May mid-month update has landed! v0.8.999

Pixel Starships 2 — What's New (May Mid-month Patch 2026)

New Features

Voice Acting Characters now have voice lines! Voice-over has been added to the game with progressive rollout.

Exterior Weapon Turrets Update on how weapons appear when mounted on the outside of your ship.

New Room Size support: 5×4 A new large room size is now supported, opening up new layout possibilities for ship builders in NPC ships.

Turret Support Rooms New turret support rooms are now available for an upcoming release.

Limited edition basketball Gear Sets & Crew are now available for a short period.

Improvements

Mission Task List The mission task list has been overhauled — tasks now display consistently, invalid tasks are handled gracefully, and progress tracking is more reliable.

Loot Panel Item Details Support items now show their full info when viewed inside the loot panel.

Stamina Bar The Stamina bar has received a visual and logic update.

Ship Skin on Nearby Ships Nearby ships in the galaxy view now correctly display their equipped skins.

PVP Target Selection The logic for choosing targets in PVP battles has been refined.

Battle Scene Performance Various optimisations have been made to the battle scene to improve performance.

7Mart Prices Shop prices in the 7Mart have been updated.

Visual Effects Engine flare effects have been improved, particle rotations updated, and overall visual polish applied across several effects.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crew placement issues on touch devices

• Fixed a race condition during crew placement that could incorrectly trigger "Fire Crew" events

• Fixed characters not pathfinding correctly during battles

• Fixed a Level 1 issue in the Pirate lobby

• Fixed the ammo progress bar not displaying correctly

• Fixed mining resources not showing properly

• Fixed a UI panel layout issue in PVP mode

• Fixed item names not displaying correctly

• Fixed Starbux count display

• Fixed an interior display issue in the Shipyard

• Fixed a bug where deleting a character could cause errors

• Fixed the gym tutorial guide highlight not appearing correctly

• Fixed a corrupted asset issue and incorrect display in versus mode

• Fixed ship facing direction in certain battle scenarios

• Fixed various task list display bugs

  Balance Changes

• Due to a technical issue specifics stats cannot be posted for this update. The list of new items and crew are:

  Gordon

  Gary

• The list of new Items:

  Basketball special edition set of headgear, shirt, and shorts

• The list of items with stat or visual changes:

  Hatchet

  Axe

  Large Axe

  Ice Pick

  Ice Pickaxe

  Ice Scythe

  Power Bucket

  Power Vest

  Power Pants

  Basic Bolter

  Basic Bolter

  Standard Bolter

  Standard Bolter

  Heavy Bolter

  Heavy Bolter

  Aether Bolter

  Storm Axe

  Aether Axe

  Ice Hybrid Scythe

  Ice Reaper

  Scientist Probe Scanner

  Scientist Multi Ray Scanner

  Scientist Exo-Scanner Device

  Scientist Exo-Swiss Device

  Butter Knife

  Small Dagger

  Medium Dagger

  Large Dagger

  Assassins Dagger

  Small Wrench

  Regular Wrench

  Big Wrench

  Engineering Wrench

  Mecha Wrench

  Fitness Gloves

  Boxing Gloves

  Gauntlet

  Power Gauntlet

  Infinity Fist

  Yellow Easter Egg Mine

  Red Easter Egg Mine

  Blue Easter Egg Mine

  Green Easter Egg Mine

  White Easter Egg Mine

• For the june update we're working to bring the next ship level and ground battle mechanic to PSS2.