Changelog

0.1.1 “Sol” update

Changelog:

• Endless Sky related content
  • Added Merchants, Pirates, Syndicate, Free Worlds, and Republic, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
    • Flamethrower not included as it did not reach sufficient quality standards
  • Added heat mechanic
    • Modded outfits increase energy regen cooldown, while special “cooling” outfits reduce energy regen cooldown
    • Reduced energy regen cooldown globally (to 0.5s)
  • Merchant starbases are friendly to the player
• Other content
  • Added 1 additional yellow cell to Colossus and changed engine setup
  • Nerfed the HLC, HC, and DR
  • Added a few 4x4 modules
  • Added Infesticore
  • Changed tech tree requirements for some vanilla items
  • Made Santa research-able

0.1.2 “Foundry” update

Changelog:

• Endless Sky related content
  • Added missing tech for Falcon and Leviathan
  • Reduced tech costs for various Merchant items
  • Buffed Haulers and FW carriers
  • Fixed plasma repeater image
  • Buffed modded laser damage output
  • Increased gatling gun cooldown period
  • Changed damage types of several weapons
• Other content
  • Added energy cooldown to vanilla generators
  • Added health regeneration to Infesticore

0.1.3 “Alcyone” update

Changelog:

• Endless Sky related content
  • Moved Particle Cannon to Syndicate tree
  • Resized Protector to allow for larger weapons
  • Reorganized engine placement in various techtrees to allow for easier unlocking
  • Nerfed range for various missiles
  • Increased rarity of certain ships to Special
  • Halved push force of Particle Cannon ammo (0.02 -> 0.01)
  • Nerfed certain 1vet and 2vet builds to reduce early game difficulty
    • Reduced speed of Freighter and Manta 2vet
    • Allocated weaker weapons to Berserker
    • Replaced heavy lasers with beam lasers for most Pirate ships
  • New content in progress - expect new faction in a few days
• Other content
  • Compressed most images and reduced size of mod by ~33%

0.2.1 “Ultima Thule” update

Changelog:

• Endless Sky related content
  • Added Hai as a faction, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
  • Fixed asymmetrical cell layout for Protector
  • Fixed incorrect name for Nest and Auxiliary
  • Fixed incorrect faction allocation for Plasma Repeater and Plasma Turret
  • Fixed incorrect thrust/turn ratio for A120 and A125 atomic engines
  • Replaced heavy laser with beam laser on Combat Drone
  • Fixed tech for plasma weapons and proton turret
  • Halved cooling duct effectiveness
  • Increased energy cost for modded dronebays
  • Reduced drone count and increased shield + hp on the Auxiliary

0.3.1 “Aventine” update

Changelog:

• Endless Sky related content
  • Added Remnant as a faction, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
  • Reduced speed for Hawk 2vet and 1vet
  • Fixed bad modifier for modded shields
  • Fixed engine placement for Manta
  • Remade values for shields
    • Applied multiplier to regenerator shield and regen that has been previously applied to human shields
    • Increased energy consumption for regenerators
    • Added shield cooldown value to Hai and Syndicate regenerators
    • Halved shield regen for all modded shield generators
  • Added custom sounds for modded anti-missile devices
  • Reduced the EMP value of the Hai Railgun by 80%
  • Reverted damage nerf (25%) to Plasma Cannon and Plasma Turret

0.4.1 “Far’en Lai” update

Changelog:

• Added Exiles as a faction, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
• Coalition implemented in the background and will be added in a later update.
• Increased energy consumption for Thermoelectric Cooler
• Nerfed the X1050 engines to make them not direct upgrades to the X1200/X1700 series
• Reduced certain Remnant ship tech costs by 5
• Added m3 versions of foci and reloader
• Fixed incorrect drones for Combat Drone and Dropship
• Reduced energy/shot for antimissile turrets by 90%

0.4.2 “Nenia” update

Changelog:

• Reduced push and pull force of Banisher and Grab-Strike by 80% and 50% respectively
• Reduced systems core count on Exile ships
• Fixed broken tech for Foci and Reloader m3
• Added slight tracking to Grab-Strike ammunition

0.4.3 “Far Monad” update

Changelog:

• Reduced push and pull forces of Banisher and Grab-Strike further
• Made Grab-Strike targetable by antimissile
• Reduced tech costs for various components across multiple factions

0.5.1 “Aki’il” update

Changelog:

• Added Ka’het as a faction, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
• Reduced EC of systems cores by 20%
• Increased accuracy of thrashers
• Fixed broken Stack Core tech
• Added tech for Remnant engines
• Buffed energy storage of Chasm Battery by 10%
• Moved blaster and beam laser to Merchants
• Removed “hostile” attribute from Pirates

0.6.1 “Vara K’chrai” update

Changelog:

• Added Wanderers as a faction, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
• Doubled range of Sidewinder, Meteor, and Javelin missiles
• Doubled fire rate of some torpedoes
• Added dual beam ammo images (made by Raul39) for some lasers
• Increased blaster projectile speed by 13%
• Renamed Nest again
• Set Skein to Rare
• Remade builds and cell layouts for some capital ships
• Increased size of all tier 5 engines to 4x5
• Quadrupled energy consumption and heat value for Crystal Capacitor
• Reduced Crystal Capacitor energy storage by 20%
• Reduced inaccuracy of various weapons
• Removed multishot feature from all turrets
• Added trail color to torpedoes and missiles
• Reverted damage nerf to human missiles
• Reduced grid size of Bactrian from 50 to 43 and remade builds accordingly
• Implemented additional anti-cheat systems** ** You are very much recommended to MAKE A BACKUP of your save before updating.

0.7.1 “Asikafarnut” update

Changelog:

• Added the Kor Sestor as a faction, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
• Partially reverted nerfs to Banisher and Grab-Strike
• Changed weapon TUs on the Auxiliary
• Fixed broken engine flares for human ships
• Buffed ship layouts and builds for Wanderer ships
• Fixed bug with missiles not detonating
• Remade a few Republic and Syndicate ship builds
• Added “-Projectile Weight” modifier to various torpedoes
• Doubled fire rate of various missiles and torpedoes

0.8.1 “Sepetrosk” update

Changelog:

• Added the Kor Mereti as a faction, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
• Buffed some Kor Sestor ships
• Removed golden FO 27 from TF109
• Halved mass of grab-strike projectiles
• Increased push and pull of grab-strike and some beam weapons by 50%
• Reduced Bactrian cost by 25
• Set Marauder Fury to Destroyer
• Increased damage and projectile count for Plasma Packet Cannon
• Made exclusive modules on the KIV 750, Model 1024, and Vareti’het removable
• Fixed incorrect veteran level for (modded) Scout 2vet
• Doubled range of all antimissile devices

0.9.1 “Ring of Power” update

Changelog:

• Added the Coalition and Heliarchs as a faction, alongside appropriate ships, weapons, and outfits
• Reduced tech cost of Falcon and Leviathan
• Reorganized tech placement of Merchant batteries and fuelcells
• Decreased EC and heat of Crystal Capacitor by 50% and 25%
• Modified anti-apk quest to check for a pair of AI only items on the Archon

0.9.2 “Ring of Friendship” update

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with missing Coalition and Heliarch ships
• Doubled velocity of Bombardment Cannon weapons
• Fixed issue with locked modules on 750 and 1024
• Fixed swapped tech for Orca plasma engines
• Reduced cost of FW reactors
• Renamed and resprited various commodities
• Remade cell layout for Vanguard

0.9.3 “Ring of Wisdom” update

Changelog:

• Made all modules 25 weight per slot
• Fixed incorrect modifiers for Syndicate regenerators
• Fixed missing tech for Gorge and Valley batteries
• Fixed missing tech for human AM turrets
• Reverted some Gatling Gun nerfs

0.10.1 “Queri” update

Changelog:

• Added the Quarg as a faction, alongside appropriate outfits and ships

0.10.2 “Alpha Centauri” update

Changelog:

• Increased model size of 349 and 512
• Updated model for Barb
• Reduced fire rate and increased energy cost per shot of Gatling Gun
• Added Gatling Turret to Pirates
• Fixed non-functional Gatling Gun tech
• Added Sea Scorpion and Ionic weapons to Hai
• Increased torpedo and missile fire rate by 25%
• Increased energy consumption of some missiles and torpedoes
• Moved Javelin missiles to Merchants
• Nerfed Bulk Freighter 1vet (heavy lasers -> laser beams)

0.11.1 “Deneb” update

Changelog:

• Added the Pug as a faction, alongside appropriate outfits and ships
  • Arfecta accessibility will be provided in a future update
• Added unique image and icon for the Class C Freighter
• Changed tech placement of S270 and S970 regenerators
• Fixed broken tech for Falcon
• Changed shield regeneration
  • Shield Regen cooldown is reduced to 0
  • Shield regen values are reduced to 10% of total shield values
• Removed many outfits from smugglers
• Reduced Archon HP and Shield by 80%
• Added small shield cd penalty to Wanderer, Ka’het, Hai, Syndicate, and Quarg shield gens
• Added starbases for the human factions
• Added quad plasma turret to FW tree (above normal plasma turret)

To do: change IDs of nuclear missiles

0.11.2 “Pugglemut” update

Changelog:

• Fixed missing starbases
• Added more impact effects
• Added (mini) pod versions of some secondary weapons
• Doubled fire rate of secondary weapons with mini pod variants
• Resized full size missile launchers to 3x3
• Nerfed strength of Quarg Skylance and Quantum Shield by 25% and 20% respectively
• Added range modifier to anti missile turrets

0.11.3 “Tarazed” update

Changelog:

• Reverted nerf to Quarg weapons and shields
• Buffed the Plasma Packet Cannon (again)
  • Submunition damage raised from 62.5 to 75
• Nerfed the Super Minelayer
  • Primary submunition count dropped from 20 to 15
  • Secondary submunition count dropped from 11 to 10
  • Secondary submunition mass increased to 0.2
• Nerfed problematic Republic, Exile, Sestor, Mereti, and Quarg ships
  • Removed and replaced some weapons, drones, and components from 1vet and 2vet builds
• Nerfed the Arfecta
  • Removed half of its Gridfire count on 1vet and 2vet versions
  • Halved its shield regen and energy storage
• Nerfed the Archon
  • Reduced its shield and armor regen by 90%
• Buffed the Williwaw Cooling
  • Size reduced to 1x1, cooling value reduced to -0.09 per square
• Resized nGVF-DD power cells to full 4x4 size
• Added list of heat values to documentation

0.12.1 “Valley of the Damned” update

Changelog:

• Added Emerald Sword and Black Diamond
• Added Kestrel
• Applied 3x multiplier for Sheragi reactor/engine thrust and steering
• Applied 1.5x multiplier for fission drive power gen
• Added starbases for Hai, Ka’het, and Coalition
• Slightly increased fire rate of pod weapons
• Added turrets to starbases
• Added new sprites for Bright Cloud and Dark Storm
• Added new sprites for Republic ships
• Added quests for acquiring Emerald Sword, Arfecta, and Kestrel (one-time)
• Reduced cost of existing Merchant weapons from 5 to 3 or 2
• Moved Javelin Launcher to Merchants
• Added Javelin Turret and Barrage Turret
• Fixed some early game builds
• Gave Rainmaker C, L, and T on top of its M slots
• Fixed a couple of ammo effects

0.12.2 “Zub” update

Changelog:

• Unlocked all components on Arfecta 0vet and Emerald Sword (except arfecta stats block)
• Fixed issue with Dragonflame Cannon not hitting due to improper ammo type
• Implemented new images for Bactrian
• Added Modified Boxwing, Marauder Bactrian, Modified Vanguard, and Ursa Polaris
• Unlocked Skylance and Gridfire turrets on the Ursa Polaris
• Made most stuff on old KIV 750s, Model 1024s, Vareti’hets, Arfectas, and Emerald Swords unlockable
  • (I think this works?)
• Fixed prevously undiscovered issue with Heavy Rocket dealing more damage than it should have
• Doubled range of all anti missile devices
• Decreased energy cost of Plasma Packet Cannon by about 34% (energy per projectile from 34.8 to 25)
• Increased base cost of Minelayer munition from 3.6 to 9
• Decreased base cost of Super Minelayer munition from 50 to 40
• Added Inertial Neutralizer (located above the other inertial modules on the tech tree)
• Made Hurricane and stock Gunboat slightly faster
• Added starbases for Mereti and Sestor

0.12.3 “Rust” update

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with improperly displayed Dragonflame Cannon firing effect
• Reduced cost of many technologies
• Increased tracker damage by 25%
• Decreased tracker ammo weight by 60% (now more maneuverable)
• Doubled tracker fire rate
• Fixed broken Proton Turret and Inertial Neutralizer techs

0.13.1 “Viminal” update

Changelog:

• Added the Heron, the Ember Tear, and a corresponding capture quest
  • The Heron can be encountered on Remnant territory with a 0.25 chance, similar to the Arfecta
• Added starbases for the Quarg and the Korath Exiles
• Added the Finisher Maegrolein and the Firelight Missile
  • In the Coalition and Korath Exiles tech trees respectively
• Added firing effects to Torpedoes, Typhoons, and Finishers
• Modified the explosion effect for Piercers
• Nerfed many Mereti veteran builds
  • Model 128 and above lost systems cores, armor, and energy production and storage
  • Model 512 lost a Slicer
  • Model 1024 lost 2 Slicers and 2 Disruptors
• Nerfed the larger Quarg builds
  • Elderdragon lost 2 Skylances
  • Elderdragon and Empyrealdragon lost some armor plates and shield gens
• Rebalanced the Heliarch Punisher
  • Reduced shield and armor count on both veteran builds significantly
  • Added inertial neutralizers to increase speed to around 5
• Added the Marauder Raider
• Remade the Pillager and the stock Raider with larger layouts
• Massively reduced the energy cost of the Finisher
• Tweaked the Ionic Afterburner
  • Power dropped from 58 to 43.5
  • Energy Consumption (passive and active) dropped from 10 to 9.125
• Tweaked the Bellows Afterburner
  • Power increased from 58 to 153
  • EC increased from 10 to 14.5
• Added custom button images for drone bays
• Modified Dragonflame Cannon to fit in superweapon slots
• Modified Emerald Sword superweapon slot to fit the 5x5 square with cut corners style
• Increased Skylance damage from 360 to 405 (+12.5% damage) and added 60 ion damage
• Fixed issue with missing hit effect for the Detainer
• Increased ion damage of various ion weapons 10fold
• Doubled ion damage of Ka’het Nullifier
• Changed “superweapons” to weapon type “X”
• Changed superweapon slots on the 750, 1024, Emerald Sword, and Heron to include X slots

0.13.2 “Sol Arach” update

Changelog:

• Added the Zubera, the Zambor, and the Zalgi to the Pug faction
• Removed the Arfecta from Pug base defenses
• Split the Coalition Civilians and the Heliarchs into different factions
  • Heliarch Security Forces encounterable at 450+, Trisolar Coalition at 250+
  • Existing Coalition research, tech, and bases will go to the Heliarchs
• Fixed issue with missing Marauder Raider tech
• Added shield cooldown values to generators, shields, coolers, engines, etc
  • Values are identical to energy cooldown values
• Moved reactive armor to Free Stars tech tree
• Fixed misplaced barrels for the Heron
• Fixed issue with quests spawning outside of intended locations
• Reduced spawn rate of most special ship quests (25% -> 20%, 10% -> 7.5%)
• Added the Shooting Star and a “test” quest
  • The ship will not be capturable until the next update for balance reasons

0.14.1 “Kasichara” update

Changelog:

• Updated graphics for Korath reactors and weapons, the Dagger, the Manta, Pug ships, Hai ionic weapons, and others
• Added the Navy Battleship (encounterable in Republic territory from 350 to 500 light years)
• Added the ‘nra’ret from the first wave of the Korath Expansion update as an Exiles tech tree ship
• Tweaked the damage output of the Banisher (11.1/s -> 14.8/s)
• Added the Blaze-Pike, Inferno, Expeller, Firestorm Battery, and Lagrange Heaver to Exiles
• Renamed various Exiles and Automata weapons
• Added twin versions of the blasters to Merchants
  • Increased fire rate of blaster turrets to maintain viability (increase by 25%)
• Fixed an issue with the Firelight Missile being assigned to the wrong faction
• Removed KIV 750 and Model 1024 from starbase defense fleets and Automata tech trees
  • Added KIV 750 and Model 1024 encounter quests (400 to 600 light years in Automata territory)
• Tweaked quest spawn rates again (20% for faction specific encounters, 10% for others)
• Modified Vanguard is now encounterable only in Syndicate territory
• Same with Marauder Bactrian and Merchant territory
• Appearance chance of the above two ships set to 20% to compensate
• Updated Kestrel with a stronger build based on the MZ author ship build
• Significantly increased energy cost of Firelight and Firestorm weapons
• Reduced cost of most tech tree capital ships (with caps from earlier factions receiving greater proportional discounts)
• Made most projectiles targetable by point defense active modules
• Outfitted 2vet of Dreadnought (FW) with Quad Plasma Turrets

0.14.2 “Buccaneer Bay” update

Changelog:

• Component changes
  • Adjusted Beam Laser and Heavy Laser damage to use the same scaling equation as other laser weapons
  • Added Ion Beam to Republic tech tree
  • Increased energy consumption per shot of all anti-missile devices by 10x
• Ship changes
  • Buffed the Heavy Shuttle with more red and yellow slots
  • Remade the Blackbird to have 2 turret weapon slots
  • Remade the Bulk Freighter to give it bigger turret slots but smaller gun slots
  • Nerfed Sea Scorpion 2vet build
  • Removed a couple of shield generators and cooling modules from the KIV 349 and Model 512
  • Made the model scales of the Haulers slightly bigger
  • Added a few blue slots to a few Republic ships
  • Fixed weird engine trail placement on FW ships
  • Modified the cell layouts of the FW hauler-carriers
  • Replaced Barrage Turrets on Leviathan and Falcon with Heavy Laser Beam Turrets
  • Gave Marauder Arrow 2vet Heavy Laser and 1vet Twin Modified Blaster
  • Gave the Merchant Scout better engine slot placement
  • Modified the Hovertank to give it omni slots
• Tech changes
  • Shuffled around fuel cell and battery technologies in Merchant tech tree
  • Shuffled around some technologies in Republic tech tree
  • Reduced tech cost of heavy laser beams and quad blaster turret
• Global changes
  • Increased default shield cooldown value from 0 to 0.5 (to match energy cooldown value)
  • Fixed issue with missiles exploding when hit by any hitbox and not exploding when it should

0.14.3 “Durax” update

Changelog:

• Component changes
  • Added the Teciimach Bay (and pod) to Remnant tech tree
  • Added Liquid Sodium Cooler to Exiles tech tree
  • Reduced size of Ka’het Primary Cooling from 16 to 9
  • Increased spread of gatling guns
  • Reduced weight of human plasma engines to match the 25 weight per cell standard
  • Reduced energy cost for Firelight and Firestorm by 90%
  • Doubled damage for Firelight and Firestorm
  • Doubled range for Firelight
  • Doubled fire rate of Javelin and Barrage Turrets
  • Halved range of Javelin based rocket weapons
  • Halved energy cost of 2x2 drones
  • Adjusted health of various torpedo and missile type ammos
    • to match their missile strength values from the source material
• Ship changes
  • Tweaked the Modified Argosy and Manta cell layout
  • Fixed an issue where one of the vanilla drones had no energy storage capacity
  • Improved slot layout of Class C Freighter
  • Modified the Splinter’s red slots to give 3 turret and 2 gun slots
  • Buffed 1vet Quicksilver
  • Removed drone buff components from all mod carrier ships
    • to fit the “no drone / reload / damage boosters on mod ships” convention
  • Increased drone count on the Auxiliary
  • Tweaked some drones to make the slowest ones a bit faster and the fastest ones a bit slower
  • Upgraded / tweaked weapons for some drones
    • Finch: Javelin Pod -> Twin Modified Blaster
      • This fixes an issue with the Finch not moving to attack when spawned
    • Lance: Blaster -> Twin Blaster
  • Fixed issue with Pond Strider not appearing in Hai base defenses
  • Reduced energy regeneration of Exiles ships
  • Added the Shipper to the Exiles line-up and tech tree
• Tech changes
  • Shuffled around weapon technologies in Syndicate, FW, and Republic tech trees
  • Changed up the early sections of the Korath Exiles tech tree
  • Added missing tech for torpedo, typhoon, rocket pods
  • Added tech for HMLM3 and HMLM4 in Bushrak tech tree
  • Reduced Particle Turret tech cost to 10 to match other turrets
• Global changes
  • Made Pug faction hostile (enigmatic precursors do not need the player to do missions for them)
  • Gave quest flavor text some more flavor

0.14.4 “Remote Blue” update

Changelog:

• Component Changes:
  • Reverted the Ka’het primary cooling size change
  • Reverted the friendly fire explosion change
  • Added the Control Transceiver and Reasoning Node to Sestor and Mereti trees
  • Added the Cloaking Device to the list of “rarely appears in smugglers” components
  • Fixed missing image for button for Cool Breeze
  • Tweaked damage and energy costs of some weapons to match source material latest updates
    • Sunbeam Turret damage: 78.9 -> 81.6
    • Electron Beam Turret energy cost: 18 -> 24
    • Electron Beam energy cost: 9 -> 12
  • Tweaked velocity of some projectile based weapons
    • Bombardment Cannon: 12 -> 24
    • Thrasher Cannon: 9 -> 18
    • Thunderhead Missile: 8 -> 16
  • Fixed the issue of improperly implemented range for anti-missile turrets
  • Fixed missing shield cooldown value for Liquid Sodium Cooler
  • Gave armor regeneration cooldown modifiers to all modules that generate or remove heat
  • Reduced level of batteries and solar panels so that they can be crafted without stars
  • Made most components with Special availability Rare
    • Pug, Quarg, Sheragi, Coalition, and Ka’het components will now rarely appear in smugglers
  • Fixed bad hit detection for a few superweapons
    • Fusion Cannon: ImpactType: HitAllTargets -> HitFirstTarget
    • Plasma Packet Cannon: moved push effect from projectile to explosion
    • Dragonflame Cannon: reduced projectile speed, changed bullet prefab
    • Dragonflame Cannon: added a spawn trigger on hit
  • Gave most shield generators the Energy Recharge modifier
  • Gave all passive coolers the Weight modifier
  • Added Inteference Plating to Pirates tech tree
  • Added Command Center to Exiles tech tree
  • Added Research Laboratory to Remnant tech tree
  • Updated sprites for the Thunderhead Launcher and Wanderer Anti-Missile Turret
  • Subject to revert: remade the layout of these components to better fit their shape
    • Plasma Core
    • Double Plasma Core
    • Liquid Sodium Cooler
    • Extra Large Interference Plating
• Ship Changes:
  • Added the Courier to the Exiles faction
  • Gave Coalition Civilians a starbase
  • Reduced shields, armor, and energy regen of all Automata ships
  • Reduced energy regen of Wanderer ships
  • Reduced shields and armor of Derecho and Hurricane
• Tech Changes:
  • Added Mark 4 variants of vanilla satellites to their respective tech trees
  • Moved Dark Storm to a more accessible location on the Wanderers tech tree
  • Moved Barb and Ionic Afterburner to more accessible locations on Syndicate tech tree
  • Slightly reduced cost of smaller Remnant engines
  • Moved Bombardment Cannon and Turret to Coalition Civilians tech tree
  • Moved D-67 and D-91 shields to FW tech tree
  • Added the Asteroid Scanner as a proof of concept to the Merchants tech tree
    • Scanner type weapons capture drones, missiles, and some projectiles near the ship when fired
• Other Changes:

0.14.5 “Smuggler’s Den” update

Changelog:

• Component Changes
  • Reduced crafting cost of interference plating
  • Made healing rays capable of auto-firing
  • Made the vanilla fortification and frontal shield modules capable of auto-firing
  • Made Fusion Cannon projectile not collide with other projectiles
  • Gave names to these formerly AI only components:
    • Medium Repair Ray
    • AI Heavy Vampyric Ray
  • Tweaked velocity of some projectile based weapons
    • Bombardment Cannon: 24 -> 18
    • Thrasher Cannon: 18 -> 13.5
    • Thunderhead Missile: 16 -> 12
  • Added the Ionizer to the Kor Sestor
  • Halved healing power of Medium Repair Ray
• Ship Changes
  • Tweaked some Ka’het builds
  • Remade Automata builds to account for the reduced size of some outfits
  • Made the 2vet Heliarch Punisher not have instant repair and regen
  • Fixed bad faction assignment for Ka’het and Coalition Civilian starbases
  • Fixed empty builds for the Courier
  • Increased speed of Strong Wind veteran versions slightly
  • Added the Blizzard to the Wanderers faction
  • Added the FO Detainer and FO Ionizer to the Kor Sestor
  • Nerfed the FL 14
    • No longer has almost as much firepower as larger drones
  • Renamed Doomstar to Object 279
  • Renamed some Heliarch ships
• Tech Changes
  • Added tech for Small and Medium Repair Rays in the Unknowns and Empire tech trees
  • Rearranged Heliarch tech tree to not be as top heavy
• Other Changes
  • KIV 750 and Model 1024 quests now correctly drop builds with unlocked superweapons
  • Fixed issue with KIV 750 and Model 1024 encounters appearing on incorrect places
  • Added a number of faction missions
    • Pirates: destroy Merchant convoy (payout: various minerals)
    • Pirates: destroy competitors
    • Syndicate: cull pirates
    • Hai: repel Unfettered Hai attackers
    • Remnant: drive off Exiles raiders
    • Wanderers: defend against Automata ships
    • Heliarchs: provide Yottrite (payout: 1 million credits)

0.15.1 “Algenib” update

Changelog:

• Major Changes
  • Added the Marauder Pirates as a faction, alongside their ships and outfits
  • Marauder Pirates can be found past 175 light years
• Component Changes
  • Fixed issue with Dragonflame Cannon having 0 energy consumption
  • Made standard Gatling Gun and Gatling Turret less accurate
  • Added Stabilized Gatling Gun to Marauder Pirates
• Ship Changes
  • Tweaked cell layouts of Raven and Aerie
  • Added the Screener drone to Kor Sestor
  • Added turret sprites to the Arfecta
• Tech Changes
• Other Changes
  • Added a background quest to give a star map every time the player arrives at a star
  • Rewrote the tutorial mission to give a couple of cosmetic quest items
  • Rewrote the tutorial mission to give the player a “loan” of 480000 credits
  • Modified existing encounter quests to properly implement light year limits
  • Corrected erroneous cooling values for Liquid Sodium Cooler in documentation
  • Staggered impact effects to make them look less choppy

0.15.2 “Era’lgin’bl” update

Changelog:

• Major Changes
  • Reduced Archon health and shield by yet another 90%
  • Reduced Drak distance from 1000 to 750 in preparation for an upcoming remake of the faction
  • Added the Kaltheim as a faction, alongside appropriate ships and outfits
• Component Changes
• Ship Changes
  • Added the Fetri’sei to the Ka’het
  • Given the Korath Sestor ships their unabbreviated names
  • Added Korath Piercer Launcher to some Sestor 1vet builds
  • Added Bombardment Cannon / Turret to Coalition 2vet builds
  • Increased engine slot count of Heliarch Hunter
  • Added more engine components to Heliarch Hunter builds
• Tech Changes
  • Reduced Vareti’het research cost from 80 to 75
• Other Changes
  • Fixed an issue where the deep space scanner mission interferes with special ship encounter missions
    • Bug reported by Discord user aurora_7137
  • Fixed an issue where the deep space scanner mission breaks when defeating enemies at a node
    • Updated StartCondition from ArrivedAtStar to NewStarExplored
  • (tentatively) Fixed an issue where the friendly Merchant starbase mission does not activate correctly
  • Increased the image quality of Stack Core, Quantum Shield Generator, Heliarch Overclocked Shields, Large Co-generator, and S-970 Regenerator
    • Images sourced from Endless Sky High DPI

0.15.3 “Watchful Gravetender” update

Changelog:

• Changes
  • Major Changes
    • Reworked the Drak faction
      • Added a number of living organism ships to the Drak faction
      • Changed abandoned station faction to Drak
    • Added descriptions to a large number of outfits
      • Descriptions are visible to players using EH:CE or Inverse Mod
    • Made the mod compatible with Event Horizon 0.10.2 Build 1469
    • Changed level scaling to equal to light year * 0.5
  • Skill and Perk Changes
    • Increased regen perk bonus to 5% health per second
    • Decreased weight reduction perk bonus to -75% weight
    • Tweaked shield strength and recharge skills to 20% bonus per skill point
    • Tweaked merchant and crafting costs to -13.3% per skill point
    • Tweaked crafting LY requirements to 10LY per level
    • Improved map travel speed and range skills to 100% and 25% per skill point respectively
    • Improved exploration loot bonus skill to 25% more loot per skill point
    • Increased fuel skills to +80 fuel per skill point
  • Component Changes
    • Fixed the missing autopilot feature on the Control Transceiver and Reasoning Node
    • Made the Flamethrower work (at last)
    • Increased weight per cell of all interference plating
  • Ship Changes
    • Added the Auxiliary (H) and Auxiliary (T) to the Republic of Earth
    • Buffed the 2vet Raven (laser beams -> heavy laser beams)
    • Nerfed the 2vet Flivver (reduced health, sidewinder pod -> laser beam)
    • Nerfed the 2vet Modified Argosy (reduced health)
    • Buffed the 1vet Marauder Fury (blaster -> mod blaster)
    • Buffed the 2vet Marauder Fury (javelin pods -> heavy lasers)
    • Buffed the 2vet Marauder Bounder (replaced 1 laser beam with heavy laser beam)
    • Buffed the 1vet and 2vet Corvette (equipped with javelin and barrage turrets)
    • Buffed the Rainmaker (+2 engine slots)
    • Remade the 1vet and 2vet Rainmaker (equipped with javelin and barrage turrets)
    • Remade the 1vet and 2vet Freighter (removed anti-missile, added shields to 2vet)
    • Remade the 1vet Dreadnought (heavy lasers -> plasma turrets)
    • Buffed the Mule (larger cell grid)
    • Buffed the Vanguard (it can fit S970 shield regeneraotrs when expanded)
    • Buffed the Lightning Bug (+2 engine cells)
    • Added cells to these ships to make the cell layout match the ship image
      • Corvette
      • Bactrian
      • Splinter
      • Protector
      • Flivver
      • Hawk
      • Sparrow
      • Pug ships
    • Fixed Sestor and Heliarchs starbases appearing in incorrect factions
  • Added researchable variants of the Republic of Earth Navy Auxiliary
  • Tech Changes
    • Moved human shield tech to Merchants tech tree
    • Reduced cost of Auxiliary (all variants) from 60 to 40
    • Moved Interference Plating to Marauder Pirates tech tree
  • Other Changes
    • Decreased Korath Piercer projectile weight (0.15 -> 0.1)
    • Increased velocity of Torpedo, Typhoon Torpedo, EMP Torpedo, EMP Deployer, Teciimach Torpedo, Javelin Rocket, Firestorm Missile by 100%
    • Increased velocity of Finisher Torpedo by 50%
    • Increased energy cost of Javelin Rockets by 100%
    • Increased energy cost of Gatling Gun bullets by 25%
    • Increased velocity of Ion Hail and Ion Rain projectiles by 33%

0.15.3.1 “Australian Bloody Pissmas Miracle” update

Changelog:

• Changes:
  • Major Changes
    • Attempted to make Christmas eternal
  • Skill and Perk Changes
  • Component Changes
    • Added missing shield regeneration cooldown values to some shields
    • Reduced S-970 and Diamond Regenerator to 3x3 size
    • Added Ruby Regenerator, Harasser Quadrail, Monolith Core, and Locust dronebay to Hai
    • Fixed a bug with the Kelvin Beam Turret not having correct damage values
    • Fixed an out of place hit effect on the Fusion Cannon
    • Reverted a change to some ammunitions that caused the firing effect to stick to the ammo
    • Added new explosion effects to the EMP deployer and the Finisher torpedo
  • Ship Changes
    • Added Tarantula and Phrynus to Hai
    • Fixed an issue with the Leviathan 2vet having negative energy regen
    • Fixed an issue with Heliarch ships appearing in Coalition territory
    • Tweaked the Archon’s barrels
    • Made the Marauder Bactrian require Marauder Pirates bases
    • Remade some Hai builds using the new Ruby and Diamond Regenerators
  • Tech Changes
    • Rearranged the Hai tech tree
      • Chameleon anti-missile and Water Bug moved to lower positions
      • Ion Cannon now follows Sea Scorpion
  • Other Changes
    • Fixed a broken quest
    • Fixed an issue with Heliarch faction missions asking for iron instead of yottrite

0.15.4 “Erabuthro” update

Changelog:

• Changes:
  • Major Updates
    • Added Bunrodea as a new faction, alongside appropriate ships and outfits
    • Ported EH-ES-Mod to version 0.11.1 of Event Horizon
  • Components
    • Changed the stats for the following weapons
      • Dragonflame Cannon:
        • 400 dmg / 500 emp -> 4000 dmg / 5000 emp
        • 160 ec -> 640 ec
      • Fusion Cannon:
        • 110 dmg / 50 emp -> 220 dmg / 100 emp
        • 50 ec -> 100 ec
      • Ka’het Nullifier
        • 220 EMP -> 2200 EMP
        • Reduced size to 3x3
        • Changed slot type to T
    • Gave the Gatling Turret a new sprite and button icon
    • Gave all weapons with “Drain Energy” stats an equal amount of “Drain Shield” damage
    • Gave all components capable of passively restoring hull points the Repair Rate modifier
    • Added the “Armor and Regeneration Mod” modifier to shield generators
  • Ships
    • Buffed the Star Queen
      • Increased its cell layout size, reduced size class to Cruiser
      • Remade its outfits with merchants shield generators
      • Fixed an issue where its 2vet version was labeled as a 1vet version
    • Added the Hai Lycosidae as a new special encounterable ship
    • Adjusted the Vareti’het cell layout to match the changes to the Nullifier
    • Reduced weight of Class C Freighter veteran builds
    • Added the Enforcer and Saber to the Marauder Pirates tree
    • Added the Hogshead to the Pirates tree
  • Tech
    • Re-added the Ka’het Nullifier to the Ka’het tech tree
  • Other
    • Scaled back the Merchant Costs upgrade strength
      • -13.33% -> -12.5% per upgrade
    • Updated the UI colors

0.15.5 “Over the Rainbow” update

Changelog:

• Major Updates
  • Reworked the Quarg faction
    • Added a swathe of new outfits and ships
  • Reworked the Sheragi faction
    • Added a swathe of new outfits and ships
    • Made Sheragi faction regions appear on the galaxy map from 275+ light years
• Outfits
  • Updated a number of human weapons to match the 6 April 2022 human weapons rebalance (#6675)
    • Proton Gun damage: 1.54 -> 1.85
    • Blaster damage: 1.56 -> 1.72
    • Modified Blaster damage: 2.0 -> 2.2
    • Particle Cannon damage: 10.6 -> 12.7
  • Updated the Kaltheim Phase Missile to be able to survive up to 3 anti-missile strikes
  • Gave the Modified Blaster its correct fire sound
  • Added Small Recovery Module to Coalition
  • Added a sound effect to the Cloaking Device
  • Fixed the sound effect on the Scram Drive
  • Decreased Fusion Drive energy generation per tile from 9.6 -> 8.75
  • Increased Particle Waveform Turret firing rate from 1.0 -> 2.0
  • Decreased Skylance damage per second from 405 -> 180
  • Decreased Skylance energy cost per second from 180 -> 90
  • Increased Fission Drive thrust and steering by 150%
  • Added new modifiers to Sheragi EM batteries
  • Reduced cooling outfit count on a few Sestor ships
  • Added a number of Sheragi outfits
    • Weapons: Particle Waveform Gun, Kinetic Spear Launcher, Pulse Beam
    • Energy: Fission and Fusion Cores, Solar Intake, Medium EM Battery
    • Engines: Small Fusion Drive, Large Fission Drive
    • Cooling: Medium Hybrid Cooling
• Ships
  • Added the Charm-Scallop, Arch-Carrack, Echo-Galleon, and Seedship to Korath Exiles
  • Added the Merganser, Smew, and Swan to Remnant
  • Added the Tulikaa to Pug
  • Added the Model 192, Model 2, and Model 128 Surveyor to Korath Mereti
  • Added the Prong to Syndicate
• Tech
• Other

0.16.1 “Second Australian Bloody Pissmas Miracle” update

Changelog:

• Major Updates
  • Updated all engine thrust, turn, heat, and energy cost values to match the latest Endless Sky stats
    • Switched to new thrust and steering equation: ((thrust + steering) / outfit sizes) / X
    • X is in the range of 2000 and 1500 and decreases as the “size scale” of the engine increases
    • Tiny 1x1 engines have an X of 2000 while giant Vector Reality Engines have an X of 1500
• Outfits
• Ships
  • Added the Gunbarge and Pirate Freighter to Pirates
  • Added the Hobby to Remnant
  • Added the Hyper-Ionized Plasma Cannon to the Ursa Polaris build
• Tech
• Other
  • Fixed an issue with the Dagger not showing the proper button
  • Slightly adjusted the velocities of a few ships

0.16.2 “Spera Anatrusk” update

Changelog:

• Major Updates
  • Rebalanced afterburners
    • Scaled down thrust and active energy consumption on all afterburners
    • Removed passive energy consumption
    • Increased cooldown times for all modded afterburners
  • Added more descriptions for many plugin outfits
  • Rebalanced anti-missile turrets
    • Made energy consumption constant regardless of ship size
    • Decreased range
    • Increased energy consumption
  • Moved Marauder Pirates down to 125 LY
• Outfits
  • Added a series of turreted missile weapons
    • Heavy Rocket Turret to Free Worlds
    • Meteor Turret, Sidewinder VLS, Torpedo Rack to Syndicated Systems
    • Typhoon VLS to Republic of Earth
    • Tracker Vertical Pod to Hai
    • EMP Torpedo Rack to Remnant
    • Finisher VLP to Heliarch Security Forces
    • Firelight Rack and Firestorm Popup Launcher to Korath Exiles
  • Reduced heat generation on the S1 Thermionic reactor (0.131 -> 0.052 per slot)
  • Fixed an issue with the Particle Cannon having 3 range instead of 75
  • Fixed the S3 Thermionic having twice as much heat output as it should
  • Fixed the Dwarf Core having half as much energy generation as it should (4.8 -> 8)
  • Moved the Dwarf Core to Republic tech tree
  • Buffed the Gridfire
    • 30 -> 120 damage for all fields
  • Added shield ignoring abilities to Gridfire and Korath Piercer
  • Added the KP-6 Photovoltaic Panel and Array to Merchant Alliance
  • Added the Volcano Afterburner to Merchant and Caldera Afterburner to Confederation of Free Worlds
  • Fixed bad modifiers on the Reserve Accumulator and the Solar Intake
  • Added the Covalent Proton Turret and Sentinel Reactor to Syndicated Systems
  • Added the Dual Particle Turret and the R-series shield generators to Republic of Earth
• Ships
  • Removed a gold module from the Starling
  • Added the Battlecruiser to Republic of Earth
  • Added the Heavy Gust and Abyssal Stream to Wanderers
  • Made the Strong Wind a little faster
  • Fixed an issue with the Hauler 3 2vet being marked as a 1vet
  • Added the Hauler 6 to Merchant Alliance tech tree
• Tech
  • Fixed the Infesticore’s technology being outside the Jurgans tech tree
  • Fixed the Marauder Raider not appearing in the Korath Exiles tech tree
  • Added technology for the Fusion Afterburner in the Sheragi tech tree
  • Added technology for the Hyperdrive and Scram Drive in Merchant Alliance and Syndicated Systems
• Others
  • Modified combat rules for most battle scenarios
    • Players may now summon up to 50 ships during star and faction battles and 100 ships during survival mode
  • Updated the mod to Event Horizon 1.13.0
  • Shortened description of Ruby Regenerator

Update Template

Changelog:

• Major Updates
• Outfits
• Ships
• Tech
• Others

Planned changes:

• Create 3vet Merchants builds to be used in Pirates
• Create Syndicate Extremists faction to contain the regenerators and nuclear missile
• Add the new aliens
  • Gegno (all 3 subfactions at once)
  • Vyu-ira and other misc alien ships
  • Successors
  • Incipias
  • Decompression of the faction light year requirement list
• Add new ships and outfits
  • Alternate Worldship designs
  • Hobby
  • Mega Freight outfits and possibly ships
  • Minor plugins from Todd: https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/discussions/7928
• Rebalance human engines based on most recent engines stat
• Incorporate scanners as drone and missile capturer weapons
• Incorporate the Shunt-Strike
• Incorporate the following ships from Becca’s Endless Expansion mod:
  • Robin, Swan (Remnant)
• Incorporate the IBS as a C type weapon firing triple HIPC rounds