SpaceCorps 2027 0.4.14

SpaceCorps 2027 0.4.14 adds a research queue of five, an asteroid mission at every level from 1 to 8 and a mark for the missions and Challenges you can accept. Every item name now has Roman numerals, x1 ammo costs 5 Credits, the Auction takes Thulium for every kind but Quorvium, and a 0.4.13 game installs this update as a patch.

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

• Queue up to five technologies in the Research Centre. Each starts by itself when the one before it finishes, even while you are away.
• A mark for what you can accept: a badge with a count on Mission Control and its tabs, and one toast and a quiet sound whenever new ones come.
• An asteroid mission at every level from 1 to 8, for kinds that live on better maps (level 1: 8 rocks and 60 Rivet I; levels 7 and 8: the Danger Sectors). Rockets and lasers both count.
• Roman numerals on every item: Quantum Laser I, II and III, Starfire-III, and the Laser Damage, Shield Wall and Hull Plating Booster I and II. They are the same items: pieces, tiers, buffs and booster time stay.
• x1 ammo (Standard Battery) costs 5 Credits in the Shop, not 10.
• The Auction takes Thulium for every kind but Quorvium; the Power Core can be listed from 1 Thulium.
• The Hangar shows Penetration on every ship (0.0% without a Penetration Amp). Its tip names the caps: a laser hit's total is capped at 50%, a rocket's at 40%.
• Fixes: the stay missions say what starts a stay again, and their clock ticks every second; the Dashboard shows a booster's name, never a number; a cloaked ship's drones fade with its hull; the wiki's search box shows its whole focus border.
• For administrators: the Admin page shows how often each invite code was used.

If you already play: what changes for you

• Update the game. A 0.4.13 game installs this update as a patch; if the patch cannot be used it downloads the whole package, with no error. A 0.4.11 or older game downloads the whole package.
• Ten items are renamed at the first start, in place: ids, pieces, tiers, buffs, crafts, Auction listings and booster time stay. The Laser Damage Booster 1 you hold is the Laser Damage Booster I.
• Eight missions are added to your list. Those of the levels below yours are not offered (no pay for a level long done); yours and the levels above come as you reach them. They are not one of a level's ten and count in neither the Stats page nor the Wipe Points.
• Nothing else moves. A technology under way carries on, the queue starts empty, open listings keep their price and currency. At your first sign-in the mark tells you once what is waiting.
• A 0.4.13 game keeps working against the 0.4.14 server. It shows at once the Roman names, the price of x1 ammo, Thulium in the Auction and the asteroid missions (as a line with a count, "3/8"). It cannot queue research, show the badge, the new stay texts and clock, the Penetration tile on every ship, the drones' fade or the Dashboard fix, and a few item descriptions (the Quantum Laser III, the Starfire-III, the Booster II recipes) read in English in other languages until it updates.

Missions and research

• How the queue works. Press Queue on a technology while another is researched; the tree shows order numbers and the Research window a queue card. Nothing is paid when you queue. Each prerequisite must be researched, under way or queued ahead of it, so a chain goes in order. The next one starts at the exact moment the one before finishes, if you could start it by hand then (the Centre not upgrading, power, Dark Matter in the Centre, fuel in the tank). If not, it stays first in line, nothing is taken, and the Research window says why: fix the cause and press Start. Each start takes the technology's Dark Matter then. Removing a queued technology is free (the queued ones that need it go too); cancelling the research under way starts nothing. Queueing, removing and a queued start each have a quiet sound.
• The mark counts a mission as waiting when its line has a free slot (5 level missions, 3 Station missions, 3 Challenges) and your level and the season day are reached; it tells each one once on this computer.
• The asteroid missions come after a level's Special and take one of your five active slots. A break counts when it pays you a share: at least 5% of the damage the rock took, or the top dealer when nobody reaches 5% (in a group, the payee and the mates the chunks reach). Only the named kinds on the named sector count (x-3 is the third sector of any company, DS-x any Danger Sector); levels 7 and 8 can be accepted from day 4 of the season. Level 1 asks 8 Pebbles, Cobbles, Glimmers, Rimes or Cache Pods in x-1; level 8, 6 Ancient Husks or Star Crystals in a Danger Sector. They pay from 400 experience, 2,000 Credits, 5 Thulium and 60 Rivet I to 36,000 experience, 90,000 Credits and 720 Thulium.
• The stay missions Night Shift, Border Watch III and Frontline Watch now say that time in other sectors does not count and that losing your ship, or a hull loss past the limit, starts the stay again. Their clock counted in steps of 10 seconds; it ticks every second now.

Auction and shop

• x1 ammo costs 5 Credits. The Auction's least price follows: 200 Credits for a lot of 100 (400 before). Other ammo and the rockets keep their prices.
• Thulium for 79 of the 80 kinds. The Auction's rule closed Thulium to a kind whose least price was under 20 Thulium: 38 kinds in 0.4.13, the Power Core among them. A Thulium price is a whole number from 1; only the Quorvium, a lot of which the design values at less than 1 Thulium, stays in Credits. Deposit and tax are paid in Thulium, as before.

For administrators and the server

• The Admin page's Invites section shows totals (codes, codes used, uses, friends who reached level 5, the last 24 hours, 7 and 30 days, rewards collected) and a sortable table with, per code, the friends who used it. GET /api/admin/invites/stats: read-only, admins only, nothing new stored, no code shown.
• At the first start: one new table (ResearchQueue, empty), one data step (quests-asteroid-v1: the lower levels' missions are listed as not offered in each pilot's quest state) and the ten renames; the backup gate prints 18 lines. Eight data files change; the new routes are POST /api/skylab/research/queue/:tech and dequeue/:tech. No new counter or environment variable.

Updating

• From 0.4.13: the game downloads a patch by itself. Click Restart to Update, or quit the game, and it installs. A 0.4.12 game looks for a patch too (the release page lists which exist). If a patch cannot be used the game downloads the whole package.
• From 0.2.1 to 0.4.11: the game downloads the whole package. 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.
• What the update does to your account: it renames ten items in place and adds eight missions to your list. Nothing is paid or removed.
• A 0.4.14 game on a 0.4.13 server (a private server) plays, but has no research queue and no asteroid missions.

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. 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 features were tested with scripts and a headless game, not in a long session of play. The queue ran on a real server with technologies shortened to 12 seconds; a queue of days has not run in the live game.
• A queue that cannot start waits for you. With no Dark Matter, an empty tank, a blackout or an upgrading Centre it does not try again by itself. Put the Dark Matter for every queued technology that needs it in the Centre beforehand.
• Levels 7 and 8 send you to the Danger Sectors, where other pilots can shoot you. A map holds at least one rock more of a mission's kinds than its count, and others break them too, so you may wait for a rock to come back.
• Thulium now opens cheap items. A Thulium price starts at 1, and the design values a lot of ammo or rockets at 440 Credits and more (200 Credits to a Thulium): very cheap listings in Thulium are possible.
• Not in this update: crafting several recipes at once, the clan features and the Skylab update (a second core, the Ammo Printer and the Rocket Factory) are still being built.
• The patches have run once, with 0.4.13, and few games have used them yet (1.8 MB for Windows, 2.0 MB for the Linux folder, 4.8 MB for macOS and 19.9 MB for the AppImage, against 126 to 136 MB for the packages). We have not checked each kind on a real machine one by one; the game falls back to the whole package when anything is wrong.
• 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 was written by AI. Please tell us what reads wrong.
• The other limits of 0.4.13 still stand: mining pays a great deal and none of it has been measured live, the Clan Wardens at five times the strength have not been fought, a 7-day listing costs 7% that is never returned, and the Penetration Amp has not been played. The builds are unsigned (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
SpaceCorps2027-macos-universal.dmg	385e87a820ddafcac8145b6e8c58eb535b262d35f48f7a54aa2e57299e6bf730
SpaceCorps2027-windows-x86_64.zip	db4a410c8d1074c247f536a9a653f205f709c075c7074d29e6c211f4a4152115
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.AppImage	c6aeb9ed474bded88679c5dbda558c5d13c1e674f7749acbb4d5236348aa94b9
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	27573f486fb4e6728db14dbec87679faeca0ec190e927aeba82829eaec8400bf