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SpaceCorps 2027 0.4.10 rebuilds the Skylab's numbers and adds 16 drone formations in two new research trees, reworked level missions (quest items, visits, stays, hull limits) with a Challenge line of 50 very hard missions, a daily line of missions for clans with three Clan Wardens and permanent clan boosts, company ranks, a ring of jump gates between the companies, and a wiki with pictures and search. The Skylab's farms, collectors, Storage, Forgery and Solar each have their own output, price and upgrade time at every one of their 20 levels; you keep your levels, nothing is charged or refunded, and what your farms had stored is paid out once at the old rate. A Solar upgrade now stops the farms of almost every station until it is done. The 16 formations change your ship's shield, hull, speed, lasers, rockets and kill rewards, and you change the one you wear from the hotbar every 2 seconds. It also fixes a ship's total shield falling when you add a shield or a cell, and closes two loopholes in how lasers and extras are fitted. Some things get stricter or cheaper, so the "If you already play" list below is worth reading.

The game plays on the public server https://spacecorps-game.sliplane.app. Your pilot, ships, items, credits, clan and world carry over.

Download page: https://spacecorps.github.io/play/
On Hangar: https://hangar.sliplane.app/p/spacecorps/spacecorps-2027

What's new

Highlights

  • The Skylab has new tables. The Credit Farm makes 500 credits an hour at level 1 and 50,000 at level 20, the Thulium Farm 50 to 1,600 Thulium an hour, the Velkonite Collector 10 to 80 and the Orvium Collector 10 to 40 ore an hour. The first upgrade of each of the farms, collectors, Storage, Forgery and Solar takes 5 minutes and the last 12 to 36 hours, and the climbs cost far less Thulium than before. The Credit Farm is now built free. The whole station to level 20 takes about 18 days instead of 22.6.
  • Solar makes only 25% of its power while it upgrades. For almost every station that means the farms and collectors stop until the upgrade is done (up to 24 hours at the top). Plan a Solar upgrade like a blackout of your farms.
  • 16 drone formations, researched in two new trees of the Research Centre (Defence 6, Strike & Mobility 10) and crafted in Assembly for 7,000 to 46,000 Thulium each. You own them, drag any of them (and a built-in Standard) from the hotbar's Formations menu onto a slot, and click the slot or press its key to wear that formation. You can change once every 2 seconds, in a fight too. A formation works while you own at least one drone.
  • Level missions are chains. Of the ten missions of every level, three carry a quest item home to Mission Control, two visit marked points, two hold a sector for a number of minutes and three stay plain kill missions; the new steps are added to the kills, and a step can say "do not lose more than N hull points" or "do not die". 64 missions were reworked; levels 3 and 4 are no longer one long Phantasm grind.
  • The Challenge line: 50 hard missions in five tiers (Proving Ground, Iron Border, The Centre, The Abyss, Legends), from pilot level 3, with kills by the thousand, vigils of up to 3 hours, convoys, clean runs and a black hole walk, paid in credits, Thulium, experience, items and boosters (honor in tier I). They take your boosters, the world multiplier and your clan's boosts like any other mission.
  • Clans have a daily line: four hunts or patrols in order and then the day's Clan Warden, a boss only your clan can hurt (three Wardens in rotation, each in three strengths). A finished line pays 100 clan points, which the Leader and Co-Leaders spend on three permanent boosts of ten levels: Clan Damage (+0.5% per level), Clan Thulium and Clan Credit (+1% per level).
  • Company ranks: your PvE points earn a military rank, 24 of them from Junior Pilot to Senior Admiral. A small symbol shows before your name on ship tags, in chat, in the kill feed and on profiles, and your rank keeps through the season wipe.
  • Ships: the Storm has 13 lasers (it had 10), 4 core and 2 auxiliary generator slots and 150,000 hull, and flies at 250. The Protos flies at 160 and the Wraith at 220. The four ships you buy (Protos, Kitefin, Ostirion and Nomad) have 2 extra slots instead of 3; the four you craft keep 3. A new pilot starts with a Base CPU I and a Repair Drone I fitted in the Protos' two extra slots.
  • A ring of jump gates: each company's x-4 sector has a second gate, to another company's x-3 (Mars M-4 to Terra T-3, Terra T-4 to Galactic G-3, Galactic G-4 to Mars M-3), so there is a loop between the maps that does not cross the Danger Sectors.
  • Fixes: adding a shield or a shield cell can no longer lower a ship's total shield, adding a thruster or an engine can no longer lower its speed, an extra now has to sit in a box the ship really has, and a laser fitted with no slot named takes a free laser slot.
  • Aliens no longer push each other apart, which takes work off the server on every tick. Repair Drones fitted as extras now fly out and beam your hull for everyone to see. 20 new quiet sounds.
  • The wiki has pictures and a search: every article has its own icon, most open with a banner, small icons stand in front of names, a click shows a picture large, and a search box finds text across all articles in your language. New articles: Drone Formations and Ranks.

If you already play: what changes for you

  • Your Skylab keeps its levels, and its numbers change. Nothing is charged or refunded for the difference. At the update everything your farms and collectors had stored (up to 72 hours of each, the "hopper") is paid out once, at the old hourly rate, and the hoppers start empty. At high levels the new farms make much less than the old ones (a level-20 Credit Farm 50,000 credits an hour, it made 597,630; a level-15 Thulium Farm 950 Thulium an hour, it made 1,969), the Thulium Farm at levels 2 to 8 and the Orvium Collector at levels 1 to 4 make more than before (up to 30% and up to two thirds). Prices and times follow the new tables from level 1 on, so a climb you have not made yet costs far less Thulium and its last steps take hours, not days; its first upgrade takes 5 minutes where it took 36 seconds to 3 minutes, and some climbs cost more credits (see "Skylab: the new tables").
  • Solar: while it upgrades it makes 25% of the power of its current level. The farms and collectors stop for the whole upgrade unless everything else in your station is at least five levels below Solar (a full station needs more); what they hold stays and can be collected. A Solar upgrade that is running at the update makes 25% from then on. The price of a Solar upgrade is now the Forgery's (24,000 credits for the climb from level 1 to 3 instead of 1,679).
  • The Resource Storage holds a different amount of each ore (240 of each at level 1, 7,680 Velkonite and 3,840 Orvium at level 20). Ore you hold above the new limit stays, but your collectors stop collecting that ore until you spend it below the limit.
  • Mission Control has new missions. If you finished one of the 64 reworked level missions, it is offered again and you do the new version for its full reward (credits, Thulium, experience, honor, items). A reward you had finished but not yet claimed is paid at the larger of the old and the new amount. A mission you have under way is carried over to its new steps by the share you had done, never dropped. Your mission count and your Wipe Points never go down, and a mission never earns Wipe Points twice in a season. The 24 level missions that did not change and the 10 Station missions stay as they are. A level's Special is locked again until you have done that level's missions again. You see one notice at your first flight.
  • The four ships you buy have 2 extra slots (Protos, Kitefin, Ostirion, Nomad), so with the Extra Slots CPUs I, II and III they have 5, 7 and 9 extra slots; the Paragon, Ironclad, Wraith and Storm keep 3 (6, 8 and 10). If you had a third extra fitted on one of the four, it is unequipped into your inventory at the update (nothing is deleted; you get one notice at your first flight).
  • The Storm is now a Class IV Dreadnought by the wiki's rule (more than 10 lasers). The Wraith is a little slower and the Protos a little faster. No ship's price or recipe changed.
  • Shield totals can go up, never down. If your loadout was hit by the shield bug (a shield or a cell lowered the total), it reads more now.
  • Formations work for every pilot who owns a drone. You do not fit them: owning one is enough, and all the formations you own stay through the season wipe like your drones. Research and crafting of a formation are once per account.
  • Aliens may overlap and several can stand on the same spot; they still keep out of your ship's hull. An alien that gives up on a pilot flies to a random point of the map again.
  • A Warden is not a Seeker: a Clan Warden does not count for any alien-kill mission. Hard (Challenge) missions pay base x world x boosters x your clan's boosts, so in Gamma a mission pays three times its printed numbers before any booster.
  • Clan points, boost levels and the daily lines start at zero at the update (nothing existed before) and again at every season wipe. Ranks keep through the wipe.
  • A 0.4.9 client keeps working against the 0.4.10 server, but it cannot take the missions that need the new game, wear a formation or see the clan line and the ranks (see Updating).

Skylab: the new tables

  • Every module has its own numbers at each of its 20 levels (the Credit Farm, Thulium Farm, Velkonite Collector, Orvium Collector, Resource Storage, Forgery and Solar; the Core and the Research Centre keep theirs):

    Level 1 Level 10 Level 20 0.4.9 at level 20 First upgrade Last upgrade
    Credit Farm (credits an hour) 500 7,500 50,000 597,630 5 min 12 h
    Thulium Farm (Thulium an hour) 50 450 1,600 7,310 5 min 36 h
    Velkonite Collector (ore an hour) 10 32 80 833 5 min 24 h
    Orvium Collector (ore an hour) 10 24 40 416 5 min 36 h
    Resource Storage (Velkonite / Orvium held) 240 / 240 1,920 / 1,440 7,680 / 3,840 62,450 each 5 min 12 h
    Forgery (ore per plate, Velkonite / Orvium) 40 / 80 35.5 / 71 30 / 60 28.6 / 57.2 5 min 24 h
    Solar same power as before 5 min 24 h

    A farm's price and time follow the table for every step: for example the Credit Farm costs 5,000 credits and 1 Thulium for the first upgrade and 7,000,000 credits and 550 Thulium for the last, and the Thulium Farm 7,000 credits and 45 Thulium for the first and 8,500,000 credits and 16,000 Thulium for the last. The numbers are in the Skylab's help cards and on the wiki's Skylab page.

  • What a module costs from its build to level 20 (the build and all 19 upgrades):

    Module Credits before Credits now Thulium before Thulium now
    Credit Farm 20.1 million 26.2 million 2.0 million 2,399
    Thulium Farm 796.8 million 32.3 million 79.7 million 67,890
    Velkonite or Orvium Collector 66.5 million 21.0 million 3.3 million 78,950
    Resource Storage 20.9 million 18.2 million 1.0 million 2,649
    Forgery 66.5 million 35.0 million 3.3 million 37,300
    Solar 1.0 million 35.0 million 104,000 36,850

  • Whole station: to take the seven tabled modules from their builds to level 20 now costs 188,739,000 credits and 304,988 Thulium in all. The Core's timers are unchanged and still set the pace: the whole station to level 20 takes about 18 days (it took 22.6), the Thulium Farm and the Orvium Collector finishing last, 36 hours after the Core.

  • Build prices: the Credit Farm is built free (it cost 1,000 credits and 100 Thulium). Solar is still 500 credits and 50 Thulium. The Velkonite and Orvium Collectors cost 20,000 credits and 500 Thulium (10,000 credits before), the Resource Storage 5,000 credits and 250 Thulium (10,000 and 500), the Forgery 5,000 credits and 500 Thulium (10,000 and 500). The Thulium Farm, the Core and the Research Centre are as before.

  • Solar: its power at each level is unchanged. It is built for 500 credits and 50 Thulium; its upgrades now cost and take what the Forgery's do. While it upgrades it makes 25% of the power of its current level; the new level's power starts when the upgrade ends. A station that then uses more than it makes stops: every farm and collector stops producing, and the Forgery starts no new batch, until the upgrade is done. Only a station whose other modules are at least five levels below Solar runs through it (a full station with the whole supply chain needs a little more). A module that is upgrading or switched off draws no power, so lifting the farms together with Solar costs nothing extra. The help cards, the power tip and the Station missions' briefings say so in all 12 languages.

  • Storage: a bank holds its own amount of each ore. Ore above the new limit stays and the collector stops until you are below it.

  • Forgery: a plate takes a little less ore with every level, from 40 to 30 Velkonite and from 80 to 60 Orvium (level 14 Orvium: 67.5).

  • One payout at the update: every uncollected pile of the farms and collectors, at most 72 hours of each, is paid once at the old rate of that module's level and the hopper is emptied. It is a payout, not a collection: the Station missions that ask you to collect do not count it, and no booster touches it. A level-10 pilot gets at most 1,487,595 credits, 38,176 Thulium, 6,437 Velkonite and 3,218 Orvium; a level-20 pilot at most 43,029,388 credits and 526,291 Thulium.

  • Research from ore: a Velkonite is now worth 210 science and an Orvium 321 to the Research Centre (they were 40 and 80), to match the smaller collectors. This means cheaper ore, not faster research: a research still burns 1 science a second (2 with a boost), so an hour of research costs 17 Velkonite or 11 Orvium instead of 90 or 45, and the time and the tank limit you, not the ore.

  • Station missions: the briefings of First Farm, Payday, Brighter Panels, Growing Season and Open the Supply Line quote the new prices, timers and the Solar rule. Their goals and rewards are unchanged; they are paid with the same multipliers as other missions (see Missions).

Drone formations

  • What a formation is: a pattern your drones take round the ship. Each gives some bonuses and charges some prices, for example a bigger shield for weaker guns. You own a formation; you do not fit it. A formation works while you own at least one drone (a Slave Drone or a Master Drone; it need not be fitted), and more drones do not make it stronger. One formation is worn at a time.

  • Wearing one: the hotbar has a Formations menu next to Ammo, Rockets and Extras. It lists every formation you own and a built-in Standard (no formation, always there). Drag any entry onto a slot of the hotbar; clicking that slot or pressing its key makes that formation the one you wear, and a Standard slot takes the formation off. You can change once every 2 seconds, with no lock in a fight; in a safe zone a change starts no timer. Swapping between your two configurations does not change the formation you wear and does not start the timer. The Ship window shows the formation you wear and the Target window the one your target wears. A quiet sound plays when you change.

  • Research and crafting: the 16 formations are 16 technologies in two new Research Centre trees, Defence (6: Testudo, Adamant, Sanctum, Redoubt, Cordon, Rampart) and Strike & Mobility (10: Asterism, Centurion, Shrike, Gyre, Culler, Auger, Bodkin, Ballista, Gemini, Stiletto). A research takes 10 hours, 1 day or 2 days and needs 5, 13 or 20 Dark Matter (189 for all sixteen; 339 for the whole tree with the 15 older technologies). Then you craft the formation in Assembly (a new Drones category) for Thulium, 330,500 for all sixteen, plus ship fragments, plates and power cores (the strongest also Ancient Control Units). The chains: Testudo, Sanctum, Rampart; Adamant, Redoubt, Cordon; Asterism, Bodkin, Ballista; Centurion, Shrike, Culler; Gemini, Stiletto; Gyre, Auger. All sixteen researches one after another take 16 days 2 hours (half of it with the Thulium boost).

    Formation Gives Costs Research Dark Matter Thulium
    Defence
    Testudo +14% shield -5% all damage 10 h 5 7,500
    Adamant regenerates 1.2% of your maximum shield a second (up to 5,750) -15% hull 10 h 5 9,000
    Sanctum +10% shield, +15% hull -9% laser damage 1 day 13 20,000
    Redoubt +38% shield, regenerates 0.7% a second (up to 4,500), rocket reload 27% shorter -12% laser damage, -11% speed 1 day 13 21,000
    Cordon +95% shield -3% speed, -11% laser damage, rocket reload 11% longer 1 day 13 21,500
    Rampart +17% shield absorbance -17% speed 2 days 20 38,500
    Strike & Mobility
    Asterism +24% rocket damage, 7% chance to dodge a direct hit rocket reload 35% longer 10 h 5 7,000
    Centurion +32% honor from alien kills -5% laser damage, -5% hull, -7% shield 10 h 5 8,000
    Shrike +7.5% laser damage to aliens, +6% XP from alien kills -6% shield absorbance 10 h 5 8,500
    Gyre +10% speed -11% laser damage, drains 0.5% of your current shield a second in a fight 1 day 13 20,000
    Culler +12% damage to aliens, +12% XP from alien kills -10% speed 1 day 13 20,000
    Auger +21% laser damage -9% speed 1 day 13 20,500
    Bodkin +29% rocket damage -6% laser damage 1 day 13 21,000
    Ballista +55% rocket damage -13% hull 1 day 13 24,000
    Gemini +9 points of shield penetration -22% shield 2 days 20 38,000
    Stiletto +16 points of shield penetration, +13% hull drains 3.5% of your current shield a second in a fight 2 days 20 46,000

  • Rockets: a formation changes all 14 rockets, the N.U.K.E. and the N.I.K.E. included. A rocket's damage factor is fixed the moment you fire it (changing formation while it flies changes nothing), and so is the wait after a launch: Asterism lengthens it by 35 percent, Cordon by 11 percent, Redoubt shortens it by 27 percent, but never below the rocket's flight time plus a tenth of a second (a N.U.K.E. waits at least 4.1 s, a N.I.K.E. at least 4.6 s). The rocket cards show the damage you would deal with your formation. A formation's rocket bonuses together can never raise a rocket's damage by more than 59 percent, so the one-shot limits of the big rockets hold (a N.I.K.E. with the best formation still cannot destroy a fresh Paragon at once).

  • Hull and shield: a formation with a hull percent changes your ship's maximum hull everywhere you read it (flight, the Ship window, the Hangar tile). A change keeps your hull's fraction: 80 percent of the old maximum becomes 80 percent of the new one, both ways, so changing back and forth gives no free hull. Your current shield is only cut when the maximum falls, and nothing is refilled when it rises. Shield Surge and Emergency Repair heal the same amount whatever you wear.

  • Evasion (Asterism, 7%) is a chance to dodge: each direct hit on you (a laser volley, a direct rocket, an alien's shot) has that chance to do no damage at all, and a floating "Miss" shows over your ship, with one quiet sound. The other hits land whole. An area blast has no aim and is never dodged.

  • Shield regeneration and drain: Adamant and Redoubt regenerate part of your shield every second, in a fight or not, up to the cap shown. Stiletto and Gyre take a share of your current shield every second while you are in a fight (10 seconds after a hit or a shot) and never inside a safe zone; the drain stops the moment you change formation.

  • Penetration adds to your ammo's and a direct rocket's shield penetration; the sum stops at 40 percent. XP and honor bonuses (Shrike, Culler, Centurion) count only after the formation has been worn for 10 seconds, and only for alien kills (swarms included), not for missions or pilots, so changing in and out does not farm them.

  • The Hangar and the item cards: the Hangar's Drones view lists the formations you own; a formation's item card lists its bonuses in green and its prices in red, and each of the 16 has its own picture (a block under a roof, an arrow, a star, twin spears, a diamond and so on, coloured by role). Other pilots see which formation you wear.

  • What it is worth: the model puts the best formation of the moment at about 14 percent over a plain ship for a pilot who owns all sixteen and changes between hunting, a duel and a flight; the best single formation in a duel (Gemini) about 18.5 percent. A pilot who swaps formations with N.I.K.E.s in hand is about 1.3 times a plain ship in a duel. These are the balance model's numbers, not measured in play; the first season will retune them.

Missions: levels 1 to 8

  • New steps. Quest items: an item that drops only for you from an alien (after enough kills it is guaranteed), one that lies on the map, or one that comes from the Nth kill; you pick it up and carry it home to Mission Control. A cyan beacon marks it for you alone, and the Active Quests window shows "Carrying" and how far Mission Control is. Visit: fly to a marked point (a gold ring on the map and the minimap). Stay: hold a sector for a number of minutes outside the safe zones, in total or in one stretch (a death starts a one-stretch stay again). Items stay in the company sectors; visits and stays can go to the Danger Sectors. A Base CPU or Jump CPU cannot be used while you carry an item.
  • Conditions. A whole mission or a single step can say "Hull limit N HP" (do not lose more than that many hull points while it runs: the number the hull bar shows, after shields and absorbance; black hole radiation counts, shields do not) and "No death." Mission Control and the Active Quests window show a pill and a live bar ("Hull damage: 1,240 / 3,000"). If you break a condition the step starts again, a carried item is lost and must be fetched again; nothing is lost for good. The limits are set generously on purpose: aliens hit hard and a pilot has about half of it absorbed.
  • The mix. Every level has ten regular missions and its Special: 3 with an item, 2 with a visit, 2 with a stay and 3 plain kill missions. A mission with a new step is a chain of two to five steps (kill specific aliens, fly to a point, hold a sector, take an item home) in order, or steps open together ("hold the gate for 4 minutes while you destroy 8 Seekers"). One set serves Mars, Terra and Galactic; only the officer's portrait differs.
  • Kills stay, with more variety. Every mission that had a kill in 0.4.9 still has one. Level 3's kill steps add up to 108 kills (92 in 0.4.9, all Phantasm): 36 Seekers, 57 Phantasm and, from season day 4, the Seeker swarm (3 Boss Seekers and 12 Seeker Slaves). Level 4's kill steps add up to 134 (152 in 0.4.9, 150 of them Phantasm): 46 Seekers, 60 Phantasm, 13 Bulwarks and the swarm. The Specials of levels 3 and 4 hunt the Seeker swarm and open once the swarms appear on season day 4. Missions that ask for swarm members cannot be taken before that day.
  • Pace. The chains are longer than the patrols they replace: by the balance model a level takes 1.1 to 1.5 times as long (levels 4 to 8 about 1.3 to 1.5 times). A level's experience is still 85 percent of its gap to the next level, so a level pays a little less an hour.
  • Redo, carry-over and notice: see "If you already play". A mission that is not reworked is untouched; the 10 Station missions are untouched.
  • Pay: Station missions and Challenge missions are now paid like level missions: the printed number is the base, and the world multiplier (Alpha 1, Beta 2, Gamma 3), your boosters and Premium experience and your clan's Credit and Thulium boosts multiply it. A Station mission has no world of its own and pays the world you fly in when you claim it. A claim is one write: a second claim is refused and nothing is paid twice.

Missions: the Challenge line

  • 50 missions in five tiers of ten, opening when your pilot reaches level 3: Proving Ground (tier I), Iron Border (II), The Centre (III), The Abyss (IV) and Legends (V, lifetime totals and a capstone, Warden of the Line, about 20 hours). Up to three Challenge missions are active at once, beside your level missions. Each can be done once. They survive the wipe and do not count for the Wipe Points of missions.

  • A tier opens when the missions of the tier before are claimed. Tiers IV and V open when nine of the ten are claimed: the Dormant Force missions (Dormant Dawn, Dormant Dusk), sized for a crew of about eight, are not asked for. The Challenges tab of Mission Control shows the tiers, the next one locked, and what each mission asks.

  • What they ask: kill grinds (1,000 to 10,000 Seekers or Phantasm, up to 2,000 Bulwarks, 1,000 Goombahs and 150 Crystalys), swarm hunts (from season day 4; the Pirate Boss and Dormant missions are group missions), stays (45 minutes in a company sector up to 3 hours in the Danger Sectors, where a ship that moves 300 units every 30 seconds counts, since nothing there can be shot), convoys (bring down the guards of a core and carry it home under a hull limit and no death), clean "Untouched" runs (a number of kills while losing no more than a limit of hull, up to 556,000 points), a tour of the four corners of a Danger Sector and a walk round the black hole's rim.

  • Kills count for your group: the killer and the group mates within 4,000 units who fired in the last 15 seconds (the level missions keep their own rule).

  • The pay is the base below, multiplied as above; the line is balanced at the lower end of its range, so it can be raised later.

    Tier Hours (model) Credits Thulium Experience Honor
    I Proving Ground 22 9,355,000 70,125 435,500 26,140
    II Iron Border 46 6,200,000 46,450 471,000 none
    III The Centre 56 11,995,000 90,020 887,000 none
    IV The Abyss 74 26,215,000 196,615 1,880,500 none
    V Legends 176 48,390,000 362,865 3,110,000 none
    All 50 374 102,155,000 766,075 6,784,000 26,140

    Honor is paid in tier I only (honor has no use yet). Items are resources that gate real builds (Power Cores, Cataclysite, plates, at most three Ancient Control Units a tier, no Dark Matter) and a booster on most missions. What a multiplier does: Crystalys Reign prints 7,725,000 credits and 57,925 Thulium. In Alpha you are paid that; in Gamma three times it (23,175,000 credits and 173,775 Thulium) before any booster; with the largest Thulium buff and your clan's full Thulium boost on top the most it can pay is 243,285 Thulium.

Clans: the daily line, the Wardens and the boosts

  • The line: every clan has one line a day, four hunts or patrols in order and then the day's Clan Warden. The whole clan's kills and flying add to one shared total. Counts depend on the clan's tier, which the server takes from the five highest-level members: under mean level 4 Recruit, 4 to under 7 Veteran, 7 or more Elite (a Veteran clan asks for 300 Seekers on a Seeker Sweep day). A pilot takes part from 5 percent of the day's work (about 8 minutes of hunting) and at least three pilots must reach it before a step closes. The line resets every season day (24-hour blocks from the season's start), not at midnight UTC. The Operations tab in the Fleet window shows the steps, their progress, your own work against the minimum and how many members have reached it.
  • Pay: a finished line pays the clan 100 clan points (15, 15, 20 and 20 for the four steps and 30 for the Warden); each pilot who took part gets a personal reward (Recruit 5,000 credits and 20 Thulium, Veteran 15,000 and 60, Elite 22,000 and 90).
  • The Wardens: the Brood Warden (day 1, then every third day) has four drones that heal it, so split your fire; the Siege Warden (day 2, 5, ...) keeps moving, mends itself and fires Rivet rockets at the pilot who hurt it, so keep moving and rotate the tank; the Wrath Warden (day 3, 6, ...) fights in place, mends itself and hits 1.5 times as hard below half hull, so get it under half hull fast. Each comes in three strengths (I, II, III) that follow the clan's tier. The Leader or a Co-Leader summons it from flight, in a company sector x-2, x-3 or x-4 outside the safe zones, once step 4 is done and at least 30 minutes of the day are left; two summons a day, one Warden out at a time. It appears 3,000 to 4,500 units from the caller, stands shielded for a 90-second warm-up and stays up for 40 minutes; only pilots of the calling clan can hurt it. A Warden has Alpha strength and Alpha pay in every world. By the model 5 pilots win in about 5 minutes and 3 pilots slowly (9 to 10 minutes, narrowly), best on x2 ammo; those times are calculated, not measured. Its pay is that of 30 Phantasm (tier I: 90,000 credits, 360 Thulium, 9,000 XP, 180 honor), 24 Bulwarks (tier II: 120,000, 600, 19,200, 240) or 16 Goombahs (tier III: 240,000, 1,200, 48,000, 384), split by damage, plus a loot box. A Warden is worth PvE points like any alien (10, 15 or 25 by strength), is drawn in a fourth colour (the clan's) and is named with its clan in the kill feed.
  • Clan boosts: the Leader and the Co-Leaders spend clan points on Clan Damage (10 levels of +0.5%, +5% in all), Clan Thulium (10 levels of +1%) and Clan Credit (10 levels of +1%). A level costs 22 points for the first and 58 for the tenth (400 for one boost, 1,200 for all three), so a clan that finishes every line has all 30 levels by season day 12 (the season has 29 days). A purchase is final and takes effect at once, even in flight, for every member. Damage applies to your lasers against aliens and pilots, not to rockets. Thulium and Credit apply to what kills and mission claims pay (your own share, a boss share and a group share), not to the Skylab's farms, rockets, bonus codes or the clan's own payouts. A boost that is under one whole unit on a kill is carried and paid when it adds up, so +10% on a Seeker's 4 Thulium is not rounded away.
  • Wipe: clan points, boost levels and lines start again at every wipe; the clan, its roster and its bank stay.

Company ranks

  • 24 ranks: Junior Pilot, Pilot, Senior Pilot; the same three grades of Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Colonel, General and Admiral, up to Senior Admiral. The rank is a function of your PvE points (150 for Pilot, 700 for Junior Sergeant, 9,000 for Junior Captain, 23,000 for Junior Major, 150,000 for Junior General, 750,000 for Senior Admiral), so it follows what the points do, and it keeps through the season wipe, which keeps the points.
  • Where you see it: only the symbol (chevrons, bars, stars, laurels) shows, before the name: on ship tags, in the Target window, in chat, in groups, in the kill feed, in the Hall of Fame and on pilot profiles. The words appear when you hover over it, and on the Company page.
  • The Company page has a new Company ranking: the pilots of your company by PvE points, your own place, a bar to your next rank and the list of all 24 ranks with the points each needs. The ranking is per world. A promotion shows a toast with a quiet sound of its own; from Junior Major up your company sees it in the chat.

Ships, slots and the starter kit

  • The numbers:

    Protos Storm Wraith
    Base speed 160 (was 150) 250 (was 240) 220 (was 225)
    Hull 8,000 150,000 (was 160,000) 324,000
    Lasers 2 13 (was 10) 12
    Generator slots (core, support, auxiliary) 4 (2, 2, 0) 10 (4, 4, 2) (was 3, 4, 3) 12 (4, 4, 4)

    The Storm is still the fastest ship and now has the most lasers of any ship; with more than 10 lasers the wiki rates it a Class IV Dreadnought. The Dormant Force swarm flies at the Wraith's new 220. No ship's price, recipe or crafting time changed.

  • Momentum Thrusters: speed multiplier I 1.08 -> 1.06, II 1.10 -> 1.07, III 1.13 -> 1.09, IV 1.14 -> 1.11.

  • Extra slots: the four ships you buy (Protos, Kitefin, Ostirion, Nomad) have 2, the four you craft (Paragon, Ironclad, Wraith, Storm) have 3; the Extra Slots CPUs I, II and III add 3, 5 and 7 on top (5, 7 and 9 on the regular ships, 6, 8 and 10 on the craftable ones). Extras above the limit are unequipped into the inventory at the update, the highest box first, with their uses (nothing is deleted).

  • Starter kit: a new pilot's Protos also gets a Base CPU I (10 uses; it takes your ship back to your company's base) and a Repair Drone I that slowly repairs your hull, both fitted in its two extra slots. The Emergency Repair drone in the ability slot, the Quantum Laser 1 and the starting ammo are unchanged. Pilots who enlisted before this update get no kit.

Combat, fixes and loopholes

  • Shields: a ship's total shield capacity and recharge never go down when you add a shield or a cell. The game ranked a ship's shields by raw capacity alone and ignored which slot each sits in, so a cell in a support or auxiliary shield could lift it above a core shield and cost more than the cell gave: an Ostirion with six Heavy cores and 18 Capacity IV cells read 494,828 after the 17th cell and 483,120 after the 18th; it now reads 524,409. A shield's absorbance is still the average of the shields, so a new, weaker shield can lower it; a cell never does.
  • Speed: adding a thruster or an engine can no longer lower a ship's speed, and the order your items are listed in no longer changes the number (the same kind of ordering mistake). A Kitefin with five engines read 227.50 and fell to 226.58 when a thruster was added; it now reads 231.55 with it.
  • Aliens no longer push each other apart. Packs can overlap and several aliens attacking you can stand on the same spot; they still keep out of your ship's hull. The server does less work every tick, most on maps with many aliens.
  • Repair Drones fitted in an extra slot show their drones: press REP, or let the Auto-Repair CPU do it, and small drones leave your ship, circle it and aim soft green beams at its hull while it repairs, then dock when it stops. Other pilots see them. They follow the Repair Drone's rank (I to IV: one, two, three, three drones), your graphics setting and Reduce Motion.
  • Two loopholes in fitting, closed. (1) An extra (a CPU, a Repair Drone) now has to sit in a box the ship really has: the extras limit holds for any slot number a hand-made request names, and an extra fitted with no slot named, or with a slot number the ship does not have, goes into a free extra slot or is refused ("No free slot for this item on this ship."). (2) A laser fitted with no slot named (-1) takes a free laser slot of the ship and no longer keeps a drone-slot number into the other configuration, which let a pilot stack lasers beyond the laser limit. Naming a drone's slot works exactly as before, for lasers and for shields: a laser or a shield in a drone slot is as legitimate as it was (a Slave Drone has 1 slot, a Master Drone 2). The game's Hangar never sends -1, so no pilot who plays through the Hangar notices either change. Pilots who used a loophole keep what they have: lasers already stacked stay where they are, and nothing was reset or deleted for it; the one thing that moves is the regular ships' extras cut above, which sends any extras above a regular ship's new limit back to the inventory, those fitted through the loophole included.
  • Gear can no longer be hidden in a third loadout slot that survives the wipe. A ship has two loadouts, 1 and 2; naming a laser, a shield or an extra into any other number is refused ("This ship has no such slot."), and gear a hand-made request had already parked in another loadout number no longer survives the season wipe.
  • Needs the new game: missions with an item, a hull limit or "No death" and the Warden's summon are refused to a game from before 0.4.10 with an "Update the game" line (see Updating).

Portals: the ring

  • Three new links: your company's border sector (x-4) has a second jump gate to another company's x-3: Mars' M-4 opens on Terra's T-3, Terra's T-4 on Galactic's G-3, Galactic's G-4 on Mars' M-3, and each of those x-3 maps has a gate back (6 gates). They are open to every pilot of any company, with the usual 3-second jump and a protected ring of 660 units round the gate. Where you can be attacked on the other side still depends on your world (in Alpha, x-3 is safe from pilots and x-4 is not). The Star System window and the wiki's chart are redrawn so the new routes are clear: the Danger Sectors in the middle, the three companies round them. The gates are added to existing worlds at the update.

Sounds

  • 20 new quiet sounds for your actions, each limited so it never stacks: seven for quest items and missions (finding, picking up, delivering and losing an item, reaching a spot, finishing a stay, breaking a run), ten for the clan line (a step done, the line done, a new line, the one-hour warning, a summon, a Warden armed, destroyed or lost, a boost bought, your reward), one when you change formation, one for a rank-up and one for a dodged hit. The sound bank in memory grows from 23.8 to about 27.5 MiB.

The wiki

  • Pictures: every article has its own icon in the list, most open with a banner, and screenshots of the game's windows, ships, aliens, swarms, abilities and sectors sit in the pages they describe; the Black Hole article shows the black hole of Danger Sector 4 as the game draws it. Small icons stand in front of names in headings, lists and tables. Click a picture to see it large; Esc or a click outside closes it and the arrow keys flip through the page's pictures.
  • Search: type in the box at the top of the article list (or press Ctrl+K, Cmd+K or / in the wiki) and the list turns into results across every article in your language, best match first, with the article's picture, its category and a snippet with your words highlighted. Use Up, Down and Enter, or click; the article opens at the first match with every match highlighted and a bar to step through them. Case and accents do not matter and several words find pages that have all of them.
  • New and changed pages: the new articles Drone Formations and Ranks; Skylab, Resources, Research, Quests, Clans, Getting Started, Hangar, Drones, Rockets, Shields, Speed, Combat, Wipe Timeline, Extras, Spacemap Travel and the Storm page changed. All in the game's 12 languages.

For administrators and the server

  • New files under Resources/: Formations.json, Ranks.json, ClanLines.json, ClanWardens.json and QuestCarry.json. Changed: SkylabConfig.json (per-level arrays and Solar's powerWhileUpgradingShare; the old formula keys are gone, so deploy the image, never a 0.4.10 binary on 0.4.9 files or the other way round), Research.json (the 16 formations, the ores' science), quests.json (148 definitions), Rockets.json and AlienLeash.json (their notes only), Swarms.json (the Dormant Force's speed), Values/ranking-config.json (the Wardens count as aliens for PvE points: 10, 15 or 25 by strength) and the seeds (the formation items and recipes, the ships' numbers; the 18 Warden alien kinds are added to the alien table from ClanWardens.json). The server checks the new files at the start and refuses to start on a wrong one ("Refusing to start: : ..."), before it touches the database.
  • Four data steps at the first start (each guarded by a DataMigrations row, logged once): star-system-ring-v1 (the six ring gates), skylab-tables-v1 (every pile paid once at the old rate; it stops the start with exit code 2 if it fails, leaving the database untouched), quests-levels-mix-v1 (active missions carried, waiting claims frozen at the larger reward, completions of reworked missions cleared for the redo, the one-time notice) and extras-limit-v1 (extras over the limit unequipped). Five new tables: ClanSeason, ClanLineDays, ClanLineContrib, ClanPointLedger (with an index) and PilotRanks. No backup was taken for this release and these steps are one-way for the data (docs/DEPLOY.md, "The deploy of 0.4.10: the checklist").
  • Client features: the game announces what it understands (X-Client-Features); the server requires quest-points for a mission with an item, a hull limit or no-death and clans for the Warden's summon; formations is announced but not required.
  • Counters for the first season (formation changes and time worn, clan lines and Wardens, quest starts, kills per hour) at GET /api/admin/counters. New admin tools for clans (/api/admin/clans/:id/...: the line, points, skip a step, reset a day, summon a Warden).
  • The release job: marketing/** and scripts/marketing/** never make a release (since 0.3.4), so a marketing-only change set, the Reddit pack included, merges without one. The installed job is a copy and only changes when it is reinstalled; the copy in use already has the startup-repair gate (it is byte for byte the script of 0.4.9), so for 0.4.10 a reinstall (scripts/release/install-auto-release.sh) is optional and changes a comment only.

Updating

  • From 0.2.1 or later: the game downloads 0.4.10 by itself. Click Restart to Update, or quit the game, and it installs. If you installed the game with Hangar, Hangar updates it.
  • From 0.2.0: download it once from the download page and replace the old app or folder.
  • Update the game. The server updates first, and a 0.4.9 client keeps working, but it shows some things the old way, and the new missions, the formations, the clan line and the ranks need the 0.4.10 client:
    • Missions: a mission with an item, a hull limit or "No death" is refused to a 0.4.9 client with "Update the game to take this mission."; a mission it already has stays. It has no markers, rings, stay timers or hull bars for the new steps.
    • Clans: the boosts work for its ship and its mission claims, but it shows no clan line and no Operations tab, and the Warden's summon is refused with "Update the game to use clan quests and boosts." A Warden is drawn in an unknown colour (grey).
    • Formations: it lists a formation as an item of an unknown type, cannot wear one (it has no formation slot on the hotbar), and its Hangar refuses to fit one. The two new research families show titled "Other". A dodged hit shows as a bolt of damage 0, with no "Miss".
    • Ranks, the Skylab's new texts, the pictures and search of the wiki, the 20 new sounds, the repair drones of the extras and the new Star System chart are the client's: a 0.4.9 client has none of them. The Skylab page shows the larger of the Resource Storage's two ore limits and its help and Station briefings quote the old numbers; what the server pays and allows is the new numbers.
    • The server's numbers and rules apply to every client at once: the Skylab tables and the Solar rule, the payout, the extras limit, the ships, the missions' pay, the Challenge line, the boosts, the ranks' points, evasion.
  • A 0.4.10 client on a 0.4.9 server (a private server, or while the update is on its way) still plays but has no clan line, no ranks and no new missions: update the server first.

Platforms

Package For
SpaceCorps2027-macos-universal.dmg macOS 12 Monterey or later, Apple silicon and Intel
SpaceCorps2027-windows-x86_64.zip Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.AppImage Linux x86_64, glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 and later), Vulkan
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.tar.gz the same Linux build, as a folder to unpack

Graphics need Metal (macOS), DirectX 12 or Vulkan (Windows), or Vulkan (Linux, Mesa 22 or a vendor driver). The game needs 4 GB of RAM at the least and 8 GB is recommended: measured on a Mac for 0.4.6, the game's footprint in flight peaked near 3 GB at Low and near 4 GB at High. It needs 400 MB of free disk space. The game's asset pack is about 8 MB larger than 0.4.9's (the wiki's pictures and translations, the formation icons and the new sounds). On computers with 8 GB, Medium or Low uses noticeably less memory than High.

First launch

The builds are not signed by Apple or Microsoft yet, so on a first install your system asks once before it opens the game. Updates the game installs itself don't ask again.

  • macOS: open the dmg and drag SpaceCorps 2027 onto Applications.
    • macOS 15 and newer: open the app once and click Done. Then go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway next to "SpaceCorps 2027 was blocked".
    • macOS 12 to 14: right-click (Control-click) the app, choose Open, then Open again.
  • Windows: right-click the zip, choose Extract All, and start spacecorps2027.exe from the SpaceCorps 2027 folder: the whole game is in that one file. If SmartScreen says it "protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.
  • Linux: run chmod +x SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.AppImage, then start it. Or unpack the tar.gz and start SpaceCorps2027/spacecorps2027.

Known limits

  • The new texts in the other languages have not been read by native speakers. Every new or changed sentence of this release in German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish and Simplified Chinese (the Skylab, formation, mission, clan and rank texts, the help cards and every wiki page) was written by AI and has had no native-speaker review. The captions of the wiki's screenshots are in English in all 12 languages. Please tell us what reads wrong.
  • The balance comes from models, not from play. The formations' strengths and prices, the Wardens' crew sizes and times, the ranks' pace, the clan boosts' timing (all 30 levels by day 12 for a clan that finishes every line) and the Challenge line's pay are numbers of the design models; nothing has been measured with real pilots. They are data files, and the first season will retune them. The Challenge line pays the lower end of its range on purpose.
  • A Solar upgrade is a blackout for most stations, as the Skylab help cards, the power tip and the wiki say; the game does not stop you from starting one.
  • The Challenge stays in the Danger Sectors count a ship that moves 300 units every 30 seconds, with no shot needed, because there are no aliens there to shoot. A scripted ship could use that.
  • The shield fix has a limit: absorbance is the average of a ship's shields, so adding a weaker new shield can still lower it (a cell never does).
  • A Warden's crew sizes (5 pilots in about 5 minutes, 3 pilots slowly) are calculated, not tried by a crew yet.
  • The tick cost of the new content on the live server, the game's memory and the first drawing on Windows and Linux of the new screens have not been measured at the time of writing. The sound bank in memory grew by about 3.6 MiB.
  • The builds are unsigned, so macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen warn on a first install (see above). There is one public game server with limited capacity; it may restart for updates, and your ship is saved when it does.

Verify your download

SHA256SUMS lists every package's SHA-256 and is signed with the SpaceCorps release key
(SHA256SUMS.minisig, minisign). With both files next to
the package:

minisign -Vm SHA256SUMS -P RWRhY8TTCr07i1iOS7MT45OHD3LFJJnWXWCF19fy7hjV1RD8cwWlVKF1
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing   # Linux: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

Checksums

Package SHA-256
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SpaceCorps2027-windows-x86_64.zip 67f39ffafbf2f72ddcb1dd5d74f4acd10fd0b086f73bf1cfe09065986dcaf2c4
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