Beyond New Horizons

The Caribbean world at your feet!

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New Horizons on Maelstrom

Sail the high sea from one town to the next!

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Beyond New Horizons

Explore the mystic storylines in your palm!

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New Horizons on Maelstrom

Epic battles await you!

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Welcome to the home of new Horizons

Beyond new HOrizons

Beyond New Horizons is the successor of the community loved New Horizons mod for the Pirates of Caribbean (Sea Dogs 2) game running on the latest open source Storm engine.

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Maelstrom New Horizons

Maelstrom New Horizons is the New Horizons mod for the Pirates of the Caribbean (Sea Dogs 2) game running on the closed source Maelstrom engine.

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Features in both versions

Below you will find a quick overview of the features that can be found in both new versions of New Horizons. However, New Horizons is very well known for having implemented unique features not found on any other Sea Dogs mod. You can check them out at the link below:

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Selectable storylines

Choose as who you want to play

Freeplay

Enjoy the caribbean without hurry

Ships

Choose your ship based on your liking

Characters

Search the Caribbean for familiar faces

Locations

A variety of locations is available ingame

Direct sail

Roam the Caribbean without the need of a world map

Improved stability

Both engines allow for much greater stability compared to the base game

Better graphics

The upgraded engines allow for more beautiful graphics in both games

Check out the TV Tropes page for more information on features!

Go to the TV Tropes page

See the differences!

As the games are running on different engines, you will encounter unique features in each one.

We recommend BNH for beginners given its much simpler land combat system while we suggest veterans of the sea dogs series to go for MNH.

In any case, you are free to choose the version that is right for you!

NH Build 14

Features

The NH version for enthusiasts of the 2003 POTC game and engine

Requires "Pirates Of The Caribbean" from 2003 as base

Mod itself free, game with cost

Running on the 2.0 version of the Storm engine

Support via the PiratesAhoy! forum or Discord

Buy the game from Ebay

Download from moddb.com

BNH

Features

The official PiratesAhoy! community mod

Open Source Storm engine

Free to play

Standalone modification

Easy to fork and modify

Keep the game running in the background

Option to skip to a specific time of the day

Download for free from itch.io

Download the torrent directly

MNH

Features

The unofficial port to Maelstrom engine

Closed source Maelstrom engine

Mod itself free, engine with cost

Standalone modification

Greater technical support via itch.io

New weather system not seen before in New Horizons modifications

Improved combat system

Waves follow wind direction

Blood and gore enabled

Talk to friendly ships feature

New worldmap not seen before in a seadogs game

Buy the engine from itch.io

Download from itch.io

Download the torrent directly

Trouble setting the installation up?

Watch our videos if you need help getting one of the two games to start!

Download the .zip from itch.io and unzip the contents to a location of your choice. Afterawards you either start the game directly from the main directory of the game by double-clicking on the file engine.exe or alternatively, you could create a shortcut to the engine.exe file from a location of your choosing.

Beyond New Horizons

Download both the engine .zip and mod .zip from itch.io and begin by extracting the mod .zip to a location of your choosing. Once that has been completed, open up the engine .zip and open up the folder with the engine that fits you the best (DirectX9_64bit is recommended for modern PCs). Extract the contents of that folder to the main directory of the mod. Launch the game using maelstrom.exe or create a desktop shortcut by right-clicking on maelstrom.exe and sending it to your desktop.

Maelstrom New Horizons

2000: Sea Dogs is released

The first Sea Dogs comes to market.

2003: Pirates of the Caribbean / Sea Dogs 2 is released

Based on the experiences with the first Sea Dogs, Sea Dogs 2 is in the works and gets rebranded to Pirates of the Caribbean in the last minute.

2004: The first build of the New Horizons mod is released

Less than a year after the POTC release, modders from PiratesAhoy! have already created the first build of what will become New Horizons

2007: New Horizons build 13 is released

Four years after the release of POTC, the community has already managed to create 13 builds of the New Horizons mod

2009-2022: Build 14 is being developed by various members of the PiratesAhoy! community

By 2009, Build 14 had went to public alpha with the beta following only one year later. In the later years, incremental improvements and additions to the mod were made.

2020: Development for Maelstrom New Horizons is started

The community member Mirsaneli decides to port New Horizons fully to Maelstrom engine with the help of Chezfrey from Buccaneers Reef

2021: Porting of New Horizons to the latest open source version of the Storm engine is started

The community member Hammie decides to port New Horizons as a standalone modification to the open source engine and calls the new mod Beyond New Horizons