← All patch notes

Solar system overhaul

v0.1.1351 Jul 2, 2026

Bigger, stranger solar systems worth mining.

  • Added compact, sprawling, debris, barren and remnant system archetypes.
  • Added ice giant, carbon, iron and chthonian planet types.
  • Added ring systems around gas and ice giants.
  • Reworked planet rendering with drifting cloud decks, atmosphere haze and night-side city lights.
  • Changed moons to render rocky, icy or molten surfaces.
  • Added dense asteroid belts of smaller, ore-tinted rocks.
  • Added real deposit readouts when scanning planets and moons.
  • Added a one-time survey bounty for scanning each planet and moon.
  • Added mining planets and moons for their deposits.