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SpaceCorps 2027 0.4.26 rebuilds the Universe Wipe and adds what it pays out: the next wipe keeps every ship, your drones, formations, P.E.T.s and P.E.T. Stations and a rebuilt Transport Cache (one locked ship with all its gear, three bays of 10 and 100 tons of cargo, up from 50 tons), takes the Credits above 5,000,000,000 and the Thulium above 10,000,000 at a wipe whose countdown begins at least 14 days after the caps are announced, and pays Wipe Points, Premium days, Credits, Thulium, loot containers and a title by your rank. It adds 40 achievements with titles, five loot containers that are earned and never sold, a daily rewards calendar, six special items and statistics for each wipe. Beta now asks level 7 and Gamma level 10, the black hole grows before the wipe, the Galaxy Gates spin for Thulium only, a P.E.T. Station is upgraded from the one below it, and Davidski's Auction lots stand last.

The game plays on the public server https://spacecorps-game.sliplane.app. Your pilot, ships, Credits, Thulium, items, clan and world carry over to this version. The next Universe Wipe runs under the rules of this version: it takes items and clans and, once the caps have been announced, the Credits and Thulium above them, as set out under The Universe Wipe below.

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

What's new

Highlights

  • The Universe Wipe is rebuilt. It keeps every ship, your drones, drone formations, P.E.T.s and P.E.T. Stations and your Transport Cache: one ship locked in it that keeps all its gear, three bays of 10 slots (lasers, shield cores, engines) and 100 t of cargo (50 t in 0.4.25). Up to 1,000 of each combat rocket and 1,000,000 of each laser ammo type carry over by themselves. Every other item is removed. Clans end. Credits above 5,000,000,000 and Thulium above 10,000,000 are lost at a wipe whose countdown begins at least 14 days after the caps are announced.
  • The wipe pays by your rank: 5 to 400 Wipe Points, 1 to 7 Premium days, 105,000 to 6,300,000 Credits and 225 to 13,500 Thulium, loot containers and a season title; the top ranks also get a look. A Season Report opens after the wipe, a Wipe preview shows beforehand what it will do to you, and the Dashboard counts down in the last 72 hours. At the next wipe your ranking points start from zero.
  • Five loot containers: Specimen Vault, Foundry Crucible, Chroma Archive, Survey Canister and Reagent Rack. They are earned, never sold and bound to your account; the odds are printed on the Containers page and the wiki, and every opening is recorded with its seed. They come from administrators, from your rank at the wipe, from the daily rewards calendar and from achievements.
  • 40 achievements and 32 titles under Community › Achievements: from 50,000 to 5,000,000 Credits each, once per account. You wear one title beside your name.
  • Daily rewards: a calendar of 29 tiles for each season, a Collect button, 6 hours of grace, no streak. Four chests at 7, 14, 21 and 28 days collected, and a Season prize at 10 and 20 days.
  • Six special items (Magic Hammer, Schematics, Philosopher's Stone, Tinkerer's Badge, Forger's Seal, Workforce Contract). Administrators issue them; nothing else gives them out yet.
  • Statistics for each wipe: the Stats page shows This wipe, Total and Past wipes, and the Hall of Fame can be read wipe by wipe.
  • Smaller: Beta needs level 7 and Gamma level 10; the black hole grows up to 1.8 times in the last 72 hours before the wipe; the Galaxy Gates spin for Thulium only, with a sound; P.E.T. Station II is made from a Station I and III from a II; Davidski's lots come after every pilot's lot in the Auction; new sounds for the new screens; the wiki is updated in 13 languages.

If you already play: what changes for you

  • Update the game. A 0.4.18 to 0.4.25 game installs a patch when the job made one for it (a Linux AppImage game from 0.4.23), else the whole package; an older game downloads the whole package.
  • Before the next wipe: build the Chrono-Gate (100 parts) so the Transport Cache opens; lock the ship you want to keep geared (the lock is final; once a ship is locked only its gear is kept, not your active ship's, unless that is the locked ship) or leave none locked and your active ship keeps its gear; fill the bays and the cargo; take the engines and lasers out of your Skylab's modules and put them in the Cache; collect your finished crafts (an uncollected craft is refunded, not made); leaders pay out the Fleet Treasury; look at your Credits and Thulium against the caps; open the Wipe preview; choose your next world under Galaxy Gates.
  • At the server's first start you receive the achievements you have already earned, with their titles but without Credits or containers, and the titles of the first Universe Wipe (a Season 1 title for the pilots who lived through it, and titles for rank, best of a company and the crown). Some goals had no history to read (swarm kills, Wardens, asteroids, Skylab trips, the Motherlode): they count from the update.
  • The update itself pays, moves and removes no Credits, Thulium or items. Your ranking points stay your whole career's until the next wipe.
  • Beta and Gamma: the new levels decide who can choose them at Setup and as a Destination. Nobody is moved out of the world he flies in.
  • A 0.4.25 game keeps working but has none of the new screens (Containers, Achievements, Daily rewards, special items, Statistics for each wipe, the Cache's ship lock, the Wipe preview and the Season Report), so update before the wipe. It still shows the Gates' scan for Credits; the server refuses it: Spinning for credits is closed. Spin for Thulium. A 0.4.26 game on an older server hides the pages that server does not have.
  • New texts in other languages have had no native review.

The Universe Wipe

  • When: unchanged. A season ends on day 30. As day 30 begins the chat and a red banner count down 5 minutes (a warning sound at 5:00, at 1:00 and in the last ten seconds), and then the wipe takes every pilot who has a world off the maps. The date of the next wipe is announced by the administrators. The caps apply to a wipe whose countdown begins at least 14 days after the caps were announced, as the news post that named the rules said.
Yours After the wipe
Every ship Kept, whole again: full hull, empty shields, its skin. Exactly one is active
The gear of your Cache ship (both configurations, with the amps, cells and thrusters in it). With no ship locked, the gear of your active ship Kept
Your drones, drone formations, P.E.T.s and P.E.T. Stations, wherever they are Kept
Your Transport Cache: 3 bays of 10 (they weigh nothing) and 100 t of cargo Kept
Ammo and combat rockets Up to 1,000 of each of the 12 combat rockets and 1,000,000 of each laser ammo type are kept without using the Cache. The N.I.K.E., the N.U.K.E., the EMP Charge and everything above those limits are kept only inside the Cache
Every other item: loose gear, the gear on your other ships, resources, boosters, CPUs, plates Removed. The engines and lasers fitted in your Skylab's Engine and Defense Modules are loose items too
Credits and Thulium Kept up to 5,000,000,000 Credits and 10,000,000 Thulium; above that is lost at a capped wipe. Rewards are paid after the caps
XP, honor, level, quests, Wipe Points, permanent buffs, technologies, looks (skins, auras, exhausts) Unchanged
Skylab (modules, ore, research) Unchanged. A Skylab expedition under way is settled and the Trophies Bay is paid out and emptied
Your rank and ranking points The rank goes into your season history and pays. From the next wipe the points start again from zero, and only experience, levels and kills you earn after it count; honor does not set your rank
The Wipe Point sources (alien kills, missions, Dormant Knowledge) and the alien kills of the wipe Start again: up to 1,090 Wipe Points can be earned again
Your clan Ends, with its Fleet Treasury, posts, log, treaties, points and boosts. What a clan paid you stays
Assembly crafts Every craft is cancelled and refunded: Credits and Thulium to your wallet before the caps, the materials as loose items. A finished craft you did not collect is refunded too, and what it would have made is never made. Jobs in the P.E.T. Cradle go on
Auction Listings come back as loose items and go with the rest; bids in lots are refunded; buy orders return the price they hold. This money comes home before the caps
Unopened containers, special items, titles, achievements Kept: they live in tables of their own
Chrono-Gate parts, the Cache, your destination Reset: 0 parts, the Cache empty (what it held is in your inventory, loose), the destination cleared. You land at your company's home in the world you chose under Galaxy Gates (else you choose at Setup)
  • The Transport Cache opens when the Chrono-Gate is complete: 100 parts, which you find with the Energy Materializer on the Galaxy Gates page. You may lock one ship in it. A locked ship keeps everything fitted to it, but it cannot be launched, fitted, unfitted, converted or plated until the wipe, and only an administrator can undo the lock. You need another ship you can launch; if you lock your active ship, the best of your others becomes the active one and the game says which. After the wipe the locked ship is your active ship. Skins, drones and P.E.T.s are not locked. The Hangar marks the locked ship, and from season day 26 every ship card says whether the ship keeps its gear. The bays take loose lasers, shield cores and engines (10 of each) with the amps, cells and thrusters in them; the cargo is weighed item by item (a laser 2,500 kg, a booster 500 kg, a plate 5 kg, a combat rocket 1 kg, a N.I.K.E. or N.U.K.E. 250 kg).
  • What it pays: the rank you hold at the instant of the wipe pays Wipe Points (5 to 400), Premium days (none up to Senior Lieutenant, then 1 to 7, stacked on a Premium you have), Credits (105,000 for a Pilot to 6,300,000 for a Senior Admiral) and Thulium (225 to 13,500), then containers by tier (a Pilot 1 Specimen Vault; an Admiral 8 Specimen Vaults, 4 Reagent Racks, 3 Foundry Crucibles, 3 Survey Canisters and 5 Chroma Archives) and a season title. The pilot with the most PvE points on the server gets 100 Wipe Points and 7 Premium days on top. Junior General or better gets a Laurel aura and Junior Admiral or better a Prism exhaust; the pilot with the crown gets the Crown aura and the Sovereign exhaust. You are paid if you had a world, at least 150 PvE points and at least 3 hours played in this wipe. The full table is on the wiki page Seasons and Rewards.
  • The caps cut only the wallet you hold at the wipe; nothing is taken during a season. The Dashboard, the Season page and the Gates page show a line about them from the day the caps are announced; it turns red when you are over a cap and the caps are in force for the next wipe. The rules were posted in the news before this version.
  • The Season Report opens at the station the first time you are there after the wipe (if you were offline it waits): your rank and place, your numbers of the wipe, what was kept, what was lost (and what a cap took) and what you were paid, line by line. The Wipe preview is the plan the server itself runs; open it from the banner, from the Dashboard and the Season page from season day 24, or as soon as the caps are announced. Season page › Progression keeps a row for each wipe you flew.
  • Rehearsed, not run on live data: the redesigned wipe was run on a development server with 200 synthetic pilots (193 with a world): 193 wiped, 0 failed; with the caps announced 13 days before nothing was capped, with 14 days 19 pilots were; the wipe's own transaction took about 2 seconds and the work after it about 4 (up to 11 under load); an error injected at any of nine points before the commit rolled the database back whole, and so did a process killed inside the transaction (tried at three points). That run was on an earlier build of 0.4.26, not on the release build: the server changed after it (the calendar, the titles and achievements, the guard for a second run). Two of those fixes (a second run for a season already wiped changes nothing; a failing calendar step is counted in the report and cannot fail the wipe) were proved by tests, the first also by a 40-pilot run; the wipe was not run again with 200 pilots.

Containers

  • Where: Economy › Containers, after the Auction. You open a container docked. A reel shows the draw (Space or Esc skips it; Settings has Skip container animations). Open all opens up to 10 at once without the reel. History keeps your openings with the seed and the table hash; scripts/containers-verify.py in the game's source checks one.
  • The five: the Specimen Vault (a little of everything: Credits, Thulium, ammunition, rockets, gear, plates, Dark Matter, boosters and colours), the Foundry Crucible (ammunition, rockets, lasers, gear and 5 ships), the Chroma Archive (looks only), the Survey Canister (Skylab ore, plates, Dark Matter, Cluster Chunks, Thulium) and the Reagent Rack (boosters, EMP Charges, Energetic Walls, ammunition).
  • Rules: nothing can be bought, traded, given away or listed on the Auction, and Premium changes no chance. Every container has a guarantee: a prize of grade Rare or better within 10 openings (Specimen Vault, Reagent Rack) or 8 (Foundry Crucible, Survey Canister), Epic or better within 12 (Chroma Archive). The ships are 0.320 % together in the Foundry Crucible (Nomad 0.100 %, Paragon 0.100 %, Storm 0.050 %, Ironclad 0.050 %, Wraith 0.020 %); a ship you own never drops. A look you own is not drawn while its grade has one you lack; when you own them all it pays Thulium (25, 100, 400, 1,200 or 4,000 by grade).
  • Where they come from: administrators; your rank at the wipe; the calendar's chests (a Specimen Vault each); and achievements (an Epic one pays a Specimen Vault, a Legendary one a Specimen Vault and a Chroma Archive).
  • The wipe: unopened containers are kept. The Specimen Vault, Foundry Crucible, Survey Canister and Reagent Rack close from season day 30 (a banner from day 28) because what they hold would be lost; the Chroma Archive stays open. Items from a container are ordinary items for the wipe, but they are never Marketable: they cannot be listed on the Auction.

Daily rewards

  • Where: the Daily rewards card on the Dashboard and Season & Profile › Calendar. One tile for each UTC day (29 a season: day 30 is the wipe's countdown); the day turns over at 00:00 UTC for everybody. You press Collect; nothing is collected for you. A tile stays open 6 hours after its day ends, then it is missed and costs you that day's gift and nothing else.
  • Chests come with your 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th collected day, whichever days those are. Each holds a Specimen Vault (the 21st and 28th add a booster hour, the 28th also Thulium). If the game cannot hand out the container, the chest pays a bundle of Credits, Thulium and a booster instead.
  • The Season prize opens in the last three days (27 to 29): a souvenir look at 10 days collected and the research of a ship design at 20.
  • The gifts are small: ammo, rockets, materials, plates, boosters, Credits and Thulium; every season has a different calendar and you can see all of it from day 1. A tile that would hold a special item pays 100,000 Credits for now. Premium, a clan and your level change nothing.
  • When it starts: a calendar opens with the season. If this version goes live in the middle of one, the first calendar has only the days left, with the chests and the prize steps scaled to it; with fewer than 10 days left there is none until the next wipe.

Achievements and titles

  • Where: Community › Achievements. 40 goals in 8 groups and 5 tiers; 3 are hidden until you unlock them. You are paid the moment you reach one: Common (10 of them) 50,000 Credits, Uncommon (7) 150,000, Rare (11) 500,000, Epic (7) 2,000,000, Legendary (5) 5,000,000, 46,050,000 in all, once in your life. Epic and Legendary also pay containers (above). A wipe never takes one back.
  • Titles: 32 of the 40 give one. Titles also come from the end of a season (your rank, the best pilot of each company, the pilot with the most PvE points). You own many and wear one, chosen on your pilot profile; it shows on the profile, in the Rankings, in the Group window and when you point at a name in the chat.

Special items

  • What they are: one-use items, kept as a count on your account (not items; the wipe leaves them): the Magic Hammer finishes a Skylab upgrade (you can hold 5, one grant in 60 days), Schematics finish the research that is running if it takes 24 hours or less (hold 20), the Philosopher's Stone doubles your Credit Farm and Thulium Farm for 10 hours (hold 10), the Tinkerer's Badge raises a piece of equipment one Forge tier (hold 10), the Forger's Seal skips up to 30 minutes of the Production Queue (hold 99) and the Workforce Contract hires a Foreman, an Engineer or a Hauler in the Skylab for 1 hour (hold 99).
  • Where: the Special items section of the Hangar; each use asks first and cannot be undone. For now an administrator issues every one. They cannot be bought, sold, listed or given to another pilot.

Statistics

  • This wipe, Total, Past wipes: Overview, Ranking and Sector Intel on the Stats page have this switch. This wipe is your figures now less your figures at the start of the wipe; Total is never reset; every tile also shows the other number. Past wipes lists the wipes that have ended and shows what you did in one, with your place and rank. The Hall of Fame has a Wipe menu (Now, or a wipe that has ended).
  • Counted from: statistics for each wipe began with this version. For the wipe running when it goes live, the page counts from the first wipe's record where there is one, else from the day of the update, and says counted from.

Smaller changes

  • Worlds: Beta needs pilot level 7 and Gamma level 10; Alpha has no limit.
  • The black hole: from 72 hours before the wipe it grows, and from 24 hours before until the wipe it is 1.8 times its size: event horizon 300 to 540 units, pull 3,000 to 5,400, radiation 4,000 to 7,200, the ring the server steers you round 4,200 to 7,560. A countdown card (Universe Wipe in 2d 13:05:12) tops the Dashboard in those 72 hours and the same words hang over the black hole in flight.
  • Galaxy Gates: one spin, for Thulium (5 Thulium, a 10 % chance of a gate part, multipliers 1, 5, 10 and 100); the spin for Credits is closed. Every spin plays a sound.
  • P.E.T. Stations: Station I from parts, Station II by upgrading a Station I, Station III by upgrading a II. The upgrade uses up the Station below (loose in your inventory, not fitted or in the Cache) and asks the rest of its price: Station II 300,000 Credits and 4,000 Thulium (400,000 and 6,000 before), Station III 1,100,000 and 12,000 (1,500,000 and 18,000 before), with fewer materials. A Station you have is unaffected.
  • Auction: Davidski's rows (the NPC lots) stand after the last pilot's listing in every sort, and inside each group your sort applies.
  • Sounds: new sounds for the achievements, titles, the Season Report, the Gates' spin, the Cache, the calendar, the containers and the special items.
  • Stats overlay: it now shows UPS, the map updates your game received per second (the number that was called TPS), and TPS, the ticks per second the server reports (a dash from an older server).
  • Connection log: the game's log file now says when a connection went silent, for how long, and whether what was held back arrived all at once or was dropped, so a lag report can be read. Nothing is sent anywhere, and the new words are numbers only: no address, name or account data.

For administrators and the server

  • At the first start: 40 schema lines and 6 data steps (the sixth, logbook-started-v1, runs when the Logbook is first switched on; at the first start with the Logbook off five run) (backup_risks v0.4.25 HEAD prints these). They are additive and made in place. A Sliplane volume backup before the deploy is advised.
data step achievements-v1
data step dk-claimed-v1
data step logbook-started-v1
data step seasons-v1
data step stats-v1
data step titles-seasons-v1
schema ALTER TABLE PILOTSEASONS ADD COLUMN SEASONNO
schema ALTER TABLE PLAYERS ADD COLUMN PVELIFETIMEPOINTS
schema ALTER TABLE PLAYERWIPESTATES ADD COLUMN CACHESHIPID
schema ALTER TABLE PLAYERWIPESTATES ADD COLUMN CACHESHIPLOCKEDAT
schema ALTER TABLE PLAYERWIPESTATES ADD COLUMN DKCLAIMEDJSON
schema ALTER TABLE STEAMUNLINKS ADD COLUMN IDMARK
schema CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS CONTAINEROPENINGSKIND
schema CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS CONTAINEROPENINGSPILOT
schema CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS IX_CALENDARCLAIMS_DAY
schema CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS IX_PLAYERACHIEVEMENTS_ID
schema CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS IX_SEASONREWARDS_PENDING
schema CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS IX_SPECIALLOG_PLAYER
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ACHIEVEMENTCASESOWED
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ACHIEVEMENTPROGRESS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ACHIEVEMENTREVOKED
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS CALENDARCLAIMS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS CALENDARPLANS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS CONTAINERGRANTS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS CONTAINEROPENINGS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS CONTAINERPITY
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS CONTAINERSWITCHES
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS PILOTWIPESTATS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS PLAYERACHIEVEMENTS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS PLAYERCONTAINERS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS PLAYERSPECIALS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS PLAYERTITLEEQUIPPED
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS PLAYERTITLES
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS SEASONBOARDS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS SEASONREWARDS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS SEASONS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS SKYLABBOOSTS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS SPECIALLOG
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS STEAMLINKS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS STEAMUNLINKS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS TITLEGRANTRUNS
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS WIPERETRY
schema CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS WIPESETTINGS
schema CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS CONTAINERGRANTSKEY
schema CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS CONTAINEROPENINGSKEY
schema CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS UX_SPECIALLOG_GRANT
  • Data files: Wipe.json, Containers.json, Achievements.json, Titles.json, LoginCalendar.json, SpecialItems.json, Logbook.json and Worlds.json are new; BlackHole.json (wipeGrowth.maxScale 1.8) and Cosmetics.json changed; Data/Seeds/recipes.json changed (the P.E.T. Station II and III recipes).
  • On at release: the achievements, titles, containers, calendar and special items engines (the quick stops are the environment variables ACHIEVEMENTS_ENABLED, TITLES_ENABLED, CONTAINERS_ENABLED, CALENDAR_ENABLED, SPECIAL_ITEMS_ENABLED, all unset); the container grant sources admin, migration, rank, calendar and achievement; Wipe.json with capsEnabled true, shadowMode false and freshFromSeason 3.
  • Off at release, by design: the special items' grant sources other than admin; the container source event; acquisition.enabled in Cosmetics.json; the new Logbook (until LOGBOOK_URL and LOGBOOK_TOKEN are set on the game service); the Steam account link (until the owner sets STEAM_WEB_API_KEY on the game service).
  • The caps need one admin action after the deploy: POST /api/admin/wipe/caps {"announce":true,"at":"<the announce time>"} (at is the moment the 14 days of notice count from; the route refuses a time later than now). A deploy caps nothing. The answer carries activeFrom (at plus 14 days), and GET /api/admin/wipe/preview says caps.state active for a countdown on or after that moment.
  • Read the log at the first start: each data step once, the Containers: line with the sources rank, calendar and achievement among those on, Ranking points: fresh from season 3, no ERROR. If the season number is not 2, POST /api/admin/seasons/set-number first.
  • Connection lines in the server log (log lines only): the connect line now says the address family (v4, v6 or unknown) and where it was read from (via=header or via=peer); the disconnect line carries the connection's numbers (messages and bytes each way, the longest wait for the game's next message, how it ended); a wait over 2.5 seconds is also a line of its own, at most one per connection per 10 seconds. Never an address, a host name or a hash of one. After the deploy check that the live lines say via=header: with via=peer the family is the proxy's and means nothing. The network echo's answer also carries a seventh number, the game loop's ticks per second, for the stats overlay (older games ignore it). How to read the lines: docs/DEPLOY.md, "The connection's own lines (0.4.26)".
  • Rolling back to 0.4.25: the code alone is safe for the new tables; it is not safe after the first redesigned wipe has run (a 0.4.25 server would put lifetime points over the fresh ones). The pre-wipe copy is the way back.
  • Privacy: new things are kept about a pilot (containers and their openings, special items, calendar claims, achievements and titles, the statistics of each wipe, the wipe record and the results of every wipe, and, once the Steam link is on, the Steam ID that is linked). The text for the privacy page is in docs/privacy-addendum.md and docs/privacy-addendum-0426-containers.md; the owner puts it up before the deploy.

Updating

  • From 0.4.25, 0.4.24, 0.4.23, 0.4.22, 0.4.21, 0.4.20, 0.4.19 or 0.4.18: the game downloads a patch by itself when the job made one for your version. Click Restart to Update, or quit the game, and it installs. If a patch cannot be used the game downloads the whole package. A Linux AppImage game gets a patch from 0.4.23 or newer.
  • From 0.2.1 to 0.4.17: 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 pays, moves and removes no Credits, Thulium or items. At the server's first start you receive the achievements and titles you have already earned, without Credits or containers.

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 wipe is rehearsed, not run on live data. The rehearsal is a development server with synthetic pilots, on an earlier build of 0.4.26 (see The Universe Wipe); the live game's own shapes and a pilot's own shop or hangar write landing during the wipe's transaction are not proven. A pilot whose wipe fails is left as he was and the next wipe takes him. The rank containers of the wipe were tested in parts (the rows, the grant code, the calendar's chests on the same code), not in one rehearsed wipe with the grant source on. A container or a title the wipe could not hand over stays pending on your account and arrives when you next sign in.
  • The Wipe preview shows the wipe's own payout. The Credits of the season achievements (Survivor 50,000; Field Commission 500,000 and Flag Officer 5,000,000 if you reach those ranks) are paid after the wipe, as their own notices within seconds, to the pilots who reach them then; a goal you had already met at the update was unlocked without Credits. They are not in the preview.
  • The calendar depends on the day this version goes live (see Daily rewards). Special-item tiles pay Credits while special items are issued by administrators only.
  • The black hole and quest 133: the four beacons of the quest stand 3,700 units from the hole, inside its grown pull and radiation. With the hole at 1.8 times (from 24 hours before the wipe) a pilot there takes the dose and the pull of a ship 2,055 units out on a normal day: about 2 % of its HP a second and a pull of about 90 units a second.
  • The new Logbook (the private diary of your pilot) is not switched on at release. Nothing is recorded in it until it is.
  • Statistics: for the wipe running at the update the page counts from a date and says so (see Statistics).
  • Locked ship: the Forge's refusal for the gear of a locked ship is the server's English sentence in every language, and the Forge's picker does not dim a locked piece before you click it; the quote says it at once.
  • New texts in other languages were written by AI and no native speaker has read them: the Season Report and the wipe pages, containers, achievements and titles, the calendar, special items, the Stats page, the Cache, the new help and wiki pages.
  • The other limits of 0.4.25 still stand, and 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 3b5879cd4999e47f65ece2866db87b1f663c4312c70a9f814decb0d4489fce78
SpaceCorps2027-windows-x86_64.zip 653de01f65ad5c390ac4b0dbef3e7e36aef5fcd5eb3c990a64b0679686d5c15b
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.AppImage eea469d80f38d81fc5d197e7f9996ec54954130e856a53a11415a0e1b2c0b713
SpaceCorps2027-linux-x86_64.tar.gz cbfd608771da2905355df0c2319db5c934ff071823de75d09772033d47e1417f
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