Dear Stormworkers,

Happy holidays!

We have had a fantastic time developing the updates of 2024 and are really looking forward to next years updates. In this post, lets announce some of the updates due for release in the first half of 2025!

Jan 15th 2025 - Viewing Scopes

This new component is a new type of screen, that you can interact with to enter a full screen, full resolution video camera feed. The component otherwise works in a similar way to normal screens, and includes a lua overlay of the same resolution as a large screen. We expect this will be very useful for turrets, periscopes, gimbal camera controls, and more.

Feb 12th 2025 - Overlay Helmet

This new feature adds a video input to some seats, which renders over the top of the players screen, as a helmet mounted HUD. This gives the player the ability to have HUD rendered overlay to display information in their normal view as they look around. The resolution of the lua overlay is similar to above, the same as a large screen.

Mar 12th 2025 - The Sails Major Update

We are adding new sails to Stormworks. Sails will be similar to fishing nets with respect to be cloth simulated surfaces, except they react to air movement and wind, applying force to their vehicle. We are also adding keel components to help stabilize the movement and lean of sailing boats.

Apr 9th 2025 - NPC Sentries

We are adding new support for NPCs to equip weapons and engage targets with their handheld pistols and rifles. This will be supported via a lua API.

May 7th 2025 - Firefighting Respirator Outfit

The new firefighting outfit includes a respirator and oxygen tank, to allow fighting fires inside enclosed compartments. Fire within a vehicle does consume oxygen within that compartment, making the air dangerous to breath, so this equipment is essential for larger vehicles such as ships.

Jun 4th 2025 - Bike Seats

As previously leaked, an upcoming update will add support for a saddle-type seat, suitable for quad bikes, etc.

Note that these updates are spaced 4 weeks apart. As previously announced, we want to try making larger minor updates with more meaningful features for a bit and see how that goes. As well as these features, these updates will include other changes, fixes, and improvements, so there is much more than what is listed here.

Beyond this release plan, we have many other ideas and suggestions contributed by players which we look forward to working on, and a big thank you to all those who have provided feedback.

In the mean time, we hope you are enjoying the holiday season and catch you in the new year!

Much love <3,

The Stormworks Developers




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Dear Stormworkers,

Todays update introduces new trailer based cargo missions!

As part of our ongoing mission to improve mission content in Stormworks, we are expanding the cargo missions system to include a series of new types of cargo and locations. Load and transport logs with your own logging truck, or take your heavy goods vehicle to transport goods trailers between farms, terminals, sawmills, and other industrial locations.

After many player requests, we are have increased the lua character limit to 8192 in this update.

We have made several other quality improvements and fixes in this update. Please see the patch notes below for details.

We are breaking soon for the winter holidays and the next minor update is due on 15th January - and its going to be a great update with a very interesting new component. Be sure to check back in with us in the new year for this update.

We hope you enjoy this new update, and happy holidays!

Much love <3,

The Stormworks Developers




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Patch Notes

v1.13.2

Feature - #25481 Sawmill and farm locations on Meier and Sawyer isles
Feature - #25481 Trailer cargo missions
Rework - #2548 Doubled Microcontroller lua script limit
Fix - #25838 3x3 Wheel no longer requires research in classic mode
Fix - #25893 Increase reliability of hospital ship zone checking