Starground's final update of the year is here! This update includes Caligo, a new frozen oil planet with bosses, weapons, a boss, and more! Achievements, buildable flooring, artifact merging, and a whole ton of new things also make their entrance!
Whats New
Caligo
Caligo is a new dungeon in Starground. Caligo is an oil planet, that has since frozen over due to its drilling and exploitation. Remanents of past workers still wander the halls, while the wealthy family who onced owned an empire grasps on to what rubble is left.
This dungeon includes a bunch of new enemies, a new artifact, and multiple new melee weapon parts. This dungeon requires you deal with new slippery ice obstacles, as well as solve new puzzles. Content will continue to be introduced to this zone in the next few minor updates after today.
Achievements
Starground now finally has achievements! We're starting out with 14 different achievements for completing a variety of different tasks within the game. We plan to continue adding achievements for automation, dungeoning, farming, economy, and of course secret easter eggs.
Buildable Flooring
Buildable flooring is finally here in Starground! Long gone are the days of roughing it in the dirt. You can finally pave underneath your factories, and for a good reason too! Flooring can negatively or positively effect your movespeed. You can make highways and buildings, all while blocking resources that get in the way of your production lines. When you place a tile ontop of a resource, that node will no longer respawn until the flooring is removed. Finally cleaner factories!
Artifact Merging and Inventory Upgrades
As we continue to add in more artifacts and items into the game, inventory space starts to become quite a limited commodity. To address this, you can now visit the Artifact Merging Bench inside of the space hub. This bench lets you merge artifacts together in order to create new ones that combines both of their abilities. Bud is also a new NPC that will sell you inventory stack size upgrades. These will let you hold more items in any one slot in your inventory. He also gives you the option to sell old weapon parts you don't need (although we have some plants in the near future for weapon merging).
Other Features
This update contains a ton of things that aren't huge flashy features, but still are worth mention. They include:
Quests that you can redeem at most shop NPCs
Creative mode that disables resource requirements and lets you build anything
New misc buildings like the display stand and sign
Thanks for reading! Be on the look out for some smaller updates to sprinkle in some bits and bobs! As always, feel free to report any issues on Steam forums, or over on Discord
Follow Along
Want to follow the development of Starground more closely? Please consider joining the official Discord, or tuning into regular devstreams held over on Twitch. 
Changelog
Additions
Added the artifact merging bench
Added Bud to the space hub
Added mythic fish that are rarer and sell for more at Fishbert
Added decorations to empty space hub rooms, and locked them off
Added buildable flooring
Added stone and log walls
Added wooden doors
Added 14 new achievements
Added 5 buildable flooring types
Added various new footstep sounds
Added an efficiency number when placing a proximity dependent building
Added a dungeon masking system, so other rooms are hidden until actually entered (also includes a new transition animation)
Added a new dungeon planet Caligo
Added 5 new enemies
Added the ice amulet artifact (chance to block damage)
Added the ice saber weapon blade
Added royal weapon parts
Added stone dust (can be crafted in the grinder)
Added multiple new colors to the minimap
Added power line connections to the minimap
Added the Structures research
Added signs
Added display stands
Added various quests to the NPCs at the Space Hub
Added the pogo stick (lets you phase through automation buildings)
Added three merged artifacts
Added smoked salmon
Added shark fin soup
Added squimp cocktail
Added Savorvine (a new plant that can be bought from Burgandy the snail)
Added the Engineer skin (xefensors skin redeem!)
Added inventory stack size upgrades (sold by Bud)
Added xefensor to the list of programmers
Added xefensor and VVR to the list of translators
Added gamemode as an option in the world options menu
Added the creator and destroyer buildings for creative mode
Added categories to ovens
Added slot icons to the weapon bench
Added a sound when selecting planets in the starlauncher
Changes
Completely reworked Spore to split instead of spawning moonshrooms
Made it so info panels scroll when too long
Made it so usernames now default to your Steam username
Made various tweaks and clarifications to all commands
Reworked the NPC shop screen to include a portrait and character text
Made various tweaks and improvements to controller support across the entire game (Thanks xefensor!)
Made it so the starlauncher camera position and zoom level is saved
Made various improvements to tooltips in the game
Updated all translations
Fixes
Fixed an issue where your fullscreen setting would not get updated on launch
Fixed an issue where splitters could grab items from conveyors not pointing into them
Fixed an issue where underground conveyor belt overlays would stay visible when going back to the build menu
Fixed an issue where asteroid collectors and turbines completely stopped working when next to each other
Fixed a crash that happened when too many conveyors were placed down
Fixed multiple bugs related to movers not properly moving items into buildings
Fixed an issue where players would sometimes be invisible to other clients when playing through Steam multiplayer
Fixed an issue where using the starlauncher UI could cause weird lag and background issues on multiplayer
Fixed an issue where multiple inventories could all be opened at the same time (Thanks Nikjak!)
Fixed an issue where the building menu info panel would freak out if it got too long (Thanks Unskill!)
Fixed multiple multiplayer-specific terrain generation issues
Fixed an issue where your special melee weapon part could be used while holding a ranged weapon
Fixed an issue where resource nodes would not properly convert when either removed from or added to a land tile
Fixed some inventories being able to be sorted that really shouldn't be
Made multiple fixes and changes to Tesla Coils, to prevent crashes and improve overall stability
Optimizations
Greatly improved performance by introducing our own culling system
Improved the performance of multiplayer, especially with dungeons
Improved the performance of various UI nodes by using more signals
Greatly improved the performance of christmas trees.
Improved the performance of almost every automation building by converting more logic over to using signals
Modding
Made it so multiple types of things are now automatically added to the multiplayer spawner node. This includes entities, buildings, and any kind of scene in a data table. This should make multiplayer with mods much more straightforward.
Added the "Abilities" tag to items. This is the new way artifact abilities are managed.
Added the "Groups" tag to items. This is an easy way to group items up into specific categories, like fish or weapons
Added some new get__data functions to ModAPI for buildings and research. This is a safe way to access the newly statically typed data tables
Added the ability to add minimap icons to the minimap (not used in vanilla, but could be used in a mod)
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