This might seem like a “standard” feature, but it’s actually quite time-consuming. The most difficult part will be ensuring that all of the various animations, states, and other miscellaneous features are stored and loaded correctly.

We want to include support for modding early so that we can get feedback. Adding modding support this early will ensure any new features added to the game will be as moddable as possible.

The interface in the demo was unpolished and terrible. We’ll completely overhaul the entire HUD and in-game interface. It will become much easier to change colonist jobs and adjust station atmosphere (among other things).

External areas are used for objects like solar panels, radar dishes, probes, ship landing pads, and external defenses. This milestone aims to further flesh out these areas. We’ll also be adding airlocks (and possibly venting colonists out into space).

Solar system generation will be added. This includes factions, planets, resources, and missions. You’ll also be able to choose where in the system you’ll place your station.

We currently have a very rudimentary implementation of missions. The focus for this milestone is further fleshing out the mission system as well as adding most of the types of missions we would like to see in the game.

We want to make colonists feel more like humans and less like robots. Colonists will have free time activities and hobbies. We’ll also be improving their interactions, so they’ll fight and murder each other. This also includes things like mental breakdowns, vandalism, and sabotage.

The Starmancer Core is the heart of the station and your physical embodiment. We’ll make the core functional--it can be attacked, damaged, repaired, and destroyed. Colonists will rebel against you. If your core is destroyed, it’s game over.

We'll make the game much more streamlined, easier to understand. We're adding a tutorial for new players. More UI notifications, prompts, information being shown so you always know what is happening.

Various disasters will be added, like Solar flares, Comet showers, as well as fires, explosions and visual damage to walls, floors and objects.

We want to improve construction, with better visuals and improved game mechanics for build bots. Possibly having colonists constructing objects.

We want to improve missions by adding more variety, more events, quests and new locations.

More factions will be added. They will fight and form alliances amongst themselves. Factions will react to your decisions (both positively and negatively).

There will be a progression based system for upgrading your station. You’ll also be able to find blueprints from missions, trading, and raids.

We’ll add weapons, defenses, and traps. Attacks from pirates and other factions. Colonists will actively fight invaders, or seek out cover.

We’ll focus on harvesting, converting, and manufacturing resources. More crafting stations, more crafting recipes.

Decorating your station is fun, but we could spend forever adding new cosmetics, so we’re going to exclusively focus on it in this milestone. We’ll add aesthetic variants to existing objects. New beds, different doors, shiny toilets, etc.

You’ll be able to play the game without any resource or time constraints. We’ll also be adding an interface for calling random events (like pirate attacks), adjusting colonist stats, and tweaking faction relationships.

We want there to be some mystery surrounding them so we won't be revealing everything. You'll be able to find old remnants of xeno technology, rare materials, blueprints, and seeds. The xeno tech will introduce a new tier of resources, used to build new versions of certain objects like reactors, turrets, and doors.

We’ll be adding cybernetics that can be used to augment colonists, including an implant to control some of the more stubborn colonists. There will also be a robotics lab for things like cleaner bots. A human-hating robot faction will also be added (“hate” is a strong word, the robots will sort of dislike humans).

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