Dear Stormworkers,

This week we have added new user interface color palettes to the game to improve accessibility for the various types of color blindness.

Now the mainland is released, we are hoping you are enjoying the new forest fires, new things to do, and new locations to go. We are excited about the new possibilities the last major update opens up with the game and are considering focusing some minor updates on missions and career.

If you have ideas but have not yet shared your career based ideas with us, please do so using the feature request button in game. We are still planning where to do and how far to push these features. Do you just want more missions, or are you interested in rethinking missions and career altogether?

We look forward to hearing from you :-)

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers

Patch Notes

v0.9.3

Balance - Engine damage and overheating reduced slightly

v0.9.4-5

Fix - Static vehicles spawning multiple times at certain places
Fix - Advanced wheels / Tank tracks vibrating
Fix - Twilight zoning should now happen less often
Fix - Game using developer colours for logic nodes
Fix - Various tile and mission fixes, including trees
Fix - Mission markers always disappearing when removing missions
Fix - CTD when survivors were attempting to follow themselves (After pressing both interact keys simultaneously)

v0.9.6

Feature - Colourblind Colour Palette options

Rework - Wheels and Tracks now have a grip slider for better vehicle tuning (Vehicles will slide when it is too low and shake when it is too high)
Rework - Added a very short cooldown on interaction with certain transient objects (eg. Loot Crates / Survivors)

Fix - Characters not following
Fix - Mesh Export functionality in the vehicle editor
Fix - Large Jet Intake capping entire jet engine RPS at 6
Fix - CTD on double interaction with certain transient objects (eg. Loot Crates / Survivors)
Fix - Small Fan blade length being incorrect thus outputting a ridiculous amount of force
Fix - Large and Small fans no longer have mass of 1
Fix - Distance sensor and Laser beacon no longer work when damaged
Fix - Memory leak from ocean
Fix - Advanced wheels colliding incorrectly with physics at high speed
Fix - Ocean rendering issues in start menu
Fix - Flashlight updating in Photo Mode
Fix - Tiles and Trees unloading when rendered by a Camera
Fix - Always rendering monitors
Fix - Misaligned additive rendering on Halloween costumes
Fix - Audio not updating correctly when viewing the map in third-person
Fix - Indicator additive rendering when damaged
Fix - Lens flares not appearing correctly
Fix - Flickering spotlights
Fix - Several small Mega-Island mesh and tile updates
Fix - CTD on Redo of Deprecated components

Dear Stormworkers,

The major update is live now!!

Get ready to explore the new 200 sq km mainland with improved view distance and battle fierce wildfires!



The Sawyer Isles

The mainland is 200 sq km, separated by rivers, mountains, and sea, composing a colossal new playground to explore. Find small towns and villages, airfields, industrial sites, train yards, bridges, docks, lighthouses, and more. New locations have been named to honour some players, youtubers, and other respected persons, with the Isles being named after legendary Scottish game programmer Chris Sawyer, creator of Transport Tycoon and others.

Wildfires

Hundreds of thousands of trees now grow over most islands, including snow covered trees in the arctic. These trees will set on fire, and that fire will spread over hours, quickly becoming difficult to fight, a threat to the location and it's inhabitants, and causing permanent damage to the environment.

View Distance

The max view distance has been increased from 4km to 20km which is a huge deal when playing the game, especially when out at sea or in the air. Your ability to navigate is greatly enhanced. This can be controlled from the graphics settings.

If you are having trouble getting the update, don't forget to restart Steam!

This update has been at least 6 months in the making and we are really excited to be finally sharing it with you.

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers

v0.9.1-2

Feature - The Sawyer Isles (Mainland)
Feature - Extended View Distance
Feature - Trees
Feature - Forest Fires
Feature - Sawyer Isles Missions

Rework - Speakers signal strength influence
Rework - Increased raycast origin height of Phalanx Radar
Rework - Increased engine overheat rate
Balance - Increased cost of medium winch

Fix - Flickering Tiles
Fix - Return to workbench failing to capture the vehicle
Fix - Fluid valves now use their electric
Fix - Music volume slider interfering with Voice volume
Fix - Audio FX now generate correctly
Fix - Vehicle cameras not using graphics quality settings
Fix - Editbox and Lua Editor text highlighting
Fix - Several old mission fixes: Brilliant Fuels Oil, Research Center, Skye Power Company, Fishing Community, Arctic Search and Rescue

Dear Stormworkers,

For the last 6 months we have been working on a 200 square Kilometre mainland with airports, trainlines, rivers, mountains, fjords, towns, and hundreds of thousands of trees.

This is the next major update and it is arriving this Wednesday 16th October 16:30 UTC!

We are super excited to share this new update with you! Here is what to expect:

Huge Forest Fires



Trees now grow on most islands - hundreds of thousands in total. They can be uprooted and set on fire, and the fire will spread. Direction of wind and rain both effect how fires will spread. Tree fire can be extinguished in the same way as other fires, and fire breaks can be created by uprooting trees. The fire will continue to simulate and spread even if you are not nearby. As we understand, this is the first true forest fire simulation in a first person game.

While these fires can start with just 1 tree, they quickly get out of hand and can result in very challenging firefighting problems, permanent damage to the environment, and risk to life.

5x View Distance



We are increasing view distance in the game by x5. This means you can see up to 20km away, which is extremely useful when navigating, and especially when flying. There is a new view distance slider in the graphics settings so players can control their experience.

200 Square Kilometre Island



We have added a huge new island location to the world, with mountains, fjords or sounds, rivers, operable bridges, docks, airports, trainlines, towns and more. This new location also has new missions.

We can't wait to share this update with you very soon. Join us on Discord on Wednesday and celebrate the big update launch with us!

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers

Dear Stormworkers,

By popular request, this week we have added microphones, speakers, and new logic links... this means PA systems, megaphones, and radios!



The new microphone block picks up the voice of any nearby player who is currently talking with the new voice chat feature. A speaker audio effect is also applied.

There is also a new "audio" logic link that can connect microphones, speakers, antennas, and microprocessors. This allows you to connect microphones and speakers together, and also any intermediate logic along the way such as switching or radio transmission.

Radio signals still have limited range, and signal quality degrades over distance, so expect crackles and low quality audio as you test the range of your radio system!

Radio antennas have also been reworked: (any existing antennas are unchanged so your vehicles won't break) when placing a new antenna, the antenna now switches between transmit and receive mode and an antenna has only one channel. This way, it is much easier to build radio systems and you can easily control when an antenna is transmitting or not, which players have been requested many times.

We hope you enjoy communicating with your friends in multiplayer with the new radio systems and mega-phone systems!

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers

Patch Notes

v0.8.32

Feature - Microphone Component
Feature - 3 Speaker Components
Feature - Audio Switchbox Microprocessor Component
Rework - Radio Components V2 *

Fix - Greatly reduced effect of FOV on radar range
Fix - Voicechat and Quickchat can now be bound to inputs other than keyboard

* Old Radio components are now depreciated, but will still continue to work.

v0.8.33

Fix - Resolved issue with vehicle edit grids from v0.8.32

Dear Stormworkers,

Recently we celebrated the 2 year anniversary since we launched the Stormworks alpha and some of you began giving us feedback on what ultimately became this 2 year journey, with hundreds of patches and new features. One of our team made the epic Stormworks birthday cake and we took a moment to celebrate and remember the journey. To 2 years of Stormworks!

This week for the minor update we have added local voice chat! You can now talk to players nearby in multiplayer through the new in-game Steam voice chat feature.

This uses the Steam voice system, so the voice settings are part of the Steam settings rather than Stormworks.

If you have any ideas on where voice chat could go next in Stormworks, let us know on the issues tracker, in the comments, or chat about it on Discord.

Thanks again to everyone who has played Stormworks in the last 2 years and given feedback. We can't wait to share where this journey goes next!

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers

Patch Notes

v0.8.29

Fix - Added fuel stores to the Multiplayer Island
Fix - Fixed several rendering and physics bugs with the Multiplayer Island
Fix - Soft-locking the game when fast travelling in multiplayer
Fix - Ocean wave rendering being offset from their physics
Fix - For sale sign not disappearing on Multiplayer Island
Fix - Crash when the client tried to render unloaded tiles
Fix - Moved Multiplayer Island higher in the selection screen

v0.8.30

Fix - Positional audio being played at 0,0

v0.8.31

Feature - Local Voice Chat (Talk with players in your immediate vicinity, default keybind: ' )

Fix - Only impact damage is now ignored when entering/exiting seats/ladders

Dear Stormworkers,

This week we made some huge improvements to multiplayer that fixed some issues some players reported and it is looking loads better! This happened mid week as a hot fix, so if you have not checked out multiplayer in the last few days, then give it a go!

We have also added a new island... the new multiplayer island! This is a frequently requested location with 2 hangers and 2 docks so you can spawn vehicles at the same time as your friends. This island has a huge 1200m runway and is generally a great base to locate your operations.

Over the next couple of weeks we will be continuing to improve multiplayer with new fixes and features.

We are also hard at work on the next major update which is looking awesome, and we are really looking forward to announcing it.

Stormworks first released in alpha just over 2 years ago, and it has been fantastic fun working on the game for the last 2 years of live development with player feedback. We still see huge potential and there is still a lot to do. Thanks to everyone who voted on the Discord poll, we have taken your feedback on board and we are working on a great development plan.

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers

Patch Notes

v0.8.24

Fix - Physics constraints not being deleted correctly when exiting seats

v0.8.25

Fix - Fixed Mac compatibility

v0.8.26

Rework - Further improvements to multiplayer sync including several fixes
Rework - Made the "open Quick Chat" hotkey customisable

Fix - Quick Chat can no longer be opened outside of the main game view
Fix - Quick Chat no longer dims the screen
Fix - Disabled random weather on new game for creative saves

Balance - Reworked random starting weather values to give a better distribution

v0.8.27

Feature - Multiplayer Island
Fix - Can now detach from seats at speed

v0.8.28

Fix - Multiplayer Island fix

Dear Stormworkers,

This week we are releasing brand new and improved multiplayer! This is something we have been working on for a while and is a re-write of much of our multiplayer code.

This new multiplayer update dramatically reduces de-sync and greatly improves the stability of multiplayer. Clients no longer calculate much of the physics (this is left to the server) resulting in improved performance when joining a server, and much less slow down for other players.

This is also the 2nd most voted change to the game in the recent poll we ran with the Discord, so we are very pleased to be working on features that players feel are important. It's not too late to vote in the poll so head over to the official discord and vote in the announcements channel.

Many of you will notice that this is all part of a theme - improving quality - and is something we have been focused on for the last 6 months of development.

If you want to let us know about quality issues in the game that you feel is important, please let us know using the report buttons in game.

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers

Patch Notes

v0.8.22

Fix - Crash with multiple obscured bodies with Huge Radar

v0.8.23

Feature - Kinematic Multiplayer
Feature - Quick Chat

Rework - New games and Main Menu now have varied weather
Rework - Wheel grip

Fix - Distance sensor functioning while damaged

Dear Stormworkers,

This week we have expanded and improved the new radar system with 3 new components - the new radar detectors are a dish style detector with high range designed for land and marine vehicles, huge AWACS style detector with high range and multiple contact reporting, and a phalanx style radar with square scan area and elevation angle control.

The new radar parts create powerful tools for you to scan and detect vehicles and survivors and marry well with the microcontrollers and screens for visualising the information. They are potentially a very powerful tool for missions and we look forward to seeing your creative uses!

We are also hard at work on a new update that will hopefully be ready next week so be sure to be here for next weeks minor update, which we are very excited about :-)

This week we have also been looking at some crash reports we have received and have made some improvements which we expect will improve the stability for many players games.

There are still some players who have been experiencing crashes when playing with Intel Graphics for a while now. We believe this to be an issue with some versions of the Intel Graphics drivers and we are working hard to get this resolved for the affected players.

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers


Patch Notes

v0.8.20

Fix - Updated radar descriptions

v0.8.21

Feature - 3 New Radar Types

Fix - Radar descriptions updated to be more intuitive
Fix - Radars output angles are no longer 0.25 turns offset
Fix - Radar freezing game when two objects are at the same distance
Fix - Radars now have blue arrows in editor for ease of use

Fix - Center of Mass calculations
Fix - CTD caused by audio

Fix - Research values being offset
Fix - Large dock doors being allowed to connect at 90 degrees

Dear Stormworkers,

This week we are very excited to announce some new components to help you track moving objects... radar and sonar!

These parts are much requested, and allow you to track dynamic objects depending on their distance and mass.

The new sensor parts take a direction input and field of view setting, and return information on the greatest object in the view of the radar.

With the radar you can track vehicles, and when close enough, even players. With the sonar, this part will track underwater vehicles and will even act as a fish-finder for sharks and megs.

We look forward to seeing what you build with the new parts :-)

Much love <3

The Stormworks Developers


Patch Notes

v0.8.19

Feature - Radar component
Feature - Sonar component

Rework - Performance improvements for shadows

Fix - Dock door magnet hinge when rotated and flipped in the z
Fix - Engine volume being negative with throttle
Fix - Internal doors no longer sometimes leak

Dear Stormworkers,

This week's minor update brings a load of fixes and a new type of sensor for your vehicles!

An angular speed sensor has been added that detects the rotational speed around its axis. This will be a useful component for players building their own gyroscopes and stabilisation systems, making it much easier to detect how fast a vehicle might be pitching or rolling around a certain axis.

We are also continuing our efforts to improve the quality of the game, with another slew of bugs from the recent optimisation update being resolved in this patch, along with a number of quality of life improvements.

See below for the full changelog. If you find a bug or want to submit an idea for a future weekly update, don't forget to open a ticket on the Stormworks issue tracker website. This can be accessed using the buttons on the main menu and pause menu in-game.

If you're in the UK, enjoy the bank holiday! And to everyone else, have a great weekend <3

The Stormworks Developers



v0.8.16

Feature - Added Angular Speed sensor component (detects rotational velocity around the axis that it's facing)

Fix - Arrows on angled pipes
Fix - Fixed vehicles wobbling with brakes enabled
Fix - Glitching white triangles in vehicle editor selection / logic views
Fix - Potential crash when applying EMP lightning strike effect
Fix - Rain and snow not displaying correctly when video camera is active
Fix - Flickering player flashlight when video camera is active in 1st person view
Fix - Flickering buttons, screens, dials, at high velocity
Fix - Stuttering animations on winch cable / harness seat at high velocity
Fix - Smoke exhaust spawning in front of exhaust ports at high velocity
Fix - Added wedge to bottom of inclined railing segments
Fix - Added composite node data transfer to dock doors
Fix - Reduced weight of railing segments
Fix - Corrected seat composite node descriptions
Fix - Additive paint brush can eyedrop additive paint color
Fix - Fixed currency not displaying when buying fuel
Fix - Fixed multibody component selection in vehicle editor
Fix - Fixed copy/pasting locked components in vehicle editor not updating component inventory
Fix - Fixed wardrobe interaction tooltip not being visible
Fix - Fixed docking door magnets in some orientations
Fix - Fixed held key states not being reset when entering vehicle and mission editors

v0.8.17

Fix - Fixed multibody components being removed when pasting
Fix - Held keys not being reset when Esc menu is called
Fix - Fixed angular speed sensor being selectable

v0.8.18

Fix - Lag when deleting components
Fix - Docking doors magnet clipping/flipping
Fix - Docking doors flipping on spawn
Fix - Additive paint picking from an instrument panel
Fix - Helm composite node disappearing
Fix - Re-enabled emote-wheel
Fix - Locked components are now processed during paste rather than after