Developer posts and news about this game.
Startron v0.175 has been released! Tweaks & updates Added a new mega-fauna entity: the jentilus (including a backfill twiddle for older cosmoi) Improved how stars look through atmospheres in 3D Allowed geysers to form instead of volcanoes when tectonic activity happens beneat
Startron v0.174 has been released! Tweaks & updates Each of the 11 station types now has its own unique 3D interior (instead of 1 of 3 basic designs that vaguely corresponded to the shape) Fleet ships dropping tourists off at hotels now sometimes yields salads and stoos in ad
Startron v0.173 has been released! Tweaks & updates The 3D museum now has a few more things in it & some of the harder-to-see museum exhibits are now more visible You can heal your crew for free in the new 3D interior for hospital municipal building tiles You can recycle
Startron v0.172 has been released! Tweaks & updates Improved the wormhole, black hole & white hole effect Improved the sun effect Improved performance on drawing planets, suns & other circles Improved building roads and conduits to show what they're connecting to You
Startron v0.171 has been released! Tweaks & updates Reduced CPU overhead Added some more inter-NPC dialog Tweaked the tutorial station to have 2 docking ports like the real one Bugs fixed in this version Fixed the "Set order here" key clashing with the "Search other ships" ke
Startron v0.170 has been released! Tweaks & updates Other lifeforms will now wander around stations and other 3D interiors Other lifeforms will also make idle conversation with each other in the 3D interiors The interior 3D minimap is back Interior 3D navigation is now much m
Startron v0.169 has been released! Tweaks & updates Steam achievements! Buildings now show their required resources in the cosmic database too Multiple recipes can now be tracked at once Crashed ship logs will now actually have remnants of their actions (where applicable) The
Startron v0.168 has been released! Tweaks & updates Pulsars are now visible in the backgrounds like nebulæ Pulsars now flash when viewed from within their system Destroying your ship above an entity has a chance that some of your cargo will make it down to the crash site Crew
Startron v0.167 has been released! Tweaks & updates Added new aliens (Greemians) Added a new dumb arcade game (Super Tytopop Bop) Added rare cobron stars to new cosmoi Unified and neatened the yard manager and ship factory fitting interfaces Stock levels in shops now flash wh
Startron v0.166 has been released! Tweaks & updates Destroying sprouts now yields organics instead of nothing Sunlight absorbers are now shaded by more adjacent tile types Your zipship now shows over sign tiles so you can still see it when reading a sign The cosmic database &
Startron v0.165 has been released! Tweaks & updates Shrushmooms will grow on naturally occurring chrosnic and potron if planted now Entities that are too near to each other will naturally spread out around stars now Tidied up some bits around the UI & the codebase in gene
Startron v0.164 has been released! Tweaks & updates Faction favour rewards now pay grants into your Banko account Giant wobs may now appear if you upset an ecosystem Added spondelarians Added shrushmooms (they generate in new cosmoi or are available at the flora shop) Updated
Startron v0.163 has been released! Tweaks & updates Added a new rail-launcher superstructure for propelling your zipship from an entity without petroop cost Unlocked the conference room so you can see your faction rating and any available expeditions (with perks for maxing ou
Startron v0.162 (Emergency Patch) has been released! Bugs fixed in this version Fixed loading into a cosmos crashing in regions that use different decimal separators Fixed navigating to numbered links on cosmic database pages sometimes not lining up with the numbers displayed
Startron v0.161 has been released! Tweaks & updates All text fields now support cursor positioning with left-arrow, right-arrow, home & end The captain's log can now be cleared with F2 Added a pop-in camera animation for 3D interiors Added a zoom-in effect for entering a
Startron v0.160 has been released! Tweaks & updates Completely remade the 3D engine (it now functions less like Wolfenstein3D and more like DukeNukem3D) Completely remade all 3D maps for the new engine and included a few minor visual improvements here and there as a result Sp
Startron v0.159 has been released! Tweaks & updates Overhauled the cosmos generation and selection interfaces Clouds now show around planets in the system view Solar corona ejections can now use █ as well as the original ■ (like engine particles) Made pulsars more obvious The
Startron v0.158 has been released! Tweaks & updates The aurora effect when zoomed into a planet has been redone Telepopping items now looks more fun in the UI Gas giant generation has been redone Added yard rollers (essentially tile blockers so materials accumulate where you
Startron v0.157 has been released! Tweaks & updates If a cosmos ever corrupts in future, a backup of the previous save is left behind Cosmoi should now not be able to corrupt if quitting during an autosave Outdated cosmoi display a warning in the cosmos list Nerfed the shog s
Startron v0.156 has been released! Tweaks & updates The crewmember information in the crew quarters has had a bit of a tidy up as all crew members now have names Lifeforms in the corridors of space stations and patrons at the bar also now get names too When visiting a new spa