Many welcomes, Star Traders! Come in, come in, the spice hall awaits you.. Pull up a seat, grab a spice plate and recline a while as we share the latest and greatest news from the Frontiers. Today's update continues the Summer of Star Traders update series and is focused on carriers, small craft and ship components – with the usual mix of fixes for your reported bugs and typos that have still, to this day, somehow evaded detection.

In additional to these changes, we've made a sweep with this release to push all the new ship components that have been added in previous updates into the hands of the enemy captain and ship builder, so keep an eye out for some adjusted or more powerful ship builds, especially at the high level.

Added New Carrier Components

First up, we have two new components that were suggested by players. We're also working on a new starting ship, and in the process of getting it to work we've had to add a new new components. Some of those are going out for testing in this release, some will go out in the next release and the last set will go out in the release after that.


The Reinforced Micro Launch Bay provides a size 1 launching point for your small craft and some additional armor points. This component appears on the new small starting ship and is particularly useful for sub-carriers that are using Shuttles for boarding instead of a mix of craft types.

The 'Large Hanger Bay' was suggested over email and provides a way to store craft in the largest components. Specifically intended for large carriers, the Large Hanger Bay can single handedly manage an entire fighter wing of small craft - 3 craft total.

Small Craft Adjustments

Thanks to eagle-eyed Steam user 'Crim' we've got a bunch of balance adjustments to a number of small craft. Some buffs had been applied inconsistently during a previous balancing pass, and that put a few of the craft's stats pretty far outside the expected progression.

For Faulker D5 and Frostburn VX6 we've increased their speed to match the progression for their type. To bring the Cresent Chaser, Gold Paentra and Feralight MX8 into balance with their level and cost, we've increased their accuracy and agility.

This brings a number of craft that were underpowered for their level into alignment. Thanks, Crim!

Better Armored Salvage Bay 5

To ensure the Armored Salvage Bay 5 is still worth the upgrade, we've increased both its cargo and fuel bonuses for the price it requires.

Voracious Class for a Steal

The Voracious Class was criminally underpriced due to an error in our ship designer which was pointed out on the Steam forum and we fixed that one today. The price tag has jumped up to $950K+

v3.3.115
- New Ship Component: 'Reinforced Micro Launch Bay'
- New Ship Component: 'Large Hangar Bay' (Large Slot, holds 3 Craft as requested)
- Increased Speed for 'Faulker D5' and 'Frostburn VX6' Craft
- Increased Accuracy and Agility for Cresent Chaser, Gold Paentra Mk2, Feralight MX8
- Repriced Ship, "Voracious Class" now sold for between 950k and 1.045M
- Increased Cargo and Fuel Bonus for 'Armored Salvage Bay 5'
- Added three new components to enemy Ship builder
- Fixed text issues and reported bugs