Steam News · Sep 30
Hello,as you may know ShipCrafter is officially being released ! With this update, I mostly worked on optimisation, bug fixes and quality of life features, which should address many of the flaws reported by the community. Let's begin !New selection toolThis new tool will allow you to perform long requested actions in the ship building scene. When enabled, it allows to select items either by clicki...
Steam News · Sep 18
Hello, here is a new update to the game.This should hopefully make it more stable on Linux, and we also added a few new features, included a long awaited one.Shell now have a chance to start firesPenetrating shells can now lit fires on ships. You can right click on a turret to see the corresponding value to the shells it fires. Fires can last for a few minutes, and will deal the same damage as the...
Steam News · Sep 4
Hello,Here is a new update for ShipCrafter ! The game should be more stable on Linux from now on, and many bugs were fixed. The game will officialy be released on the 1rst of October 2026, and as such I mostly worked on localisation and user interface, but there are many other new things as well. Here are to biggest ones.Game localisationThe game is now translated in 11 different languages :Englis...
Steam News · Aug 21
Hello,Here is a new update in ShipCrafter, this time most importantly we added custom difficulties, and the possibility to join multiplayer rooms with mods.We also added a new rangefinder, and a new turret.Custom difficultyYou can now change the game difficulty through 2 modifiers :items and supply costenemy damageModifiers can be changed from 0.5 to 10, and are unlocked after completing the campa...
Steam News · Aug 7
Hello, here is a new update for ShipCrafter, and there are a lot of things to unpack here. Among the usual bug fixes, we added many features such as relaodable plane catapults, improved rigging tool, paintable modded planes, additional modding capabilites and more ! Let's get to it.Multiplayer planesAll planes now fully work in multiplayer. Carrier battles are now possible in multiplayer lobbies a...
Steam News · Jul 24
Hello,This update is coming earlier than usual, the reason being there were quite a bunch of bugs to fix, large optimisation improvements were achieved, and we also have more modding capability.About optimisation first : we greatly improved buoyancy simulation, halving the computation time. You can expect great fps increases, especially with large ships. We were also able to reduce the vertex coun...
Steam News · Jul 17
Hello,today is a big update for ShipCrafter, indeed we are adding an official way to mod the game. We are also adding new turrets, new planes, more alternative skins for some turrets, and bug fixes. Let's get to it !ModdingModding is now officialy supported. You can easily add mods by following the following guide : Modding supports cosmetics, propellers, rudders, turrets and planes (in a limited ...
Steam News · Jul 5
Hello,today is a rather tiny update, but we still have nice things to show off.533 mm/52 Gerät 36 turretThis turret is a new largest turret to ever be added to the game, breaking the record previously held by the japanese 510mm turret. The 533mm german gun was alegedly built and test fired, although never mounted on a turret nor planned to be placed in a ship. Here it is in compared to the 380mm t...
Steam News · Jun 27
Hello,the Scharnhorst contest is over and we have a clear winner. Thanks everyone for participating you can still be proud of your builds even if you did not reach the first place !Our winner is Jolly with a finely built Scharnhorst. As promised he wins an access key for the recently published game Battleship Command featuring the german battleship. Jolly published the build on the workshop as wel...
Steam News · Jun 20
Hello,For this update we particularly have a lot of bug fixes, and a bit of quality of life elements.Normal renderer and isometric view in photo modeYou can now directly switch renderer in the photo mode, and the normal renderer is enabled by default. This allows people who cannot have raytracing to still be capable of generating controlled screenshots of their ship.An isometric view is also avail...
