v0.158

Startron v0.158 has been released!

Tweaks & updates

• The aurora effect when zoomed into a planet has been redone

• Telepopping items now looks more fun in the UI

• Gas giant generation has been redone

• Added yard rollers (essentially tile blockers so materials accumulate where you want them)

• Islands generate less predictably on lithrogen planets now

• Station & salvage yard floor colour is now variable between entities

• Planet ports now show the correct soil colour in 3D

• Planet ports have had a few extra details sprinkled around

• More than doubled the number of things NPCs can say

• Space and enter can now be used to enter systems, entities & docks

• Reshuffled the municipal building placement a bit

• Futons are now restocked at stations

• Walls indicate which tiles they'll join to when building

• Soil colour logic for non-planets is now more consistent

• Various cosmic database updates

• Various texture updates

• Various UI text tweaks

• Bar patron species on homeworld ports is now not random

• Comets no longer change their orbits if entities are destroyed in a system

• Linked addons and components now show a line between them in engineering

• After blowing your zipship up, your new ship will now start at the space centre

• The energy funnel interface now shows the type of power source available

• Your zipship shows up better in the tutorial if over a white tile now

• The shop pricing table is now drawn using cleaner ASCII

• Stiff fibres now have a different tile appearance to chronc ore

• The cosmic database on the website now matches the in game database closer in appearance

• The transmission marker now resets when you zoom out to the cosmos overview, so it's less easy to miss something pointing you somewhere

• Add beeboop, vectron & lintorian pictures to database

• All flashing arrows for interfaces, flipping planets around, transmissions pointers & docks now flash the same colours for consistency

• Overlapping system names in the cosmos overview are now easier to see

• Added the actions each crew position can perform to the cosmic database

• Shop cargo now shows a similar preview to contaminated canisters

Bugs fixed in this version

• Fixed flickery render errors on the bridge when reading the entity history

• Fixed missing signs next to ports on homeworlds

• Fixed planet/sun being massive for 1 frame when loading into a cosmos

• Fixed ratto starting conditions to say "No oracot seeds"

• Fixed stars showing through ship windows when on a planet port

• Fixed auroras happening on star types where they couldn't occur naturally

• Fixed icecaps not rendering on unlit planets

• Fixed ship components still being damaged after blowing up and respawning