After more than 9 months of development, 6.0 is finally here. There have been far too many changes to reasonably list here, so I'll go over the highlights.

Units

• The unit system has been completely reworked
• All unit sprites have been re-drawn and cleaned up
• Many new unit types have been added
• Player-specific pads and unit-specific factories have been removed
• All units can now be created, commanded and controlled by players
• 3 different unit factories: ground, air, and naval
• Each unit factory can produce multiple types of units
• Units can be moved into special tiered Reconstructor blocks to upgrade them
• 6 unit branches: insect units, ground attack units, ground support units, air attack units, air support units, naval attack units
• Each branch has 5 tiers, making 5*6 = 30 buildable units
• Each core block has a special player-controlled flying unit type associated with it, resulting in a grand total of 33 total units

Campaign

• Complete rework of the 5.0 campaign system
• Everything takes place on a planet, where each hexagonal/pentagonal sector is a separate map that can be visited
• 260+ procedural sectors, with 16 special "landing zone" sectors
• Procedural sectors are optional for campaign completion, but landing zones are not
• Most sectors have a certain number of waves that need to be survived in order to capture them
• Other sectors may have enemy bases on them, which need to be destroyed for capture
• Each sector will produce resources in the background even when you play in other sectors
• Resources can be moved between sectors with Launch Pads
• Sectors near enemy bases will be periodically invaded unless the enemy base is destroyed
• "Global Resources" no longer exist - all research costs are taken directly from your pooled core resources
• More planets will be added in the future

New Blocks & Mechanics

• Added upgraded 3x3 versions of the Silicon Smelter, Separator and Overdrive Projector
• Cores can now be upgraded to higher tiers
• Added "Segment" point defense turret - targets and destroys incoming bullets
• Added "Parallax" electric anti-air turret - pulls in enemy aircraft with a tractor beam
• Added "Foreshadow" long-range railgun turret, for taking down bosses and armored units
• Added "Tsunami" liquid turret - acts as an upgraded version of the Wave
• Added Plastanium conveyors - stack items together, move them with high throughput
• Added mud & dirt decoration blocks
• Added slag liquid floor, can be pumped to obtain slag
• Added space floor
• Significant amounts of block balancing, bugfixes and tweaks

Logic System

• Added Processor blocks that execute commands in a loop
• Processors use a very simple assembly-like language
• Code can be written in-game with a visual editor, or imported from text files
• Processors are capable of performing complex tasks, such as controlling units, reading block state, disabling/enabling buildings and outputting text to message blocks
• Added Display blocks - can be used for displaying vector images from processors
• Added Memory blocks - can be used to store numbers for internal processor use
• Added Button block - can be linked and used as an input devices for processors
• Examples of logic applications include automatic heat-sensing reactor controllers, unit transport systems, custom unit AI, visual power level displays, various types of games and more

Maps

• Added 4 new maps for custom games
• Added 5 types of weather: rain, fog, snow, sandstorm and sporestorm
• Each type of weather has a certain effect on blocks or units
• Added attack AI rule: when enabled, enemy cores will spawn units that build basic defense schematics
• Added map rules for fire, schematic use, enemy light visibility, unit ammo mechanics, explosion damage and more
• Added new filters in editor, to aid with procedural map generation
• Added new editor filter options

General Changes

• Added more music
• Added more sound effects
• Added community server groups
• Improved most sprites and icons
• Many small visual improvements
• Added button to pan camera around map
• New physics system
• Made schematics save power node connections & message contents when copying
• Many, many small QoL changes
• A lot more stuff that I've probably missed