Welcome everyone to our first diary of 2026! We are bringing exciting information about Update 4 including its release date, so let’s roll! Update 4 launch date Let’s cut to the chase, we are launching Update 4 together with the Trains Expansion DLC on 9th of March, 2026 ! We've been counting the days (and drinking a lot of coffee) and can't wait to get it into your hands. To recap, here are the key features of Update 4: Tier 2 trains (both locomotives and wagons) Bridges bui

Hello and welcome to the 52nd edition of Captain’s Diary. I am Captain Marek, and this week I will share some details about my recent work on optimizing vehicles and ocean simulation. This is a slightly more technical topic, so the TL;DR is that, due to complications with amphibious vehicles, we have optimized vehicles and the ocean simulation, and you will be able to enjoy 10-15% more FPS! Read on if you want to learn how these gains were achieved and why this has anything t

Hi everyone, after a short break, Captain Marek reports for duty. This time with some highly anticipated news regarding our next major Update! Patches Before we dive into Update 4, I wanted to quickly mention that since our last Captain’s Diary we have released four large patches containing hundreds of fixes and many improvements. Here are the highlights: New powerful entity replace/upgrade/downgrade system (e.g. placing an entity over another one can perform upgrade/downgrad

Hi everyone, Captain Marek here with our 50th diary post. It’s been four weeks since Update 3 dropped, and we’ve already shipped five...