Starground v0.14.0.0-ex2 was released on July 9, 2025 as an experimental release in the Early Access v0.14 update series.

Additions

• Introduced lightning that will strike electrical buildings without proper protection
• Introduced a new automation planet called Opis
• Introduced a recipe to craft land tiles with stone
• Introduced track Radio Waves to Opis
• Introduced track Floating Memories to Opis
• Introduced track Waiting Room to the Space Hub
• Introduced track Arid Heat to Tephra
• Introduced track Sea Foam to the main menu
• Introduced hydrogen bombs
• Introduced asteroid Collector
• Introduced creative generators (only accessible through the create command)
• Introduced the explosionGriefing world option that disables explosions from breaking buildings and terrain (can also be included as a tag in dedicated servers)
• Introduced environmental modifiers to each building that change solar/wind efficiency
• Introduced wind turbines
• Introduced atmosphere collectors
• Introduced gold ore
• Introduced gold ingots
• Introduced voltrum ingots (gold and copper alloy)
• Introduced voltrum wires
• Introduced lenses
• Introduced microprocessors
• Introduced a building category for farming & husbandry
• Introduced the item info popup to Research requirements
• Introduced an info panel to recipes
• Introduced more info to regions in the starlauncher
• Introduced a dungeon room icon for challenge rooms
• Introduced a dungeon room icon for chest rooms
• Introduced a dungeon room icon for puzzle rooms
• Introduced a startup mod error menu that shows reasons for why mods did not load
• Introduced the big frog Battery

Changes

• Changed the game so research buttons now wrap their text in the research menu
• Lowered the cost of land tiles in Burgundy the snail's shop
• Adjusted the default zoom level to be more zoomed out
• Changed the game so the research command will now actually complete and process all researches without needing to start each one manually
• Changed the game so only files ending with .zip will try to be loaded as a mod
• Refreshed track Dark Side Of The Moon with a new mix
• Adjusted building menu ingredients to use a horizontal format
• Enhanced the appearance of focus boxes on UI to prevent them from getting cut off or extending past buttons
• Took out some old unused assets, decreasing the game's filesize
• Raised the size of the building menu

Fixes

• Corrected a problem where the show completed button would permanently hide completed research
• Corrected a minor issue where item slots would still be changing size after hovering and closing the inventory
• Corrected a longstanding issue where item slots would not become refocused when an item is dropped into a new slot
• Corrected a crash when trying to place a land tile on top of a building that does not have a valid building entry
• Corrected a problem where the highlighted button in the build menu was not saved properly after closing the menu
• Corrected a problem where clicking the mod button while already in the menu would duplicate your mods
• Corrected multiple issues with dungeon rooms not displaying the proper kind of room icon
• Corrected a problem where items with effects would not be treated as food
• Corrected a problem where servers did not default to loading world.dat in the working directory
• Corrected a problem where Tesla Coil will show their lightning zaps when a network is created without any power generation
• Corrected multiple issues where breaking buildings that are target by Mover or bees could crash the game
• Corrected a problem where troughts would not be fully filled with movers
• Corrected a problem where spore could start laughing as he died, softlocking players in the dungeon
• Corrected a problem where a player exiting in a game through Steam would cause everyone else to also exit
• Corrected a problem where players could sometimes spawn in invisible through Steam multiplayer
• Corrected a problem where players connecting to a Steam game would sometimes not have their player spawn in, and instead stay stuck in a top-view camera

Modding

• Introduced the Hidden tag to buildings and research, that allows a secret building/and or research to be hidden from normal menus

Optimizations

• Optimized the performance of nuclear and hydrogen bomb explosions
• Optimized performance of movers
• Completely rebuilt the entire Steam networking system to improve stability and keep things inline with the ENet multiplayer behavior

Official announcement

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2793380/announcements/detail/539983683367473385