Apologies for the lack of an update last month, this month there's a long changelog to make up for it a little.

TRAILER



Features

• Atmospheric Glow on Planets
  
• Starlight Glow on Stars
  
• New Player Sprites & Animations (Still working on this a bit, next update should have customization sorted out)
  
• New Human Sprites
  
• Clouds while landing
  
• There are now mountainous backgrounds while you are landing, changes based on elevation
  
• Auto Skip Cutscenes added as an option
  
• Plant generation based on chunks, variations of plants when in bunches
  

Tweaks

• Player ship will no longer face 0deg when not moving, now faces last cardinal direction
  
• Added more dialogue for Human NPCs
  
• Added animation for clouds and a sunrise/sunset effect
  
• Driving the rover will occasionally have screen shake to show how bumpy the terrain is :)
  
• Galaxy Map Optimizations (If you had lag it should be alleviated now)
  
• New indicator to help new Players figure out leaving the solar system (part of "hints")
  
• Tutorial hologram loads faster
  
• If your ore menu was open or not is part of save files now
  
• Alien Procgen has been adjusted to give more variety while exploring while also leaning into lore
  

Overall I am happy with the way development is coming along, though I do wish I was able to get more content per update. I'm working as best as I can to speed up development and get more exciting things in your hands very soon.