AstraX

0.6 – Trading Update

File Info

Released	20th March 2025
Platform	Windows, MacOs, Linux
File Name	astrax-desktop-0.6.zip
File Size	76.1 MB / 79,791,527 bytes

Changelog

• Added directional 2D sound
• Added better asteroid graphics that show their resource deposits
• Added galaxy map that displays points of interest & tracks visited systems
• Added adding, deleting and modifying user profiles
• Added picking a user profile from a list when starting a new game
• Added a station menu when docked to a station
• Added trading UI that allows you to sell and buy resources
• Added spacecraft module: trading post
• Added spacecraft module: mining drill
• Added application-wide alerts
• Added different cursors for the spacecraft editor
• Added generated planet rings
• Added being able to focus a target via the target list in the HUD on the top left (thanks Otter!)
• Added gameplay hints to help the player that show up in regular intervals
• Added more barren/moon traits to discover
• Added some tagline easter eggs
• Added new UI icons
• Adjusted UI Colors
• Target selector is now displaying progress on asteroids & discovered progress on planets
• unleashed the full power of the name generator that is now organized in different name sets, providing different names for different game objects
• Increased outline thickness of used font for better legibility
• Merged star map and galaxy map to a single map tab
• Changed bulky button file dialog to a sleeker list file dialog
• Asteroid belts are now showing up on the star map as brown areas
• Central star in all star systems is now chosen by a probability table for better control over the procgen
• Better tweening for main menu
• More progress on a full game translation
• Many internal Modpack improvements
• A truckload of minor fixes and quality of live improvements
• Fix: HUD focused target not properly set/unset on target acquisition/loss, that causes contradicting information to be displayed
• Fix: planet avatars regenerating in the HUD on selecting a target
• Fix: planet shadow not aligned properly
• Fix: Textfield “name” in new spacecraft dialog catching input when using editor hotkeys (Thanks Jeffro!)
• Fix: spacecraft and mobile targets not showing up on star map
• Fix: camera being able to zoom in indefinitely
• Fix: discovered status not set in star map > planet info
• Fix: items randomly duplicated and deleted on trade
• Fix: thruster / drill sound instances being looped twice
• Fix: asteroid particle emitter does not stop when mining has halted

Special thanks to Rina for reporting the following bugs:

• Fix: entering galaxy regions in elliptic and spiral galaxies causing a hard crash due to incorrect region IDs
• Fix: hints being displayed while the game is paused
• Fix: camera focus and zoom changes while the game is paused
• Fix: looped non-ambient sounds still played on pause
• Fix: hard crash on leaving solar system

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