Roadmap to Launch

• Making sure the boats float.
• Initial port build-out.
• Terrain building and itemization.
• Building and testing the core systems.

• Sail together in co-op — a small crew, one session.
• The first playable islands and a home port.
• Ship-to-ship cannon combat, real ballistics.
• Board a beaten ship and fight her crew on deck.
• The first survival loop — fell a tree, mine rock, craft with your hands.
• Create your captain and take a small boat out.

• Make a captain, name your ship — both yours, shown, never mangled.
• Co-op from minute one — start on a dinghy, graduate to a real hull.
• A handful of islands and the home port of Rope's End.
• A real naval fight — work the wind, trade broadsides, take the deck.
• The captain in the coat — cut down the leader, and the fight goes out of the rest.
• Fell a tree, mine a rock, craft one thing.
• The Earned Name — give quarter or refuse, sail home, hear how the port talks.

Out of the gate

• The full co-op experience — create, sail, fight, board, gather, craft.
• Multiple islands and the home port, more added over time.
• Naval combat against more than one class of enemy vessel.
• Real progression — earn your way by deeds, not kills.
• The Earned Name deepens — reputation forks port to port.

Planned during Early Access

• Deeper on-foot combat — timing and defense, no damage sponges.
• A wider crafting web and a working period economy.
• More ships, more islands, more world to get lost in.

• A persistent shared world that remembers what you did.
• Full on-foot, Souls-inspired combat — timing, defense, boarding with weight.
• The full trade-and-craft economy — from sweat to silver.
• More ships, and the ship as home — fit her out, fly your colors.
• Grounded threats out of New World folklore.
• Companions and mounts, settlements and factions.
• A world worth a hundred hours, and legends past the charts.