Shipwrights: ShipShaper

A ship is not chosen from a list here. She is shaped, fitted and painted at your bench, and then she has to answer the water. Shipwrights: ShipShaper is a single-player, offline 3D shipbuilding sandbox. You pull a hull into shape with brass handles, decide what she carries, choose how she looks, and sail the result through a fjord-like sound of islands, harbours and lighthouses. The same design tools stay open from the first minute to the last. SHAPE THE HULL The hull is built from seven stations along her length. Drag a brass handle on the 3D model to widen a section, hold Shift to raise it, or work the same values from the shipwright's bench with sliders for length, beam, depth, deck curve, bow sharpness and stern fullness. Undo and redo are always one key away. Start from four ready hulls, a brig, a coastal cutter, a steam ironclad and a working hauler, or lay an unwritten keel and begin from a bare line. FIT HER OUT Eighteen fittings, up to 48 per ship: square, gaff and lateen rigs, a bowsprit and jib, a captain's cabin, a raised wheelhouse, cargo holds, a lifeboat, steam and paddle engines, a cargo crane, deck guns, a twin turret, signal lanterns, barrel racks, ventilators, a ballast locker and a lookout tower. Drag a fitting along the deck, raise it, turn it, scale it, duplicate it or remove it. Every piece adds mass, sail area, power or stability, and the bench shows the new numbers as you work. DRESS HER Eight liveries from verdigris and brass to oxblood, ivory and midnight, four sail marks, optional rope rails and brass stanchions, and four lights over the sound: dawn, clear, dusk and mist. Exhibit mode frames your vessel for a photograph you can save as a PNG. THEN SAIL HER Set sail from the yard and the design becomes a ship. Hull volume, fitting weight, canvas and horsepower decide her speed; tall superstructure and ballast decide her stability. Hold W or the right trigger to raise a throttle that stays where you set it, steer with the rudder, brake, and orbit the chase camera. Islands are solid: run aground and the hull takes damage, but your design is never lost. SIX COMMISSIONS Harbourmaster Mara, sailmaker Ivo, lighthouse keeper Nell, foundry master Oren and quartermaster Asha each want a ship built to a brief: a minimum beam, 170 square metres of canvas, a cabin and two lanterns for a dusk crossing, 100 horsepower and two guns for a run through mist, three holds full of cargo. Meet the requirements at the bench, then pass every pair of lit buoys in order before the delivery window closes. Silver and gold seals record your best times, and the final Northlight Commission crowns you Master of the Sound. Commissions are optional; free design and free sailing are open from the start. KEEP YOUR FLEET Autosave keeps your current vessel. Archive up to eight ships in the fleet, export any of them as an editable JSON blueprint, or export the geometry as OBJ or STL for a modelling program or a 3D printer. Import a blueprint to pick up where you left off. BUILT FOR PC AND XBOX Full gamepad support with on-screen prompts, a deck cursor for selecting fittings with the left stick, keyboard and mouse on PC, remappable sailing keys, a 10-foot interface on TV, adjustable render scale and shadows, reduced-motion and camera options. No account, no online connection, no purchases.