Merchant of the Skies news & patch notes

Collect magical tiles and deploy them strategically on your Arcane Board in this block sudoku and roguelike deckbuilder. Set up combos and unleash them at the right time—whether offensively, defensively, or to build your power. Master and learn the secrets of the board. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/27023349/a85d9ac7824fb7e9c5766847843e8f1e2fc7dacf.gif Get it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3126090/Arcane_Board/ To celebrate, we are also setting our other games for discount. Hope you enjoy it!

Druidwalker is out on Steam NOW! It is the next peaceful game produced and published by Coldwild Games! Get the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231060/Druidwalker/?utm_source=announcement_steam Step into the role of a druid preparing the forest for winter. Delve into the heart of the mystical forest, explore its paths, and experience the beauty of nature. Druidwalker provides a peaceful roguelike adventure, where challenges offer opportunities for growth and reflection. Rest at the bonfire, rejuvenate, and continue your journey with renewed vigor. The game features traditional instrumental music, creating a peaceful and immersive experience.
 Watch the trailer here: youtu.be/-7Ho_vyXo80 It's a short experience, but a lot of love went into creating this one, so I hope you'll decide to give it a try! :) The game has been created by a multinational team of developers located in Latvia and published by Coldwild Games. Hope you have a great week ahead, Elizabete from Coldwild Games

Attention all survivors! The Early Access release of Stories from the Outbreak is finally here! https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27023349/a5083be4e65ad4d268b45f3d08df9f6606254b04.gif Embark on a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG with a shorter scenario that immerses players in the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. With 11 unique characters, more than 15 enemies, and three expansive maps, the gameplay is challenging, and permadeath adds to the intensity. Form a team of survivors, traverse the area maps in search of shelter and supplies, fight zombies, and decide the fate of your crew. The game explores the apocalyptic atmosphere through pixel art and characters that speak to each other, showing polarization in views. Will different opinions prevent them from reaching their goals? The game is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Join the fight for survival and make your own story in a world overrun by the undead! Get the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1968630/Stories_from_the_Outbreak?utm_source=steamnews27march Thank you for supporting us in our journey. Join us in our discord server to share your experiences, give us feedback, and connect with others survivors. Best regards, Elizabete and the rest of the Coldwild Games team

We are announcing our new game - Stories from the Outbreak! Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors trying to escape a dying world. Check out the Steam page : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1968630/Stories_from_the_Outbreak?utm_source=announcement_steam And here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/LkVayy4U2Ag To celebrate the occasion, all of our finished games are discounted. Enjoy!

Our next game, Lazy Galaxy 2, is launching now! https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27023349/91d437ddbda34bdf03a86c2fdaee7ee925d5249f.png Lazy Galaxy 2 is an idle/clicker game with base-building and RTS elements. It stayed in early access for more than 6 months and on full release, you can experience these new features: - mod support - idle combat - late-game upgrades and improvements As well as other bug fixes/balancing and quality of life improvements. Get the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477950/Lazy_Galaxy_2/?utm_source=steam&utm_campaign=release_day And as we are celebrating the Full Release of Lazy Galaxy 2, we are announcing discounts for all of our games! https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27023349/07d79972df8ad4b704dde0c1059e0fa379b01f75.png Thanks for playing our games and supporting us! Hope you'll enjoy Lazy Galaxy 2 as much as we do! If you’d like to learn more about the game or want to hang out with devs and other Coldwild Games community members, you’re welcome to join us at: discord server. Want to help us out? Consider spreading the word via Twitter, Reddit, etc. and leaving a review on Steam if you enjoyed the game! Have a great rest of the week, Elizabete and the rest of the Coldwild Games crew

Exciting news - The 2022 Lunar New Year Sale is starting now and runs until February 3rd. And we are participating too - some of our games have discounts!!! Grab them cheap while you can ;) https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27023349/12465e093ab0941f83cf425b332cd7d643e5dc5f.gif Click here to see what games of ours are on sale: https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/ColdwildGames/list/35132 Thanks for playing our games and supporting us! Have a good weekend, Elizabete and all of our Coldwild Games crew.

It is that time of the year again… 

WINTER SALE IS ON!

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27023349/e60253c189cb3595a319adc973fe22dd7f3f37ab.jpg The last and the biggest of game sales this year is live! Winter Sale starts now and runs until January 5, 2022. If you haven’t finished your Christmas shopping this year, Steam’s Winter Sale could help you get that list checked. ;) Have a fun 2 weeks!
 Click here to see what games of ours are on sale: https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/ColdwildGames/list/35132

Hello, Coldwild Games players! The day has finally arrived — our next game, Luna’s Fishing Garden is here! https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27023349/12465e093ab0941f83cf425b332cd7d643e5dc5f.gif Grab a rod and get ready to unwind! You’ll enjoy:

• Catching fish (obviously) using two different play styles
• Planting trees and other greenery the way you want to make the Garden shine!
• Chatting with the Garden’s memorable inhabitants—just try not to insult any geckos!
• Delightfully colorful and lively pixel art
• Cheerful, catchy, original music
• Easter eggs for our Merchant of the Skies players 😎

GET THE GAME HERE: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477790/Lunas_Fishing_Garden We hope everything above brings you joy, peace, and maybe even some laughs (: If you’d like to learn more about the game or want to hang out with devs and other Coldwild Games community members, you’re welcome to join us at: discord server. Want to help us out? Consider spreading the word via Twitter, Reddit, etc. and leaving a review on Steam if you enjoyed the game! If you want to support us even more, consider picking up the game + OST bundle (which is totally awesome) or the whole Coldwild Games bundle (some of the games are on sale!). Wishing you the best, The Coldwild Games Team

On January 26, 2016, Coldwild Games has gained an official registered company status. https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27023349/5448dc89444fb890e6c3070850defdd7ad0861eb.gif Today, we are celebrating 5 years of service. We got where we are thanks to all of you and we always welcome new players to our games. To celebrate the occasion, all of our games are discounted for a few days. Hopefully you'll be able to discover something new and try it out :) Thanks for playing our games and here's hoping for many more years ahead of us. Best, Vladimir & Coldwild Games Crew P.S. If you'd like to support us further, please consider wishlisting our next game, Luna's Fishing Garden: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477790/Lunas_Fishing_Garden/

Hello Merchants! It is my pleasure to announce that our new patch with a new ship and production limits is live on all platforms (Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox)! You can watch the detailed three minute video about me explaining the patch contents below: But here's a quick summary if you'd rather read.

Turtle Ship

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• jack of all trades type of ship: decent storage, good max energy and energy use ratio, as well as 40 max crew and 6 addon slots
• can be purchased from wisemen in campaign mode. costs 10 golden eggs
• it's mostly a vanity ship and acts like a usual ship, but please take good care of it :)

Production Limits

Before today, the caravan system allowed transporting the goods between islands, selling them to bazaars and trade posts. The downside of it was inability to regulate island production of goods. Imagine if you have a bread production, it could flood your storage and not leave enough space for wheat or flour, eventually disrupting caravans that relied on moving these things from the islands. Now, this won´t be the case. Every production building can have a limit set. It won´t produce more than limit amount of items. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/1fa226fb7a42230776d58830e4869b51c4a5e53b.gif You will be able to set the limits of goods that you are producing: if you want to specialize the island on mostly wheat production with a bit of flour, you can set the max flour limits to, say, 20, while keeping the rest of the space for wheat. This means that caravans are going to reliably take scheduled goods and you won't need to worry if the flour took over all of the storage space, not leaving any space for wheat and freezing the caravan line. While Merchant of the Skies is not exactly a tycoon, this should be a decent improvement for caravan reliability and to those of you who wanted to automate / min-max the routes a bit more :) Implementing this has been a bit of a struggle from my side, but I'm happy this requested feature has been done.

What's next?

As for what’s going to happen with Merchant of the Skies next: currently, I consider this to be the last content patch, unless something changes. We’re taking a break from Merchant of the Skies, because we are starting to work on the next game, Luna’s Fishing Garden (link below!). Don't forget to check out the new game that we are working on: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477790/Lunas_Fishing_Garden/ Thanks for your support through the development and we hope this won't be the last time we meet! Full patch changelog below. Cheers, Vladimir

Full notes

- New ship: Turtle ship added - New major feature: Building limits added: set the max production limits to avoid flooding your storages with goods you don't need - Portuguese (Brazil) language support added - Fixed a bug when the game would freeze after you tried to take a look at caravan inventory in the caravan office - Fixed a bug when you could spawn infinite items when unloading stuff from caravan - Fixed a bug when caravans would freeze after toggling repeat: on at the caravan that reached its goal - Cancel button now closes quest window ("B" key on both Nintendo Switch/Xbox gamepads) - Caravan window will now be scrolling properly with gamepad

Hello Merchants! Today I wanted to give some info on upcoming patch update and announce our next game!

First, patch details:

The patch is coming out on Dec 18, 2020. The main feature is going to be production limits: you will now be able to set how many items (tops) can be produced by separate buildings on every one of your islands. That will make the caravan system much more reliable and predictable. For example, you will be able to set bread production to 20 and limit flour production to 20, then caravan will be able to wait for 20 flour and there won’t be a chance that your flour production overflows the storage and the bread won’t be able to be produced. Hopefully this will solve a lot of the caravan/production related issues up to this point :) Apart from that, expect one new ship, a flying turtle. And, of course, a few bugfixes to the issues that were reported by you, our dear players.

Last, but not least

We are happy to say that we are working on another peaceful game, called Luna’s Fishing Garden! Luna’s Fishing Garden is a cozy fishing and building game. Check it out / wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477790/Lunas_Fishing_Garden/ Catch more than 20 types of fish, each with their own behavior, trade in the resources to Luna, and use them to build a garden of your dreams, all taking place on an imaginary Pacific archipelago. Designed to be a relaxing experience, players can play at their own pace and experience the game how they like it. Check out the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDHKwGB_s8 ___ Thanks for reading and hope you’ll be able to enjoy the content update on Dec 18! Cheers, Vladimir

Those of you who followed Merchant of the Skies from the beginning know that the core of the game has been mostly made by 2 people. Modern day technologies made game creation very accessible, but it does not mean that it's an easy job. Thanks to your support, we've managed to bring this project to full release. A few weeks ago, Yogscast announced a festival to highlight games made by smaller teams. We are happy to announce that Merchant of the Skies is part of the selection. During the festival, you'll be able to discover different, but ambitious, games that were made by small teams just like ours. To celebrate this, Merchant is going to be on discount for the next 6 days. For those of you who did not get it yet - now might be a good time :) Hope you enjoy the festival and, as usual, thanks for your support. Best, Helen & Vladimir

Hello Merchants! The day is today! Merchant of the Skies is launching on Nintendo Switch™ and Microsoft Xbox. You can get the game on eShop and Microsoft Store now. To celebrate this, we are publishing the promised content update which involves a small, but relevant bit of lore that we wanted to include into the game.

Please welcome the musical battle with Octo MC!

During your time in Fieri archipelago campaign, you will be able to encounter the statues of Griette. Issue a challenge and see what happens next! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/4524ca8fbfe0a73f3779532d6af703c8ae0d020f.gif Apart from being a part of the world lore, this minigame will help you progress in the early/mid-game if you are stuck.

Detailed patch notes:

Gameplay: Added an octopus minigame! Challenge the ancient octopus to a musical battle and get rewarded if you win or pay the price if you lose. To summon Octo MC, go to any statue of Griette in campaign and issue a challenge there. You don't need to make a new game for that.

UI, UX

• Navigation map can be scrolled further to the right / left
• Autosaving will happen once per 5 minutes now, should reduce the wait times

Gamepad adjustments

• Toast panel cancelled on any button press
• When you are using right joystick to hover across the map, you can see the info about visited islands if you center camera on them

Bugfixes

• Item purchase tooltip @ wisemen fixed
• Fixed the possible negative balance if you had weekly summary display turned off
• Fixed another small memory leak, game should be more stable now
• Fish tooltip fixed (mentions water rather than apples now)
• Unowned mansion island won't recharge you anymore (need to buy it to use it)
• Removed dark bar glitch from some UI tooltips (occured on some resolutions before)

Unfortunately, we are partially dropping support for Linux 32. The fully released version is still going to be available on Linux 32 (so if you’ve played it on Linux 32 – everything stays the same way it was before), but we can't handle the updates for it because Unity has dropped its support. ___

What's next?

While working on the patch and playtesting for consoles, I had a chance to take a deeper look into game mechanics. To all people who were saying that it's hard to arrange caravan system for reliable production on forums: you are totally right, but I could not figure out a good way to adjust it without rewriting the game. It's clear to me that we'll need to add production limits to the buildings. I want you to be able to set how much (max) building can produce. For example: set the lumberjack production so that it won't cut more than 60 lumber, and sawmill would not produce more than 20 wood. That would allow for better caravan scheduling, I'm sure. I'm planning to add that feature before Christmas. If you have any other feedback / ideas - let me know on Steam forums. Not sure how much I can add, but I write everything down. As usual, thanks for your support and let me know if there is anything else. Best, Vladimir

Hello Merchants! Just wanted to tell you that starting today, Nintendo Switch™ version is available for pre-order starting now. , depending on your region. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/40309ec3aebe4f7479a58a523051ca73cbc4514b.png The final release date for console versions, together with Steam content update is set to July 30, 9:00am PST. As a reminder, the upcoming content update is going to add a character that we wanted to include into the game, together with a small minigame that would make your progression a bit easier in the mid-game. This is paired with a few QoL enhancements and minor bugfixes. However, having tested the game on both Xbox and Nintendo Switch, I realized that I want to do one more update after this. When you try to establish a caravan system currently, it’s hard to keep track and avoid overproduction of one resource, except if you are extremely careful. I want to deal with that by adding production limits to the buildings (i.e. lumberjack would not cut more than 40 wood). Expect a production limit patch (probably with a few other changes!) closer to the end of 2020. Best, Vladimir

Hello Merchants! We wanted to announce two big things today 1) Merchant of the Skies is getting a content update. 2) Merchant of the Skies is coming to Nintendo Switch™ and Microsoft Xbox. Both of these go live on July 30. As you may know, I have hinted on working on console ports for some time. Today this all becomes official. The update is going to feature a creature that we wanted to add. Speaking from the gameplay perspective, it’s not a huge addition and rather a story gimmick which makes campaign a bit richer. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/ac1867793c43526f74915c45c8167024b221bfb5.png You won't need to start a new game to find this creature. We are also going to add a bunch of quality of life adjustments, more on that in actual patch notes on release :) Both of the console ports are going to get this latest version of the game. You can pre-purchase the games here in order to download them before launch: Microsoft Store (available now) Nintendo eShop (available on July 21). The content update and console releases are going to be available to play on July 30. Happy trading! Best, Vladimir

Hey! Just wanted to give a brief update of Coldwild Games: * the summer content update is still in the making * expect an announcement on July 15th * I decided that I want to do at least one more update afterwards, talking about this. Thanks for everyones forum feedback! * Mailing list! I am going to be sending out the cool games / books / movies that I have experienced every month, feel free to join here: http://eepurl.com/cYW9x1 Cheers! Vladimir

Hey Merchants, Just wanted to say that we are still alive and kicking :) This month is spent working on the next update and initiating work on console ports. You can see more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tIFjX42PLA Best, Vladimir

Hey Merchants! Thanks to a random youtube comment, I think I figured out the source of crashes that troubled some of you. I'm pushing a patch that should prevent a big part of game crashes on some computers. Thanks to everyone who let me know and I hope you keep enjoying the game. I'm back to my vacation, will answer all the inquiries after May 18. Cheers, Vladimir

Hey Merchants! Thanks for playing the game and for submitting your feedback! It has became clear that caravan system is not sufficiently good enough for some of you, and I wanted to fix that. Caravan System enhancements: 1) Can look at ship inventory from caravan navigation menu 2) 4 new caravan actions 3) Caravan action limit increased to 15 (from 6). Go crazy, but not too crazy. The new actions offer a bit more depth to caravan system planning. I think this screenshot summarizes it well: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/6f93dc593046bb9419daa5859d9bb24ab8606a3c.png

• You can now order caravan to buy items (and wait for this) until it has the specified item amount in the storage
• Same goes for loading. Just wait for any possible item at the island
• You can unload any specific island on the islands
• You can also avoid waiting for selling all of the goods in one point. Useful if you have a lot of goods and want to do chain-selling without asking caravan to wait.

These are a bit advanced, so use them at your own discretion, since you can freeze the ship somewhat (i.e. if you order to buy lots of items, but the storage is full with other ones). I know there are still a lot of things that can be added into the caravan system, but I don't think I'm going to go further with any enhancements any time soon. Added money cap of 2000000000, both for bank and player money. Can't really go over that. Autorechage module now works in mansion too. Ship inventory during trade is 6 slots wide now; needed to prevent atakebune inventory going over the trade window :)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug with music / ambient sound playback. Fixed it, sound should play better. The bug with option reopening now disappeared for sure.
• Fixed a bug when caravans would sell apples with lower cost
• Fixed a bug when you could get a drago seed during sandbox mode

Languages

• Thai Language support
• Various translation improvements (mostly German translation adjustments, let me know how it feels now)

In addition to that, I am publishing Coldwild Games monthly report for April. A bit longer than usual, but I am talking about Merchant of the Skies development, how are we doing and what can be expected next. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkCQxmPRz5w&feature=youtu.be Thanks for staying with us and for your support. Let me know if you have any questions! Best, Vladimir

Hey Merchants! Thanks for your support and bugreports so far. I wanted to push an update that deals with some of the sound/music issues, as well as typos. Changelog:

Adjustments

• Reduced barrel size in UI by 2x to prevent it taking too much space on screen
• Fretta fuel consumption per second increased to 1 from 0.1, max fuel to 1000. It is still intended to be a ship for idling on the map, just hopefully won't be as OP as fuel will be quite expensive to maintain. Old
• ships will stay the way they used to be, but new purchases will be adjusted. Thanks to everyone who reported it.
• Translation adjustments

Bugfixes

* various typo fixes (thanks to everyone who keeps reporting them) * resource descriptions are properly shown in island information (when you have a quest there) * readjusted music / sound setting values; sliders now actually represent sound change more accurately (you might need to retune them) * sound won't jump up when you open settings screen * the music will actually start playing right away now if you tune it from 0% to any new value (rather than wait for a new scene)

Thanks for your feedback and bug reports, support and patience so far. I am continuing to look into map navigation improvements. Best, Vladimir

Hello Merchants! We're happy to say that thanks to our fans and players, 天空商人 now supports simplified Chinese language. Hope you enjoy the game! If you find any mistakes in the translation - please let us know and we'll fix them as soon as possible.

Hey Merchants! By popular request, we've worked this whole day to remove screen resolution restrictions and add widescreen support. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/c24ca4170afc50f87b52fd882e4fa6fcd638f6af.png Not gonna lie, the game looks pretty cool, but I might be the biased side here. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/a4f0444304486d934f0ba59d4ed5551f9bd19318.png The giants feel a bit lonelier though We've also pushed some typo fixes and language adjustments, thanks to everyone who point these out. Thank you for supporting the game so far and we're really working hard on bringing further quality of life adjustments and minor bugfixes. If you find something else - do let us know on Steam forums and please share your widescreen screenshots, I'd love to see how the game looks on your monitors! Best, Vladimir

Hey Merchants! Thanks for your support during the game launch, it means a lot to both me and Helen. Over these two days, some issues that were not noticeable as much during early access became more clear. One of them is how the bankrupcy works and overall need of more guidance on that matter. This hotfix tries to make it more clear.

Bank adjustments

Here's how the bankrupcy process worked (and still works): first time you run out of money, you get a message telling you about it and asks to repay that sum, otherwise you lose the game. If the money have not been repaid to the bank and you lose again, the game is lost permanently. If you keep repaying your loans - then you keep getting second chances, even if you go bankrupt again. The #1 problem with this is it was not obvious enough + if this happened in the beginning, it was a bit of a struggle to find a bank on the map. To address this, a few adjustments have been introduced. First one. If you owe money and did not find the bank yet, the bank is still marked on the map. Even if you have not visited it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/8fe97186ad9057505d158e01ae6dafe93d8353a6.png The debt is also more clearly indicated in the bank descriptor window. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/d6199b43c8f33ead04f8b56d26be8ce8076480a5.png Reworded bankrupcy screen to tell you in clearer terms that you are going to lose the game if you dont pay back {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/0126e88b5fcb57e7353d871b1eecc526d7171398.png New message Vs old message Debt is not going to grow over time now, should make it a bit more manageable. Loan repayment got a bit of an overhaul too: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/e030ee7a0fcdb88c221bd85bfbfe55369b95e974.png

Bugfixes

• bugfix: if you tried to visit Turtlewise while it was moving, you'd get a blackscreen
• bugfix: switch green and red in fuel consumption comparison coloring (lower fuel consumption is actually better)
• various typos fixes (thanks to everyone who keeps reporting them, we do fix them)
• Post Office won't be offering Letter Delivery quests if you quest log is full

Hope it makes your experience a bit better and thanks to everyone who made suggestions on improvements! Thanks to everyone who keeps posting suggestions and feedback on Steam forums. I am going to prioritize the bugfixes for now, but all other feedback is definitely recorded and evaluated for possible further use :) Best, Vladimir

Thanks for your support so far! We are overwhelmed and want to show our gratitude, thank you personally and hang out online a bit. On April 18, 15:00 GMT (In six hours after the moment this event has become visible), Helen from Coldwild Games is going to be streaming Merchant of the Skies live while both of us answer your chat questions. You are welcome to join us and find our more about the game or just hang out together! The game graduated early access on Friday, April 17. You can read the full release log here: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/1040070/view/3336547284123646630 Cheers and we hope to see you there!

Hey! Just noticed that wisemen say that giants are in the South-East. I'm _very_ sorry, they are actually in the southwest. Hotfixed it just now and uploaded the new version. Thanks for everyone who pointed it out!

Hello Merchants! The day we've been waiting for has finally come! Today we are fully releasing Merchant of the Skies! We haven't published any game updates for the game for quite some time. This is because we were working on a Campaign mode, which contains all previous objectives together with a new ultimate goal. We wanted to deliver the Campaign mode without separating it into pieces, so that our players can have a full experience of the game, as we wanted it to be. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/50ee1dc93316b43ea81f1ef2818014d0f32fd740.png In final version of Merchant of the Skies, you will be able to find out a more about Fieri and its inhabitants. You will come across new islands, events, and creatures as well. During the campaign mode, you will be meeting different characters and helping them out. We have updated some resources and added the new ones. There are also numerous QoL fixes. Overall we have polished the game further and made some balance changes in the gameplay. Here's the full changelog:

New Features

• Campaign mode overhaul. Campaign mode now inclues >15 new missions and new characters. The overall length to complete the campaign should now be 6-8 hours.
• New mechanic: water.
  • Lakes are generated on the map. You can store water on ships (based on your storage size).
  • New building: water tower. Build it on plant-based islands (apples, wheat, spices, tea). You need to bring water to it, with your own ship or with the help of caravans. The water is taken daily. While water tower is there, the island output is increased by 50% * (tower level)
• Improved save backup system creates up to four save file copies (every 15 minutes); should make save file recovery easier if things actually crash
• Added special object and letter pages to the quest book, mostly used in campaigns
• Added resource index in the quest book, should help out with figuring out the resource icons
• Added ambient sounds on some of the islands

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Adjustments:

• Have to actually give water to the Giant Fish now
• Can now donate goods at a trade guild (an alternative to requested feature to jettison items from your cargo)
• Autocharger module now also reduces fuel price by 25%
• Post office will always give letter delivery tasks (unless you always have one) - should help you out at the early game
• The central district guilds won't be giving you the quests targeting other districts while you have a small ship
• Max simultaneous quest amount upped to 4 (from 3)
• Improved ship purchase window
• Renamed spices into rainbow flowers
• Crew / Ship Storage will now reopen automatically if you had them active while you closed the bottom info menu and then reopened it again
• Slightly altered the trade guild / bazaar sprites
• Game mode adjustments:
  • campaign mode fully reworked and is based on the plot now
  • lighthouse restoration won't have access to caravans (until lighthouse is actually restored)
  • all other modes get access to caravans right from the start, as it used to be
• Mansion Builder: changed camera movement a bit (both with gamepad and mouse)
• Changed storage container tooltip positioning (should not hover outside the screen now)
• Swapped ship 5 and ship 8 sprites

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Bugfixes:

• Various translation adjustments / improvements (keep reporting them, thank you!)
• "Not Visited Yet" panel in island info at map view won't be covered by pending quests anymore
• Fixed game mode description not fitting in properly in some cases
• Fixed captain's hat sprite order position
• Fixed captain's walking coordinates on some island
• Fixed oven bread production description
• Taxation display during trading is no longer faded out
• Fix the bug when produced items did not seem to stack occasionally (on player-owned islands); autosorting goods every day now
• Fix the bug when lightning catcher / crane would gather _all_ resource points at the map at the same time
• Fixed flipped brick and gem images

What's next?

We've been testing the game for the last two weeks so there should not be any major bugs, but if something comes up - we are monitoring things live over this weekend and will try to answer all the questions while we are awake. :) After 8 months of constant updates, the game is finally ready! It has all the content and features that we imagined when we started making it. Thanks to your suggestions we were able to make it even more fun to play. We don't plan any major updates soon. The development has been really intense so we wanted to take some time off the gamedev after the release is done, but we agreed between ourselves that we'll make a bonus "thank you" content update if we hit 25k sales. You can help us reach this goal by spreading the word wherever you can. 😎 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/490b6eb2ab0edb76938774f6c871d43f89d3e85d.png A special thank you goes out to our community translators. Without your help we'd never be able to make the game available in multiple languages. To our Early Access adapters: thanks for your support over the course of development, the game is significantly better because of you. Regardless if you got the game just now or 8 months ago - thanks for playing it. This is what drives us forward. Best, Vladimir & Helen

Hey Merchants! One day is left until Merchant of the Skies is released. To celebrate this, we have published the new Gameplay Trailer: Expect an extended plot and a vastly improved campaign mode! You are going to encounter new missions and meet some cool new characters. All of this with the ultimate goal to complete one final objective! The game is going live tomorrow, on April 17, 16:00 GMT. We’ll see you there!

Hey Merchants! As April draws near, it is time to announce our full release date. Check our the trailer below: https://youtu.be/g0Nv3UrrLXg In short, here’s what you can expect on full release:

• Reworked campaign mode which adds one ultimate objective
• Apart from the global objectives, you are going to meet new characters with their own tasks for you. Completing them will net handsome rewards and get you closer towards that one final goal
• A new building that you can build on some of your isles
• Rebalancing / Bugfixes / UX and Quality of life adjustments

So that’s it. Cat is out of the bag. We are going to launch on April 17th. At that date, we are planning to go all-out. If you want to help with our launch, there are multiple ways you can do it:

Tell your friends about it

Retweet our tweets

Post on reddit (or any social network you like)

and of course, play the game at launch :) Join our discord https://discordapp.com/invite/013oJVAEt1l3JM1wC to take a closer of the game development and engage with other friendly merchants! We'll see you in April!

Hello Merchants! It's time for a new dev diary post! Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind 🎵 there is not enough gigantic creatures in the archipelago? Addressing this serious problem, we've decided to bring one more creature. This time, you will even be able to see it in it’s “small baby” form (it’s a chicken, lol). We are sure that you are going to like the eggs which she will lay! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34652531/96a5b90688c93e1eae9046db92502a8661ec8f9e.gif History and plot keep developing, we have added some interesting information about Griette, and how is she related to Fieri, and you will also be able to find more about Sam. Who is Sam, you might ask. Well you will eventually find that out ;D

Important notice about saves:

We've come to the decision to wipe the campaign saves on release (mid april, not going to happen right away). The finished campaign saves and sandbox saves won't be touched. This is happening because campaign is going to see MAJOR adjustments and additions, so we don't want you to miss them half-way. If you have any concerns or questions regarding this - please drop us an email at contactcoldwildcom. Cheers, Helen