New in 0.111.568

• The demo now shows a short card, once, explaining what the full game means for demo players.
• The Sign In button at the top right now works on a new install.
• Record cards are easier to read: small fish are no longer drawn tiny.
• Groundbait plumes and feed ripples now stop at the water's edge.
• A venue that cannot be deleted because fish have been caught on it now keeps its stock and swims.

New in 0.111.561: the demo on Steam

• The demo now connects to Steam properly. It opens through Steam, and the Steam overlay works in the demo: press Shift+Tab.
• The demo is now on Steam only. The itch.io download has been retired, so if you played that copy, please get the free demo on Steam.

New in 0.111.561: fishing

• Each peg's bait list now counts. The baits a venue's creator chose for a peg now decide what bites there, as they always should have.
• Bleak now carries its proper UK record.
• In the Bait box, each groundbait card now tells you what the blend is in plain words.
• Two words on the Line & depth card, "on the bottom" and "playing", are now translated into every language.

New in 0.111.554: fishing

• Feeding now works straight away. Loose feed or groundbait thrown after you cast brings bites on sooner, without needing to recast.
• Swim confidence: losing a fish, missing a strike or overfeeding now always knocks the bar down where you can see it, even at full frenzy. A busy swim could build up confidence past the top of the bar, so a lost fish barely seemed to register. Thanks to 5qu34k5 for spotting it on stream.
• Small fish are put off by a bait that is too big for them again. A roach on the float rod will now leave a boilie alone, while roach and rudd still take a worm, bream and crucians still take paste, and dace still take bread.
• Tench, bream and barbel no longer turn down their usual baits in warm water. Ordinary tench take the spicy squid boilies, bream take paste and barbel take the creamy boilies.
• The Controller float now has a bright orange tip, so it's much easier to see on the water.

New in 0.111.554: home screen

• The board on the home screen stays the same size for every message, so it no longer jumps up and down as it changes.

New waters: Japan and the Kent coast

• Lake Nojiri, Japan: our first water outside the UK, a mountain lake with eight fish of its own to catch. Herabuna, ginbuna, largemouth bass, bluegill, northern snakehead, namazu, koi and goldfish are all waiting.
• The River Stour: a slow Kent river with chub, dace and barbel.
• St Margaret's Bay: sea fishing from the Kent coast, under the white cliffs.
• All three are starter waters, open to every angler from the first cast.

New in 0.111.546: record boards and venue creator

• Record boards: every fish is now drawn true to its size, including the fish venue creators draw themselves. A record carp finally looks bigger than a record crucian.
• Venue creator: Submit now asks "Send this venue for checking?" before it sends, so a quick double click on Next can no longer send your venue by mistake. Thanks to Dave for spotting it.

New in 0.111.544: venue creator and home screen

• Venue creator: the flow arrow now shows whenever the Flow panel is open, on the Map view and the Paint view, and goes away when you hide it. If you have not traced the water's edge yet, the panel tells you to do that first.
• Venue creator: Undo and Redo now only change the peg and view you are looking at. Before, Undo could quietly reach back into another peg or the other view without you seeing it.
• Your profile now shows the month you joined, instead of the same date for everyone.
• A fish that does not have its own picture yet now shows a plain fish outline instead of an empty space.
• The board on the home screen can now show a full-width banner. If you would like your tackle shop, fishery or bait there, see advertise with us.
• Under the hood: the game now uses Supabase's newer type of access key, and the installed game is locked down further against tampering.

New in 0.111.536: fixes from the bank

• Pressing Throw or L could freeze the game on every venue. That is fixed, along with a rarer freeze in the middle of a bite. If a single frame ever fails to draw, the game now carries on instead of stopping.
• L and G now start the feed aim where your mouse is, not in the middle of the screen.
• Sea fishing: a float at Durdle Door no longer drifts out on the tide until it reaches the rocks. With the bail arm closed no line is let out at all, and the float swings sideways and settles.
• Loose feed and groundbait can no longer be thrown into the sea, whether by L, G or the Throw button.
• Venue creator: custom stock weights under 1 lb (or 1 kg) can now be typed, so small fish like bleak, gudgeon and minnow can be stocked on a custom range.
• Thanks to Dave for finding most of these.

New in 0.111.530: Swimcraft in your language

• The whole game can now be played in 20 languages: English, German, French, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.
• Every screen is covered: menus, the tutorial, the tackle box and bait box, the fishing screen, catch cards, records, the venue creator and the species creator.
• The first time you start the game it picks your Windows language. You can change it at any time from Language on the home menu.
• The translations are new, so if a line reads wrong, press F8 and click it to tell us. Every report is read.
• Small fix: the session tally no longer says "fishs".

New in 0.111.509: fixes

• No fish weighs less than a dram any more. The very smallest fish could show as 0lb 0oz 0dr. Thanks to Dave for spotting it.
• In the species creator, a photo chosen before you've named your fish can now be chosen again once you have.

New in 0.111.507: the tackle box and bait box

• Both boxes have been rebuilt from the ground up. Every rod, reel, line, hook and bait now has its own picture, set out in sections by brand.
• Gear you haven't unlocked yet is shown clearly, so you can see what's waiting for you as you level up.
• Your loadout runs across the top of the box as a row of miniature cards, and empty slots show the gear that could go there.
• Photographs of all five float types sit beside the float rig, and the feeder rig screen is laid out in two columns.
• The sea rig screen now matches the carp rig screen: three sea rigs, each drawn, with a description of how it fishes.
• A new bait: Pineapple Wafter. Match T Hatch is now called Match T Hatch Pop-up, which is what it always was.

New in 0.111.507: species creator

• Create your own fish. Answer a short set of plain questions about where it lives and how it feeds, fights and bites, add a photo, and save it.
• Submitting your fish to be added to the game for everyone arrives in Early Access.

New in 0.111.507: fishing and venues

• Your tutorial progress is now saved to your account, so finishing a tutorial stays finished when you sign in again.
• A fish that reaches a snag now throws the hook after about 10 seconds. Give it slack to get it moving again.
• The seasons guide now shows sea bass as the UK fish it is, scarce in winter, instead of borrowing the American largemouth bass's seasons.
• Saving a venue with a lot of painted lake bed no longer times out.
• On rivers with many pegs, the first pegs are no longer hidden off the edge of the list.
• The fishing panel can no longer get stranded with its header off the screen.
• Test This Venue now tells you if your venue failed to save, instead of carrying on silently.
• The "venues loaded" message now always clears.
• A smaller download.

New in 0.111.478: fishing

• Strike the moment your float goes under and you'll hook the fish. A quick reaction is no longer punished; striking on a small dip or knock still pulls the bait.
• Realistic mode: a button on the fishing panel turns off every on-screen prompt, including STRIKE NOW, and each fish holds the bait for its own time before dropping it. Your choice is remembered.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Z to strike, B for the bail arm, L for loose feed, G for groundbait, R to wind in, T for the tackle box, Y for the bait box and M for sound. They're all on the Controls card.
• After a cast, the bail arm is open when you're float fishing moving water, so the float trots, and closed on still water.
• The landing net pole now runs straight up to the net.
• You can remove your loose feed or groundbait from the bait box with the × on its pill.

New in 0.111.478: rivers

• A new, slowest flow speed: Barely moving.
• A Small water setting for each peg, which slows the flow right down on narrow rivers and small streams.

New in 0.111.478: venue creator

• You can now fish all the way up to the far bank on photographs taken with the water high in the frame. A hidden limit was stopping casts about a third of the way up the picture.
• The distance lines are named by the rod that reaches them, such as Float rod reach and Feeder rod reach on coarse waters, and Pier rod and Beach-caster reach on sea venues, plus a Close in line. Hover a line to see its distance.
• A blue distance tint shows the perspective of your water in the Map step, deep at your feet and hazy at the far bank.
• The Paint step now outlines your water's edge and islands, so you can see the boundary you're painting against.
• Switching between the Map and Paint steps no longer loses a shape you were in the middle of drawing.

The fight

• Hooked fish now head for cover, such as reeds, lilies and snags, so every fight plays out differently. Your job is to stop them getting there.
• Each species fights in its own way, and fish close to their record fight harder.
• Your drag setting really matters now. Set it right and you can land a fish heavier than your line.
• Carp and tench run, and big bream draw the line away. You'll see the float or the line move before you strike.
• Netting has been reworked, and carp waters now have a proper carp net.
• Move the mouse to raise and lower the rod tip, and hold the right button to lift. The rod rests while you're cast out.
• Every rod bends like its type: sea rods are stiff, match and feeder rods are soft.

Bites and swims

• The four difficulty levels have been retuned. Easy waters give quick bites and Specimen waters make you work for them.
• Line strength now counts. Heavy line for small, shy fish will cost you bites.
• Fishing close to cover is rewarded, while open water is fair but slower.
• The swim bar now shows how well your swim is really fishing.
• Tiger nuts now catch big tench and bream, as well as chub and barbel.
• Bites come as they should when you fish bigger hooks for carp.
• Smaller sea hooks, sizes 4 and 6, are now available for whiting and flatfish.
• Your rig now counts. Lead weight, hooklink material, hooklength and rig choice each affect how fish take your bait, so matching your rig to the fish, the bottom and the bait pays off. The Rigipedia explains every rig.

Tackle and the screen

• The line-out panel tells you what your rig is sitting over, for example silt / reeds.
• Floats are bigger and easier to see at range.
• Opening your tackle or bait box no longer winds your line in.
• The tacklebox in the Angler's Lodge can now set up a sea loadout.
• When you level up, new gear is marked until you've had a look at it.
• The venue page has a Fish today button, and the date and time are easier to find. The exact-time slider now really does set the time you start fishing at.
• Catch cards name the exact bait you used, for example Maize rather than Sweetcorn.
• Fish on catch cards and record boards are shown at their true size, with a subtle 3D effect.
• The home screen has a news board, and Guides now links to the Rigipedia. Sponsored items on the board are labelled as sponsored.
• Share my catch: a Share button on your catch card, on your own catches and personal bests, and on world records you hold. It saves a picture of the card, with a code that takes friends to Swimcraft on Steam, and copies a caption ready to post.
• New drawn icons across the tacklebox, bait box and account menu, and the box menus are easier to read.

Venue creator

• The stocking bar tells you in words how well stocked your water is for its difficulty.
• Adding fish pictures shows a live preview, with a guide to making cut-outs.
• The Monster size band has been folded into Big Specimen, and sizes stop at the national record.

Fixes

• The rod guides no longer jump from one side of the rod to the other.
• The rod no longer loops back on itself when a fish is near the net.
• The last card of the fishing tutorial now works as it should.
• The rig named on screen is always the rig in the water. Switching from a carp rig to a float no longer carries old settings with it.
• Pop-up messages now appear in front of record cards instead of behind them.