Besiege — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Better Tools Update V1.77 - Multi-key Mapping, Water Tutorials and more... | 2026-02-26 | Hello everyone!Today we’ve got another quality of life update bringing a host of new features and changes for players both new and existing! But before we delve into the details we’d just like to say a big thank you for all the interest and support that’s been shown for Besiege’s upcoming space expansion: The Broken Beyond. If you haven’t already, please wishlist the expansion as it really helps us out!For this update, community modder dagriefaa has been working tirelessly on implementing some of the community’s most popular mod features and requests into the base game, so a huge thank you to him from all the team at Spiderling! To start with |
| Besiege: The Broken Beyond - Coming Q2 2026 | 2026-02-10 | Today we’re excited to announce The Broken Beyond expansion for Besiege, coming to Steam Q2 of 2026! The expansion takes Besiege’s classic gameplay into space, with a new campaign, a suite of new space themed blocks and a new sandbox environment.Taking Besiege into space has been an ambition of ours for a long time now and, with The Splintered Sea released, we felt space would make a great focus for our next expansion!Those of you who’ve been around for a long time might remember a small moon object in orbit around the Besiege planet, on the title screen. Originally we intended this to be a simple low-gravity sandbox to play around in, but fo |
| Nominate Besiege for the Steam Awards 2025! | 2025-11-25 | Hey everyone, It's Awards season again!While most categories celebrate the biggest new releases of the year, there’s one that feels like it was made for games like ours, the “Labor of Love” award.This year marked Besiege’s 10th anniversary. Ten years of building absurd contraptions, watching them explode, and immediately creating them over and over again. We’ve launched major anniversary updates, built an entire VR version, released the game on mobile, and are hard at work on our next ambitious expansion. But Besiege isn’t just something we’ve built. It’s something we’ve built together. To the workshop creators, the Discord community, the You |
| Community Highlights #9 + Halloween Contest Winners | 2025-10-29 | Happy Halloween and welcome to Community Highlights IX!2025 marks ten incredible years of Besiege and what a ride it’s been. Between our major anniversary updates, the launch of Besiege VR, and the upcoming mobile release, the community has continued to blow us away. October also brought the Spooky Halloween Machine Contest, and you didn’t disappoint. From haunted builds to creepy contraptions, It's time to show off the winners before jumping into this month's highlights.🥇 1st Place: Possessed Peasants by Kuura 🥈 2nd Place: Haunted Void Rollercoaster by procat1234🥉 3rd Place: Pumpkin King by Wogiao Honorable Mention - Boo by Himuro YoukiMa |
| Community Highlights #8 + Level Contest Winners | 2025-09-01 | Hey all!Community Highlights is back with our eighth edition! It’s been a busy year between the anniversary updates and the launch of Besiege VR, and the community hasn’t slowed down one bit. This time around, we hosted a Level Contest, and the creativity you all brought to the table was incredible. Now it’s finally time to show off some of the best builds and announce the winners!🥇 1st Place: Buckshot Roulette by Wogiao🥈 2nd Place: Dune by ChrisGun🥉 3rd Place: Gate to the Expanse by Brammer001Honorable Mention - Dust ll by 5PuffThis contest proved to be our toughest yet, with multiple ties and an incredibly high standard across the board. |
| Quality of Life Update V1.75 - Additive Loading, Machine Autosave and more... | 2025-06-26 | Hello everyone! Today we’re excited to bring you a quality of life update for Besiege. We’ve been working with community modder dagriefaa to bring some of Besiege’s most popular mods into the base game, along with a host of other improvements! Additive Loading Additive loading allows you to load multiple save or workshop machines into Besiege, without deleting your previous one. You might use this to load in two different vehicles or a saved section of machine which you then connect to whatever you’re building to save time. https://i.imgur.com/35ZOnGx.gif Paint Bucket Search This one’s pretty self explanatory but, the Paint Bucket feature (us |
| Community Highlights #7 + Ship Contest Winners | 2025-05-27 | Hey everyone! Ready to dive into another wave of Community Highlights? Our seventh edition has arrived, and it's overflowing with incredible creations from the Besiege community. This month, builders made waves in the Vanilla Boat & Ship Contest, crafting seaworthy machines using only the base game. In celebration of The Splintered Sea expansion's anniversary, we challenged you to take to the tides, and now, the moment has finally arrived to unveil the winners of our contest! 🥇 1st Place: Ancient Ship by RafVicAlv 🥈 2nd Place: Steamer MK-1 by ChrisGun 🥉 3rd Place: by Automated Destroyer by Caprikioq Honorable Mention - Seabomber MK-lll by |
| Community Highlights #6 + Tank Contest Winners | 2025-04-01 | Hey everyone! Welcome to another round of Community Highlights. Our sixth edition is here, and it's packed with jaw-dropping creations from brilliant minds in the Besiege community. This month, things got heavy (in the best way possible) as builders rolled into action using only the base game to build Tanks. With that being said, the the moment has finally come to announce the winners of our Vanilla Tank Contest! 🥇 1st Place: Baneblade MK-2 by ChrisGun 🥈 2nd Place: Thomas The Tank by Fnom3 🥉 3rd Place: by Cipher MBT by septcentcinquanteetun Honorable Mention - Dome-inator by Rdsz The Vanilla Tank Contest was one of our biggest contests so |
| 10 Year Anniversary Extras Update | 2025-03-27 | Hello everyone! Today we’ve got another update for you, containing extras that we weren’t quite able to squeeze into the Anniversary Update. We’d also like to take this opportunity to update you on our Roadmap for Besiege in 2025. It is subject to change, but we wanted to give you some idea of what you can expect over the next year. The first thing we’ve added in this update are the final two rulers from the Besiege campaign; The Withered King & Admiral Drasckar. Technically Drasckar was already present in the Splintered Sea campaign, but he’s received a cool makeover to make him stand out more! https://i.imgur.com/WfF89Nc.gif Next up, we’ve |
| 10 Year Anniversary Update | 2025-01-30 | Hello Everyone! This year is Besiege’s 10th anniversary since its launch into early access in 2015! Ten years of development has absolutely transformed the game from its humble origins- combining hundreds of new features, blocks and levels to make Besiege the machine building & destruction extravaganza it is today. We are incredibly proud of the community that has grown around Besiege during its first decade, overflowing with creativity, ingenuity and people willing to help others learn new ways of building their ultimate machines. You’ve never ceased to amaze and inspire us at Spiderling! https://i.imgur.com/px94Ddw.png This is going to be a |
| 10 Year Anniversary Preview & Playstation Out Now! | 2024-12-12 | Hey everyone! Today we’re excited to announce that Besiege Console is now available on Playstation 4 & 5! Physical copies for the Japanese region are also available for purchase and they look awesome! It’s always been a dream of ours to see Besiege in physical form and now it’s finally happened. :) We also wanted to take this opportunity to briefly talk about some of the things coming up in Besiege’s 10 year Anniversary update! The main focus of the anniversary update for us, is on revitalizing parts of the original game, adding new challenges and implementing content we feel the Besiege’s longstanding community will enjoy. Return of the Orig |
| Community Highlights #5 + Vanilla Contest Winners | 2024-12-06 | Hey everyone, Welcome to the fifth edition of our Community Highlights, where we proudly celebrate the amazing talent and boundless creativity of our community. This month, vanilla has truly taken flight as the Besiege community has embraced the challenge to craft incredible machines using only the base game. With that said, we're excited to announce the winners of our Vanilla Plane Contest! 🥇 1st Place: Messerschmitt Me464 Adler by Wessel 🥈 2nd Place: VAB-2 Scattersparrow by Blitsplatapus 🥉 3rd Place: by B2 Spirit Bomber by Wiesław69 Honorable Mention - Mackerel-T Torpedo Bomber by Crislim Honorable Mention - Vanilla Plane - Fnom3 Big che |
| 10 years of Besiege Development - Nominate us for Labor Of Love | 2024-12-02 | Hey everyone! As you're probably aware, the Steam Awards are currently underway and we'd be grateful for your support in nominating us for the Labor of Love Award. After nearly 10 years of Besiege development, we still have plans for new content and improvements going into the future that we're excited to bring you! For us, developing Besiege is truly a labor of love. Please consider nominating us. :) |
| Block Update - New Blocks & Tools - V1.65 | 2024-11-27 | Hello everyone! Today we’ve released V1.65 of Besiege, bringing 4 new blocks, 2 new tools to help you perfect your machine building and some block related changes and fixes! Drag Block The drag block applies a large amount of drag when moving in a specific direction, but is aerodynamic (applies low drag) when moving in the opposite direction. https://i.imgur.com/il41zd1.gif Fly Wheel The Fly Wheel is a block that resists rotational change, storing angular momentum and then releasing it at a steady rate (like charging up a battery and then outputting power at a steady rate). Put simply, a Fly Wheel will rotate at a steady rate regardless of ho |
| Community Highlights #4 + Halloween Winners | 2024-11-06 | Hey all, Welcome to the fourth installment of our Community Highlights! Once again, we’re thrilled to showcase the incredible talent and ingenuity within our community. Before our showcase, we'd like start off by saying a thank you to everyone who participated in the Spooky Halloween Machine Contest! Submissions have been incredible, and after careful consideration, we’re excited to announce the winners! 🥇 1st Place: Skeleton Horse Carriage by Morumotti 🥈 2nd Place: The Bone Spider by Roseate 🥉 3rd Place: Coffin Fish by Gimo_an A huge congratulations to our winners, and a big shoutout to everyone who participated. Don't forget that contest |
| Major Level Editor & Quality of Life Update (V1.60-22044) | 2024-10-19 | Hello Everyone! Today we’ve released another major update, focussed around Besiege’s level editor, coupled with some quality of life features/changes. The update adds 120+ new objects (including complex objects for the first time, like the Galleon ship), a new camera mode for better machine tracking in tight spaces, improvements to multiplayer and other improvements & fixes! Besiege is also 75% off and the Splintered Sea expansion will be 20% off, for the next week! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2165710/Besiege_The_Splintered_Sea/ Level Editor The core focus of this update was adding additional objects to the level editor and bringing so |
| Community Highlights #3 + Machine Contest Winners | 2024-09-25 | Hey all, Welcome to the third chapter of our Community Highlights series! It’s that time again where we celebrate the sheer creativity and brilliance of our community. This month’s highlights are nothing short of spectacular, featuring everything from stunning replicas to mind-bending mods. With that said, we're excited to announce the winners of our Pop Culture Reference Machine Contest! 🥇 1st Place: Fnom3 - Xenomorph from Alien franchise 🥈 2nd Place: モルもっちー - Anakin's Podracer from Star Wars: Episode I 🥉 3rd Place: Laraki - Angry Birds The contest was a blast, and the sheer level of creativity from the community was off the charts! A hug |
| Besiege PC Roadmap + Besiege Now On Switch! | 2024-09-12 | Hello Everyone! Today we'd like to share our roadmap for the next 6 months of Besiege PC development and announce that Besiege is out now on the Nintendo Switch (Asia coming Dec 12th)! Switch & Playstation Launch Schedule: NA/EU/AUNZ Nintendo Switch - OUT NOW! Playstation 4 & 5 - October/November (Undetermined date) Asia Nintendo Switch - 12th of December Playstation 4 & 5 - 12th of December Physical Copies (Japan Only) - 12th of December Besiege PC Roadmap This year's been an exciting one for us so far, but it's not over yet! As you can see in the graphic below, we have 2 more free PC updates planned for this year and a special 10 year anniv |
| Besiege is coming to Nintendo Switch 12th of September! (NA/EU/AUNZ) | 2024-09-10 | Hello Everyone! Today we’re excited to announce that Besiege is coming to Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4 & 5! The release dates are a little complicated, but here goes: NA/EU/AUNZ Nintendo Switch - 12th of September Playstation 4 & 5 - October/November (Undetermined date) Asia Nintendo Switch - 12th of December Playstation 4 & 5 - 12th of December Physical Copies (Japan Only) - 12th of December Playism will be offering physical versions of the game in Japan (and possibly other Asian regions later on), you can pre-order right now! We did try to secure a physical release for other regions as well, but we had a lot of trouble finding a partne |
| Community Highlights #2 + Contest Winners | 2024-08-13 | Hey Everyone! Welcome to the second edition of our monthly Community Highlights! Before we showcase some of the best of what our community had to offer in the month of July, we'd like say a thank you to everyone who participated in the Besiege Screenshot Contest! Submissions have been incredible, and we were blown away by the sheer talent and creativity displayed. After careful consideration, we’re thrilled to announce the winners of the contest! 🥇 1st Place: ちゃーな 🥈 2nd Place: Brammer001 🥉 3rd Place: pukku131 Congratulations to our winners, and a big round of applause to everyone who entered. Your passion and creativity make this community |