Starground v0.15 was released on December 18, 2025 as a stable release in the Early Access v0.15 update series.

Artifact Merging and Inventory Upgrades

• Quests that you can redeem at most shop NPCs
• Creative mode that disables resource requirements and lets you build anything
• New misc buildings like the display stand and sign

Additions

• Introduced the Artifact Merging Bench
• Introduced Bud to the Space Hub
• Introduced mythic fish that are rarer and sell for more at Fishbert
• Introduced decorations to empty space hub rooms, and locked them off
• Introduced buildable flooring
• Introduced stone and log walls
• Introduced wooden doors
• Introduced 14 new achievements
• Introduced 5 buildable flooring types
• Introduced various new footstep sounds
• Introduced an efficiency number when placing a proximity dependent building
• Introduced a dungeon masking system, so other rooms are hidden until actually entered (also includes a new transition animation)
• Introduced a new dungeon planet Caligo
• Introduced 5 new enemies
• Introduced the ice amulet artifact (chance to block damage)
• Introduced the ice saber weapon blade
• Introduced royal weapon parts
• Introduced stone dust (can be crafted in the grinder)
• Introduced multiple new colors to the minimap
• Introduced power line connections to the minimap
• Introduced the Structures Research
• Introduced signs
• Introduced display stands
• Introduced various quests to the NPCs at the Space Hub
• Introduced the pogo stick (lets you phase through automation buildings)
• Introduced three merged artifacts
• Introduced smoked salmon
• Introduced shark fin soup
• Introduced squimp cocktail
• Introduced Savorvine (a new plant that can be bought from Burgandy the snail)
• Introduced the Engineer skin (xefensors skin redeem!)
• Introduced inventory stack size upgrades (sold by Bud)
• Introduced xefensor to the list of programmers
• Introduced xefensor and VVR to the list of translators
• Introduced gamemode as an option in the world options menu
• Introduced the creator and destroyer buildings for creative mode
• Introduced categories to ovens
• Introduced slot icons to the weapon bench
• Introduced a sound when selecting planets in the starlauncher

Changes

• Completely reworked Spore to split instead of spawning Moonshroom
• Changed the game so info panels scroll when too long
• Changed the game so usernames now default to your Steam username
• Made various tweaks and clarifications to all commands
• Redesigned the NPC shop screen to include a portrait and character text
• Made various tweaks and improvements to controller support across the entire game (Thanks xefensor!)
• Changed the game so the starlauncher camera position and zoom level is saved
• Made various improvements to tooltips in the game
• Refreshed all translations

Fixes

• Corrected a problem where your fullscreen setting would not get updated on launch
• Corrected a problem where Splitter could grab items from conveyors not pointing into them
• Corrected a problem where underground conveyor belt overlays would stay visible when going back to the build menu
• Corrected a problem where asteroid Collector and turbines completely stopped working when next to each other
• Corrected a crash that happened when too many conveyors were placed down
• Corrected multiple bugs related to Mover not properly moving items into buildings
• Corrected a problem where players would sometimes be invisible to other clients when playing through Steam multiplayer
• Corrected a problem where using the starlauncher UI could cause weird lag and background issues on multiplayer
• Corrected a problem where multiple inventories could all be opened at the same time (Thanks Nikjak!)
• Corrected a problem where the building menu info panel would freak out if it got too long (Thanks Unskill!)
• Corrected multiple multiplayer-specific terrain generation issues
• Corrected a problem where your special melee weapon part could be used while holding a ranged weapon
• Corrected a problem where resource nodes would not properly convert when either removed from or added to a land tile
• Corrected some inventories being able to be sorted that really shouldn't be
• Made multiple fixes and changes to Tesla Coil, to prevent crashes and improve overall stability

Optimizations

• Greatly improved performance by introducing our own culling system
• Enhanced the performance of multiplayer, especially with dungeons
• Enhanced the performance of various UI nodes by using more signals
• Greatly improved the performance of christmas trees
• Enhanced the performance of almost every automation building by converting more logic over to using signals

Modding

• Changed the game so multiple types of things are now automatically added to the multiplayer spawner node. This includes entities, buildings, and any kind of scene in a data table. This should make multiplayer with mods much more straightforward
• Introduced the "Abilities" tag to items. This is the new way artifact abilities are managed
• Introduced the "Groups" tag to items. This is an easy way to group items up into specific categories, like fish or weapons
• Introduced some new get__data functions to ModAPI for buildings and research. This is a safe way to access the newly statically typed data tables
• Introduced the ability to add minimap icons to the minimap (not used in vanilla, but could be used in a mod)

Official announcement

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2793380/announcements/detail/502844844914246472