Hi All, I'm working on a big content update at the moment and trying to slash the tech debt on this project down, which is why there hasn't been an update for few weeks.

• Fixed an issue where more than one probe could not be deployed at once without refreshing game screen
• Additional minor fixes

Hi All, this is a bigger update than usual this week and an earlier update than usual. We missed last week's update due to personal reasons, and this one is coming early because of the long UK bank holiday weekend! In this update we introduce three feature overhauls

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Additional notes

• We've introduce new additional crafting objects (along side the new feature objects, such as imaging probes and datacards).
• We've completed the necessary backend code to support tooling. This means that certain recipes may soon require a prefabricated tool before it can be crafted
• We've introduced some minor bug fixes

In this update we introduce two key new features "AI Markets" and keyboard controls. AI markets allow you to trade with stations without having to find another player to buy, or sell you the goods you need. AI markets will eventually be expanded to allow higher class market devices to provide better quality resources, and a wider range of pre-fabricated products. Keyboard controls allow you to use hotkeys to access key screens, we're still in the process of updating the interface to provide tips on what these hotkeys are, and to rebind them to different keys as you see fit. We've also introduced a daily credit allowance, every 24 hours, you can claim 1000 credits by click the calendar icon next to your credit total at the top of the screen Today we also introduce new crafting recipes, these recipes include new miners, in particular a new suite of class 2 miners (and some improved class 1 miners) as well as a new ship and new class 2 mining platform. A special thanks to our new content creator Alexandra for her work creating these assets and setting them up! We've also introduced some bug fixes for bug reports we've received.

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Further Crew Updates

In this minor update, we introduce a couple of bug fixes, and a new view to the ship screen that allows players to see the combined stats for their ships. This is done to help players see the benefits of adding crews to their ships, and the effect crews have on their ships. We've also introduced more abilities for crews that increase the diversity of crews skills.

Crews! That's right, they're here. We've just implemented a new crew system that allows you to recruit members to your ship, assign them to positions and from those assignments gain stat boosts. Here's the gist of the mechanics. - A crew member has a level, a class, stats (strength, speed, intellect), a personality type and an ability. - Levels affect the effectiveness of a crew member's abilities, and the size of the team the crew member manages, the bigger the team, the more life support you'll need to support the crew member and their team. - Stats will be used later for assignments and missions, where you deploy a crew member (or multiple crew members) to complete missions - Each crew member has an ability, this ability yields improvements in a ship's stats. This ability might increase jump range, or decrease fuel usage, it might mean that generators use less fuel, or supply a greater amount of power. - Each crew member has a personality, this personality affects other crew members (if your ship has more than one crew member), the personality can increase the effectiveness of other personality types, or decrease the effectiveness depending on the mix of personalities aboard your ship - no personality is inherently bad, but some are more useful than others, and some work better with others Things to know: - This is a big new update, although on its surface it may not seem like a lots changed, under the hood it has required major modifications to the core game code - There's still new content to come, we're still introducing new personalities, new abilities, and the ability to send crew members on away missions, all of this will be coming over the next few weeks - Crews are procedurally generated and still experimental! I haven't made available all the personality types and abilities yet. This means that, if you recruit a crew member now, your crew member's abilities and personality might change - We're still updating related assets to match the new code. For example, some ships may not yet have crew slots available on them, these will be coming soon (a couple of days at most) TL;dr the hard work developing the crew code is done, now the fun part of release lots of content on top this code begins, stay tuned over the next couple of weeks as we bring in loads of new content. As always, please join us on Discord where you can share thoughts, feedback and complaints!

Hi All, Sorry for the barren week of updates and bug fixes, alas, I have been moving house and been otherwise occupied. In these latest updates, I've introduced some more CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete), which means:

• You can now move stuff between inventories - particularly useful if you want to use your ship's inventory for storage whilst using another ship to jump to a different system
• You can now delete stuff from inventories - no more pesky leftover resources or spare components or parts you've crafted, inventory deletion allows you to get rid of stuff
• You can now destroy ships - This only works if you have more than one ship in a system (otherwise you would strand yourself) - note that by deleting a ship, you also delete the contents of it's inventory, any parts or equipment attached to it.

So, let's be honest... That Mission system. Amirite? In this update we refined and overhauled the mission system to make on-boarding simpler. This should lower the chance of soft-locking early in the game by giving the player a solid base of resources and material to work with. We also introduce some smaller bug fixes and general Quality of life improvements. As always this is still an early access game, so we expect to improve substantially on this system as we introduce more mechanics and structures. If you have any bugs, feedback, or just want to hang out and chat with other players, join us on Discord

It's time for our first feature release following our launch into Steam Early Access. This feature release we introduce both new schematics, new materials, and new gameplay mechanics.

• A new scanner system as part of the Jump Drive menu, allows you to scan systems before jumping (provided you have a scanner installed on your ship)
• Two new ships, The Pytheas-X is a nimbler, class 1 ship, which allows you to attach an additional harvester (a nuclear reactor) along side solar panels, and also allows for the attaching of a scanner
• The Hippalus is the first class 2 ship, which allows you to attach class 2 components, and mining equipment, making it possible to mine on the move
• New class 2 probes for general, mineral, gas and ferrous metal extraction are now available
• New class 1 probe, for harvesting wood from a planet (where wood is available)
• A new gas extraction miner for extracting gas from a planet as part of either a mining platform or a mining ship
• Fixed a bug where crafting would remove all materials of a certain type from inventory
• Fixed a bug where hoppers refused the selection of certain types of resources when harvesting
• Fixed a bug where the nuclear reactor would not have any nuclear energy available to start harvesting
• Fixed a bug where probes could be deployed to a planet where no resources existed that the probe is capable of harvesting
• Updated Dient system to include all major metal groups (to make life easier)

Thanks to everyone in the discord for a great conversation, and for submitting so many bugs, we've squashed a lot of bugs both on the server, and on the client and this patch fixes those client side bugs

• Fixed an issue where the quality stats for objects being crafted were being computed wrong. They're now correct as defined in the usage guide.
• Fixed an issue where the credits wouldn't update when you buy an item on the market
• Fixed an issue where structures wouldn't be created when crafted
• Fixed an issue where mining platforms would not allow you to mine resources if the resource selected was a general type e.g. minerals, chemicals etc.

New minor bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the soundtrack was looping with a pause in the middle
• Updated the interface for Refuelers so that the amount of resource (usually energel) available is shown in the dropdown
• Fixed an issue where small jump distances incurred no energel consumption, any jump that would consume less than 1 energel will now consume 1 energel
• Fixed an issue where the client was polling the server multiple times to try to verify mission objectives

Firstly, thanks to everyone who's bought the game so far, and thanks to everyone for taking the time to send in your bug reports. I'm sorry this game launched with any bugs in but, that's the nature of the beast, right? Here's what we've fixed:

• Fixed an issue where settings and quit buttons weren't showing in the production version of the game
• Similarly, fixed a bug that meant that the login screen had been locked out
• Fixed an issue with crafting where recipes weren't acknowledging that players had selected the correct resources
• Fixed an issue where only one probe could be dropped in a system, and the game would need to be restarted or ship jumped to a new system to probe again

We launched today after taking our web-based beta offline, due to issues in the differences between the browser and electron-based steam version of the game. However, in taking the web-based beta offline we actually also blocked access to the electron-based steam version. It's fixed, so sorry about that!