After a phenomenal launch bringing 50,000 new players into the game, we've not taken our foot off the Metreon gas pedal!
 

As well as the usual round of fixes and smaller improvements, enjoy mass-configuration of fabricators and other equipment in seconds with marquee and double tap smart select. 

New crew animations breathe life into your ship, deepening that 'contraption satisfaction' as your facility whirrs into action.

Fighter bays introduce a brand new combat dynamic and logistical tail. Build and deploy a massive wing of screaming unmanned hell cats to open a whole can of whoop-ass on any ships that dare defy you!

Here's the Mark & Chris video showing all of the new features:

Fighters

  - Fighters have been completely reworked and are now available to all ships without needing to edit saves.

  - New Equipment: Fighter Bays

    - Can be bought from the trade screen or produced at an assembly table

    - Can be placed inside your ship, occupying a 3x3 area.

    - 7x7 landing bay doors can be seen on the exterior of the ship, above where the equipment is placed.

    - Supply fighter bays with frames, motors, and a processor to produce a fighter.

    - If the fighter is destroyed in battle, a new one can be produced mid-battle.

    - Activate battle stations when a hostile is present in the system to launch the fighters from the bay.

  - Reworked Fighters:

    - Fighters need to be supplied with bullets and fuel at their fighter bay before they can launch.

    - Fighters will return to their bay when they run out of fuel or ammo or all hostiles have been eliminated.

    - Fighter toughness and damage has been increased.

    - Fighter turrets can penetrate armour, unlike gatling guns.

    - New tech tree branches to upgrade survivability and agility of fighters.

    - If a fighter is stranded from a bay it will explode some time after running out of fuel.

    - Any old designs will keep their fighters (if they have any) and will behave the same as previous versions. 

    - New artwork

Drones:

  - In rare cases drones would pick themselves up, which, of course, cannot be allowed.

Shuttles:

  - Production Missions : shuttles will not collect from ships with no conscious crew.

  - Dead body, trade collection : shuttles will leave if there are no conscious crew.

Crew Animation:

    - New walk animations for all crew and civilians

    - Small bobbing animation added to any item being carried

    - Smoothed item drop-off and pickup to and from equipment (so you can see the item being loaded/unloaded)

    - Entities now slow down when close to their destination

Translations:

  - Some hardcoded strings added to language files

  - Copy To Clipboard button in Translation Editor copies English to clipboard.

  - Japanese font updated to support new characters, and to be more readable in general.

  - Translations separated into manual and fallback files so that manual corrections will not be lost.

  - The Translation Editor improved to show fallback translation as well as previous versions of language strings.

  - Add vector font glyphs Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish.

  - New fonts for simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean

  - New Danish translation (PCMS_DK)

  - Many updates, thanks to:

       Chinese (timercrack, Qionglu735), 

       Dutch (Loosecannon1983), 

       French (Resziak, Laurent SCOTTÉ, Bastien URBAIN, Vinoz),

       German (Flauschküken), 

       Japanese (sakuyan#5658, raidhin, Kensuke Ichinohasama), 

       Russian (skoniks), 

       Spanish (astaroth198-gif, Snargleplax), 

       Swedish (Malkolmi, Svish), 

       Turkish (drokian, The Suxe)

    If you contributed a change and we didn't credit you, please write us so that we credit you in the next release.

Equipment Multiselect:

  - Allow to multiselect factory equipment and setting the recipe for the entier selection (cannot have different types of equipment in selection)

  - LMB/RMB: select a single equipment

  - SHIFT + LMB/RMB: to add or an equipment to selection

  - LMB x2: select all nearby equipment

  - LMB Drag: select all equipment in drag (type is decided by majority)

  - Shift + LMB Drag: select all equipment in drag matching existing selection type

SMALL CHANGES

    - Added option to adjust camera pan speed

    - Added option to adjust character text speed during missions

    - Small warning will appear in tactical mode when trying to dock without thrusters

    - Ships rescued in distress calls can be seen inside before deciding to add them to the fleet or take cash reward

    - When selecting item type in the equipment UI panel, focus the search box to allow keyboard input. 

    - Better layout for Equipment panel type selection.

    - Improvements to ship editor layout

    - Moved "Orders" window to be above the button and made a little wider

    - When drawing walls in the editor, move objects under the wall to a free space. Prevent drawing walls over equipment.

    - Software Mouse option to allow mouse cursor to be rendered by the game, useful in case of issues with disappearing hardware cursor.

    - Render atmosphere level of rooms with a hull breach and auto close vents of connected doors. Remove open/close vents orders.

    - Add "Open game folder" button to "Other" section in settings. The opened folder contains your saves, ships, etc. (but not cloud saves)

    - Remove unsold stock from being included in stargate progress bar

    - Crackable asteroids have their remaining health shown underneath them

    - Reorganised settings menu for improved layout and readability

    - Add tooltip for auto trade options triangle toggle

    - The "Drone Assembly" technology is no longer needed to fabricate processors

BUG FIXES:

    - Fix "BeginCall" appearing in mission summary when destroying all hostiles in a distress call mission

    - Fix "Any Equipment" and "Any Cargo" text not fitting in their buttons in the storage window

    - Fix Interstellar Logistics Buy/Sell orders interfering with shopping basket in the trade window.

    - Fix cost overlap in editor

    - Fix \[PASSED] and \[FAILED] overlap in contract requirements

    - Fix jumpgate information sometimes not saving

    - Fix meteor storms spawning in fortress systems

    - Fix many drone related issues, particularly when leaving them behind in an FTL jump

    - #520: You can get stuck at a jump gate that's damaged and not be able to repair it.

    - #643: It is possible to lose ships when sector jumping in FreeRoam mode.

    - #681: Ships getting stuck docked together during interstellar logistics

    - #668: Keybindings sometimes display incorrectly in the settings menu

    - #687: Trouble with Tiddlets Part 1 - Artemis ship crew can run out of fuel and no longer dock with player

    - #717: Survival fleet can still get separated

    - #710: Robot arm is picking from a spot it should not be able to reach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj8afGRSEcw

We want to send a huge thanks to everyone who has loved The Last Starship since the v1.0 launch - we have lots of plans for the game this year!

Chris has made a video detailing the nine years that led up to the launch of The Last Starship Version 1.0. It has taken us a long time to reach version this point - nine years and counting - and a lot of prototypes, difficult decisions, and burnout. On more than one occasion, we almost gave up entirely. So we're incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us with this game so far - thank you for your patience!

We couldn't be more happy with the success of the Version 1.0 launch, and we are busy making some big plans for upcoming updates. Thank you!