Star Trucker news & patch notes

OVERVIEW

Hotfix for a couple of notable issues occurring in the latest update, alongside a little surprise 🦆

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where shops would refuse to buy your valuable ingots

• Fixed an issue with a Broken Light job in Reaper’s Bluff, causing issues

• Fixed an issue with Venture Screen occasionally misloading

• Fixed an issue with the Dead Weight freight job not appearing until the Long Haul skill is unlocked

• Fixed an issue where side job progression could stall if tutorial steps are skipped early on

MISC

• Added a FREE trucker duck dashboard accessory

KNOWN ISSUES

For visibility, we have listed some of the issues we are currently tracking below. We will continue to work towards fixes for these in future updates.

• Job Generator does not always provide a suitable selection of jobs

• The menu system freaks out when certain peripherals are connected

• Wall Panels don’t immediately apply materials when customizing the cab

• A small number of players are experiencing unusual performance issues

As previously mentioned, the recent update touched on almost every element of the game and although we spent a lot of time, energy, and dollars testing, there are bound to be some niggles. If you stumble on a particularly bad bug (or you just want to send some feedback), please head over to the Raw Fury Support Desk and submit a ticket. It makes it a lot easier for us to track and resolve issues this way. Thanks!

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

Hey all, just a quick post to give you the run-down on a few things….

Firstly we really hope you’ve been enjoying the recent update. It’s our biggest content drop since launch and it’s been a long time coming. For those new to Star Trucker and would like to know more about what went into the recent update please check out the following links…

• Venture Update

• Business Time

• v1.73 Patch Notes 

Now… despite all the testing we did on this update we were still super nervous about the roll out, especially as the update touches almost every system in the game. Thankfully, for the most part, things seem pretty stable but we wanted to chat about a couple of known issues and be transparent regarding our next couple of updates.

Known Issues

So without further ado, here’s our immediate priorities…

Acknowledged and fixed

These issues have already been addressed and we are now testing fixes across all platforms before rolling out a hotfix patch hopefully next week.

Howdy Star Truckers, We’re back with a chunky dev blog to coincide with our largest update yet! There’s plenty to cover so let’s hit the gas and drive into things…

Launch Trailer

First up, our publisher Raw Fury has created a lovely little video for this update. Check it out below!

Home Improvements

Secondly, interior customizations are finally here! You can now overhaul your cab interior with a range of options including new color schemes, dashboard items, wall panels and star strips. You can access this menu by heading down to the lower workbench and interacting with the new board artwork. The primary way to unlock customizations is by levelling up a Business Venture. However, we’ve also included a selection of items you can obtain via cash earned from hauling freight. As more ventures come online, new rewards should always be within reach as you bounce between side jobs, freight hauls and helping out our new NPCs.

Here’s the current list of stuff you can modify within your cab…

• Bedding - Different styles of bed and bedding

• Cab Trim - Material used for paneling found inside the cab

• Color Palettes - Colour themes that adjust the metals, plastics and other elements inside the cab.

• Dash Lighting - Glowing elements such as neon strips and bulbs that fit around the front of the cab

• Maglock Toppers - These attach to the maglock lever and come in a variety of shapes and styles

• Star Strips - Decals that run along the top of the windscreen (both inside and out)

• Space Suits - A variety of different outfits that have unique colours and patterns

• Wall Panels - Changes the large panels found on the mezzanine and inside the airlock

• Dash Accessories - We have two types of accessories. Dashboard items that can be placed in any (or all) of the four positions on the cab dash and Blower items that can be placed on either of the small vents. Some of these dash items are interactive and some blower items will animate at different speeds based on the blower power.

Business Ventures

We spoke a bit about Business Ventures in our previous blog post HERE but for those who want a general overview without dippin’ out of this post we’ve got you covered with a general overview below.

Unlock a Venture

Meet the requirements and you’ll get a holler from a new NPC and gain access to a unique set of jobs relating to that venture.

Complete Venture Jobs

Completing venture jobs will earn you VXP and level up the business.

Earn Rewards

For every level you complete you’ll earn new rewards! From colorful cab palettes and dashboard accessories to valuable items you can horde or sell to nearby traders.

Purchase Boosts

To aid progression, you can spend in-world cash on boosts to unlock extra job slots and increase the amount of VXP earned per job.

Clear Prestige Gates

Every 10 levels you’ll encounter prestige gates. Invest in the business to unlock these gates. Doing so will give you a bit more insight into the NPC you’re working with and allow you to continue taking jobs.

Max out your Venture Level

There’s plenty of levels to clear and 3 prestige gates to unlock. Clearing all of these is your primary goal for a Business Venture.

Venture Titles

After maxing out a Venture you have the opportunity to unlock a time limited title for bragging rights. This timer can be extended by continuing to take and complete venture jobs beyond the max level.

It’s also worth noting that you can access the Venture screen at ANY TIME via a new tab in the game menu. Here you can take and cancel jobs or check progress towards your next goal.

We recommend taking Venture Jobs alongside freight hauls to maximize efficiency when navigating the galaxy. In fact this is part of the reason why job cooldowns and venture gates exist.

Venture jobs are intended to compliment the core gameplay loop and not supersede them.

Hop-timized

This update also rolls out improvements to the freight job generator. This includes…

• Faster and more optimized job generation

• More freight jobs visible on job boards

• Fixing an issue with long distance jobs not always generating

Generally this should make the job boards feel a bit more reliable while also squashing some unwanted performance issues that could occur when hopping from sector to sector. In future updates we’ll be looking to increase the number of local jobs, tweak XP payouts and hopefully inject some new job templates and cargo to help things feel a bit more varied.

Height Advantage

Another VERY important feature tucked away in this update is seat controls! Yes, that’s right, you can now adjust the height and position of your seat!

You can access these controls via the new buttons located on either side of the cab seats arm rests. Oh and we’ve also added these controls to the custom bindings screen. Handy for those who want to adjust their seat via a hot key! It’s also worth noting that your seat position is saved per session so you’ll need to re-adjust if you start a new game or switch playthroughs.

^ Here you can see the difference between positions and the affect it has on your forward view.

Bug Crushing

Lastly we also squashed a couple of long standing big ticket bugs as part of this update…

Star Trucker has been updated to v1.73 This update adds two major features - Business Ventures and Interior Customization. It also includes fixes for some long standing bugs alongside job generation improvements and other QoL adjustments, optimizations and fixes. For more information check out the following dev blogs:

• Dev Blog - Ventures Update

• Dev Blog - Business Time

It’s also worth noting that we’ve adjusted our version stamps to better accommodate multi-platform builds and hot fixes.

Business Ventures

A new system that allows players to unlock “Ventures”. Each venture provides a set of procedurally generated jobs and gifts the player a range of rewards for progressing.

• New Handyman Venture

  • x5 Job Types

    • Paste Jobs - Replace billboard artwork

    • Light Fix Jobs - Fix broken light units

    • Graffiti Cleanup Jobs - Remove unwanted graffiti

    • Dead Drone Jobs - Refuel drones

    • Sleepy Trucker Jobs - Wake up truckers

  • x30 Progression Levels

    • Progress via VXP earned from Handyman jobs

    • Beyond Lv.30 you can earn a Venture title

    • A Venture title can be kept alive by continuing to level up (infinite levelling loop)

  • x65 Rewards

    • Combination of customizations and grabbable items

  • x6 Boosts

    • Help speed up Venture progression

    • Three job slot boosts to unlock 

    • Three VXP boosts to unlock

• Ventures tab added to game menu

• Ventures screen shows available jobs, boosts and upcoming rewards

• Onboarding triggers shortly after completing your first side-job or starting Freeplay mode

Interior Cab Customization

We’ve updated the Star Truck to allow a variety of interior customizations. This feature can be accessed via the new artwork found above the workbench.

• Interact with workbench board to open the interior customization screen

• Pinned quest for interacting with customization board

• Variety of new interior cab customization options

  • Bed styles and patterns

  • Dashboard Items

  • Dashboard Blower Items

  • Dashboard Lighting

  • Cab Color Palettes

  • Cab Trim

  • Wall Panels

  • Space Suits

  • Star Strips

  • Maglock Toppers

• If required items show progress towards unlock

Adjustable Cab Seat

• Players can now use buttons on the arm rests to adjust the height and position of their seat

• Seat position is saved per save slot rather than globally

• Custom bindings can be set for adjusting height and position

Job Generator Improvement

• Optimizations "should" mean less / no stutter on warp exit

• Job board should show more freight from around the galaxy

• Fixed issues with XP calculations being wrong

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where asteroids could occasionally appear during warp causing unexpected collisions

• Fixes issue where your truck could drift out of position when it should be stationary

• Fixed issue where queued shop items would never spawn after reloading a save

• Fixed issue with large pipe artwork used in some sectors

• Fixed the incorrect spelling of Techtrove Electronics signage in Darkside

• Fixed some missing strings on the custom binding pop-ups

Misc

• Game menu tab options have been reordered to accommodate Ventures

• Truck interior has had a lot of adjustments and updates to account for interior customizations

As you can imagine this update touches on almost every element of the game and although we’ve spent a lot of time, energy and dollar testing it there’s bound to be some niggles. To that extent we’d like to remind you that if you stumble on a particularly bad bug (or you just want to send some feedback) please head over to the Raw Fury Support Desk and submit a ticket. It makes it a lot easier for us to track and resolve issues this way. Thanks!

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

Greetings Star Truckers! Work continues on the next update and while there's still lots to do, things are taking shape! The UI and UX has moved along considerably and we're hard at work on a variety of different job types. For this update I thought it might be nice to provide a little extra info on how the new Business Ventures will work. Keep in mind some elements are subject to change but it should make for an OK overview.

Extra Shifts

After you’ve met requirements, you’ll receive a CB holler from a brand-new character. They’ll brief you on their venture and provide updates and chatter as you complete jobs for them. These bite-sized tasks are perfect for filling gaps in your schedule or breaking up a long freight haul. With a bunch of new VO, they also help the galaxy feel more alive (especially in Freeplay mode). Unlike freight or side jobs, you can accept a venture job at ANY TIME from a new option in the game menu. However, these job slots are limited and have a cooldown. This helps maintain their role as a supporting feature within the larger context of the game, while still providing plenty of short-term goals.

First Hand

The first business venture we plan to roll out lets you step into the role of a galactic handyman, helping “King Vinny” tackle a growing backlog of work - everything from updating billboards to repairing infrastructure. For context, this is how we handle unlocking this venture…

• Regular Mode - After you complete your first side job for either Red Eddie or Sour Candy

• Freeplay Mode - From the start of your playthrough

• Existing Save - Shortly after you load (If you’ve met requirements)

Future ventures might require a specific rank or unlocking a specific zone but in general, you should be able to get stuck in fairly quickly if you’re a returning player.

Speakin' Up

As previously mentioned, each venture features a new voiced NPC and for “King Vinny” we’re happy to have the talented Ray Fox join our expanding team of contributing voice actors…

Ray Fox Mini-Bio

Ray started his career working at Sacramento radio stations, learning the ins and outs of the broadcast industry before realizing that “rock stardom” was a far more stable career path than radio. He shifted his focus to music as the bassist - and occasional singer - for the band Sedona. The band appeared alongside dozens of high-profile acts, including Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, and Peter Frampton. He also hosts a TikTok channel called Fox Rock Challenge, featuring classic rock brain teasers and trivia - but according to Ray, his expanding voice-over career has left him with little free time as animation and video game roles have proven an irresistible draw.

King Vinny : Listen, pal. I'm booked back to back to back today but I've got a client out in Medusa Six that needs a hand. Do me a favor and go check it out, will 'ya?

Vinny is just one of a bunch of new NPCs so be sure to keep an eye on future dev blogs for more info on new characters! * Bonus trivia : Ray’s brother Jimi Fox toured with the Doobie Brothers during the ’90s as a percussionist - proving the Fox family has always rolled with good rhythm!

Road Cash

If you have a stash of cash to spend you should consider investing in “Boosts”. These allow you to take on more jobs and earn bonus VXP. Well worth the investment if there’s a customization reward you want sooner than later or if you like to take on extra jobs while haulin’ freight.

Bobble Tech

Speaking of rewards. We recently finished some all new bobble tech! This allows various items on your dash to sway, bounce and get knocked about when you turn, crash and poke them. Obviously great for bobble heads but it also works on mag-float accessories such as our UFO spinner 🛸

Truckin' Onwards

Hopefully this update proves insightful as to what’s going on here at Monster HQ and how the Business Ventures will work. As mentioned at the start of this post, there's still a lot of work and testing ahead of us but things are shaping up nicely! We’ll swing by again soon with a progress update and screengrabs of various interior customization options. Until then we hope you’ll continue to follow our ramblings as we move closer to the release of this update. 10-10 and out!

• Dave & Dan ( aka Monster & Monster )

Hello Star Truckers! As you might have noticed we've been a little bit quiet lately, but for good reason! We've been hard at work on not one but TWO new features for Star Trucker.

The What

These big new features are “BUSINESS VENTURES” and “INTERIOR CAB CUSTOMIZATION”. There will be more to say about each in future Dev Blogs but for now we’ll provide a bit of an overview alongside some new screengrabs...

Business Ventures

These gradually unlock as you meet specific requirements and provide an extra layer of metagame and progression. Each Venture will have its own unique set of job types, ranks and rewards. Not only that but each venture has a new voiced NPC for you to interact with.

For example the initial venture “Galactic Handyman” unlocks after an early freight delivery and introduces you to King Vinny. He’s being stretched thin and could really do with an extra pair of hands to help with a long list of client jobs. From switching out billboard ads to fixing up stations and infrastructure, they’ll be a steady stream of jobs for you to take. We hope these tasks provide a nice palette cleanser between freight hauls - or if planned carefully - something to do while en-route to your next drop zone.

Interior Cab Customization

We’ve always wanted to provide more options for players to make their cab feel unique to them. To that extent some of the cab had already been built with this in mind including a system that allows material switching and colorization. There’s a lot of other ways you can customize your cab too, from lighting trims and maglock toppers to new bedding and space suits.

Of course there’s also going to be a bunch of dashboard accessories for you to equip, all of which attach to little accessory holders to prevent them flying off in zero-g. Some will animate too, either from various truck states or player interactions…

The When

Progress has been a little slower than we’d hoped but we’re getting there. Our initial set of interior customizations are complete and we have the basics of the venture system up and running. However there’s still quite a lot to do in terms of the extra jobs you’ll be able to take. Once we factor in polish, balance tweaks and bug fixing it’s likely that the earliest this update will drop is April. This is a couple months later than we’d hoped but we’d rather get this update right and not burn ourselves out over the holidays. We hope you all understand.

The Why

Thanks to all the support from the community (and our publisher Raw Fury) we've had the rare privilege of being able to continue work on Star Trucker beyond the initial release. Cut features such as freeplay, photo mode and peripheral support all made it back in and with this next update we’ll finally have a way to provide new content, challenges and rewards. Why are we doing this? In short because we want Star Trucker to be a better game. We’ve known for a while that players want more goals and job variety. Both during their early-mid game sessions but also after the side jobs have been completed (or when playing the freeplay mode). It's been a big undertaking and taken a LOT of planning but we hope it will provide a lot of enjoyment for both new players and veterans alike!

But that's not all...

Although these two features have been taking up the majority of our time, we've continued to chip away on various other tasks such as optimizing the job generation system and investigating weirdness around specific peripheral combinations. We’ve also been working through some long standing issues including a potential fix for the elusive warp asteroid collision bug. We’ve been chasing this one for a loooooong time and are hopeful that QA will finally give the fix a thumbs up after some vigorous warp tests.

Seasonal Sign-Off

And just like that we’ve reached the end of another dev blog. We know it sucks that the next update is still a little way off but hopefully this sneak peek leaves you intrigued, and hopefully a little bit excited, for what’s to come. When we return from the festive break we’ll talk a bit more about these new features and give you the low-down on some of the fabulous people we’ve been working with to bring them to fruition. Until then, happy holidays and we’ll see you all in 2026 for what should be a fantastic new year!

• Dave & Dan ( aka Monster & Monster )

December is once again upon us and it’s time to get into the festive spirit! Now, before you call us out, there really IS a more in-depth dev blog on the way . So rest assured you’ll get that juicy new info very soon! (Hopefully next week - Dave) Until then we wanted to deliver a little festive treat to you all…A brand new Christmas collaboration from some of the musicians who worked on the Star Trucker soundtrack.

Bah Humbug Ridin’ Shotgun is a fictional collaboration between Twin Star Collective and Duke Miles and has been added as a “Bonus Track” to the Star Trucker Soundtrack on Steam. Being able to get “the gang back together” for a new track was a lot of fun and we really hope you like it.

If you're interested in how this track was brought together I’ve pasted some notes from our long time collaborator Gavin Harrison and lyrical mastermind Randall Breneman below…

Kickin’ Off

Gavin - After an initial kick off discussion, we set about finding some suitable reference tracks to make sure we were all on the same page for the direction. The key focus really was something instantly recognisable as a Christmas track, which could only mean one thing - getting the sleigh bells out! Dave - For those interested, the lead reference track we settled on was How the Truckers Saved Christmas by Bill Weaver. Although we were kinda surprised as to just how many truckin’ Christmas songs are out there in the wild! Gavin - From here I contacted the rest of the band, including our guest vocalist Randall, who we knew would be best placed to nail the right style and bring his authentic American voice to the track. Given everyone’s locations and the time involved, we knew we’d all be working remotely which isn’t always ideal, but everyone put a lot of time and effort into producing the best track possible!

Yule Rhymes

Randall - I thought the lead reference song was a great concept and what I would consider classic country. Using that as a base we began working on our own idea about accidentally rear-ending Santa. This just seemed funny to me and provided lots of opportunities for holiday fun and mischievous lyrics. Saying that, it’s hard to make anything in space relate to snow and elves BUT, after some back and forth with the Monsters I managed to adjust the lyrics to include some classic 'Star Trucker' tropes while still including plenty of Christmas staples.

Building Structure

Gavin - Lorenzo is the multi-instrumentalist of the band and quickly brought together a very rough demo using drums, bass and guitar. From there we refined the structure and chord progressions until we had a demo track that was fully formed in terms of sections, if not sounds. I then took this track and put it together for Randall to work with. He worked on a scratch (demo) vocal, and suggested some more edits to the track, both harmonically and structurally to allow his vocal melodies fit a bit better. At this point I had to take Randall’s vocals and combine them into the main project, a bit tricky and a slight pitfall of different people working with different sequencers!

Festive Finesse

Gavin - So now everything was recorded in at least a form and structure we knew we were sticking to, Lorenzo was able to replace all his demo recordings with the real thing. This included embellishing various parts as well as adding some extra guitar layers. Next it was my turn to record, adding in some piano, organ and various bells and chimes - even a timpani and short choir part, it is Christmas after all!  Once these were in Lorenzo finished his work with an immense guitar solo and the finishing touches of a tambourine and sleigh bells. For our final stage of recording, the finalised backing was sent to Randall who recorded the proper lead and backing vocals.

Gavin - After each of the previous steps I sent the song across to our fantastic mixer Tom. There were a couple of revisions, mostly to make sure the vocals were sitting clearly in the mix, but once that had been done - we (almost) had our final track. I say almost as the final stage was for the track to be mastered.  Thankfully Joe Caithness, who did a superb job with the original soundtrack, was available and extremely accommodating, mastering the final track at very short notice. And there you have it. A fully finished festive track turned around in a little less than a month.

…and that’s a wrap for now! We’ll be back soon with that dev blog, but until then, we hope you enjoy plenty of winter treats and a smooth cruise toward Christmas!

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

Star Trucker has been updated to v1.0.72.2. This hotfix update resolves an issue that was causing major performance issues for some players.

HOTFIX

• Resolved an issue with fuel signage generating excessive error logs that lead to performance issues on some device setups.

NOTES

• This issue should not have affected those playing in locales that use decimal points for fractional values (such as the US, UK and China).

We’d like to apologise to those affected by this issue and thank you for your patience while we resolved the issue. If you find any further issues or oddities please let us know via the Raw Fury Support Desk and be sure to check the Latest News page for information on future patches and developer updates.

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

Hello! Dave here with a short dev blog in which I give the low-down on recent shenanigans alongside what's going on with a mini Autumn update that should start rollin' out soon...

Biggin' Up

When we started developing Star Trucker we had no way of knowing the Steam Deck was imminent and that playing PC games on portable devices would become as big as it has today. Now that we know a bunch of players enjoy taking the game “on the road” I decided to spend a bit of time poking our UI with the aim of improving the experience for handheld devices.

Big HUD Mode

The meat of this mini-update is that the game now detects if it’s running on a selection of handheld devices, such as the Steam Deck, and if so enables what we’ve come to call Big HUD mode. This mode boosts the scale of HUD elements, waypoint markers and pop-ups to be more readable. Of course, this might be a bit of a shock to some veteran truckers who already play on a handheld so we’ve also added an option to disable this if you’d prefer the OG look. For those of you who might want a larger UI while playing on desktop we also allow the mode to be manually enabled via the Game Settings. Oh, and as we save game preferences per device, you shouldn’t need to change these settings when moving between your PC and handheld devices.

It’s also worth noting that we made the waypoint visibility angle a bit tighter in Big HUD mode - this basically means you’ll see less waypoint labels grouped together, something we found works very nicely when playing on a small display. In the future we’d love to revisit some of this tech and provide more scaling options for everyone but for now we hope it improves the experience for those on handheld devices or who found some of the key text a little hard on the eyes.

Improved Text Legibility

Alongside the Big HUD Mode I’ve also done a pass on the game text and where possible tried to improve legibility using a combination of the following…

• Boosting the size of important text that we felt was a too small

• Adding drop shadows to text (and icons) that we felt needed it

• Tweaking kerning and line spacing to help with separation

To be honest, I was a bit limited as to the extent I could improve things but I think the result is an overall improvement across the board. Just keep in mind a lot of these tweaks will be quite subtle as I didn’t want to rock the metaphorical boat. Wrapping up this section of the dev blog, I’d also like to mention that I’ve learned a lot from revisiting the initial UI implementation and I’ll certainly strive to be a bit more aware of accessibility and scale issues on future projects.

Bit of Fixin'

This update should also solve a couple of progression issues and unblock a handful of players who managed to discover those edge cases. There’s also a couple of other little fixes alongside general engine maintenance. With regards to other issues, we’re always looking to squash bugs and resolve edge cases with every update. As we’re such a small team this is easier said than done but please continue to report any issues you encounter to the Raw Fury Support Desk so we can prioritise important issues. In fact, the next big one to tackle will be the mysterious warp asteroids. We haven’t been able to reproduce this issue ourselves but we know it’s out there (we’ve seen the videos!) so we’ll continue to poke things until we work out the cause - and then we'll stomp it 🦶

Peripherals

I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank the players who have taken the time to get in touch about peripherals. It’s always hard to know how this kinda feature will pan out and overall I think it’s held up pretty well and it’s great to hear so many of you are enjoying playing via HOTAS and steering wheels. Saying that we are aware of some specific device combinations that Star Trucker is struggling with. We are currently investigating what’s going on here and we’ll keep you updated when we have news on potential solutions. In the meantime if you have an awesome configuration you’d like to share with us or want to report a specific peripheral problem, please use our Peripheral Support Form to tell us more.

Anniversary Artwork

In other news we recently had the opportunity to team up with our good friend Martin. For those who don’t know, Martin is the concept artist who took my original (and very shonky) white box truck and gave it life, oh so many moons ago… This time round he managed to rattle through some fantastic concepts before moving onto a brand new piece of kinetic key art to celebrate our 1 Year Anniversary*

Follow the links below for higher res versions suitable for desktops and Steam Decks... 1280 x 720 1280 x 800 1920 x 1080 1920 x 1440 2560 x 1440 3840 x 2160 * Yeaaaaah, I know I’m posting this late but I’ve been really busy!?

Heads Down

As I bring this dev blog to an end it’s worth noting that we currently have our heads down and are working hard towards our biggest Star Trucker update yet! Expect a nice chunky blog post next month as we delve into that side of development and a bunch of cool new stuff. Until then, keep the sunny side up and the greasy side down!

• Dave ( aka the Art Monster )

Star Trucker has been updated to v1.0.72.0. This update improves UI legibility for PC and handhelds (such as Steam Deck) while also addressing some quest bugs and other minor issues.

UI Scaling

• We now detect if Star Trucker is running on a Steam Deck and some other handheld devices

• If a handheld is detected we enable Big HUD UI scaling by default

  • Scale boost to in-game UI

  • Scale boost to in-world POI markers

  • Scale boost to pop-ups

  • Reduced POI visibility angle when seated in cab to reduce POI label clutter

• Big HUD toggle option has been added to Game Settings

  • This will be set to “ON” if playing for first time on a known handheld

  • This will be set to “OFF” if not playing on a known handheld

  • This allows non-handheld devices to enable larger UI

  • This allows handheld devices to disable larger UI

• UI scaling option is saved per device

  • If you decide to play on Steam Deck the game should still default to Big HUD even if you’ve previously played on desktop with the same account / save file

• Adjusted pop-up font scales for legibility

• Adjusted various menu font scales for legibility

• Adjusted map screen layout to accommodate larger font and tweaked font sizes for legibility

• Increased POI marker texture resolution for sharper Big HUD (and 4K+) visuals

Quest Fixes

• Fixed an issue in Dead Weight that could prevent progression

• Fixed an issue in Cash Grab where a missing data relay could prevent progression

• Fixed an issue in Junk for the Junk where waypoints would vanish if you leave the sector without collecting all shock pods

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where very long CB Radio player responses could spill outside the screen

• Fixed issue with the Task Panel background showing artefacts and stretching when scaled

• Fixed issue where under rare circumstances, duplicate objects could block saving

• Fixed issue where some error logging could cause performance issues

Misc

• Applied game engine patch to address security vulnerability CVE-2025-59489

Please note that various peripheral issues are still being investigated. To help us improve compatibility and built-in presets please submit peripheral information via our special Google submission form HERE.

For any other issues or oddities you encounter please send a message to the Raw Fury Support Desk and be sure to check the Latest News page for information on future patches and developer updates.

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

Hey all,

Lots of posts this month as we celebrate Star Trucker’s first anniversary. If you haven’t checked in for a while be sure to have a peek at what we’ve shared so far…

• Year One Anniversary

• V1.0.70.0 Patch Notes

• Star Truck Owner’s Manual

Monster Dave also spent some time chatting with renowned sci-fi aficionado, The Spaceshipper, about the creation of Star Trucker. So if you wanna read the interview and see some rare concept art be sure to check it out over at his Patreon where it will be free to view for a few more days…

• The Spaceshipper - On the road with Star Trucker

BUT…for this post we’ve switched the process around and got in touch with Jürgen Wittner (who some of you might know from earlier in the year) about his incredible Star Truck MOC.

Jürgen was kind enough to answer some questions and give us the low-down on himself and his build…

Thanks for taking time to answer some questions for us. To start with, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got into making Lego MOCs?

Hi, I‘m Jürgen, 48 years old, from Berlin, Germany. I’m an architect and work for an office that mostly plans and builds public and cultural buildings, like universities, schools, libraries, etc.

As a kid, Lego was - together with playing video games - one of my favorite indoor games. At the beginning, I earned a lot of Lego from my two older brothers, later my parents bought me some Lego City and Technic sets. I always loved to play and build my own stuff after I‘ve built the sets according to the instructions.

Then at some point during my early teenage years I lost interest in Lego and started new hobbies, like restoring old cars with my older brother, going to Hip Hop jams and drawing Graffiti styles with my friends.

Around 5 1/2 years ago, during the first Corona lockdown in Germany, I rediscovered Lego as a hobby and started to build my first Lego set (the 2019 playscale Millennium Falcon) after 30 years, with the intention to modify it. That ended up with a complete rebuild of the model with the tripple part count.

And that sucked me right into the big rabbit hole of Lego MOCS....

Can you tell us the story behind the Star Trucker MOC?

In our family we all love to play video games and we also love to watch let’s plays of video games. So, one year ago, my 9 year old son and I stumbled over a let’s play of one of our favorite streamers about Star Trucker and we immediately loved the look of the game. At some point my son said, that it would be cool, if I could build one of the space trucks in LEGO. 

As I am always on the lookout for new ideas that I could realize with Lego, I was immediately on fire for this idea.

The same evening I started designing the MOC…

First I started with the truck unit. Since there are different color variations of the truck in the game, I had a certain amount of freedom in choosing the color scheme. So I decided to reproduce more or less the color pattern of the starter truck, but then changed the individual colors until I liked the color combination and all the necessary parts were available in that colors.

Since I really like the color combination of the Romanian flag and blue, yellow, and red, together with black and white, are the classic, original Lego colors, I thought that the “Lego retro colors” would go well with the fantastic retro look of the game.

So I designed the truck in white with blue, yellow, and red stripes, and the trailer completely in blue with white accents. In my opinion, that fits well with the colors used in the game and still has a personal touch.

That color choice also matched perfectly with the red housing of the hyper jump gate with its yellow-black warning stripes.

So at the end I had a really cool looking and coherent color composition for the whole MOC and due to the fact that these colors are more or less the oldest existing Lego colors, I had the biggest amounts of different available part moulds, which also made it easier to design all the different shapes.

How long did it take to complete the build and which part did you find the most challenging?

As with all my MOCs, I started designing digital with Bricklink Stud.io.

That’s an open access Lego building program. I’m always very fast with the digital design, because that’s also one of my favorite parts of the whole process. I think it took around 10 days with 2 or 3 hours of work to finish the digital build.

After that I ordered all the needed bricks via Bricklink. That’s an online market place for new and used LEGO bricks, sets and minifigures. I also ordered the 122 custom chrome plated parts for the grille, front bumper, the exhausts and the other chromed stuff.

The end of the whole process is the real life build. After the parts arrived, I started building the truck. It is actually always the case that there are minor construction errors, collisions or similar problems in the digital model that need to be rectified in the real model. It is also easier to optimize the stability of a model on the real model than on the digital model, because you can see the effect of the improvement directly.

About 1 1/2 months after I had started the whole project, it was ready on the table in front of me.

You mentioned to us previously that you're an architect by trade - do those skills translate to your hobby?

I believe that being an architect is certainly not a hindrance when designing Lego MOCs. My job deals a lot with how to technically implement a creatively developed building sculpture.

That means you often think about how you can implement technical aspects without compromising the original building design.

On the other hand, developing a Lego model is not completely different from my approach to designing a building.

With buildings, I have almost always designed the building volumes subtractively, i.e. I have "cut away" things like inner courtyards, entrances, loggias etc. from a simple basic volume.

When designing a Lego MOC that is supposed to replicate an existing vehicle or spaceship, it is usually a matter of additively working towards an existing shape. Also, due to the large but limited number of different parts, you often have to find very creative ways to recreate complex shapes with the available parts.

This is of course a completely different approach.

Lastly, could you share some advice for people wanting to get into the MOC scene?

I think the most important advice I can give to leaders who would like to start building their own things with Lego is: "Just get started!".

Think about what you would like to build, but don't think too much about how more experienced people do it or what exactly the end result should look like.

Just getting started is the first step.

Then, from my own approach, I can recommend starting with a smaller element or detail for which you already have initial ideas for implementation. This is how I personally start all my models.

I never build a rough skeleton of the spaceship and start filling it, but rather work forward in partitions.

Of course, it can also make sense to create the basic framework first so that you have a better idea of the overall proportions. That's not for me, but everyone has to find their own way of working.

Especially at the beginning, I wouldn't look at too many other people's things because that often distorts your own creativity and can simply be very frustrating because you see so many insanely cool models on social media and that can sober you up.

It's better to look for different building techniques first and get an overview of what parts are available.

Personally, I can recommend digital building with Bricklink Stud.io because you don't need a big stock of different parts and can still access almost all the parts and colors that are available. You can then order exactly the parts you need to build your model in real life.

But many people simply prefer to build physically. Of course, this also has its appeal, but you need a basic stock of parts and you are of course much more limited.

Here too, everyone has to find their own way...

MASSIVE thanks to Jürgen for taking time to talk to us. We hope you found this interview interesting! If you want to know more about his builds be sure to check out his social media account and give him a follow…

Surprise! If you haven't already spotted it we have another anniversary treat for you all... The Official Star Truck Owner’s Manual

A combination of video-game instruction pamphlet and in-world owner’s manual, this *FREE DOWNLOAD provides a whole lot of useful information alongside various snippets of lore and terminology. It also features diagrams and imagery never seen outside of our design documentation.

This 26 page digital booklet has been in the works for quite a while ( turns out it’s really hard making a manual feel believable! ) but we’re very proud of how it turned out and we really hope you like it!

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

* You can also download the PDF direct from the Star Trucker website HERE

Star Trucker has been updated to v1.0.70.0. This update introduces peripheral support on PC, speed traps and a whole bunch of other tweaks, treats and optimizations…

Peripheral Support

• Updated the game to recognise multiple connected peripherals on PC

• Peripheral bindings presets are automatically assigned if a peripheral is recognised

• If no preset is present Button 1 is assigned to select and Button 2 is assigned to back

• Control Settings Screen shows option for Peripheral Settings if a peripheral is connected

• Custom Binding Screen now shows an extra column if a peripheral is connected

• Added the ability to export / import custom peripheral bindings

• Added Peripheral Settings Screen and implemented various options

  • Non-linearity Settings

  • Axis Range Toggles

  • Peripheral Deadzone

• Added ability to view basic information for connected peripherals via Peripheral Settings Screen

For more information please see the following links:

• Star Trucker - Peripheral Guide

• Star Trucker - Peripheral FAQ

• Star Trucker - Peripheral Tracking Sheet

Speed Checks

• Fines are issued if you are over the noted speed limit for the road at the point of speed check

• Speed camera flashes and plays sfx if over the speed limit for road at point of speed check

• Speed camera does not flash and plays short alert sfx if under speed limit

• Speed check signage shows speed you were travelling as you pass camera

• Added x2 new liveries and a new challenge to unlock each of them

  • Trigger x100 speed checks to unlock “Smokey Style”

  • Trigger a speed check while travelling at 200kmph or more to unlock “Hot Pursuit”

• Added ability to disable Speed Checks via Custom Game Settings and Difficulty Screen

• Added Speed Checks tutorial to the User Manual

Corporations, Trailers & Cargo

• Updated Moon Man Dairies trailers with new livery and colours

• Added EHT Milk as a new trailer cargo type for Moon Man Dairies

• Updated Cosmotic trailers with livery and colours

• Tanker and Powered Trailer damage maps now more consistent with the Standard trailer damage

Holo Projector

• Added anniversary cake hologram to projector system

• Updated projector to handle multiple holograms without manual updates

  • Projector interaction only available during specific dates

  • Anniversary hologram available between - 01/09 and 30/09

  • Winter hologram available between - 01/12 and 31/12

• Updated projector to dynamically load appropriate hologram and set a light projection texture

General

• Added a new free anniversary hood ornament “Number One” to Body Shop

• Spanish string improvements around airlock and certifications

• NPC trucks will now occasionally adjust speed while travelling

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where skill descriptions were not displaying correctly

Optimizations

• Various audio file optimizations

• Reduced the size of some overly large textures

• Cleaned up redundant mesh data on various objects

• Simplified the collisions on the standard dot matrix billboards

We’ll be looking to improve our peripheral compatibility list and built-in presets so if you have a custom binding setup you think is suitable please submit it via our special Google submission form HERE.

For any other issues or oddities you encounter please send a message to the Raw Fury Support Desk and be sure to check the Latest News page for information on future patches and developer updates.

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

Hey all!

How crazy is this? Star Trucker has officially turned 1! It’s been one hell of a year for the game (and us Monsters) and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone for the input and support since launch. We wouldn’t be able to keep rollin’ out updates without you. Thanks ♡

As part of the celebrations we’ve got a bunch of treats lined up for you this month but to kick things off let’s have a quick recap before we dive into the contents of our One Year Anniversary update that rolls out at 06:00 PT / 09:00 ET / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST.

A Year in Recap

I’ll keep this short as some of you are well aware of what’s rolled out since the initial launch but for those new to the game check out this mini recap and anniversary montage put together by our publisher Raw Fury…

• NEW - Speed Traps

• NEW - Peripheral support

• Extra Corporation Branding

• Streaming radio stations

• Customizable Control Bindings

• New Customizations

• Improved Game Balance

• Custom Game Settings

• License plates

• Freeplay Mode

• Sleeping

• Parking Tickets

• Mid-Session Difficulty Adjuster

• Seasonal Holograms

• Improved Damage Calculations

• Reward boosts

Despite being a small team we’ve tried our best to listen to the community. Keeping an eye on internal priorities while rolling out new features, quality of life improvements and a host balance changes. We’ve also been hard at work on a bunch of new content we look forward to chatting about soon!

Until then, let’s get you all up to speed on the latest update…

PC Peripheral Support

It’s been a long time coming but our initial implementation of peripheral support is finally rolling out as part of the Anniversary update. This will allow you to play with multiple connected devices from joysticks and throttles to wheels and pedals.

It might take some tweaking to get the perfect settings for your setups but once you do you’ll find driving a star truck using peripherals is an incredibly unique and rewarding experience!

For more information on this we’ve created some handy guides to help with setup and explain some of the nuances….

• Star Trucker - Peripheral Guide

• Star Trucker - Peripheral FAQ

We’d also like to ask the community to lend a hand with our spreadsheet that tracks peripheral compatibility…

• Star Trucker - Peripheral Tracking Sheet

With so many different devices and combinations of setups in the wild it’s impossible for us to try them all ourselves. So we hope you’ll help us out by submitting information regarding your devices alongside example custom binding files via our special Google submission form HERE. Once we’ve confirmed a new peripheral and binding config we’ll add it as a preset in a future update

Lastly, please keep in mind that this was quite the undertaking for our tiny team and it might not be perfect straight out the warp gate but we’re super proud of how things have turned out so far and we’re excited to finally get this feature into your hands.

^ Dave’s chaotic multi-device test setup and high-risk coffee positioning

Speed Traps

“Due to the consistent disregard of highway restrictions, the DIV has had no choice but to install speed checks across key zones and sectors”

Our speed checks are a little bit experimental but we feel they add a great bit of flavor to the world. They’re also pretty good at catching out drivers who become a little too complacent on the throttle - especially after a few speed upgrades at the garages.

These speed checks have been placed as static traps in specific locations around the galaxy but in the future we might evolve them to be a bit more dynamic - gotta keep you truckers on your toes!

To complement the inclusion of speed traps we’ve also added two new paint job challenges…

Trip x100 speed traps to unlock “Smokey Style”

Trip a speed trap going over 200 kph to unlock “Hot Pursuit”

Anniversary Treats

We’ve also added a couple of treats in this build. Firstly the “Number One” hood ornament you’ll have seen in our anniversary thumbnails is free for all players.

Secondly the hologram projector has been enabled and updated with some virtual cake for the duration of September. The cake isn’t a lie. Honest!

Corporation Branding

Alongside everything else going on we’ve been keen to update some of our generic corporations with unique logos, trailer liveries and refined color schemes.

For the Anniversary update we’ve overhauled x2 corporations and their associated trailers but there will be more to come in the future.

COSMOTIC SOLUTIONS

MOON MAN DAIRIES

Oh and while we’re talking about trailers, there’s also been a small balance pass to the tanker and powered trailer damage maps so that dirt and grime should feel a bit more consistent alongside the other trailer types.

Going, Going, Gone?

We’ve also had word from the Laced warehouse that we’re down to our last few records. They’ve also run inventory and found a couple of limited edition color vinyl's are still available.

The US and Worldwide stores have been updated with remaining stock so if you haven’t picked up a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl yet, this might be the last chance!

US Store

• Star Trucker Official Soundtrack

• Star Trucker Official Soundtrack - Limited Edition

Rest of World Store

• Star Trucker Official Soundtrack

• Star Trucker Official Soundtrack - Limited Edition

Warp Speed Ahead

We’d like to finish up with a quick note on what’s next for Star Trucker. We’re still moving onwards with the proposed timeline HERE. However there’s a couple of things to update you all on….

• The Job Generator optimizations and updates are looking promising but not quite ready yet. We’ll roll these out in the next big update.

• A long time ago we mentioned a cargo pack DLC. This is being updated to be more than just new trailers and cargo and will roll out alongside the Business Venture update and feature a new NPC and unique rewards.

• Speaking of - the Business Venture update is now in full development and shaping up nicely. We’ll be sure to write a specific dev blog on this new feature in the coming months.

• Interior Customization is also in development and lookin’ pretty sweet! This is going to link up closely with the Business Venture meta and should provide lots of great new stuff to unlock.

• Peripheral presets will get an update down the line once we’ve gathered and tested some more setups. Remember - If you feel you can contribute in this area please use the special Google Form HERE.

Cheers!

That’s all for this dev post. As mentioned earlier we have a few other bits n pieces to share with you in the coming days so please check back again soon.

Until then, here’s to a great year of star truckin’ and hopefully many more!

10-10 ‘til we post again

• Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

It's the start of Simfest today, and we're celebrating with discounts on everything!

We know you've been eyeing that Pack for a while, or maybe you need a gift for that simulation fiend in your life - we've got you covered! These discounts last until July 31st, so don't wait too long!.

• Star Trucker - Base Game

  • 35% off

• Star Trucker Soundtrack

  • 35% off

• Heavy Duty Pack

  • 25% off

• Amped Customization Pack

  • 25% off

• Hallow's Eve Pack

  • 25% off

Star Trucker has been updated to v1.0.67.0. This update introduces the ability to change galaxy (difficulty) settings mid-session, making it easier to tailor the gameplay to your preferences without starting a new save slot.

Session Difficulty Settings

• Difficulty option added to the “Options” screen when game is paused

• Difficulty screen allows you to modify most custom game settings mid-session

• Added alert pop-up to let players know changes will be applied when exiting screen

• Added alert pop-up to let players know if changes might not take immediate effect

• Added pop-up to tell players they can change difficulty - triggers shortly after User Manual pop-up

General

• You can now view previous patch notes via the update pop-up

• Added tutorial marker to cab stairs when gravity breaks for the first time

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with not being able to paginate backwards on tutorial pop-ups

• Fixed issue with pop-ups vanishing before they can be seen

• Fixed issue with Update pop-up re-triggering when returning to the main menu

• Fixed issue with oxygen usage not updating correctly on monitor after setting change

• Fixed issue with shop prices and indicators not updating correctly after setting change

• Fixed issue with audio glitches occurring when closing pop-ups and exiting menus

It’s also worth noting here that v1.0.64.0 was a hot-fix to specifically address issues with the Heavy Duty UCCs vanishing when reloading a save.

As usual, please report any issues and oddities you encounter to the Raw Fury Support Desk and be sure to check the Latest News page for information on future patches and developer updates.

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

Howdy all!

A few of you have been asking what’s next for Star Trucker and as we let slip some plans in a recent Reddit AMA* we thought we should share a high-level overview of what’s in development…

2025 Roadmap

We currently have three updates planned for the remainder of this year…

We’ll provide more detailed information on various new features as we get closer to rolling them out, but for now, check out these summaries for some initial context.

Slot Difficulty Update

• ETA : July // Currently being tested by QA

• Update Type : Minor

• Overview : Adds ability to adjust galaxy (difficulty) settings mid-game without the need to restart your save slot

Anniversary Update + PC Peripheral Support

• ETA : September

• Update Type : Regular

• Overview : Focuses on refinements to the procedural job generator while adding some new surprises and treats. We’ll also hope to roll out initial support for PC peripherals (such as HOTAS devices) as part of this update.

Business Ventures Update

• ETA : December / January

• Update Type : Major

• Overview : Adds a new business focused meta-game, increases job / gameplay variety and introduces new a NPC

Please keep in mind that although we’ll do our very best to deliver on the listed dates, timings could change based on feedback from QA and other elements outside of our control (or if we feel the update needs more polish)

Rollin' Records

Speaking of deliveries. It sounds like the vinyl soundtrack has been delivered to the warehouses early and distribution to customers is imminent!

It’s also worth noting that once these shipments have been accounted for, a handful of the limited edition records might also become available, so keep an eye on the Laced Records Store for a chance to snag one.

Photo courtesy of Laced audio engineer Ross** who managed to get hold of an early sample copy…

Creative Community

We’re also putting together a community round-up post. So if you’ve taken some nice snaps in Photo Mode, made some cool Lego builds, or created anything else creative and related to Star Trucker, be sure to send some pics or links our way for a chance to be included!

Share them with us on one of the following:

• X: https://x.com/StarTruckerGame

• BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/startrucker.bsky.social

• Discord: https://discord.gg/Jb4bfpJ2Kw

• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarTruckerOfficial/comments/1lzmytq/welcome_to_the_creative_community_thread/

Mini Lego Star Truck Dave made based on a design by Reddit user Purple_Activity969

Cruisin' On

So, just a short update, but hopefully an informative one. We’re super excited to finally confirm when the peripheral support should drop and there’s lots of other neat things in the works.

We’ll be back again soon with patch notes for the July update. Until then, keep your eyes on the road!

- Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

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* Sorry this one was a bit last second! We’ll try and do a better job of informing players about any future AMA sessions ** Yes. Ross is also “Rosso” and in charge of weigh station checks throughout the Star Trucker galaxy :D

It’s summer, and the deals are hot!  

Right now Star Trucker is taking part in the Steam Summer Sale, and the discounts aren’t going to last forever!  

Pick up Star Trucker for yourself, a friend, or grab that Pack that you’ve been eyeing for a while. The Steam Summer Sale discounts will last until July 10th, and you can find the following discounts:  

• Star Trucker - Base Game

  • 35% off

• Star Trucker Soundtrack

  • 35% off

• Heavy Duty Pack

  • 25% off

• Amped Customization Pack

  • 25% off

• Hallow's Eve Pack

  • 25% off

10-44 Star Truckers! By the time you’re reading this the latest update should be available to download! I’d like to start this post by saying a massive thank you to the community for their patience on this one as it’s been in development for quite some time. If you want to see the full list of changes please read the recent patch notes: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44232392/9218de07f9238c45eb5487575bb86408e23fcba2.jpg For the usual ramblings, read onwards where I’ll recap the contents of this update and talk about some new, unannounced things…

Job Rewards

After reading community comments and looking through some telemetry it was clear that job rewards were little low. Cash seemed to be a bottleneck early in the game while XP payouts made late game rank-ups a slog. To account for this we’ve increased the base payout of all jobs by +$200, fixed some issues around multi-hop and multi-trailer jobs while significantly boosting XP payouts for those with higher certification tiers unlocked. When combined with some other balance tweaks, this should improve the experience for both new and veteran players alike. Rest assured we’ll continue to monitor these changes and if needed are prepared to take further action in future updates.

Universal Control Circuits

As you progress through the game you’ll also notice that we’ve added a new UCC variant to shops (and the salvage generator). The Heavy Duty UCC has increased hitpoints and robustness. It’s pricier than a standard UCC but installing them will allow your systems to last much, much longer. We also made some adjustments to the standard UCCs to make them a little less fragile as part of our overall balance tweaking.

Damage

This was recently discussed in our previous blog post, so be sure to check that out for more details, but in essence we’ve made some fairly substantial changes to how damage is calculated while also fixing some long standing issues around collisions. Overall collision damage should feel more consistent and fair but as with the reward tweaks we’ll be monitoring how players feel about these changes.

Resting Up

Another feature we recently discussed is the Rest Up mechanic. This allows you to use the cab bunk to skip time forwards and is handy for Just-in-Time jobs (e.g. turning up too early for a delivery). There’s also lots of potential for this feature to be used in future mechanics and roleplaying.

Docked Perks

I’d also like to remind players that we’ve updated stations so that they now provide free oxygen, gravity and power, thus preventing any drain on your truck systems. Docking should now provide the perfect opportunity to replace truck components and perform pre-trip checks before your next haul.

Photo Mode

Also rolling out in this update is a swish new photo mode. It works much the same as the feature in many other games and provides a bunch of options to tinker with in the pursuit of finding the perfect shot. We’ve written a handy Photo Mode Guide that goes into the specifics and includes some handy tips on how to take different types of screenshot. Please check it out if you’re interested. Oh, and be sure to share your best shots with us! We’ll be sharing our favorites in a Community Round-up post alongside some of the other neat things people have been sharing with us.

License Plates

You can read more details about the custom plates feature in this blog post. The ability to equip plates and enter your own label rounds off our exterior customization features for the foreseeable future but we’re looking forward to seeing your trucker handles proudly on show! We’ve also teamed up with some of our Raw Fury friends for a set of exclusive themed plates…

Post Trauma

We met Red Soul Games founder Roberto in 2022 shortly after announcing Star Trucker and had the pleasure of hanging out with him on multiple occasions while we all toiled away towards our respective release dates. If you’re a fan of classic console era horror and freaky vibes be sure to cast your eyes towards the Post Trauma Steam page.

Kingdom

A long running classic. The team at Fury Studios continue to iterate on one of our favourite games in their catalogue. It also led to us attending a talk by Raw Fury co-founder Jonas waaaaay back in 2015 that made us realise they were a publisher we’d be keen to work with… …but I digress! The Kingdom games are great and so is the latest add-on Call of Olympus that's well worth checking out if, like me, you’re a sucker for Greek Mythology themed content.

Dome Keeper

A game that kept us entertained while we were stranded in Germany after our first Gamescom some years back! It has a fantastic gameplay loop and has had some excellent updates since launch. If it snuck past your radar previously we recommend you check it out. We’re also eagerly awaiting Bippinbits new project PVKK - Just look at all those wonderful levers and dials!?

Free Play Mode

We’ve always strived to allow players the ability to customize their game sessions and this update seemed like the perfect time to introduce this feature. Free Play replaces Hardcore on the New Game screen and lets you start with all zones unlocked and truck features enabled. We’ve also disabled tutorials and the convoy missions. This is a great way to revisit the game without the need to play through the narrative to unlock everything. Please keep in mind you will not be able to unlock various convoy and zone achievements in this mode.

New Options

Maybe not as fun as some of the other features but we continue to try and provide players more choices in how they play the game both in terms of difficulty and accessibility.

Game Options

When you accelerate and brake the camera drifts to give a sense of momentum. Some players noted that this made them feel a little nauseous or simply didn’t like this effect. In this update we have introduced new options so that players can adjust the intensity of this feature to their own personal preference. Setting the value to 0% will disable camera drift / momentum completely. Seated Camera Drift Adjusts how much camera drift is applied when turning / braking in cab view Ext. Camera Drift Adjusts how much momentum the camera has when using the exterior camera

Control Bindings

We’ve also done a bunch of work around custom control bindings. PC players can now assign shortcuts to pretty much all dashboard features.

Please keep in mind some of these interactions were not designed with shortcuts in mind and could slightly alter how the game plays or looks (e.g. you might see some of our sneaky dev tricks that were previously hidden) but it felt like a small price to pay for greater accessibility and control customization. At the request of a few players we also added a new shortcut binding for recentering the cab camera. This makes it a lot easier to bring back your default driving view.

Quick Look

Although full peripheral support isn’t quite ready for the prime-time we didn’t want to hold back the quick look feature for PC. Once you’ve assigned custom bindings for quick look you can tap this shortcut to switch view OR tap and hold to glance - this means that releasing the shortcut will let the camera return to the default view.

Control Settings

We’ve also rolled out some extra control options that some players might find useful… Auto Recenter Cab View Enable this and the cab camera will automatically recenter after the chosen amount of time Quick Look Recenter This allows you to set a specific behavior for the Quick Look feature. By default “Auto” allows both switch view (tap) and glancing (tap and hold). Brake Cutoff Disabling this option to smoothly transition from brake to reverse without stopping. CB Mic Auto Hold Enable this and the CB Mic button will be automatically pressed during dialogue responses (if the mic itself is being held) allowing you to respond without holding down multiple buttons or keys.

Custom Game

Following up on giving players more choice in how they play the game, we’ve introduced some new options to the custom game settings screen. Free Play Enable this to start the game with zones and truck features unlocked Power Consumption Rate You can now choose “off” to prevent systems draining truck power Consumable Usage Rate You can now choose “off” to prevent components degrading Shock Shield Efficiency You can now choose “perfect” to prevent electrical storms from affecting your truck

Record Recon

Before wrapping up we also have a small update for those who ordered the physical soundtrack. Production is officially underway! We’ve also had a sneak peak of the special edition test pressing…

We’re still not sure when production will finish and shipping will start but we’ll let you know as soon as we receive any new information. Oh and a massive thank you to everyone who purchased a limited edition vinyl. We’ve officially sold out! For those who’d still like to grab a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl we still have some regular variants available on the Laced store.

Eyes on the Road

As mentioned at the start of this post, please take a look at the patch notes for a full list of detailed changes as there’s plenty of extra details and a list of fixes. Rollin’ onwards we’re looking to deliver some smaller quality of life updates as we work towards a much larger update for the end of the year. We’ll also be monitoring feedback on the various changes and keeping an eye out for the best screenshots taken with the new Photo Mode. Lastly, and I know we say this a lot, I want to thank all the Star Trucker players out there for their continued support and feedback. You rock and are the reason we get to keep working on this (not so) little indie game ❤️ - Dan & Dave ( aka Monster and Monster )

Job Rewards

• Increased base cash reward for all jobs by $200
• Increased cash bonus for Multi-trailer certifications from 5% → 20%
• Increased XP bonus for Multi-trailer certifications from 10% → 25%
• Increased XP bonus for Tier 1 certifications from 5% → 10%
• Increased XP bonus for Tier 2 certifications from 10% → 25%
• Increased XP bonus for Tier 3 certifications from 20% → 50%
• Fixed issue where long distance bonuses were not always awarded
• Fixed issue where multi-trailer certifications did not match
• Job board now shows estimated XP rewards
• Job board can now filter jobs by XP

Damage

• New collision calculations and improved impact recognition
• Reduced damage received from small debris and glancing blows
• Updated the mass values ranges of debris, asteroids and props to better reflect their scale
• Multi-Trailers no longer cause collision damage with themselves
• Fixed issue with damage occasionally being applied multiple times on initial impact
• Fixed issue with some asteroids misreporting their mass
• Fixed issue with monitors showing incorrect trailer damage values

Resting Up

• Use your cab’s bed to rest for up to 4 hours of in-game time
• Truck systems will continue to drain while you rest unless parked at a station
• Risk of parking tickets when resting in sectors with restricted parking
• Use designated parking bays to avoid tickets
• Stations allow free parking for a set number of hours
• Rest period will automatically end if a serious incident occurs
• 50% less oxygen is consumed in the cab while resting

License Plates

• New option to equip a license plate added to the body shops
• Customize your registration label from the License Plate screen
• Unlock new plates via cash or challenges
• Equip special collaborative license plates from our friends at Raw Fury

Free Play Mode

• Free Play replaces Hardcore mode on the New Game screen
• Starts the game with the entire galaxy unlocked and all truck features enabled
• Disables Convoy side jobs and related achievements

New Options

• Added lots of new shortcuts for cab interactions to custom binding screen - PC ONLY
• Added quick look shortcut feature - PC Only
• Added option to toggle quick look re-centering method - PC ONLY
• Added option to reduce or disable seated camera momentum
• Added option to reduce or disable external camera momentum
• Added option to disable the brake cut-off feature
• Added option to auto-center the cab view after a short delay
• Added option to enable CB mic auto-press during NPC interactions

Photo Mode

• Added a Photo Mode option to Pause Screen
• Added Multiple camera modes and filters
• Ability to save screenshots to your PC or Console

UCCs

• Added a Heavy Duty UCC with increased hitpoints and robustness
• Heavy Duty UCCs added to shops and salvage generator
• Reduced Standard UCC fragility by 30%
• Reduced EMP discharge damage by 17%
• Reduced electrical storm damage rate by 20%

General

• UI will now alert player when a new customization item has been unlocked
• Reduced how long warnings and alerts appear on cab monitor screens
• Improved NPC damage materials
• Added new User Manual options for Resting, Parking and Docked Perks
• DLC / Add-On screen now lists pack contents

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with New Aspen having unavoidable debris when arriving from Crossvale
• Fixed various trailer UV mapping issues
• Fixed an issue with longer than expected pauses while listening to GRR
• Fixed issue where collected cone POIs would reappear using scanner
• Fixed issue where some trailer bounding boxes were misaligned
• Fixed issue where stacked pop-ups could lose input focus

Side Job Fixes

• Fixed issue when spawning the damaged reactor in “Meltdown”
• Fixed issue with maglink visuals during “Full Throttle”
• Fixed issue with the “Bear Contingency” quest vanishing under certain conditions

Damage Calculations

• We updated the collision calculations so that changes in linear and angular velocity have a greater influence on the damage output. This means you’ll be less likely to take damage from glancing blows with NPCs / debris.
• We overhauled the code that prevents collisions being reported multiple times by the game engine (despite a single impact). This should do a better job at stopping rogue damage being applied.
• We resolved issues where the mass of debris wasn’t always scaled appropriately. This means the size and weight of debris should now be more closely linked.
• We fixed some problems around multi-trailer damage propagation and fixed a bug where the monitor screen displayed the wrong damage values until a save was reloaded.

Resting Up

Survey Superstars

Back in a Bit

Cover Art Wallpapers

What’s in the Works

License to Reveal

The Future

Round Up

Standard Edition

• US Store
• Rest of World Store

Limited Edition

• US Store
• Rest of World Store

Digital Soundtrack

• Star Trucker (Original Soundtrack)

Miscellaneous

• Added a new "Dillon" hood ornament for purchase with in-game currency
• Hi-fi will now revert to default station if there is an error selecting a custom station

General Fixes

• Fixed issue with incorrect temperature format shown on map screen
• Fixed issue with DualShock glyphs being too small when injected into strings
• Fixed issue where external zoom controls were not working as intended on some platforms
• Fixed issue with the Silent Spark paint job having unwanted visual artefacts
• Fixed issue with incorrect German string for "pick-up"
• Fixed issue with some strings not localizing correctly on map screen
• Fixed issue where under specific circumstances multi-trailers could be partially destroyed
• Fixed issue where under specific circumstances spawned cargo was not showing a POI marker

Quest Fixes

• Game will attempt to resolve progression blockers if a quest has been completed but not acknowledged
• Fixed issue where quest cargo could vanish under specific circumstances
• Fixed issue that could result in quest cargo spawning multiple times
• Fixed issue with "Ghost Gold" failing to trigger correctly
• Fixed issue with "Deep Sweep" failing to end correctly
• Fixed issue with "Deep Sweep" failing to show beacons after player recovery
• Fixed issue with "Fragile Ego" where Red Eddie would comment on non-quest trailers taking damage
• Fixed issue with "Cache Grab" getting stuck if tasks are completed out of order
• Fixed issue with "Cache Grab" final task completing out of order
• Fixed issue with "Charmed Relief" cargo combining early and blocking progression
• Fixed issue with "Charmed Relief" cargo not spawning under specific circumstances
• "Fragile Ego" will attempt to recover cargo if accidentally destroyed
• "Perfect Timing" will attempt to recover cargo if accidentally destroyed
• "Job Hunt" will attempt to recover cargo if accidentally destroyed
• "Dead Weight" will attempt to recover cargo if accidentally destroyed
• "Charmed Relief" will attempt to recover cargo if accidentally destroyed
• "Green for Green" will attempt to recover cargo if accidentally destroyed
• "Shady Business" will attempt to recover cargo if accidentally destroyed
• "Meltdown" will try to recover cargo if accidentally destroyed

Quality of Truckin’ Life

Dillon

Spring Things

Travel Sick

Goin’ Nuclear

Back to Work

• User Manual can now be accessed from the Pause Menu - Items unlock based on progression

• Custom Radio feature is now always enabled
• Custom Radio feature no longer needs to authenticate with Steam
• Player will be shown an alert if there are issues trying to play a stream ( e.g. no internet )

• Fixed issue with projector holograms interfering with object outlines
• Fixed issue where the game could get stuck on a black screen during the recovery sequence
• Fixed issue where cultures that do not use the Gregorian calendar (e.g. Saudi Arabia) could cause the game to freeze when generating jobs
• Fixed issue that could cause a save state to not load after updating the game
• Fixed some issues with the Hi-Fi ticker
• Fixed issue with an incorrect side job description being shown during the tutorial
• Fixed various localization issues
• Fixed various issues with the credit sequence

Custom Radio Stations

Partnered Stations

• SimulatorRadio
• TruckersFM
• TruckSimFM
• TruckStopRadio

Custom Streams

Radio Filter

LCD Ticker

Winter Wondercab

Heavy Duty

Year's End

• Holo projector with Christmas tree active until Jan 7th
• Added a new “Star Sight” hood ornament to unlock through play
• Activated Heavy Duty Customization Pack and related assets

• Players can now switch radio channel via the Hi-Fi
• Streamer Warning Pop-up on first interaction of a session
• Select from a pre-defined list of streaming radio stations
• Generates an editable my_stations.txt in a Documents/StarTrucker/Radio folder
• Information Pop-up available to explain how a player can customize stations
• Plays compatible custom audio streams added to my_stations.txt
• Warns player if there is a problem with a custom station ( Catches "most" cases )
• Re-generates my_stations.txt if the file is not present
• Hi-Fi LCD screen will attempt to scroll current station and track information
• New toggle in Audio Options to disable the diegetic filters on custom stations

• Fixed issue with DualShock control glyphs not showing correctly
• Fixed issue with incorrect TAB glyph padding
• Fixed issue with paint job previews not resetting correctly on the Main Menu screen