Greetings, Spacefarer!
Good news! Space Haven Beta 2 - The Station Game Mode Update is now Released! This Major Update adds a new game mode to the game, allowing you to build a large space station and offer various services to visitors.
Space Haven Beta 2 - The Station Mode Major Update
(Station Mode is a new separate game mode. You can continue your saved game from Beta 1 when playing the normal game mode. There are also some new updates to the normal game mode.)
A New Game Mode - Station Mode
A new game mode allowing you to role play as the owner of a station somewhere in the galaxy!
Role play as the owner of a station trying to establish a hub somewhere in the galaxy and specialize in services of your choosing. Expand your station gradually by mining nearby asteroids and derelicts moving in and out of your sector.
Trade with visiting merchants, watch tourist come visit your station and specialize in various services like industry and food or become a notorious arms dealer. Whatever your trade you will determine the composition of your station as the Governor.
The Station Mode Starmap - A More Robust Star System
Station Mode features its own Starmap in form of a larger star system with various points of interests.
We've built a starmap meant specifically for the station mode, which is a larger star system with various points of interests allowing NPC ships, rogue bots and aliens to come visit your sector but also allowing you to go on away missions to other sectors in the star system.
The station mode star system features a set of orbits around a star, with simulation of star system entities circling around the star in the different orbits. Your sector and station will also be on its own orbit circling slowly around the star.
Two Start Scenarios - Start on Asteroid and Start in Space
Start from a bare minimum base. Larger cliffs on the asteroid surface will require creativity as you expand.
Start from a bare minimum base and expand gradually as you gather more resources. Larger cliffs on the asteroid surface will require creativity as you build around them to expand your station. Certain facilities, like hangars, can be built directly on the asteroid surface without the need of hull surrounding them.
A scenario where you start with a shuttle and deployable containers to land on a new asteroid.
Start in Space - Start with only a shuttle and some deployable Containers and choose your spot to land on an asteroid. Start building your new station from scratch!
Station Services - Specialize and Become a Hub of Services
Build and specialize in services of your choosing, you can specialize in one or many services.
Station Mode allows you to build facilities with a goal of becoming a hub for certain services of your choosing. You can build lots of food facilities and entertainment to become a leisure station or specialize in weapons production to become an arms dealer, there will be a multitude of services to choose from.
Services related to resources will function as an autotrade, allowing you to specify how much you want to keep back in storages at all times.
As you specialize your station in certain services you will start to attract more visitors with those needs as the word spreads of your great station and its services. Visitors will pay you good money and you will have a service rating going up or down depending on the experience the visitor had with you.
The Haven Foundation Exodus Fleet Supply Ship
The Haven Foundation needs your help. This time from the main supply ship of the Exodus fleet.
The Haven Foundation returns with new missions for you to execute and help their cause. This time the main supply ship for the Exodus fleet, lead by Rufus, needs your help securing special mining sectors and to give pathfinders of the Exodus fleet a place of refuge.
Build your station, specialize in services and become a true Governor of the stars. Help the Exodus fleet and their Pathfinders and you will be rewarded.
The Haven Foundation and Joint Venture Mining Operations
Secure special mining sectors and as a reward you will get a share of the mining operations.
The Haven Foundation will task you to secure special mining sectors within the star system. These mining sectors are known to have bountiful mines, that will offer a large amount of resources to supply the Exodus fleet in its ventures.
Help secure these mining sectors and you will receive a share of their operations as a reward. Receive cargo containers filled with resource periodically as the Exodus fleet runs their mining operation. Buy more shares to receive an even bigger amount.
Endless Play - Migrate to new Sectors and Star Systems
Migrate to a new home sector, new star system or build a spaceship and continue in normal game mode!
Similarly to the Normal Game Mode this new Station Game Mode will also allow for Endless gameplay. When you have built your station to satisfaction you can continue playing by using so called Migration Containers and shuttles to migrate to a new home sector or a new star system!
Load shuttles with your crew members and pack cargo containers up to the brim with resources. Build special containers used for migration, such as: Life Support, Barracks and Solar Arrays. These will help you start a new base.
Build a Spaceship and Take Your Crew to the Normal Game Mode
Migrate to a special sector in the star system and build a spaceship and continue to normal game mode! Featured ship built by by Alex_D.
The new Starmap in Station Mode will present a possibility to build a spaceship and continue gameplay in the normal game mode of the game, where you embark on a space journey with spaceships and potentially become a pathfinder for the Exodus fleet.
This opportunity is presented with a special sector in the station mode starmap, where you are able to migrate to after playing for some time. Migrate, build a new station and a spaceship, and take off into hyperspace traveling to new beginnings in the Normal Game Mode of the game.
The game modes are still separate from each other, but this allows you to take your crew and continue their journey in the normal game mode. We also added a choice to start the difficulty from beginning or as if you had played one galaxy and will meet larger NPC ships right from the get go.
Special Containers Used for Migration
We've created new deployable containers. These can be used when migrating to a new home sector.
Packing up and traveling to new bases can be done using Shuttles and Containers. In addition to Cargo Containers there will be a new assortment of containers, featuring containers for Starting a Base, Barracks and Solar Arrays.
These containers help with giving the minimal conditions needed for early survival as a new station is being built. They can be deployed wherever there is room on an asteroid, and they can be deployed next to each other to create unified hulls between them.
Shuttles and Containers Traveling in Starmap
Shuttles and containers will travel in the starmap similarly to spaceships.
You will be able to send out shuttles to away missions and use cargo containers to ship resources from the away mission back to your station. The Exodus fleet will be able to send shuttles and containers as you request help from them.
Shuttles and special deployable containers can be used to migrate and start a new station.
Special Bases in the Starmap
The new starmap will have the same special bases seen in normal mode, but also a new rogue bot base.
We added NPC bases to the new starmap, along with Rogue Bot and Alien bases. Rogue bots and Aliens can send out attacks which can target both the player but also NPC's moving in the map.
NPC ships coming under attack by rogue bots or aliens will create away mission events. You can choose to help those under attack.
Large Area to Build On - 3x3 Grids Enabled for Station Mode and Fleet Mode!
The size of the asteroid surface will be a 3x3 grid sized area, allowing for building big stations.
The shape and composition of the asteroid surface will be randomized for each playthrough.
We have enabled a 3x3 sized grid for the possibility to build big stations on the asteroid surface. Random rocks on the asteroid surface will require creativity as you build around them.
We will also enable these big sized 3x3 canvases for the normal game mode, and increase ship points to 9 to allow you to build much larger ships than before! You can for example build a 3x3 behemoth ship or a fleet of three 1x3 ships.
Derelict Ships and Asteroids Moving Within the Sector
Derelict ships will move into the sector and slowly move out, giving you plenty of time to scavenge it.
To prevent the player sector from becoming congested we've implemented a system of slow movement of certain entities like derelict ships and small asteroids. This will allow the entities to enter the sector but eventually be moved out of the sector with time.
This is something we will tweak and modify as needed. The idea is to give a generous amount of time for the player to grab the resources from the derelict ships and asteroids before they slip away out of the sector.
Claimable Areas on the Asteroid Surface
Certain areas of the asteroid surface may be guarded by rogue bots or aliens.
Parts of the asteroid surface will be claimable areas, guarded by either rogue bots or aliens. These areas need to be secured to get access to more space for building and the surface resources located within the area.
Mineable Resources on the Asteroid Surface
Crew members mining resources on the surface of the Station Mode asteroid.
Scattered around the surface of the Station Mode asteroid there will be mineral rich debris and crystals, which the crew members can mine directly without having to use mining pods. These patches of resources will help with building the new station.
Away Missions
Take a set of shuttles and venture out on away missions outside of your own sector.
The station mode will feature a new style of away missions where a set of shuttles can be sent out to sectors outside your own. There will be a slight travel time as your shuttles venture out, when arriving at the destination you will be able to execute an away mission by commanding your crew members in draft mode.
Away missions will have you fight aliens, rogue bots and pirates as you help ships in need.
Fight alien infested ships or ships under attack by rogue bots or pirates. Get various rewards and send resources home to your own station in cargo shuttles. The stakes are higher as there often is no place of safe refuge in these sectors.
Rogue Bot Cargo Containers
Rogue bots leave behind cargo containers as they scavenge ships. Use them for your own purposes!
We have added Rogue bot cargo containers to the game, which can be found in away missions when rogue bots have captured ships. You can take control of and use the rogue bot cargo containers to send resources home to your own station.
Humans Captured in Rogue Bot Preservation Tanks
Rogue bots can now have humans captured in preservation tanks on discovery.
Previously rogue bots have been able to capture your crew members and put them in preservation tanks. Now, the Rogue bots can have humans captured in their preservation tanks when you discover them. This gives more opportunities to acquire new crew members.
Combat Robots
Research and build Combat Robots to help you clear out derelicts and enemy ships.
We've added a new robot available for research and construction. The combat robot is a robot that is capable of venturing out into enemy spaces, like derelicts, and engaging enemies. They do not allow for precise direct control but can be ordered to move towards rally points, similarly to star fighters.
Pirate Sentry Turrets
Pirates may now leave their own automated sentry turrets behind, to secure their loot.
The Pirates get a sentry turret of their own, which they may often leave behind to secure their loot for future salvaging. This new pirate sentry turret will present a new enemy inside derelicts.
Automatic Vent Control
Vents will have an automatic setting, closing automatically if a fire or hull breach is detected in a room.
Vents now have an automatic control, where they can be set to automatically close when a fire breaks out in a room, or when the hull is breached. The vents will open back up once these threats have died down. However, gases may still linger in the room or temperature may be high, so keep an eye out if further actions are needed.
This automatic vent control should help mitigate issues with fires spreading and hull breaches causing lots of destruction, as long as good design and compartmentalization is used when designing a ship/station.
Faction Specific Dialogue Lines for Some Common Encounters
Some of the most common encounters with NPC's have more personalized dialogue lines.
We've added some new dialogue lines for some of the most common encounters with NPC ships and faction in the game. These new dialogue lines will add some new flair and separation between factions as they contact you in need of resources of when you find one of their crew members in a hypersleep chamber aboard a derelict ship.
Vivid Tooltips
Some tooltips will have an animation showing how an item is used.
Certain items now have small animations in the tooltips showing how an item is used. This will help new players get a grasp on how items like syringes, bandage, combat stims etc. can be used and how sentry turrets can be deployed.
Balancing
Weapons have been rebalanced to have an accuracy modifier based on distance.
We've made some changes and modified the balance regarding Energium Generators, drug side effects and Ore Processors. Also the hand guns have been modified to have a spread based on distance instead of just a general spread.
Pistols and shotguns will still be bad at long range, but should now be better in close combat situations than before. We hope to make the early game with pistols and shotguns less awkward, but still offer some challenge.
We made the Energium Generator consume a bit less Energium, drug side effects have lower negative values and the Ore Processor resource output has been increased. Remember to build more than one Ore Processor for more resource output!
Space Haven - Station Mode Major Update Now Released!
The new Major Update is now ready to be played! We will still keep updating with smaller patches and optimizing the new update. If you have any issues or find some remaining bugs let us know in the discussions here on Steam.
Please give your feedback:
General Feedback can be given here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/979110/discussions/0/
Bug reports here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/979110/discussions/4/
Let us know what you think of the new features and if something should be altered or tweaked in your mind. Perhaps something makes the game too hard or something is too annoying, let us know so we can get a feel for how the new features feel! =)
Patch Notes (With Featured Station Screenshots)
Featured Screenshot - Station build by Shambler.
New Main Features
Created a new game mode: Station Mode.
Created a new starmap for Station Mode. A robust star system, with circling orbits, resource/element distribution, and away mission events.
Created a new Main Quest for the Station Mode, involving a Haven Foundation supply ship giving main missions and pathfinders coming to visit your station.
Main Missions for the Haven Foundation currently includes joint mining ventures, where the player is tasked to secure special resource sectors and get a share of the benefits.
Added NPC bases to the new starmap, along with Rogue Bot and Alien bases. Rogue bots and Aliens can send out attacks which can target both the player but also NPC's moving in the map.
NPC ships coming under attack by rogue bots or aliens will create away mission events. The player can choose to help those under attack.
Created a station service system, which allows specializing in some service and autotrading with visiting ships.
Created a tourist/visitor feature which allows for NPC faction to visit the player station and pay for services.
Created in-sector movement of derelict ships and asteroids to allow for a flow of elements into the sector and disposal to not overcrowd the sector.
Created claimable areas on the Station Mode asteroid surface, guarded by rogue bots or aliens.
Created mineable surface resources on the Station Mode asteroid, which can be mined by crew members without the need for mining pods.
Made it possible to build hangars directly on the asteroid surface.
Created a system that allows shuttles to be launched for away missions. Shuttles can travel to other sectors and execute away missions of various nature.
Made it possible for shuttles and cargo shuttles to be sent home with resources inside.
Increased the maximum canvas size to 3x3 in grid size and added one more ship point to a total of 9.
Made the sector map larger to allow more elements to fit in a sector.
New Interstellar Event: Under Attack by Pirates. The player can now come upon a ship under attack by pirates, needing help to rid themselves of the invaders.
Added some other new interstellar events and many types of away missions for station mode.
New faction specific dialogue lines for some of the most frequently seen dialogues: When a faction asks for resources, When a faction asks about their faction members who sent out a distress call, when finding someone in a hypersleep chamber, when winning a crew combat battle.
Rogue bots can now have humans captured in their preservation tanks. The player can acquire a new crew member by freeing them.
Created a Rogue bot cargo container, which can be found in away missions when rogue bots have captured ships. The player can use the rogue bot cargo container to send resources home to their station.
Added the ability to start anew building a new station, packing up resources and crew. Migration can be done both within the current star system or traveling to a new star system. This can be done with shuttles and various containers.
Added various Migration Containers to the game. These containers can be deployed and helps with starting a new base in Station Mode.
Continue in Normal Mode: Created a special sector that allows building a spaceship and using it to continue playing in the normal game mode of the game.
Containers can now be built at the Cargo Port.
Added a Combat Robot to the game. The new robot is also added to the research tree.
Added a new sentry turret to the game, used by the Pirates to keep their loot safe.
Added some hypersleep chambers to most NPC ships allowing away mission events to provide a survived crew member.
Added an automatic vent control on doors.
Created a vivid tooltip feature. This feature allows showing animated tooltips for things like how to use items.
Balancing: Made the Energium Generator consume a bit less Energium.
Balancing: Drug side effects have lower negative values.
Balancing: Ore Processor resource output increased. Remember to build more than one for more resource output.
Balancing: Changed the weapon spread on hand guns. Added a modifier for distance. Early game with pistols and shotguns should be a bit less awkward.
New Smaller Features and Optimizations
Featured Screenshot - Station built by Nico.
Added a check for crew members not to venture out of base if energy is too low.
Changed when crew members go unconscious due to low energy. Previously they could get unconscious when energy was below 5 but now they can only become unconscious when energy is 0.
Added some non-breaking spaces in Japanese and Simplified Chinese translations.
Added a tooltip for the DRAFT button when a condition is preventing drafting.
Optimized how crew members prioritize repair tasks. A crew member should now focus on trying to repair a facility as much as they can before going to their next task based on their priority settings.
When a crew member is constructing or dismantling and they have an accident they should now have a much higher chance to continue the same task before going away to do some other task.
Small Hope Brutal difficulty - Research workbench unlocked in start settings.
Optimized how derelict ships move out of the sector to lessen overlap.
Made the ship storage full sticky note appear when all resource storages are full, instead of checking both resource and body storages.
Fixed the Civilian Cargo Port ship having too tight cargo ports relative to nearby hull.
Modified and optimized the algorithm for building. The likelihood that the crew member bringing the last resource box to a blueprint also builds the facility should now be higher.
Resources should now not be reserved for blueprints placed in areas where crew members do not have access to.
Added an error message for when a blueprint does not have access to resources due to no clear path to a storage.
Made ship information saving more efficient. Should save space by not saving unnecessary information.
Changed view modes isolated areas submenu name to Miscellaneous.
Added a text to the tooltip in comfort view mode on how to see room types.
Added a notification to Water collector when they cannot remove water vapor quickly enough.
Added a condition "I was treated by player" which is related to giving medical assistance. This condition addresses an exploit related to treating NPC patients.
Tweaked the I was treated condition to lessen the chance of many repeat treatments. There can still be a few times the same patient comes if they are very hurt.
Removed urge to destroy from the Extremely frustrated condition.
Added Asteroid Rock Formation Drilling - You can now drill away the rocks on the asteroid surface with a Mining Pod and Ore Processor. (The Ore Processor produces drills for the Mining Pod)
Added a quick dock button to all player ships and stations, which will help in the start in space scenario.
Hull Stability networks can be connected with power conduits. No need to build multiple hull stabilizers for different sectors. Connect with power conduits.
Station Mode - A derelict NPC ship that was previously a functional ship can be claimed in away missions. Intended as a place to rest for crew members when such a ship is present. The ship cannot jump to hyperspace.
Station Mode - Added a check for missing sectors to migrate to. The game will now check every turn and add if they are missing.
Station Mode - Rogue bot drones on derelicts outside of the station mode map should be inactive until the derelict enters the sector.
Station Mode - Made multiple shuttles sent on the same away mission integrate into the same away mission ready message. Same goes for sending multiple crafts to the same migration location.
Station Mode - NPC ships are attacked in Starmap and missions spawn from them. Added a text to clarify this in mission popups.
Station Mode - Added a Asteroid Point Defense Turret.
Station Mode - Added a Warning when sending all crew members on an away mission.
Station Mode - Added a Warning when sending all shuttles away on an away mission.
Bug Fixes
Featured Screenshot - Station build by sir_ardias.
Fixed problems with the Fallen mission in Normal Game Mode. Haven Foundation crew members not being able to eat, sleep or visit the toilet and thus impacting the research speed.
Fixed issue with being able to build on asteroid versions of pod hangar and shuttle hangar.
Fixed Refugees and slaves going back and forth between toilets.
Fixed slaves not carrying out work tasks.
Fixed bug with a hole appearing on asteroid when moving a pod hangar or shuttle hangar.
Fixed the Stun Rifle degrading into another weapon.
Fixed a bug with crew members evaluating a safe path and not putting on a spacesuit when it was needed.
Fixed a bug with not being able repair facilities that needed a resource for repairing.
Fixed a bug with not being able to access a medical cabinet built on a hull wall.
Fixed an issue with multiple crew members picking up the same crew member.
Fixed problems with visitors.
Fixed a bug with picking up unconscious crew members.
Fixed some problems with Combat Robots.
Asteroid Point Defense Turrets should now take damage.
Fixed a problem with combat robots in a mining sector away mission.
Fixed an issue with wall mounts when mounted on hull and the hull was turned into normal wall when expanding the hull.
Fixed a problem with Refugees not going into medical beds.
Fixed a game crash when dismantling.
Improved the issue with too many ships entering the sector in station mode. Will not immediately fix saved games with already crowded sectors, but the sector should clear out eventually with time.
Fixed issue with random red tiles appearing preventing building. The bug was related to some facility blueprints leaving a blocked tile when the blueprint was deleted.
Fixed broken Merchant Federation mining station in Normal Game mode.
Fixed an issue with Black Market trades.
Fixed a tooltip issue in the crew selection menu.
Fixed a bug with drilling, with crew member going continuously into mining pod.
Fixed derelict icons not going away from sector information in starmap.
Fixed bug with sedative syringe vivid tooltip giving a crew combat notification.
Fixed issue with the game zooming back out when trying to enter a sector in starmap.
Made the attempted suicide condition not stack anymore.
Fixed an issue with rogue bot base in station mode having enemies out of reach. Games with the base visited and game saved will still have the issue.
Fixed problems with prisoners eating.
Fixed issue with visitors coming to visit and immediately leaving.
Fixed a problem with using an asteroid storage with drafted crew.
Fixed bugs with trading.
Fixed problems with drafted crew commands within fog of war.
Fixed an issue with being able to buy the same resources from NPC's that are sold to them.
Fixed a problem with resources related to the secure mining sector away mission.
Fixed a problem with a built cargo shuttle related to docking and using transfer resources.
Fixed a problem with trading.
Fixed problem with hostile rogue bots still spawning in space when the derelict they were on has gone out of sector.
Fixed problem with drafting crew members in NPC ships giving a declare war message.
Added a objective for deploying containers in start in space scenario.
Added a objective to build an asteroid platform in start in space scenario.
A problem exists with having only asteroid storages and no normal storages that prevents crew from eating. Crew will now also look for food from asteroid storages.
Fixed bug with drilling.
Fixed problem with rebuilding jobs.
Fixed problem with power conduit. Added Automatic maintenance.
Fixed problem with pirate shuttles getting stuck in starmap.
Fixed problem with building hull on a resource box on the asteroid surface.
Fixed rogue bots capturing a ship and the ship not becoming a derelict.
Fixed not being able to dismantle a Station Hull Door. One is needed for a hull section, but others belonging to same hull section can now be dismantled.
Fixed bug with save/load when hiring crew members from the Exodus fleet and crew members disappearing.
Fixed problems caused by micrometeroids to hull.
NPC ships should no longer jump on derelicts when arriving in sector.
Enjoy the New Major Update
Featured Screenshot - Ship built by Black Widow.
Thanks for reading and enjoy the new update! Let us know here on Steam forums if you need help or find some issues with the new update. We will keep updating and optimizing based on all of your feedback!
