Interstellaris 0.6.0 — Changelog

New Features

Interstellar Travel: Two new star systems, Alpha Centauri (A, B, Proxima and Proxima b) and TRAPPIST-1 with its seven Earth-sized planets, reachable by warp jumps.

Warp Drive: A new Enigma-tier drive that jumps anywhere in the Solar System and beyond after a 10 second charge, fueled by antimatter.

Ship Information Center: Every ship's navigation hub. Pick a destination and a drive (Thrust, Pulse or Warp), check distance, travel time, fuel range and seated crew, then engage. Includes a Milky Way chart to choose the star system.

Ship Ownership: Ships now have owners and registration numbers (IS-0001). Captain, First Officer and Crew roles control who can fly them, managed from the new SHIPS tab in the Main Computer.

Remote Terminal: Use your Main Computer from anywhere, even from other planets. Includes Ship Recall, which calls a ship to you or to given coordinates using thrust, pulse or warp.

Particle Accelerator: A fully working ring with its own control screen, Accelerator Ports, beam energy settings and a hum that travels around the tunnel. Doubles Quantum Computer research speed or produces Nanites and Exotic Matter.

System Map Facts: Selecting a body opens a facts panel with its type, age, radius, mass, gravity, rotation, orbit, temperature, atmosphere and moons.

Venusian Building Blocks: Polished, brick, tile, chiseled, glowing and engraved basalt, pillars and regolith bricks, with stairs, slabs and walls.

Enceladus Serpentinite: New tiles, pillars, engraved and glowing serpentinite blocks.

Rita Ore Survey: /rita survey <ore> finds the nearest rich deposit within about 2 km and adds a JourneyMap waypoint.

Mars Dust Storms: Storms now scramble your coordinates on F3 and the JourneyMap minimap.

Mining Drones: Can now be sent to the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io, bringing back only useful resources. The Launch Controller mining mode now uses the solar system map.

Mob Survival in Space: Animals and other mobs need air, survive inside sealed ship cabins, feel ship gravity and travel with the ship when seated.

Improvements

Mekanism Generators: Now a required dependency. The Fission Reactor unlocks with Nuclear Fission research and the Fusion Reactor with Fusion Ignition.

Balance Pass: Cheaper ATX and AI circuits, satellites and payloads; a much stronger Antimatter Reactor and Rectenna; reworked Io Flux Ring payload; faster Laser Mining Drones; the Deep Mine is now the slow but endless option.

Fusion Pulse: Now burns D-He3 fuel made in a Chemical Infuser.

Methane: Now burns in the Gas-Burning Generator.

Vacuum Arc Furnace: New Output button to choose which alloy to make. Fixes C-103 being impossible to make.

Launch Controller: Megastructure mode has its own screen with build progress, payload fill and launch block reasons.

Precursor Analysis: No longer uses up the Precursor Core.

Storage: The Warp Drive holds 100x more antimatter and Propellant Tanks hold 50x more liquid hydrogen. The Refueling Port also fills docked Pulse and Warp Drives.

Ship Safety: An empty ship no longer flies away while its owner is offline; it holds position in space or hovers on a planet.

Cockpit HUD: Cleaner layout with the ship name and tidy key labels.

Mars Archaeology: Sites are rarer, so exploration matters more.

Enceladus: Slightly stronger gravity, and the subsurface ocean below Y 0 now stays liquid.

Multiplayer: Other players' megastructures are visible to everyone.

Server Config: Options for machine energy use and output, hazard multipliers, dust storms, chunk loading, ship size limits, mob hazards and the Mapping Satellite requirement.

Admin Commands: /interstellaris travel, environment info, ship list and megastructure visibility.

Datapacks: Modpacks can set the Air Separation Unit gas mix per dimension.

Visual Updates

Space Observation Antenna: Glowing Sun with corona rays, habitable zone band, coloured orbit trails, a rotating asteroid belt, the Alpha Centauri binary pair and a new TRAPPIST-1 view.

Rectenna: New Xenotech look with glowing cyan strips and an animated controller screen.

Venus and Enceladus Blocks: Smoother texture shading.

Sounds: New pulse and warp countdown beeps, a warp jump sound and a deeper Particle Accelerator hum.

Fixes

Fixed the Space Observation Antenna 3D system map showing no bodies.

Fixed Ship Recall losing track of fast-moving ships.

Fixed the Antimatter Reactor flickering on and off when its supply or cables limit it.

Fixed overlapping key hints on the cockpit HUD.

Fixed a raw text line when pairing a Particle Accelerator with Rita.