Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander News

Cosmoteer patch 0.23.1 is now available! This update fixes bugs, improves quality-of-life, and improves the non-English language translations.

Enjoy!

• Translation updates for all supported languages, including a complete re-translation of Simplified Chinese.
  
• When exiting a ship, crew will now use the airlock closest to their current location instead of the airlock closest to their destination.
  
• Ship mirror settings are now remembered per-ship.
  
• Copy/pasting parts or loading blueprints from a saved ship design will now copy/load all part settings, not just those that are modifiable in the ship designer.
  
• When the camera is rotated, a red "North" arrow will now be shown on the minimap. Clicking this arrow will reset the camera rotation.
  
• Added a confirmation popup when exiting the game from the title screen.
  
• When plotting an in-system FTL jump, the camera will now only zoom out as far as needed to show the possible jump destinations.
  
• Doubled the speed at which Resource Collectors can move resources.
  
• Crew will no longer leave their ship to pickup resources, salvage, construct, or repair if their ship is preparing for a hyper-jump.
  
• The missing parts warning can now be disabled from the ship editor hamburger menu, in addition to the settings dialog.
  
• New VFX for Ion Prism destruction.
  
• The "No existing airlocks" warning will no longer be shown if the ship does not have any crew.
  
• The Railgun Launcher and Accelerator tooltips now mention that crew can't walk from one side to the other.
  
• Added three new Cabal ships: Callisto, Lyra, and Phaethon.
  
• Added one new Fringe ship: Axlerod.
  
• Miscellaneous updates to other existing ships and stations.
  
• Tweaked the order of the armor and structure tiles so that "tri" pieces are sorted after wedges.
  
• Roof lights no longer show crew speed in their stats.
  
• Bugfix: NPC stations and ships could "steal" floating resources from the player to repair themselves. This most commonly happened during construction of the player's ships while resources are temporarily floating outside.
  
• Bugfix: Reconstructing Ion Beam Prisms using crew construction could cause them to forget their target prisms.
  
• Bugfix: Area-of-effect weapons that hit the player's own ships were unintentionally damaging neutral ships/stations, which could cause the player to become wanted.
  
• Bugfix: Resource Collectors that grab only a partial bundle of resources could cause the remaining resources to be left outside after construction is finished.
  
• Bugfix: When multiple ships make simultaneous in-system FTL jumps, one ship jumping could cancel another ship's jump.
  
• Bugfix: Radar blips for player ships with only blueprints could still "see" into the fog of war, extending the player's sight range for free.
  
• Bugfix: Restocking a ship's resources in Creative Mode (or Imagineer difficulty in Career) wasn't accounting for any in-transit deliveries.
  
• Bugfix: It was impossible to transfer resources to your own ship if the receiving ship didn't have any crew.
  
• Bugfix: Mining Lasers set to "fire at target" mode would not fire at any parts or asteroid tiles marked for salvage/mining.
  
• Bugfix: Railgun disconnection icons were being shown very dark when in blueprint mode. (They are no longer shown at all in blueprint mode.)
  
• Bugfix: Resource collection beams graphics could sometimes render beyond their start and end points.
  
• Bugfix: Huge Thrusters had very slightly asymmetrical center of mass which could cause perfectly symmetrical ship designs to not fly straight.
  
• Bugfix: Crash when typing certain non-English characters.
  
• Modding: The part debugger can now be opened by pressing Shift+Tilde+P.
  

Cosmoteer release candidate 0.23.1 is now available for testing! (See this post for info on how to test release candidates.)

This release candidate contains a variety of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

Thanks for testing!

RC1:

• When exiting a ship, crew will now use the airlock closest to their current location instead of the airlock closest to their destination.
  
• Ship mirror settings are now remembered per-ship.
  
• Copy/pasting parts or loading blueprints from a saved ship design will now copy/load all part settings, not just those that are modifiable in the ship designer.
  
• When the camera is rotated, a red "North" arrow will now be shown on the minimap. Clicking this arrow will reset the camera rotation.
  
• Added a confirmation popup when exiting the game from the title screen.
  
• When plotting an in-system FTL jump, the camera will now only zoom out as far as needed to show the possible jump destinations.
  
• Doubled the speed at which Resource Collectors can move resources.
  
• Crew will no longer leave their ship to pickup resources, salvage, construct, or repair if their ship is preparing for a hyper-jump.
  
• The missing parts warning can now be disabled from the ship editor hamburger menu, in addition to the settings dialog.
  
• New VFX for Ion Prism destruction.
  
• The "No existing airlocks" warning will no longer be shown if the ship does not have any crew.
  
• The Railgun Launcher and Accelerator tooltips now mention that crew can't walk from one side to the other.
  
• Added three new Cabal ships: Callisto, Lyra, and Phaethon.
  
• Added one new Fringe ship: Axlerod.
  
• Miscellaneous updates to other existing ships and stations.
  
• Bugfix: Crash when attempting to target tractor beams on empty ship dots. (It is no longer possible to target anything on empty ship dots.) (Also fixed in 0.23.0g)
  
• Bugfix: Crash when a ship's last part is destroyed while a tractor beam is targeting the whole ship. (Also fixed in 0.23.0g)
  
• Bugfix: NPC stations and ships could "steal" floating resources from the player to repair themselves. This most commonly happened during construction of the player's ships while resources are temporarily floating outside.
  
• Bugfix: Reconstructing Ion Beam Prisms using crew construction could cause them to forget their target prisms.
  
• Bugfix: Area-of-effect weapons that hit the player's own ships were unintentionally damaging neutral ships/stations, which could cause the player to become wanted.
  
• Bugfix: Resource Collectors that grab only a partial bundle of resources could cause the remaining resources to be left outside after construction is finished.
  
• Bugfix: When multiple ships make simultaneous in-system FTL jumps, one ship jumping could cancel another ship's jump.
  
• Bugfix: Radar blips for player ships with only blueprints could still "see" into the fog of war, extending the player's sight range for free.
  
• Bugfix: Restocking a ship's resources in Creative Mode (or Imagineer difficulty in Career) wasn't accounting for any in-transit deliveries.
  
• Bugfix: It was impossible to transfer resources to your own ship if the receiving ship didn't have any crew.
  
• Bugfix: Mining Lasers set to "fire at target" mode would not fire at any parts or asteroid tiles marked for salvage/mining.
  
• Bugfix: Railgun disconnection icons were being shown very dark when in blueprint mode. (They are no longer shown at all in blueprint mode.)
  
• Bugfix: Resource collection beams graphics could sometimes render beyond their start and end points.
  
• Bugfix: Huge Thrusters had very slightly asymmetrical center of mass which could cause perfectly symmetrical ship designs to not fly straight.
  
• Modding: The part debugger can now be opened by pressing Shift+Tilde+P.
  

RC2:

• Translation updates for all supported languages, including a complete re-translation of Simplified Chinese.
  
• Resource collectors should now be much less prone to over-shooting their destination storage.
  
• Tweaked the order of the armor and structure tiles so that "tri" pieces are sorted after wedges.
  
• Roof lights no longer show crew speed in their stats.
  
• Bugfix: Multiplayer desyncs caused by Resource Collectors. (also fixed in 0.23.0h)
  
• Bugfix: Crash in multiplayer if the game tries to auto-save while loading a saved game. (also fixed in 0.23.0h)