Starship EVO news & patch notes

More hotfixes!

Bugfixes:

• Fixed hotbar and mission save data being reapplied every time a system-jump loading screen closed.

• Fixed a hard crash when the ActionLink brick gizmo stayed open after a tank/command was deleted.

• Fixed crash when placing a weapon grip on an item stand as a multiplayer client.

• Item stand interaction prompt now shows the correct action and updates when changing hotbar selection.

• Fixed an issue when weapon gimbal ran after an indirectly linked weapon was destroyed.

• Fixed an issue on quit when Steam stats flush ran without Steam initialized.

• Guarded AssetRepo quit teardown against releasing twice in the same quit.

• Fixed an issue in FetchDecal when the aimed entity was already gone or a decal pixel map was missing.

• Fixed an issue when accepting a distress call / go-to objective before the target entity was ready; mission board and distress spawns are host/solo only.

Thanks for playing!

More hotfixes!

Community Suggestion:

• #6753 Codex brick search/header now stays pinned while scrolling the brick list.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a multiplayer crash when another player equipped the box delete tool.

• Fixed a rare crash when the command link line updated after its selected command was cleared or unloaded.

• Fixed a rare crash when hovering power cells in the codex preview.

• Fixed craft items in the creative Codex showing ISSUE placeholder names instead of their real names.

• Debug options (F3) can no longer be opened while another menu is already active.

• Fixed a joining-client crash when terrain mining hits arrived before local terrain nodes existed.

• Fixed a voxel-debug overlay crash when the current star was not yet mapped in world entities.

• Fixed a rare crash when the Codex backpack rebuilt slots while unequipping a destroyed or unspawning handheld entity.

• Fixed a crash when opening the Codex with an older character save that had no help-entry history yet.

• #7003 Codex search clear after reopen no longer clips the brick list height.

Thanks for playing!

Some more hotfixes.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed applying faction color sets to entities that have no active color variant set defined.

• Prevented voxel action startup errors when player or rendering dependencies are unavailable.

• Fixed repeated character IK errors when returning to the title screen.

• Fixed repeated rendering errors when returning to the title screen.

• Fixed a rare spaceship HUD error when leaving or losing a ship while the holomap was open.

• Prevented item-bar and brick-shape switching while a primary or secondary item action is held; switching resumes on release.

• Fixed side-axis rotator gizmos failing to render in turret configuration.

Thanks for playing!

Some fixes and the implementation of Steam p2p, so no more port-forward shenanigans!

An urgent fix for a regression on the space habitat. Sorry for the mishap!

Multiplayer and Steam p2p

As I was having some trouble to reproduce the connectivity issue, I finally bit the bullet and decided to implement steam p2p.

You will be able to create a multiplayer lobby only open to your friends for now. I will add more options and features, tell me what is the most urgent!

I did a pass and fixed quite a few issues but I expect plenty of issues still.

There are things still missing, like npc/crew walking in stations.

For now do not expect to play a serious survival game, it is better to simply build with friends!

Community Suggestion

• #7873 Holo monitor build preview now draws the screen icon to help orient placement.

• #7869 Docking port and conveyor filters can now filter crystals by type.

• #7048 Item bar auto-fill now prioritizes directly usable items

Bugfixes

• #7874 Unspawning scooter just after exiting make game freeze.

• Hover pod thruster VFX no longer lingers after the brick is destroyed.

• #7881 Laser sensor not detecting if short range

• #7838 Action wheel material on stones

• #7886 Vent Cover incorrect hitbox

• #7901 #7912 Fixed prolonged building sessions eventually preventing blocks and interactions

• #7905 Cannot complete Find Item mission

• #7913 Fixed link tool sound and overlay persisting after selecting a void pearl storage

Thanks for playing!

As I was having some trouble to reproduce the connectivity issue, I finally bit the bullet and decided to implement steam p2p.

You will be able to create a multiplayer lobby only open to your friends for now. I will add more options and features, tell me what is the most urgent!

I did a pass a fixed quite a few issues but I expect plenty of issues still.

There are things still missing, like npc/crew walking in stations.

For now do not expect to play a serious survival game, it is better to simply build with friends!

Thanks for playing!

Some fixes.

Community Suggestion

• #7873 Holo monitor build preview now draws the screen icon to help orient placement.

• #7869 Docking port and conveyor filters can now filter crystals by type.

Bugfixes

• #7874 Unspawning scooter just after exiting make game freeze.

• Hover pod thruster VFX no longer lingers after the brick is destroyed.

• #7881 Laser sensor not detecting if short range

• #7838 Action wheel material on stones

• #7886 Vent Cover incorrect hitbox

Thanks for playing!

A few Localization and crosshair improvements. Survival spawning procedure changed - as some users reported occasional fails during loading.

Localization improvements:

• some new message / tutorial missions text has been localized

• Fix for some missing Chinese and Japanese character

• Chinese and Japanese outline font look was improved.

Crosshair wheel improvements:

• Repair tool now uses the crosshair hold-wheel ring for brick health, with hull repair progress messages.

• Crosshair hold-wheel reworked

Thanks for playing!

A few Localization and crosshair improvements.

Localization improvements:

• some new message / tutorial missions text has been localized

• Fix for some missing Chinese and Japanese character

• Chinese and Japanese outline font look was improved.

Crosshair wheel improvements:

• Repair tool now uses the crosshair hold-wheel ring for brick health, with hull repair progress messages.

• Crosshair hold-wheel reworked

Thanks for playing!

Various improvements addressing newcomer feedback / difficulties with mining and the scooter.

Also a big refactor to the way the storage jobs system explores the network: it is aimed at stopping issues with massive network.

Tell me if you spot any regression!

I addressed the hovercraft/scooter toppling off when unused:

• Hovercraft computer: new Hover Pod Settle Time setting controls how long pods stay active after exiting the yoke, with stabilization during release.

• Scooter base has been made more stable so it is less likely to topple off when exited.

• new ballast block with a heavy weight, to fine-tune your weight distribution

Mining/Getting stuck issues

• shows a popup warning if the player mines underground without a jetpack/jump-pack.

• Terrain mining uses a larger spherical radius and overlaps neighboring octree nodes.

• Faster mining in soil and rocks (ore is unchanged)

• I made it easier to get out of any hole by jumping:

Some more hotfixes.

Improvements:

- Help message when trying to build the Wind Turbine on ships or stations, explaining it must be placed on ground entities.

Bugfixes:

- Fixed legacy rock and stone brick item colors not always matching their material bucket tint.

- Fixed help message mergeTime deduplication not working (messages could repeat every few seconds).

- Fixed assembler not pushing finished products while its queue is active #7847.

Thanks for playing!

Various improvements addressing newcomer feedback / difficulties with mining and the scooter.

Also a big refactor to the way the storage jobs system explores the network: it is aimed at stopping issues with massive network.

Tell me if you spot any regression!

I addressed the hovercraft/scooter toppling off when unused:

• Hovercraft computer: new Hover Pod Settle Time setting controls how long pods stay active after exiting the yoke, with stabilization during release.

• Scooter base has been made more stable so it is less likely to topple off when exited.

• new ballast block with a heavy weight, to fine-tune your weight distribution

Mining/Getting stuck issues

• shows a popup warning if the player mines underground without a jetpack/jump-pack.

• Terrain mining uses a larger spherical radius and overlaps neighboring octree nodes.

• Faster mining in soil and rocks (ore is unchanged)

• I made it easier to get out of any hole by jumping:

So I haven't pushed the last few Experimental builds to the Default branch in the last two weeks, sorry for that! The reason is I tried to implement Virtual Texture to improve FPS but ultimately the ratio complexity/gains became too weak so I scrapped it. One week down the drain!

But fear not, as I still managed to improve the FPS via several shader refactors.

New terrain shader yields FPS Improvements I tweaked and improved the terrain shader: we jumped from 70 to 95 fps (from 50 fps two months ago!). Still sensible gains!

The look will be a bit different, but it will actually look better from afar.

Planet Texture:

I also added a setting for the planet texture generation, which give planets a hd looks when viewed from space.

The new high settings makes the planets looks twice better!

Two new cockpit instruments were added:

• this represent the ship roll and pitch, like in modern plane.

• It is made mainly to make your cockpit a bit more lively - but it is actually fully functional!

• will shows an animation of the relative position of the target dock.

• you can actually use this to maneuver manually during docking.

This is actually inspired by the docking procedure screen of one of my favorite movie, 2001 A Space Odyssey!

Stone/Rock color refactor: This builds improve the rocks/stone brick color logic to hopefully clear out some frustration they were provoking.

• now each rocks name will contains their color, so hopefully it will make it clearer on why different rocks cannot be merged for crafting.

• stone can be painted, and will remember to original color when paint is removed.

• stone cannot received metal material (issue fixed)

• the color buckets now uses OKLCH color spaces, so hue variations should be more natural.

Crosshair refactor: I continued work on the making the UI more lisible and informative with more work on the crosshair.

• Deleting sensitive bricks now shows more information next to the crosshair.

• The command crosshair now shows contextual action icons.

• The crosshair now adapts its contrast against bright and dark backgrounds.

• The fast delete build option is now a dropdown with separate normal, sensitive-only, and full fast delete modes.

• Cargo pickup crosshair labels now use rarity color.

Changes and improvements

• Space battle editor no longer available in Survival

• Improved activate over-text on warp cores: shows Store or Take Void Pearl with dedicated icons depending on what you are holding.

• #7802 #7751 Stone colors

• #7771 Warning gate works with spaceship events (spaceship -> event gate -> warning gate)

• #7825 #7783 Ship dimension no longer include fields and decals

• Teleport stations can be activated manually to open the Codex teleport tab. Player-built stations open a configure menu to rename the brick and open the teleport tab.

• The linking order for display has been reversed to be in similar to gauge and event gate! Your save will be updated.

• Help messages can now inject translated item names, sprites, and keybinds after translating the base text.

Community Suggestions

• #7719 Shipyards turned OFF with a switch are no longer offered for landing; existing saves migrate pads to ON.

• #7720 Vehicle computer command events now separate remaining power from live power usage.

• #7490 Displays can aggregate up to four compatible tanks or storage units.

• Linking for tanks, life support, and power cells now starts from the source block to the display; old blueprints migrate on load.

• #7702 Can rename Teleport Station

• #7702 Teleport station collider fit the shape now

• #7731 Gizmo is now showing on the blast door.

• #7726 Build preview will show dark over a light background

• #7781 Mouse cursor for ship now uses same contrast shader as cursor

• #6807 Assembler displays component quantity in storage. Missing components appears in red.

Bugfixes:

• #7795 Life support when seated

• #7808 Paint, tools and prefabs can no longer be sold at trading kiosks

• #7820 Void Pearls in player inventory or item bar now block warp

• #7821 Scrolling in a galaxy map dropdown no longer zooms the map

• #7755 #7822 Void pearl can show in the wrong slot of warp system

• #7744 Painting with RMB and LMB goes wild

• #7750 #7772 #7448 Repair tool now fixes damaged bricks on child entities

• #7062 Missing block schematics: glass arch, mug, fan.

• #7569 Repair tool now removes persistent damage decals on fully repaired hull.

• #7790 Ladders dont work

• #7762 Ship systems no longer stall on depleted power during warp or stargate travel.

• #7838 Assembler no longer stalls when crafting stone slabs from rocks in adjacent storage.

• #7801 Manual undock issues

• #7779 Docking event gate state on blueprint spawn is now reset

• #7710 No Npcs on consortium small stations

• #7724 Fuel delivery missions can now be completed incrementally, with a partial fuel sale option for ships that cannot carry the full contract volume.

• #7730 Codex filter reset button fixed

• #7728 Repair missions now scale to smaller stations and rebuild repair objectives cleanly.

• #7725 World rocks and ore despawn when mined to zero health.

• #7477 Docking port item transfers no longer clog the port when no destination is available.

• #7633 Event Gate percentage thresholds no longer save as 100x the entered value.

• #7695 Targeted item preview not visible with Box Delete tool

• #7696 #7307 #6852 Ladders no longer apply gravity while climbing.

• #7655 Delivered mission cargo is now removed from the item bar.

• #7655 Mission cargo rewards are granted to the player's ship instead of a docked parent entity.

• #7655 Mission warp waypoint distance and autopilot alignment now match the selected target system.

• #7499 Monitor and text screens no longer keep rendering after the brick is heavily damaged.

• #6236 Fuel outpost refuelling missions can now be completed and correctly restored after loading a save.

• Assembler/Furnace can push/pull from others assembler/furnace

• #7736 No computer linked message on linked yoke setup

• #7758 Fixed dismantled ships still being available through shipyard recovery

• #7782 #7330 #7025 #7024 Assembler status tooltip could hijack tooltip if windows was closed when on the status tooltip

• #7760 Deleting children entity now gives bricks back in survival

Thanks for playing!

Some more hotfixes.

Bugfixes:

#7762 Ship systems no longer stall on depleted power during warp or stargate travel.

#7838 Assembler no longer stalls when crafting stone slabs from rocks in adjacent storage.

Thanks for playing!

So I wanted to take a bit of time off the usual stuff and add some new cool bricks, it has been a while.

So this build adds two new cockpit instruments:

• this represent the ship roll and pitch, like in modern plane.

• It is made mainly to make your cockpit a bit more lively - but it is actually fully functional!

• will shows an animation of the relative position of the target dock.

• you can actually use this to maneuver manually during docking.

This is actually inspired by the docking procedure screen of one of my favorite movie, 2001 A Space Odyssey!

Bugfixes:

Thanks for playing!

This builds improve the rocks/stone brick color logic to hopefully clear out some frustration they were provoking.

• now each rocks name will contains their color, so hopefully it will make it clearer on why different rocks cannot be merged for crafting.

• stone can be painted, and will remember to original color when paint is removed.

• stone cannot received metal material (issue fixed)

• the color buckets now uses OKLCH color spaces, so hue variations should be more natural.

Changes and improvements / Community suggestions

• Space battle editor no longer available in Survival

• Improved activate over-text on warp cores: shows Store or Take Void Pearl with dedicated icons depending on what you are holding.

• #7802 #7751 Stone colors

• #7771 Warning gate works with spaceship events (spaceship -> event gate -> warning gate)

• #7825 #7783 Ship dimension no longer include fields and decals

Bugfixes:

• #7795 Life support when seated

• #7808 Paint, tools and prefabs can no longer be sold at trading kiosks

• #7820 Void Pearls in player inventory or item bar now block warp

• #7821 Scrolling in a galaxy map dropdown no longer zooms the map

• #7755 #7822 Void pearl can show in the wrong slot of warp system

• #7744 Painting with RMB and LMB goes wild

• #7750 #7772 #7448 Repair tool now fixes damaged bricks on child entities

• #7062 Missing block schematics: glass arch, mug, fan.

• #7569 Repair tool now removes persistent damage decals on fully repaired hull.

Thanks for playing!

So the per-triangle virtual textures turned out to be too complex, and the final gains too limited to justify the cost.

I decided to kill them and went back to the drawing board to deliver those much needed FPS improvements.

I tweaked and improved the terrain shader: we jumped from 70 to 95 fps (from 50 fps two months ago!). Still sensible gains!

The look will be a bit different, but it will actually look better from afar.

Planet Texture:

I also added a setting for the planet texture generation, which give planets a hd looks when viewed from space.

The new high settings makes the planets looks twice better!

Thanks for playing!

Quick hotfixes build to address two regressions.

Bugfixes

#7801 Manual undock issues

#7779 Docking event gate state on blueprint spawn is now reset

Thanks for playing!

The crosshair has been given a bit of love. I will embrace this rounded square look in a few other places.

=> I am not satisfied with the wheel shown when mining, tell me what you think!

Deleting sensitive bricks now shows more information next to the crosshair.

The command crosshair now shows contextual action icons.

The crosshair now adapts its contrast against bright and dark backgrounds.

The fast delete build option is now a dropdown with separate normal, sensitive-only, and full fast delete modes.

Cargo pickup crosshair labels now use rarity color.

Changes:

• Teleport stations can be activated manually to open the Codex teleport tab. Player-built stations open a configure menu to rename the brick and open the teleport tab.

• The linking order for display has been reversed to be in similar to gauge and event gate! Your save will be updated.

• Help messages can now inject translated item names, sprites, and keybinds after translating the base text.

Community Suggestions

• #7719 Shipyards turned OFF with a switch are no longer offered for landing; existing saves migrate pads to ON.

• #7720 Vehicle computer command events now separate remaining power from live power usage.

• #7490 Displays can aggregate up to four compatible tanks or storage units.

• Linking for tanks, life support, and power cells now starts from the source block to the display; old blueprints migrate on load.

• #7702 Can rename Teleport Station

• #7702 Teleport station collider fit the shape now

• #7731 Gizmo is now showing on the blast door.

• #7726 Build preview will show dark over a light background

Bugfixes:

• #7710 No Npcs on consortium small stations

• #7724 Fuel delivery missions can now be completed incrementally, with a partial fuel sale option for ships that cannot carry the full contract volume.

• #7730 Codex filter reset button fixed

• #7728 Repair missions now scale to smaller stations and rebuild repair objectives cleanly.

• #7725 World rocks and ore despawn when mined to zero health.

• #7477 Docking port item transfers no longer clog the port when no destination is available.

• #7633 Event Gate percentage thresholds no longer save as 100x the entered value.

• #7695 Targeted item preview not visible with Box Delete tool

• #7696 #7307 #6852 Ladders no longer apply gravity while climbing.

• #7655 Delivered mission cargo is now removed from the item bar.

• #7655 Mission cargo rewards are granted to the player's ship instead of a docked parent entity.

• #7655 Mission warp waypoint distance and autopilot alignment now match the selected target system.

• #7499 Monitor and text screens no longer keep rendering after the brick is heavily damaged.

• #6236 Fuel outpost refuelling missions can now be completed and correctly restored after loading a save.

• Assembler/Furnace can push/pull from others assembler/furnace

Thanks for playing!

Last shot at the virtual texture thing (it is actually a lot harder than just VTs, as I am also baking textures live as it is a planetary tech):

In order to solve the hiccups issue after prolonged travel I had to make several compromises that now degrade the added value of the technology:

• Due to technical reason I can no longer use compression, which means I had to half quality to keep size contained.

• Due to this I had to increase the hybrid range by a bit, which degrade the net FPS gains compared to before. We still gains some FPS (90-95 vs 70).

• travel should now be smooth, but it increased the visual artifacts you get when tiles are loading

• also in some case it will look a bit blurry, like wall of rocks at medium distance. Close still looks nice, far looks nicer compared to before, but medium can looks worse =(

=> honestly it felt this whole tech was not worth it, especially with regards with the time invested, it is a bummer =(

If we get any more bumps in the road I feel it will better to call it a day (unfortunately more like a week, anyways...)

Also now there only a single setting, but it still requires 500mb of VRAM

=> I plan to do a lower settings for cards that are too short, if I am not scrapping the whole things that is.

Community Suggestion:

• #7781 Mouse cursor for ship now uses same contrast shader as cursor

• #6807 Assembler displays component quantity in storage. Missing components appears in red.

Bugfixes

• #7736 No computer linked message on linked yoke setup

• #7758 Fixed dismantled ships still being available through shipyard recovery

• #7782 #7330 #7025 #7024 Assembler status tooltip could hijack tooltip if windows was closed when on the status tooltip

• #7760 Deleting children entity now gives bricks back in survival

Thanks for playing!

The lag spike faced when traveling fast near the ground have been fixed/improved:

- there was a bug that happened at very high speed that triggered massive spike => this is fixed

- the Virtual Texture tech will now skip computing when the camera is moving fast to the ground. Only when the player stop the VT will catch up!

- I did a big pass on the way items are spawned/despawned when streaming terrain.

So at the end this will make traveling actually a bit faster than it was before the update.

I still have a lot of work to do if I want to do something buttery smooth, but I have some ideas on how to achieve that! Also there are a few visual glitch I need to sort out.

Thanks for playing!

This build delivers a big technical milestone with the introduction of Virtual Textures for terrain.

A lot of you experienced low FPS on the planet surface, this update represents a radical step taken to address this.

At survival release my FPS on the ground were at 50. A few recent updates pushed that to 70, but this one now delivers 100fps!

On top of that, terrain texture will looks noticeably better at distance, especially from orbit.

The drawback: it require more memory and will require extra computation to bake the texture when you move on the ground.

- Memory: high setting require 500MB, low setting 128Mb (But it saves 80Mb from planets textures that are no longer needed). Starship EVO is really light on memory anyway, so it should accommodate even mid-low tier GPU.

- FPS impact: I have worked on smoothing the texture bake over several frames, so only low-altitude fly-by will be really taxing.

How it works: terrain shader was really expensive as you need many textures sample for tri-planar mapping, two material overlay, and some close and far details.

Now each triangle will bake all this samples into a big texture array on the fly.

Close distance terrain nodes we still use an hybrid of Virtual Texture and real-time sampling as the impact (memory/baking time/graphics downgrade) made it not worth it.

This is highly experimental, please report any issues and regressions!

Also: please tell me you GPU (and memory), and whether you manage to use the high setting! For now High is selected if you have a 4GB+ card, but I think it should works for 2GB cards too.

Thanks for playing!

Another hotfix and community suggestion build!

Changes:

• Teleport stations can be activated manually to open the Codex teleport tab. Player-built stations open a configure menu to rename the brick and open the teleport tab.

• The linking order for display has been reversed to be in similar to gauge and event gate! Your save will be updated.

• Help messages can now inject translated item names, sprites, and keybinds after translating the base text.

Community Suggestions

• #7719 Shipyards turned OFF with a switch are no longer offered for landing; existing saves migrate pads to ON.

• #7720 Vehicle computer command events now separate remaining power from live power usage.

• #7490 Displays can aggregate up to four compatible tanks or storage units.

• Linking for tanks, life support, and power cells now starts from the source block to the display; old blueprints migrate on load.

• #7702 Can rename Teleport Station

• #7702 Teleport station collider fit the shape now

• #7731 Gizmo is now showing on the blast door.

• #7726 Build preview will show dark over a light background

Bugfixes:

• #7710 No Npcs on consortium small stations

• #7724 Fuel delivery missions can now be completed incrementally, with a partial fuel sale option for ships that cannot carry the full contract volume.

• #7730 Codex filter reset button fixed

• #7728 Repair missions now scale to smaller stations and rebuild repair objectives cleanly.

• #7725 World rocks and ore despawn when mined to zero health.

Thanks for playing!

The crosshair has been given a bit of love. I will embrace this rounded square look in a few other places.

=> I am not satisfied with the wheel shown when mining, tell me what you think!

Deleting sensitive bricks now shows more information next to the crosshair.

The command crosshair now shows contextual action icons.

The crosshair now adapts its contrast against bright and dark backgrounds.

The fast delete build option is now a dropdown with separate normal, sensitive-only, and full fast delete modes.

Cargo pickup crosshair labels now use rarity color.

Bugfixes

• #7477 Docking port item transfers no longer clog the port when no destination is available.

• #7633 Event Gate percentage thresholds no longer save as 100x the entered value.

• #7695 Targeted item preview not visible with Box Delete tool

• #7696 #7307 #6852 Ladders no longer apply gravity while climbing.

• #7655 Delivered mission cargo is now removed from the item bar.

• #7655 Mission cargo rewards are granted to the player's ship instead of a docked parent entity.

• #7655 Mission warp waypoint distance and autopilot alignment now match the selected target system.

• #7499 Monitor and text screens no longer keep rendering after the brick is heavily damaged.

• #6236 Fuel outpost refuelling missions can now be completed and correctly restored after loading a save.

• - Assembler/Furnace can push/pull from others assembler/furnace

Thanks for playing!

Many players expressed how it was painful to inadvertently right click and delete blocks.

This build aims at making this much less likely:

- Deleting while holding a build now require holding right click for a bit

- to delete faster you can Shift-right click OR use the Box Delete tool (now simply called Delete tool)

- Storage or mechanism require longer right click.

- If you don't like that, you can always go into F1 a activate fast delete toggle!

I also redid the hold mouse wheel, I will add more cursor items depending on the type of action possible / done.

Some more CPU improvements due to physics refactor.

New features / Community Suggestions

• It is now possible to buy void pearls in the trading kiosk

• Added a storage and backpack inventory sort button.

• Shipyard service buttons now hide actions that are unavailable for the current docked ship state.

Bugfixes

• #7657 Jetpack mode can no longer be toggled from menus.

• #7653 Warp save positions stranded too far from origin are repaired on load.

• Display activation shipyard no longer undock the player ship.

• #7674 Modding option incorrect window name

• #7643 Filters can now push matching items into processing machines.

• #7682 Electrolyser now restores linked switch state correctly on load.

• #7685 Side wedges now mirror correctly when using alternate rotation.

• Warping is less likely to freeze or crash during planetary system unload.

• #7636 Rescue Missions can break the game.

• #7642 Crash when exiting the game during command selection

• #7645 Random Crash

• #7648 Help message cancel stretch

• #7620 Mining beams were blocked by inactive debris field shields.

• Shipyard menu not accessible through a screen.

• #7663 Itembar issue on new character creation

• #7661 Power cells with corrupted NaN charge are reset to empty.

• #7662 Ships and vehicles could fall through habitat terrain.

Thanks for playing!

Many players expressed how it was painful to inadvertently right click and delete blocks.

This build aims at making this much less likely:

- Deleting while holding a build now require holding right click for a bit

- to delete faster you can Shift-right click OR use the Box Delete tool (now simply called Delete tool)

- Storage or mechanism require longer right click.

- If you don't like that, you can always go into F1 a activate fast delete toggle!

I also redid the hold mouse wheel, I will add more cursor items depending on the type of action possible / done.

New features / Community Suggestions

• It is now possible to buy void pearls in the trading kiosk

• Added a storage and backpack inventory sort button.

Bugfixes

• #7657 Jetpack mode can no longer be toggled from menus.

• #7653 Warp save positions stranded too far from origin are repaired on load.

• Display activation shipyard no longer undock the player ship.

• #7674 Modding option incorrect window name

• #7643 Filters can now push matching items into processing machines.

• #7682 Electrolyser now restores linked switch state correctly on load.

• #7685 Side wedges now mirror correctly when using alternate rotation.

• Warping is less likely to freeze or crash during planetary system unload.

Thanks for playing!

Shipyard service buttons now hide actions that are unavailable for the current docked ship state.

Bugfixes

• #7663 Itembar issue on new character creation

• #7661 Power cells with corrupted NaN charge are reset to empty.

• #7662 Ships and vehicles could fall through habitat terrain.

Thanks for playing!

Some more CPU improvements due to physics refactor.

This build is a bit risky at features some heavy refactor to fight crash, so please tell me if you find any regression!

Bugfixes

• #7636 Rescue Missions can break the game.

• #7642 Crash when exiting the game during command selection

• #7645 Random Crash

• #7648 Help message cancel stretch

• #7620 Mining beams were blocked by inactive debris field shields.

• Shipyard menu not accessible through a screen.

Thanks for playing!

A hotfixes and a few community suggestions.

This builds also adds some improvements to the terrain shader, yielding in a few more FPS (5-10fps on my RTX3060).

Axis Rotate:

A lot of players (I guess coming from Space Engineers) requested a way to rotate blocks on a different axis.

This feature does not mesh well with the logic of starship-evo (with the rescale and lack of voxel) but I opted for a workaround that should meet this need:

A few shapes (like the wedge or some mechanism) can now be placed "sideways" with ALT-rotate (or rebind the new axis-rotate key).

If you think some blocks would benefit from this please tell me, implementation is manual though so I will do it only when it make a lot of sense.

Brick with sideways shape for now: wedge, piston, rotator

Community Suggestions:

• #7492 Furnace disable vfx toggle

• #7059 Assemblers can push unused components to connected inventories when their queue is empty.

• #7615 Shipyards can dismantle a docked ship and return its bricks to connected inventories.

• #7615 Shipyards now have an explicit Undock button for docked ships.

• #7614 Thruster VFX power can now be detected with event gates.

Bugfixes

• #7638 Ship collision points not recomputed on launch.

• #7596 filter do not apply correctly

• #7596 #7610 Silicon ingots are now correctly handled by conveyor filters.

• #7393 Docking connector filter delete button now updates the correct push/pull filter list.

• #7603 Can link two yokes to the same computer and control them

• #7593 Low FPS when a lot of items are colliding

Thanks for playing!