Version 0.5.0.0 - 16 April 2025

     Added rarity tag to all items.

     Added Shard drones, sometimes drops from shards.

    Added Shardlet ships, drops rarely from shards.

    Added Beryl Stone, Space Opal, and Black Space Opal's as rare drops.

    Added some new uncommon and rare commodities, can only be sold in random neutral stations.

    Added some new sprites, updated some old sprites.

    Added more background music.

     Added descriptive text to station lobby.

    Added mission back-end system.

    Added missions to the mission tab in some stations.

    Added overlay arrows pointing towards location marker objects.

    Added docking location marker.

    Added indicator overlay for elite and hero NPC's when they are sitting still.

    Added white dwarf stars to ancient ruins that spawn planets.

    Added new mod items for each item mod in game, removed from modded items using demodifier nanites applied to other items.

    Added 4 new tier 6 version of primary class vessels.

    Adjustments to some boss ship stats.

    Adjustments and corrections to bonus gem and rare commodity drops from Mining Power and Prospecting skills.

    Adjusted stats and bonuses on some unique devices.

    Auto saving of world file now shows in chat window.

    Arrow keys now change pages on lists.

    Changed item display text format, now includes rarity tag in description.

    Changed price market display in station lobby.

    Changed interface buttons on cargo and market windows.

    Changed respawn code to place you inside the station to prevent death loops.

    Changed some ship names and their tier levels.

    Changed atmospheric effect on planets slightly, now includes shadow.

    Changed experience gain curve, reduces past level 50.

    Changed NPC ship levels, most ships are lower level.

    Changed probability of a random NPC spawning without a class, now much lower for non-special NPC.

    Fixed thin planet ring texture overlapping incorrectly.

    Fixed Alien Drone Enhancer item not giving drone bonuses.

    Fixed world selection back button appearing over 5th world file.

    Fixed position not being set to default on new world with existing character file.

    Fixed Assault Drone I having wrong base sprite.

    Fixed Alpha Lurker having the wrong base sprite.

    Fixed market trends not updating trade bay prices.

    Fixed dashes appearing over death location target in target view window.

    Fixed chat message saying a skill was trained even when skill was not trained.

    Fixed music player not randomizing tracks uniformly.

    Fixed deep void temp spawns using danger factor of 0.

    Fixed possible crashes from difference in weapon slots loaded on entity vs hull allowed slots.

    Fixed inconsistencies in the GUI what is drawn when the player is dieing, dead, respawning, or created.

    Fixed offset in location marker rendering.

    Fixed knock-back from physical weapons when target is dead.

    Fixed backing window being drawn for extractors on planets with no extractor slots.

    Fixed some unique devices giving stacking bonuses, now only gives bonus for highest tier device installed.

    Fixed Void Bulker+ and Void Freighter+ crafting recipes being swapped.

    Help button added to HUD which re-opens the "tutorial" windows.

    Increased energy and shield bank bonus of dark capacitors.

    Increased Alien Zeta Drone, Arc Drone X, and Pulse Drone X stats in line with their rarity.

    Increased number of items in a loot crate.

    Improved autopilot waypoint accuracy.

    Increased planet and moon scale by 50%.

    Implemented new Random Number Generator using Xoroshiro128+ method, previously used seeds will produce different results.

    Improved world file saving speed, less lag when auto saving during gameplay.

    Minor render load reduction, back-end re-factoring.

    Minor ship logic load reduction, back-end re-factoring.

    Moved mining station at origin sector [0,0] to south west side of belt.

    NPC ships now can drop drones in combat when provoked.

    Now a small chance for Shards, Ancient, Blob, or Lurker ships to be elite or hero status and will drop boss loot crates.

    Rebalanced all ship, drone, and stations hulls, tier, cargo space, and hull integrity now follow a formula.

    Rebalanced drop tables for bosses.

    Rebalanced Reaper ship line, reduced damage and range, more hull and cargo on Nova and Void Repears.

    Reduced energy and shield bank bonus of lurker modules.

    Reduced ship movement friction value slightly.

    Reduced weapon slots on Military Transport MK1 by 1.

    Reduced the chance of a rogue platform being placed around perimeter of hives.

    Reduced file size on some music with compression.

    Removed crafting from derelict stations, now only have cargo storage.

    Removed crafting tax display from derelict stations.

    Removed market trend from lobby of derelict stations.

    Station docking window height expanded, 15 items per page, more space for item information.

    Ships now show how many allied fleet slots they would use in the ship description.

    Shards, and Shardlets are now immune to any source of speed debufs.

    Shards, Shardlets, and Shard Cycsts are now immune to shield damage from storms.

    Textures for planets and ships are no-longer preloaded on start, deferred texture loading implemented.

    Temporary drones do not give experience, credits, or drop loot.

    Temporary drones now are destroyed when the owner is destroyed.

    Updated Shard ship sprites.

    Updated tutorial window.