Starlight Mining Company Demo v0.8.2

16 Dec 2025Developer post

Enhancements

New players are now recommended to select the Orientation difficulty
Tutorial planets only appear in Orientation difficulty
Orientation only has 1 jump before Boss Planet
Narration and subtitles to help players progress
Tutorial planet first day starts after player has built enough buildings to survive the first night
Increased Starlight Drill speed on Orientation planet to decrease game length
Music is disabled in Orientation for narration
Added confirmation dialog when starting harder difficulty before Orientation is beaten

Added "Scrap" currency
Scrap is awarded on each planet
Additional Scrap can be earned if completing the Bonus Objective
Bonus Objective now has a time quota component
Scrap can be spent at the Cargo Bay to unlock new buildings in your starting kit and upgrading buildings to higher starting levels
Buildings in Cargo Bay can be sold for Scrap at a reduced rate
Free wall can be purchased if sold by accident
Starting Cargo Bay capacity decreased from 6 to 2
Players no longer store buildings from the previous planet in Cargo Bay

Added setting to disable orientation narration
Added dedicated volume slider for voice lines
Added game version to save files
Changed planet "Survivability" to "Difficulty" to be more clear
Decreased difficulty across the board
Added 40s to first planet setup time to allow for setting up base with only a wall
Removed the ability to place "solid" buildings (walls, Starlight Laser) on top of players
Increased Mineral Synthesizer stats

Fixed saved games not loading properly when restarting game
Fixed black screen when loading incompatible save game
Fixed main menu ship not resetting when returning to menu
Fixed enemies sometimes not attacking the wall
Fixed eventlog behavior option not persisting
Removed unused hotkey settings
Fixed Boss Planet not initializing properly
Fixed sound volume sometimes overwriting music volume
Fixed classes other than Miner getting a free Miner wall, they now receive the wall for their class
Fixed selection panel action buttons not highlighting properly in some situations
Fixed Factory and Mineral Synthesizer refund amounts
Fixed issue where chat wouldn't wrap properly with long messages