🚀 Warped Space - Build: 690 - Patch Notes:
Date Range: May 27 – June 20, 2025
Hey explorers! We've been hard at work improving core systems, expanding survival mechanics, and fixing long-standing issues. This update brings the first pass of the Base Building Tool update, as building is now via the Build Tool. Also improvements such as quality-of-life upgrades, hydration survival mechanics, new hostile lifeforms, and more.
🛠️ Build System & Base Updates
⚒️ Build Tool Snap System (Prototype) Added – Early stages of snapping for build tool for more intuitive base construction.
🧱 Fixed base component power distribution – newly placed components now receive power from the base manager
🧰 Base Fabricator Fixes:
Now buildable again.
No longer duplicates items.
UI updated.
🧹 Storage cleanup improvements: deleted items are now removed and storage transfer is smoother (1-at-a-time logic).
🌱 New Modules & Systems:
Planter added to Research HAB.
Hydro Incubator and Base Refinery are now buildable.
Planting cycle introduced; supports multiple item types.
⚒️ The Forge has been slightly improved and it awaiting playtest feedback
🧪 Research & Missions
🧬 Auto Research bugs squashed.
🧾 Default Schematics now behave like normal schematics.
📜 Mission system improvements:
Missions can now reward research unlocks.
Added one new mission, removed one outdated.
Updated and fixed multiple test mission locations.
Fixed beacon markers and hostile DPS readouts.
Worm Added to remote asteroid caves 😉
New Locations to explore in the works:
🧍♂️ Survival Mechanics: Hydration!
💧 Hydration system implemented:
Affects movement (walk/run/EVA).
Monitor hydration status through new UI badge.
🧴 Craftable Water Bottles:
Right-click to drink.
🧪 Water Purifier module added for testing.
🔈 Added eating and drinking SFX.
🔧 Various fixes to consumption logic and hydration effects.
Water Purifier Added
Craft water bottles and fill them with water purified from ice fragment.
🧑🚀 EVA, Tools & Utility Improvements
🔦 Torch brightness can now be adjusted while holstered.
🛸 Ship spotlight brightness can also be adjusted in the same way.
👨🚀 Exit to EVA check, now functions correctly while docked in space dock.
🔋 Updated Space Dock regen chamber position.
🛠️ Updated Tools + Beam Salvaging logic, for a consistent, controlled yield and future gameplay.
Scannable items now show was unknown until scanned
🧪 Cinematics & UX
🎬 Introduced Work-in-Progress Opening Cinematic:
1st phase now implemented.
Now skippable and only plays when starting a new game.
🛑 Removed placeholder comic cinematic & Added loading text to loading screen.
👾 Notable Bug Fixes & optimizations
👹 New hostile creature variant added.
🧬 Updated creature blink behavior.
🧠 Optimized databank entry logic.
🎨 UI & Icon improvements.
🧠 Keybind error checking added.
⚙️ Numerous bugfixes across gameplay systems.
🛠️ Fixed: Salvage tool not salvaging !
⚙️Improved Interactions with: Doors, Gravity, Lights etc.
⚙️Major Bug Fixed - with streaming in location from disc, with the knock on effect of fixing
audio logs to play 3 times
3 x the hostiles spawned and loot
and other effects....
Thanks again for playing Warped Space the Feedback is Important.
More content, polish, and surprises are on the way. Stay tuned and keep exploring!
See you in the void,
– WarpedSpaceDev