun location.
  

A special thanks to all our players, backers and supporters - you all ROCK!

Note: the game is still under development, please join our discord to join the journey!
Join our discord

Combat System Changes:
• A Scope may be accessed while mounted by pressing right click
  
• All cannon boats now have a right click to scope and left click to fire feature.
  
• A Player may now target enemies simply by hovering their mouse on the enemy in Scope mode
  
• A Player may now fire the cannons while in scope mode by simply pressing left click while the enemy is targeted in the scope mode.
  
  Camera Changes:
• Players can now zoom out further when mounted on a boat using the mouse scroll wheel.
  
  
  UI Changes:
• Improvements to minimap icons to factor in most forms of color blindness.
  
• New Vehicle UI on the bottom left of the screen
  
• New UI mouse icons now show up when mounted - showing how to use scopes
  
• New UI mouse icons now show up when wielding a sword showing how to parry (shown only when not mounted on a vehicle.
  
• A quantity total is now displayed in the Crafting window showing the player how many units of an item may be crafted. (For example Crew Supplies x 20)
  
  Bug Fixes and other changes:
• Fixed an issue where some achievements were not completing after level 35.
  
• Fixed an issue where crops and livestock products were not going into the nearest silo when multiple silos were placed.
  
• Temporal Diamonds can now be sold in Tropical and Forest Market Stalls.