Dear shipmates,

A new update with many technical improvements! After rushing out to deliver 1.16.0, we decided to go back and smooth some corners that had been rough for some releases already. Here's a list of the improvements in 1.16.2:

• Improved physics of interactive waves and of WaveMaker tool

• Improved flames

• Various improvements in fish behaviors

• Recalibrated and optimized decay processes (rotting, combustion)

• Added new "Styrofoam" material

• Added options to reload the previous ship, and to reload on startup the ship that had been loaded when the game was last played

• Fixed sporadic error message ("Cannot match one texture...") occurring when extraneous files are placed under the game data directories

• Added new background music track, "Shadowlands 4 - Breath" - by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

• Added 10 new ships

• ...and a few more small improvements here and there, among which:

  • Improved air bubbles

  • Better equalization of engine sound volumes

  • Removed nonlinearities when masses are flooded instantaneously

Before you rush to download the installer, please remember that during the first few days of the release, Windows Defender will complain that the Floating Sandbox installer is not (yet) trusted. Follow the instructions in this post and you'll be fine!

We're already busy with the next update, working on some more experimental hydrodynamics-driven features! Stay tuned!