Smuggling contracts are a new activity to chip away at your mountain of gold in exchange for resources. Like original deliveries, these contracts are bought with gold. In exchange, you'll be given an island location and a bounty for your illegal activities. One of the tunnel entrances on the island will contain the promised resources. Once you get nearby a benevolent bounty hunter will come seeking justice so either be fast or be combat ready.



Along with your gold, this update also chips away at the power of autohammers. After keeping them around for a while, its clear their function is providing a temporary invulnerability rather than a way to recover from damage. Almost all weapons other than reasonably sized blast cannon arrays could not cut through their repair rate so the repair speed of autohammers has been cut in half. This change has no effects on the amount of repairs a hammer can do before needing crew attention or the efficiency of their scrap use.

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1.13.4

Major Features

• Added a new fort: Smuggler's Den. Ships will not spawn in at Smuggler's Den and cannot extract from it.
  
  
• Added smuggling contracts only available at the new fort, Smuggler's Den.
  

Minor Features

• Halved autohammer repair speed.
  
  
• Added midnight black stripe dye available for reaching max reputation at Smuggler's Den.
  
  
• Added a new island, Den. Den adds more glacial floes between Hollow and Glacier.
  
  
• Added a new quest to introduce smuggling contracts.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed burst firing weapons not registering hits when fired by remote clients.
  
  
• Fixed repeating audio when remote clients fire burst firing weapons.