Starbase will go down for maintenance in approximately 30 minutes and the estimated downtime is one hour. We are rolling out the first major update since the Early Access launch, patch notes below
Major Updates
- Increased base crafting speed by 3x
- Premade ships may still encounter issues with Easy Build Mode
- We advise to avoid using Easy Build Mode with premade ships
- If player relogs while working in Easy Build Mode their ship may split in two; one containing the Easy Build Mode modifications, the other their original ship
- Resource containers of a ship are emptied after the ship reloads or saves in Easy Build Mode
- The setting "Host Owned Ships" is not on by default when it should be
- The setting can be found in Settings -> Gameplay -> Ships & Safe Zones -> Host Owned Ships
- Fixed Bolt Tool's 1st person fire, move and interaction animations not activating correctly
- Fixed autobolting issues between Rail Cannon Ammo Struct and Utility Tool & Rail Cannon Capacitor
- Fixed collision errors with slanted station parts
- Fixed misaligned Ore Tower Resource Bridge holograms
- Fixed a typo in Dynastar's ship shop logo and hologram animation
- Improved Tools & Weapons Crafting Bench upgrade bolt profile
- Removed a floating lamp from the Work Hub
- Updated lighting in Marketplace and in a skyscraper roof
- Updated multiple station slot LODs and LOD textures
- Updated the chair hologram ad in all Origin stations
- Updated sign holograms in Refill Stations
- Fixed some asteroids vanishing when they were approached
- Fixed rare materials spawning in incorrect locations
- Added UI sounds
- Refill Stations
- Research Tree menu
- Fixed Ore Collector not always playing collection sounds
- Fixed Audio Signal Device Mark I's device values not being clamped if the device wasn't powered
- Reduced Tripod Autocannon Projectile Energy from 365 to 310
- Added smooth camera movement to weapon recoil
- Fixed a bug where the player was able to reload infantry weapons by canceling the reload animation
- Fixed newly added company members appearing as offline
- Increased base crafting speed by 3x
- Fixed a bug with queuing empty container after full or refill
- Fixed freezes when canceling large crafts
- Fixed the game crashing if the player died near a Crafting Bench
- Fixed a misconfiguration on Monitor Upgrade
- Now correctly requires Meter upgrade to craft
- Fixed double refills when crafting full or refill variants
- Improved performance when canceling crafting with large inventory
- Improved refunded material slotting performance and made it more reliable
- Added highlights for newly unlocked craftables in Crafting menu
- Added an inventory error message to chat
- Categorized all station parts into subcategories in Crafting -> Station Parts
- Removed Karnite requirement from Power Packs
- Station window assets now consume 5x more materials than Station Easy Build modules (they consumed 100x previously, so reduced the cost by 20x)
- Removed the snap points for Crafting Bench upgrades so that they can be freely placed on the table
- Tools & Weapon Crafting Bench
- Added 2 more bolting spots to Rifle Clamp Upgrade
- Advanced Crafting Bench
- Added more room for bolts at the bottom
- Fixed save icon saving messing up the Easy Build ship
- Fixed Laborer modules breaking after entering Easy Build Mode in tutorial
- Fixed unhandled exception after despawning a ship
- Fixed unhandled exception after placing modules that had a Thruster Triangle
- Fixed unhandled exception caused by snapping
- Fixed an issue that caused the ships to despawn incorrectly requiring a towing fee
- Fixed being able to place overlapping modules if a ship spawned and the player entered Easy Build Mode at the same time
- Fixed snapping for Bottleneck 4 Curved module
- The module should now allow placing Curved Basic module on both sides
- Fixed using Insurance Transfering during Easy Build Mode deleting the ship
- Added a warning text for entering Easy Build Mode with premade ships
- Added more attempts to respawn ship on Easy Build Mode exit
- Added modules to their corresponding nodes and crafting categories
- Basic 1 Large Propellant (Vertical)
- Basic 1 Large Propellant (Horizontal)
- Basic 1 Tier 1 Maneuver Thruster
- L-Shape 1 Large Propellant
- U-Shape 1 Large Propellant
- L-Shape 1 Medium Propellant
- L-Shape Corner 3 Hardpoint
- Disabled dropping regular objects from the inventory in any Easy Build Mode
- Updated modules which could cause durability errors
- L-Shape Basic Corner
- Corner 1 Ore Crate
- Fixed Easy Build Mode placement breaking down after modifying station access rights
- Fixed stations outside the safe zone not getting a safe zone
- Fixed Station Foundation Projector's rotation not matching the player when placed
- Fixed a module missing some snap points
- Corrected the naming of the Block Module V1 sets
- Factory Halls
- Factory areas now change colors depending on area state
- Factory hall names are no longer visible in the universe
- Added Talkite, Targium, Daltium, Ymrium and Naflite to the ore terminal sell list so they can be sold to station
- New bank accounts start with 1000 credits instead of 0
- Fixed stations to save changes when parts are moved to Factory Halls
- Added a safe zone area between the Fast Travel Gates
- No player or ship damage during Fast Travel allowed
- Added improvements for player support handling to speed up the process
- Updated HUD default positions
- Crafted item pop-up
- Stamina bar
- Crafting and research shortcuts
- Added some pressed feedback to Easy Build Mode's toolbar icon buttons
- Fixed squished down main menu logo
- Fixed not being able to rebind "Toggle sprint"
- Added Delete option to item slot context menu
- Fixed ores getting lost from inventory when stacking ores in a certain way
- Ores that were lost to this bug are possible to be recovered, see instructions below:
- Upon game start and entering universe, two random lost ores are placed into the player backpack's two ore slots, so make sure they are vacant
- The ores can then be safely removed from the slots and put into storage, restarting the game again will allow the player to recover more ore by repeating the process, until all ore is restored
- You can check from the ore sell panel (panels at the either side of the normal item sell panel at marketplace) if you still have unrecovered ores, though ore lost to possible other bugs are not confirmed to be restored this way
- If the ore does not appear, selling other bugged items from the normal item sell panel may make the ores start appearing
- Ores that were lost to this bug are possible to be recovered, see instructions below:
- Added translation updates for all languages
- Updated credits
- Polished profanity filter
- Removed "Log out" option from ESC menu
- Missile LOD explosions are now synced and explode correctly
- Fixed ships that are loaded while resting or hovering on moon surface colliding with the surface violently after loading
- Fixed gravity not working on a moon
- Optimized planet textures for saving GPU memory
- Added green borders to the window
- Added missing L-shape 8 Battery module to Tier 1 Generators node
- Fixed tooltip offsetting
- Nodes
- Moved Cargo Lock Beam modules to correct node
- Added missing Cooling Cells to T1 Generator node
- Added two missing parts to Plasma Thruster node
- Added Turret Cradle Advanced to Autocannon node
- Added missing Solar Power Converter to Solar Panels node
- Added optimizations to multiple servers
- Fixed a bug where the player lost the ability to control the ship if they tried to leave a chair without having enough space
- Fixed ships getting despawned when left on Station Easy Build areas
- Durability error chat message now also advises to open the Universal Tool and to run a durability check
- Limited ship LOD uploads to every 30-45 seconds
- Fixed player-made ship "Antares" Twin Frame Freighter
- Updated player-made ships
- Esaro
- Marmot-MN
- Moti
- Updated dev-made ship Vector
- Updated ship descriptions
- Longhorn
- Manta
- Mastodon
- Tick
- Paint Tool
- Paint Tool can now paint or remove continuously while MB1 or MB2 are held down
- Fixed not being able to paint unowned parts outside of safe zones
- Fixed active transponders in a ship not being visible to the ship owner
- Fixed a Mining Job tutorial crash
- Fixed Crafting tutorial progress not being saved
- Tutorial object arrow is now hidden if distance is greater than 100 km
- Changed Crafting tutorial crafting objective to progress from modules being crafted instead of counting inventory contents
- Fixed an issue where the tutorial objective couldn't be cleared if the player placed the first module before the second module was created
- Improved hints in Tutorial for menus and inventories
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