New Features

• Pre-baked worlds — 5 hand-structured map layouts with randomized ore and salvage placement for more varied runs
• Fog of war — raycast-blocked line of sight with smooth shadowed edges
• Faction system UI — live mission tracker, end-of-day faction summary, and faction standing in the inventory panel
• Steam integration — achievements, Steam Cloud saves, and full controller navigation

Accessibility

• colorblind and gamma adjustment settings (broken)
• Loading screen real progress bar with smoother, frame-budgeted world generation

Improvements

• Much faster load times — roughly 24s down to ~7s
• Reworked ore rendering — metallic marching-squares shader with organic, veined edges
• Richer terrain visuals — depth-based color gradients, warmer fog, a player radial light, and stronger surface detail
• Ore detection — clean white ping circles for located ore
• Drill polish — spinning drill shader, exhaust smoke trails, tuned drill speed and tip sparks
• Cleaner HUD — fluid fuel and hull bars; removed the ore-pickup popup text
• Streamlined economy — ore converts to sellable ingots immediately on pickup

Bug Fixes

• Overheat vent now properly destroys blocks, with smoother lava fog glow
• Reduced drill heat buildup when mining ore
• Fixed particle silhouettes and correctly hid particles inside fog of war
• Technical
• Weekly automated Steam release pipeline with changelog surfacing for manual posting
• Scene-audit tooling, expanded automated tests, and an MCP-driven editor workflow