Starground v7.1.0 was released on July 11, 2024 as a stable release in the Alpha v7 update series.

Additions

• Introduced a weapons shopkeeper to the Space Hub
• Introduced buttons to select Russian and Korean as a language (my apologies for not including those before!)
• Introduced Japanese translations (thanks Matthew Armstrong!)
• Introduced a button to hide player names (this is your doing yochic)
• Introduced an icon that is displayed when the day/night cycle has been disabled with f1
• Introduced nuclear bombs
• Introduced the rubber mallet weapon component
• Introduced the Dragonslayer weapon component
• Introduced the Godot plush building
• Introduced the thumper machine
• Introduced the Advanced Collection Research
• Introduced 3 decorative plants
• Introduced a language change button to the pause menu
• Introduced a player list
• Introduced combo attacks
• Introduced a cooldown effect to slots when used
• Introduced a spawn animation to Moonshroom (thanks Z3NN3!)
• Introduced an option to set a delay for playing music in Veridian

Changes

• Changed the game so pressing escape when sending a message now unfocuses the text box instead of opening the pause menu
• Changed the game so picking up items with your mining-laser no longer has a delay
• Changed the game so the tree of wisdom will not repeat quotes until all of them have appeared
• Drastically decreased the game's file size by swapping wav songs with ogg songs (around 400 MB to 142 MB)
• Changed the game so indicator overlays are no longer activated when placing down a building
• Changed the game so weapon slash sound pitch is linked to the weapon speed
• Changed the game so weapon reach in the Tool Bench reflects total weapon length
• Raised the minimum cooldown time to 0.2 seconds

Fixes

• Corrected a problem where player chat boxes were invisible
• Corrected a problem where the laser particles would start in the wrong position
• Corrected a problem where players would technically be in the dungeon in the automation zone
• Corrected a problem where items would be deleted when near the edge of the world
• Corrected a problem where oil rigs don't mine oil deposits that already existed before placing
• Corrected a problem where rotating an object would cause oblong buildings like the refiner to be offset incorrectly
• Corrected a problem where the refiner and Electric Furnace don't appear on clients
• Corrected a problem where hiding the UI on multiplayer would break
• Corrected a problem where clients could not hide the day/night cycle
• Corrected a problem where underground Conveyor belts were flipped incorrectly
• Potentially fixed an issue where opening the saves folder on Linux didn't work
• Corrected an issue with terrain generation where terrain did not match the map preview
• Corrected a problem where plant sway offsets were not set properly on spawn
• Corrected a problem where you had to click left click before you could interact when starting the game

Optimizations

• Made conveyors run 10x faster (2.0ms frame time to 0.19ms)
• Made Mover run 3.6x faster (2.2ms frame time to 0.6ms)
• Raised the performance of all objects

Official announcement

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2793380/announcements/detail/4229524700857013237