Stars End news & patch notes

Hey Everyone, Today we have a smaller update 94 that includes a dozen bug fixes and GUI improvements. We worked on resolving various AI issues, bugs with interface and missing items, included some new translations and minor polish and balancing. This update also includes final work on GUI size and header texts, as well as reworks how notification are shown when players collect resources. We also worked on some server side codes and changed how server notifications are shown to online players. We`ll continue later this month week with a major update 95 that fixes last 3 remaining major bugs (very rare bug game breaking) - animal corpses disappearing, flying into the planets, and sometimes falling into the planet. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. You can read the full patch notes on our Steam forums or Discord.

Hey Everyone, And we are back with update 93 as we continue with our new weekly update schedule. Today`s update fixes a lot of issues across the board as well as greatly improves in-game GUI. With over 30 bug fixes and improvements we focused on finishing work on GUI and control improvements. In addition TPS camera has gotten some much needed polish and the text presentation has been improved across the board. We`ll continue next week with a major update 94 that fixes last 3 remaining major bugs (very rare bug game breaking) - animal corpses disappearing, flying into the planets, and sometimes falling into the planet. In addition - we are expecting to fix a dozen of other remaining bugs. With these fixes out of the way we`ll be able to focus on improving presentation and starting on additional content later in August. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. And now lets take a closer look at what update 93 has in store:

• Total rework of the game’s cursor and mouse positioning and performance
• Game cursor and player rotation speeds modified to be a lot smoother
• Inverting controller and mouse now works in the options
• Redesign Crafting window – a lot larger and fits all the information correctly
• Fixed all the issues with text in English or other languages being cut off in GUI
• Fixed TPS camera zooming
• In TPS camera mode scroll mouse wheel to zoom camera in and out
• In singleplayer offline mode player assets will no longer expire
• Fixed all instances of player death loot disappearing
• Player death loot will not stay for 24 hours in all game modes
• Various fixed and improvements to Dedicated Server tool GUI
• Dedicated Server tool now properly show list of players online form the chat
• Reconfigured the missions info window to be easier to read with a bit of styling
• Reduced overall font size just slightly
• Info window labels are widened to fit in all the text
• Misc UI fixes related to text
• Improvements to Russian translation
• Corrected a lot of strings in all languages
• Polished localization updating some strings

Hey Everyone, After a bit of a delay in June we are finally back with major update 92. This major update brings some much-needed improvements and fixes to server stability, migrating our server hardware to a much more powerful server. The MMO game sever has been fully cleaned up and is ready to welcome new players. In addition, we looked into fixes some of the remaining common bugs still effecting the play and completed last of the cross-platform projects as well as controller improvements. With this update out of the way - we will once again switch to releasing regular weekly and bi-weekly updates for the next foreseeable future. Looking forward to bringing you the 93rd update next week - our goal is to finally fix the rare yet deadly bugs with players character sometimes falling into the ground or player spaceship occasionally flying inside the planets. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. With that said - lets take a closer look at what today`s update 92 has in store:

• Relocated the main MMO game server to a much better server setup
• Greatly decreased MMO server downtimes and increased stability
• Added automated clean-up system to MMO and dedicated servers
• Main MMO server went through major clean-up – assets over a month old are automatically removed
• Greatly improved performance on the main MMO server
• Fixed issues with expired vehicles, containers and items on the ground not expiring
• Fixed issues that resulted in a large number of abandoned vehicles and lootboxes polluting the game world
• Fixed issue with inverted scroll on mouse
• Notification on merging server assets only shown once now
• Major improvements to cursor movement on all menus
• Reworked the look of the in-game mouse cursor
• Different cursor models for controller/steam deck or mouse
• Fixed mouse cursor not appearing on some GUI windows
• Last round of Steam Deck improvements and polish
• Fixed various GUI issues with dedicated server hosting utility
• Fixed a number of issues with Self Hosted menu GUI
• Self hosted games now default to 1 player per room - fixing some complaints and issues
• Fixed issues with self-hosted games password setting
• Translated last of the English-only text in the Self Hosted menu
• Various balancing and improvements to crafting recipes
• Corrected a number of translation strings based on player input

Hey Everyone, We have a solid update 0.91 today that adds a lot of polish and fine-tuning to playing Stars End on controllers and Steam Deck – we have greatly improved the key mapping, GUI scalability, added support for controller prompts and tooltips showing controller mapping and a lot of other polish across the board. In addition, this update includes a big improvement to how GUI displays text. It`s much larger and easier to read in most windows now. And special attention was giving to Tutorial objectives screen – improving formatting and readability. Our next update 0.92 is coming around mid June, it includes one more rewrite of the networking engine – boosting performance for everything, increasing server capacity, removing last of the network lag, increasing loading screens and so much more. This update will also bring some new game rules – like capturable territory producing resources over time, and a way for player to recover when getting stuck in the environment or vehicles. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. And now lets take a look at what update 0.91 has in store.

• Various improvements to Steam Deck playability
• When using controller or Steam Deck the tooltips and promts now show controller keys instead of keyboard
• Graphical settings rebalanced to start on medium settings on Steam Deck
• Completed key mapping for controller and Stream Deck configurations
• Fixed cursor not showing when using merchants
• Improved GUI scalability on different resolutions
• Reworked the appearance of text on majority of GUI windows
• Text is in general much easier to read and uses larger font
• Reworked appearance of Tutorial objectives text
• Tutorial objectives text is a lot easy to see and read now
• Various improvements to controller key mapping
• Balancing and polish to controller sensitive and character rotation
• Redesigned region info section of the GUI
• Improvement to official MMO server stability
• Fixed various minor bugs with tutorial progression

Hey Everyone, Today we are happy to bring you the major milestone update 0.90 – that greatly expands and streamlines the foundation of Stars End, completing foundation of the game and switch from a server-based PC game to a cross-platform experience. This 90th update completes cross-platform controller support with Stars End now playable on Steam Deck as well as Xbox/PlayStation and other controllers. In addition, we have added cross-platform capability - with players being able to use same MMO servers and play with other players - between Epic, Steam and other platforms. This opens up the door to launching the game on Epic in the near future, and consoles later this year. With this last big piece of the foundation out of the way we will be focusing our attention on fixing some remaining smaller bugs and improving the games visuals, as well streamlining the on-boarding gameplay. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. You can read the full patch notes on our Steam forums or Discord. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. There are hundreds of changes, so this patch logs groups them into sub-projects and only lists most noticeable changes:

• Steam Deck support
• Various controller support
• Cross-platform play support between Steam, Epic and other platforms
• Performance improvements
• GUI improvements
• Various bug fixes
• Major re-balance of crating for most items
• Major re-balance of all weapons

Hey Everyone, After a bit of a delay we are finally getting ready to release the major milestone update 0.90. And this update is now available in Beta mode and should be fully released by next week. This milestone update greatly expands and streamlines the foundation of Stars End, going from a server-based PC game to a cross-platform experience with full controller support Stars End is now playable on Steam Deck as well as with Xbox/PlayStation and other controllers. In addition we added cross-platform capability so players are able to use same MMO servers and play with other players - between Epic, Steam and other platforms. With this last big piece of the foundation out of the way we will be focusing our attention on fixing some remaining smaller bugs and improving the games visuals, as well streamlining the on-boarding gameplay. We expect the update to go live early next week, and meanwhile it`s already available for you to try in the Steams beta mode. To activate it, select Stars End in your library, right click – choose Properties – Betas. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. We`ll have full patch notes posted once the update is live, but here`s a preview:

• Steam Deck support
• Various controller support
• Cross-platform play support between Steam, Epic and other platforms
• Performance improvements
• GUI improvements
• Various bug fixes
• Major rebalance of crating for most items
• Major rebalance of all weapons

Hey Everyone, We have a VERY exciting week ahead of us as we launch the 89th update and 0.90 milestone updates. These updates greatly expands and streamline the foundation of the game going from a server-based PC game to a cross-platform MMO experience (we are still fully supporting dedicated servers). This Monday we have launched two global MMO server one for PvE and one for PvP. Having redone out network to be nearly 5x more efficient, we can now support hundreds of players in one location on MMO servers. As part of adding MMO mode, we have migrated all players assets from all our previous 5 PvE servers to the new MMO server. To access your inventory from old PvE servers - simply login to MMO GLOBAL SERVER and visit "Items from all Servers" Bank Terminal - located at Cryo Ship, Orbital Station market or General Store in Clayton – Beta Prairie. Please keep in mind that if you had multiple characters we have combined all your assets. All your vehicles and inventory items were transferred as is, but some items had to be been converted into credits (as some players had multiple characters with literally thousands of items). The credits you now have can be used to purchase everything you need in one of the many market locations in the game world - like on the Orbital Space Stations. In addition Stars End now supports cross-platform plays, and as Stars End is about to be launched on Stores like Epic, Windows and GoG, and later this year on consoles from Playstation to Xbox, all the players will be able to play together on the same servers. This update includes a lot of other great feature and additions. And we can`t wait to share the 0.90th update later this week, including more amazing stuff like Steam Deck, controller support, new languages, and fix for last remaining game breaking issues. And this is just a beginning - With MMO server, cross-platform, and controller support in place this week we can shift all our focus on improving games visuals, animations, improving UI and rolling out major new content. New vehicles, new NPCs, territorial warfare, improving other planets and greatly improving graphics. With all the big foundation projects out of the way, we are returning to weekly updates moving forward. Note on Offline Solo/Self Hosted: We had a lot of requests to separate the two game mode characters, so we listened and done just that. Now you can have two offline characters. Please keep in mind that as you load into the game your offline solo character might show up in the Self Hosted section instead of Offline Solo now. Note on Offline Solo Bugs: For a few players still experiencing bugs with offline singleplayer - like your base being in space, loosing items e.t.c - please delete this file C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Reverie World Studios\Stars End\starsend.s4u. This will fix all these issues for good. Now lets take a close look at what the 0.89th update brings. Please keep in mind that there were hundreds of fixes, and additions, so we`ll only list the biggest changes here:

• MMO approach for official servers – new online mega server can support up to 300 players online at once in one area (up from 50 before)
• All official PvE servers are combined into one MMO PvE server - All players from all servers will keep all of their possessions - no progress lost or data wipe
• Total rework of the offline and online database code, making it several times more efficient – which allows us to link the servers together
• Player playing Stars End on different platforms like Epic, GoD or Windows Store are now able to play together on the same game servers/mmo servers
• Offline Solo and Self Hosted sections now have separate characters, deleting one will no longer effect the other one
• Reworked database fixes large number of issues that previous builds of the game had
• Reworked player leaving and entering planet atmosphere for much better and seamless visual experience
• Major performance improvements both in space and on the ground
• Got rid of all network lag, and certain tasks take a fraction of a seconds instead of several seconds to complete
• Including fixes for items duping or disappearing, accessing containers, loosing vehicles and more
• Fixed all issues with containers
• Fixed various issues when creating a base without creating a crew first

Hey Everyone It`s been busy couple of weeks as we are getting ready to launch a number of major updates to Stars End in early April. Between the 88th and the 90th milestone update we`ll greatly expand and streamline the foundation of the game going from a server based PC game to a cross-platform MMO experience. Now lets go over some features of this upcoming updates:

Upcoming Changes

MMO approach

• MMO approach for official server – new online server can support up to 300 players online at once in one area (up from 50 before)
• All official servers are combined into one mega server - All players from all servers will keep all of their possessions - no progress lost or data wipe
• Total rework of the offline and online database code, making it several times more efficient – which allows us to link the servers together

Cross-platform support

• Player playing Stars End on different platforms like Epic or Windows Store will be able to play together on the same game servers
• Full support for Steamdeck
• Full support for various controllers like Xbox, Playstation e.t.c

Database Foundation Improvements

• Reworked database fixes large number of issues that previous builds of the game had
• Including fixes for items duping or disappearing, accessing containers, loosing vehicles and more

Visual & Performance Improvements

• Reworked player leaving and entering player atmosphere for much better and seamless visual experience
• Major performance improvements both in space and on the ground
• Got rid of all network lag, and certain tasks take a fraction of a seconds instead of several seconds to complete

April Plans

Thanks for your continuous support, we can`t wait to finally reach this 0.90 milestone within two weeks. With MMO server, cross-platform, and controller support in place we can shift all our focus to rolling out major new content. New vehicles, new NPCs, territorial warfare, improving other planets and greatly improving graphics. Our tentative schedule for the updates is as follows:

• Update 88th by April 3rd – Database, Visual and Performance improvements, MMO server, cross-platform support
• Update 89th by April 8th – Severs combined into one MMO server, Console controller support, Steamdeck support implemented
• Milestone Update 90 by April 12th – Everything is wrapped up and polished with all features enabled

And to reassure everyone – when servers are merged into one MMO server, everyone will have access to all of their hard earned assets. For players who had multiple characters across servers – all the vehicles and items will be transferred to the new character of the MMO server.

Hey Everyone We have another big weekly update today as we continue to make solid progress with improving every area of the game. Today`s update 87 includes several dozen fixes and improvements across the board - from quality-of-life to bug fixes and animation improvements, as quite a few new features. We are hard at work on another major update due next week that adds full controllers and Steamdeck support, as well as option to cross-platform play the game on the same servers. Quick note to a few players effected by the rare Offline Singleplayer issues with claims being in space. We have added a solution for you here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/623340/discussions/0/3466101084947220406/ As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. And now lets take a look at what update 87 has in story:

• Planets now have background environmental audio
• Sounds of trees, rain, and other environmental audio added
• Major rework of the world map – focuses on player now with high zoom in
• Game now remembers players camera preference TPS/FPS and keeps them saved
• New notification system created for notifying players when collecting resources
• New system doesn`t overwhelm the player with countless notification for each resource gathered
• Added new system to notify players when they are hungry or thirsty to make it very clear when low
• Various improvements to the world map
• Additional performance improvements
• Reworked the sounds effects on all the tools
• Vsync now perfectly controls FPS for high end system so they don’t over-perform with 120+ FPS
• Various improvements to melee combat with bare hands or melee weapons/tools
• Fixed all the issues effecting Self Hosted games – like rare character not saving issues
• Self Hosted games – fixed issues with characters riding vehicles in the very odd way
• Various fixes for official server stability
• Fixes for landing on Tygon and envrionment not loading correctly
• Various visual improvements to Tygon planet
• Improvements to various player animations in TPS camera – using tools and weapons mainly
• Fixed rare odd animation issues with character holding tools and weapons wrong
• Fixed various issues with Claims screen showing wrong information
• Various balancing changes to startup sequence to make it a lot less grindy
• Crafting Scrap cloth is a lot cheaper and quicker
• Various improvements to games controller and Steamdeck support – still a lot of work ahead
• Fixed a dozen of other rare bugs and balancing issues across the board

Hey Everyone, We are excited to bring you a new major Update 86 today - that brings dozens of improvements and various new features, from expanding offline singlepayer to better performance and fixes to various issues reported by our players over the past week. One of the bigger changes is completely reworked info screen – that separates all player data like vehicles, claims and other stats in separate tabs. We have also increased the number of vehicles and claims that players can have in offline solo mode to 10 in each category We expect another update later this week with a lot of quality-of-life improvements, and next up we`ll will be looking into making the game more playable with controllers and Steamdeck. Quick note - there`s a very rare bug from last week effecting several players with their claims moving into space - we expect a fix for this within 24 hours. Only effects very small number of players in offline solo mode. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. And now, lets take a look at what this major update 86 has in store:

• Completely reworked Info screen interface
• Info screen now features tabs for vehicles, general stats and claims
• Info screen now also shows expiry time for each vehicle or claim
• Player no longer needs to create a crew to place Claims
• All features of the game are now accessible without having to create a Crew
• Additional performance improvements in space
• Major additional performance improvements on the planets
• Animals and other creatures will no longer spawn inside payers claim
• Fixed various issues with vehicles sometimes going missing
• Fixed various issues with vehicle sometimes teleporting some distance away or underground
• Fixed majority of issues with flying into planets (one last very rare issue remains)
• Fixed various issues with players in same Crew picking up base items and loosing them
• Only crew owners can now pick up base components, everyone else in the crew can place them
• Fixed players getting stuck on various loading screens
• Fixed players being unable to return to the main menu
• Various improvements to server stability
• Fixed rare issues effecting some players with being unable to start a crew or have their claims in space

Hey Everyone, We have another big update today – that greatly improves performance on all types of systems and makes the game playable well on 4k resolutions. In addition, this update includes a lot of fixes and polish across the board. We also reworked the system map - it now shows all player vehicles and claims across the start system. Now, lets take a closer look at what this 85th update has in store:

• Major visual performance improvements in all areas of the game
• Additional performance improvement when running the game in higher resolution – like 4k
• Additional performance improvements when playing the game on planets
• Major addition to system map – it now shows all player claims and vehicles on it across entire system
• Visual improvements to how sun and gas giant ring planet are visible from the planet surface
• Various minor visual improvements in space and on the planet surface
• Shortened description of Offline Singleplayer game mode
• Localized some of the last remaining text that was in English only
• Major improvement to French Translation of the game
• Adjusted Tutorial with placing Claim in all languages – it now includes a new step to create a Crew
• Reworked a number of crafting recipes to make them easier to craft
• Adjusted weight of a lot of items to stop issues with player becoming encumbered too often
• Adjusted weight of most items to avoid very long numbers in inventory current to total weight counter
• Fixed ferry vendor on orbital stations shaking

Hey Everyone, Today we hit a major milestone – Stars Ends foundation is fully complete, all game modes working well, all the base content in place and vast majority of bugs and issues have been ironed out. We are ready to welcome new players into the game world. With foundation finally complete we are very excited to enter next phase of post-launch development, with daily updates bringing new content, new vehicles, improving graphics and adding new gameplay mechanics like controlling capital ships and territorial warfare. To celebrate this milestone we are starting Stars End first launch sale with 30% off running for the next couple of weeks, if you were on the fence about joining us on this journey - this is a perfect chance to take the plunge. In addition we are wrapping up work on performance improvements on 4k, and better controller and Steamdeck support. Please note that we also moved Singleplayer Online to the Play Online menu – it`s now listed as a server there. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community and can`t wait to drop non-stop new content as we continue to expand Stars End for years to come We also just had released update 84, including the patch notes here:

• Online Singleplayer button removed from the main menu
• Online Singleplayer now available in the official server list - in the Play Online section
• Completely reworked all first person camera animations - from gathering plants to driving vehicles
• Fixed all animations issues with first person camera
• Additional performance improvements
• Preview of new vehicles (soon to be available to players) parked in the Clayton Town garage area
• Reworked Clayton Town north areas with vehicle garage
• Polished Italian, French and Spanish translation

Hey Everyone, We have another major update today. The focus of this update was performance, especially performance while flying in space. All in all you should find that the FPS has nearly doubled in a lot of scenarios and up to 4 times higher while flying in space. We have one more performance update in the works that should make the game also have butter smooth performance on higher 4k resolutions coming soon. In addition this update includes fixes to last few issues across the board that were reported over the past week. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. You can read the full patch notes on our Steam forums or Discord. Now, lets take a look at what this update has in store:

• Major improvement in performance across all environments
• 1080 performance improved from 40 average to 75 average
• 1080 performance while flying in space improved from 25 average to 80 average
• 4k performance improved from 25 average to 35 FPS average
• 4k performance in space improved from 20 average to 50 FPS average
• Fixed constructing Hub towns in offline singleplayer not working
• Fixed last remaining issues when playing in offline singleplayer
• Fixed rare issue with player claims or base components ending up in space
• Reworked collision in space - players ship will no longer gets stuck on asteroids or space junk
• New space collision will collide player ships with various objects, but will not destroy the vehicle - just minor damage
• Space Junk and Minable asteroids nav point distance greatly increased - streamlining space mining
• Fixed rare issue with death loot disappearing on player not picking it up before loggign out
• Fixed wait timer issues with Respawn Pill
• Fixed picking up cut down tree logs - it`s not instant
• Greatly reduced games video memory usage from 1.8GB to 0.5 GB
• Fixes to a dozen small bugs across the board
• Balancing changes making crafting certain small items much faster

Hey Everyone, This weekended we had two follow-up updates that included a number of fixes for some bugs that were introduced in our 80th milestone update. The fixes include: server stability, fixing the global storage, disconnects from official servers and other various fixes and improvements across the board We have added also added a way to play the game completely offline – you need to start it from your library to get that option. Hey Everyone, Today we have a follow-up update that includes a number of fixes for some bugs that were introduced in our 80th milestone update. The fixes include: server stability, fixing the global storage, disconnects from official servers and other various fixes and improvements across the board We have added also added a way to play the game completely offline – you need to start it from your library to get that option. Please keep in mind that if you started playing Offline Solo during beta phase, or last night, and still experience a bug with offline storage, you might need to do this fix: https://steamcommunity.com/app/623340/discussions/0/3771239049945263754/ And as always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. Now, let stake a close look at what this update brings:

• Fixed various performance issues on official servers when playing with friends
• Fixed official servers going down every couple of hours
• Fixed Global Storage in Offline Solo not saving items
• Added option to "Play offline - no internet" - you need to start the game from the library to see it
• Fixed a lot of issues with flying spaceships together
• Flying spaceships with passengers now has much better performance and less network lag
• Several of the players will be effected by Solo Offline character wipe - will not happen again
• A lot of stability improvements when playing on official servers - fixing various disconnect issues
• Greatly improved Italian translation
• Improvements to Russian translation

Our next update should include a major improvement to performance, specially on 4k resolution. Expecting it within a couple of days. And as always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community.

Hey Everyone, We are happy to bring you the 80th milestone update – now we can confidently say that all the games main features are complete and working well. With this foundation update out of the way we are returning to updating the game every couple of days – starting to roll-out new content, and final fixes and quality of life improvements. To go over the main feature of this milestone update: offline singleplayer with optional CoOp mode, hosting games doesn`t require MySQL installation, Italian and Spanish translations, performance improvements and fixes to the last two dozen know bugs. Full details are bellow. We have also updated all the game servers to the new format and naming. To locate your old server - just look for the number in the (), for example "Global 0 - PvE" that most of the players were playing on is now "Global Server 2 - (0)" Please keep in mind that with update this large we expect some new minor issues that we`ll work on addressing over the next couple of days. And as always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. Now, let stake a look at what this milestone update has in store:

Offline Singleplayer and removing MySQL requirements

• Singleplayer Offline mode added - play the game singleplayer and offline
• Option to start Stars End in fully offline mode - no internet connection required
• New Self-Hosting menu that does not require mySQL setup for players to host games
• Singleplayer Offline and Self-Hosted menu have access to the same character and your game world, allowing you to change starting conditions and various gameplay properties
• Self-hosted menu also allows you to invite your friends or even random player to your singleplayer offline game
• Make your singleplayer offline game coop, public or fully offline again at any time
• Keep in mind that dedicated hosting tool still requires MySQL – as it allows your servers to host much large number of players

New Features and Improvements

• Improved Character creation and Selection screen
• Added Random character generator
• System Map now shows all player claims and vehicles
• General Fixes and Improvements
• Singleleplayer Online will no longer show outlaw players to others
• Various server stability improvements
• Renumbered the server numbers from 1 to 5 instead of 0 to 4

New Language Support and Translation Improvements

• Added Italian translation – still needs a little bit of improvement
• Added Spanish translation – also needs a bit of improvement
• 99% of game text is now localized, just a few missing instances left
• Game Control text is now fully localized in all languages
• Major improvements to Russian translation courtesy to Евгений Б
• Major improvement to German translation, courtesy of Caeries
• Major improvements to French translation, courtesy of Cygin
• Other translation help from Erazor and Zanarus
• Added support for Arabic translation – coming very soon

Hey Everyone, We are happy to say that the 80th milestone update is ready, and is now available for beta testing. All the features have been implemented, and we are just doing some final testing before we`ll bring this update live for everyone in a day or two.

Beta Access

To try the update, just Right click on Stars End in your library, select Properties, and then Beta and opt in there. We have one officials server running there as well, we copied our most popular Server 0 database there, so many of you can continue where you left of. And as always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. Now, let stake a look at what this milestone update has in store (please keep in mind it`s still in beta mode)

Offline Singleplayer and removing MySQL requirements

• Singleplayer Offline mode added - play the game singleplayer and offline
• Option to start Stars End in fully offline mode - no internet connection required
• New Self-Hosting menu that does not require mySQL setup for players to host games
• Singleplayer Offline and Self-Hosted menu have access to the same character and your game world, allowing you to change starting conditions and various gameplay properties
• Self-hosted menu also allows you to invite your friends or even random player to your singleplayer offline game
• Make your singleplayer offline game coop, public or fully offline again at any time
• Keep in mind that dedicated hosting tool still requires MySQL – as it allows your servers to host much large number of players

New Features and Improvements

• Improved Character creation and Selection screen
• Added Random character generator
• System Map now shows all player claims and vehicles
• General Fixes and Improvements
• Singleleplayer Online will no longer show outlaw players to others
• Various server stability improvements
• Renumbered the server numbers from 1 to 5 instead of 0 to 4

New Language Support and Translation Improvements

• Added Italian translation – still needs a little bit of improvement
• Added Spanish translation – also needs a bit of improvement
• 99% of game text is now localized, just a few missing instances left
• Game Control text is now fully localized in all languages
• Major improvements to Russian translation courtesy to Евгений Б
• Major improvement to German translation, courtesy of Caeries
• Major improvements to French translation, courtesy of Cygin
• Other translation help from Erazor and Zanarus
• Added support for Arabic translation – coming very soon

Hey Everyone,

Updated as of 20th of February

We should finally have a FULLY working beta version of this update released on 21st of February. Tons of new stuff, not just offline solo. Sorry for the lack of communication and updates from my side, we literally spent 2 weeks working on this day and night. With this update 80 finally getting release in 24 hours, we`ll be returning to updating Stars End every 2 days, finally adding the cool new content. It`s been a busy weekend, and today we are putting finishing touches on our 80th milestone update. Sorry it`s taken us a bit longer than anticipated, but we can`t wait to finally share is with you. We are starting to roll out this update using steam beta mode. However - if you don`t know your way around setting up mySQL (it will no longer require mySQL in about 48 hours) and want to wait until it`s all well and done - please allow us couple more days before everything is nice and ready. Now lets go over some features of this upcoming update: -Singleplayer Offline mode added - play the game singleplayer and offline, no mySQL setup required -Option to start Stars End in fully offline mode - no internet connection required -New Self-Hosting menu that does not require mySQL setup -Singleplayer Offline and Self-Hosted menu have access to the same character and your game world, allowing you to change starting conditions and various gameplay properties -Self-hosted menu also allows you to invite your friends or even random player to your singleplayer offline game -Make your singleplayer offline game coop, public or fully offline again at any time -MAJOR improvement to all the game`s translation (so much thanks to our community for all the help, we`ll post credits and send gifts to everyone who participated - Thanks so much - sorry if I didn`t get to email you back yet) -Other fixes, improvements and more

February Plans

Thanks for your continuous support, we can`t wait to finally reach this milestone together. With offline singleplayer finally out of the way, all the major components of the game will be complete. At that point we`ll take another week resolving last of the gameplay bugs. After that - a week will be spend on making the game work much better on Steamdeck and various controllers. And finally after that we are starting to roll out major new content. New vehicles, new NPCs, territorial warfare, improving other planets and greatly improving graphics. As I mentioned update is already available in Steam beta mode, BUT keep in mind that current versionstill requires MySQL to be setup. In beta mode you can still see both the Solo Offline and new Hosted menu working together. Beta update also allows you to launch the game with steam offline, and play it without internet. HOWEVER - as I mentioned you sill had to have MySQL setup for all this to work.

Hey Everyone, We have a major update that greatly reworks how players interacts with the game world as well as brings reworked crafting interface and includes other major GUI and gameplay changes. You will notice this in every action you make in the game – from looting to gathering or crafting. This update also includes a dozen bug fixes, more translation polish, some visual improvements and more. And great news - next milestone update 80 will finally bring offline singleplayer, as well as a way to host games for your friends without the need for installing MySQL. Please keep in mind we are expecting this update to go into beta mode towards the weekend for our players to try, and be fully released early next week. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the latest update. And once you launch the client you will see version 0.78 in the main menu bottom left corner Now lets take a look at what Update 0.79 has in store:

• Fully redone system of how player interacts with the game world with no more wait times
• Removed the timer appearing in the middle of the screen for majority of the situations in-game -Talking to any characters or quest NPCs -Interacting with vehicles -Interacting with any consoles or workstations -Gathering resources from bushes -Looting containers or corpses -Using any item in the inventory like drinking, eating, healing
• Complete rework on the crafting que system
• Crafting no longer shows rotating circle in the middle of the screen
• With inventory closed payer can see what is being crafted at the top left corner of the screen
• Closing and reopening crafting inventory would show the crafting que
• Crafting multiple items will no longer spawn payer with item crafted messages, only when the batch of a certain items is complete
• Players can no longer sell, drop or move the Respawn and Stuck Pills from their inventory so it`s always there
• Reworked sleep system, it gradually reduces player tiredness
• Sleep is now not based on a set timer, and player get up at any point
• Crew members can use same workstations at same time in the crew base – the only exception for now is storage containers
• Improved the visual look of all Cryo ships where players re-spawns on all planets in the system
• Fixed fire effect turning off on Furnace and Campfire on restarting the game
• Fixed base doors sometimes locking or unlocking on restarting the game
• Majority of locations nav point on beta prairie like town names now have translated strings [/list

Hey Everyonem We have a major update today bringing a large number of fixes, major gameplay balance re-balancing for crafting, first of the level design updates to places like orbital stations and Janson planet, and redesign of the navigation point system. In addition – as we prepare to finally launch offline solo, we have included the back-end code with this live client update – making sure it doesn`t effect anything in-game. We will be enabling offline solo in a steam beta testing most for players who want to participate later this week. And as always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. We have one more super busy week ahead as we get finally ready to release solo offline for our 80th update. And we have one more major update 79 coming later this week with some very good fixes and improvements. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the latest update. And once you launch the client you will see version 0.78 in the main menu bottom left corner Now lets take a look at what Update 0.78 has in store:

• Full redesign of the time consuming grinding elements of the crafting system
• Crafting most items is significantly faster now
• Fully reworked Merchant system – merchants will now buy every good that they sell - plus some others
• Major redesign of navigation points system
• Players will now see their vehicles and claims from anywhere in the star system
• Fixed a lot of issues with players being unable to find their parked vehicles
• Fixed issue where player death loot will not be visible – player can now always see location of death loot
• Death loot will now stay on the server for 10 days
• Crafting sound when in a vehicle, ferry or a horse will now properly end
• Fixed issues with crafting sounds continuing playing after crafting is complete
• Fixed various issues with base doors being closed or open wrongly.
• Fixes for getting random oil containers when crafting
• Crystal Shards are now minable on Janson with pickaxe or grazer
• A lot of other improvements to mining and surviving on Janson planet
• Fixed a lot of locations and resources on Janson planet
• Redesigned landing pads on orbital stations
• A lot more player spaceships can now park on orbital stations
• Fixed major issue with weapon integrity always decreasing the 1st equipped weapon
• Reworked how selling/buying items dialogue windows – it now updates the price as player enters a different values
• Fixed a major exploit with selling items
• Fixed some of the last translation issues – with some text still being in English
• Completed back-end work on offline singleplayer – added to the main game files, offline solo is still disabled and in testing
• Added various admin chat commands capabilities for the upcoming offline singleplayer
• Igniting Campfire and Furnace on the claim will now show fire effect
• Fixed sometime lighting Furnace or Campfire breaking the game
• Fix an issue where Cryo Ship would have bad visuals (all white light) when respawning there on death
• New tools for moderators to easily announce incoming updates to the players
• Fixed player list not showing users who has odd characters in their name

Hey Everyone, We are back with another update which brings a lot fixes and improvements. From being able to claim vehicles anywhere in the game world, to reworked spaceship landing sequence resolving to a lot of bug fixes and getting rid of last issues including moving or splitting items. Special attention has also been given to translation, since we have so many non-English speaking players join our community. You can expect one more large update this weekend fixing dozens of remaining outstanding issues, and with that out of the way we plan to fully focus on offline multiplayer for next week for our 80th milestone update. Once that`s done we`ll focus on quality-of-life improvements, better graphics, new equipment and vehicles, and a lot of new content for mid to late game. All of this is coming our way over the next couple of weeks. Thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. Can`t wait to get through the next few days of fixes and improvements and start dropping some new content and new features. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the latest update. And once you launch the client you will see version 0.77 in the main menu bottom left corner Now lets take a look at what Update 0.77 has in store:

• Player can now claim vehicles on almost all of the planets and moons
• Disabled right clicking on anything while dragging an item across inventory screens
• Fixed issues with player death loot box disappearing
• Player death loot box will remain for 24 hours after playing death
• Fixed last remaining issues with duping or losing items during transfer
• Fixed last remaining issues with items going missing while transferring items
• New interface for entering amount of items to buy or to move/split
• Players can now move up to 1,000,000 units at a time – useful for transferring large sums of credits
• Fixed exploit allowing two players to take from spaceship storage container at the same time
• Reworked spaceship landing and take-off sequence
• Spaceship power is now auto turned on when player sits in pilot chair
• Spaceship ignition is now auto turned on when player takes over controls from take-off
• Preventing players from using Power and Ignition buttons during landing and takeoff sequence
• Fixed rare issue where spaceship would fall through the ground on landing
• Player Dedicated Servers now show name in the list of Hosted Servers
• Fixed a lot of text that appeared in English while playing in other languages
• Major improvements to Russian localization of the game
• Improved Portuguese translation
• Improved German translation
• Improved French translation
• Improved Chinese translation

Hey Everyone, We have another solid update today that resolves vast variety of issues. One of the most important parts of this update is server stability – we expect a lot less server restarts or downtime. This in turn fixes around 20 issues that would occur on server restarting or going offline. In addition, we fixed a lot of issues with the online singleplayer server – such as finding or missing campfires or workstations. A lot of work also went into overall stability and various balancing issues. You can expect one more large update by Wednesday or Thursday fixing dozens of remaining outstanding issues, and with that out of the way we plan to release offline multiplayer towards the end of this week. Thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. Can`t wait to get through the next few days of fixes and improvements and start dropping some new content and new features. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the latest update. And once you launch the client you will see version 0.76 in the main menu bottom left corner Now, lets take a look at what out update 0.76 has in store, Patch notes are a bit short today, as majority of work went for the back-end of the server and the game engine.

• Greatly improved server stability
• Fixed majority of bugs causing servers to sometimes crash
• Significant reduction in CPU when hosting dedicated player servers
• Fixed issue in singleplayer where players would sometimes loose their campfire or workbench
• Also fixed singleplayer issues with randomly finding workstations and campfires in the world
• Fixed certain audio effects on cryo ship playing too loud
• Fixed all remaining issues of audio effect playing too loudly
• Another update to the ****s chat words
• Various fixes for items duping
• Fixes for couple of remaining issues of getting stuck in the planet (still one remains)

Hey Everyone, Today`s milestone update brings first major new feature - addition of online singleplayer. Online singleplayer mode allows you to explore the game world on you own without other players. However, the online features are there to help you. Such as - your progress is stored online, allowing you to play from any computer. You can access in-game chat to ask other players or Moderator questions. Moderators are also available to help you if you encounter some rare bug or a problem. This update also brings several important fixes – mainly fixing various issues with player progress sometimes not saving. We also added some new base building materials, now available to craft or buy. Thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. Meanwhile we are two updates away from getting foundation of the game fully polished, then we can finally add offline singleplayer and game hosting without mySQL. Once that`s done we`ll focus on quality of life improvements, better graphics, new equipment and vehicles, and a lot of new content for mid to late game. All of this is coming our way over the next couple of weeks.

• Added online singleplayer mode
• Add ability for Moderators to assist players in online singleplayer mode
• Fixed all instances of player progress not saving any every game mode
• Fixed issues with players character rarely completely disappearing – asking to create a new one
• Fixed rare issue with player spawning in a middle of space in case of internet disconnection during loading screen
• Concrete Ceiling and Fence is now craftable and available for placement
• Fixes Cassius – players can fly to it now safely, it would stop flying into the planet at high speeds
• Improved our swear words filter to keep chat cleaner
• Disabled base building component fence and wood gate as it wasn`t peaceable
• Fixed various items not working properly: solar noodles, simple backpack, blue beanie
• Fixed issues when trying to self host with errors referencing bounties_collected and death_count

Hey Everyone, We have a smaller update today, as looks like we`ll need another day to polish Online Singleplayer before we can bring it back in. We temporarily disabled it and expect it to be back online tomorrow. Today`s update several important fixes – mainly fixing user interface problems like tooltips not showing, and final issues effecting losing items when moving them between containers. Meanwhile work continues on the offline singleplayer mode that we expect later next week. Please keep in mind that online and offline singleplayer modes will not share character progress. Patch notes are quite short today, as singleplayer online is the biggest part.

• Fixed major issue with interface not showing tooltips
• Upgraded Global 3 (PvE) server hardware, should eliminate the lag
• All the behind the scenes preparation work to enabling online singleplayer tomorrow
• Various minor interface improvements across the board
• Fix issue with getting too many extra water bottles
• Fixed additional issues with transferring items between containers
• Easier to acquire Polymers and Plastic now

Hey Everyone, We have a solid major update today that fixes the last of the severe bugs and brings a lot of improvements. We fixed all the issues with players logging out in vehicles or getting pushed under ground. Last remaining issues with items disappearing, or duping should also be resolved as well. Aside from bug fixes you will notice improved visuals and performance in space. And after a bit of a delay, we have finally added a fresh new PvE server that is now available for players who wish for a fresh start. In addition, Portuguese Brazilian translation has been added to the game. More languages are on the way later this winter. Now, lets take a look at what out update 0.73 has in store. I broke it down by categories as there`s a lot of changes:

Major Improvements and Additions

• Added fresh new PvE server – Global 0 (New)
• Major improvement to performance while flying in space
• Greatly improved visuals of flying in space
• Crafting Polymers and Vehicle Fuel now gives back empty oil containers – was requested by so many players
• Added full translation to Portuguese for players from Brazil and Portugal
• Stopped all griefing using land mines and other means on PvE servers
• Showing warning to players from Mainland China who require VPN to play
• New GM Duncan joins the mod team

Major Bug Fixes

• Fixed Chinese localization showing incorrect characters everywhere
• Fixed issues with Cassius and flying ship under water
• Fix a major issue in tutorial with building a Wood Shack
• Fixed ferry from Brutus Salty Springs where players could get stuck
• Fixed various issues with Cassius planet – like lag, visuals and other problems
• Fixed game breaking issue when lighting Campfire or Furnace
• Fixed bug allowing player to fly inside Cassius planet and get stuck there
• Major fix to logging back into the game while in a spaceship and not being inside of it
• Fixed issues logging into the game and being pushed underground by a vehicle
• Fixed issue getting stuck under the spaceship
• Fixed issue getting stuck in-space on relog
• Fixed last remaining dupes with inventory when moving or splittings items
• Fixed last cases of items going missing when splitting or moving

Other Fixes and Balancing

• Additional improvements to Russian localization
• Fixed visual bugs effecting spaceship cabin in space
• Fixed visual bugs effecting booster speed effects
• Added a prompt dialogue to deleting claims with instructions and warnings
• Disabled winter quest on orbital stations that wasn`t working right
• Disabled Miriam quest in the exchange bar
• Massive Asteroids now only show a waypoint if the tutorial isn't active
• Disabled interacting with inventory when moving or splitting items
• Land mines now only do damage to players on PvP servers
• Fixed various crafting issues that involve water bottles
• Industrial Refinery on Orbital stations now has a new waypoint market – large and impossible to miss
• Oil Tanks will no longer appear on the side of the ground
• Reworked the Ferry Kiosks at 3 main space stations – easier to access the Vendor
• Improved tooltips for spaceship control
• Improved Tutorial text in French
• Reworked prompt on controlling spaceships with H takeoff key
• Fixed crafting recipes that involved Fungi and Hops
• Reduced jetpack weight greatly to allow walking with it

Hey Everyone, And we are back with our fifth daily update – and a milestone of sorts. At this point we are glad to say that vast majority of game breaking bugs has been fixed, and players can now experience the game without without loosing progress. There`s still a lot of polish that we`ll be working on during this coming week, but we expect the game to be in a great shape within days, finally allowing us to start implementing quality of life improvements and new content. Today`s update resolves the last of the server stability issues, and fixes all the bugs that caused players to loose their vehicles. A large number of other priority issues has been resolved, Also tomorrow we are finally adding two new fresh servers - one PvP and one PvE, and hope to have some good news about offline singleplayer - finishing touches now. Thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. Can`t wait to get through the next few days of final fixes and improvements and start dropping some new content and new features. As always – forever grateful for you support! Now, lets take a look at what out update 0.72 has in store:

• Fixed major issue with player space ship disappearing when landing on other planets
• Fixed various bugs with vehicle positioning not saving
• Fixed final issues preventing players connecting to the server
• Fixed last issues with servers kicking players out
• Fixed issues with server lag
• Fixes to positioning that address players sometimes falling through the ground
• Fixed various issues with players not seeing other players on vehicles
• Fixed most of invisible players issues
• Various fixes for items disappearing
• Various performance improvements – please note 4k resolution performance still has issues
• Fixed various visual and sound glitches when flying in space
• Major improvement to Russian translation - still a bit of work left
• Salt can now be purchased and sold at the Ore Vendor on the Orbital Station.
• Rebalanced various food items - cost, weight, crafting
• Greatly improved Durability on non Makeshift Weapons.

Hey Everyone, First of all – please accept our sincere apologies for the server disconnection and crashing issues of the past 30 hours – especially on server 3. We finally have this resolved, and scaling things up to support the increasing player population. Migrating server 3 to a stronger server tomorrow (all player data will be intact), and we also are adding two new fresh official servers tomorrow - PvP 2 and PvE 4. And we have another solid update for you today! We focused on server stability to fix the crashing issues, as well as worked on vehicle disappearing issues – the only one remaining happens is when flying to the other planets, please avoid that for now. Fixing that by tomorrow. This update also includes a range of fixes and improvements, as well as updated translation for German and Chinese versions. In addition we have done a lot of work on balancing crafting, item stats, weight and durability. Now, lets take a look at our 0.71st update:

• Major improvements to server stability
• Major updates to the server code
• Fixed various issues causing players to disconnect from servers
• Fixed majority of issues with players crashing from the game
• Fixed most issues causing certain servers to disappear for a few minutes
• Added support for two new official servers – coming online this Sunday
• Fixed large number of errors with AI creatures glitching in all kind of ways
• Fixed major grieving exploit where player would jump on other players to damage or kill them
• Completely disabled square damage – to stop players exploiting that
• Major improvement to visuals on Beta Prairie planet – fixed the gloomy dark fog that made things look very bad
• Fixed various issues with logging out and back in while flying in a spaceship
• Reworked the starting Cryo Ships – players are not longer allowed to kill NPCs
• Reworked the starting Cryo Ship to make sure players cant get Outlaw status there
• Removed Mechs from the Cryo Ship – as they were causing various issues
• Additional fixes and improvements to the Cryo Ship – like getting lifts to work in the spawn area
• Major updated to the German localization – redid all the starting text, tutorials, and other changes
• Major updated to the Chinese localization – redid all the starting text, tutorials, and other changes
• Balanced the Weight, Value and Durability of the Makeshift: Backpack, Pistol, Shotgun, Shovel, SMG, Sniper Rifle, Vehicle Turret, Land Mine, Grenade, Fishing Rod.
• They now have the correct weight and a little extra value making it worth crafting instead of purchasing,
• Re-Balanced Crude Oil It now weight a 5th of the original weight.

Hey Everyone, And we are back with yet another daily update - bringing a large number of fixes and improvements. Also we wanted to take a moment to thank our players for all the encouragement and feedback! This really helps us push forward as our small team works day and night on getting Stars End into a great shape. Today`s update resolves a lot of issues with vehicle ownership, fixing some of the remaining critical bugs and adds various improvements requested by our players. In addition we made it a lot easier for our Moderators to help players in-game. If you loose some items or vehicles due to one of the remaining bugs - our moderators will be able to assist you remotely in seconds now. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the latest update. And once you launch the client you will see version 0.70 in the main menu bottom left corner Now, lets take a look at what out update 0.70 has in store:

• Large number of server stability performance and improvements
• Added the back-end work of the offline singleplayer – it`s still disabled, but now is a part of the client allowing us to do final testing on it
• Fixed a number of issues with player being unable to enter vehicles
• Fixed another issue with vehicles going missing
• Fixed a number of issues with vehicles going missing – but still couple of situations left
• When getting onto a vehicle it will now show the status of the vehicle, and who can use it - only the player, crew, or anybody.
• Vehicle access can now be changed by using the PgDw button
• Fixed the issue where crew members could not enter the vehicle sometimes and would get Hijack prompt instead of enter the vehicle
• Vehicle in use can no longer be hacked on PvP servers Improved vehicle stealing mechanics on PvP servers with clear notifications
• All consumable food and drink items now stack – please note – this will only effect new food items added to inventory
• Player inventory will now be a lot more organized with various stack sorting
• Made it a lot easier for new players to locate Tarphite Mine and Refinery on the planet
• Gave a lot of additional tools to our moderators to help players
• Moderators are now able to refund player lost items remotely, without having to meet the player at a certain location
• Servers player chat will no longer show in the main menu when player is creating or selecting the character
• Fixed various issues with grenades and their explosions

Hey Everyone, From our small indie team we want to thank all of our players for your support and patience over the past couple of days. And we are back with our third daily update. We spent the past day on fixes across the board - entirely based on our players feedback. From audio and SFX work to player death loot and so much more. Thanks for all the reports - we hear you! In addition the outlaw system has also been reworked with wanted levels. We also added a number of quality-of-life improvements from mining status to low-fuel notifications. Also we have found and fixed a number of separate issues causing players to loose their vehicles – and there`s just one issue left to resolve, that we intend to have sorted by the morning. Meanwhile our moderators are available in-game chat to help, and new moderators just joined our team. Thanks for your understanding and your support. We expect the game to be in the great shape later this week. And offline singleplayer will be finally added to the game later this week as well. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the latest update. And once you launch the client you will see version 0.69 in the main menu bottom left corner As always – forever grateful for you support, and lets go over some of the fixes and changes in this update 69

• Fixed a number of issues with vehicles going missing – but still couple of situations left
• Vehicle access can now be changed by using the PgDw button
• Fixed players being able to sometimes steal vehicles on PvE server (was responsible for some missing vehicles)
• Reworked stealing vehicles mechanic for PvP gameplay – vehicles stolen are just temporary stolen for the thief to use - PvP only
• Original owner of the vehicle can eventually track down the stolen vehicles and reclaim it - PvP only
• Fixed various issues with players not being able to see their death loot to recover their items after dying
• When player commits crimes – his or hers wanted level will go up
• Wanted level is displayed at the top of the screen from 1 to 5 stars
• When player has 3 stars or more NPC Mechs will attack player in towns and space stations
• Fixed various issues with player wanted level not working or showing
• A lot of work on the audio side of the game – sound effects and so on
• Fixed various issues with some sounds being extremely loud
• Fixed issues with some sound playing even if SFX sound is set all the way to zero
• When mining, cutting trees e.t.c it will now show health points bar to show much resources is left in the object
• Fixed a number of issues where some crafted items weight would be more than the components that go into it
• Nav Point for death loot container is now overwhelmingly large – can`t miss it
• Added several voice dialogue notifications when player is running low on fuel in space vehicles
• Added fail-safes for players who sell or drop their spotter tool and can`t use it anymore
• Fixed all instances where by some reasons players will not see navigation points