Beyond New Horizons

The Caribbean world at your feet!

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New Horizons: Refined Edition

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: Refined Edition

Epic battles await you!

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Welcome to the home of new Horizons

Beyond New Horizons

Beyond New Horizons is a derivative of the community-loved New Horizons mod for the Pirates of the Caribbean (Sea Dogs II) game running on the latest open-source Storm Engine.

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New Horizons Refined Edition

Emerging from Maelstrom New Horizons, New Horizons Refined Edition (NHRE) is an improved version of the original New Horizons (Build 14), running on the open-source DX11 Poseidon 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 who you want to play as.

Freeplay

Enjoy the Caribbean without hurry.

Ships

Choose a ship that is to your liking.

Characters

Search the Caribbean for familiar faces.

Locations

A variety of locations are available in-game.

Direct sail

Roam the Caribbean without the need for 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 NHRE.

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

NH Build 14

Features

New Horizons Build 14 is the version for enthusiasts of the original 2003 POTC 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 on eBay

Download from moddb.com

BNH

Features

Beyond New Horizons is very similar to Build 14 but standalone, meaning you do not need a CD copy of the original game.

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 day

Download for free from itch.io

Download the torrent directly

NHRE

Features

New Horizons Refined Edition is the most recent and up-to-date version, expanded with new features.

Open-source Poseidon Engine

Free to play

Standalone modification

Greater technical support via Discord

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 Sea Dogs game

Beautiful islands with proper jungles in 3D sailing mode

Fully working muskets

Download for free from itch.io

Trouble setting up the installation?

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. Afterward 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 the .zip from itch.io and unzip the contents to a location of your choice. Afterward you either start the game directly from the main directory of the game by double-clicking on the file engine.exe or alternatively you can run the config.exe file located in the main directory to change your resolution and graphics settings first.

New Horizons Refined Edition

2000: Sea Dogs is released

The first Sea Dogs comes to market.

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

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

2004: The first version of the Build 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: Build 13 is released

Four years after the release of POTC, the community has already managed to create 13 versions of the Build Mod.

2009-2022: Build Mod version 14 is named New Horizons and 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 modpack were made.

2020: Development for Maelstrom New Horizons is started

The community member Mirsaneli decides to port New Horizons fully to the Maelstrom Engine with the help of ChezJfrey from Buccaneer's 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 version Beyond New Horizons.