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[Rogod]

Nice to see your project alive!

Startron's still quietly ticking over in the background - Plenty to distract me since 2022 (hence the lack of updates), but hopefully getting down to some more interesting updates now the big refactor's out the way.

maybe come back with some feedback

All feedback appreciated - I need somebody other than me to test out the mechanics because I've already gotten it wrong for 87 versions before realising what would work better.

[Rogod]

Update v0.90
Tweaks & updates:
  Made the blue waypoint markers flash in the system overview for better visibility
  Waypoint markers in the cosmos view now show an arrow at the screen edge to indicate the direction whenever they are offscreen
  Added traffic-light indicators for boolean bridge toggles and options
 
  Just makes things look a little more polished
  When shields are up on the bridge, this is now reflected on the player's ship character in the system & body overviews
  Added the website URL to the credits (probably should have done that years ago )
  Music now plays in the Unity versions (apparently I just forgot to do this in v0.88 amongst all the other changes )
  Added a "parking orbit" vs "standard orbit" toggle to the bridge (in case it gets annoying have the ship constantly readjusting its position in the system view (this may have further gameplay uses in later versions))

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed waypoint markers to highlight the currently selected transmission's corresponding location, not just the last one (it could previously really impact gameplay if you got told to go somewhere then received a new transmission after that, as there'd be no way to see where the first transmission told you to go anymore )
  Fixed a crash on the bridge when certain actions are performed while not orbitting anything
  Fixed being able to build under superstructures (simply as a result of them being 1 tile in the centre with fake tiles around the outside)
  Fixed deleting cosmoses in the Unity versions crashing the game

Dev stuff:
  No notable tech debt was tackled in this version

I had wanted to include more features and tackle more tech debt in v0.90, but I was finding more bugs than expected, so figured it'd be better to expedite a fix version for those and push my plans forward to future versions; hopefully the Startron Auto experience is a little more stable than the previous 2 versions as a result. (Also I just thought it was dumb to be offering a Unity version without the music lol)

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[Rogod]

Update v0.91
Tweaks & updates:
  Added a transition effect when changing database pages on space stations
  Added a reflection for the player's ship when flying over lithrogen (helps reinforce the height of the ship and that it's a liquid being flown over)
 
  Forgive the .gif artifacting going on at the bottom there
  Made navigation in space stations a little more sensible by turning the player around (in most cases) to face things that were behind (it justifies the 3D engine a bit better too)
 
  Added the option to play as Doggos or Cattos on the cosmos generation screen (I've wanted to add this since forever and only now is the engine actually flexible enough to easily facilitate changes like this - this one's for all the dog-lovers)

I'm a cat person in case you couldn't tell

  To go along with this, I've added a little portrait to each save file to indicate Doggos vs Cattos too

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed being able to beam up crater edges and other tiles that shouldn't end up in the cargo hold
  Fixed a crash on destroying station tiles
  Fixed the transmissions-flashing-prompt always stuck in the on-position in the bottom right
  Fixed colons not working in language file strings

Dev stuff:
  Strings in the language files now use templates to feed in variables rather than concatenation (ends up being a lot more robust for other languages should I need such a thing). There is still a controlled group of strings which are an exception for technical reasons due to pattern matching, but they're likely safe enough anyway.

Feels good to get a nice healthy update out for a change - progress is back to a comfy rate again

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[Rogod]

Update v0.92
Tweaks & updates:
  Closed the current menu windows when coming out of a game session so the player can start from a known home-state again (also gives things a chance to refresh naturally after saving)
  Replaced the TV presenter in the space station bars with the player's chosen species
 
  Also he's animated now
  Reorganised the stats on the bridge
  Assigned certain crew member types various actions that they can perform from the ship
  Prevented performing actions unless a qualified crew member is onboard
  Added a twiddle to ensure older versions have the necessary crew members to continue
  Added basic information about crew member capabilities to the cosmic database
  Ensured the player is reduced to only having a commander aboard after a self-destruct (so you'll have to go recruit what you need again)
  Added crew quarters for viewing and dismissing the ship's roster
 
  Added recruiting crew members from space station bars (pirate ports will provide pirates as well)
 

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed docking tiles on space stations not rendering their preview correctly at the bottom of the screen
  Fixed not being able to type numbers into the Captain's log (oops, I broke this allowing access to the engine for the Unity emulator)
  Fixed species choice resetting on saved games
  Added a twiddle to correct broken species choices

Dev stuff:
  Fixed some duplicate ground/air tile entries that were being omitted anyway by later initialised data
  Organised most player actions into enums to work with the new crew logic

Crew capabilities will be expanded upon later, this was a necessary first step to make the crew system actually functional (I added the concept of crew to Startron way back in v0.17 (4 years & 3 days ago) and never did anything with it )

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[Rogod]

Update v0.93
Tweaks & updates:
  Redrew all the Unity ASCII so it's neat and crisp and way easier to see what's going on in game now
  Greyed out unselected cosmoses on the menu (just to make what's going on a bit clearer)
  Doubled the player starting chits so the game is not immediately difficult as soon as you want to do anything beyond the story/tutorial
  Indicated mining with a red flash under the ship (again, to make things clearer for the player)
  Added a missing self-destruct indicator in the new crew quarters (must make sure the crew knows of their impending doom)
  Made ramming objects from the bridge actually damage your ship like it says
  Reworded the Catto/Doggo selector on the cosmos generation screen (it was confused between showing the player what their choice was, and the action they could perform)
 
  Made the ship flash when hovering over something in the air-layer, so you can see what's under the ship (makes for clearer gameplay)
  Reshuffled the UI in the top left when in build-mode so your view isn't being blocked all the time by on-screen prompts as you do things

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed the ω symbol in Unity builds
  Fixed the resolution being off in Unity builds (was previously at 800x800, but was supposed to be 960x960) - this fixes messy scaling issues the ASCII had on top of being drawn poorly in previous versions
  Fixed extractors running about 10x faster than they were supposed to

Dev stuff:
  Removed a light in the Unity build which did absolutely nothing to the scene since everything renders with unlit geometry

In preparation for a new trailer that we want to make, I had set out to play & record Startron from scratch so I could get legitimate footage of how things worked. But in doing this, I discovered a few quality-of-life things I wanted to change so figured v0.93 could be a stability/balancing update before more important things happen in future updates.
New trailer hopefully coming soon (also new in-game music too )

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[Joeeigel]

Hey guys, Rogod, myself and one of our third friends have been chatting about Startron for years now in a private discord server, and we thought that as we're trying to make a bit more of a push with it, getting a new trailer and everything, why not open the server up a little and let more people join and see the small silly updates we discuss before they end up on here (Or see the stuff that never makes it this far)

So, if you're interested in joining, heres the link!

Also, Rogod said he's working on adding new music in 0.94, so I've stolen a li'l gif of the menu from him!

[Rogod]

Update v0.94
Tweaks & updates:
  Updated the splash screen for our brand (I'm no longer strictly solo-ing this project )
  Pirate stations now generate with visible exterior damage
 
  Pirate station icons now flash in the system view so you can see them more clearly
  Added 2 new music tracks to the game! (Courtesy of Rtyper)
  Added music playback options now that there's more than 1 track (as Joeeigel pointed out above)
  Swapped highlighted characters from front-colour highlighting to back-colour highlighting to be clearer (this is especially important in the Unity version where certain foreground-background combinations are harder to read due to the font being so lean)
  Added the option to use front-colour highlighting or back-colour highlighting
  Added the ability to jettison cargo from the cargo bay (lifeforms are prevented from being jettisoned anywhere other than at space stations for morality reasons )
  Added the ability to fill storage yards on a body from the cargo bay (this is super useful for quickly processing some materials in an already established colony before scooping them up again for use elsewhere)
  Added a door to the space station exit (looked a bit dumb before that it was just a wall back there )
 
  Updated the ship's reflection in lithrogen to be more dynamic based on location around the body (rather than a fixed relative position)
  Allowed typing a few more character types in the Captain's log (just alphanumerics was very limiting when trying to actually use it previously)
  Removed unlimited build cheat from the main menu (so it's less tempting and can't be found by accident)

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed destroying your homeworld causing a flickery crash
  Fixed shields being left on between saves
  Fixed pixel-perfect rendering in Unity (turns out I needed to redraw the ASCII sheet a 3rd time as I had completely misinterpreted the scaling I was using which resulted in the aliasing seen previously)

Dev stuff:
  Removed some magic numbers and corrected some magic strings to use the constants they were supposed to be
  Added the ability to parse commands in-game (should help with sneaky features and debugging going forward)

We're also working on a Steam store page & a trailer.
But more importantly, Joeeigel's right^: we've launched a Discord server that anybody's free to join

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[Rogod]

Update v0.95
Tweaks & updates:
  Corrected the reflection colour when flying over lithrogen
  Spruced up the station shop scenes a bit (they were accidentally left a bit empty for far too long)
 
  Systems will now generally generate with more ships in them
  Systems will now only generate with 1 space station not multiple (it was just redundant having multiple before)
  Added the ability to flag entities (this really helps when trying to keep track of where stuff is while flying around)
  Added highlighting for visited/not-visited entities
 
  Added highlighting for systems visited (weirdly the save file has been tracking this for years, I just never did anything with the variable until now )
  Reduced the fire-rate in Rock Blaster (because just spamming fire was kind of defeating the point of the gameplay)
  Added a secret item (this'll become more relevant/revealed in future updates)
  Added windows around the outside of Maze Base (so it feels more like it's in space and less like you're in Castle Wolfenstein)
 
  Finally implemented zapping for Drengeluses and Gutteluses (this bridge action has been Coming soon! since v0.68 lol)
  Added a second secret item from Drengeluses (also to become more relevant in future updates)
  Implemented beaming in from the bridge (also been Coming soon! since v0.68)
  Jettisoned cargo will now show in the system view as falling toward the centre
 
  Other ships are no longer always pirates now
  Cargo can be moved around in the cargo bay now
 

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed the broken message that pops up when you refuel at a petroop-pump
  Fixed orbit speed not being nerfed properly when your system drive is damaged
  Fixed being in-orbit messing up the wormhole transition sequence
  Fixed the walls around the exits in Maze Base disappearing (due to my simplistic 3D transparency model)

Dev stuff:
  A chunk of repeated code shared between all the rooms of the ship was tidied away neatly

Woo!

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[Rogod]

Dang, I was just working on some new particle physics for the coronal ejections around stars, and I've gota say, I wasn't expecting it to work out quite this well



They almost pass for stars now

[Rogod]

Update v0.96
Tweaks & updates:
  Allowed wormholing from the cosmos view (way more handy for getting around since you can see where you're ending up with each jump)
  Entity flags now show in the top left of the body view
  System flags now show in the top left of the cosmos view
  The generate cosmos prompt is now more obvious when starting to a new cosmos
  Added a Discord link to the main menu
  Added extra help to the tutorial transmissions for how to populate dwellings from the cargo bay
  Added an info button to the entity view so you can either see more info about what's below you or what you're trying to build (depending on whether the build menu is open or not)
 
  Improved the particle effect for corona ejections around stars
 
  Improved the land generation on lithrogen-covered planets
 
  Slightly increased the chance of lithrogen-covered planets generating
  Reworked the addon and damage system in engineering to be more flexible going forward
  Added lightning on gas giants
 
  Added a ship addon for faster fuel->petroop conversion
  Added a ship addon for faster travel between entities in system view
  Added particle ejections for pulsars and magnetars

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed a rare crash on ships traveling to removed entities
  Fixed missing place-cargo prompt in the cargo-bay after picking something up
  Fixed a leftover prompt to flag the system while in the system view
  Fixed the starting system still being able to have more than 1 space station
  Fixed not powering all facilities on an entity with a charged energy funnel
  Fixed magnetars never actually generating in the cosmos

Dev stuff:
  Cleaned up some more sneaky magic numbers
  Cleaned up some string concatenation
  Cleaned up some old methods & outdated patterns

Had a nice round of user testing feedback that contributed to some of these tweaks - thanks to anyone who plays Startron

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[Rogod]

Update v0.97
Tweaks & updates:
  Power now shows more clearly on conduits
 
  Tytopops are now darker so they blend in less with the foliage
  Engineering prompts now show what you have versus what you need
  Added an info prompt to the cargo bay
  Added an info prompt to the crew quarters so you can see exactly what each role can do
  Added the original Startron music to the background music track list
  Aligned the Discord prompt on the menu with the buttons that slide up from the bottom so it looks less like an afterthought
  Added a plan tile for plotting out areas you want to build things on
  Added being able to remove addons from engineering
  Updated the readme file (it had no mention of the Unity emulator versions previously and had some outdated information in it still)
  Updated the support page (aligned it better with the readme file as well)
  Removed squished-mode
Squished-mode was added a long time ago to address compatibility issues with smaller screens, but with the advent of the Unity emulator versions for Startron Auto, my recommendation is to use these instead if anybody's facing startup/resolution issues.
Squished-mode wasn't even working properly after v0.88 anyway (it would just crash if you went into a space station), so given this, the fiddly code it introduced, and my stance on the Unity emulator versions, I figured it would be best to simply remove it entirely.

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed flickery UI prompts on empty systems (particularly wormholes)
  Fixed some stray cyan texels on the pirate-database wall texture
  Fixed Tytopops breaking the automation processing on an entity unless the player saves+reloads (this was the main reason for me expediting this update as it was fairly game-breaking and I like to maintain a stable release)

Dev stuff:
  Builds are now zipped automatically as part of the release process (makes the task so much easier for me )

I had planned a few more features for this release, but once I spotted that Tytopop bug causing a late-game softlock, I drew a line before some of the larger stuff to get a stable release out again

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[Rogod]

Update v0.98
Tweaks & updates:
  Removed the need for the language files to include an empty string of the exact same length as the "Incoming transmission" prompt (just an unnecessary ask for anyone doing i18n in the future)
  Made the bridge actually make use of the 2 sides of the screen (for some reason I coded both sides but only ever put bridge-staff messages in the left list whenever anything happened - Now the left is mainly comms and the right is mainly tactical)
  Condensed and tidied up the UI so it's consistent between perspectives (all general controls are in the bottom right, all context controls are in the bottom left, and additional help goes next to those - previously all prompts were just wherever they landed when I worked on features without any sort of consistent grouping)
 
  System flags now show in the energy funnel interface so you can find your way around easier
 
  Resource icons now show in the build menu to help tie together the resources seen on the ground to those in the cargo bay better
 
  Similarly, tile & resource icons also show in the new info prompts that were added in the last version
  Added a bunch of new name segments for less repetitive random naming of cosmoses/systems/entities (I kept seeing very similar names all the time and it felt a bit flat )
  Added a tiny specular shine on the other ship preview on the bridge (mind-blowing stuff, I know )
  Added the rest of the new secret items (gives more purpose to Gutteluses, Drengeluses, pirate shops, meteors and walls)
  Added a new storyline/adventure/quest/puzzle besides the main plot introduced to the player at the start (I'm being deliberately vague so as not to spoil any of the solutions or the result, but I think it's pretty cool )
  Added the ability to curb Tytopop populations with poison (on top of being a faff to make, poison has literally been in the concepts for Startron since the earliest design documents in 2020 and only now actually does something 4 years later )
  Added info for all the readyroom collectibles (these descriptions were laid out in the old design docs from 2020 and never implemented until now too)
  Added a clue to point players in the right direction for the new quest
  Added a new structure players can find for the new quest
  Added a cutscene for the conclusion of the new quest
  Added an OP prize for completing the new quest
  Added an animation for charging an energy funnel from a star (previously it just happened silently in the background which felt underwhelming given the potential uses of such a power)
 

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed not showing info for space around space stations (just a weird unnecessary inconsistency due to technical reasons)
  Fixed not being able to read transmissions during the self-destruct countdown on the bridge
  Fixed 2 music tracks playing over the top of each other when players first start the game without ever having opened it before (only applied to native builds - Unity was unaffected because the music is handled differently)

Dev stuff:
  Laying the UI out consistently opens up more possibilities for accessibility & UI refinement so there may be future updates in this regard down the road
  I added a dev command to give myself items in game for debugging
  I replaced a bunch of places I was using -1 to describe something as invalid or undefined with the proper constant (magic numbers are constantly being squashed but this was a good chunk to do I'd been putting off for far too long)
  I went through and scanned the original 22 pages of designs I had in an old notebook so I've got all the Startron design docs in the same e-note on my design tablet. - There are 36 pages in case anyone's curious

I wanted to go into way more detail in this update about the new quest and the lore, puzzle, prize, cutscene etc., but it'd basically spoil half of the point behind it all as it was very much intended as late-game content.

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[Ramos]

Clearly, this is a solid passion project.

The scope seems huge, how do you not lose motivation in time?

 

[Rogod]

Clearly, this is a solid passion project.

Definitely

The scope seems huge

There's plenty more on the to-do list too

how do you not lose motivation in time?

I guess I've gone through patches of losing motivation a few times over the years (usually just due to other things happening in life or wanting a change of scenery/engine), but the longevity of the project or always passively coming up with some new cool thing I want to code and implement has always brought me back to carry on.

And these days, that's starting to pay off; as Startron forms a solid & feature-rich experience, I'm finding more motivation than ever to implement more polished elements. (I guess knowing that the basics are well formed at this point means I'm comfortable exploring the more pipe-dream-esque stuff now.)

Not to mention the time I invested in the Unity emulator: I feel I owe it to myself and any fans out there to make good use of that huge compatibility milestone.

[Ramos]

Thank you for sharing!

[Rogod]

Update v0.99
Tweaks & updates:
  Movement in systems while your engines are damaged now poots out little smoke puffs (I wanted to do this ages ago but needed to wait for the better particle system from a few versions back)
  Damage can now be repaired in engineering with the spacebar (just a quality-of-life thing I've been adding in places if there's an obvious UI action to take)
  Fuel conversion completion is now visible on the engine core in engineering
 
  Addons are now purchased as resources for use later
 
  Removed the old bespoke addon shop interface so it matches the other standardised shop interfaces
  Widened the shop interfaces slightly to fit higher prices and longer names in better
  Added a prompt for fitting addons from the cargo bay while over a ship factory (ship factories are now necessary to build before installing any addons)
  Addons can only be removed from engineering while over a ship factory too
  Ship factory info has now been declassified in the Startron database as it was found that the CAT05 Restriction of Power act no longer applies
  Added an info prompt to shops (seemed daft being able to see info on everything in the cargo bay and while flying around but not on what you're purchasing )
  Prevented the same cosmos name from generating a second time if it already exists (in theory, a player could accidentally overwrite a cosmos without realising - the chance was very remote, but I thought it best to clean it up either way)
  Added the ability to pan the camera around while in cosmos mode to see where things are easier (there was no in-universe reason your species couldn't scan the heavens really)
 
  Rebalanced the loot table for grabbing space junk (some way more useful stuff in there now)
  Added a prize for completing the main storyline (seemed only fitting after I added a prize for completing the secondary quest/story/adventure added in the last version)

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed broken i18n on using damaged telepopper
  Fixed F3 not consistently turning UI off around the ship
  Fixed sun angle on bodies in relation to entities when zoomed in (most visible on the main menu)

Dev stuff:
  Created something I've named "EdiTools", which is just a little Unity UI to help me create forum posts, convert them to Discord announcements & draw in game assets (I expect I'll be adding more tools to this as I find things I can get a computer to do for me.)

Had a sneak peak at the new trailer - it's coming along well, so hopefully we've got that to show off soon too

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[Rogod]

v0.100 is coming soon
^{I'm nearly done}

It's a big one...

[Rogod]

Update v0.100
I've been saving up a big change for Startron for v0.100 as it's such a milestone version, so here we go:

Tweaks & updates:
  Added oracot & puff plants (these will require pickers to harvest and require adjacent lithrogen to grow from seeds)
 
  Fruiting plants adjacent to poison will die
  Lifeforms have been renamed to workers
  Workers are no longer available from stations (you'll get an initial number to start with then you've got to make more)
  Added nurseries where workers are made from crayons, calron & oracot fruit
  Changed the factory ASCII from ∩ to n so it looks like it's got a little exhaust pipe
  Prettified most of the structure thumbnails (they were in need of a touch-up as they were made in 2020)
  Prevented beaming up workers from roads (the ones shown on roads are now just representations of work-power, not the workers themselves)
  Standardised the words "wormhole", "ship factory" & "lifeform" (I kept calling them "worm hole", "shipyard" and "life form" so the code & i18n was getting messy)
  Nerfed the number of ships created from ship factories to just 1
  Added a limit for new entities added to systems
  Targeted picking from pickers now only works from yards to prevent mishaps in the automation
  Players loading old versions will receive puff seeds on launching in v0.100
  Prevented beaming up gases without canisters
  Raw gases have been removed from old save inventories
  New cosmoses will now generate puff and oracot plants occasionally
  Prevented collectibles spawning in the starting system (for technical and continuity reasons)
  Rock entities will now disappear (like stations already did) if the player destroys all the tiles in them
  Marginally sped up reading the cosmos list on the menu
  Smoothed out the cosmos rotation
 

Now for the heavy stuff...

  Created a new 3D interior map
 
  Created a bunch of new 3D interior textures
  Added a new 3D engine iteration to allow this level of detail (the previous 2 engines were kind of bodge-jobs to get it working in the very niche scenarios I needed them, but this new code is much more general-purpose)
  Added 3D interior waypoint navigation
  The player's location is now saved in the 3D interior view
  Added fast-travel in the 3D interior view
  Added proper alpha sorting to the new 3D engine
  Added better culling to 3D geometry
  Ensured the arcade machine, parts door & pirate damage appropriately carry over into the new 3D interior view
 
  Added a database terminal to the ship which will remain untampered if docked at a pirate port
 
  Added a 3D representation of the cargo bay (bays will display different basic contents depending on what is in them on the 2D terminal in the corner)
 
  Updated the cargo bay interface to work with the 3D interior view
  Updated the engineering interface to work with the 3D interior view
  Added self destruct lights to the 3D interior view
  Added a self-destruct countdown to the screens around the 3D interior view
 
  The walls of the 3D readyroom are now dynamically textured to show the contents
  The 6 crew quarters now show their inhabitants from the quarters interface
 
  Updated the news anchor in the bar
 
  Nearby small entities will also be destroyed if the player self-destructs nearby (don't initiate self destruct while docked at a space station, or you'll take it out with you)
  Tidied up a bunch of old/unused assets
  Removed the old dev mode from the main menu (this function has essentially been replaced by my own external tooling as mentioned last time)
  Updated the website database to cover the new/altered concepts introduced

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed refineries working half as efficiently as they should when processing compounds
  Fixed the sun angle on the main menu reversing if the player flips to the other side of a planet in game (took me a while to track this one down; it's been a bug for a while but every time I looked it seemed to be fixed because I'd be unknowingly debugging with the wrong side of a planet)
  Fixed pickers not picking from the correct catchment area
  Fixed issues with active tiles not updating correctly on player's actions
  Fixed the Maze Base background planet disappearing at 135 degrees Y at certain positions in the maze
  Fixed the Maze Base background planet not actually being circular
  Fixed being able to move in 2 directions at once in Maze Base
  Fixed shadows/fog on the backdrop through 3D windows
  Fixed the database fade effect drawing outside of its box
  Fixed the old version load message being hidden behind less important information
  Fixed parking orbit traffic light being one line above where it should be on the bridge

Dev stuff:
  Added a 3D map editor to EdiTools (obviously this was fairly crucial for this update)
  Split up interior room processing & rendering (previously they were all crammed into one central space-station logical concept, but now, since they've been conceptually combined with the ship rooms, I've organised everything a bit better)
  Added some more debug commands
  Standardised changing 3D walls into a util (just because updating geometry & textures is non-trivial)
  Bunged all the utils for the new 3D stuff in a separate file
  Sorted out a few stray unused auto-imports from various historical typos and debugging sessions that could potentially cause problems

Dopefish

I wanted to get this out sooner, but needed to put enough in to justify such a large shift in interfacing so it became necessary to spend this long on it. That being said though, there are definitely more things I also imagined squeezing in that got cut, so stay tuned for future updates as there'll be more built on top of what's been added this time around.

Around what time do you think the game will be released?

Sorry not sorry lol

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[Rogod]

Update v0.101
Loads of little tweaks after touching so much code in v0.100:
  Improved the options menu toggle usability
  Added Discord & Unity to the credits
  Changed the prompt to 'play' to 'explore' after generating a cosmos
  Put the cosmos summary on black for consistency with the generation report
  Removed the unnecessary autosave at the start of a cosmos
  Enforced the entity limit when loading a cosmos to prevent tampering
  Updated worker info
  Shifted the cargo info over out the way of other things
  Cleared the interior navigation when loading a different cosmos
  Put some more desks in the administration room
  Randomised the Spacejack table colour
  Swap bar patron Cattos with Doggos if playing as Doggos
  The whole word 'space' is highlighted on interface menus now for clarity (helps with consistency around the UI as well)
  Added a Maze Base splash screen
 
  Gave the player more conductors and soft plating when starting a cosmos (lets you build a bit more freely at the start)
  Hidden the transmissions if bridge messages are added to
  Added a prompt for reaching the airlock door (helps explain what it's for when docked)
  Improved the 'K' character on the Unity ASCII (it didn't quite line up with the other lower-case characters)
  Coloured the 3D species
 
  Ensured the ship has to be over a dock to access the station interior
  Removed fluff from bars (players receive fluff when starting and the rest is to be acquired from the puff plants added in v0.100)
  Updated the story transmissions for building a mine to be clearer about yards
  Allowed explosion chambers to use lithrogen canisters for cooling
  Added double-pressing room keys on the ship to get back to overview (also pressing V as with pre-v0.100)
  Made Spacejack players fidget more depending on their hand
  Presented the readyroom interface in a box to be less smushed to one side
 
  Added a distance check for whether meteors create headlines so they're more likely to be useful for the player
  Added info on farming to the cosmic database

Bugs fixed in this version:
  Fixed cosmos generation summary being 1 longer than it should be
  Fixed accidentally purchasing petroop from pumps with I
  Fixed the sunlight absorber tile preview on space stations
  Fixed the beep on opening the Discord link if beeps are off in the Unity builds
  Fixed build menu showing on the starting planet
  Fixed roads and conduits not respecting lighting
  Fixed the overview prompt (it was just in the wrong place before)
  Fixed the first story transmission triggering when entering bridge
  Fixed buildings using unconnected power and workers from nearby
  Fixed the bar recruit prompt showing on the bar work screen if swapping between the 2
  Fixed the pirate shop being open on stations from old saves
  Fixed newly recruited crew icons not updating immediately
  Fixed not entering a room while on its square and pressing its key
  Fixed interior navigation spinning round the long way when aiming at new waypoints
  Fixed double entry into interior waypoints when turning and moving

Definitely recommend this version over v0.100; lots of things sorted out that were bothering me on a playthrough

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