0.6 – Trading Update

A massive update containing trading interface, better asteroid graphics and mining mechanics, new ship modules (mining drill and trading post), directional 2D sound and a load of bugfixes.

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File Info

Released20th March 2025
PlatformWindows, MacOs, Linux
File Nameastrax-desktop-0.6.zip
File Size76.1 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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