The previous trader updates changed the way you contact and summon traders, and this update finally changes who the traders are, and what they trade. We've done a complete overhaul on how the traders and their wares are defined. Previously, traders and their goods and prices were programmatically generated, but this is now all hand authored. These changes were all designed with mod support in mind, and modders can create new unique traders easily.

Traders now, in general, only trade more basic items rather than fully manufactured goods. They also don't buy and sell the same things, but rather they will buy items that make thematic sense. For example, the alloy trader sells alloys but wants to buy ores. Traders will also occasionally want to sell or buy special items.


There are currently 5 unique traders, each buying and selling their own unique set of goods. Higher Tier versions of the traders will trade a wider variety of items.
They are:

• Ore Trader: More Ore Less
  
• Alloy Trader: All Alloys
  
• Hydroponics Trader: Green Futures
  
• Gas Trader: Gas For Less
  
• Construction Trader: Build INC

With two new landing pad modules you can now load gas and water into your landing pad storage allowing you to sell it to the traders. Hovering over the gas icon will display a tooltip letting you know the exact conditions of the gas mixture that the trader will accept.

The landing pad has a single storage atmosphere. The capacity of this storage atmosphere is expandable but is not intended as long term storage and you will need to purge it before loading in a new gas mix to sell, otherwise it will mix with the existing one.





Since the traders are more bespoke and sell a more well defined set of goods a new UI was required to display this information in a better way. The UI is designed to provide a better trading experience. The buy and sell sections are separated into their own tabs, and each trade item is made larger and easier to parse.



How you complete trades has changed as well, previously you would select everything you wish to buy and sell and then submit your trade. Now you simply buy and sell as you go for each item.



We have one more trading update to come. In the next update you'll see us leveraging all the features and improvements we've made in the last four updates to finalize and polish the trading game loop. Traders with different size and environmental requirements will require you to set up your landing pad in different ways and encourage you to have multiple landing pads that meet these different requirements.





Over the last year, we’ve completely refactored the net code making multiplayer more stable, we’re continuing to improve the connectivity, and we’ve improved some big systems to allow us to bring you better content and new game loops. All this while transitioning to a weekly update cycle.

All the community support, feedback, and involvement have made this possible. So thank you!

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a huge difference to the project. We've been working hard for the last five years, and feel confident the game has substantially improved over this time. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing DLC that we've made to allow those who enjoy the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to use in-game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Fixed Re-generating trader data during load could cause a ReferenceId clash. This step has been moved to after load is completed.
  
• Changed Moved re-registration step of loaded items that had a ReferenceId clash to after save has fully loaded.
  
• Fixed Calling a trader into land will stall and error out the interrogation of another trader. Thanks: Freeze (discord).
  
• Removed Debug logging on TraderShuttle.cs
  
• Changed TraderData hashing algorithm to be more robust.
  
• Added x100 mole to the custom names of all gas trades that deal with a modified quantity of 100
  
• Fixed mouse clicks not responding correctly on some objects after departing trader. Mouse state should now be reset correctly when closing trader window.
  
• Fixed added missing custom thumbnails for some sell data instances on trader ui
  
• Fixed Collision error on trader data Checksum.
  
• Fixed Null error on loading Motherboard.
  
• Fixed Refrigerated Vending Machine throws error when stacking plants.
  
• Fixed Refrigerated Vending machine not handling genetics data correctly when stacking or splitting stacks of plants.
  
• Fixed Incorrect material on Large Hanger Door buildstate0.
  
• Fixed NRE when getting custom colored thumbnails
  
• Fixed bug around selling consumables
  
• Changed thermal plants to require T3 trader, and only have a chance to appear
  
• Added SunPathTraceWorldAtmos bool in LightManager.
  
• Added Support for traders to sell items with Custom Names and Custom Colors.
  
• Fixed Gas trader sells bottled water in liquid canister (was previously selling it in gas canister).
  
• Added CustomColor and CustomName Implementation for TradableItem.
  
• Fixed water bottles not correctly watering plants
  
• Added missing item types for some trader data
  
• Added Liquid input piece to landingpad kit.
  
• Fixed SelectData not initialising on trader buys.
  
• Fixed sell quantities of steam for gas trader.
  
• Fixed ItemHydroponicTray kit has null entry.
  
• Added missing gamestring and fixed some missing icons on trade items
  
• Added CustomToolTipKey attribute to override tooltips on trade items when desired
  
• Added more generic consumable buys to various traders
  
• Added more flavour item requests from various traders
  
• Added trader console command for regenerating trader contacts
  
• Added mixed gas icon
  
• Fixed bug where bought stackables would not spawn with the correct stack size
  
• Added TradeResultMessageFromServer to allowed to process list for clients.
  
• Changed TradeQuantityAction now only executes on consumables that are not ingots. quantity actions on ingots and stackables will be handled elsewhere.
  
• Created random gas icon
  
• Added Checksum validation for traderData when generating traders from seed when loading or joining. On validation fail when loading the trader data will be regenerated. On Validation fail on join the client will disconnect.
  
• Added thumbnails for gas trades
  
• Fixed some trade items not having names
  
• Removed some unneeded validation code
  
• Made the child item condition tooltip use the prefab display name
  
• Added reagent tooltip changes to autogeneration in worldmanager
  
• Added GameStrings for TraderCanvas.
  
• Added If the base data of a saved trader has changed, that traders inventory will be regenerated. This is required to happen as trader inventory is generated from a seed and presumed to be determinative when loading and joining.
  
• Added GameStrings for new trading UI.
  
• Allowed for the selling of gas in bulk amounts
  
• Tweaking tradeables data to fix reagent selling
  
• Added code support for excluding items from a trader inventory based on trader tier.
  
• Added Verification step when loading serialized trader data that doesn't match current Trader data.
  
• changed remaining gas buys to be 100 mole increments
  
• changed ore trader extra purchases
  
• changed some xml whitespace issues
  
• Disabled buy button when you have insufficient credits
  
• Fixed condition tooltips not including child conditions
  
• Fixed tooltips not showing for reagents
  
• Added Serialization for traderDataInstances. Traders saved prior to this version will be regenerated with new a traderDataInstance on load.
  
• Fixed issue where items in a select weren't being initialised properly
  
• Added ability to repair AimEE (mining robot). For now using Duct Tape (requested credit: Keramane via steam).
  
• Added ability to deconstruct AimEE (mining robot) into its source kit using a drill (requested credit: Keramane via steam).
  
• Added Networking Calls for clients buying and selling to trader.
  
• Added GetQuantity on GasMixture returns totalMoles.
  
• Fixed error in TraderData Write() method.
  
• Added hydroponics trader buying produce.
  
• Reduced trader name pools to a single entry each
  
• standardized seed kit names
  
• Fixed trader ui tooltips not taking into account actions/conditions on BuyItem/SellItem
  
• Fixed actions on SellItem not being processed on trade completion
  
• Made refreshing the trader ui not zero out buy/sell amounts
  
• Refreshing trader ui will now not recreate all the items
  
• Added Handling for clients to request a buy or sell from a trader.
  
• Fixed Tablet showing incorrect energy radiated and convected values for pipe networks. Thanks Freeze, Discord.
  
• Made tooltip wording a little nicer on trader ui
  
• Added Implemented Ireferencable on TraderDataInstance and TransactionDataInstance.
  
• Changed refactored buyItem and SellItem methods to prepare for server-side logic.
  
• added construction trader alloy purchases
  
• Fixed Error when removing an element from a landingPad network.
  
• Changed If a landingPad network is saved without an atmosphere the game will create a new one for it on load and print an Action message in the console.
  
• further addition of new trader data, mainly Gas, Hyrdroponics, and construction.
  
• Added processing overlay when trade is waiting for atmosphere changes to propagate
  
• Added TraderData now syncing to Clients.
  
• Added TraderDataInstance generation now deterministic via seed.
  
• Fixed Error when creating new custom world (beta only).
  
• Fixed Entities not using the internal atmosphere of the new cryotubes when inside them.
  
• New trader ui will now appear when talking to trader
  
• Stationpedia links now correctly added to trade items
  
• Removed deprecated trading systems code.
  
• Removed Reference to old trading panel in scene.
  
• Added Read and Write methods for TraderDataInstance.
  
• Added error popups on trader UI for a few edge case scenarios
  
• Added tooltips to trader UI
  
• added some ore and alloy trader first pass values
  
• Fixed World Conditions now prevent a traderData from adding a buy or sell to a trader instance if the world condition is not met.
  
• Changed Syntax of WorldCondition Data.
  
• Added Generic Buy and Sell data can now be added at the game data level.
  
• Added A buy or sell data can be referenced in the trader data by a unique Id so as to avoid duplicate data across traders.
  
• Added Tier requirement of a transactionData can be added as an attribute.
  
• Added more functionality to trader UI to support buying and selling of different types of items
  
• Added liquid input module for landing pad
  
• Added gas input module for landing pad
  
• Added error print when TradableItem name is not a valid prefab.
  
• Fixed SleeperLeft and SleeperRight not using correct atmosphere for player breathing. They were using the external atmosphere instead of the sleeper internal atmosphere.
  
• Added Chance Element to TransactionData.
  
• Allow for player to buy gas from trader, gas will now be created correctly in landing pad gas storage
  
• Fixed mouse not unlocking when closing trader ui
  
• Added Explicit logic for applying a gasMix trade action.
  
• Added Todo notes to TradeDataHelper.
  
• Updated Reagents.cs
  
• Fixed spelling error in tradeables.xml
  
• Changed Reagents now authored as xml attributes for ReagentAction.
  
• Added behaviour to Execute functions for existing trade actions.
  
• Added OnSold() method to SellDataInstance. This should be called for each ITradable that is created when sold by the trader.
  
• Updated Reagents.cs generation script and regenerated reagents.cs
  
• Added sold out overlay to trader ui
  
• Fixed Item TradeCondition did not support multiple nested Items.
  
• Added HasChildItem returns a reference to the found item as ITradable.
  
• Connecting trader UI to back end plus a few small NRE fixes
  
• Fixed Error on game launch.
  
• Fixed SellDataInstance still using list of items.
  
• Changed IQuantity to Inherit from ITradable.
  
• Added methods for checking whether an iTradable meets buy conditions.
  
• Changed a traders buy or sell can now only contain one discrete item nested items are still supported.
  
• Small clean up trader contact code
  
• Implemented ITradable on Item & GasMixture.
  
• Added Methods to Evaluate a gasMix and list of items to fulfil a trader buy order.
  
• Integrating new trader ui with backend
  
• Fixed Error in XmlSaveLoad.
  
• Cleaned up trader contact code
  
• Added evaluation methods for Trader buying conditions.
  
• Changed Trader initialisation method also initialises conditions and actions.
  
• Updated traders to use the new data for their names
  
• combined station and trader contact in to single class and removed concept of contact type
  
• Fixed randomizer not being initialised correctly when loading game
  
• Added nullcheck to selldata
  
• Added Thumbnail to trading data
  
• Added new trader data to existing traders
  
• Implemented first pass of processing and storing new trader data
  
• Added sold out text to trader ui
  
• Added stationpedia button to new trader ui
  
• Spelling fix on tab well editor button
  
• Added tab well prefab and added it to the trader screen
  
• Renamed Trading Class to TradingHandler to prevent class with Trading namespace.
  
• Added Revised Trader Data Framework.
  
• Added 3 example traders to tradables.xml
  
• Added new trader UI first pass
  
• Moved ui tooltip and alerts panel to its own canvas
  
• Fixed An error in gas trader data.
  
• Added Example Trader Data for Ore, Gas and Hydroponics trader to tradables.xml
  
• Removed Un-needed files from 1st pass of trader data frame-work.
  
• Fixed temperature gamestring being created with the wrong key
  
• Fixed invalidcastexception caused when placing landingpads next to some structures
  
• Fixed logic motherboard causing error when clients are joining if there is a bad device reference present
  
• Added Data Framework for authored traders to support trader economic rebalance.

2022 was a very busy year for the Stationeers team. We consolidated our Statiioneers team with our ICARUS team at the same location, allowing us to draw together our talent and experiences across both teams.

Our efforts last year culminated in the release of a major multiplayer refactor that solved a great deal of issues and substantially optimized the code. The game was still heavily reliant on a method of making network connections that was unreliable and not performant - so we developed that further (a variation of RakNet we call "RocketNet"). We released this late last year as well as removing DRM entirely from the game and also any requirement for the game to run on steam.

This has presented an issue for players who have difficulty making multiplayer connections due to Internal Address issuing problems, stemming from port forwarding challenges and IP exhaustion. We are currently working hard to reimplement Steam P2P to work with our new multiplayer, as this will alleviate a lot of those having port forwarding and IP issues.

Many have noticed that after the major multiplayer refactor we have been focusing on redeveloping core areas of the game, trying to do so in a very deliberate and cohesive way. Sometimes this involves some small steps backwards - but our progress can be seen by the reworked hydroponics and our midway work on trading. Expect a lot more updates focused on developing what we would call the "hook" to the game. We have excellent systems but we are trying to make them matter. As always, we love discussing the game and where it should go here in the comments, on the forums, and more directly on the Discord.

As we're getting back in to the swing of things and making plans for the upcoming content updates we've been doing some house keeping and fixing a bunch of bugs reported by the community, as well as some additional fixes for the last update.


The trader contact list was sometimes breaking when you left a game and started or loaded a new game and would persist until you restarted the game.

We added the ability to pause the game while viewing the Stationpedia but the search was not working correctly while paused.

Changing an atmospheric network was causing devices to enter in to an error state and would only be fixed by turning the device off and back on again, which was not always possible.

When starting a game it would hang for an indeterminant amount of time when it had reached about 90% completion. There is now no stall time at all.

Work on the next trader update is underway and you can expect to see it be released next week.


Over the last year, we’ve completely refactored the net code making multiplayer more stable, we’re continuing to improve the connectivity, and we’ve improved some big systems to allow us to bring you better content and new game loops. All this while transitioning to a weekly update cycle.

All the community support, feedback, and involvement have made this possible. So thank you!

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a huge difference to the project. We've been working hard for the last five years, and feel confident the game has substantially improved over this time. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing DLC that we've made to allow those who enjoy the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to use in-game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Fixed typo in tutorial mission
  
• Fixed plant stabilizer arrows being emissive when the appliance is off
  
• Added custom project view editor tool for better project searching
  
• Fixed new trader contacts not displaying after leaving and loading a game
  
• Fixed stationpedia only returning one result when paused
  
• Fixed Atmospherics Devices go into an error state when adding pipes to one of their input or output networks.
  
• Fixed Pipe Network Atmospheres sometimes not being saved when the pipe network was being modified during the saving process.
  
• Fixed Error when trying to modify a mixerGroup property on an audioSource that is in the process of being destroyed.
  
• Fixed Heat exchangers stop working when an attached pipe network is modified.
  
• Fixed Plant Analyser not being able to scan Hydroponics Device
  
• Fixed missing mushroom spore bag thumbnail
  
• Fixed satellite power dial not showing correct tooltip text
  
• Fixed plants drinking and breathing while dead
  
• Fixed game hanging at ~90% while trying to start game while hosting
  
• Fixed issue with satellite dish not setting its closest contact correctly, which prevented logic values signal ID and Signal strength from returning expected values, signal strength returns as -1 until contact is resolved, and the degrees offset after resolving(smaller numbers are closer).
  
• Fixed SatelliteDish draws power from logic cable as well as power cable.
  
• Fixed constructing pieces of landing pad when it is linked to a computer can throw an error.
  
• Fixed Trader landing animation plays when loading a game with a trader already landed.
  
• Changed trader depart check to use grid system check instead of physics call.
  
• Fixed Trader shuttle not being lit by player headlight.
  
• Fixed saves failing to load because of null blocking grids array
  
• Fixed incorrect message when trading with no available credit card
  
• Trader code clean up.
  
• Changed Trader landing check from physics check to path trace.
  
• Fixed role sometimes being none when hosting
  
• Removed an external web request
  
• Reverted StartServer from being async
  
• Fixed Able to interact with logic chips behind closed roll cover.
  
• Fixed Translucent shader not calculating correct shadows.
  
• Fixed Ices lit from behind in lockers appear lit.
  
• Fixed name missing on medium and large hangar door. Removed unused hangar door kit
  
• Fixed Small Satellite dish is constructed with dish at incorrect horizontal rotation.
  
• Fixed items incorrectly popping out of chute valve after building a new chute next to a closed and occupied chute valve
  
• Fixed Incorrect pin-out n combustion centrifuge. (d0 pin was pointing to d1).
  
• Created GameStrings for remaining un-localised strings in combustion centrifuge tool tips.
  
• Fixed station contact tier dictionary from being cleared incorrectly

• Dishes now release contacts from interrogation if the wattage requirement is no longer met, this addresses a missmatch of information between the contact UI and the interrogation popup.
  
• Fixed possible issue where contact manager could potentially crash.
  
• Added ability to read and write power setting for small and medium satellite.
  
• Fixed mismatched types for power setting when updating clients.

When revisiting the trader contact mechanic, we really wanted to create an engaging system that would encourage engineering, automation and problem solving. In addition to finding traders, we’ll leverage this in the future to find destinations for your rockets, answer distress signals, and invite visitors to your station. The process of contacting contacts has been split into a few concepts.

Instead of dozens of contacts constantly spread around the sky, we’re moving to a more logic driven approach of having rules dictate when traders are available. As we transition from our older trader system, into the new one, we are providing the old traders as three separate tiers of contacts. These current contacts have increasing difficulties to contact and hang around for about 20 minutes before they leave and another one takes their place, so you’ll have to find the harder contacts if you want to check out many traders.



Contacts must be resolved by the dish before it can determine how accurately it is pointed at the contact. The time to resolve is determined by the dish's power output multiplied by the dish alignment, over the contact’s expected resolve wattage. If the contact is resolving too slowly, it likely indicates you are not close to the target at all, and you should try a very different angle since effective power levels scale exponentially with accuracy. Alternately, the contact might have a very high expected wattage, and your current dish just isnt big enough to resolve it in a reasonable time. The resolving process only uses 10% of the actual power your dish is set to.



Once you have resolved the contacts position, you’ll be able to press the interrogate button. Similar to resolving, you’ll need to land enough wattage on the contact, but fortunately the interrogation dialog will inform you of the current calculations. Unfortunately, Interrogation does have a hard minimum, and if the dish is not pointed well enough, or the power is too low, you won't be able to start the process. Interrogation also has a time requirement, with harder contacts taking significantly longer, so you’ll want to use high wattages to ensure you finish before the trader moves on. Once interrogation is complete, you can land the trader just as before.

Once we receive feedback we’ll review our plans for contacts in motion, contacts with more strict visibility requirements, resolving contacts while rotating dishes, and manual control of all dish operations.

As part of the new trader contact system you will need to make use of the existing and new satellite dishes. There are two new dishes, small and large, making the existing one the medium dish. They all work in a similar way but each size of dish uses much more power than the previous one, this extra power is needed to effectively contact traders.

The new Small Satellite Dish looks and behaves similar to the existing Medium Dish but is smaller. The Large Satellite Dish is an extremely large fixed dish structure. Visually, instead of the dish rotating and tilting the sensor is on a gantry. Functionally it still works in the same way as the other dishes.

The time to rotate these dishes increases as you go up in size. The small dish is very fast while the large dish will take several minutes to rotate 180 degrees.
Your support makes this possible


Over the last year, we’ve completely refactored the net code making multiplayer more stable, we’re continuing to improve the connectivity, and we’ve improved some big systems to allow us to bring you better content and new game loops. All this while transitioning to a weekly update cycle.

All the community support, feedback, and involvement have made this possible. So thank you!

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a huge difference to the project. We've been working hard for the last five years, and feel confident the game has substantially improved over this time. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing DLC that we've made to allow those who enjoy the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to use in-game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• RocketNet is now enabled
  
• RocketNet reads the LocalIpAddress from settings file and tries to host with that, if this fails it will fall back to it's original method where RakNet picks the host device
  
• Fixed spelling of Hangar
  
• Fixed bug where bodies pulled out of slots don't go to the correct exit position and can sometimes clip into the slots parent object
  
• Fixed ragdolls curling up into a ball after you pull them out of a slot
  
• Added New concept of "resolving" contacts through the Satellite Dish and Comms Motherboard, where the dish must be pointed at a contact for an amount of time, before full information is provided.
  
• Added When contacts "resolve", the comms motherboard shows the degrees off the dish is from the contact.
  
• Added To communicate with the traders, satellite dishes must now "interrogate" contacts with energy from the dish for a fixed amount of time.
  
• Added "Interrogation"/contact time scales linearly with dish power usage, and poor dish alignment negatively exponentially scales power.
  
• Changed Dishes to all have full sky FOVs, with scaling effectiveness when contacts are not centered, resulting in being able to generally know whats in the sky after "resolving" contacts.
  
• Added Contacts can now have different energy minimums, and sustainment periods required for "interrogation" to begin.
  
• Added Contacts can have an energy minimum to show/start "resolving".
  
• Reduced active contacts from 17 to 3.
  
• Several changes to comms/trader UI to support new contacting system.
  
• Added Large Hangar door a 3x1 modular Door.
  
• Added Buildstates and destroyed states to medium hangar Door.
  
• Fixed Spelling error with medium hangar door.
  
• Fixed A Pipe Atmosphere could have its gas deleted if pipes were removed from the network in quick succession. This could generally happen if using the authoring tool to delete pipes or in large bases when multiple players were working on the same pipe network.
  
• Fixed Suit storage could fill Emergency suits which would cause them to explode.
  
• Fixed bug around dismount direction on ladders being straight up. Has been returned to original behaviour of dismounting forwards
  
• Added Power Dial to Current SatelliteDish.
  
• Fixed Ignition values on Medium Hangar door.
  
• Refactored SatelliteDish animation system to prepare for new dish variants.
  
• Added Trader Contact tier system Close, Medium, Far. More distant traders will require higher power or more precise pointing to resolve and contact. Existing contacts in the save will default to medium.
  
• Changed default trader lifetime to 20minutes.
  
• Changed For new trader generations, one of each contact will appear at each distance tier.
  
• Changed SatelliteDish now consumes power based on its power dial setting when actively contacting or resolving.
  
• Removed Paint and microwares traders from new trader generation rolls.
  
• Fixed Error thrown by trading motherboard when number of contacts exceeded the expected max contacts.
  
• Removed some unused code for motherships
  
• Changed made vertical and horizontal properties on satellite dish virtual.
  
• Fixed Sometimes source prefabs could be removed from the scene when loading larger saves. These are now regenerated in a final validation step on load.
  
• Fixed Error when Centrifuge exports ores.
  
• Updated SatelliteDish Prefab to include power knob.
  
• Changed screencontacts button to not be active untill contact is resolved.
  
• Added more state handling to represent the current contact interrogation state presented in the commsterminal popup.
  
• Added small satellite dish
  
• Fixed several cases where interrogation would attempt to operate on a null contact
  
• General renaming of the contact process to interrogating
  
• Fixed trading terminal dialog allowing stale information to be used to try and contact the trader
  
• Fixed Root cause issue that caused Centrifuge to throw errors when exporting ores.
  
• Fixed Sometimes when mining game would throw errors and get stuck in mining animation.
  
• Fixed Game doesn't load due to ironOre source prefab getting destroyed on load.
  
• Refactor satellite dish contacts to not use dictionaries
  
• Added contacts reset their interrogation timer if they don't have a interrogating dish.
  
• Fixed another dish from stomping an in progress interrogation of a contact by a separate dish.
  
• Fixed contacts not being able to be interrogated without a landing pad
  
• Updated medium and small satellite dish kits
  
• Fixed issue where newly created satellite dishes would already have resolved all targets
  
• Added Large SatelliteDish. A massive fixed dish with a movable sensor that has a very high max wattage at the expense of very slow movement speed.
  
• Added Locks around all usages of DishScannedContacts as this collection is accessed from multiple threads.
  
• Added contacts reset their interrogation timer if they don't have a interrogating dish.
  
• Fixed another dish from stomping an in progress interrogation of a contact by a separate dish.
  
• Moved several trader UI related math operations onto their respective objects
  
• Fixed incorrect contact time estimations, and changed some text fields to better represent interrogation process state.
  
• Added if a contacts interrogating dish looses power or is turned off, interrogation will halt, and reset.
  
• Fixed StationContacts not serializing contacted status and contact wattage variables.
  
• Station Contact UI change first pass
  
• Updated Comms Motherboard UI
  
• added missing files from previous commit
  
• added older message based checks preventing trader from being called for various pad/vending machine/power reasons
  
• reduced all SatelliteDish rotate speeds
  
• fixed issue where resolve timers would process despite dish moving.
  
• Added time remaining counter to trader contact item
  
• Fixed Landing button being active while contact has not been made
  
• reverted unwanted scene changes
  
• Fixed build error caused by editor code
  
• Fixed missing tier icons
  
• Fixed small satellite returning the medium satellite kit on deconstruct
  
• Added and update recipes for satellite dishes
  
• Updated starting conditions for Vulcan and Venus to include requirements for trading
  
• Added the current dish name to the contact pop up
  
• Removed "trader requesting to land" prior to being able to call the trader to land
  
• Fixed "Satellite Dish" name to "Medium Satellite Dish"
  
• Made rotation tolerance smaller for satellite dish to remedy the dish not moving when framerate is very high
  
• Added new Satellite Icons
  
• Fixed resolving not correctly using the wattage if changed after dish rotation finished.
  
• Fixed resolving progressbar having unexpected behavior when changing some resolve parameters.
  
• Fixed GetWattageOnContact using maxWattage instead of wattage.
  
• Changed InitResolve timers to use unified helper functions for calculations.
  
• Changed all current contacts in game to have a minimum watts to resolve value of 0.
  
• Added Additional helper functions for common resolve time components.
  
• Changed random resolve offset to be generated when the resolving starts.
  
• Fixed errors in Dish Stationpedia entries
  
• Fixed issue where new contacts would be interpreted as already resolved
  
• Added the trading section to the Stationpedia
  
• Fixed comms motherboard from using dishes that were inoperable.
  
• Reduced power usage of dishes to 1/10th of set power while resolving, so only while interrogating is power fully used. idle dishes still use base draw.
  
• Disabled dishes will now loose their contact resolve data.
  
• reduced satellitedish idle power draw, as the main power usage occurs with use
  
• Added missing structures to trading page
  
• Fixed wrong icon for trading page
  
• Fixed screen contacts not properly clearing when no dishes are valid on the Motherboards.
  
• Changed dish SignalStrength logic type to return -1 when the best contact is currently still resolving.
  
• increased general dish strength when within 5 degrees
  
• missing file from previous commit
  
• Added build states to medium satellite dish
  
• Tweaked medium satellite wattage plus added animations back
  
• Fixed some contact item UI elements being left on when the parent object is disabled
  
• decreased water usage by 25% since food, water, and stress mechanic changes are still a few weeks away.
  
• decreased active Nitrolyzer power usage from 20k, to 6k.
  
• Added computer and comms motherboard to trading stationpedia page
  
• Updated Trading Stationpedia entry
  
• changed comms motherboard to use text instead of bar when Interrogating
  
• Fixed medium satellite dish's dish collider rotating incorrectly and being unaligned with the visual mesh
  
• Fixing problem with port being closed when a client leaves preventing other players from joining
  
• RocketNet now disconnects before clients send their disconnect message to host

Today we're doing a quick patch that brings a new low level multiplayer implementation. This change should mean that the network performance is better and connectivity should improve in some situations.
The larger issues around connecting to servers is an ongoing task that is actively being worked on.

Due to time constraints, we omitted the 3x1 hangar door from the previous update but we're taking this opportunity to add it.

Dismounting ladders had a bug caused by the changes to the movement controller and this has also been fixed.

The second trader update brings us a step closer to a more interesting, fun, and involved trading game loop. You can read about all the plans for trading in the previous blog post here.




Leveraging the new modular landing pad we’ve made some big changes to how you buy gas from traders. With the new Gas Storage and Gas Connector modules you can now buy large quantities of gas from traders with ease. Traders will provide a range of gas mixes which you can buy a certain quantity of which will be loaded into your landing pad gas storage to then be unloaded into your base's gas storage. In a coming update you will be able to sell gas mixes through the same mechanism.





These doors have been created in anticipation of the upcoming new trader types that require a pressurized breathable environment. In some harsher environments these doors can also be used to create safe conditions for trading gas. We will be adding new variants and sizes in upcoming updates.





There has been a long standing issue with the character movement which resulted in some players experiencing motion sickness caused by a form of camera jitter. This issue has plagued the project for years and we have put in considerable effort over that time to try and solve the problem. We’ve finally found a set of solutions which resolve the worst of the issue. If you’ve experienced this issue then we highly recommend that you give it another go and see if it’s made a difference for you. This is not a silver bullet for all players experiencing motion sickness but should be a big QoL improvement for many players.



Over the last year, we’ve completely refactored the net code making multiplayer more stable, we’re continuing to improve the connectivity, and we’ve improved some big systems to allow us to bring you better content and new game loops. All this while transitioning to a weekly update cycle.

All the community support, feedback, and involvement have made this possible. So thank you!

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a huge difference to the project. We've been working hard for the last five years, and feel confident the game has substantially improved over this time. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing DLC that we've made to allow those who enjoy the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to use in-game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Updated missing character icon when dragging bodies
  
• Fixed Medium Hanger Door not being able to be opened with the crowbar
  
• Removed Search button from Stationpedia as it has the same function as home button. Pressing home will return to main search screen.
  
• Fixed switchgrass appearing smaller in some slots
  
• Fixed transparency issue with switchgrass and hay material
  
• Reduced Volume of LandingPad Center.
  
• Reduced Max Speed of LadingPad Gas Output.
  
• Added Quantity modifier key (C by default) effects add and remove buttons on trading panel.
  
• Changed "++" and "--" buttons on trading panel now add/remove 100 items (or 1000 with quantity modifier).
  
• Fixed Trader selling Zero quantities of gas.
  
• Fixed cold gasses sold by trader have Temperature text colored correctly.
  
• Changed LandingPads to have the same pressure strength as pipes: 60 MPa
  
• Fixed bug where plants were not stacking/splitting correctly
  
• Refactored switchgrass and hay to remove IGatherable
  
• Allowed hay to be processed in advanced and portable composter
  
• Fixed can't trade with trader.
  
• Fixed Can trade with landed trader when pad is in error state or unpowered.
  
• Updated LandingPad Gas Storage model and added buildStates and destroyed state.
  
• Added LandingPad Gas Storage will now take damage when over 6000kpa and eventually break.
  
• Added LandingPad Gas Storage tanks play stressed sound when over maximum pressure.
  
• Fixed Trading can only commence if landing pad is fully operational.
  
• Jitter fixes - fixed bug where players were not aligned correctly in seats/slots. Fixed a few issues around when ragdoll and collisions are set when moving in and out of slots. Made camera not snap to forward when you press alt
  
• Added LandingPad Liquid Output. Pumps liquid purchased from a trader into a liquid pipe network.
  
• Added Traders will now only complete gas trades if there is enough gas storage capacity in the landing pad. The max pressure of the landingPad is 6000 KPa.
  
• Added Sounds and animation to LandingPadGasOutput.
  
• Added Landing Pad Gas Output for pumping gas out of the landing pad that has been purchased from a trader. Constructed with (Kit) Landing Pad.
  
• Fixed shuttles being able to depart when obstructed
  
• Fixed Gas Connector piece not blocking large grid.
  
• Fixed Polish pass on how gasses are displayed in trading panel
  
• Added Landing Pad Gas Storage. This landing pad piece allows the landing pad to store gas purchased from the trader. Constructed with (Kit) Landing pad.
  
• Changed Gas Traders now sell gas by the Mole. When purchased this gas will be pumped into the landing pad. (The player will need to add gas storage pieces to receive the gas).
  
• Added Gas traders will sell modest amounts of pure gas at 20DegreesC.
  
• Added Gas traders will now sell larger amounts of impure gas mixes at less than ideal Temperatures for lower prices.
  
• Refactored pipe network to inherit from StructureNetwork base class.
  
• Added AtmosphericsNetwork class as common parent for pipeNetwork and LandingPad network.
  
• Changed Plants trading value is no longer effected by grow time.
  
• Filled out InheritTraits to crops
  
• Added MediumHanger door. A 2x1 modular door for building openings up to 4 blocks wide.
  
• Renamed Airlock gate to small hanger door.
  
• Renamed (kit) Airlock Gate to (kit) hanger door.
  
• Jitter fixes - fixed terrain manipulator cursor not moving
  
• Adjusted Hay and Switchgrass grow/decay variables
  
• Add support for multiblock doors.
  
• Jitter fixes - regressions on ladders, seats, cryo and sleepers. Fixed jittery bodies for clients.
  
• made SwitchGrass Perennial
  
• Added new "Crop" concept to game. An item that can be harvested from a plant but can not be replanted in a Plant Slot.
  
• Added Hay to project.
  
• Fixed Deep miner cannot be turned on/off with logic.
  
• Removed mode variable from deepMiner as it wasn't being used.
  
• Fixed DeepMiner continues to animate when in error state.
  
• Tentative push of jitter fixes plus some fixes around dragging objects
  
• Added SwitchGrass seeds and plant prefabs to project
  
• Added gamestring to language xml editor method
  
• Fixed Mushrooms stop growing after a while.
  
• Fixed Mushrooms will now take damage after being lit for 120 seconds.
  
• Fixed Plant light and darkness calculations not handling zero values correctly.
  
• Fixed Plant healing and damage calculations not handling zero values correctly.
  
• Fixed missing discord meta file
  
• Fixed The list of all landingPad networks not begin cleared between loading new saves resulting in an error thrown on load when trying to register duplicate entries.

This new modular landing pad system is replacing the existing landing pad structure. To set up a new landing pad you will need to build a Landing Pad Center surrounded by the landing pad pieces. It needs to be at least 3x3 with a Data and Power module. There isn't currently any new functionality with the new system but you can read more about why we’ve done this and what is to come.




We received a lot of feedback about the recent hydroponics changes, and one point that kept coming up was potatoes being too easy. While we wanted to keep an easy crop available for new players, the potatoes balance skipped out on too many mechanics. So we've doubled the time you'll need to keep them alive, and made them desire rest like the rest of the plants. We still have cooking/eating/drinking changes coming that will bring meaning, and usefulness to growing a diverse range of plants. We'll make cooking approachable enough that there is no excuse to not engage at a minimal level, but still deep enough that it’s easy to convince players to want to go one step slightly further into the system. Player feedback is the key to us making Stationeers great.




Our current trading is a good foundation, but parts of it should be expanded to make it a mechanic that the player upgrades multiple times. Traders should be another tool the player can leverage to help them solve problems. By integrating trading with more devices, and rooms, players will constantly want to expand and upgrade their trading system.



Pressurized Landing Hangars will be a major goal for players. Simple traders will still be callable with a minimal setup. Gas tankers will need a larger pad and expanded gas storage. Flight based ships will need a runway. Ships with living crew may also expect a pressurized environment before conducting business. With the need for pressurized hangars, we'll also be adding multi-block hangar doors that work vertically and horizontally. The new modular landing pad structures will let players build the landing pad to their desired size, and upgrade it with the features they need. Ultimately the hangar will be a new room addition to most stations, with enough mechanics and variants.

We will also be revisiting how traders are tracked down and contacted. The sky will become significantly more lonely, as traders pass by less frequently. New tiers of satellite dishes with variable power ranges will separate out the searching and contacting of signals, with some contacts requiring prolonged power expenditure to communicate with. The hardest contacts may even be in motion, and require tracking, or immense power expenditure to contact quickly. The harder contacts will bring a wealth of new experiences, bulk mining ships, gas tankers, freighters, medical shuttles, explorers and even visitor transports.

Finally, we'll also be reviewing what trading is in Stationeers. Rethinking what traders are, what they provide the players, and what the player can provide to them. We'll move away from such a procedural system, and instead have more stable content that players can develop better expectations of. Traders will also change based on what world the player is on, making them more likely to positively enhance the experience of living on an extreme world. Lastly, we're looking at adding new extra rare items that aren't normally obtainable, to act as a longer term goal for players to obtain.

The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can see the tremendous impact that it has had. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord make a big difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game has substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those who like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Fixed stationepdia inputfield trying to auto select when stationpedia is not visible
  
• Fixed LandingPad network reference not being set on clients for pad pieces.
  
• Fixed several places where Motherboards were not using the ITraderDestination interface.
  
• Renamed LandingPad.cs to LandingPadDeprecated.cs
  
• Fixed part of syncing landing pad on comms motherboard not working correctly
  
• Fixed Client message to call trader didn't work for new landing pad.
  
• Fixed Station contacts not handling there own network serialization for trading pad references.
  
• Fixed LandingPad Center-Piece not syncing parent motherboard and current trading contact to clients.
  
• Fixed Trader Landing Animation doesn't play on clients.
  
• Fixed landing pad straight and center piece destroyed states spawn in incorrect position.
  
• Fixed Error when trying to complete trade on old landing pad.
  
• Fixed new landing pad pieces being able to be built inside of frames
  
• Fixed Trader shuttle offset on Deprecated LandingPad.
  
• Fixed Can't call trader to deprecated LandingPad.
  
• Fixed LandingPad buildStates and destroyed states using incorrect material.
  
• Fixed LandingPad will now be disabled if the center-Piece or power-piece are not in their final build states.
  
• Fixed Flashing anim on landing pad not re-starting after on error state is resolved.
  
• Fixed Error In LandingPad Lights Anim.
  
• Added BuildStates and destroyed states to landing pad pieces.
  
• Fixed some mesh issues with landing pad pieces.
  
• Added Landing pad flashing Animation.
  
• Added Landing pad lights can now be painted.
  
• Added Landing pad centre piece and power piece will flash error if Landing pad is misconfigured.
  
• Added Trader can only land on a landing pad where all tiles are completely built.
  
• Added Descriptions of landing pad pieces to English.xml.
  
• Updated (Kit) landing pad recipe cost.
  
• Decreased Potato growth time by 2x, to be two days, and gave it a small darkness desire, to increase the skill floor of the easiest to grow crop.
  
• Improved Stationpedia UX. Search field selects automatically when on home screen.
  
• Fixed stationpedia animation while game is paused
  
• Fixed game still being paused when IC/Stationpedia panels are closed
  
• Fixed Smart rotate on landing pad pieces.
  
• Fixed Errors in Trader shuttle landing and take off animations.
  
• Disabled main panel on IC panel in editor
  
• Fixed Shuttle thrusters stay on after landing.
  
• Improved Shuttle landing pad clear sky detection.
  
• Fixed If Pad is obstructed trader console returns correct message.
  
• Added pause button to Stationpedia
  
• Added pause button to IC input panel
  
• Added play button and icon.
  
• Added pause button
  
• removed unused animation files
  
• Fixed headlamp not showing in suit storage slot
  
• Cleaned up landing pad animations
  
• Fixed StructureNetwork.DeserializeOnJoin reading count as Int16 instead of UInt16.
  
• Fixed Type error in StructureNetwork.DeserializeOnJoin breaking join message processing.
  
• Seperated shuttle craft animation files for more flexibility
  
• Changes positional animation data to DoTween for more a programmatic and dynamic approach paths
  
• Fixed missing plant analyser cartridge thumbnail
  
• Fixed missing plant analyser cartridge electronics printer recipe
  
• Removed an early exit optimisation for room generation that could erroneously stop a specific configuration of walls from registering as a room
  
• Added more accurate error messages for trading terminal for when a trader cannot land because of an incorrectly configured landing pad.
  
• Stopped inventory windows opening and closing when entering numbers in the console window
  
• updated Nitrous Oxide's stationpedia entry to have a more accurate description.
  
• Made the difficulty selection default to normal instead of easy
  
• Fixed shuttle landing orientation.
  
• Fixed shuttle kept getting spawned when closing trading panel UI
  
• Added offset to trader on center piece
  
• Fixed nitrous oxide stationpedia description pointing to the nitrogen description
  
• Fixed NREs for trader/shuttle on landing pad center piece
  
• Moved trade shuttle/pilot pool into base scene using singletons and prefab references
  
• Fixed Error when contacting trader with no (or an invalid) Landing pad connected to the computer. It will now return the correct error message in the pop-up window.
  
• Added prototype pieces for new modular trading pad system. Landing pads will now be constructed of large-grid sized blocks to enable creation of landing pads of various sizes and designs. This will support future work for new types and sizes of trader shuttle and integration of goods storage (including gases) into the landingPad.
  
• Added LandingPad Center piece. LandingPads must contain ONE center piece, this is the target location for the trader to land. landing pads with multiple center pieces will be considered invalid.
  
• Added LandingPad DataConnection Piece. This is how the modular landing pad receives power and connects to data networks.
  
• Added abstract Structure Network class. This contains all the basic functionality required for creating a new structure network. Additionally will support bringing pipe-cable-chute networks under a common parent.
  
• Deprecated Old trader landing pad.
  
• Changed Increased stack-size of (kit) LandingPad from 1 to 10.
  
• Fixed bad material on pipe label
  
• Tweaked pipe label scaling so the text looks less stretched in some cases
  
• Fixed bug where pipe labels were hidden on insulated liquid pipes
  
• Fixed bug where inventory selection indicator would scroll with mousewheel while you are placing some objects. Now mousewheel scroll will not move selection while placing. The next/previous keys (square brackets by default) will still move selection while placing.
  
• Moved TraderPilot and TraderShuttle into their own prefabs
  
• Added new prefab for Trader Pilot and Shuttle pooling to better support different trader/pilot types
  
• Fixed bug where decreasing emergency eva suit temperature via hotkey would toggle suit AC
  
• Reverting rocketnet to use IPv4 address instead of public/external
  
• Changed the Base scene's reflection intensity to 0 to fix shiny terrain
  
• Fixed bug where decreasing eva suit temperature via hotkey would toggle suit AC
  
• Added some clarification to a confusing tutorial step

This hot-fix fixes the missing plant analyzer cartridge recipe for the electronics printer and the missing plant analyzer cartridge thumbnail.

This week is all about gene manipulation. We’ve added the Genetics Stabilizer, Genetics Splicer, a new plant PDA cartridge, increased the impact of lighting conditions, as well as fixing a number of both new and historic bugs.


There is now a stability value associated with each gene. Genes with a high stability value will mutate less when passed to the next generation. The Genetics Stabilizer has two modes which allow for the manipulation of these values. The first mode, stabilize, allows you to increase the stability of all the genes at the same time. The second mode, destabilize, decreases the stability of all genes, however it allows you to target a specific gene to be destabilized to a greater degree.

With proper usage of this appliance you should be able to target one or more genes to mutate at a high rate while freezing the state of all other genes.


Another way to modify a plant's genes is to use the Genetics Splicer. The splicer is a simple Appliance that allows you to take a single gene from one source plant and overwrite a gene on another target plant. This is a destructive process and will result in the source plant being destroyed in the process.

The Plant Analyzer gives you more information beyond the tooltips about the current status of plants and removes some of the mystery of what goes into the growth speed of plants.

Previously lighting was overly simplified and the light received by a plant would be limited to a single light source. Now plants can receive light from multiple sources at the same time, such as a grow light and the sun. A plant receiving more light than needed will help it achieve it’s required amount of light faster.

To bring the effect of lighting in line with the other environmental variables plants will now perish if they spend excessive amounts of time in either light or dark. Previously this would make them stop growing but would not have any permanent effect on the plant.

When we refactored the old multiplayer system and removed the requirement for Steam API for the game, so that the game could outlive steam (and our studio) if need be, as well as make everyone able to play the games with their friends (even if pirated) - it made our connection system very "brittle". We have come up with an entirely new connection system forked from RakNet, we call "RocketNet". This should be much more robust for establishing connections and substantially reduces memory overhead and increased server/host performance.

You can test this out in a special hidden branch of the game, unlocked with the following. Please note that there is no enabled version of the dedicated server, and this may not be as stable as stationeers main branch.
User: rocketnettest
Password: theremaybebugs

As noted above, we had to remove some steam functionality as we redeveloped the core of the multiplayer. We realize how important this is to many people with more complex routing situations. We are working on Steam P2P again, and will have a working test version for you as soon as well.

The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can see the tremendous impact that it has had. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord make a big difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game has substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those who like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Updated stationpedia description for plant splicer
  
• Updated plant splicer description on stationpedia
  
• Added stationpedia description for plant splicer
  
• Added paintable material to Plant Analyzer and Stabilizer
  
• Fixed missing percentage on stabilizer tooltip
  
• Tweaked plant stabilizer arrow position
  
• Updated plant stabilizer model
  
• Tweaked plant stabilizer and splicer tooltips
  
• Fixed activate button on stabilizer staying enabled when processing
  
• Fixed power button flashing error state incorrectly on plant analyser and stabilizer
  
• Fixed progress percent not syncing on client for plant stabilizer
  
• Fixed Some Graphics settings not being applied until the user opened the settings panel.
  
• Fixed Some shadow settings to be defaulted on starting the game or when selecting a new GraphicsQuality Setting.
  
• Plant Analyser Cartridge first pass
  
• Added the ability to sample loose (non slotted) plants with the plant sampler
  
• Removed allocating call from clear fertilizer tooltip
  
• Fixed emissive materials on Stabilizer
  
• Added Stabilizer recipe
  
• Fixed bug where appliances attached to benches would not have their powered state set correctly when adding and removing power cables to the network
  
• Cleaned up some unused code in device
  
• Fixed syncing problems with plant stabiliser
  
• Fixed powering issues with Stabiliser
  
• Changed processing times. Stabilise: 1 minute, Destabilise: 2 minutes
  
• Fixed slot scaling in Stailiser slot
  
• Fixed tooltips to be more consistent with previous appliances and devices
  
• Made plants in splicer scale to the slot size
  
• Fixed issue with bench on/off switch not having an effect on connected appliances' power state. This will only take effect on newly added appliances for now
  
• Tweaked power usage for some appliances. Lamps 1W, Packaging machine 5W, Paint mixer 5W, Plant analyser 10W, Plant splicer 100W, Plant stabiliser 100W
  
• Fixed some emissive materials on plant analyser
  
• Removed error log spamming from Astroid.cs
  
• Fixed NRE from unset human in cursormanager
  
• Changed stability to float, but sbyte for networking.
  
• Slowed down splicer animation
  
• Changed plant mutations to roll genetic variations at the extremes of possibilities when plant stability nears -1.
  
• Increased the genetic mutation amount that passes onto children after plants are subjected to negative parameters by 60%.
  
• Added plant genetic splicer. Can be used to copy a chosen gene from one plant to another. After copying the source plant will be destroyed.
  
• Fixed Entities positioned incorrectly in seats (regression from rev. 17908).
  
• Fixed Player not positioned correctly in rover and camera not locked correctly to rover position (regression from rev. 17908).
  
• Changed Disabled inworld interaction when sitting in rover as it was causing the collider targeting to flicker in and out. Rover buttons can still be used while seated by using mouse control (Alt Key).
  
• Fixed Compass not reporting correct heading when seated in rover (regression from rev. 17908).
  
• Fixed cancel token for processing stabilizer
  
• Added first pass implementation of Plant Genetic Stabilizer
  
• Fixed Tracker cartridge arrow not pointing in correct direction. (regression rev. 17908)
  
• Changed Reduced power consumption of portable beacon. It will now last 5 in-game days on a small battery.
  
• Fixed Other players in multiplayer looking towards local players IK target instead of their own IK target.
  
• Added LightTolerance and DarknessTolerance genes to stationpedia and genetics panel.
  
• Improved Plant Light and Darkness needs to be calculated in a real-time way rather than on a 1-day tick.
  
• Added Light Tolerance and Darkness Tolerance genes. Plants left in permanent light or darkness will eventually die.
  
• Fixed Compass not showing correct heading.
  
• Fixed Thrown items would sometimes collide with suit.
  
• Reverted mushroom recipes until the issues around them can be resolved
  
• Fixed Targeting ray-cast for 1st person interactions is incorrectly offset.
  
• Removed An instance where character physics interpolation could be disabled.
  
• Fixed Creative spawn not putting item in-front of player. (regression rev17908)
  
• Fixed Physics interpolation on players sometimes getting disabled on load.
  
• Fixed harvey throwing errors when planting
  
• Fixed harvey being able to harvest non mature plants
  
• Fixed plant seeds sometimes not coming back for perennials
  
• Fixed harvest quantity for fruit being very low after the first harvest for perennials
  
• Fixed Items held in hands stuttering/ghosting when rotating view.
  
• Improved responsiveness of mouse input. Removed smoothing functions from camera input and IK targeting.
  
• Fixed Stuttering movement on first person helmet.
  
• Removed Hands and helmet lagging player movement in first person. 1st person helmet and items in hands are now locked to player camera.
  
• Fixed Items in hands stuttering movement when circle-strafing.
  
• Changed Character Prefab, y-rotation Transform is now on a separate layer so as not to interfere with rigid-body interpolation.
  
• Moved Some character and camera movement code into the correct parts of the update loop (in most cases this was moving animation logic from fixed-update to late update).
  
• Fixed missing quantity modifier key from certain tooltips
  
• Revert MixInWorld changes
  
• Added 'direction' option to the atmos debug command
  
• Adjusted atmosphere mixing so that new empty atmospheres mix more slowly for the first few ticks. This should alleviate issues with mining on high pressure worlds throwing players around
  
• Fixed not being able to save if Save Path in settings is set to a bad path. It will now fall back to the default path and default the Settings Path.

Continuing to expand on last week's update, we've added some new features to how plants process light and made some quality of life changes to the plant tooltips. We've also focused on general big fixing.



Sunlight and grow lights now both scale the amount of time the plant has received light for, based on their solar intensity. Sunny planets like Vulcan receive a 150% multiplier to time spent in light, while distant, cold planets like Mimas only receive 18% of the time spent in light. Plants grown solely from the sun on distant planets may become extremely stressed, and struggle to mature. Grow lights have been reduced to 80% intensity.



Fortunately, grow lights now cumulatively add light to plants in combination with the sun. Hydroponic setups with both exterior windows, and artificial lighting will often have an edge in meeting a plant's light requirements. Additionally, we've added the ability for plants to get an extra growth bonus for extra time spent in the light. Some of the longer growing plants, corn and pumpkins, have had their required darkness lowered, so you can give them extra time in the sunshine.

Keep in mind that plants still need a rest period out of light, and wont get growth bonuses when stressed from lack of rest. You may want to automate the process with solar sensors, timers, or just an old fashioned light switch.

The several plant entries have had descriptions updated in the Stationpedia, to point out the nuances of several plants, and give players an idea of what growing the crop may entail.



Plants can now be given custom names using the labeler. Additionally, when you use the labeler to give your planter a custom name that name will be passed on to the plants as well. This will help with organizing your farm and save getting your plants mixed up.



We've done a lot of work on getting more localization coverage. Work is continuing here but the changes have not yet been exposed. In the coming months we will be putting more effort in to this area, so watch this space.



There was a number of nasty bugs around saving that was causing corrupted saves and resulted in some weird behaviour after loading them again. The Discord integration was sometimes causing games to fail to load, this is now being handled correctly so you can continue to load without Discord integration.

Some people were experiencing empty tanks, or rather missing thing atmospheres, after loading a game. We've implemented a temporary fix for this and are hunting down a permanent solution. If you are still experiencing this then please do report it.



The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can see the tremendous impact that it has had. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord make a big difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game has substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those who like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Updated plant tooltips to be more compact and only convey verbose information when something is wrong
  
• Improved stationpedia layout for plants that interact with multiple gasses.
  
• Fixed trader throwing error when no comms motherboard is inserted into computer
  
• Added Plants now can get extra sunlight per day, giving them a growth bonus, only if their required darkness time is met.
  
• Added Plants now normalize their lit time to the strength of the light source. Growing plants on planets with low solar intensity will require more light time.
  
• Added Plants can now cumulatively have the sun, and a single grow light applying light to them.
  
• Changed The basic grow light to only provide light at 80% Intensity.
  
• Reduced Corn and Pumpkin's minimum darkness, to allow them to gain larger growth bonuses from extra light.
  
• Updated individual plants stationpedia entries to highlight design intent/differences.
  
• Fixed stacker tool tip showing quantity twice
  
• Added in some missing text in stationpedia and tutorials
  
• Fixed Centrifuge sometimes throws error when exporting processed dirty ores.
  
• Added more detailed exceptions within Asteroid.SetMineableRenderers() to try track down a bug
  
• Fixed 5-way cable junctions reduced to 3 from 4 cables to be the same as 6-way junctions.
  
• Fixed GameStrings key issue
  
• Fixed Error when reading collectableGoods on modular rocket before it has been launched (will now return false).
  
• Removed hard coded failure strings from tooltips into GameStrings
  
• Fixed split stacks only going to the left hand. Split stacks will now go to any free hand or merge with a stackable in hand of the same type. If none is found the split stack will be dropped on the ground.
  
• Moved success tooltip messages into append message method
  
• Moved more tooltip strings into GameStrings for localisation
  
• Made sorter filter scroll bar slightly wider
  
• Fixed 'stormend' command not working correctly. Replaced 'stormbegin' and 'stormend' commands with 'storm start' and 'storm stop'. Stop command will now correctly stop the current storm.
  
• Fixed Spelling error in Plant tooltip.
  
• Fixed Instance where a save with a lower than expected number of serialized trader contacts would fail to load.
  
• Fixed game string key double up
  
• Added missing mushroom recipes
  
• Removed obsolete class HelpTextDevice migrated to GameStrings
  
• Moved more hard coded strings to GameStrings for tooltips
  
• Fixed ArgumentOutOfRangeException thrown by Comms-motherboard when save contains erroneous trader contact data. Data will now be parsed correctly and erroneous data discarded.
  
• Fixed NREs when clients plant plants
  
• Fixed delete plants being called on client
  
• Fixed labelling plants on clients bringing up labeller window on server.
  
• Added Plant Genetic Analyser will now show the name of the plant that the sample came from.
  
• Added Plants and seeds can now be given custom names with the labeller. When labelling a stack of plants all items in the stack will receive that name.
  
• Added All planters can now be named with the labeller. Plants in the planters can be renamed by targeting the plants slot with the labeller.
  
• Added Plants will retain custom names when planted and pass on custom names to harvested child plants and seeds.
  
• Added Plants in a planter with a custom name will have the planters custom name appended to their custom name i.e PotatoGeneStock02_PlanterA
  
• Added Stacked Plants will retain their custom names in the same way as they retain their genetics data.
  
• Removed IsCustomName bool. It is more robust and performant to use !string.isNullOrEmpoty() instead.
  
• Converted ConsoleWindow GameStrings to Localistaion2.GameString
  
• Removed Thing overloads in GameString.AsString() to use the string casting at the high level to avoid excessive overloading or boxing
  
• Fixed audio related NRE that sometimes occurs during loading save
  
• Added cancel button to the 'this save is old' warning popup
  
• Disallowed saving when game state is 'loading' and in a few cases were the directory may not have been established yet
  
• Added partial fix for tanks being empty when starting a new game. Now, the game will be saved after several game ticks (instead of immediately) to let atmospherics settle
  
• Potential fix for locking issue for cable networks while client is in join process. STAT-2875.
  
• Re-ordered chutes in chute kit. New order is: straight, corner, window, junction, flipflop, valve, overflow, inlet, outlet
  
• Rounded values on the plant genetics panel to make it easier to read
  
• Fixed NRE RocketTankModules when loading game causing load failure. Fixes STAT-2862.
  
• Fixed Chute digital Flip Flop Splitter Left is missing from building variants
  
• Fixed issue with IC dropdown being covered by text area. Turned off raycast target on text area.
  
• Removed deprecated incidents menu
  
• Fixed formatting and changed text on the Laptop's Stationpedia page
  
• Added further messages to plant tooltip to let players know when the plant is not yet mature or not yet seeding
  
• Fixed game strings variable indexing causing issues with localisation in tool tips for plants
  
• Removing mothership references in stackable
  
• Fixed plants replenishing their fruit on loading save. Will now load with the correct number of fruit.
  
• Fixed Colliders disabled on window shutter glass.
  
• Changed multiple hardcoded strings for tooltips to GameStrings for localisation. Still many more to go.
  
• Fixed Sun is not visible through window shutter when open.
  
• Fixed Discord error that could cause save games to fail to load. Error is now handled correctly and game will continue to load without discord integration.
  
• Fixed Seed bags get deleted when exported from silo.
  
• Fixed Stacked cooked foods don't become decayed when put into silo.
  
• Fixed Soups and cereal bars can now be stored in silos (they previously turned into decayed foods)
  
• Fixed plant sampler battery slot trigger not allowing you to insert battery with single click
  
• Fixed plant sampler display text staying visible when battery is removed
  
• Fixed Recursive power networks will now blow fuses instead of a cable if a fuse is present on the cable network.
  
• Fixed Potential fix for comms-motherboard throwing error when printed.