Steam News23 April 20262mo ago

New feature: Asteroid Fields

Hey everyone, This week's update has some cool new features. The biggest one is the addition of asteroid fields to the automated mining. Before you send in your drones, you now first have to choose an asteroid field.

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addedThis week's update has some cool new features. The biggest one is the addition of asteroid fields to the automated mining.

addedWhen you successfully deplete an asteroid field, you'll get a 'depletion bonus'. Which is a lot of extra money. And after it's depleted, it will be replaced by a new one with higher earnings.

addedApart from this, there's lots of bug fixes, UI changes and visual effects added to the game. Let me know if you discover them!

addedYou can now also press ESC to leave your current screen and go one step back. Something a lot of players have been asking for a while now.

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addedThis week's update has some cool new features. The biggest one is the addition of asteroid fields to the automated mining.

addedWhen you successfully deplete an asteroid field, you'll get a 'depletion bonus'. Which is a lot of extra money. And after it's depleted, it will be replaced by a new one with higher earnings.

addedApart from this, there's lots of bug fixes, UI changes and visual effects added to the game. Let me know if you discover them!

addedYou can now also press ESC to leave your current screen and go one step back. Something a lot of players have been asking for a while now.

This week's update has some cool new features. The biggest one is the addition of asteroid fields to the automated mining.

Before you send in your drones, you now first have to choose an asteroid field. Different fields have different earnings potential, but might need to be unlocked by a higher amount of drones.

When you successfully deplete an asteroid field, you'll get a 'depletion bonus'. Which is a lot of extra money. And after it's depleted, it will be replaced by a new one with higher earnings.

Hopefully this will bring some much needed interactivity to the automated mining.

Apart from this, there's lots of bug fixes, UI changes and visual effects added to the game. Let me know if you discover them!

You can now also press ESC to leave your current screen and go one step back. Something a lot of players have been asking for a while now.

Until next time.

Keep on trading!

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