Universe Sandbox set to Spanish. Interface enlarged to show text.
Universe Sandbox set to Spanish. Interface enlarged to show text.

Support for 20+ languages in Universe Sandbox is now officially available! Learn more about Update 21

Now we’d love your help translating Universe Sandbox into any languages you know!

While this feature was being tested, we added a number of languages and had significant contributions from our amazing community that improved translations across the included languages. Many of the translations, however, are still placeholders from Google Translate, which sometimes produces strange results. While we think this is an improvement over having no translations at all, we’d like to do better.

Which is why we need your help in providing the most accurate translations possible! Universe Sandbox continues to grow and evolve, and we hope we can continue to receive translation contributions from our community.
 

Translating Via Universe Sandbox

To submit translations via Universe Sandbox:

  1. Click Home > Help Translate
  2. Click Translate (or press F2) in the bottom-right corner
  3. Click on any green text to open our translation site (Crowdin) in your browser
    • Some text, such as randomly generated names, cannot be translated 
  4. Login or create a Crowdin account then suggest a new/improved translation*
  5. To exit Translate Mode in Universe Sandbox, click Translate (or press F2) again
    • You can remove the Translate button entirely by turning off Help Translate in Home > Settings

*By default, you will submit a translation for whichever language is selected in Universe Sandbox. To change languages in Universe Sandbox, click Home > Settings > General > Selected Language. You can also change which language you’re suggesting a translation for in Crowdin by clicking the “Other Languages” tab below the translation input box.

 

Translating On Our Translation Site (Crowdin)

Crowdin is a system that helps manage translation projects by making it easy for anyone to submit new translations and vote on the best ones.

Even if you aren’t running Universe Sandbox, you can still head to our project on Crowdin and help with translating:
Universe Sandbox Translation Project on Crowdin

While there may be text that only makes sense when viewed in its context in Universe Sandbox, there will also be moments when you want to suggest a bunch of translations and don’t need to go back into Universe Sandbox. Feel free to continue through the list of text in Crowdin and translate as much as you want!

 

Setting Universe Sandbox to Other Languages

Change languages in Universe Sandbox:
Home > Settings > General > Selected Language

Please note that you will not see your suggestions in Universe Sandbox immediately. Over time we will update existing languages with improved translations from the community. These will be included in our typical updates.

If you’d like to see a language included in Universe Sandbox that is not there already, please let us know! If approved, we will add requested languages to our Crowdin project (with Google Translations as the base) and then start accepting improved translations on Crowdin. Then in a future update, we will add the language to Universe Sandbox to allow in-game translation.

Thanks for everyone’s help in making Universe Sandbox more accessible!