Changelog
What's New
Every notable build since the in-game What's New panel came online in July, across Explore and Play.
feature new capabilityart visuals & assetsfix fixes & refactors
October 4
2026-10-04- featureLeap seconds. The sim clock renders all 27 historical leap seconds, including 2016-12-31 23:59:60Z.
- featureWeekly satellite ingest. A weekly job pulls the latest complete week of Earth-satellite orbital data, with an alarm if it ever fails.
- artColony on Jezero Delta. Landing pad, greenhouse dome and survey stakes placed across the Martian plot.
October 3
2026-10-03- featureSatellites, phase 1. A full October 3 snapshot of real satellite positions and orbits, color-coded by type.
- featureReal-Earth terrain. Mount Everest and the Alps, from orbital survey altitude down to a ground-level walkaround.
- featureTransfer windows. Autopilot offers the next, next-next and best-of-the-next-five windows for any body-to-body flight plan.
October 2
2026-10-02- featureLagrange points & barycenters. Sol-Earth, Sol-Mars, Sol-Jupiter and Earth-Luna Lagrange points, plus the Sol-Jupiter and solar-system barycenters.
- artMartian sunsets. Accurate sun scattering and atmospheric sunsets over Jezero Delta.
- fixSmall-body eclipses. Europa transits show as a dark spot on Jupiter; a Phobos transit dims Mars's sunlight by only 26–40%.
October 1
2026-10-01- featureNight-vision goggles. Exposure amplified roughly 12x for the lunar dark.
- featureShadows between bodies. Body-to-body shadow casting, checked against the real November 8, 2022 lunar eclipse.
- artIuventius Pup drive. Ignition, full burn, cutoff and cooling for the Pup's main drive.
- fixThruster ignition transient. The ignition pop on thruster start-up is smoothed out.
September 29
2026-09-29- artMars sunrise. Sunrise and atmosphere bloom at Jezero.
September 27
2026-09-27- featureexplore.4xciv.com. Pure solar-system exploration in the browser. No passphrase, no game mechanics.
September 26
2026-09-26- fixAtlas refactor. 259 merged PRs; 17,797 net lines removed from the largest file alone.
September 21
2026-09-21- featureSign in with Bike4Mind. Persistent crafting state tied to a Bike4Mind account.
September 20
2026-09-20- featureAutopilot. Real transfer windows with wait, burn and course-correction steps, from any body to any other.
- featureTerrain-aware movement. Ground movement that follows the terrain, with atmosphere that reacts to it.
September 19
2026-09-19- featureSurvey and claim. Hex-plot survey-and-claim at ground level on Jezero Delta.
September 17
2026-09-17- artLet there be light. The Sun gets real granular, flare-streaked surface detail.
- featureDelta-V Map. In-ship HUD listing travel time and speed change to every body in the system.
September 16
2026-09-16- feature21 → 37 bodies. The Jovian and Saturnian moon systems ship with real imagery.
- featureHonest gap fill. Seed-based synthetic fill where real data runs out, with a toggle to show the gap instead.
- artAsteroid belt rework. New battle-phase asteroid-belt art around Mars.
September 12
2026-09-12- featureItem catalog. 173 items across 15 categories, with crafting and colony inventory screens.
- artInventory icons. Generated icon sets for biomass, raw minerals and power equipment.
September 11
2026-09-11- featureReal gravity. All 21 bodies apply correct relative gravity; combat moves into the real system; warp up to 86,400x.
September 7
2026-09-07- featureBoots on the ground. Descents to Jezero Crater on Mars and the Apollo 15 Hadley site on the Moon.
- artJupiter and Saturn. Jupiter's cloud bands and Saturn's ring data go live; Deimos is meshed.
September 6
2026-09-06- fixTile seams. Phobos, Europa, Venus, Charon, Pluto and Ceres rebaked to remove seams.
September 5
2026-09-05- fixPhobos shape model. Phobos gets its correct shape; mouse-drag rotation direction fixed.
September 4
2026-09-04- featureQuick-select. One-click list for all 21 catalogued bodies, plus real-terrain surface descent.
September 2
2026-09-02- fixOrbit-to-surface zoom. A performance pass makes the zoom from orbit to the rocks smooth; flight HUD patched.
August 31
2026-08-31- featureColony building. Place three buildings on Jezero Delta hex plots; they persist and you can craft with them.
August 23
2026-08-23- featureBibliotheca. Raw, semantic and Ask the Magistra search over the canon.
July 21
2026-07-21- featureWhat's New panel. This feed, in-game: Artifact Viewer and ship-part updates.