PATCH NOTES 0.2 - Three New Levels, Aliens and Plants

Patch Notes 0.2

(Public Patch 0.2.4 including Beta Patches 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3)

☀️ Fixes & Improvements Based on Community Feedback

New Content:

• Added sectors 08, 09, and 10.

• Introduced a new star system: Paradeira.

• Added a new star, new color palette, and new asteroid shapes for Paradeira.

• Added 7 new buildings.

• Added 15 new resources.

• Added 3 new alien plants.

• Added 9 new achievements.

• Added a new cutscene.

• Added alien tentacles (“Wigglers”) and an alien eye.

Free Play Mode:

• ☀️ Added the first iteration of a Free Play Mode / level generator.

Improvements:

• ☀️ Sector 02: Receiver dialogue no longer progresses when placing the receiver on the wrong asteroid.

• ☀️ The upgrade button now displays a lock icon as long as the perk required to upgrade the building further is not unlocked.

• Non-purchasable buildings (such as Volt Shroom or Strangelet Detector) are now previewed in the building inventory before they are obtained.

• When discovering a plant for the first time, a “Plant Discovered” effect now spawns.

• Added a system for obtaining Strange Points via Module Quest progression in Sectors 08–10 and in generated sectors.

• ☀️ The Melter building now only respawns resources it actually melted when deleted.

• ☀️ The target framerate setting is now disabled when VSync is enabled.

• Added missing building LODs in the Map view.

• Improved distribution of resources across asteroids.

• The Wiki no longer opens when left-clicking the building inventory button; it now only opens via right-click.

• Save files are now compressed and have a much smaller file size.

• Removed solar panel upgrades for balancing reasons.

• Added notification dot to Rewards button in main menu, ingame menu and on victory screen that is enabled when there are unspent Perk points and Perks that haven't been purchased.

• ☀️ Resource Supply tooltip now also displays what rate is required to maintain 3 stars when 3 stars have been reached.

• ☀️ Plateau Ramp now displays its actual size while being previewed.

• ☀️ Made Plateau Ramp width more consistent for different plateau setups.

• Added VFX for Volt Shroom that is connected to an energy network.

• ☀️ Unlock all locally achieved Steam achievements when starting the game.

Bugfixes:

• ☀️ Fixed asteroids being generated without resources.

• ☀️ Fixed the Small Explosive unlock being available in Level 04 by mistake.

• ☀️ Fixed Map ambient sound not being affected by the volume slider.

• Fixed asteroid plateaus being counted as connected despite being separated by a gap.

• ☀️ Fixed several issues that could cause holes to appear in the asteroid surface.

• ☀️ Fixed errors in Asteroid Generation that caused asteroids to be stuck in "Out of Reach", making it impossible to claim.

• ☀️ Fixed plateau ramp sometimes not being deletable despite having no pipes or paths on it.

• Ramps can no longer be placed on top of pipes.

• ☀️ When SkipDialogues is enabled, UI highlights no longer show up.

• Fixed preplaced plants & buildings spawning at the edge of a plateau and overlapping that edge.

The best place to give feedback is our Discord server. There, we are running a Smart Ticketing System: Leave feedback, vote up change requests and bug reports from other users, and help us to prioritize tasks in the further development of Star Birds.

🙏 A special thanks to everyone who joined the Beta Test during the last few weeks. You helped us improve QoL features and fix bugs - a lot! We added a new level to the beta branch today: Level 11 is now ready for testing - if you like: