Hey everyone!

Its been three full years since the Early Access release of Planet S! Thank you all for following us on this journey and for all the great feedback over the years! As this update marks an anniversary we packed more stuff into this patch than usually. We focused on some key quaility of life features and a much improved introduction and tutorial experience for new players.

Automatic Desync Recovery

We added a system that will automatically reload / synchronize the game state after a desync was detected in multiplayer matches. Recovering from a desync is pretty much as quick as loading a savegame. The recovery will trigger automatically and you also still get a savegame for when the desync happened.

Reworked Introduction

This update also introduces a new section in the main menu with new ways to learn and get into the game. It allows you to easily play or replay the tutorial but we also added links to our official Steam guides and most importantly four dedicated scenario style tutorials to introduce new players to research, trade routes, diplomacy and combat mechanics. Lucas will guide you through these scenarios.

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Remastered Tier 1 & 2 Buildings

We also thought that it would be time to revisit some of the oldest buildings in Planet S to give them a some touch ups and to adjust their detail level to the newer buildings from Tier 3 & 4.

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Other Features

+ Added an option to choose a skybox when creating a new game + Added more main menu background planets (including a very special planet for anyone who completed the DLC story)

Quality of life

~ Improved creative mode tooltips ~ Improved Share & Diplomacy related localizations ~ Faction flags are now also displayed and used throughout the diplomacy menu ~ The creative mode building menu will now only allow you to place a spaceport if the planet you are on wasn't colonized yet

Bug fixes

* Fixed some spelling errors & improved various translations in the Japanese localization * Fixed multiple potential crashes that could occure when a bot loses its last planet * Fixed a bug that caused mods in multiplayer lobbies with more than 2 players to crash the game * Fixed a bug that caused the active dialog to not be saved correctly * Fixed a display issue related to spaceship speed * Fixed an issue that didn't allow you to place buildings in the creative mode without having the resources available in your planets inventory * Fixed a bug that caused spaceships to not be positioned correctly after loading a savegame in creative mode * Fixed a UI issue in the diplomacy menu that caused the status between player 2 & 3 to not be displayed *Fixed a bug that allowed players to enforce war between to other players as a consequence through the diplomacy menu * Fixed the shield technology being always unlocked for all factions in the creative mode * The planet limit (24) will now also be enforced for mods - Removed some lua libraries from mod lua scripts

Shop page

We also took this opportiunity to remake our main shop page. We updated all screenshots and all headers & capsules to better represent the current look of the game especially after the changes in lighting.

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Summer Sale

Also if you haven't noticed yet, the DLC for Planet S is currently on a 20% sale! So this is a good opportunity to go and check it out!

[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3448720/Planet_S__A_new_Horizon/"][/dynamiclink]

That's it for this slightly larger than usual patch!

Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-07-01 19:01:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This is just a small patch to address a couple of issues.

Bug fixes

* Fixed a random crash that could happen during game startup * [DirectX 12] Implemented a workaround for a graphical issue on AMD GCN based GPUs Thats it for now! Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-04-20 12:53:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Here is another set of fixes and improvements for Planet S and A New Horizon!

Localization

+ NEW Planet S - A New Horizon is now also fully available in german * Fixed various localization errors throughout the game and DLC

Quality of life

+ You can now hold shift while upgrading a building to also upgrade all other buildings of the same type at once + Added a quest completion sound effect + Improved various dialogs in A New Horizon ~ Merged the two ways to pause the game in creative mode as it was confusing ~ Adjusted the brightness / lighting conditions depedning on the active skybox

Modding

+ Added "selfRotationPerSecond" as a new attribute to planet types which allows you to override the speed of the day night cycle of a planet type + Added a cubemap option to the editor which allows you to create custom cubemaps for skyboxes (world types have an attribute to select a custom skybox "overrideSkyboxTextureID")

Balancing

~ Reduced the required hydrogen production rate in "A new Beginning" ~ Adjusted the bot behavior and added depots to the building menu in "Against the Circle" ~ Made various balancing adjustments and improved displayed information in "Defense" ~ Improved depot looting quest in "Sabotage" ~ Rebalanced technology point costs and bot behavior in "Monopoly" ~ Adjusted research and construction for the Refined Exo spaceship in "The final Race" ~ Various balancing changes and fixes in the final scenario

Bug fixes

* Fixed a rendering related glitch or potential crash with various hardware configurations * Fixed a bug that allowed players to delete other players trade entries * Fixed tax bonuses for city buildings * Fixed bots accepting offers to sell their final planet * Fixed a crash that could occur when sending a fleet * Fixed a weird trade route menu item count unreliability * Fixed buggy trader budgets after loading a savegame Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-03-24 23:53:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This update addresses a very common desync issue as well as some spaceship routing bugs that where caused by the new warp gates. It also contains support for a Cezch translation for the base game.

Localization

+ Added a Cezch translation by Dejw & Ertan for the base game!

Dyson probes

~ Dyson probes of defeated factions will now be freed up so that the remaining factions can take those probe slots

Bug fixes

* Fixed a bug that caused severe desync problems in multiplayer matches with bots * Fixed a bug that prevented the creative mode achievement from getting unlocked * Fixed drones disapearing randomly (especially on higher game speeds) * Fixed several warp gate related spaceship routing issues * Fixed a music issue in the last cutscene of the Simulation mission * Fixed bots becoming more aggressive instead of nicer towards stronger opponents If you played the DLC already, we would love to hear your feedback in the forum, Discord or as a review! Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-03-06 22:13:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! The time has finally come! Here is the next big update for Planet S! The update will include a new end game mechanic, a creative mode, scenario support and most importantly: Support for our first DLC "Planet S - A New Horizon" which adds a story campaign to the game.

NEW Dyson swarm

You can now research a new technology called "Dyson swarm" which will unlock a new building with which you can launch Dyson probes to build a Dyson Swarm. The Dyson swarm will not be an unlimited energy source for regular buildings but will instead grant you Warp gate capacity. More on that in the next section.
Every player can produce and send probes but there is a limit of 2000 probes at which point the swarm will be complete. Probes can be traded through diplomacy in multiplayer matches.

NEW Warp gate

The Warp gate is a new building which can be unlocked by researching the corresponding technology. Each Warp gate requires a Warp gate capacity point. You get one point per 200 Dyson probes.
Warp gates act as a shortcut for all your ships. Your ships will calculate the shortest path when send somewhere and they will also incorporate Warp gates if they provide a faster route to get from point A to B. All of your Warp gates are connected to each other.

NEW Creative mode

Update 1.2.0 also adds a Creative mode to Planet S. You can load existing savegames or create new savegames and modify the system without any resource or unlock restrictions. You can spawns ships, change item storage levels, adjust names or colony ownership and a lot more.
Creative mode is currently only available in singleplayer.

Bots

Bots have been greatly overhauled and are now a lot more capable in almost every area but especially combat. Here is a list of a few highlights and notable changes:

• Bots can now go down the military path instead of just science
• Easy bots are less agressive and will not declare war on their own while normal and especially hard bots are a lot more agressive
• Bots will now build attack fleets
• Bots can also build an exo spaceship and win the game
• Bots will now react to exo spaceships being launched

Modding

We expanded the modding capabilities in many areas:

• Support for custom skyboxes
• Support for custom scenarios
• Customizable sun color and size
• Building materials can be overwritten (which ones are shown left of the minimap)
• Expanded building menu override capabilities

There are a ton of additional functions (especially in regards to scenarios) which we won't cover here. We will update our modding documentation an additional guide for scenario modding in the coming weeks.

Scenarios

As mentioned in the modding section, the game now supports custom scenarios which are singleplayer "missions" with custom quests, tasks and logic. The game currently doesn't ship with any scenarios but we hope to release some free scenarios in the future. You will also be able to create and install user scenarios through the Steam Workshop.

UI

+ The sun now has a menu and is selectable. It displays information about the Dyson swarm. + Completly new main menu ~ Adjusted the ingame UI in several areas: Resources and garrision stats are now at the top center, research progress in the top right. ~ The building menu no longer uses number pages (I, II, III ...) and is now scrollable instead + The statistics menu is now accessible through a button in the top colony menu + Added a "Jump to spaceport" button to the colony menu which will bring you directly to the spaceport of the planet that you are currently on ~ Improved the usability of the trade route and diplomacy menu in some areas ~ The icon selector in the flag editor is now a list instead of a cycle button

Other features & Quality of life

+ A world will now select a random skybox based on its seed + Added a debt limit world option + Increased the item storage limit to 32 bit which means you can now have more than 4 billion items + You can now hold SHIFT while placing a farm building to automatically place farm fields at the same time ~ Bots will now automatically reenable when loading a savegame so you don't have to reenable them manually

Bug fixes

* Fixed a few translation issues * Fixed a bug that caused trade routes to not be displayed correctly when using DX12 * Fixed atmosphere and cloud rendering on devices running Linux Mesa * Fixed battle music playing in some weird situations * Fixed a bug that caused solar power plants to produce power even when the collectors were ruined * Fixed gas planets playing ocean ambient sounds * Fixed an issue that could cause the UI to disappear * Fixed a roman numbering issue * Fixed "Protein powder" and "Vitamin extract" having the wrong item category

Performance

~ Improved performance in many areas * Fixed an issue that caused random frame hitching / stuttering especially in large savegames These are the most notable changes and fixes! As always we would love to hear your feedback, especially in regards to the new features and of course the story campaign. Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-02-28 18:01:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Planet S - A New Horizon and Update 1.2 will release on the 28th of February! The DLC will cost 5.99$ USD. We also made a little trailer: [previewyoutube=pl2juHvi7do;full][/previewyoutube] Here is a quick recap of all the stuff that will be part of the update:

• Creative mode with everything unlocked - no resources required!
• Dyson Swarm & Warp Gates as new end game technologies
• Extended modding capabilities including support for custom singleplayer scenarios, including quests
• Tons of Quality of Life improvements
• DLC only: A full story campaign told in 10 unique scenarios with character dialogs & gameplay adapations!

If you haven't wishlisted the DLC yet, it would help us out a lot: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3448720/Planet_S__A_new_Horizon/ Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-02-21 20:43:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! The Yggdrasil Foundation is an independent research organization funded by the Coalition for intergalactic Travel (CIT). Their main goal is to research potential points of interest in galaxies yet out of reach. They operate from the planet with the same name, located in a solar system guarded by the Yggdrasil Division of its military alliance.
Theodor Renex and his best friend Vincent Oswald Chambers are the lead scientists of Yggdrasil. When they discovered the possibility of a unique new type of planet, they handled that information with great care. But despite their efforts to keep it a secret, rumors about its supposed impossible materials and new forms of life started spreading. Theodor insisted on keeping quiet however, even when a CIT council member tried to exert some pressure. Could such a planet truly exist? Here's another little fun fact for Valentines Day: Theodors wife Myla Hazels mother serves as a Major for the Yggdrasil Division. Their relationship could be a little stale at times, but in the end they both love their family dearly! Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-02-14 15:06:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! In our upcoming DLC Planet S A New Horizon you will play as Hazel Renex, an ambitious young Commander with a strong determination to uncover the truth behind the research of her father. Discover more about her role in the story and what else the DLC will have to offer on our shop page! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3448720 Please note that the DLC will only be available in English at the time of its release! All skyboxes shown will become part of the base game with the free update accompanying the DLC, alongside the Creative Mode we used to create the scenario worlds. Additionally, you will be able to utilize Dyson probes in multiplayer to gather the suns power for a very specific purpose but lets not ruin all of the surprises! Wishlisting our DLC would help us a lot, even if you dont plan to buy it! Thank you and enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-02-03 18:58:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Prof. Heinrich Dresher is a former council member of the Coalition for intergalactic Travel (CIT) and is thus regarded as one of their great pioneers. He is driven by his thirst for knowledge which eventually led him to a feud with the Yggdrasil Foundation. When CIT refused to back him up, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Dresher betrayed CIT and stole their sensitive research data to provide it to his new organization the Circle of Omniscience. He knows exactly that CIT would never dare to make a move against him. The Circles current goal is a mystery, but they are rumored to have struck a deal with the Crimson Wolves. Something big is about to happen. We hope that you liked this little teaser as well! We are planning to share some more substantial information about the DLC next week, so keep an eye out for that! Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-01-24 17:26:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Crimson Wolves are regarded as one of the most dangerous groups of mercenaries in the entire galaxy. It is said that their forces could even rival official military alliances. Despite that they follow a simple philosophy: They dont pick fights they arent paid for.
Their leaders name is Kroger. While hes often portrayed as a fierce maniac, in reality he always keeps a calm mind. As long as theres enough money on the table, hes willing to take any contract be it the extermination of relentless pirates or the besiegement of a highly militarized planet. Usually he acts as the Commander himself. And soon he will meet his match. We hope you enjoyed our next little teaser! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-01-17 22:04:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Coalition for intergalactic Travel (CIT) emerged from a collaboration between some illustrious pioneers who all shared the same goal: To expand the reach of humanity beyond a single galaxy. Their greatest invention to date is the Exo spaceship, which has already revolutionized travels between solar systems far apart from one another. If they manage to refine it even further, who knows where it might lead them? CIT is governed by a council of dedicated scientists while their research missions are conducted by their Commanders.
Lucas works as an assistant for CITs Commanders, serving as the link between them and the inhabitants of their colonies. Hes rather excitable and tends to get along with everyone. Usually he tries to steer away from conflicts, but he will soon realize that CITs newest Commander is not as hesitant. We hope you enjoyed this little teaser! The topic resulted from a poll on our Discord. We are planning to provide you with more teasers like this in the coming weeks. So you might want to keep an eye out for more polls and stay tuned for more! Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2025-01-09 18:16:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This patch brings a few changes and a some bug fixes. We are currently working hard on the upcoming DLC, but we thought it's time for a small update. So here we go!

Features:

+ Introduced debt limit of -10.000 credits + Rocket silos now only consume upkeep when not idle + Added additional fireball particles to nuke explosion

Modding API:

+ Configure start spaceships and start items via world type

Quality of Life:

+ Delimiters (spaces) in various labels for better readability of high numbers

Bug fixes:

* Fixed mod priority not being accounted for in all scenarios * Pausing rocket silos allowed for rocket construction without power draw * Fixed item stack tooltip not working showing the production / consumption stats for clay * Fixed a lighting issue at planet poles * Fixed a reflection issue on water * Fixed visual overlapping bug next to the minimap
Here you can see the added fire ball particles. When was the last time you nuked your opponents? Enjoy! Glimmerlight Games

[ 2024-12-18 21:09:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone, for the last few months we have been hard at work on the next big update for Planet S and we are happy to finally talk about it! As you might have already guessed from our teaser article two weeks ago, it will be a bit different from previous updates. We won't go into every detail yet but the next big update will mainly focus on new end game content (both multiplayer and singleplayer) as well as scenario modding for singleplayer. Building on that we are also going to release a DLC for Planet S. Over the last two years there were many of you who asked for ways to support and this will be a way to do that while getting something back in return. The DLC will add a campagne with a story and different missions to play. We are aiming for a release within the next two months so expect more infos soon!
In other news as you might have already noticed we changed our name from TeamJA to Glimmerlight Games! We feel better about that name moving forward and it should also be easier to pronounce internationally. That's all for now! [strike]TeamJA[/strike] Glimmerlight Games :)

[ 2024-11-18 18:32:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

[ 2024-11-05 19:34:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This patch fixes a couple of issues and adds some QoL improvements.

Quality of Life:

+ Added a button to delete flag presets + Improved usability of the trade route UI + Added the ability to zoom in and out using the keyboard (Arrow up + Arrow down to zoom in / out)

Balancing:

~ The interplanetary laser will now start with a cooldown when placed down

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a crash that could occure when selecting a bot owned spaceship * Fixed a visual glitch related to modded atmospheres * Fixed being able to control or group spaceships from other players * Fixed some localization errors Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-10-18 19:50:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This patch fixes another couple of bugs.

Bug fixes:

* FIxed savegames loading with an incorrect game speed applied * Fixed a bug causing bots to get confused when to expand their cities * Fixed a "Missing building on tile" desync when upgrading a residence Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-09-08 16:54:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This is smaller patch which adds a new world / game options aswell as a couple of fixes.

NEW Game speed:

+ You can now change the speed of the game during world creation. This will allow you to play faster paced rounds for example. The speed influences how quickly buildings operate / produce goods among other things.

Modding:

+ You can now remove existing objects from the game via mod scripts (this is currently limited to spaceships, rockets, buildings and items). To remove an object you now call clearItem / clearRocket / clearBuilding or clearSpaceship with the ID of the object to remove.

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a potential desync related to power * Fixed an editor issue that caused it to not create certain folder structures * Fixed a desync related to research Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-08-29 21:51:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This patch brings the functionality to override & extend content objects via the modding API and a bunch of bug fixes and other changes.

Modding API:

* Overriding existing content objects (see our modding guide to learn how: link) * Disable achievements when mods are active * Warning in Planet S Tools (the editor) when selecting models, sounds or texture files with an unsupported file extension * Fixed bot getting stuck when using the "forbidUsageForBots" flag

General features:

* "Completed production cycles" in buildings, keeping track of how often it produced items, spaceships or power (starts with 0 in savegames prior to this version)

QoL:

* Each colony has a fixed, predefined name to avoid duplicate names when colonizing new planets (colonies can still be renamed and keep their names when being re-colonized) * Ctrl + Left click to add or remove single spaceships to or from the current selection

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a pirate related spaceship desync * Fixed a spaceship desync causing incorrect spaceship targeting * Fixed a general desync caused by game ticks being skipped by clients if just the right amount of actions were done in one game tick (mostly commanding a lot of spaceships at once) * Fixed "Empty" world type in new lobbies as client * Fixed a UI related deadlock, causing a game crash * Fixed savegames sorting being broken in the Load menu * Fixed a bug causing research effects to stack, resulting in insanely high numbers (e.g. speed or shield range)

Performance:

~ Improved performance in several areas especially on lower end GPUs Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-07-19 21:35:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This patch brings improvements to the modding API and a few small fixes.

Modding API:

* Bots can now be prevented from using buildings, spaceships and technologies by setting the "forbidUsageForBots" property * Items used as construction materials are now correctly being shown in popups

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a bug causing the neutral trader to spawn way too early and too often * Fixed bots (especially hard ones) getting stuck on the first technology which requires third tier residents * Fixed a bug in the german translation, preventing the construction costs of rockets to be displayed Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-06-30 21:36:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This patch bring a couple of small fixes and some additional debugging things for us to troubleshoot the desync issue that is still going on.

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a crash / application hang when switching vSync on or off (DirectX 12) * Fixed an issue that caused bots to stop progressing when playing with mods that add new production buildings for existing items * Fixed a power related desync issue Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-06-16 16:09:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This is just a quick hotfix that fixes a couple of bugs.

Bug fixes:

* Fixed weird item behavior in production buildings * Fixed sun mesh being too low poly * Fixed savegame timestamps Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-06-09 16:41:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This update brings another set of bug fixes and small improvements!

Bug fixes:

* Fixed technologies and progress not loading correctly * Fixed tech tree being locked again after loading a save * Fixed a bug that caused savegames to not be loadable directly after saving them without restarting the game * Fixed bots being overly aggressive for no reason * Fixed an issue that caused items to be offset * Fixed an issue that caused the chat message sound to play inconsistently * Fixed bots ignoring some research conditions * Fixed broken tile cutouts for mine ruins (DirectX 12 only) * Fixed a potential crash that could occure after a player left a multiplayer game * Fixed several DX12 crashes * Fixed a Vulkan related crash when using older hardware * Fixed several modding API related issues and crashes * Fixed planet limit not being enforced during world gen which could cause game instability * Fixed resources not being generated if a planet has only a single biome * Fixed technology effects stacking incorrectly Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-06-08 21:31:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! We are back with a new patch for Planet S fixing a few problems with yesterdays Modding Update!

Quality of Life:

• Warning in the console when trying to generate a world with an unknown planet type to allow better debugging when testing mods

Bug fixes:

• Fixed several issues with multiplayer games (shadow-dropped last night)
• Fixed several initial issues with Planet S Tools (shadow-dropped too)
• Fixed easy bot being the most aggressive bot over time, normal and hard bots now also behave correctly
• Fixed broken population type icons shown in unlock condition popup
• Fixed typo in english translation
• Fixed crash when loading linux savegames on windows
• Fixed colonization warning appearing even if the planet has all important resources
• Fixed item slot offset in logistic menu caused by mods
• Fixed crash when destroying a building
• Fixed the game not starting on Steam Deck
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when generating modded resources onto modded tile types
• Fixed a bug that caused research progress to not restore correctly after loading a savegame
• Fixed a bug that prevent savegames from being loaded sometimes

We hope this patch fixes most of the problems and you can now fully enjoy the Modding Update! Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-06-01 16:09:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! The Modding Update is here adding the modding API and support for the Steam Workshop!

NEW Steam Workshop support:

You can create mods using the now available editor "Planet S Tools". It enables you to create assets for Planet S including:

• World types
• Planet types
• Items
• Population types
• Resources
• Ambient objects (such as trees & rocks)
• Rockets
• Buildings
• Spaceships
• Technologies
• and some other things like building menu entries or tile types

This guide explains the basics to get into modding Planet S: [Creating mods for Planet S] For now there is one example mod available in the Workshop. It primary serves as an example for people creating mods but it also adds a bit of content to explore, as this update doesn't add content to the base game. We will expand the documentation and add more examples in the future but if you have any questions or if you need help with mods or modding then check out our new Discord section!

DirectX 12:

The game now supports DirectX 12 which should improve compatibility across the board. You can now choose between DirectX 12 and Vulkan on Windows when starting the game.

Linux:

The game now also ships with a native linux version for both the game and the new tools. This has been a long time in the making and should provide a better experience and performance on Linux devices and the Steam Deck. There might be some bugs that slipped through testing so please let us know if you find any!

Quality of life:

+ Item categories in spaceports, warehouses & depots + Items now have "tiers" like population types, shown by individual color accents ~ Bot aggression is now less dependent on the diplomatic opinion ~ Faster world generation (exspecially on CPUs with many threads) ~ Updated the city center UI to contains only the relevant citizen types

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a crash when hitting pirates with an interplanetary laser * Fixed bots colonizing gas planets

Localization:

+ Added Ukrainian localization by klimuxel

Engine:

~ Implemented various performance optimizations We are looking forward to what you all think and what you will create! Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-05-31 18:00:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! We are back with good news regarding the next big update for Planet S! The Modding Update will release next week on the 31st of May. The update won't bring any new content additions but a hand full of small changes, technical upgrades and of course modding support with Steam Workshop integration! Here is a quick overview:

• Modding Support: You will be able to add your own new content to the game or easily download mods that other players created via the Steam Workshop! The following types of content will be officially supported by our modding API: [olist]
• World types
• Planet types
• Buildings
• Spaceships
• Population types
• Resources
• Items
• "Ambient objects" (like trees, rocks...)
• Rocket types
• Technologies
• Turret types
• Tile types
• Building menu entries [/olist] We will also start shipping a basic editor to create things like buildings or spaceships which will also help you to easily upload your mod to the Workshop. We will also increase the limits for building types and planets per world to make room for more player content. There are still a couple of limitations by the nature of the game like polygon limitations for models but we are open to increase these in the future as needed. Oh and Workshop mods that only use the official API should also work no problem in multiplayer matches! We will release an example mod and some guidance on how to get started on release day and then go from there!
• DirectX 12: Another huge technical addition will be support for DirectX 12. After the update you will be able to choose if you want to use DX12 or Vulkan on Windows. Our hopes is that this will improve compatibility, especially with older drivers and Intel iGPUs.
• Native Linux Support: This has also been in the works for quite a while now and our plans is to have a fully native Linux port ready when the update releases. This should bring better performance and stability for anyone who is using Linux or their Steam Deck to play Planet S, no more translation layer required!
• Multiple performance and QoL improvements

Release time zones: Central European Time (CET): 8 pm Eastern Time (ET): 2 pm Pacific Time (PT): 11 am

[ 2024-05-21 19:35:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! We are back with a new patch for Planet S!

General:

+ Added a couple of bot flag presets by the community that the bots will randomly select when creating a new world (you can submit flag presets on the official Planet S Discord server) ~ Optimized a few areas of the game for better CPU performance

Quality of Life:

+ The energy cost or production will now be displayed next to the energy balance of the colony while trying to build something (similar to the construction costs) + The Spaceport / Warehouse UI will now show a small symbol next to each item to indicate the production balance for that item type in the colony (A small green triangle if the colony produces more than it consumes and a red triangle if the consumption is higher than the production) + Added a tooltip to items in the Spaceport / Warehouse UI that will show you the exact production and consumption rates of that item type
+ Added a tooltip in the spaceship UI with a hint that you can discard items by shift + right clicking them ~ Tweaked the trade routes UI so that you can no longer create invalid trade routes by enforcing the item slot awareness when selecting which items to pick up or drop off

Bug fixes:

* Fixed the interplanetary laser not working against pirates * Fixed the mouse cursor staying invisible when exiting the interplanetary laser while shooting the laser * Fixed the achievement "Ultimate knowledge (Science)" unlocking before unlocking the exo spaceship * Fixed a rendering related crash on higher graphics settings * Fixed a crash that could occure when starting or resizing the game * Fixed an issue that could cause the game to display "GLFW window creation failed" on startup on certain systems We also have been hard at work on the Modding & Workshop Update and we hope to announce more details very soon! Thats it for now! Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2024-03-03 17:33:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This patch just fixes a couple of small bugs!

Bug fixes:

* Fixed an issue that could cause the game screen to get stuck when switching the planet shadow quality from medium to high * Fixed an issue that caused the bot opinion to reset after loading a savegame * Fixed an issue that caused spaceships that were in construction to be finished instantly after loading a savegame * Fixed an issue that could cause item reservations for drones to become invalid causing a bunch of weird issues like a lower actual production than expected (We couldn't fix this retroactively in existing savegames so you might have to destroy and rebuild your colony if you are affected, sorry!) Update: The original version of this patch contained a bug that caused the game to freeze after s short time. This is fixed now. Make sure to restart Steam to trigger the update in case you are still experiencing this issue! Sorry! This will be the last patch for this year. Merry Christmas and see you next year! TeamJA

[ 2023-12-23 23:13:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Here is another set of bug fixes:

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a rare crash when a new spaceship spawns * Fixed an issue that caused decolonization of a planet to be very slow * Fixed an issue that caused the war timer to underflow after loading a savegame * Fixed a bot related crash after a player leaves a game * Fixed a diplomacy UI related crash * Fixed a crash when taking over a colony * Fixed an issue that could cause pirates to get stuck * Implemented a potential fix for the credits desync in multiplayer games Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-12-09 00:06:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! This patch addresses many of the random crashes that happened throughout the game.

Balancing:

~ Drastically increased the buget of the neutral trader especially for tier 4 ~ Increased the cost per share

Quality of Life:

~ Added numbers behind spaceship names when a newly constructed spaceship automatically gets a name assigned after construction that is already in use

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a savegame loading bug that caused the war state of a colony to not be restored correctly * Fixed random crashes caused by lasers * Fixed random crashes caused by bots * Fixed a UI memory corruption * Fixed a lobby savegame transfer issue that caused the transfer to never start * Fixed a lobby bug that caused faction colors to get messed up when kicking a bot in a savegame lobby * Fixed a random diplomacy related crash

Chat filter:

~ Switched to Steamworks chat filter to improve compatibility with more languages Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-12-02 22:21:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! This is just a small hotfix patch for a critical bug related to depots and storage capacity that affected multiplayer games especially!

Bug fixes:

* Fixed an issue causing buildings to randomly grant additional storage capacity for the planet. This also caused a bunch of multiplayer desync issues, sorry! * Fixed being stuck in war if two alliances declare war on each other * Fixed a missing translation key in the polish translation Enjoy and sorry for the inconveniences! TeamJA

[ 2023-11-21 22:06:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Here is the next set of improvements for the game!

Buildings:

+ NEW Added the "Floating Depot" which allows you to increase the storage limit on gas planets

Quality of life:

+ Added the auto placement function to solar power plants + Added a "Jump to planet" button in the statistics menu + Added a notification sound for when you receive a chat message ~ The colonize button for spaceships will now also be visible when you are not directly on the planet. Pressing the button will instantly take you onto the planet and start the spaceport placement process

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a crash that could occure when a bot owned a gas planet * Fixed a diplomacy menu display issue * Fixed a crash when moving a building * Fixed a desync related to terraformers

Localization:

+ Added Polish localization by artls ~ Updated Traditional Chinese localization ~ Updated Japanese localization Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-11-20 22:22:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! Here is another set of improvements and a couple of urgent bug fixes!

Quality of life:

+ Added a hotkey to automatically place farm fields (default is "L") ~ The camera will now focus onto the spaceport of a planet when switching between planets using the cycle hotkey

Bug fixes:

* Fixed an issue causing Simplified and Traditional Chinese translation not applying correctly * Fixed a crash when trying to assign a keybinding to numpad enter * Fixed a bug causing keybinds to reset when clicking back or escape in the options menu * The Terraformer no longer costs military building materials Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-11-14 20:30:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Here is another patch with support for more langauges, more QoL improvements and bug fixes!

Flag editor:

+ Added buttons to move a layer up or down in the list + Added a button to duplicate a layer + Added a circle icon

Quality of life:

+ Added support for Traditional and Simplfied Chinese characters throughout the game + You can now select additional spaceships by holding shift while selecting a spaceship or an entire group of spaceships + You can now mass repair and deconstruct building by holding shift while repairing or deconstructing a building. Buildings of the same type will then also be repaired / destroyed + Doubled the amount of buildin spaceship names

Bug fixes:

* Fixed multiple rare and randomly occuring crashes * Fixed a bug which caused the technology "Storage organisation" to not increase the storage capacity per depot * Fixed the technology "Advanced ship storage" incorrectly displaying the received stats * Fixed multiple technology icons not showing the correct bonus * Fixed ships getting stuck when pushed out of world bounds * Fixed guns and lasers not being shown in the repair costs tooltip

Localization:

+ Added Traditional Chinese localization by Daniel S. + Added Simplified Chinese localization by UioSun ~ Fixed a couple of broken translations in the russian translation

Steam Deck:

+ Selecting a text field will now automatically open the on screen keyboard (Feedback wanted!) Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-11-13 21:37:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! First of all: We were completely blown away by the massive influx of new players and how the game took of in the last week! We never expected that the release would bring in that many new people! Thank you all so much for all the kind words and great feedback over the last days! It was really cool to see so many people enjoy the game. Now on to the first set of changes after the release:

Flag editor:

+ Bots now have a random icon on their flag + You can now shift + left click on the icon button to cycle back to the last icon ~ New flag layers will now automatically be selected * Fixed multiple crash problems related to the editor * Fixed weird editor behaviour after saving or loading presets

Quality of life:

+ Japanese characters can now be used throughout the game + Added a tile occupation overview to the planet info menu. It list how many tiles the planet has as well as the amount of tiles per type and the usage

Localization:

We were able to add additional localizations thanks to the help of a few amazing community members! + Added Japanese localization by diamond_block + Added Russian localization by Ford ~ Kwaio updated and corrected some French localization issues

Balancing:

~ Easy bots are way less aggresive now ~ Medium bots are a little less aggressive now

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a bug causing the disguise effect to not always be in sync in multiplayer * Fixed a rendering glitch when trying to buid a building of which there are more than 300 on one planet * Fixed a bug causing the tutorial to sometimes disappear * Fixed trade notifications popping up even though nothing was traded * Fixed a bug causing the building and tools menu to show up when using the hotkeys after tabbing away from a planet * Fixed multiple bot related crashes * Fixed a diplomacy UI related crash We are still investigating a couple of other issues and we are already working on the next patch! Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-11-08 00:32:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! The time has finally come! After over 1 year of Early Access and even more years in development its finally time for Planet S to leave Early Access. Its been a wild journey and we are extremly thankful for everyone who followed us on this journey until now. As we previously mentioned, this update doesn't contain anything new. Its almost the same as version 0.6.9 as we wanted to release with a stable version instead of a feature packed but also buggy version.

What's next?

We will continue to address any remaining issues in the coming weeks and months with additional patches and a few more QoL improvements. We are also still working on an option to start a more fast pace round so that will come very soon as well. The next thing to look out for after that will be the Modding Update that will hopefully be ready sometime next spring. So its not all over just yet. [previewyoutube=vnvPt6bdsk8;full][/previewyoutube] Again we are super thankful for this interesting experience and all the things we learned as well as for all the great feedback and support we have received over the last year! To get more information and connect to our community, make sure to join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/JhA5M5EvXS Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-10-28 16:00:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This update brings more bug fixes and a couple of QoL improvements!

QoL:

+ Added an auto upgrade mode to the city center. Residences will automatically be upgraded when possible while enabled. + Added a hotkey to select all idle military spaceships (Ships that are not on a trade route or escorting another spaceship). The default key is "F4" + Added the ability to save flags in the flag creator as presets to quickly reuse the same flag in new matches ~ Buildings of the same kind will now be highlighted during building placement ~ A building dummy will now be displayed during building placement when only building materials are missing

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a very rare colony energy related desync issue * Fixed a desync when double clicking "Auto place fields" * Fixed another issue that could cause savegame transmission in the lobby to hang * Fixed a bug that caused the host to get stuck in the loading screen if a client leaves or disconnects in the loading screen

Music:

+ Added battle music

Localization:

~ Updated spanish and french translation to include localization for all new features Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-10-16 21:51:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This update brings another set of bug fixes and some additional QoL improvements.

Quality of life:

+ Added damage type information in the damage tooltip for ships and buildings + Added the ability to pause all buildings of the same type on a planet by holding shift while pausing a building

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a crash related to residents wandering around in cities * Fixed a rare drone related crash when taking over a colony * Fixed multiple trade route related desyncs * Fixed a super rare desync that could occure when demolishing a spaceship yard during spaceship construction * Fixed a bug that caused bots to repair buildings that they haven't unlocked yet * Fixed a desync that could occure when trying to repair a building that wasn't unlocked using the upgrade hotkey * Fixed a bug that caused spaceship lasers to be displayed incorrectly in planet orbits Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-10-10 23:06:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This update brings more changes than the usual other patches!

Balancing:

This update tries to address two major balancing problems: Fighter spam and stacking of spaceships ~ Orbital flak: Attacks now deal area of effect damage so stacked spaceships will all receive damage ~ Orbital flak: Bricks 15 -> 10 ~ Fighter: Upkeep 400 -> 500 ~ Fighter: Construction time 120s -> 150s ~ Fighter: Steel 30 -> 35 ~ Fighter: Health 1200 -> 1000 ~ Fighter: Max shield 520 -> 400 ~ Falcon: Upkeep 1500 -> 1250

Bot:

+ Bots will now also build Offshore windparks when unlocked

Quality of life:

+ Added a new world option: "Resource limitation difficulty" which affects the amount of resources generated per deposit when limited resources are enabled + You can now double click onto spaceship groups to jump directly to that group of spaceships + Added a popup that will show up when first upgrading a workers residence on a planet which allows you to choose in which direction you want to upgrade + Added a status icon next to spaceships in the spaceships menu which tells you what each spaceships i currently doing (attacking, convoy....)

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a bug that caused savegame transmission in lobbies to hang / stop or not work at all * Fixed a rare crash when entering the loading screen * Fixed easy bots not being able to colonize gas planets * Fixed a bot related crash * Fixed a possible lobby deadlock after a player was refused to join * Fixed a bug that caused the lobby player counter to sometimes not work correctly which prevented players from joining into a savegame lobby * Fixed a rare bug which prevented building upgrades from working * Fixed a bug that caused the UI of worker residences to sometimes show provided research power (they never provide any research power) * Fixed a problem related to bots interacting with existing trade routes

Engine:

+ Implemented multiple optimizations for AMD Ryzen processors (can improve CPU performance by up to 2x) Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-10-06 23:15:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Welcome back to this months (belated) state of the game! We didn't really have time to write one in time at the beginning of September as we prioritized bug fixing after the Victory Update. On that note: Thanks for the great feedback and patience after the update as a lot of problems showed up really quickly. We tried our best to test as much as possible before release but a dynamic system like the bot is very hard to test. But we are happy to report (and you probably noticed that as well) that the stability is pretty much back to the level it was at before the update.

Roadmap:

The Victory Update was the last big update that we had planned for the Early Access period. The next step will then be to release the game with version 1.0.0! We already talked about this in a previous post but this will be our plan for the road to the full release: [olist]

We are currently working on a "bigger" patch which will release with version 0.6.7 or 0.6.8 which will bring a bunch of requested QoL improvements as well as some balancing improvements plus some additional bug fixes.

We will then monitor the games state (bugs and other problems) and patch any issues that come up.

Update 1.0.0 will then release as soon as we find the game to be really stable. Update 1.0.0 will not contain any new features or changes but will instead be the latest version promoted to 1.0.0 so that the release version is as stable as prossible. [/olist]

Future:

So whats the plan after the full release? We will continue to fix issues and bring small improvements from time to time but we will take a break from developing any big features for some time. But there will be at least one more major update in the future: The Modding / Workshop Update! We can finally start planning for proper modding support now that most systems in the game are stable. We don't have an ETA for this update yet but it will probably take some time so our guess is that it will release in spring 2024.

Current state:

Big TODOs:

• Modding support - Coming with the Workshop Update in the future
• "Large planets" world type - We are currently investigating if that technically possible or if it will cause any problems / negatively impact the game in any way
• An option to speed up the game through a world option for faster paced more competetive multiplayer rounds (The game speed itself will be the same but buildings and other stuff will work faster or consume less resources)

Quality of life:

Here is a list of QoL changes that are in the works or on our TODO list:

• Auto upgrade mode for the city center
• Double click spaceship groups to jump to the group
• Idle spaceships selection key
• Ability to save and load flag presets
• A world option to increase or decrease the amount of resources generated in if limited resources are enabled

Bugs:

As we have already mentioned before: The Victory Update had quite a few bugs but we managed to squasch most of them but not all. Here is a current list of bugs that we are working on at the moment.

• There is a rare but annoying bug that can cause items and credits to desync in multiplayer. If you have a savegame in which that happens reliably then please send it to us via Discord or to support@teamja.dev!
• Some people seem to experience a savegame loading issue but we haven't been able to reproduce it. If you have a savegame in which that happens reliably then please send it to us via Discord or to support@teamja.dev!
• Easy bots can currently crash the game if they try to colonize a gas planet
• There is another rare crash caused by bots in general that can occure during combat
• There is a rare bug that can cause a crash when entering the loading screen

Thats it for this months SotG! This might also be the last SotG for now as we want to focus on the full release! Thank you all again for the crazy journey from the beginning of the Early Access phase until now! TeamJA

[ 2023-09-24 11:49:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This patch fixes a couple of desync issues and adds more bot functionality.

Bot:

+ Added bot difficulty. You can now select a difficulty preset for each bot when loading a savegame or creating a new world

Quality of life:

+ Added a warning icon in the statistics menu that shows up if the current production rate doesn't match or exeed the consumption rate + Added an auto place button for farm fields ~ Convoys follow their target a little more closely now ~ Tweaked the tanslation for the load and unload button in the trade route menu to be more clear ~ The "Start game" button in the create menu is now grayed out until every player is ready

Bugs:

* Fixed a spaceship / building attack related desync that could cause battles to end differently for every player in a multiplayer match * Fixed a building pause desync * Fixed a potential cause for an item desync * Fixed a bot related crash * Fixed a crash that randomly occured in fights

Balancing:

~ Fighter: Upkeep 300 -> 400 ~ Defence laser: Charge time 20s -> 15s ~ Railgun: Damage per hit: 360 -> 400 ~ Pirates are now a little less aggresive on the easier difficulty settings

Other:

~ Replaced most of the faction portraits in the diplomacy menu with faction flags Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-09-19 19:09:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! This update brings another set of bugs and improvements.

Bots:

+ Bots will now buy back shares of their colonies

Bug fixes:

* Fixed an issue that caused colony takeovers to fail * Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving their share credits after another player bought one of their shares * Fixed a diplomacy consequence desync * Fixed bots ignoring the war state of a colony allowing them to repair building during combat

Multiplayer:

+ Added additional sync checks in multiple areas to detect desyncs quicker and more reliable

Engine:

+ Improved stability with older graphics drivers Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-09-16 21:32:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Here are even more bug fixes!

Bug fixes:

* Fixed a crash related to laser buildings * Fixed a memory corruption during tech tree construction causing random crashes * Fixed a bot event memory corruption * Fixed a bot event related crash * Fixed a bug causing spaceships to leave the world bounds * Fixed multiple crahes related to building turrets

Other:

~ Updated Steamworks to the latest version Enjoy! TeamJA

[ 2023-09-04 20:59:38 CET ] [ Original post ]