Startron v0.153 (Emergency Patch) has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Added a couple more cosmos colour patterns\n

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• Fixed the rock count showing double what it should on the cosmos generation report\n
• Fixed commissioning a ship not using up chits despite it saying it will\n
• Fixed background cloud game lockup for destroyed entities\n

Startron v0.152 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Allowed swapping between salvage yard shop and the addon fitting screen with H and F regardless of context\n
• Sky whales are now rarer (they were intended to be a curiosity, but if every gas giant has them, they\'re just an invasive species/weeds)\n
• Allowed selling fuel pumps at salvage yards and trading potron at the flora shop\n
• Moved buying calron and silird from scrapyards to exotic dealers\n
• Added specific messages to explain template placement on industries\n
• Improved performance slightly when processing clouds on background entities\n
• Pressing home now centres the camera on your ship when flying around on an entity\n
• Tracked cargo & tracked recipe now persist between saves\n
• Added snowmen\n
• Moved the bar over in one of the planet ports so the arcade machine lines up better\n
• Added contaminated canisters to dark ships\n
• Corrected the border spacing on conversation dialog boxes\n
• Lithrogen now renders as a river when it\'s only one tile wide (makes bodies of water on entities looks a bit more natural)\n
• Everybody now has a pirate hat onboard a pirate station\n
• Zipship engines now poot out s when flying vertically and s horizontally\n
• Added a toggle for showing all signs while flying around on an entity or viewing the system\n
• Incinerators now produce pollution in oxorine atmospheres just like refineries\n
• The MazeBase level end and doors now have prompts to explain what they\'re for\n
• The shopping centre superstructure looked a bit basic so that\'s been spruced up\n
• The Unity/Steam versions now support all pitches of beeps found in the native game (so the end of the self destruct sequence sounds right now)\n
• Added a shimmer effect on chronc ore, chronc bars, gomium ore, gomium bars, valuables & gemstones\n
• Improved the grass variation\n

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• Fixed the darkenstone locking itself out from being uncovered (no wonder nobody\'s found it)\n
• Fixed alignment of the right selector arrow on the build menu (it was overlapping the last character of the resonating crystal)\n
• Fixed missing TVs in one of the station bars and one of the planet port bars\n
• Fixed bridge viewer effects lingering when leaving and coming back to the bridge\n
• Fixed bubble seeds showing as planted on yards\n
• Fixed the total score count in MazeBase (it was wrong most of the time)\n
• Fixed tiles in MazeBase not updating until the player moved off of the tile\n

Startron v0.151 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• The self-destruct countdown is now visible from all room interfaces on Zipships\n
• The self-destruct warning lights now show above the commission plaque and bathroom mirror\n
• The support character has been changed from \'\' to \'A\' to avoid confusion with the refinery\n
• The system entity list has been improved to show colours & types better\n
• The system ship list has similarly been changed to show colours better\n
• The toggles on the options menu are now a bit wider and more obvious\n
• Beaming into lava is now allowed\n
• Darkship vents are now more obvious\n
• Pollution now produces gas particles like nitygen and nitron do\n
• Oxorine also produces gas particles on gas giants\n
• A few of the prompts in the tutorial have been cleaned up and expanded\n

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• Fixed the tutorial appearing to get cut short for en-US\n
• Fixed a language issue on the first and second story transmission\n
• Fixed all uses of eachother (it\'s not a real word)\n
• Fixed not being able to install addons at a salvage yard (technically this was possible if a faction rating is increased beyond 50% (like the ship factory criteria) by doing work orders, but this was not indicated on the UI or an intended restriction)\n
• Fixed not destroying entities if they have any oxorine left over after removing all tiles in their map\n
• Fixed inconsistent transmission and targeting markers for many entities\n
• Fixed darkships generating off-centre in their entity map\n
• Fixed the refinery success transmission triggering too early\n
• Fixed gases producing particles if under other things (like ice)\n

Startron v0.150 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Sunlight absorbers have finally been rebalanced so other power sources are necessary\n
• Added a new gas extractor addon\n
• Added cosmos colour variants\n
• Added squished-mode to the Unity emulator so Steam users with resolutions under the minimum requirements can play\n
• Other ships now sometimes leave crop circles in grass\n
• Material/debris/scrap/junk contents are now less flighty\n
• You can now attempt to steal fuel from other ships (success depends on size and quality of crew and whether you\'re trying your luck against a pirate)\n
• Added salvage yards (new 3D interior with a new shop) [These will make their way into old saves if you\'ve still got a reasonable portion of the cosmos unexplored]\n
• Added a couple more wall adverts\n
• Added dark ships (new 3D interior) & dyson spheres\n
• Added another April fools joke\n
• Star colours now show on the cosmos view so it\'s a little less monochrome\n
• Added a prompt for trying to beam workers into occupied dwellings so it\'s clearer they only take one worker\n
• Added an unlockable shopping centre superstructure (new huge 3D interior)\n
• Added an unlockable lair superstructure\n
• Added ferns to go with grass and trees [These will make their way into old saves if you\'ve still got a reasonable portion of the cosmos unexplored]\n
• Added yist, crot & umyum plants\n
• Added stoo\n
• Updated the look of energy funnels\n

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• Fixed exploiting valuables on pirate stations\n
• Fixed crash on gas giants with nitygen gas\n
• Fixed sky layer manipulation eating up all the clouds around an entity\n
• Fixed entities generating so close together\n

Startron v0.149 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Added more verbose info for other ships in the bridge terminal\n
• Fleet ships can now be renamed or relieved of duty\n
• Fleet ship orders can be moved around\n
• The VGA colour palette now uses strict ASCII characters\n
• Red arrows on black backgrounds are now easier to see\n
• Nitygen & nitron emit gas effects into the sky layer\n
• Refineries, factories & incinerators can now accept a template material in the same way pickers can\n
• All bridge messages are now on one side to prevent overlap\n
• Building superstructures now prompts an appropriate build message\n
• Numpad plus/minus can now be used to zoom in & out in the energy funnel interface\n

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• Fixed inconsistencies in the retro colour palette\n
• Fixed being able to collect raw nitron from yards\n
• Fixed nitron not being depleted by extractors\n
• Fixed bubble plant statuses not being indicative of their growing ability\n
• Fixed pickers not being able to pick up organics\n
• Fixed buy price being able to be lower than sell price\n

Startron v0.148 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Spruced up engineering to show components and addons better\n
• Added a new story-beat/quest\n
• Saved cosmoi now show the time played\n
• Added a reset options button\n
• Added a colour palette option\n
• Tree colour variation is now based on soil colour\n
• Added a Startron News Network splashscreen and adverts to the bar TV\n
• Your position now flashes on the map in MazeBase\n
• Function keys now highlight in red like other inputs\n
• Extracting tytopops and pigeli no longer destroys the bug and also sometimes yields fuel now\n
• Added nitron & nitron canisters\n
• Wormholes now flash a line toward their destination if it has been visited\n

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• Fixed engineering addon info showing incorrectly\n
• Fixed buy price being able to be lower than sell price\n

Startron v0.147 (Emergency Patch) has been released!\n\nBugs fixed in this version\n

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• Fixed save files from previous versions becoming unplayable\n

Startron v0.146 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Crew can be found in debris/material/junk/scrap now\n
• Fuel injector addon speed has been increased for balance\n
• Trees & grass now have slight colour variation\n
• MazeBase now has a proper title\n
• The 3D bridge has had a makeover\n
• Clouds now move on background entities\n
• Sometimes systems will receive new debris/materials/junk/scrap\n
• Neutral ships can now turn into pirates if an opportunity for being sneaky presents itself\n
• Bar work is different between stations with parts and addon shops\n
• Gas giant lightning is now more visible\n
• Nebul have had a makeover\n

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• Fixed non-pirate bounties on ships that spawned in your starting system\n
• Fixed atmospheres not working with terraformers correctly or showing up properly\n
• Fixed Monkes and Rattos not talking in stations\n

Startron v0.145 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Tidied up the bird icon in the cosmic database\n
• Tidied up the parts door texture\n
• Bounty transmissions come from the Vectron at the admin desk now\n
• Expanded the status for plants and seeds to show whether they\'re planted and/or lithrated\n
• Returned the Spacejack cards to the deck when they\'re being shuffled\n
• Prevented destroying station plasnon cannons without explosives\n
• Grog planets now generate with science ratings\n
• Added a Vsync option to the Unity emulator\n
• Updated to a more secure Unity version\n

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• Fixed not turning the player to face a shop if they\'re on the right waypoint but facing the wrong way\n
• Fixed not being able to beam into seed trays\n
• Fixed auroras drawing in front of entities and suns when viewed from the side\n
• Fixed background planet vertical positions\n
• Fixed missing beeps on tracking/untracking & installing addons\n
• Fixed mining adding to the resource count on subsequent messages\n
• Fixed crater edges being able to generate over superstructures\n
• Fixed missing menu on offline energy funnel interface\n
• Fixed vertical cosmos lines getting cut up\n
• Fixed lots of issues and exploits around beaming up or deconstructing with a full cargo bay\n

Startron v0.144 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Completely redesigned Spacejack from the ground up (new rules & new graphics)\n
• Allowed crew to eat drengs to heal illness\n
• Prevented illness and addiction until after leaving home system\n
• Subalt, ird ore & trees now look more varied on entities\n
• Hovering a fruiting plant now shows whether it\'s lithrated or parched\n
• Swapped the + for H on the MazeBase HUD to match the pickups\n

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• Fixed addicted crew members making other crew members ill\n
• Fixed render bug when viewing info on crater edges\n
• Fixed missing centre catchment highlight on mines\n
• Fixed system flag on cosmos\n

Startron v0.143 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n

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• Added plasnon cannons which can be placed on your entities to defend against pirates fly-tipping\n
• Newly generated pirate stations now often have plasnon cannons on the surface to dodge\n
• Tweaked some wording in various places\n
• Catchment areas now show while building\n
• The tutorial button flashes if you haven\'t generated a cosmos yet\n
• Passengers can be transported by fleet ships between hotels on different entities for random loot\n
• Added a quit prompt & option to disable it\n
• Gutteli with no teeth can no longer eat your ship\n
• Transmission direction indicators on the cosmos overview now fly out from the centre for better visibility\n
• The trinkets window in the readyroom now has a title so what it does is clearer\n
• The ship number on the commission plaque now increases when your ship is destroyed\n
• Added explosives - primarily for taking out plasnon cannons on pirate stations, but probably have some other less productive uses too\n
• Engineering repair requirements can now be tracked in shops too\n

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• Fixed a typo in the dwelling info\n
• Fixed incorrect petroop stations information in an early transmission\n
• Fixed being able to accidentally skip cutscenes so easily\n
• Fixed lithrogen reflections showing through air tiles\n
• Fixed incorrect portraits on story transmissions\n
• Fixed isolated wormholes having pirate stations\n
• Fixed explosion chambers deleting industries\n

Good news everyone! The Startron Demo is now live on Steam!