Starground v0.9.0.0 was released on October 17, 2024 as a stable 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
• Introduced farm plots
• Introduced the ability to farm trees with apples
• Introduced water pumps
• Introduced water
• Introduced item descriptions for all artifacts
• Introduced a shadow to item stats text to improve readability
• Introduced an item tag to denote whether an item is farmable or not
• Introduced an item stat to show how much it heals when consumed
• Introduced latvian (Thanks Oviar!)
• Introduced a blur effect to UIs
• Introduced Moongrass to the dungeons
• Introduced modding support
• Introduced effects from food
• Introduced pizza
• Introduced apple pie
• Introduced Moonshroom (as an item)
• Introduced moonflour
• Introduced the grinder
• Introduced ovens
• Introduced meat
• Introduced a mod menu
• Introduced latvian to the game (massive thanks to Oviar!)
• Introduced Oviar to the translation credits
• Introduced Unskill335 to the translation credits
• Introduced the Fountain Wishes track to the Space Hub
• Introduced a second dungeon level (not finished yet, but currently accessible)
• Introduced floor doors that appear when killing bosses
• Introduced a warning popup to the mods menu
• Introduced functionality to the mod search box
• Introduced background blurring to more UIs
• Introduced a new ModAPI function for syncing inventories with clients
• Introduced the ability to see player multiplayer IDs in the playerlist when the F3 menu is open
• Introduced the menu_loaded signal that is emitted when the main scene is instantiated and loaded (accessed in Global)
• Introduced a new tileset to the lab
• Introduced glowing lumen orchid decorations in the lab
• Introduced the carrot artifact
• Introduced The Face enemy
• Introduced enemy wandering functionality
• Introduced special weapon components
• Introduced the "Exclusive" tag to items
• Introduced the carrot artifact
• Introduced the Tesla Core special weapon component
• Introduced float precision to the player's health bar to allow for non-int damage
• Introduced the Temple Lab track
• Introduced NightPotato to special thanks (thanks for all the awesome help with modding!)
• Introduced Dapal to the translator credits (thank you very much for your help with French!)
• Introduced the Computer
• Introduced the Diadematus spider enemy
• Introduced the Mini Diadematus enemy
• Introduced the Harvester
• Introduced grilled cheese sandwiches
• Introduced moonshrubs
• Introduced moonberries
• Introduced sugar
• Introduced donuts
• Introduced a 15 second consumption delay for all food items
• Introduced large crate decorations
• Introduced test tube decorations
• Introduced the Spore Scepter
• Introduced Log #1
• Introduced damage_taken signal for all entities
• Introduced player_entered_room signal in Global
• Introduced Spore boss music

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)
• Changed the game so the tree of wisdom is now killable
• Refreshed the sprite for the Dragonslayer
• Refreshed all translations
• Made an enourmous change to everything in the game by swapping items, buildings, Research, recipes, and more over to an ID system (should be virtually the same in-game)
• Unified all recipe selection buildings and their UI together to make them easier to maintain and create
• Changed the game so Furnace will now set it's filters from recipes instead of being hard-coded
• Changed the game so any inventory filter with the key FUEL_FILTER will filter to all fuel items
• Changed the game so mods can no longer override global.gd
• Refreshed all translations
• Adjusted the use of mod_initial_load.gd to instead use a script pointed to within info.json
• Adjusted the version numbering in-game to use a dash "-" instead of an underscore "_"
• Adjusted warning messages for mod validation
• Changed the game so mods will now load their scripts into a node as a child of ModAPI
• Adjusted player artifact checking to use a multiple of a set variable instead of overriding the base value
• Enhanced the appearance of the dungeon floor door
• Moved enemy spawning loot tables to the global Loot Table
• Moved the Yuck Puddle track from level 1 to the lab dungeon
• Moved boss loot drops to the global loot table
• Changed the game so the harvester requires the "Advanced Collection" research
• Adjusted entity health to floats

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
• Corrected a problem where tall items were behind the item frame
• Corrected a problem where bee sounds were not tied to the SFX bus
• Corrected a problem where numbers in the research menu would be updated incorrectly
• Corrected a problem where modded items could not load defaults
• Corrected a problem where the Electric Furnace could not take in any ores
• Corrected a problem where mods could not add to loot tables
• Corrected a problem where modded fuels were not accepted by fueled buildings
• Corrected multiple issues with electric furnaces, potentially causing crashes when used
• Corrected a problem where mods with multiple supported versions listed was formatted incorrectly
• Corrected a problem where zooming out had no limit
• Corrected a problem where mod validation was not in the right order
• Corrected a problem where bombs and nuclear bombs were not usable
• Corrected an issue related to recipe building UI multiplayer syncing
• Corrected a problem where the death screen would display item IDs instead of names
• Corrected a problem where the crafting UI flashed the wrong recipe when opening
• Corrected a problem where the toolbench had the incorrect stack size
• Corrected a problem where V2 underground Conveyor did not drop their items
• Corrected a problem where healthbars would flicker visible when spawning

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
• Enhanced the performance of thumpers

Official announcement

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2793380/announcements/detail/4532401559140382434