Sandboxels has officially been released on Steam! To celebrate, we also have a new update (v1.11.2) with some small but neat features!


The Steam edition of Sandboxels can be picked up now for under a dollar! And even better: For a limited time, it’s 40% off!



It comes with fancy lighting pre-installed!

Don’t want it yet? Put in on your wishlist to support us for free!


This update has many small but fun features!

First, we added a new set of themes that you can select from. Each one is based on an element in Sandboxels! Below you can see the Brick theme.



Themes include the default Dark, Fire, Juice, Plant, Steam, Water, Plasma, and Snow – which is the equivalent of a light mode.

Additionally, we made the backgrounds of menus translucent, so you can see what’s going on behind them!



We also added a new “Destroyable” border mode, where your canvas is surrounded by a layer of Glass, and greater support for Korean, Italian, Serbian, and Australian English.

Be sure to view the full changelog for technical changes and bug fixes.


So far, the Steam release is only a port of Sandboxels. However, the next update will include unique online integrations with Steam, potentially with a Workshop save browser. Once you purchase Sandboxels on Steam, you are guaranteed to receive these features when they launch!

The web version of Sandboxels will continue to receive free updates!

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• Adjustment to tower guard stats
  
• Display of stat bonuses at levels (11, 21, 31) in the animal talent tree
  
• Fixed the display of stats in the animal information sheet
  
• Addition of guards in the town centre (linked to the appearance of the tower)
  
• Improvement to the rabbit spell (it now gives itself its attack bonus for 1 more turn, even at level 1)

Hello everyone! A new community update on what we've been up to and what you can expect, check it out!

• General gameplay improvements
  
  
• Increased running speed
  
  
• Faster cleaning actions

In my ongoing mission to deepen immersion through dynamic systems design, I’m proud to unveil the Lexicon Engine — a proprietary in-game language parsing and translation framework I’ve developed from the ground up in Unreal Engine. Designed for scalability and reuse across multiple projects, Lexicon enables player-driven language discovery, adaptive translation, and runtime text parsing to bring ancient languages to life in richly interactive worlds.



Much like the mechanic in No Man’s Sky, players will encounter ancient texts, scribbled notes, weathered carvings, and forgotten tomes written in one of three initial historical languages: Scottish Gaelic, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon (Old English).

But here’s the twist — you can only speak Old Norse.




The island of Skye is steeped in forgotten history and fractured cultures. Across its wild terrain, you’ll discover texts and whispers from a lost world — but they won’t be in modern English. Just like a wayward soul awakening in an unfamiliar land, you’ll encounter these messages untranslated, obscure, and mysterious.

• Scottish Gaelic – Native to the land and woven into druidic knowledge and oral tradition
  
  
• Latin – Found in monastic records, imperial relics, and ritual texts
  
  
• Anglo-Saxon (Old English) – Rare and hidden, often tied to a secretive Catholic Order buried deep beneath the politics of Portree

And yes — Lexicon supports Unreal's full localization toolset. Whether you play the game in German, French, or beyond, the system still functions seamlessly at runtime.



You’ll begin the game unable to understand any of these tongues. But over time, through exploration and observation, you’ll slowly learn to read and comprehend them — word by word.


You won’t be handed instant translations. Instead, your knowledge of each language is earned and personalized. Here's how you'll piece them together:

• Find bilingual texts – Discover fragments that pair ancient language with English for comparison
  
• Speak to scholars and seers – Earn the trust of NPCs who may offer lessons or phrases
  
• Examine carvings and relics – Compare symbols across ruins, tools, and stone monuments
  
• Immerse yourself – Frequent reading builds pattern recognition, expanding your dictionary naturally

Every word you learn is permanently remembered by the system. Slowly, passages begin to reveal themselves, unlocking secrets and storylines that were previously hidden.



Whether you’re translating a monastic scroll or deciphering a grave warning etched into stone, Lexicon dynamically parses based on your understanding — showing full, partial, or completely obscured texts depending on your progress.


This system introduces a whole new layer of depth and meaning to exploration. It rewards the curious and observant. It’s not just about reading — it’s about decoding.

Mastering ancient languages opens new quest paths, hidden lore, and secret locations. Every piece of knowledge you gain changes how you perceive the world around you. In Skye, knowledge is as powerful as steel.

No two players will experience the lore the same way. Your journey is shaped by what you learn — and what you choose to pursue.

That scrawled prayer? It could be a threat. Or a cure. But only if you can understand it.




The Lexicon Engine tracks your knowledge across thousands of words in each language. As your dictionary expands, previously unreadable texts unlock new meanings — encouraging you to revisit old locations with fresh eyes.

The system also integrates with the new Player Journal, meaning forgotten stories, mysterious phrases, or undeciphered notes can suddenly become relevant again — and may even reveal new quests.






I truly believe the Lexicon Engine can add something truly special to Skye: Rebirth — a sense of wonder, mystery, and personal growth that reflects the heart of this project.

It’s about earning understanding, not just unlocking content. It’s about the joy of discovery.
Let me know in the comments which language you’re most excited to master — or how you’d like to learn these ancient tongues.

Thanks for being part of this journey. I can’t wait to see the stories you uncover when the Lexicon Engine goes live.

Until then — keep your eyes open, your mind sharp, and your axe close.

– Mark

Our FIRST PUBLIC PLAYTEST where everyone can play Starlight Re:Volver is LIVE!



START: Friday, May 16th at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
END: Sunday, May 18th at 8:59 PM PT / 11:59 PM ET

On our Steam page, click this button where it says “Request Access”. You then should see a second button that says “Play Now”.





We have exclusive rewards to claim during the playtest weekend!

• Atlas sticker pack will be craftable in NIM with Lum
  
• Beaming Bird sticker will be claimable for completing our exit survey

We have a handy dandy page where you can see all the game updates for this playtest HERE.

We're running a variety of events in the Discord including:

• ✨ Dev Playthrough: watch members from Pahdo Labs play and ask questions directly to the team!
  
• ✨ Speedrun Competition: grab your team of 4 and see who makes it to the Golem Boss first (if at all…)
  
• ✨ NIM Sendoff Tour: 30 mins before the servers shut down on May 18th 11:59PM EST, we’ll do a lap together around our favorite hangouts and take some photobooth pics!

We’ve officially hit 100K WISHLISTS! We can’t thank you enough for the support so far 💖 Let’s celebrate in NIM all together this weekend!

Tephra is a brand new dungeon in Starground! Unlike the lab on Enceladus, Tephra is an entirely new planet that can be completed simultaneously as Enceladus (on multiplayer). As with any new region, this comes alongside a ton of new content, including:

• Calorus, a brand new boss
  
• 5 new enemies to battle
  
• New combat rooms
  
• New ranged and melee parts
  
• New artifacts

This dungeon is the second of the final 4 dungeons planned. As time goes on, new levels will be added onto Tephra (just like the lab on Enceladus). Coming regular updates will continue to add and improve content for Tephra.


Dungeons in Starground now look better than ever! This update includes some fancy new shaders that procedurally add in moss and dust, alongside new on-screen effects (can be disabled in accessibility settings). These really help liven up the look of dungeons, and ultimately build toward our ultimate vision for how Starground looks.


This update also introduces a new type of special dungeon room; puzzle rooms. Dungeons can now contain a new room that requires the correct sequence of buttons to be pressed in order to unlock a vault with powerful loot. As time goes on, we'll have more variety of what kind of puzzles players can solve.

To solve them (can kind of ruin the fun if you know how):
Dungeons now spawn in with numbers and symbols that are randomly scattered around, which will tell you what order to press them in.


This update also comes along with some new skins!

3 new "default" skins have been added to form the canon gang of Stargrounders. This includes Guy (default skin), Prichard, Darius, and Sandy. These characters will continue to make appearances in official artwork and other Starground-related things.

Players can now also play as the Lefty skin, based on our publisher Graeme (thanks Graeme!), and a skin from the main character Cyl in the game Picayune Dreams. Huge thanks to its developers, and be sure to check it out!

Thats all for this update gamers! Next up is a brand new automation planet!


Want to follow the development of Starground more closely? Please consider joining the official Discord, or tuning into regular devstreams held over on Twitch.

• Added the Prichard skin
  
• Added the Darius skin
  
• Added the Sandy skin
  
• Added the god command
  
• Added a Tephra chest room and loot table
  
• Added a play icon to the continue button
  
• Added a new dungeon planet called Tephra
  
• Added dungeon ziplines
  
• Added buttons to the customization menu to pause, play, and skip frames
  
• Added the spider marble ranged weapon part (spawns in helpful baby spiders)
  
• Added the cool eyepatch artifact
  
• Added track Boop to Veridian
  
• Added track Monument to Tyria
  
• Added track Ruins to the Enceladus lab
  
• Added track Grave to the Enceladus lab
  
• Added track Arps to the Enceladus top level
  
• Added track Duststorm to Tephra
  
• Added track Distress Beacon to Tephra
  
• Added track Ashen to Tephra
  
• Added track Window Shop to the space hub
  
• Added the khopesh blade melee part
  
• Added the scythe blade melee part
  
• Added the ancient bone weapon part
  
• Added the Lefty skin
  
• Added the Cyl skin

• Slightly changed the appearance of the Tyria water overlay
  
• Made it so decorations generate inside of exit rooms
  
• Increased the lifespan of blightbone poison clouds from 2 to 4 seconds
  
• Made it so the noclip command toggles without any arguments
  
• Made it so the zoomlimit command toggles without any arguments
  
• Made it so solar panels are marked as waterproof (for Tyria)
  
• Made it so the tool wheel cannot be opened when the inventory is open
  
• Made it so items can be dropped in the inventory with Left Trigger (LT)
  
• Removed track Prep Time from the space hub
  
• Made it so dust particles and quantity will scale with building size
  
• Marked the UI Scale option as being experimental

• Made various optimizations to the player script
  
• Greatly increased the performance of placing land tiles
  

• Made it so all entites can have ambient sounds
  
• Added the ambience_played signal to entities
  
• Moved all entity data into the entities_table
  
• Moved the water overlay to be a part of the player instead of in the world
  
• Made it so enemies can be marked as friendly in the ready event, which stops them from automatically targeting the player and from taking damage from friendly projectiles
  
• Made it so any item can have a consumption sound and spawn scene with the SpawnScene and ConsumeSound tags
  
• Moved projectile child properties to a new tag inside of ProjectileInfo called SpawnProperties
  
• Added the add_entity_entry() function to the ModAPI

• Fixed an issue where door teleport positions were misaligned
  
• Fixed an issue where effects did not change the color of the player
  
• Fixed an issue where item indicators did not work for multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where fish catch noises were heard by everybody on multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where moleshrooms would process twice on multiplayer
  
• Fixed multiplayer issues related to landing pods
  
• Fixed an issue where the tool selection wheel on Steam Deck could become unusable
  
• Fixed an issue where dust particles were stuck at spawn
  
• Fixed an issue where the fishing minigame would retain momentum
  
• Fixed an issue where wall type buildings (fences, stone walls, and pressure walls) did not tile correctly on multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where the fishing catch text would overlap multiple times
  
• Fixed an issue where the death animation for clients would not run on the host
  
• Fixed an issue where the attack slash effect was messed up on multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where clients would consume multiple land tiles on multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where batteries were still working underwater on Tyria
  
• Fixed an issue where oil resource nodes were spawning on the lab
  
• Fixed an issue where the Tree of Wisdom's corpse would remain between dungeons
  
• Fixed an issue where animals would turn back into babies when a player leaves and reconnects
  
• Fixed an issue where non-rotating projectiles were rotating for clients on multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where finished dungeon challenge rooms got reset when a player disconnects and rejoins
  
• Fixed an issue where some buildings were not shaking when they were supposed to (mainly dungeon challenge room objects)
  
• Fixed an issue where the player would get their movement locked when pressing escape while typing a chat message
  
• Fixed an issue where moonshrooms spawned by dreadcap would persist
  
• Fixed an issue where challenge chests would appear to be locked on clients when opened

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As you may know we were hit by some problems with the Jam Maker update.


In this patch we have made sure that the process for collecting berries and turning them to jam jars was fixed! We wish we could have released it sooner.

(and it can take some time)


First, we got wrapped up in another major bug - what happens when you eject from the jets or indeed what happens when you crash a jet... ( If you had not noticed it ... it was a bad one )


However, its not just jets that should be able to take to the skies!


Since one of the major parts of the Jam Maker update was the Saddle Launcher (If your Jam Maker was working) The saddle logic itself needed some care and attention.


Especially when it comes to using Jet Packs either in saddles or indeed on some bikes.


We still think we need to spend some more time on this part of the control system, but we also think we moved it a big step forward in this patch.

There were other issues that we solved and there are some that we are aware we haven't solved yet. We want to say thanks for all the feedback (and awesome artwork), we try and keep up with everything posted, it's all really very helpful and is going to lead us to leaving Early Access soon.




I will say though, we had a lot of fun shooting each other with the Saddle Launcher. Even as i write this i am aware that there is a bug where you can continally get Saddle Launchers from the dispencer... gulp.

The saddle logic did send us a down a bit of a rabbit hole, especially when thinking about how to control a shark... we ended up following a path that had not expected to engage with so soon . Luckily it will yield a new update pretty quickly.


This image should give you some idea of what we aaaaaaare currently wrapped up in.

Supports the party by serenading them with whimsical tunes.
Firing projectiles at your party will inspire them with status effects.
The Bard has low damage and fire rate and excels mostly in a team.

For all the music lovers out there, each direction you fire will produce a different note. Who knows what secrets will be hidden by ancient melodies?

• Victory: Fortissimo | Hit your party to inspire them with extra damage
  
• Victory Speedrun: Vivace | Hit your party to inspire them with faster attacks
  
• Victory No Knockdown: Legato | Hit your party to inspire them with further reach
  
• Victory Hard Mode: Allegro | Hit your party to inspire them with extra speed

• Level 5: Delicate Rose | Range Up, Damage Up, Breaks after 4 Hits
  
• Level 10: Halo Effect | Allows the player to shoot diagonally
  
• Level 15: Conductors Baton | Fire an additional two projectiles with each shot but greatly decrease your bullet speed
  
• Level 20: Choral Bell | Chance to become inspired when damaging enemies

Deep within the dungeon’s scorching depths, Ironscale, the fire dragon, stands as a fearsome guardian. Once a majestic creature of the volcanic wilds, it was enslaved by the Countess’s dark magic to protect her lair.


With iron-hard scales and a breath of searing flame, Ironscale is more than a brute force—it’s a cunning foe that thrives on chaos, using fiery meteors and bone-shaking roars to split adventurers apart.

In a game where unity is everything, this dragon tests the core rule: never split the party. Only through teamwork and resolve can heroes hope to defeat it and press on toward the Countess.

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