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Windrose Next Update: 40+ Building Pieces & 50 QoL Fixes
The building-pieces patch shipped in April; the update you are waiting for is Ashlands, and Kraken Express now says this winter.
VerdictNothing big lands before Ashlands: the last patch was August 25, and the October devblogs are all Ashlands previews.
The Windrose next update is Ashlands, and the official trailer shown at the Triple-i Initiative on October 8 puts it this winter, with no exact date. The patch this page first covered, the one with 40-odd new building pieces, already shipped on April 30, and five smaller patches followed it. The most recent, 0.10.0.9, came out on August 25.
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Updated 2026-10-20: Rechecked against Windrose's Steam announcements. We added two patches the old list missed (0.10.0.5 and 0.10.0.6), the October Ashlands ship-customization devblogs, and the current Steam price, and removed the late-October estimate now that there's an official window.
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What's next: Ashlands this winter
Ashlands is Windrose's first major content update: a new biome, more story, and a rebuilt ship system. Kraken Express set expectations early. Its April 28 community update said "this update will take at least 6 months to deliver", which is why the old version of this page guessed late October. The Triple-i trailer replaced that guess with an official window: "Expected this winter".
What the studio has shown since:
- July 1 devblog: development was "still in its early stages", and in Ashlands "you can expect both the main story and side quests to grow significantly in scope", with new factions entering.
- August 28 sneak peek: work-in-progress art of a new armor set for an NPC, new looks for Halberds and Greatswords, faction clothing sets, a Brethren of the Coast Galleon variant and ship damage effects.
- October 8 and 15 devblogs ("Voyage to Ashlands"): ship customization is being rebuilt. Faction-specific ship versions go away; you pick a ship class and customize it, with separate slots for figurehead, hull decor, stern and helm, more color control, and a customizable hold with structures such as a workbench and a cooking fire. Kraken Express says resources from removed faction ships "will be fully refunded".
The studio's own line on October 8 was that it wants to "regularly share more about what's coming in Ashlands", so expect more of these previews before a date. Our Windrose Ashlands guide tracks every confirmed detail, and the Windrose roadmap has the bigger picture.
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The April 30 patch: what shipped
On April 28 Kraken Express promised "over 40 new building pieces to fill some gaps and inconsistencies" and "over 50 fixes and QoL changes". Patch 0.10.0.4.268 delivered both two days later. These were filler pieces for the existing sets, not a new building system:
| Area | What changed |
|---|---|
| Building pieces | Around 40 missing wall triangle pieces for various roof angles, 3 missing floor triangle pieces |
| Building costs | Lower construction cost for a wide range of building pieces in every set (not vendor prices) |
| Comfort | Signal Fire now shares the Comfort buff like other fires; pier decorations give their own Comfort; decorative canopies count as roofs for crafting stations |
| Farming | 4 new Seedbed variations, new sounds and effects for crop growth and harvesting |
| Co-op connection | New Force Relay Connection setting for players whose P2P traffic is blocked (not for Direct IP), and a fix for players with non-English Windows usernames |
| Performance | Less CPU use on idle servers and clients, less disk use during play, better ship performance when hosting |
Build mode as it looked at launch: the April 30 pieces fill the angles this set was missing, they don't replace it. Screenshot: Windrose: Early Access Release Date Reveal Trailer (official, 0:53)
If you're building now, the Windrose comfort level guide covers which pieces raise Comfort, and the Windrose ship building guide covers the shipyard.
Every Windrose patch since April 30
| Version | Date | Main changes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.10.0.4.268 | April 30 | Building pieces, cheaper construction, Force Relay Connection, CPU and disk fixes |
| 0.10.0.5 | May 4 | New save storage that backs up every 10 minutes of play and on exit, a recovery window for broken saves, automatic migration of old saves; settings reset |
| 0.10.0.6 | May 18 | Less disk writing, smoother boarding and ship artillery, tighter attack and block animation transitions, plants snap to soil patches |
| 0.10.0.7 | June 25 | Linux dedicated server support through Docker images, Traditional Chinese, sails take cannonball damage again |
| 0.10.0.8 | July 8 | Fix for long-range projectiles passing through ships, improved Japanese localization |
| 0.10.0.9 | August 25 | Cannonballs damage a ship's stern, sails and hull correctly |
None of them added building content after April 30, and none touched the Ashlands timeline. The full notes for each live in our Windrose patch notes tracker.
A wooden frame going up around a rock pillar, with a finished cliffside base behind: the kind of awkward angle the new triangle pieces were added for. Screenshot: Windrose: Early Access Release Date Reveal Trailer (official, 0:57)
Sales, players and price
Windrose launched in Early Access on April 14, 2026. It sold a million copies in six days, with "over 200,000 concurrent players" the same day, passed 1.5 million by April 30 and two million by May 14. It's $29.99 on Steam with no discount as of October 20; the last discount was 10% off around Steam's PvE Survival Crafting Fest, August 31 to September 7.
Our take
If you came here for the next update, the answer is Ashlands, and there's nothing in the patch history to suggest another small patch first: the last one was August 25, and everything Kraken Express has posted since is an Ashlands preview. We'd watch the "Voyage to Ashlands" devblogs on Steam, because the ship-customization rework changes every ship you already own.
How we checked this
Patch contents, dates and quotes come from Windrose's official Steam announcements, read through Steam's news feed on October 20, 2026; the release window from the official Ashlands trailer; the price from the Steam store the same day.
Related Reading
- Windrose Ashlands: Release Window and Confirmed Plans: everything confirmed about the next biome.
- Windrose Early Access Roadmap 2026: what is planned and what is only rumored.
- Windrose Endgame Guide: What to Do After the Story: what to do while you wait.
- Windrose Best Ship Build Tier List 2026: the current ships before the customization rework.
References
- Windrose news on Steam: patch notes 0.10.0.4 to 0.10.0.9, community updates and devblogs
- Windrose on Steam: store page and price
- Windrose: Ashlands Release Window Trailer
- Windrose roadmap announced, Ashlands to take six months (Insider Gaming)
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