StarFrame Update — July 23, 2026

23 Jul 2026Developer post

⚙️ Manufacturing & Jobs — Full Rework

Jobs now belong to the station where you start them. They keep running when you undock, jump gates, or log out — no more frozen jobs or lost materials after leaving the system. Anything that finished while you were away is waiting in that station's hangar when you return.
See every job from anywhere. The JOBS panel lists all your jobs galaxy-wide, tagged with their station and system, with live progress and ETAs. Jobs at other stations are display-only — fly there to cancel one.
One job per activity type, per station. Run an ore refine at one station, an ammo build at another, and another refine at your outpost, all at once — the old global one-per-type limit is gone. Premium parallel slots add extra concurrent jobs on top, shared across all your stations.

Scanner tier now determines which ores you can detect. Basic scanners only survey common ores; Tier I adds Troilite, Tier II adds Pentlandite, and Tier III detects everything, including Iridosmine. Survey range also increases with tier.
Surveying trains the Mineral Survey skill (Profession → Mining), which unlocks fitting the higher-tier scanners. New scanner blueprints are buildable.

Higher tiers recover more components from every wreck: +25% / +50% / +100%. The bonus applies fairly to every wreck, including small ones — no more rounding away on single-component stacks.
Higher tiers also salvage faster and reach farther — both the salvage beam and loot pickup range.
Fitting higher tiers requires the Salvaging skill; new salvager blueprints are buildable.

Blueprint drops now scale with system security. High-sec caches drop Tier I blueprints; med-sec drops Tier II (except ship hulls); low-sec drops Tier II hulls and Tier III blueprints — the best prints live in the most dangerous space.

Fixed off-forward speed caps. Strafing, reversing, and vertical thrust now reach full max speed — only acceleration differs by axis, as intended.

Premium profession point cap adjusted 720 → 700.
Manufacturing lock text now consistently states the missing blueprint or skill level.

Restart Steam to pick up the update. Not-yet-updated clients keep working, but only see jobs at their current station until updated.