Starlight Mining Company Demo v0.8.2
Glophouse Labs LLC
Enhancements
Tutorial Rework
- New players are now recommended to select the Orientation difficulty
- Tutorial planets only appear in Orientation difficulty
- Orientation only has 1 jump before Boss Planet
- Narration and subtitles to help players progress
- Tutorial planet first day starts after player has built enough buildings to survive the first night
- Increased Starlight Drill speed on Orientation planet to decrease game length
- Music is disabled in Orientation for narration
- Added confirmation dialog when starting harder difficulty before Orientation is beaten
Cargo Bay Rework
- Added "Scrap" currency
- Scrap is awarded on each planet
- Additional Scrap can be earned if completing the Bonus Objective
- Bonus Objective now has a time quota component
- Scrap can be spent at the Cargo Bay to unlock new buildings in your starting kit and upgrading buildings to higher starting levels
- Buildings in Cargo Bay can be sold for Scrap at a reduced rate
- Free wall can be purchased if sold by accident
- Starting Cargo Bay capacity decreased from 6 to 2
- Players no longer store buildings from the previous planet in Cargo Bay
Enhancements
- Added setting to disable orientation narration
- Added dedicated volume slider for voice lines
- Added game version to save files
- Changed planet "Survivability" to "Difficulty" to be more clear
- Decreased difficulty across the board
- Added 40s to first planet setup time to allow for setting up base with only a wall
- Removed the ability to place "solid" buildings (walls, Starlight Laser) on top of players
- Increased Mineral Synthesizer stats
Bug-fixes
- Fixed saved games not loading properly when restarting game
- Fixed black screen when loading incompatible save game
- Fixed main menu ship not resetting when returning to menu
- Fixed enemies sometimes not attacking the wall
- Fixed eventlog behavior option not persisting
- Removed unused hotkey settings
- Fixed Boss Planet not initializing properly
- Fixed sound volume sometimes overwriting music volume
- Fixed classes other than Miner getting a free Miner wall, they now receive the wall for their class
- Fixed selection panel action buttons not highlighting properly in some situations
- Fixed Factory and Mineral Synthesizer refund amounts
- Fixed issue where chat wouldn't wrap properly with long messages
Up Next
- UI Refresh
- More progression unlocks
- Ranged enemies, unique enemy interactions, unique boss abilities
This announcement was originally published by Glophouse Labs LLC on Steam on Dec 16, 2025.
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