Silk: Wilderness Adventures

Prepare for Version 1.3

We're very close to shipping v1.3, which includes a Control Summary on the pause menu and a How To Play tutorial (like the image above) on the start menu, plus a huge number of minor map and script bug fixes. We have also fixed the last of our major bugs, which included one related to the Unity compiler that we're especially proud about tracking down (if you've ever been in a settlement that didn't behave like one, you've fallen prey of this bug!). 

Thanks to everyone sending their thoughts and bug reports to the QA Report link we sent you all with your Steam keys - these all get read, but we can't act on everything reported because we're so late in the project. However, everything we can fix without delaying our Switch launch we have fixed, and every viewpoint raised does get discussed by the team and considered for feasibility.

I'm away next week on a much needed (but badly timed!) vacation, but I'll be back in time for our Switch Master Candidate submission which is getting very close now. Until then, expect v1.3 to appear on Steam sometime in the next day or so - and keep travelling the Silk Road!

Nomad Warrior

New Manual

The Silk manual has been updated, including the map of the seventeen key cities, and an explanation of the goods bar. The latest version of the manual is always available from the Steam page.

Check it out!

Han Noble

Parthian Noble

Silk World Map: 17 Key Cities of the Ancient Silk Road

Another Update Today

We're continuing to make good use of our final month of core development on Silk, balancing our bugfixing against requests from Backers for changes to the game.

Version 1.2 ships later today, which will see a new Notification system that should be easier to follow, a message on start up informing players that the game is keyboard controlled, the removal of the cursor in the game to help prevent confusion, a maximum frame rate of 60 FPS, a fix for the bug that causes some players to not discover the map, some new sprites, and a massive overhaul of the Bazaar scripts that fixes more than 200 subtle bugs.

We are looking at adding a control reference card to the pause menu... it should be possible in v1.3, which ships at the end of next week. There is probably only one more update after that, and then we're Master with only the porting to go.

If you have any requests or issues, let us know through any of the usual channels! We'll do what we can in the remaining time.

Han Guide

Class of 200AD

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the class of 200AD has been assembled and is now in the game, ready to be hired and taken off into the vast three million square miles of wilderness that is Silk! My infinite thanks to everyone who backed the game as a Personal Advisor Super Backer - you've added so much character to the final experience, and I couldn't be more delighted with how it has turned out.

Go forth and tame the wilderness together!

Your First Game of Silk

It's the Silk Beta Weekend, so we're asking all Backers to try and find some time to play the game at the weekend. If you come across any bugs, please use the link in the Keymailer email to report them.

And if you need some help getting into the game, do check out the Silk Beginner Guide over on Steam. It's intended to help players who are less experienced with videogames, but it will also help anyone who feels they might have missed something in the tutorial.