Patch Notes: 27.07.2026

Artifact Market

• Artifact listings now show the newest offers first by default.

• Added sorting by newest or oldest listing.

• Added search by artifact name, description, and effect.

• Added filters for artifact tier, trading hub, and payment resource.

• Artifact listings are now paginated, making large markets easier to browse.

• Artifacts can now be purchased using resources stored either on a planet or at a selected Trading Hub

• When paying from a hub, the available balance is displayed and purchases are disabled if the selected hub cannot cover the price.

• New Artifact Market controls have been added to all supported language packs.

Trading Hubs

• Returning a docked fleet from a Trading Hub now checks the destination planet's storage capacity.

• If the transported resources will overflow storage, the game displays a warning and requires confirmation before departure.

• Players may still proceed, but any resources exceeding storage capacity will be lost on arrival.

Debris Collection

• Debris collection fleets can now continue collecting newly created debris fields at the same planet, moon, station, or outpost.

• Fleets no longer return immediately when their current field is exhausted or expires if another accessible field has appeared at the same location.

• Collection continues until cargo capacity is exhausted or no suitable debris field remains.

• Recovery handling for missing or expired debris fields has been improved.

Moons

• Fixed inconsistent stacking of research bonuses affecting lunar production. Resource production bonuses now combine additively, matching planetary calculations.

• Moon building cards now display their actual effective hourly output.

• Displayed values now account for moon-type modifiers, research, resource consumption, power settings, and energy shortages.

• Buildings that consume resources now show their real net effect instead of only their base production.

• Negative moon-type modifiers are now formatted correctly.

• Recalling ships from a moon now correctly respects the player's available fleet slots.

Sensor Arrays

• Level 8 Activity Scans now reveal the exact system where a detected mining fleet is operating.

• Level 8 reports also show the complete mining fleet composition with localized ship names.

• Detected miner locations and pirate systems can now be opened directly from the scan report.

• Lower-level scans no longer reveal exact mining locations unintentionally.

• Level 5 scans continue to identify the player and total fleet size without revealing the exact system.

Starter Directives

• The Science Outpost Salvage directive can now use regular Freighters when the player does not have enough Salvaged Freighters.

• Any combination of Salvaged Freighters and regular Freighters is accepted, provided the required total of three ships is met.

• The exact reserved ships are returned correctly when the directive completes or expires.

New Player Placement

• New homeworlds now prioritize suitable Sentinel Space systems located closer to Open Space.

• Placement also favors less populated eligible systems before gradually expanding farther away.

• This should provide new players with better access to the galaxy while preserving spawn distribution requirements.

Universe Settings

• New Frontier is configured for a permanent x2 game speed.

• Leadership is not being enabled on S0 or New Frontier with this patch.

Resource Beacon Reports

• Pirate ambushes during Resource Beacon recovery now always generate a persistent Expedition Report, even if part of the fleet survives.

• Reports show the recovery location, collected resources, and ship losses.

• Fixed cases where ships lost during a beacon ambush appeared to vanish without explanation.

• New reports now appear immediately without requiring a page refresh.