- LTE Guide – EXO F.A.R.M. - 22 September 2026
Are those green thumbs itching for the EXO F.A.R.M. Limited Time Event? This event has something for everyone, newer Astroneers and veterans alike. If you’re new to this Limited Time Event, or just want to freshen up, then keep reading this quick guide for a few helpful pointers.THE EXO F.A.R.M. EVENTEXO Dynamics is in need of more precious biofuel, and Astroneers are encouraged to contribute. Make sure you have at least one EXO Request Platform set up in your base where you can supply the requested items in order to get valuable trade goods in return (which can be quite valuable, but subject to luck).Check out the platform’s control panel to identify what items are being requested, or simply mouse over the holograms on the rocket to see what is needed. Each requested item has a different value, so you can min/max your rewards with higher value items to get to the required thresholds fa…
- Patch 1.44.4 - 16 September 2026
Note: The version number for the Nintendo Switch is 1.44.3, but this is the same version as other platforms on 1.44.4. We’ve got more bug fixes and improvements in today’s patch, including the changes we messaged previously for making Data Circuits scrapable again, and some further fine tuning to Vehicle Ports in response to feedback. Work is still underway on incorporating the new Save file management features we teased not so long ago, and we’re hoping to get it out to you all pretty soon! The anniversary update for the end of the year is also shaping up nicely, and we look forward to revealing both the new content coming with it and the other surprises we’ve been working on. But before all that, we also have some fun news for you today! Handing it over to the SES narrative team for a special announcement.INTRODUCING THE EXO ARCHIVEAs ASTRONEER approaches the 10-year anniversary of it…
- Patch 1.43.2 - 12 August 2026
We're following the trend of lengthy Patch Notes with another chunky one today. Aside from the list of bug fixes and improvements at the end, we want to give a bit of a deep dive into one particular improvement going into this update and go into some extra detail on others.A lot of the Patch Notes this week are provided by the dev team, so they may be a bit more technical than usual. We are hoping that the additional context is helpful in understanding these subtle, but broad reaching changes.CHANGES TO POI SPAWNINGFixed a legacy issue where certain Mission items, like the Vehicle Data Recorder that spawns on Desolo, could sometimes fail to spawn.In this update, we fixed the above-mentioned legacy bug. It ended up being quite the technical undertaking, so here are some details about the issue itself, and how our fix could impact your game. In ASTRONEER, we use a world generation system…
- Patch 1.42.3 - 15 July 2026
We have some lengthy Patch Notes today! In addition to the standard list of bug fixes and improvements at the end, we want to highlight and break down our first set of improvements for the Intermodal Terminal.The in-game Intermodal Terminal Tutorial is a good reference point for identifying each of the components of this Megastructure.FIRST SET OF IMT IMPROVEMENTS We previously messaged that we would be making gradual improvements to the Intermodal Terminal (or IMT) over the course of multiple updates. This is the first of those updates, with substantial changes made to the IMT’s control panels and automated movement of items between slots, based on the feedback provided by the community. Loading Modes The IMT’s Shuttle Loading Mode and Rail Station Loading Mode control panel settings have been unified. Changing one now automatically changes the other to its opposite setting.Now, when t…
- STARSEEKER Launches Today - Grab your Expedition Suit in Astroneer to celebrate! - 11 June 2026
Today we are launching our brand new title in the ASTRONEER universe, STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions! To celebrate, Expedition Suit is live in ASTRONEER free for all players. Just log in to claim and you can Explore the Sol system as a member of the ESS Starseeker crew.If you want to learn more about STARSEEKER, we launched a brand new trailer for you all to check out: While we are really excited about STARSEEKER, the ASTRONEER train keeps rolling! As mentioned previously, we will continue monthly updates for the forseeable future! If you want to hear more about plans, check out this post from the team: Stay tuned for more details about our 10!!!!! year anniversary coming later this year
- Patch 1.41.4 - 10 June 2026
June’s patch is now available to download, with fixes and improvements for you to review in the patch notes below. There’s also plenty of good progress going into our upcoming updates, including some of the Intermodal Terminal improvements we mentioned in our last Patch Notes. In case you missed it, we recently posted a Mid-Year Dev Update with news about what’s coming to ASTRONEER for the rest of 2026. We will be continuing our monthly updates cadence until at least the end of 2026 and we’re also preparing something special for the game’s 10th anniversary at the end of this year. Make sure to give it a read for full details (and maybe a leek).STARSEEKER COMES OUT TOMORROW! It would be really difficult for us not to share our excitement for releasing a whole new game! Starting tomorrow, on June 11th, STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions will be out in Early Access on Steam, the Xbox for PC…
- STARSEEKER Releases June 11th in Early Access! - 22 May 2026
If you have been living under a space whale, you might have missed that System Era has been working on another game within the ASTRONEER universe! STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expedition is a new game focused on discovery, cooperative expeditions, and camaraderie. Exploring deep space on the ESS Starseeker, players will need to work together with the entire crew of the space station to complete planet-wide objectives across a multitude of star systems using cutting edge technology. It is not ASTRONEER 2! ASTRONEER is our take on the survival craft genre, and STARSEEKER is our take on an online cooperative multiplayer experience. Players are not stranded on a planet building bases, they live on a space station with a big crew going on short missions down to the planet. We dropped a FULL BLOG post with all of our Early Access details and a roadmap here: If that seems exciting, you can wishlist h…
- ASTRONEER Mid-Year Dev Update - 20 May 2026
Hey all! Joe here again to share more news about what’s coming to ASTRONEER for the rest of the year. We will continue our monthly updates cadence until at least the end of 2026. We’re also preparing something special for the game’s 10th anniversary at the end of this year.At the end of 2025, I shared our plans to release monthly updates for the game, focusing on bug fixes for Megatech content, but also other legacy issues in addition to quality-of-life improvements to the base game. Since then, we have made significant improvements to the game in addition to releasing the Megatech DLC for Nintendo Switch. Huge thanks to everyone who has continued to share feedback with while we have been working through these monthly updates!Excited to now confirm that we will continue our monthly updates until at least the end of 2026. Although a lot of the team is working on our next title: STARSEEKE…
- Patch 1.40.3 - 13 May 2026
The patch for May is now available to download, with plenty of fixes and some improvements for you to review in the patch notes below. We also know that it’s been some time now since our last update to the community on the development plans for Astroneer in 2026. We’re working on another update to give you more context on plans for the remainder of the year, so keep an eye out for that. That said, there’s one topic we’d like to cover now. WORK ON THE INTERMODAL TERMINAL We've seen a lot of questions being asked within the community about if and when we're going to be making changes to the Intermodal Terminal (or IMT for short), so we wanted to share an update about that! From the development side of things, we've decided to break down improvements to the IMT into smaller clusters of work that target specific issues, instead of delivering one huge overhaul in a single update. The primary…
- Patch 1.39.5 - 15 April 2026
April’s patch is now available to download and there’s plenty of fixes and improvements for you to review in the patch notes below.We recently had some exciting STARSEEKER news to share at our Triple-i Initiative showcase appearance, including an update on the Open Beta starting later this month! That said, it bears repeating that nothing has changed as far as our commitment to continue our monthly patches of fixes and improvements for ASTRONEER.And don’t forget that the EXO Cares Initiative is currently running. So, if you want to make the SOL system neat & tidy while earning some sweet rewards, then make sure you check it out.Something else I wanted to highlight is our Live Bug Tracker. As mentioned last month, we’re using this to track legacy bugs that have been around since before the release of Megatech. If you run into a bug that’s not already on there then be sure to report them…
- STARSEEKER Expedition Suit Available for Free in Astroneer! - 31 March 2026
Unless you have been under a Research Module for the last year, you probably know that we are working on a brand new game in the Astroneer universe: STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions!! (learn all about it and sign up for our beta tests here: www.starseekergame.com While we gear up for the launch of STARSEEKER in 2026, we wanted to make sure the Astroneer crew could get in on the fun! Log in (open up Astroneer) at any time for the next few weeks to automatically unlock STARSEEKER's Expedition Suit. Just head to the customization menu and equip it and you are good to go! (It might take a few minutes to unlock). Stay tuned for more info on our next Astroneer monthly update!!!-jt
- Patch 1.38.7 - 11 March 2026
Note: We're currently investigating some player reports over a couple of the items in the Patch Notes and have made some edits for awareness. Keep an eye on the Live Bug Tracker for updates.Another month and another patch is out, bringing some notable improvements and a lengthy list of bug fixes. And before we get into it, we have some updates to share.For starters, Megatech finally saw its release on the Nintendo Switch last week! This brought the platform back into parity with all others and added all of the patches released for the game since the original Megatech release. As we hoped, this seems to have been a much smoother release, and there are still further improvements to be made in these monthly patches. If you’re a Switch player, don’t forget to claim your free anniversary hat in the EXO Outfitters store!Another thing worth highlighting is that we made a final update to the Me…
- Patch 1.37.4 - 11 February 2026
The February patch is now available, and we have a sizeable list of fixes and improvements for you to review in the patch notes below. And while you’re here, we also have some more news to share. For starters, work is already underway for the March patch, and with this one we’ll start trying to address not just recent issues in the game but also legacy ones that have been around for some time. It’s worth noting, however, that one reason these legacy issues have stuck around for so long is that they are tricky to figure out. Some of these fixes might end up making it into later patches, but we still thought it worth sharing that work is underway. We’re also working on getting some quality-of-life improvements into the game, as we’ve communicated previously. These should trickle out over the coming months, and we already have a lengthy list of ideas thanks to everyone sharing their feedba…
- MEGATECH HOTFIX 4 - 13 January 2026
UPDATE: Looks like we missed a few more fixes that went into this Hotfix and weren’t noted here when we initially shared these Patch Notes. The previously unlisted fixes have been added in italics to better help distinguish them.Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday season.We’re starting the year with a new hotfix tackling more Megatech bugs, and we’re already making good progress for the next patch in February.For some context, before the end of the year we shared a message to the community with insight into our plans for ASTRONEER in 2026. We stated that for the first half of this new year we’re committing to monthly updates focused on bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements to the game. You should see more of the latter after the first couple of patches this year, since we already had some prior work in progress towards this hotfix and the update that will be coincidi…
- Astroneer in 2026 - 18 December 2025
Hey all! Joe here to follow up on our earlier message regarding the plan forward for Megatech and beyond. Now that we have released Hotfix 3, the work continues! Let's talk about where we go from here:TLDR: We are moving to a monthly patch cadence to fix bugs, longtime issues, and make quality of life changes for the first part of 2026 instead of focusing on new content. Megatech bugs and releasing Megatech on Switch will be first on the list, and then we will move on to things we should have fixed/changed a long time ago. Now for the full explanation: The team has been answering tickets, reading online posts, and working with community members to take feedback in the month since Megatech has been out. That being said, releasing any game content this late in the year carries one significant risk barrier: shutdown dates for platforms. Because we are a multiplatform game, we need to prepa…
- MEGATECH UPDATE HOTFIX 3 - 9 December 2025
Our latest Hotfix is now available, addressing some of the more persistent issues present in the game along with a few more fixes we were able to fit in. Of particular note are the improvements for the partial nuggets issue and the issue where Xbox players who purchased Megatech via a bundle were not getting access to that content as intended. We also buffed the storage capacity of the new Large Canisters, so thank you for sharing your feedback. As we mentioned on our recent statement, we will continue to work on additional fixes in order of severity, but please continue to send your bug reports for any issues you encounter as you run into them. We’ll update you with a more specific time frame as soon as we’re able to and thank you for your patience as we work on resolving these issues. If you have other issues that you want to report, please send us an email at [email protected] so…
- ASTRONEER: Megatech – An Overdue Apology - 6 December 2025
To Our CommunityAll of us here at System Era and the ASTRONEER development team apologize to you, our players. The Megatech update does not reflect the experience we want our community to have. It also does not reflect our profound appreciation for the support you have shown us and ASTRONEER through the years. We were overly ambitious with our desires for Megatech and that bit us. Ambition is good when kept in check but disastrous when it impacts our ability to deliver a great experience at launch. This has been a painful but important lesson for our team. We are committed to fixing the game in both the short and long term. We are also focused on repairing the trust we've broken with all of you. Alongside providing stable fixes for the content that you've purchased, we owe you all a greater degree of transparency in our communications as we work to rectify this situation. We will update…
- Megatech Update – Troubleshooting Report - 3 December 2025
Our team has been diligently looking at all the feedback and reports coming from the community, and we have valuable information to share that we hope will be of help. *LAST UPDATED: February 25th, 2026 – Any changes from the previous version of this report will be added in italic lettering to facilitate distinguishing new updates. This is the final update for this report, as we transition over to using the Live Bug Tracker in its place.Modding ReminderWe’ve seen reports of the game crashing upon launch, and in the vast majority of early cases this was because the game was modded. We do not officially support mods, so if you have used them on any of your old saves, you are likely going to crash. We recommend removing all mods and starting a new save if you want to enjoy the content. Do consider that simply reinstalling the game can still leave mod files behind.Note: To help clear up any…
- Big Thanks for a Mega Launch! – SES Community Update NOV.25 - 26 November 2025
Set your Megastructure projects aside for a few minutes to join us in looking back at the big week we’ve had since the launch of the Megatech update.YOU Made it Mega!Ever since we announced the Megatech update, we’ve been both humbled and excited by the overwhelming reaction we got from you, our community. Our goal was to make something that the ASTRONEER community could sink its teeth into and add new dimensions of fun to the game, and judging from your enthusiasm it seems we must have done something right!Since the launch of Megatech last week, we’ve had over 100,000 new players (And that’s on Steam alone) jumping into ASTRONEER for the first time! We’re incredibly grateful for your ongoing support of our quirky little space game and hope you continue to look forward to what we bring in the future; we still have plenty more plans for ASTRONEER.Ongoing Megatech WorkThat said, there’s s…
- MEGATECH UPDATE HOTFIX 2 - 22 November 2025
Once again, thanks so much for your feedback and bug reports! We chased down several fixes today that were reported by the community. If you run into new bugs or issues that you want to report, shoot us an email at [email protected] and we can get a ticket started to track it! Hotfix 1 & 2 will be deployed to consoles in the coming days. We do want to call out once again - We do not officially support mods, so if you have used them on any of your old saves, you are likely to crash. We are a small team and will not be able to fix that for you, so please don't inundate the support line with reports on modded saves. We recommend installing fresh and starting a new save if you want to enjoy the content and use mods at your own risk! NOTE: This version will break crossplay compatibility for dedicated servers while we wait for this patch to pass certification on consoles. Steam players sh…
