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- Startron (662000)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 27 February 2026 - 10:18:34 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Startron v0.154 has been released! Tweaks & updates The cosmos and its systems are now made from a process of splattering the elements based on their abundance (numbers I'd decided even before v0.01 but never used) and congealing them into star systems, with the exact size and type of star based on the available mass and chemical makeup in the cosmic soup. (There's way more to it than this, but the key point is it's no longer just down to dice rolls.) As a result of this, systems can no longer generate on top of each other or within 1 tile of each other (as this is factored into the above algorithm instead of producing a messy cosmos map for the player) Once entities form in systems, depending on the proximity to other entities and the instability of the star they're around, they can be smashed apart or combine together - this also mixes up the elements available (comets are also pulled ...