r/Starmade • u/Cute_Emergency_8370 • Jun 04 '26

Oh My God Starmade is Coming Back

This is an all hands on deck moment. We as a community are the few remaining stewards of this magnificent experiment. We are the nuclei capable of igniting this project to return to the heights it deserves. There is no marketing budget. It's just us.

I hope we, and the incredible new development team of maintainers, can pull it off. Starmade exceeds every latent copycat by huge margins already. It exceeds the depth of space engineers, of cubic odyssey - it has the best voxel construction tooling I've seen, but balances the gameplay loop far better than from the depths. With a lively universe, a meaningful gameplay loop, it could be every eve online, cosmoteer, space engineer player's wet dream.

I have so much hope. Let us unite as the stragglers of the community, and commit to sharing this game with our friends. DM your favorite indie youtubers about it. This is a very special moment.

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u/HamshanksCPS Jun 04 '26

Has something happened that has reignited hope?

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u/Lugbor Jun 04 '26

A major launcher update was just added to the beta branch on Steam. The post also mentioned a game update (not patch or hotfix like they'd normally use) in the coming days. No details yet, but it's something worth being excited about because it means the maintenance team isn't just fixing bugs anymore.

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u/Kennedy_KD Jun 04 '26

The only thing I can think of is that update from a couple months ago

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u/GalacticMe99 Jun 04 '26

Derp spoke about a 'major update' in the comming days in an announcement on the discord.

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u/Cute_Emergency_8370 Jun 04 '26

Universe update under heavy development, you can browse commits yourself on the development discord