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🗺️ Exploration — The Hollow Sphere There is a delve in the game. The Ancient Gate in Barnard's Star sends you to the Hollow Sphere: a hollowed asteroid eight chambers deep, sealed inside a 20 km containment lattice. The gate only sends. The way home is at the end. Every chamber
🔧 Chassis Modules — Tiers I–III The low slot is no longer empty. Eight families, three tiers each, 24 modules. Nine hulls have a low slot; the Talon II, Burrow II and Wraith II have two. Each one buys a number by spending another. Hull Brace: hull for speed. Thrust Coil: speed f
⚔️ Combat Lasers now have tracking. A target crossing your nose fast takes reduced laser damage, down to 25% at worst. Head-on or chasing a target is unaffected. Higher-tier lasers track worse. Lasers fall off past 7 km. Full damage inside 7 km, zero at 10 km. Max range is unchan
🖥️ UI & Quality of Life Notifications moved to the top of the screen. They used to sit in the bottom status band, one line at a time, in one orange. Three show at once, with a "+N more" count under them. Anything queued behind used to be dropped or arrive too late to matter.
The largest update StarFrame has shipped: two server releases and a client update. The theme: what your equipment does, what the AI can see, where your money went, and what just happened. Restart Steam to pick it up. 🕶️ Stealth finally works against the AI Cloaks and Signature D
StarFrame Update — August 15, 2026 🏪 Market & Economy Your resting orders stay on the board while you are logged off. They used to be pulled out of the book the moment you went offline and only went back up when you logged in. They now keep filling while you are away, for tr
StarFrame Update — August 13, 2026 🌀 Riftspace A server restart no longer wipes your character mid-run. Rift runs are saved now. Before this, a crash while you were inside deleted your ship, cargo, credits and skills. Log back in and you are in your rift with everything as you l
StarFrame Update - August 8, 2026 🏟️ The Arena The Arena is open. Press ARENA on the title screen. Free-for-all PvP in its own system, cut off from the rest of the galaxy. You fly a separate arena pilot. Max skills, premium active, flying under your Steam name. Your real charact
Fixed the issue where objects would jitter while in cruise You now fully disengage from cruise at the ships max speed, rather than exiting at 0
Audio update Ship and mining audio
StarFrame — Public Playtest Open The playtest is open to everyone. No key, no invite — install it and fly. ⚔️ Combat Seeker missile damage cut: 30/45/61/80 → 20/22/24/26. A basic launcher was one-shotting high-sec pirates. Missiles won't fire until the lock finishes. Firing mid-a
StarFrame Update — July 29, 2026 ⚔️ Combat All your missile launchers fire now. Fitting two used to give you one — every shot from the second died "no lock". Each has its own magazine and its own cadence, and each still has to respect its own range and firing cone. Fixed a launch
StarFrame Update — July 29, 2026 🔊 Audio The engine makes noise now. It rises with your speed, and Sub-Light Cruise has its own sound. Every weapon has a fire and a hit sound. Missiles and siege guns were silent. You hear incoming damage even when your shield takes all of it. Th
StarFrame Update — July 28, 2026 ⛏️ Mining — Full Rework Mining is now an active minigame. Engage a laser on a locked rock and an oscilloscope appears: your extraction wave rides the centre line, and a green channel drifts and jumps across it. Keep the wave's peaks inside the gre
StarFrame Update — July 27, 2026 🎓 Skills — Tier I Now Requires Level 25 Where a component has a BASIC version, its Tier I now needs the matching skill at level 25 — to fit and to build. Basic and Tier I were both usable at level 0, which made the Basic rung pointless. Affects r
StarFrame Update — July 26, 2026 🚀 Flight Warp actually accelerates now. Every hull in the game accelerated at the same slow rate, so no ship ever reached the warp speed printed on its own info panel. Warp acceleration is 4× higher: a 300 km crossing drops from about 3 minutes t
StarFrame Update — July 25, 2026 💎 Rigs — Full Rework Every rig now rolls its own stats when you study it. Two rigs of the same tier are no longer the same item — each one is rolled per instance, so what you pull out of a cache is genuinely yours. Tier decides HOW MANY stats you
StarFrame Update — July 23, 2026 ⚙️ Manufacturing & Jobs — Full Rework Jobs now belong to the station where you start them. They keep running when you undock, jump gates, or log out — no more frozen jobs or lost materials after leaving the system. Anything that finished while
StarFrame — The Skills Update (Economy v2) The biggest overhaul StarFrame has had. Research is gone. Your character now grows through skills you level by playing — and industry, loot, and progression have been rebuilt around them. ⭐ Skills replace research Every profession is now
⚔️ Combat & Weapons Reloading with an empty hold no longer wipes your magazine. Previously, hitting reload on a partially-loaded weapon when you were out of ammo in cargo would erase the rounds already chambered (and show a false "reloading" indicator). It now refuses the rel