Starground v0.9.0.0-ex1 was released on September 15, 2024 as an experimental release in the Early Access v0.9 update series.

Additions

• Introduced artifacts
• Introduced the magnet artifact
• Introduced the lead boots artifact
• Introduced the preserved clover artifact
• Introduced the chainmail glove artifact
• Introduced the grabber artifact
• Introduced the night vision goggles artifact
• Introduced the special item pillar dungeon room
• Introduced the chance shrine room, which has a 50/50 chance for powerful loot, or to spawn enemies when activated

Changes

• Changed the game so enemies have a small chance to drop rare items
• Changed the game so items are sorted by artifacts first
• Lowered the chance of decorations dropping hearts and food (new rooms make up for this)

Fixes

• Finally fixed the strange depth sorting issues with dungeon doors
• Corrected a problem where enemy corpses would remain between dungeons
• Corrected a problem where automaton arm components had 0.5 cooldown
• Corrected multiple issues related to tilemaps and spawning inside of dungeon rooms
• Corrected a long-standing issue where fuel and Furnace progress was not perfectly synchronized
• Corrected a problem where items could be stuck behind corpses
• Corrected a problem where the Research notification popup was not centered

Optimizations

• Significantly increased the performance of tilemap autotiling, which increases load times (3x faster on small maps, but over 12x faster on large ones)
• Significantly increased the performance of all logistics
• Significantly improved performance of the audio engine

Official announcement

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2793380/announcements/detail/6561270570239976859