Outerstellar news & patch notes

🛰️ The Beacon — No Raiding Until It Lives

Every base now starts in a “protected” state — no raiding, no offline base destruction, no griefing — until someone successfully constructs and activates the Beacon.

Building it is no small task.

✨ New Features & Improvements

🔹 New Structures & Buildables

Over the past months we’ve added:

• New deployable items

• New interior decorations

• New mechanical and alien-themed pieces

• New upgrades for bases

• Additional small details across almost every crafting tree

🔹 Improved World, Environments & Atmosphere

You’ll notice:

• Environmental ambience updates

• More atmospheric zones to explore

🔹 New Vehicles / Mobility Updates

Movement and traversal have been improved.

🔹 New Puzzles, Keys & Door Systems

Color-coded keys, locked rooms, switches, toggles, hazards — all part of new exploration content.

🎮 Play Outerstellar Now — Free on Steam

• Improved collision of bike, no longer possible to clip player model when driving under something
• Potential fix for client/server desync from PilotAbility causing the client to get stuck
• Fixed unstable spring behavior and general desync when rapidly entering/exiting vehicle
• Fixed bug where bike rotation pitch was quite extreme in certain cases, much more constrained now, looks better
• Increased tick rate of bike when player is NOT driving from 20FPS to 30FPS, looks much smoother now
• Exiting the bike is now much smoother, less server corrections
• Fixed a bug where smashing E while exiting the bike caused a bug where client got stuck in pilot ability
• Added ButtonPrompt for Jump (Hold E | Boost Up)
• Outline and CenterText is no longer shown while driving the bike
• Fixed an exploit where exiting vehicle could cause you to glitch through a wall, only doing launch when there is space now
• Fixed an exploit where standing on bike would allow you to see through walls above, bikes stops hovering when this case is detected
• Fixed an animation bug when entering vehicle while crouching
• Fixed validation errors and warnings
• Fix vehicles not spawning in package

🚀 Hoverbike Update

Outerstellar’s first vehicle has arrived. Race across alien terrain, scout enemy bases, and out-maneuver raiders like never before.

Highlights

• Fast traversal across the world

• Aerial-style strafing mobility

• High-speed PvP engagements & escape potential

Master the bike — speed is power in the void.

🏗️ Base Deployable Update

Input any organic plant and clone it over and over!

🌱 Hydroponics Clone Lab

• Grow plants indoors safely

• Early survival advantage

• Late-game production scaling

• Can double organic based Aura

🔐 Storage Lockers

• Increased storage space and smaller profile to chests.

• A test rug (much more of this to come next update)

Your base isn’t just shelter — it’s identity.

🎯 New Missions & Unique Items

Fresh contracts across the system & new rewards for deep-space operators.

Mission improvements

• Five new missions in the space station bar.

• Unique items to collect... helmets, suits, mining tools and items to equip.

The farther you roam, the stranger the rewards.

⚙️ Ongoing Improvements

• UI upgrades & new icons

• New drop meshes added

• Performance tuning

• New audio cues

• New Green and Orange Loot rooms to find.

• Changes to drops and much, much more !

We're back into productivity mode and welcome our valued community feedback as we push Outerstellar into the future!

Have a great Halloween !

The Outerstellar team.

✨ What’s New & Improved

• New Asia Server Online – faster, smoother connections for our players in the region.

• New Map Unlocked – dive into fresh terrain with unique challenges and landscapes.

• Landscape Overhaul – environments feel more alive and immersive than ever.

• Bot Health Reduced – fairer battles and tighter pacing.

• Building Defense Boosted – stronger outposts mean more strategic depth.

• Space Station Brightened – visibility and atmosphere improved for smoother navigation.

We truly believe this is our strongest release yet and can’t wait for you to experience it. Thank you for being part of the Outerstellar journey.

Feel free to pop into our Discord for feedback and chats !

• New map, smaller and easier to get around
• Reduced fall damage significantly, and increased water movement speed
• Reduced acid biome damage and fixed the issue causing constant damage in fire/acid biome even with correct suit
• Added leeches back in
• Fixed a couple of rare crashes reported via the automated system (thanks for submitting!)
• Adjusted recycle properties and reduced world fabricator rates

After listening closely to our incredible community, we’ve pivoted back to the original survival experience – the vision Outerstellar was born from. While the battle royale chapter added exciting innovations, we’ve fused the best of those elements into a refined, immersive survival mode that feels deeper, richer, and more intense than ever before. But we’re not stopping there. New surprises await. This is more than survival. It’s evolution. And we’re building it with you. Join us as we shape the future of the game together – your feedback fuels our updates, and your voice is helping us prepare for full release. The game is maturing, and it's almost ready to emerge from Early Access. Are you ready to survive what's coming?

• Reduced number of AI enemies
• Fixed decoder doors not working
• Investigation into occasional server crash

• Increased inventory size to 12 slots
• Increased Uplink chest size to 30 slots
• Deployables can be sold in the shops
• Increased player power recharge rate
• Increased accuracy of most weapons significantly

• Fix occasional crash in client and server related to kill message.
• Exposed some additional options for custom dedicated servers.
• Added regular restart for official servers to restore performance.

• Fix rare server crash when Giving Up.
• Fix for teleporters not working.
• Fix for occasionally taking fall damage when dropping to the planet.
• Shutter wall upgrades now have the correct cost and HP.
• Block builder tool usage in space station.

• Armed autonomous bots keep things interesting on the planet surface.
• Mobile uplink drones take loot back to the expanded Space Station storage.
• Dynamic storms dictating player movement around the planet.
• Take control of your drop pod to land anywhere you want.
• Pick-up-and-play gameplay allows you to get into the action immediately - no grind required.

• Fix for mod-bench attachment duping bug
• Carbon Fabricator recipe changed Aura 1:40, added Crude 1:20
• Metal Fabricator recipe changed Aura 1:30, added Crude 1:15
• Increased component drop in lockers
• Increased durability of Green and Orange decoders

• Added Metal and Carbon Fabricators that consume aura and power to generate the resource.
• Added T3 wind turbine.
• Added Mini Turret for additional support during firefight.
• Added barricade deployable item.
• Added healing beacon deployable item.
• Added highlight to dropped items.
• New landscape and monuments moved further apart.
• PvP kill events are pushed as global notifications and temporary map markers.

• Dedicated server package - host your own private servers!
• Added private server password support.
• Advanced server customization is possible via configuration files.
• Documentation for server hosting available online.

• Increased the defence of T3 Aura base walls.
• Reduced the cost of T3 Aura base walls and upkeep.
• Reduced aura drop from meteor event.
• Increased BC build block radius from 30 to 50m.
• Compound walls and gates can now be placed much further from buildings.
• Advanced weapon mods no longer craftable and must be found.
• Reworked the barrels and drops for lockers and barrels.
• Barrels auto-loot with most weapons.
• Increased Uplink stash slots to 24.
• Player network range increased from 300m to 500m.
• Reworked weapon accuracy so firing from the hip is not so penalized now.
• Arc Furnace in the Refinery and Space Station now smelts at 10x speed, 2x yield, and only one person can interact at a time.

• Landscape deployables are now placeable on rocks etc, too.
• Building Privilege UI icon now shows protection time remaining.
• Increased size of airdrop and is much more visible now.
• Added nearby map icons to the compass widget.
• Reworked map icons and emphasized they can be named.
• Simplified tutorial to improve situations where players would get stuck.
• Reworked weapon attentuation so distant gunfire can be heard much further away, and easier to guage distance.
• Added fire and acid biome ambience sounds.

• Terraformer landscape holes fixed.
• Fixed sticky bombs not flashing.
• Fixed a bug causing no lootdrops/meteors after savegame invalidation.
• Fixed exploit accessing terraformer black room from underneath.
• Improved excessive rubberbanding on connections with consistent packetloss.
• Fixed a bug where monsters would not be affected by splash damage.
• Fix the issue where items could easily fall behind the warehouse desks, and improved the ability to pick them up.
• Improved the flashlight clipping through some suits.
• Fixed damage on metal bolts and rockets.
• Added shadow casting to base lights to stop leaking.

Bug fixes

• Disabled turrets firing at AI as they can't damage them right now
• Duplicated+moved teleporter signs to be more obvious
• Increased depth that foundations can be placed underwater
• Turrets always target bones on players now which means they also shoot correctly when downed
• Added or enlarged no build zones to various monuments (Quad ports, Exhaust_tall, Satellite, Silo, Refinery entrance, Warehouse)
• Fixed issues when interacting with chests in shelving units
• Modified staircase collision which should fix rare falling through bug
• Fixed the very nasty bug where a full inventory would cause loss of all crafting in-progress
• Fixed a rare client crash involving items and inventory
• Temporary fix for some holes in Terraformer landscape
• Fixed turret firing sound getting stuck on and not attenuating
• Fixed some storm noises not affected by volume slider
• Added missing no build zones to various monuments
• Ranged weapons with scopes now show hit markers

Balance changes

• Plasma turret clip from 120 to 40
• Reduced HP of turrets from 1000 to 500
• Added black decoder to warehouse
• Fixed recipe for Adv. Protection Core
• Fixed plasma sniper accidentally doing double damage and reduced base damage of both snipers
• Significant reduction on med crafting costs
• Lowered T1 shotgun damage
• Increased meteor health
• Removed broken spawners in Refinery black room
• Buildings can now be placed deeper under water

NEW FEATURES

• Fixed a crash when joining a server
• Fixed an exploit that allowed cheating clients to speedhack
• Fixed several holes in the landscape
• Removed Christmas related assets

• Fixed missing barrels in all monuments severely hampering progression
• Fixed collision on Uplink chest
• Fixed Builder repair mode incorrect message when already at full health

ITS A WHOLE NEW WORLD

GENERAL SERVER & EVENT UPDATE

GENERAL SERVER & EVENT UPDATE