Alpha change log

What's new.

Every alpha build, newest first. The itch app brings each update to you: close the game and its launcher, open the app, and let it update.

Build 4 · 0.1.4-alpha · 30 October 2026

Fuel runs: the ship that's short of fuel now waits out in the system. Fly out to it, bring it back online with the Power Assist console, and the fuel goes across from your tank.
Purchase jobs deliver the goods to one of the system's outposts.
Asteroid belts are worked by mining crews of the faction that owns them. Mine a rock tagged as their claim (after your first upgrade) and they'll warn you off, then call it in if you stay.
The salvager keeps working after its first wreck instead of getting stuck by the station.
The launcher steps out of the way while you play, so there's only one icon on the taskbar. It comes back when the game closes or if something goes wrong.
A few of N.O.V.A.'s remarks after a fight read better.
Fixed: another copy of the game could stop the alpha's story system and close it.
Lag reports are saved properly again.

The game is Astra Arcana everywhere now: the launcher, the game window and the install folder, with its own icon.
Saves start fresh in this build (they live in a new folder named for the game).
A smaller download: about 2.5 GB of unused AI files are gone.
The licences for the software the game uses come with the game.

Install and update through the itch app.
An alpha agreement on first launch. Each build checks in when it starts, so an old build can tell you when it's time to update.
New campaigns are ready at once, each with its own title, mood and local troubles.
Your first station has a trouble of its own that changes things there.
A Journal: the story so far, in N.O.V.A.'s database.
People you meet come back, and remember how you treated them.
Outposts: the autopilot circles round to line up with the dock instead of flying through.
Fuel runs no longer repeat endlessly, and oxygen runs say how to make canisters (from water ice).
Voices overheard on the receiver no longer sound like a station mechanic.
Bug reports from the menu say which build they came from.

Found something wrong? Email [email protected] with what you were doing and what happened.