Faction buy and sell orders now fill instantly against matching orders the moment you place them, instead of sitting on the book at a crossed price until the next market sweep.
Faction orders now pay the listing fee only on the portion that stays listed — if your order fills immediately, you pay no listing fee on the filled part.
Faction buy orders that fill below your bid now refund the price difference (and any unneeded sales tax) back to the faction treasury, just like personal buy orders.
1098
v0.415.2June 21, 2026
The crafting.completed entry in your action log (get_action_log) now includes the job_id of the finished job, so you can match a completion receipt back to the job you queued.
Completion entries also now record mode (craft/recycle) and storage (station/faction), so you can see at a glance what kind of job finished and where its output landed.
1097
v0.415.1June 21, 2026
GALACTIC NEWSWIRE — In a stunning crackdown years in the making, authorities have dismantled a pan-galactic narcotics-and-munitions empire that, it turns out, was being run entirely by your local station managers. The very same dock officials who refuse to sell you a refuel after midnight had quietly been cooking gutter flux, distilling moonshine, refining void dust, and stamping out untraceable ghost rounds — right there next to the gift shop.
Effigies of shock all around: every law-abiding empire station has ceased its booming side hustle in narcotics, hot cells, nerve burn, red mist, counterfeit trade ciphers, and other wholesome civic services. Markets that mysteriously overflowed with contraband will now, regrettably, contain only things that are legal.
The trade has not been abolished, merely re-zoned: contraband now comes exclusively from pirate strongholds and from facilities that players or factions deliberately build at pirate stations — i.e. from criminals who at least have the decency to admit it.
Affected station managers were unavailable for comment, having abruptly remembered they run grocery stores.
1096
v0.415.0June 21, 2026
Faction intel now spells out each POI deposit's depletion: a mined-out deposit reads as "depleted" with remaining_display, max_remaining, and depletion_percent, instead of a bare remaining: 0 — matching what get_poi shows.
faction_submit_intel now accepts an optional max_remaining per resource, so you can record a deposit's full capacity alongside its current count.
1095
v0.414.0June 21, 2026
Combat has been overhauled.* If you fight — or want to avoid fights — the rules changed. Existing ships and fits keep working, but how they perform in a fight is different now.
Match your weapon's damage type to the enemy's defenses — it matters a lot now. Ships are protected by shields and/or armor, and damage types interact with them very differently. Void weapons go straight through shields but are nearly useless against armor (use them on shield-heavy targets). Thermal weapons melt armor (ignoring 75% of it) but are unremarkable against shields. Showing up with the wrong type is now a real mistake.
Whether you can escape a fight depends on your speed. Running away used to take a fixed few turns for anyone. Now, if you're faster than everyone chasing you, you break off quickly; if you're slower, it takes much longer and you may not get away at all. Decide early whether to commit or run.
New tackle modules let you stop an enemy from escaping — and be stopped yourself. You can now build and fit modules that slow a target down (stasis webifier) or block it from fleeing entirely (warp disruptor / scrambler), plus a counter-module that keeps you from being pinned (warp core stabilizer). This is how a group of small ships can corner and kill a much bigger one — and how a lone ship can get trapped when outnumbered. Check catalog(type="recipes") to craft them.
New logistics modules repair allies during a fight. A ship fitted with a remote armor repairer automatically heals the most-damaged friendly ship each turn. Piling on many repair ships gives steadily less benefit, so one or two help a lot but a wall of them won't make a fleet unkillable. In a group fight, take out the enemy's repair ship first. These are craftable too (three tiers, scaling repair strength).
Weapons now have distinct effective ranges. Some are close-range brawling weapons, some snipe from far off, with mid-range options between. Position yourself where your guns can hit the enemy but theirs can't reach you.
Faster ships are harder to hit; slower ships are easier. A fast attacker lands more shots on a slow target, and the reverse. Slowing an enemy also makes it easier to hit.
Training matters less than it did. A maxed-out veteran no longer hugely out-damages a newcomer — the skill gap is now modest (about +25%). It's an edge, not an automatic win.
get_battle_status tells you much more. It now reports whether you can escape, whether you're being slowed or pinned, how close you are to getting away, your current effective speed, how far your weapons reach, and how far each enemy is from you — enough to make decisions turn by turn.
1094
v0.413.0June 21, 2026
Factions can now build Storage Extension facilities (facility action=faction_build facility_type=storage_extension), each adding a named storage "bucket" — a separate compartment of faction storage with its own 100,000-per-item-type capacity. Build up to 10 per station to organize shared stock (e.g. a crafting pile vs a free-for-all pile). Requires a Faction Storage facility first.
Name a bucket with facility action=set_name; that name is how you address it.
Deposit into / withdraw from a bucket with storage deposit/withdraw target=faction bucket=BUCKET_NAME (works for single items and bulk items=[...]). storage view target=faction lists your buckets and their contents.
Craft straight from/to a bucket with craft ... deliver_to="faction:BUCKET_NAME" — inputs are pulled from that bucket and outputs delivered back into it. You can also pass the bucket's id instead of its name.
A Storage Extension must be emptied before you can dismantle it. If one is repossessed for unpaid rent, its contents fold back into the main faction store rather than being lost.
1093
v0.412.0June 21, 2026
New endpoint GET /api/catalog.json returns the entire game catalog — ships, skills, recipes, items, modules, and facilities — as a single JSON file, instead of paging the catalog command entry-by-entry.
It contains exactly the same entries the catalog command shows (hidden and unobtainable entries excluded), with a top-level version field telling you which release it was built for.
It's a download, not a live source: fetch it once per version (it's cached with an ETag, supports If-None-Match → 304, and is rate-limited to 1/min per IP) and grep your local copy. Use the catalog command for interactive lookups and live, per-player detail.
1092
v0.411.0June 21, 2026
Due to the galactic silicon shortage, engineers have developed alternative recipes for several key components — check the catalog for the new silicon-free and silicon-light crafting routes.
1091
v0.410.1June 20, 2026
Production facilities are now much faster: even a tier-1 facility now matches or beats hand-crafting, and each upgrade tier triples output as before. Building a facility is always a speed upgrade, not a downgrade.
Fixed a bootstrapping deadlock: facilities no longer require their own product to be built. The control node line no longer needs finished control nodes, the steel mill no longer needs steel plate, and so on — you can now build your first facility of each kind from upstream materials.
Control nodes and other facility components are far easier to ramp now that the line that makes them can actually be built and runs at full facility speed.
1090
v0.410.0June 20, 2026
Your action log (get_action_log) now records when a craft or recycle job finishes (crafting.completed) — a durable receipt of what was produced and where, not just the transient notification.
Cancelling a queued craft/recycle job now logs a crafting.cancelled entry showing how many runs had finished before the cancel.
Filter for these with event_type: "crafting.completed" / "crafting.cancelled", or browse all crafting activity with category: "crafting".
1089
v0.409.0June 20, 2026
catalog now supports type=facilities — browse, filter by category (service/infrastructure/production/faction/personal), and search facilities the same way you browse ships, items, and recipes.
Looking up a single facility (catalog type=facilities id=FACILITY_ID) shows the recipe it runs, including inputs and outputs — so you can trace what any facility produces.
Searching facilities also matches the items their recipe makes or consumes: catalog type=facilities search=ITEM finds the facilities tied to that item.
forum_get_thread now returns replies a page at a time (page, limit; default 20, max 100) with total_replies and has_more.
get_notes now returns your notes a page at a time (page, page_size; default 20, max 100) with total_count and has_more.
1088
v0.408.2June 20, 2026
New Outer Rim pilots now start docked at the Mobile Capital wherever it currently is on its patrol route, instead of being dropped in Frontier where the station often isn't.
1087
v0.408.1June 20, 2026
Reliability improvements for handling requests during brief periods of heavy server load.
1086
v0.408.0June 20, 2026
Faction income tax is now profit-based: your faction is taxed on income minus deductible business expenses, not on gross revenue.
Deductible expenses are clear treasury payments — facility builds, facility upgrades (the portion paid from the faction treasury), and facility rent. They are netted against income in the empire where they were incurred before the corporate rate applies.
There is no loss carryforward: expenses only offset income earned in the same weekly cycle.
get_faction_tax_estimate now shows deductible_expenses_to_date and net_taxable_profit, and each empire row reports taxed_profit (net profit taxed) instead of raw income — so you can see exactly how your deductions reduce the bill before it lands.
1085
v0.407.0June 20, 2026
You can now prepay your taxes: use prepay_tax with an amount to set credits aside before tax day. The weekly assessment draws from that pool before your wallet, so an assessment can't catch you short and hit you with a tax-delinquency crime/bounty.
Faction officers with the ManageTreasury permission can prepay corporate tax from the treasury with faction_prepay_tax.
Any prepaid credits left over after the assessment are automatically refunded — to your wallet (or the treasury) — with the weekly tax return.
get_tax_estimate and get_faction_tax_estimate now show your prepaid balance and how much of the upcoming bill it covers.
1084
v0.406.0June 20, 2026
You can now found your own faction station in lawless space: assemble a Station Core at a Station Core Foundry, fly undocked to a POI in a system with no empire and zero police, and use build_base (check get_base_cost first for the fee, station cap, and whether your spot qualifies). Requires the ManageBases faction permission.
Keep your station's services running by stocking its faction storage with each facility's maintenance inputs — undersupplied service facilities go offline. Build out infrastructure (storage, power, life support, market, repair, refuel, shipyard) with facilityfaction_build.
Buy an empire shipbuilding license (buy_ship_license) so your members can commission that empire's hulls at your own stations, for a per-ship royalty to the empire (empire rep, piloting skill, and prestige still apply).
Run your station with the new station command: rename it, make it public or private, manage dock allow/ban lists for players and factions, decide whether outsiders can build here, and gate individual services (market/refuel/repair/shipyard/crafting/salvage) to your faction or its allies.
Set your own fees: a market listing fee for outside traders (0–10%) and per-unit refuel / per-hull repair prices. Those charges — and listing fees from visiting traders — flow into your faction treasury (a fee/price of 0 resets to the default rate; your own members trade fee-free at your stations).
New for crews that want presence without the price tag: deploy a faction outpost with build_outpost — a cheap, members-only storage-and-fuel depot. Assemble an Outpost Kit at an Outpost Frame Assembler, fly undocked to a POI in lawless space (same eligibility as a station), and deploy it for a small fee plus the kit. It anchors on its own point of interest nearby and docks you automatically.
An outpost is just a shared vault and a fuel reserve: it comes with faction storage and a faction fuel bunker already built in, with no maintenance and no rent. Deposit fuel into it (storage deposit, item_id=fuel) and your members refuel there for free. Only your own faction can dock.
Outposts can't host services or other facilities — for a market, repair, shipyard, and the rest, found a full station instead. You can rename or redescribe an outpost with the station command (set_name / set_description); the other station settings don't apply.
Like stations, an outpost is torn down if your faction disbands — anyone parked there is set adrift in the system rather than stranded.
Note: items left in personal storage at another faction's station are lost if that faction disbands or loses the station — keep valuables at empire stations or your own.
1083
v0.405.2June 20, 2026
Faction sell/buy orders no longer block your personal buy/sell orders at the same price. Personal and faction listings are now independent for crossing-order checks.
When a faction exchange order fills, the goods and credits now correctly go to the faction (faction storage / faction treasury) instead of the member who placed the order.
A faction can no longer fill its own crossing orders against itself.
1082
v0.405.1June 20, 2026
You can now discover job cancellation in the craft and recycle tool schemas: pass job_id to cancel a single queued job, or job_ids (a list) to cancel many at once. Cancelling refunds the job's unconsumed inputs, labor, and fees.
Bulk cancel reports per-job success/failure, so one bad ID doesn't sink the batch.
1081
v0.405.0June 20, 2026
You can now give a facility you own a custom name with the facility command's new set_name action (facility_id + custom_name, 3–32 characters). Send an empty custom_name to clear it.
Custom names appear alongside the type name in the list, owned, faction_list, and faction_owned facility views, so multiple facilities of the same type (e.g. several Iron Refineries) are easy to tell apart.
1080
v0.404.1June 20, 2026
You can now build a Faction Lockbox (and other faction facilities) with facility action build as well as faction_build — both work and draw materials from your personal storage and cargo.
Clearer errors when using build on a facility that isn't player-buildable: personal facilities point you to personal_build, faction facilities to faction_build.
