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v0.159

Startron v0.159 has been released!

Tweaks & updates

  • Overhauled the cosmos generation and selection interfaces
  • Clouds now show around planets in the system view
  • Solar corona ejections can now use █ as well as the original ■ (like engine particles)
  • Made pulsars more obvious
  • The options window is now split into tabs for easier comprehension
  • Crots, umyum & yist plants now require sunlight
  • Added additional info about industry catchment processing in a few places
  • Tweaked the lithrogen planet colour in the entity list to be more distinct from ice planets at a glance
  • Aligned the top down aurora colours with the side-on aurora colours
  • Gave the pirate story-thread a more sensible ending
  • Added something extra to the scrapyard story-thread ending

Bugs fixed in this version

  • Fixed being able to auto-walk through a wall on one of the planet port 3D maps
  • Fixed the enter and grav keys in the Linux native versions
  • Fixed lithrogen waves showing from the wrong side of a planet leading to them doing strange things
  • Fixed destroying workers not just beaming them up like any other item
  • Fixed generated ships sent on voyages from homeworlds not actually being that planet's species