Besiege: The Splintered Sea is out now!

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The Sound Update

Besieges free Sound Update is now live! This update brings a new sound system to Besiege, adds a bunch of new sound effects and brings a host of improvements & bug fixes. You can learn more about the Sound changes here and theres a full changelog at the bottom of this post.

Besiege Supporter Edition

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41069/Besiege_Supporter_Edition/ The Besiege supporter edition is now available to purchase, as a way to offer additional support to Spiderling & our development of Besiege! The bundle includes a mastered album of Besieges soundtrack and a unique animated skin for the Source Cube, giving it the appearance of a motorized engine.

Share your creations

Were really excited to see all the wacky & wonderful creations you build for The Splintered Sea! Post them on Twitter with the hashtag #BuiltWithBesiege to share with us and the rest of the community. :)

Live Stream

Our new community manager, Sam, will be doing a livestream on Twitch this evening at 18:00 BST (17:00 UTC) where you can watch him play through the new campaign levels and ask questions about the game & expansion! Sam is relatively new to Besiege, so please be kind :)

More Information about The Splintered Sea

If youd like to learn more about The Splintered Sea, you can check out a series of posts we made, where we take a deeper dive into its features and some advice on building machines for water:

Feature Overview #1

Feature Overview #2

Feature Overview #3

Feature Overview #4

V1.5 - (21214) Changelog - Fixed some performance issues with the glass build surfaces - Ballasts now have a maximum mass of 3 instead of 2 - Fixed grabbers not being able to grab things if what they held was destroyed - Fixed center of mass display tool being somewhat offset to what actually happens in simulation - Replaced audio management system - Added soft limiting audio mastering so many loud sfx don't get overly loud - In world audio sources now respond to pitch stretching at different time scales - New audio sliders in options menu for physics, blocks, ui, sfx - New breaking and collision sfx on various blocks - Collision sounds are now proportional to impact - New cannon fire sfx - New wheel motor sfx - New steering hinge and block sfx - New flamethrower sfx - New piston sfx - New propeller sounds - Center of mass display orb now is red rather than blue - Flying block actually spins as fast as the speed is set to - Fireball model updated - Fireball now creates a burst of firespread on collision - Updated fire spread system a little to get a more natural spreading and to fix a couple of issues - Better use of space and centering on thumbnails - Fixed damage and fire consistently affecting eachother and joint health - Changed FPS display to be a rolling average, and added optional new performance graph - Center of mass now updates when changing block parameters like mass, and when using undo and redo of blockmapper values - Newly placed shortening blocks now receive mass appropriate to their length - Added ability to mirror half pipes and wood panels - Made spikes and blades less likely to break off so they aren't weaker than a machine of wood - Small update to the appearance of the wooden panel block - New wooden panels will now join correctly centered - Colliders on the halfpipe block are now properly symmetrical - Fixed and updated how dragged blocks calculate their cylinders to avoid them looking to flip on sim start and other times - Fixed an issue where loading certain NaN values on machines would crash the game - Polished boulder texture a little bit - Bomb explosion now spawn in the center of the bomb as it should - Fixed some issues with burning visuals some parts becoming more or less darkened than they should have - Moved torch from weapons to armor - Optimised AI unit structure for better performance - Grounding machine tool now tries to snap to terrain and objects underneath the machine - Changed fog in sandbox and multiverse to make it not get denser around the immediate vicinity when looking towards the horizon to the sky - Fixed using a camera block following a machine down beneath certain heights would make the camera not follow the machine properly, - Fixed surface fragments looking weirdly crumbled and glitched (thought this was live but it was not) - Fixed a bug with logic enabled camera blocks not showing the correct camera sometimes. - AI's in multiplayer will no longer try and jump onto too tall things and kill themselfs in the attempt - Fixed problem with grabbers and Vacuum block's not being able to grab onto new things after their currently grabbed object exploded - Fixed a case where modify tool selection would not save an undo state correctly while not in advanced building mode - Fixed issue with not being able to pin sharp blocks