Core & Crew Update
1.1
5 August 2026
🎁 Added
  • Season Core: a protected 10×10×10 structure at the centre of the mass. A crew of recent miners must strike it together
  • Worker Drone Bays. Press F to deploy workers that excavate flyable 3×3 tunnels
  • Persistent crew banners showing nearby miners’ names and distances, with a symmetric opt-out setting.
  • Persistent return positions so miners resume near their previous working face.
  • Season records, contribution ranks and titles displayed beneath returning miners’ names.
  • Proper multi-season numbering and fresh-start progression between masses
  • Added 10 s&box achievements.
  • Automatic connection recovery, server heartbeats and Field Control warnings around server updates.
🧼 Improved
  • Link Nodes now genuinely require two miners, with both receiving the full enhanced reward.
  • Escort drones now commit to individual blocks instead of scattering damage.
  • Escort beams now point at the blocks actually being mined.
  • Fleet Cutters now improves both escorts and worker drones.
  • New miners now spawn above recent excavation activity.
  • Camera pitch now reaches almost completely vertical.
  • Crew chat now includes timestamps, lasts longer and resolves names more reliably.
  • Standings now show the top ten contributors and appear immediately when joining.
  • Mining feedback now appears around the aimed block.
  • Drone Finishes now recolour only the authored armour panels.
  • Worker Drone Bay is now correctly placed in the Yield section.
  • Large HUD numbers no longer wrap.
  • The disconnected title screen now clearly reports LINK DOWN.
🪛 Fixed
  • Packaged background music now plays reliably.
  • Music no longer duplicates after scene changes or ignores the Music toggle.
  • Season contribution, finale totals and work-order progress now display correctly.
  • Work orders no longer complete again at the start of a new season.
  • Standings no longer remain blank for joining players.
  • Grounded escorts no longer appear active while not operating.
  • Escorts no longer abandon damaged blocks before finishing them.
  • Multiple escorts no longer select the same block.
  • Escort beams no longer display incorrect targets.
  • Crew banners no longer cause the entire HUD to rebuild every frame.
  • Chat messages no longer display unknown player names.
  • Clients now recover after losing their connection to the server.
  • Finale text now correctly explains what carries into the next season.
🚯 Removed
  • Functional upgrade and fragment carryover between seasons.
  • Solo Link Node completion.
  • Placeholder attachments from player drones.
  • Client-guessed escort targets and the distracting escort orbit.
  • Repeated Link Node chat announcements.
  • Automatic worker reassignment when the fleet was full.
⚠️ Known Issues
  • Worker drones only operate while their owner is connected.
  • Server updates briefly interrupt play while the server restarts.
  • An unexpected server crash can roll back up to ten seconds of progress.