Dear shipmates,

We're so glad to officially announce the release of Floating Sandbox 1.17.2!

As you (should) have read in our previous post, this release is mostly about substantial improvements in the materials system and in the ShipBuilder. Hundreds of new materials and variants have been added, including more variants of metals and woods, allowing - among other things - to build watertight compartments weighting less than the heavy hull materials, and new types of woods. But that's not all, make sure you also check out the new elements, the new transparent glass materials, and the new ship sounds!

Here's the full changelist for this release:

• Expanded the materials database - building lighter ships has just become easier!

  • Metals and Woods now have at least 6 different variants:

    • "Hull": impermeable, heavy

    • "Solid Bulkhead": impermeable, medium heavy

    • "Light Bulkhead": impermeable, light

    • "Solid I-Beam": permeable, heavy

    • "Light I-Beam": permeable, light

    • "Low-Grade": brittle (breaks easily)

  • Added a new type of lighter wood ("Pine Wood", and renamed older wood as "Oak Wood")

  • Added Sodium material - if you don't know what sodium does when immersed in water, check it out!

  • Added Helium - similar to Hydrogen, but not explosive

  • Added transparent variants to glass and gaseous materials

  • The new structural materials database contains now 694 materials!

  • Added a few more ship sounds - thanks to Officer TimCan!

• ShipBuilder:

  • Added "Measuring Tape" tool, which allows to measure lengths of structures

  • Added "Waterline Analysis", predicting whether a ship will float or sink, and where the waterline is going to be

  • Added electrical panel customization

    • Can now position the interactive elements at will, change their labels, and decide whether they should be visible or not

  • Added ability to rotate ship by 90 degrees

  • Added ability to import layers from other ships

  • Adding and removing layers can now be undone via "Undo"

  • Added ability to export structural and texture layers to image files

  • ...and a few more small improvements here and there!

• Reworked Spanish translation - "ahora hasta yo entiendo"

Thank you all for your continued support, and hope to give you soon some sneak previews of the 1.17.3 update, which this time around will also contain some new and exciting features in the physics simulator itself!