StarFrame Update — August 13, 2026

14 Aug 2026Developer post

🌀 Riftspace

A server restart no longer wipes your character mid-run. Rift runs are saved now. Before this, a crash while you were inside deleted your ship, cargo, credits and skills. Log back in and you are in your rift with everything as you left it.
The timer freezes while nobody is inside. You come back with the time you had.
Disconnecting keeps you in the run. Reconnect and pick it up.
Disconnecting no longer banks your loot. Pulling the plug used to count as a successful extraction. Loot is secured by flying out the gate, and only that.
The room you left restocks when you return. Enemies are not saved. Cleared rooms stay cleared; your damage, cargo and clock carry over.
Server updates suspend runs instead of ending them. No key refund anymore, because you did not lose the run.
Runs nobody returns to close out after 72 hours. The haul goes back to where you entered from.

Nothing touches a ship in the jump tube. No locks, no guns, no missiles, no webs.
The align burn is the window. You are visible and shootable for the whole spool.
Missiles already chasing you go dumb when you launch.
Remote repair and cap transfer stop at the tube too.
Criminal flags and bounties keep ticking through the jump.
The tube freezes your capacitor. No drain, no recharge. You arrive with what you left with.

A lit cloak stops your missiles too, not just guns.
You cannot missile-lock what you cannot see. Existing locks break the moment a ship conceals.
Signature Dampeners get the same protection.
Missiles already in the air keep coming. That is what countermeasures are for.
You can still take locks while cloaked.
Cloak upkeep 7/9/11 → 10/13/16 capacitor per second. Ranges and the speed penalty are unchanged.
Signature Dampeners train Dampener Systems now. They were training Cloaking Systems, and Dampener Systems had no XP source at all. Dampener II and III were unreachable.
Cloaks train Cloaking Systems. Running one used to train nothing.
Both only pay while you are moving. Parked in space with one lit earns nothing.
Levels banked in the wrong skill stay. Nothing is recalculated.

Your ore hold drops when you die. The whole haul, into the wreck, no Salvager needed.
Cargo drops 50% → 100%.
Hull scrap and fitted-module materials still need a Salvager.
Scuttling leaves no wreck. Everything aboard is destroyed.

Destroying a structure drops everything inside as loot. Every hold, corp hold, station inventory and parked ship scatters as wrecks at the site.
Asset safety is gone. Whoever wins the field takes the goods.
The wrecks are free loot. 100%, no Salvager.
A parked ship drops as its packaged hull, fit and holds.
Abandoned structures spill too.

What you store at a structure stays yours. Sold, kicked or disbanded, you can still withdraw your goods and fly out your ships.
Corp storage stays with the corp. Officers can withdraw it at structures the corp no longer owns.
Lost access means withdraw-only. No deposits, no storing new ships.
Buy orders name a quality band now. Each band trades in its own book. Above-Crude gear had no possible buyer before this.
Station buy-back bids on all four bands, priced by band. The per-item budget is split across them, not multiplied.
Escrow timers pause while you are logged off.

Market rows show their band. Open an item to see every band side by side.
A band selector above the order list sets where your next order goes. Right-clicking a row still trades that exact row.
Your open orders show their band.
The market tells you why an order was refused. It has been failing silently since launch. The errors you are about to see are not new, the messages are.

Fixed remote purchases losing your change if you moved before they completed. Escrow travels with you and settles wherever you are.
Fixed remote purchases away from a main station refunding themselves while the goods were still coming.
Fixed a Premium License bought while away from the station being destroyed. It lands at your next login instead.
Fixed market goods landing in a hidden second hold after a reconnect.
Fixed dropping connection mid-jump leaving you stuck in the wormhole. Pilots already stuck are freed on next login.
Fixed the threat alarm going quiet during gate align. It was muting the one part of a jump you can die in.
Fixed "Can't fire right now" not telling you the cloak was the reason.
Fixed the sell dialog promising instant fills it cannot deliver.
Fixed a pod's ore hold being deleted when boarding a ship from the hangar. It offloads to station storage, or the swap is refused if storage is full.
Fixed selling a structure locking everyone's goods inside it.
Fixed a corp losing its structure hold the moment the structure was unbound.
Fixed corp storage kept at a station that no longer exists. It moves to the home station on restart.
Fixed ships parked at a destroyed structure vanishing.
Fixed structure destruction showing nothing to the people with goods inside.

The Codex death entry now matches reality: cargo and ore drop to the wreck, banked goods are safe, scuttling destroys everything.
Listing a structure for sale warns about stored property.
Cloaking Systems' training text no longer describes the dampener.
Structures cannot be scooped with anything stored inside.
Premium License orders must be whole licenses.

Restart Steam to pick up the update.