Patch 5 available on Beta Branch

Hello Miners - Patch 5 is live on beta branch!

Patch 5 Beta is now available, bringing QoL, UI, autopilot, and logistics improvements.

Autopilot now features pathfinding and obstacle avoidance with improved responsiveness and new “Fly To” and “Rotate To” Outliner commands - plus numerous bug and crash fixes. Logistics are improved with new T2 Cargo Packages (500t) to reduce cargo clutter and boost performance (T2 Cargo Bays required). A new Ops Transaction Screen tracks income and expenses, alongside UI fixes and a moved cargo storage grid for better accessibility.

We'll go into more detail when we release the patch on the main branch in a couple of days with additional tweaks&fixes.

If you want to participate in the Beta Branch, you can right click Straminer in your Steam library, go to properties and Game Version & Betas and select the beta branch from the list.

Thank you all who participate in the beta branch!

Full patch notes here:

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STARMINER 0.33.6.0 - PATCH NOTES

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ADDITIONS

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• Autopilot can now intelligently route around obstacles instead of attempting direct collision path

• Autopilot outliner commands now support “Fly to” and “Rotate to” for any object

• New transactions screen in the Ops interface to track expenditures and money flow

• Added description and end text to the Panonia, Candle in the Dark and Homebound missions

• T2 cargo packages (capacity: 500t vs T1’s 50t), reducing package count and improving performance in large operations

• Trade objectives can now be triggered with docked stations

• Additional dialogue after end of campaign and end of Mega Solar objectives

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TWEAKS

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• Trade routes now warn you when a destination is too far, and auto-cancel with a refund past the limit

• Nuclear Cell power generation duration increased from 100s to 300s

• Smarter missiles which avoid friendly structures

• Motherships now retaliate heavily when attacked

• Turrets now hold fire when a friendly structure is in the line of fire

• Updated the operations interface character tab

• Moved the hangarship widget into a tab in the overview panel

• Moved the station storage grid to the station control section

• Moved the logistics panel to an overview tab

• Centered the HUD config widget on screen

• Station wobble prevention

• Removed systems check from Frontier Zone Gamma

• Added start text to TGS

• Various UI updates

• Trade package optimizations

• Location picker plane now moves to the disassembled module when resource packages are created

• Orphaned engineers are reassigned to other hangars when their parent hangar is removed

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FIXES

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• Fixed autopilot triggering when clicking an NPC station

• Fixed station/module mass not decreasing while trading

• Module parts trading fixes

• Fixed Helios Basin ghost debris blocking mission completion

• Fixed Moon Combat quest auto-completing

• Fixed Water Efficiency research prerequisites

• Fixed Ballistic Warfare expertise research

• Storage and storage balancer fixes

• Fixed hangarship asset transfer and storage capacity

• Retrothrusters now restart on game load

• Fixed trading markup

• Refinery Efficiency and Refinery Speed modifiers now update without a reload

• Scrap modules fixes

• Fixed multiple construction towers over-using resources

• Research modifiers now apply to factories

• Fixed solar wing not being possessable in Tutorial 2

• Loqui station is no longer flagged as a merchant once it becomes possessable

• Fixed crashes on save/load

• Various crash fixes

Happy mining,

-- Starminer Dev Team