Captain's log
Every storm we've weathered and every plank we've mended — newest first.
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The harbor finds its voice — and the fleets fan out to meet it.
Every defense now roars to life: build and upgrade, wave-horns, tsunami thunder and the clang of your guns — with a one-tap mute for quieter command. Enemy fleets now sweep in from a spread of angles instead of a single file, so you can read the shape of each assault at a glance. And captains sailing their very first battle get a few gentle pointers to find their feet.
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Keep a captain's log — your battles, remembered.
Your landing now carries a private Captain's Log, appearing once you've weathered your first storm. It quietly keeps your tally of battles fought, victories won, and the highest wave you've held — for your eyes only, no leaderboards, no pressure.
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The Tide Straits are re-charted — dam the drowned peaks.
The old channel is gone. The Tide Straits now thread between a scattered chain of drowned mountaintops, each shoal a fresh choke-point to wall off, ending at a true anchor bay carved into your home shore. Watch the gyre, too: the current sweeps the fleets inward toward the bay, then circles back out along the rim. And if you dam a strait but the enemy just slips through the next one, the tide will say as much — seal another channel to force the detour.
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Tide Straits arrives — dam the shoals, ride the current.
Rally up to three other wardens and hold a brand-new archipelago front, where the fleets never make landfall — they run the tidal channels straight for your anchor bay, and a dam dropped on the right shoal can choke a current dead. Meanwhile, back in your home harbor, an upgrade you can't yet afford now shows itself locked instead of just shrugging you off, your own towers fly a proud gold pennant, and any teammate's tower will tell you who built it. The front page also welcomes its banner back.
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Your countdown to the storm is finally unmistakable.
The moment you start the storm, a bold countdown now fills the screen, so you always know exactly when the fighting begins. No more hunting for "Storm inbound" lost behind the lobby — it holds center stage until the first wave hits. Fair warning, sailor: there's no missing it now.
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The dockmaster starts keeping better logs.
Every coastal defense on the shelf now shows its punch and reach before a coin leaves your coffers, and a tap or click on any tower — new or already standing — digs up the rest: rate of fire, what it shrugs off, what the next rank buys. Plant one and a reach ring settles over the water so you always know what it can touch; give the next wave the same look and you'll have the raiders' toughness, speed, and cargo well before they're in range. Once the storm breaks, the results board now credits real damage dealt, and in Plunder War, a warship's sendoff tells you roughly how many waves until it earns its keep.
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The shipwrights and masons put in overtime.
Every coastal defense got a proper rebuild — quivers and shingled platforms for the archers, torsion arms on the ballistae, counterweights and wheels on the catapults, riveted kettles dripping tar — and each rank you buy now visibly grows the structure itself. The raiders answered in kind: their warships sail with full plank, shield, and stern-castle detail, and the Black Fleet's flagship finally flies the black sails it was always rumored to carry.
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Choose your course, then raise the harbor.
The front page now leads with one clear invitation: come aboard. Tap it and you'll choose your course — mode and weather, laid out plainly — before your harbor goes up. Joining a crew already underway stays exactly where it was, one code away.
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The sea keeps count.
The front page now shows how many battles have been fought on the open sea — an exact tally, growing one round at a time. Every storm that breaks adds to it, including yours.
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Steadier decks on small screens.
On phones the harbor HUD used to stack its readouts over one another mid-battle — island, wave, gold, the next-wave call and your crew now each hold their own line, clear to read. And in the lobby, "Start the storm" always stays within reach, however small the porthole. Fair winds to the deckhands on the go.
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Join a lobby at a glance — QR codes at the harbor gate.
Every lobby now shows a QR code beside the room code. A shipmate points a phone at it and they're aboard — no letters to read out across the room, no typos at the gate. The room code and copy button stay right where they were, for whoever prefers them.
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A bigger front door — and an honest eye on the harbor.
The front page now has one clear course: jump into a harbor already gathering a crew, or watch a battle already underway. When the sea's quiet, it simply invites you to raise the first harbor yourself — someone has to be the first sail on the horizon. Defend a public harbor and you'll feel it too: an honest, no-fuss count of who's watching, right there on your screen.
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Watch a live harbor battle — right from the front page.
The front page now shows harbor battles already in progress — pick one, click Watch, and follow the storm without lifting an oar. Liked what you saw? Raise your own harbor in one click, right from that same page. Both lists there — crews still wanted, harbors under siege — now keep themselves current, so you're never reading yesterday's tide.
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Plunder War arrives — a 1v1 duel for the harbor.
Take on a single rival across two mirror islands, riding out the very same storm. Spend gold to send raiders at their coast — every crew you launch raises your own income, so this is never just a defense game. Grab a room code, choose Plunder War from the front page, and see whose harbor falls first.
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Your match result is finally unmistakable.
Every match now ends with a bold Victory, Defeat, Draw, or Abandoned banner right at the top of the results — no more reading tea leaves in the poetry below. And if you sail in German, every last word in the harbor, from the shop to the storm banners, finally speaks your language.
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Open harbors, an open ear, and a running log of it all.
The front door now shows other open harbors waiting for a crew — join one with a click, or keep yours private if you'd rather sail alone. Log an idea, a bug, or a balance gripe on the new Feedback page, and once you've weathered a full match, your vote counts too. The home page also got a fresh coat of paint, and from here on, every change we make lands right here, in this very Captain's log.
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Upgrade orders reach your towers again.
The upgrade and sell buttons on the tower panel were shouting into the wind — clicks landed, but nothing happened. The crews have cleaned out their ears: upgrading and selling coastal defenses works again, and stray clicks on the panel no longer drop an accidental tower behind it.
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Your harbor just got a proper paint job.
Real cliffs, sand, and a rebuilt main house — timber walls, a red shingle roof, glowing windows, chimney smoke — now frame every match, and towers finally cast real shadows across the yard. Each of the five coastal defenses has its own new silhouette, so you can spot a Ballista Battery from a Pitch Kettle at a glance. Barrels, driftwood, and old nets litter the docks — the harbor finally looks worth defending.
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The First Storm breaks — the harbor is open.
Man the walls: TideWars drops you — solo or with a full crew — into a shared harbor standing against wave after wave of raiders, building to a clash with a black-sailed fleet. Step onto the battlefield straight away under a freshly minted sea-name — no account, no waiting. Raise your coastal defenses, pick your weather, and see if the harbor still stands when the tide turns.