Statistics: Posted by John — Fri Oct 23, 2026 6:25 pm — Replies 0 — Views 1486

• #752 Achievement glitch with 1k rescue, when having over 10k
• #813 Dead bodies not being collected by ports that accept both outgoing cargo and crew
• #818 Interstellar Logistics permanently stalls after loading a save
• #817 Fix interstellar logistics docking not working between larger ships

Statistics: Posted by John — Wed Oct 14, 2026 3:02 pm — Replies 0 — Views 1709

• Normal: As before, but with the equipment becoming less available as you progress.
• Difficult: Equipment and resources become much less available after the first couple of sectors.
• Hard: Availability is virtually zero for all equipment and resources, beyond the first sector. You will have to gather all of your own resources and fabricate almost all of your equipment as you play. A major challenge for experienced players.

• The auto-production system will now automatically buy and process required ores, using whatever Smelters are available.
• Smelters must be set to STOPPED to be used by the Production Queue.
• Smelters can also be set to ANY, which will cause the crew to smelt any ores that are available onboard.
• The production queue interface has been improved, with a new dropdown showing production progress for each item. Any blockages in production (eg missing materials) are shown in red.

• Incoming Cargo: Allow shuttles to drop off cargo at this port
• Outgoing Cargo: Allow shuttles to collect cargo from this port
• Crew & Civilians: Allow crew and civilians to use this docking port
• Multiple shuttles (up to three) are spawned if required.
• Interstellar Logistics has been updated to obey these filters

• You are now automatically granted some useful techs (Logistics1, AdvancedTracks)
• You can now complete any research item instantly with the click of a button
• There is also a new button to unlock ALL research immediately

• Added keyboard shortcuts for all windows, construction modes, and battle stations
• All shortcuts can be set from Main Menu -> Settings -> Keyboard
• Modifiers (SHIFT, ALT, CTRL) can be added to keyboard shortcuts
• Clear keybindings in the settings screen with right-click or set back to default with middle-click

• Tactical weapons panel has been refreshed to be more minimal and concise.
• The old AUTOTARGET button on each weapon has been removed. All weapons AUTOTARGET, unless you manually target them.
• You can clear a manual override target (and return to AUTOTARGET) by right clicking on a weapon.
• Ammo counts in the resource display on the left now flash red when low

• Cannon range increased 500 -> 600
• Cannon shells now less accurate at long ranges
• Railgun impacts now cause some hull damage
• Ordnance can now impact and be blocked by derelict ships, and asteroids (small chance)

• NPC ships now lose hull squares when hit with explosions, appearing more and more blown to bits
• Weapons in Tactical mode now show larger, with longer barrels
• Cannon and PDC muzzle flash made stronger
• Explosion fx improved - now more of a flash
• Most combat particle effects improved and tweaked
• Derelicts are always rendered under all other layers
• Tanks venting after ship destruction leave larger clouds in space

• Arena mode ship start positions changed to be more vertically staggered
• Arena mode ship deployment improved (Fixed some layout bugs for green side)

• Items can now be loaded by robot arms into drone bays for transfers.
• Lightning is guaranteed to hit a lightning rod if enough lightning rods are installed proportionally to power generation.
• Interstellar logistics collect order now goes towards the cloud with the most gas, so collectors gather faster.
• Blueprints have their recipe shown in the description of the trade menu
• Added recipes and adjusted trade price for furniture and spacesuits.
• Seeds can be found as loot from derelict ships.
• Scavenger ships arrive in derelict systems after a delay instead of immediately. This gives some extra time to grab loot before they arrive.
• Tanks can be drained. This will prevent the tank from being used for storage and drain its contents to the surrounding network.
• Dead crew in space eventually despawn.
• Interstellar logistics sell and transfer orders now show all types in the item dropdown, with types on board at the top.
• Logistics drones now listed in resource list on left of screen
• Engines burn a bit more brightly

• Fix game speed slowing down for shooting meteors and asteroid when "Slow during combat" is enabled
• Fix clicking location link in missions list clicking through to the galaxy map and closing it instantly
• Fix powergrid settings affecting equipment of wrong categories
• Fix reactor cores not being available to buy or sell in trade screen
• Fix docked ships in arena mode not being assigned a strategy
• Fix asteroid belts not spawning in first sector in all modes other than industry
• Fix mining lasers showing holes in the walls behind them
• Fix repairing ship at shipyard not removing drone repair plates
• Fix mining interstellar logistics order not restarting when asteroid is broken
• #723 - Sitting north-south doesn't use the right sprite variation
• #725, #762 - Diagonal walls causing hull issues
• #741 - Crew loading crates through walls
• #789 - Drones not delivering boxes
• #794 - Infinite power when reactors off
• #795 - Drones locked out when carrying disallowed resource
• #798 - Can't complete deep space industrialists part 2
• #796 - Wrong type for docked ships on import in arena mode
• #802 - Spacesuits in a crate are not being picked for o2 recharging

Statistics: Posted by John — Wed Oct 14, 2026 3:02 pm — Replies 0 — Views 1159

• Docking Port Fluid Pipes: Streamline your resource management by running fluid transfer pipes directly to your docking ports, allowing for automated liquid and gas distribution across docked vessels.
• Advanced Drone Controls: A ship-wide gather filter allows fine control of which types of object your drones will collect. Drone bays can now be configured to received specific cargo types, as well as launch and return behaviours.
• Equipment Fabrication Updates: Further developing the production queue in the editor, all equipment can now be fabricated on-board. Acquire blueprints directly from trading posts for a one-off cost, offering an alternative pathway to unlocking recipes outside of the standard research tree.

• Docking Ports now have four pipe connections that can be used to pump resources between ships.
• Once ships are docked, any matching resource pumps are automatically connected.
• You can then use the logistics screen to order transfer of resources, and the pumps will be used wherever possible.
• This is much faster and more convenient than extracting liquids and gases into barrels and physically moving them around.
• The Interstellar Logistics system has also been updated to use fluid pumps on docking ports, wherever possible.

• The Orders panel now contains a Drone Gathering Filter, to set which items your drones should collect or ignore.
• You can request just one or two items, or tell them to gather everything except.
• This setting is per-ship, meaning each ship has its own filter.
• If multiple drone bays allow a salvage type, drones will choose the most "specific" bay, meaning the bay that accepts the fewest types.
• Drones always prioritise logistics transfers over other tasks.

• You can also configure which item types each Drone Bay will accept.
• If no drone bay accepts an item type, that type will not be picked up or transfered to that ship.
• You can also enable/disable Drone Launching, and Drone Landing, per drone bay.
  (Useful if you want to prevent drones landing at a drone bay that is using automation)
• These options are locked behind Logistics 1 research.

• All equipment can now be fabricated, so long as you have the Blueprint. (excluding equipment specific to industry mode)
• You can now buy blueprints from any trading post.
• Blueprints are available at a one-off cost, higher than the cost of the equipment itself.
• This provides an alternative to researching blueprints.
• 4 new fabrication components have been added:
  - Superconductor
  - Heat Exchanger
  - Compute Grid
  - Reactor Core
• All equipment recipes have been overhauled to use these new components
• Sale prices of equipment and resources have been rebalanced
• Stargate component recipes have been kept the same

• The install tooltip now shows why equipment cannot be installed if its placement is invalid
• Sewage pipes and ladders must be placed under habitation
• Previously, sewage pipes could be placed anywhere but wouldnt collect anything if they werent under habitation
• Allow to select multiple types for smart robot arms
• Awards can be clicked to be dismissed:
  - Awards with payment or rank points will be fast-forwarded instead
  - Otherwise, the award will be dismissed immediately when clicked
• Asteroids have less HP, making them easier to crack
• Made lightning rods more effective at attracting lightning strikes
• Optimisations to audio system to reduce stuttering on large ships
• Crew will reload guns to their maximum capacity between battles

• New Czech translation thanks to Andrewek_CZ (Herní překlady) and Patrik Fišer
• Updated Danish translation thanks to PCMS_DK
• Updated Russian thanks to Tzigan
• Updated Dutch thanks to Maarten12313

• Fix not being able to sell telepathic sensors after completing The Trouble With Tiddlets part 2
• Fix heavily damaged ships in distress call missions leaving the system after hostiles have been destroyed
• #597 - Mute certain sound effects when pausing the game (Engine Burn, Guns).
• #776 - Fix docking port visual bug after modifying ship while docked.
• #782 - Solar Panels disappearing when placing scaffold

Statistics: Posted by John — Wed Oct 14, 2026 2:50 pm — Replies 0 — Views 514

• ALERT: fighters will launch when a hostile target is acquired, and return to the bay for resupplying or when all hostiles are eliminated.
  This is the default mode and they will behave the same as they did in Update 23.
• STOW: fighters will remain in their bay or return to the bay if they are currently deployed.
• These modes can be toggled in the tactical screen, using a new button above the "WEAPONS" button in the bottom-left.
• The fighter mode is set on a per-ship basis.
• Improved fighter flight path back to bay, making it less likely they will miss it and have to circle around.
• Indication in tactical mode when a fighter is returning to its bay because of running out of ammo or fuel.
• Fighters will wait in the bay to be at least 50% before returning to battle.

• You can now toggle any piece of equipment ON and OFF from its control panel.
• You can multi-select lots of equipment and turn it all ON/OFF with one click.
• New Equipment: Power Switch - To be installed over a cable and toggled ON/OFF to control power flow, making it easy to activate and deactivate whole parts of the ship with a single switch.
• Power Switches can be named from their equipment panel, and will then show in the Power Grid window, helping you to manage larger ships from a single screen.

• Fix damaged lightning rods not being repaired and shaking forever
• Fix bug where on larger ships lightning would not strike towards the bottom of the ship
• Lightning rods leak stored energy when damaged, similar to batteries

• Expanded multiselection to loaders and storage crates
• You can now toggle all selected equipment on and off with one click

• Intermediate components will be automatically produced if they are not already available on the ship.
• An option to automatically buy missing components is available.
• More improvements to the "EQUIPMENT" menu in the ship editor.

• New translation Bahasa Indonesia (thanks to Agis&Soul)
• Japanese (thanks to sakuyan#5658, raidhin, Kensuke Ichinohasama)
• Russian (thanks to skoniks)
• Simplified Chinese (thanks to Qionglu735)
• Polish (thanks to Azu)
• German (thanks to Flauschküken)

• Several performance improvements for entities - especially noticable for large numbers of civilians
• Fixed massive performance drop immediately after loading a large save game
• Plus more general performance improvements

• Habitation cannot be drawn over equipment on top of the ship to prevent the equipment getting blocked
• Equipment on the top of the ship renders under the habitation instead of above, so it's clearer when they are blocked by the habitation
• Fix "DOCKING IMPOSSIBLE" alert overlapping battlestations button
• Meteors drop small amounts of minerals when destroyed
• Can now install, dismantle and spawn (in creative mode) in an area by dragging out a box while holding down shift
• Added in animated sprite variants for Gunners, Scientists and Civilians
• Text in tactical mode for crackable asteroids scales with asteroid size
• Add tooltips for categories in powergrid showing how much energy each equipment produces/consumes

• Containers moving on a track will no longer have a random small rotation (this is for when carried by a human)
• Fix airducts sometimes showing the missing oxygen icon when oxygen available
• Fix fighter not being destroyed if their bay is dismantled while they are stowed on it
• Fix a problem with manufacturing fighters where coils and motors would compete for the same slot on the fighter bay.
• Fix fighters and hull breaches being available to transfer in the logistics screen
• Fixed issue with Gunners and Scientists changing sprite when sitting down
• #734: Schematic placement of equipment removed when associated item gets on a robot arm/track
• #747: Harken call to arms call triggering twice
• #756: Items are overlapping when clicking and dragging to place them
• #758: BNS3 mission is stuck
• #759: Accelerated Local Survey during Tutorial Exploit
• #760: Editor cannot place hull on equipment in free space.
• #767: Arena Mode - Drones from AI ships no longer gather materials or salvage by default

Statistics: Posted by John — Thu Apr 30, 2026 1:24 pm — Replies 0 — Views 23951

• Fighters have been completely reworked and are now available to all ships without needing to edit saves.
• New Equipment: Fighter Bays
  • Can be bought from the trade screen or produced at an assembly table
  • Can be placed inside your ship, occupying a 3x3 area.
  • 7x7 landing bay doors can be seen on the exterior of the ship, above where the equipment is placed.
  • Supply fighter bays with frames, motors, and a processor to produce a fighter.
  • If the fighter is destroyed in battle, a new one can be produced mid-battle.
  • Activate battle stations when a hostile is present in the system to launch the fighters from the bay.
• Reworked Fighters:
  • Fighters need to be supplied with bullets and fuel at their fighter bay before they can launch.
  • Fighters will return to their bay when they run out of fuel or ammo or all hostiles have been eliminated.
  • Fighter toughness and damage has been increased.
  • Fighter turrets can penetrate armour, unlike gatling guns.
  • New tech tree branches to upgrade survivability and agility of fighters.
  • If a fighter is stranded from a bay it will explode some time after running out of fuel.
  • Any old designs will keep their fighters (if they have any) and will behave the same as previous versions.
  • New artwork

• In rare cases drones would pick themselves up, which, of course, cannot be allowed.

• Production Missions : shuttles will not collect from ships with no conscious crew.
• Dead body, trade collection : shuttles will leave if there are no conscious crew.

• New walk animations for all crew and civilians
• Small bobbing animation added to any item being carried
• Smoothed item drop-off and pickup to and from equipment (so you can see the item being loaded/unloaded)
• Entities now slow down when close to their destination

• Some hardcoded strings added to language files
• Copy To Clipboard button in Translation Editor copies English to clipboard.
• Japanese font updated to support new characters, and to be more readable in general.
• Translations separated into manual and fallback files so that manual corrections will not be lost.
• The Translation Editor improved to show fallback translation as well as previous versions of language strings.
• Add vector font glyphs Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish.
• New fonts for simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean
• New Danish translation (PCMS_DK)
• Many updates, thanks to:
  • Chinese (timercrack, Qionglu735),
  • Dutch (Loosecannon1983),
  • French (Resziak, Laurent SCOTTÉ, Bastien URBAIN, Vinoz),
  • German (Flauschküken),
  • Japanese (sakuyan#5658, raidhin, Kensuke Ichinohasama),
  • Russian (skoniks),
  • Spanish (astaroth198-gif, Snargleplax),
  • Swedish (Malkolmi, Svish),
  • Turkish (drokian, The Suxe)

• Allow to multiselect factory equipment and setting the recipe for the entier selection (cannot have different types of equipment in selection)
• LMB/RMB: select a single equipment
• SHIFT + LMB/RMB: to add or an equipment to selection
• LMB x2: select all nearby equipment
• LMB Drag: select all equipment in drag (type is decided by majority)
• Shift + LMB Drag: select all equipment in drag matching existing selection type

• Added option to adjust camera pan speed
• Added option to adjust character text speed during missions
• Small warning will appear in tactical mode when trying to dock without thrusters
• Ships rescued in distress calls can be seen inside before deciding to add them to the fleet or take cash reward
• When selecting item type in the equipment UI panel, focus the search box to allow keyboard input.
• Better layout for Equipment panel type selection.
• Improvements to ship editor layout
• Moved "Orders" window to be above the button and made a little wider
• When drawing walls in the editor, move objects under the wall to a free space. Prevent drawing walls over equipment.
• Software Mouse option to allow mouse cursor to be rendered by the game, useful in case of issues with disappearing hardware cursor.
• Render atmosphere level of rooms with a hull breach and auto close vents of connected doors. Remove open/close vents orders.
• Add "Open game folder" button to "Other" section in settings. The opened folder contains your saves, ships, etc. (but not cloud saves)
• Remove unsold stock from being included in stargate progress bar
• Crackable asteroids have their remaining health shown underneath them
• Reorganised settings menu for improved layout and readability
• Add tooltip for auto trade options triangle toggle
• The "Drone Assembly" technology is no longer needed to fabricate processors

• Fix "BeginCall" appearing in mission summary when destroying all hostiles in a distress call mission
• Fix "Any Equipment" and "Any Cargo" text not fitting in their buttons in the storage window
• Fix Interstellar Logistics Buy/Sell orders interfering with shopping basket in the trade window.
• Fix cost overlap in editor
• Fix [PASSED] and [FAILED] overlap in contract requirements
• Fix jumpgate information sometimes not saving
• Fix meteor storms spawning in fortress systems
• Fix many drone related issues, particularly when leaving them behind in an FTL jump
• #520: You can get stuck at a jump gate that's damaged and not be able to repair it.
• #643: It is possible to lose ships when sector jumping in FreeRoam mode.
• #681: Ships getting stuck docked together during interstellar logistics
• #668: Keybindings sometimes display incorrectly in the settings menu
• #687: Trouble with Tiddlets Part 1 - Artemis ship crew can run out of fuel and no longer dock with player
• #717: Survival fleet can still get separated
• #710: Robot arm is picking from a spot it should not be able to reach

Statistics: Posted by John — Wed Mar 18, 2026 4:56 pm — Replies 0 — Views 12865

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• All drones from destroyed ships are now salvageable[]Don't autosave when completing interstellar logistics jump
• Stargate Window - Progress bar for each component now shows stock on ship and stock due to be sold
• Added confirmation and extra dialogue when cancelling deal with X during the DSI story
• Tweaks and improvements to The Final Stand and Boldly Go endscreen
• All equipment dropdowns can be searched by text

• Fixed: Air reprocessor recipe in assembly table not working.
• Fixed: Tiddlets part 4 crashing when generating the mission.
• Fixed: Scrap metal and processors from destroyed drones not being salvageable.
• Issue #365: Cancelling deal with X in DSI has no warning
• Issue #578: Tiddlets part 3 crashing when completing a local jump.
• Issue #580: Save Game silently fails when the entered name contains an invalid character
• Issue #581: Crashes when loading some saves with Interstellar Logistics orders.
• Issue #583: Starboard and aft weapon labels were mixed up.
• Issue #587: Crew can't run out of oxygen when in spacesuit until first FTL jump
• Issue #589: Drones get stuck trying to salvage stranded drones
• Issue #590: Items in a ship design affect fabrication price
• Issue #595: Sometimes UMC Astral Temptress doesn't turn friendly after call completes
• Issue #594: Sector map displaying wrong location, ship failing to FTL

Statistics: Posted by John — Wed Dec 17, 2025 12:43 pm — Replies 0 — Views 12272

• Added some tooltips to Tactical screen
• Selecting one of your ships in tactical view now snaps the view to align with that ship (just as it does outside of tactical view)
• The Food and Water demand system has been changed: The crew now eat and drink at ten different times, consuming the same amount as before, but only 1/10th the population at a time. The overall demand is the same, but the demand is more spread out, making it easier to balance the systems (especially with very large populations)
• New Research items added to allow construction of habitation equipment:

• Fixed: autosave timer alert getting stuck when disabling autosave with it on-screen
• Fixed: system locations sometimes overlapping
• Fixed: Crew will no longer accidentally unload docking ports and drone bays onto Tracks
• Fixed: Radiation not being calculated correctly on grated floors
• Fixed: Hydroponics get blocked when a full container of food is in its slot
• Fixed: Space-walking crew no longer drop their box when install job is cancelled.
• Fixed: Tiddlets Part 1: Ensure tiddlets are salvageable after conversation with Prof. Toppingbury
• Fixed: Saves in the middle of FTL alignment will now resume the alignment process.
• Fixed: Powergrid screen displaying wrong categories when modifying power settings while paused or when removing objects while category turned off.
• Fixed: Sometimes crew get stuck in Spacesuit Pods.
• Fixed: You cannot override the docking assistant using the on-screen maneuvering controls in the Tactical view
• Issue #147: Move objects that are unsupported by the ship hull into freespace.
• Issue #545: Rotate orders are not saved
• Issue #554: Spacesuits dropped on space side of docking port
• Issue #556: Robot arms stop interacting with storage crate
• Issue #558: Analyse anomaly mission will pay again if the ship assigned to it is destroyed
• Issue #559: Ship selection in Arena Mode not possible (Scaling issue)
• Issue #566: Assembly Tables require more input components than advertised
• Issue #570: Groups of ships with move orders set, one will suddenly change course for no reason
• Issue #571: Radiation tutorial gets stuck if you move the equipment to another ship
• Issue #572: Crew Do Not Remove Full Containers From Loaders at Speeds Greater Than 5X
• Issue #573: Partial Food Boxes. Allow partial containers to combine leaving a smaller partial container behind.
• Issue #574: Battle Stations persists when no armed ships are in the system
• Issue #575: Brave New Sector part 3 won't work if you've not started Trouble with Tiddlets part 1
• Issue #576: Storage crates getting stuck in dumping state after cancelling dismantle job

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