0.7 – Saving Update

This update includes a lot of infrastructure, such as saving games, bookmarks, customizable user avatars, customizable UI color, better planet textures, revised trading UI, and much more.

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  • A binary star system
  • Time to dock
  • Revised trading UI
  • A first tank system UI for fuel distribution

File Info

Released22th December 2025
PlatformWindows, MacOs, Linux
File Nameastrax-desktop-0.7.zip
File Size89,8 MB / 94.203.904 bytes

Changelog

  • Loading & saving a game
  • Creating & editing user profiles
  • Loading & saving application settings
  • Games & screenshots are now saved in the user profile
  • There is now a database per game, for saving map data, player and spacecraft
  • Mechanism for loading / saving solar systems and player from and to disk
  • Added a bunch of internal infrastructure just to make the above happen
  • Spacecraft are now visually moving to the right docking module of space stations
  • All modals/prompts are now exitable via ESC key
  • Added feedback buttons to the main menu
  • Added main menu headers
  • Added customizable user avatars
  • Added a credits screen (click on the logo)
  • Added a loading screen
  • Added HUD buttons for undocking and resetting camera focus
  • Added pre-filled fields in new game dialog, as per player request (Thanks Chappu!)
  • The World Generation Panel when creating a game now has an effect and connects to the generator
  • More flexible name generator with many more names of gods, creatures of myth and legends from various cultures
  • Generator now works with tags, which allows for higher statistical control (e.g. it’s possible to spawn any habitable planet in an orbit)
  • Changed algorhitm for generating galaxy regions
  • Support for different screen resolutions that are adjustable in the video settings (Thanks Otter!)
  • Users can now change logging level by taking a look at logging.properties in the game root
  • Added better traits to discover for toxic planet types
  • Added better layering of planet textures
  • Added better planet textures without fragments
  • Added a jump drive functionality with unlimited use (for now)
  • Added target bookmarks for navigation
  • Added simple tank managing UI, redid the old tank system entirely
  • Added picking a user profile from the main menu, instead of having to navigate to the settings
  • Returning from in-game back to the main menu now works
  • UI colors are now customizable in the settings
  • UI sounds are now part of the UI skin
  • GalaxyMap now correctly shows name of the solar system and region when clicking on it
  • Better HUD gauges that display resource icon & fuel consumption
  • Made more in-game text translatable
  • Made core/mod data translatable
  • You can now switch language to German (translation is sill incomplete)
  • Made control buttons larger
  • Application-wide message growls & dialog boxes
  • Removed trader map markers in GalaxyMap due to changes to the map data
  • Fix Spacecraft receiving input from inside the game main menu
  • Fix Spacecraft controls freezing randomly (Thanks Jeffro!)

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