- Boxelware's second game, Aquapark Tycoon, is now available in Early Access! - 22 July 2026
Hey everyone!This is a special kind of announcement: Our new game Aquapark Tycoon is now available in Early Access! We don't usually do this kind of cross-promotion, but we're making an exception this one time since this is a very important milestone for us as a studio, and the release of the game is important for our future. If this game might be for you, please feel invited to check it out. It's a classic theme park tycoon game but for water parks. And there's a demo out for it, too, if you'd like to test the waters a bit first.Also, and this is important! There will be more Avorion news soon, too, so stay tuned! :)Happy playing!- The Boxelware Team
- Patch 2.5.13 now live on default - 16 March 2026
(combined patch notes for 2.5.12 & 2.5.13) Rendering Added a workaround for a rendering freeze that could occur primarily during Rift missions with AMD cards on WindowsA visual distortion effect is now disabled for some AMD cards If you still experience render freezes or crashes in Rift missions with this version, please report it as a comment here or in our Discord (channel #feedback) and mention your full GPU name. Networking Fixed an issue that could cause lag / rubberbanding in certain situations, especially:Singleplayer with Steam offline modeLAN MultiplayerIn rift sectors and sectors with many enemies GameplayA station's fighters can now perform harvest command sector-wide UISubsystems can now be removed from disabled slots in the Ship Menu (e.g. after scaling the ship to a smaller size)Removal depends on the same rules as removing from activated slots: Permanent upgrades will be…
- Beta Patch 2.5.13 now available - 11 March 2026
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. Rendering Added a workaround for a rendering freeze that could occur primarily during Rift missions with AMD cards on WindowsA visual distortion effect is now disabled for some AMD cards If you had render freezes or crashes in Rift missions before, please test this beta and report your results as a comment or on our Discord (channel #beta-feedback) Bugfixes Fixed a crash when entering build mode after externally modifying the folder structure for saved templates (when templates were placed in the quick bar)
- Beta Patch 2.5.12 now available - 12 February 2026
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. Networking Fixed an issue that could cause lag / rubberbanding in certain situations, especially:Singleplayer with Steam offline modeLAN MultiplayerIn rift sectors and sectors with many enemies GameplayA station's fighters can now perform harvest command sector-wide UISubsystems can now be removed from disabled slots in the Ship Menu (e.g. after scaling the ship to a smaller size)Removal depends on the same rules as removing from activated slots: Permanent upgrades will be destroyed unless you're close to an equipment dock B…
- Patch 2.5.11 now live on default - 15 December 2025
(same as 2.5.11 beta patch notes) Gameplay (Into The Rift)Acid Fog environmental effect is less severe nowOverall damage is slightly reduced; maximum damage has been halvedAffected material progression has been shifted towards the center of the galaxy, so that there is more of the next safe material available in nearby sectorsRift Research Data loot is now marked when using an object detectorScannable radiating asteroids change their color back to normal after being usedAdded a visual indicator when ships are getting damaged from radiating asteroidsQuantum Xsotan now stay closer to the fightActivated wormhole generators are now highlighted and shown in Strategy Mode's sector overview Quality of LifeAdded preview for new mass and new number of subsystem sockets when scaling ship in Build Mode (in Modify Whole Ship window) UIStrategy Mode: added message beacons, sector renaming beacons an…
- Beta Patch 2.5.11 now available - 2 December 2025
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. Gameplay (Into The Rift)Acid Fog environmental effect is less severe nowOverall damage is slightly reduced; maximum damage has been halvedAffected material progression has been shifted towards the center of the galaxy, so that there is more of the next safe material available in nearby sectorsRift Research Data loot is now marked when using an object detectorScannable radiating asteroids change their color back to normal after being usedAdded a visual indicator when ships are getting damaged from radiating asteroidsQuantum X…
- Patch 2.5.10 now live on default - 22 September 2025
(same as 2.5.10 beta patch notes + translation fix) ITR GameplayRifts prevent Ore purification. Previously this meant that you could not mine asteroids in rifts with Purifying Mining Lasers at all. Now they can break up rift stone like R-Mining Lasers, but not as efficiently.Secondary objective objects are no longer dockable to avoid confusionObject Detectors can now detect and highlight the Time DeviceAdded additional dialog to the Time Device to make it clearer that you need to complete all Into The Rift story missions before you can use itImproved description of Xsotan Core Extraction mission objectives ITR QoLRift extraction is now always visible in HUD (for Ripcord, Wormhole Generator, Wormhole Device)Rift teleport (both into the rift and out of it via Ripcord) can now be canceledImproved the teleporters "Go-To" dialog option: in addition to being moved to the teleporter, the playe…
- Beta Patch 2.5.10 now available - 15 September 2025
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. ITR GameplayRifts prevent Ore purification. Previously this meant that you could not mine asteroids in rifts with Purifying Mining Lasers at all. Now they can break up rift stone like R-Mining Lasers, but not as efficiently.Secondary objective objects are no longer dockable to avoid confusionObject Detectors can now detect and highlight the Time DeviceAdded additional dialog to the Time Device to make it clearer that you need to complete all Into The Rift story missions before you can use itImproved description of Xsotan Cor…
- Patch 2.5.9 now live on default - 30 July 2025
GameplayPassing ships can now use gates Gameplay (Into The Rift)Ancient gates in rifts now have a higher durability to prevent them from getting destroyed accidentallySeveral objects in rifts now slow down after collisions and being shot: battery stashes and batteries, wormhole generator, weapon chamber and its switches, marker and path buoys Bugfixes Fixed an issue where the scaling sliders for non-uniform ship scaling would be set to zero percent upon opening the menuFixed an issue in strategy mode where fast clicking on entries in the ship list while holding CTRL would stop the sector from being rendered Fixed an issue where log files would only print hexadecimal numbers after a certain pointTo mitigate similar issues, a workaround to reset the number format regularly has been added as well Reduced issues that would lead to multiple log lines getting heavily mixed together Fixed an i…
- Beta Patch 2.5.9 now available - 24 July 2025
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. GameplayPassing ships can now use gates Gameplay (Into The Rift)Ancient gates in rifts now have a higher durability to prevent them from getting destroyed accidentallySeveral objects in rifts now slow down after collisions and being shot: battery stashes and batteries, wormhole generator, weapon chamber and its switches, marker and path buoys Bugfixes Fixed an issue where the scaling sliders for non-uniform ship scaling would be set to zero percent upon opening the menuFixed an issue in strategy mode where fast clicking on e…
- Patch 2.5.8 now live on default - 23 June 2025
GameplayThe co-pilot now automatically becomes the new pilot if the former pilot leaves the shipWormhole Generator does not float away anymore if a ship collides with it or it is shotEscort AIEscorting ships no longer consider collisions as intentional attackEscorting ships no longer attack allied ships if they are damaged by them (same behavior as when the escorted ship is damaged)Escorting ships no longer fire at enemies that have stopped attacking them for at least 15 seconds (and have not attacked the escorted ship before)Disabled boarding of player or alliance ships if in a neutral zone or if player-to-player damage is disabledBlack Market DLC: trader missions no longer start with a forced dialog; instead the player is hailed and can accept or declineThe pause menu can now be accessed while playing the tutorial UIAdded a continue button to the main menuNote: This will restart the l…
- Beta Patch 2.5.8 now available - 17 June 2025
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. GameplayThe co-pilot now automatically becomes the new pilot if the former pilot leaves the shipWormhole Generator does not float away anymore if a ship collides with it or it is shotEscort AIEscorting ships no longer consider collisions as intentional attackEscorting ships no longer attack allied ships if they are damaged by them (same behavior as when the escorted ship is damaged)Escorting ships no longer fire at enemies that have stopped attacking them for at least 15 seconds (and have not attacked the escorted ship befor…
- Patches 2.5.6 and 2.5.7 now live on default - 12 March 2025
Hello & Olá, we've applied a few finishing touches to our recent updates and they are now live for everyone. In case you didn't have a look at the beta patch notes so far, here are the combined patch notes for 2.5.6 and 2.5.7: LanguageAdded Portuguese (Brazil) GeneralScenario presets have been added to free play settingsAdded a free play setting to set the minimum block size value for new galaxiesYou no longer have to edit server.ini directlyWe have extended the allowed values for the minimum block size limitValues can now be between 0.00001 and 0.01.This is only a lowest allowed value, it doesn't impact precision or bigger values. E.g. you can still build blocks with size 0.0125. Build ModeAdded new highlight modes to show blocks that are smaller than the default and the server's minimum block size limitYou can use these to verify your builds before publishing them to the workshopAdded…
- Beta Patch 2.5.7 now available - 5 March 2025
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. The changes from 2.5.6 need a tiny bit more testing before they can go live on default. In the meantime, here's a new language and a few small fixes: LanguageAdded Portuguese (Brazil) GameplayShips and Stations that get damaged due to decay now send a more accurate warningBefore these crafts would send the general "Craft is under attack" warning Bugfixes Fixed an issue where NPC miners would sit idle in sectors instead of mining Fixed a visual bug in "Rescue an Associate" mission Improved some texts in the Russian translatio…
- Beta Patch 2.5.6 now available - 5 February 2025
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. General Scenario presets have been added to free play settingsAdded a free play setting to set the minimum block size value for new galaxiesYou no longer have to edit server.ini directlyWe have extended the allowed values for the minimum block size limitValues can now be between 0.00001 and 0.01.This is only a lowest allowed value, it doesn't impact precision or bigger values. E.g. you can still build blocks with size 0.0125. Build ModeAdded new highlight modes to show blocks that are smaller than the default and the server'…
- Patch 2.5.5 is now live on default (Hotfix) - 13 December 2024
An issue affecting multiple users sneaked past beta testing into our previous release (see Bugfixes and QoL Update). So after a very short beta phase, this hotfix is now live for everyone. Thanks to everyone who reported the issue and thanks to everyone who already tested this hotfix on beta. Bugfixes Fixed an issue where images in the encyclopedia were distorted Fixed a crash when opening specific encyclopedia entries, for example "Integrity Fields"This was also triggered by choosing an integrity field block in build mode MiscReverted the bundled SDL2_image library to an older version (for Windows)
- Beta Branch Patch 2.5.5 Patchnotes - 12 December 2024
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. Bugfixes Fixed an issue where images in the encyclopedia were distorted Fixed a crash when opening specific encyclopedia entries, for example "Integrity Fields"This was also triggered by choosing an integrity field block in build mode MiscReverted the bundled SDL2_image library to an older version (for Windows)
- Bugfixes and QoL Update - 9 December 2024
Hello everyone! We're very happy to announce that the patches 2.5.3 and 2.5.4 are now available on default! Thank you to everyone who participated in the beta and all the valuable feedback! And now without further ado here is a highlight of the most important changes. Docking In the last update, we already made docking to a station more reliable by changing the underlying assessment of what is docked. While this made things less confusing code-wise, we noticed that the UI wasn't properly reflecting the docked status. To address this, we are now introducing the following changes: The station's indicators now correctly show the ship as docked as soon as you are close enough to transfer resources, crew, goods, ..., Tractor beams no longer pull your ship all the way to the dock if you have a functional transporter. They now stop as soon as your ship is in transporter range.Added visual effe…
- Beta Branch Patch 2.5.4 Patchnotes - 27 November 2024
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. Docking We've revisited docking this patch thanks to all the feedback we received from you! Even though we made docking a lot more stable with the changes from the last patch, you pointed us to some remaining issues that we are addressing now.The station's indicators did not consider functioning transporters, leading to inconsistent input hints. The indicators now correctly show the ship as docked as soon as you are close enough to transfer resources, crew, goods, ...Tractor beams no longer pull your ship all the way to the…
- Beta Branch Patch 2.5.3 Patchnotes - 2 September 2024
Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors. This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK): Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'. Secondary Block Colors Ship Name blocks no longer darken the text if a custom secondary color is set Added a button to swap primary and secondary colorsButton is hidden when both colors are equal Fixed an issue where blocks with colorized windows (Crew Quarters, some Hulls) did not flicker for wreckages and ships with low energy UIChanged the Hud menu button to open the Ship Menu slightly:While in Build Mode it will always open to the currently built shipAdded icon and extended tooltip to show whether the menu will open to a…
