Starbase News

[h2]Major Updates[/h2]

• Tripod and Tripod Autocannon add 20 tons of weight to the ship they are attached to
  
• In total complete tripod weights 40 tons
  
• Very small ships have a risk of suffering catastrophic structural damage, if too many Tripods are added to them
  
• This is ship specific and results may vary based on structural integrity of the ship
  
• Inventory crafting with ore crates
  
• Free weld Easy Build Mode at stations (single parts can be attached to stations). Use C to toggle between modes
  
• New rotate logic in Easy Build Mode: Shift+Mousewheel rotates the piece in hand around its horizontal axis. This replaces the old X/Y/Z rotate logic
  
• New single icon crafting menus
  

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

• Starting crafting at the same time from same ore crates with other player may cause ores to be lost
  
• When equipping weapon or tool magazines straight from station storage or inventory they may get stuck in the magazine slot
  - To fix a stuck magazine, try double clicking it or sell it through sell panel and this will free up the magazine slot for use again
  
• Separating any part with thrusters in it from a ship in Easy Build Mode will permanently break the ship and make it unusable
  

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

[h3]Audio[/h3]

• Added UI sounds for Fast Travel Gate menu
  
• Added sounds for Mining Laser firing
  
• Modified Maneuvering Thruster sounds a bit
  

[h3]Crafting and Research[/h3]

• Added 47 window modules
  
• Added Hinge B 48x48 CM to Hinges & Hatches node in Research Tree
  
• Added crafting bench requirements for:
  - Lever Mirrored
  - Small Navigation Receiver
  - Hinge (C-profile) 48x144x36 cm
  - Slider Basic A 48x144 cm
  - Hinge A 48x48 cm
  - Hinge B 48x144 cm
  - Hinge (L-profile) 24x144x36 cm
  - Navigation Receiver
  - Hinge A 48x144 cm
  - Lever
  - Turret Cradle
  - Launcher Mount Small Turntable
  - Fixed Launcher Mount
  
• Added material composition for Metal Bender and Metal Saw bench upgrades
  
• Changed the bottom of the Advanced Crafting Bench to look more like the other crafting benches and updated the bolt profile for it
  
• Inventory crafting with ore crates
  
• Fixed Block Module Slope v2 and Block Module Edge v2 not showing up properly
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a crash
  
• Fixed refill options not requiring a Crafting Bench
  
• Fixed unnaturally low entity material costs
  
• Increased crafting range for crafting benches from 10 meters to 20 meters
  
• Modules are now sorted alphabetically
  
• Temporary images of window pieces have been replaced and their naming errors have been fixed
  

[h3]Easy Build Mode[/h3]

• Free weld Easy Build Mode at stations (single parts can be attached to stations). Use C to toggle between modes
  
• New rotate logic in Easy Build Mode: Shift+Mousewheel rotates the piece in hand around its horizontal axis. This replaces the old X/Y/Z rotate logic
  
• New, single icon crafting menus
  
• Fixed issues caused by loose objects aligning wrong
  
• Fixed issues caused by relogging during Easy Build Mode
  
• Items now remember their rotation when placed
  
• Fixed being able to place Easy Build Mode modules on top of yourself
  

[h3]Economy[/h3]

• Fixed economy fallback sell values for some crafted items
  

[h3]Effects[/h3]

• Fix for Bolt Tool vfx not attaching to the tool while on moving ships
  

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]

• Fixed an issue that caused a crash after dropping quickbar items from Station Storages
  
• Fixed an issue that caused occasional player death when relogging on moon surfaces due to inaccurate kill zone radius
  
• Fixed an issue that caused ships to become unusable/unresponsive (group/owner issue)
  
• Fixed issues that caused ghost objects
  

[h3]Inventory[/h3]

• Items that are bound to the quickbar from Station Storage no longer move automatically to player inventory
  
• Items can now be placed to quickbar straight from station storage
  

[h3]Jobs[/h3]

• Fixed an issue that caused the weekly reward cap for mining job to apply to hauling asteroids improperly
  
• Fixed demolition job rewarding wrong amount of credits for completing a ship
  

[h3]Settings[/h3]

• Added control settings menu item for ship mouse steering toggle (default bind: C)
  
• Host Owned Ships defaults to true
  

[h3]Ships[/h3]

• Updated multiple ship descriptions (Sunny Ship Center & OKI ships)
  
• Updated ship description styles (Skill level -> Skill Level), ISAN spelling consistency (ISAN Mono & ISAN Quad)
  

[h3]Ship Designer[/h3]

• Crafting Benches added to Ship Designer device category
  

[h3]Stations[/h3]

• Fixed resigned station's objects getting marked as item derelicts
  
• Limited bolting in stations to only work inside operational Factory Hall Areas
  

[h3]Tools[/h3]

• While blueprint tab is open, hovering over durability errors selects them for a few seconds
  

[h3]Tripod[/h3]

• Tripod and Tripod Autocannon add 20 tons of weight to the ship they are attached to
  - n total complete tripod weights 40 tons

[h3]Tutorial[/h3]

• Added a rotate guide for Fuel Rod tutorial
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the player to be guided to sit on a ship that disappears
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the repair job tutorial to use ore from the player instead of the crates at the site
  
• Fuel Rod tutorial triggers when player is seated at a ship
  
• Added new rotate logic guide to Easy Build Mode tutorial
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Added chat messages when a ship enters or exits gravity hover
  
• ESC menu default binds icons image updated with bigger letters and less transparency
  
• Fixed Research Tree window pixel border not showing
  

Starbase will go down for maintenance in approximately ~30 minutes and the estimated downtime is one hour. We are rolling out the first major update since the Early Access launch, patch notes below :)

Please note the build number is 545 and not 544 like in the picture due to a last-minute fix to the build.

[h2]Major Updates[/h2]

• Increased base crafting speed by 3x
  

[h2]Known Issues
[/h2]

• Premade ships may still encounter issues with Easy Build Mode
  - We advise to avoid using Easy Build Mode with premade ships
  
• If player relogs while working in Easy Build Mode their ship may split in two; one containing the Easy Build Mode modifications, the other their original ship
  
• Resource containers are emptied after ship reloads or saves in Easy Build Mode
  
• The setting "Host Owned Ships" is not on by default when it should be
  - The setting can be found in Settings -> Gameplay -> Ships & Safe Zones -> Host Owned Ships
  
  

[h2]Animations[/h2]

• Fixed Bolt Tool's 1st person fire, move and interaction animations not activating correctly
  

[h2]Assets[/h2]

• Fixed autobolting issues between Rail Cannon Ammo Struct and Utility Tool & Rail Cannon Capacitor
  
• Fixed collision errors with slanted station parts
  
• Fixed misaligned Ore Tower Resource Bridge holograms
  
• Fixed a typo in Dynastar's ship shop logo and hologram animation
  
• Improved Tools & Weapons Crafting Bench upgrade bolt profile
  
• Removed a floating lamp from the Work Hub
  
• Updated lighting in Marketplace and in a skyscraper roof
  
• Updated multiple station slot LODs and LOD textures
  
• Updated the chair hologram ad in all Origin stations
  
• Updated sign holograms in Refill Stations
  

[h2]Asteroid Belt[/h2]

• Fixed some asteroids vanishing when they were approached
  
• Fixed rare materials spawning in incorrect locations
  

[h2]Audio[/h2]

• Added UI sounds
  - Refill Stations
  - Research Tree menu
  
• Fixed Ore Collector not always playing collection sounds
  
• Fixed Audio Signal Device Mark I's device values not being clamped if the device wasn't powered
  

[h2]Combat[/h2]

• Reduced Tripod Autocannon Projectile Energy from 365 to 310
  
• Added smooth camera movement to weapon recoil
  
• Fixed a bug where the player was able to reload infantry weapons by canceling the reload animation
  

[h2]Company[/h2]

• Fixed newly added company members appearing as offline
  

[h2]Crafting[/h2]

• Increased base crafting speed by 3x
  
• Fixed a bug with queuing empty container after full or refill
  
• Fixed freezes when canceling large crafts
  
• Fixed the game crashing if the player died near a Crafting Bench
  
• Fixed a misconfiguration on Monitor Upgrade
  - Now correctly requires Meter upgrade to craft
  
• Fixed double refills when crafting full or refill variants
  
• Improved performance when canceling crafting with large inventory
  
• Improved refunded material slotting performance and made it more reliable
  
• Added highlights for newly unlocked craftables in Crafting menu
  
• Added an inventory error message to chat
  
• Categorized all station parts into subcategories in Crafting -> Station Parts
  
• Removed Karnite requirement from Power Packs
  
• Station window assets now consume 5x more materials than Station Easy Build modules (they consumed 100x previously, so reduced the cost by 20x)
  
• Removed the snap points for Crafting Bench upgrades so that they can be freely placed on the table
  
• Tools & Weapon Crafting Bench
  - Added 2 more bolting spots to Rifle Clamp Upgrade
  
• Advanced Crafting Bench
  - Added more room for bolts at the bottom
  

[h2]Easy Build Mode - Ships[/h2]

• Fixed save icon saving messing up the Easy Build ship
  
• Fixed Laborer modules breaking after entering Easy Build Mode in tutorial
  
• Fixed unhandled exception after despawning a ship
  
• Fixed unhandled exception after placing modules that had a Thruster Triangle
  
• Fixed unhandled exception caused by snapping
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the ships to despawn incorrectly requiring a towing fee
  
• Fixed being able to place overlapping modules if a ship spawned and the player entered Easy Build Mode at the same time
  
• Fixed snapping for Bottleneck 4 Curved module
  - The module should now allow placing Curved Basic module on both sides
  
• Fixed using Insurance Transfering during Easy Build Mode deleting the ship
  
• Added a warning text for entering Easy Build Mode with premade ships
  
• Added more attempts to respawn ship on Easy Build Mode exit
  
• Added modules to their corresponding nodes and crafting categories
  - Basic 1 Large Propellant (Vertical)
  - Basic 1 Large Propellant (Horizontal)
  - Basic 1 Tier 1 Maneuver Thruster
  - L-Shape 1 Large Propellant
  - U-Shape 1 Large Propellant
  - L-Shape 1 Medium Propellant
  - L-Shape Corner 3 Hardpoint
  
• Disabled dropping regular objects from the inventory in any Easy Build Mode
  
• Updated modules which could cause durability errors
  - L-Shape Basic Corner
  - Corner 1 Ore Crate
  

[h2]Easy Build Mode - Stations[/h2]

• Fixed Easy Build Mode placement breaking down after modifying station access rights
  
• Fixed stations outside the safe zone not getting a safe zone
  
• Fixed Station Foundation Projector's rotation not matching the player when placed
  
• Fixed a module missing some snap points
  
• Corrected the naming of the Block Module V1 sets
  
• Factory Halls
  - Factory areas now change colors depending on area state
  - Factory hall names are no longer visible in the universe
  

[h2]Economy[/h2]

• Added Talkite, Targium, Daltium, Ymrium and Naflite to the ore terminal sell list so they can be sold to station
  
• New bank accounts start with 1000 credits instead of 0
  

[h2]Factory Areas[/h2]

• Fixed stations to save changes when parts are moved to Factory Halls
  

[h2]Fast Travel Gates[/h2]

• Added a safe zone area between the Fast Travel Gates
  - No player or ship damage during Fast Travel allowed
  

[h2]Feedback[/h2]

• Added improvements for player support handling to speed up the process
  

[h2]GUI[/h2]

• Updated HUD default positions
  - Crafted item pop-up
  - Stamina bar
  - Crafting and research shortcuts
  
• Added some pressed feedback to Easy Build Mode's toolbar icon buttons
  
• Fixed squished down main menu logo
  

[h2]Input[/h2]

• Fixed not being able to rebind "Toggle sprint"
  

[h2]Inventory[/h2]

• Added Delete option to item slot context menu
  
• Fixed ores getting lost from inventory when stacking ores in a certain way
  
• Ores that were lost to this bug are possible to be recovered, see instructions below:
  - Upon game start and entering universe, two random lost ores are placed into the player backpack's two ore slots, so make sure they are vacant
  - The ores can then be safely removed from the slots and put into storage, restarting the game again will allow the player to recover more ore by repeating the process, until all ore is restored
  - You can check from the ore sell panel (panels at the either side of the normal item sell panel at marketplace) if you still have unrecovered ores, though ore lost to possible other bugs are not confirmed to be restored this way
  - If the ore does not appear, selling other bugged items from the normal item sell panel may make the ores start appearing
  

Locales

• Added translation updates for all languages
  
• Updated credits
  
• Polished profanity filter
  

[h2]Menu[/h2]

• Removed "Log out" option from ESC menu
  

[h2]Missiles and Torpedoes[/h2]

• Missile LOD explosions are now synced and explode correctly
  

[h2]Moons[/h2]

• Fixed ships that are loaded while resting or hovering on moon surface colliding with the surface violently after loading
  
• Fixed gravity not working on a moon
  

[h2]Renderer
[/h2]

• Optimized planet textures for saving GPU memory
  

[h2]Research Tree[/h2]

• Added green borders to the window
  
• Added missing L-shape 8 Battery module to Tier 1 Generators node
  
• Fixed tooltip offsetting
  
• Nodes
  - Moved Cargo Lock Beam modules to correct node
  - Added missing Cooling Cells to T1 Generator node
  - Added two missing parts to Plasma Thruster node
  - Added Turret Cradle Advanced to Autocannon node
  - Added missing Solar Power Converter to Solar Panels node
  

[h2]Servers[/h2]

• Added optimizations to multiple servers
  

[h2]Ships[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where the player lost the ability to control the ship if they tried to leave a chair without having enough space
  
• Fixed ships getting despawned when left on Station Easy Build areas
  
• Durability error chat message now also advises to open the Universal Tool and to run a durability check
  
• Limited ship LOD uploads to every 30-45 seconds
  

[h2]Ship Shops[/h2]

• Fixed player-made ship "Antares" Twin Frame Freighter
  
• Updated player-made ships
  - Esaro
  - Marmot-MN
  - Moti
  
• Updated dev-made ship Vector
  
• Updated ship descriptions
  - Longhorn
  - Manta
  - Mastodon
  - Tick
  

[h2]Tools[/h2]

• Paint Tool
  - Paint Tool can now paint or remove continuously while MB1 or MB2 are held down
  - Fixed not being able to paint unowned parts outside of safe zones
  

[h2]Transponders[/h2]

• Fixed active transponders in a ship not being visible to the ship owner
  

[h2]Tutorial[/h2]

• Fixed a Mining Job tutorial crash
  
• Fixed Crafting tutorial progress not being saved
  
• Tutorial object arrow is now hidden if distance is greater than 100 km
  
• Changed Crafting tutorial crafting objective to progress from modules being crafted instead of counting inventory contents
  - Fixed an issue where the tutorial objective couldn't be cleared if the player placed the first module before the second module was created
  
• Improved hints in Tutorial for menus and inventories
  

Starbase will go down for maintenance in ~1h 40min and is expected to stay in maintenance for one hour when we install the latest patch.

This is the changelog:

• Fix for ISAN issues and Origin and Fast Travel gate not being visible from the asteroid belt
  
• Fix for character data resetting in certain cases
  
• Improvements for player support handling to speed up the process
  
• Improvements to Mail system (no more lost attachments)
  

The servers will be down for approximately 2 hours for maintenance. Once back up, patch 534 will be live with the following changes:

[h2]Economy
[/h2]

• Fixed issue with Ymrium Ore not being collectable
  
• Fixed correct sell values are applied to all item types
  
• Market buys items for -30% or -60% of their base price
  
• Adjusted economy configs for materials
  
• Fixed 20mm ammo locale
  
• Fixed crafting data research points on bolting tool, cable tool and pipe tool ammo
  
• Set economy fallback sell value to -60%
  

[h2]Research tree[/h2]

• Renamed "Control tables, screens, levers and buttons" -> "Control tables, screens, small devices"
  
• Fixed mounts 1 and 2 are now placed properly in the research tree
  
• Added turret turntables to several nodes with devices able to use them
  
• Moved small utility bodies to laser designator node
  
• Added tier 2 fuel rods to tier 2 generator node
  
• Added missing propellant tank support item to "Small propellant tank" node
  
• Added missing 'power' field to Ore collector
  
• Added Text panel 24x24 to "Control tables, screens, small devices" node
  
• Added All Duct items to "Control tables, screens, small devices" node
  
• 
  

[h2]Miscellaneous
[/h2]

• Optimized station servers
  
• Optimized asteroid servers
  
• Optimized factory network traffic
  
• Factory areas are now formed even when the area has already something bolted to it
  
• Several bolting fixes inside factory areas
  
• Fixed crash when trying to use crafting benches
  
• Feedback tool ship refund requesting has been improved
  

See you soon!

Hello everyone and thank you for joining the Starbase Universe!

We're aware of many issues troubling you at the moment. We're working on resolving those as soon as possible. We have processed thousands of in-game ship refund requests and our support team + extra hands continue to try to help out as fast as we can.

Today's update is our third hotfix since launch and will bring the game down for approximately 1 hour maintenance, here is the change log:

[h2]Update 2.8.2021 (EA Build 529)[/h2]

Patch type: Hotfix

• Fixed Ship Shop Ship thrusters getting auto-named when entering Easy Build Mode
  
• Added system message when receiving mail
  
• Allowed only Modules to be placed while in Easy Build mode
  
• Fixed Easy Build Mode deleting ships in some cases
  

If you continue to have problems, the known issues and potential workaround solutions can be found in this thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/454120/discussions/3/3056240878553070900/

In case you continue to run into any bugs that e.g. break your ship, or your ship gets lost due to bugs and you can't afford a tow, or are simply unable to tow it back, please submit an F1 ship refund request in-game, and our team will try to help you out as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience while we fix things, and sorry for any problems you might have run into. More updates are on their way!