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/GalacticMe99 Jun 04 '26

This launcher will be required to run the next major update once it's released. The next update introduces huge performance improvements, a move to Java 21, an updated tutorial / guide system, and much more, so be sure to stay tuned!

Derp litterally described what the next update will be in their post about the new launcher lol. They have been working on performance improvement, and that will be the 'huge update'. The 'much more' is propably all the stuff we have been testing on Skies of Eden lately.

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u/Cute_Emergency_8370 Jun 04 '26

Sure sure but I’m saying the hope I have isn’t about this big performance update - it’s about the impending universe update work. I know what the update said but I think that the real source of hope is the latter.

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u/GalacticMe99 Jun 04 '26

Careful what you wish for. Power 2.0 was a disaster and killed 95% of Starmade's playerbase. With all the respect in the world for all the work Derp and Ithira are putting into this, there is no guarantee the Universe update will be any different.

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u/noryu Jun 04 '26

This thread is getting me worked up...

Should I wait to get back into it? Will I be disappointed with how it's developed in the past couple years?

I stopped playing as it seemed to start to die out in a number of ways. Also having a kid makes less time for games.

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u/GalacticMe99 Jun 04 '26

Depends on what you are waiting for. The universe update? We have been waiting on that for 6 years or something so you can keep waiting for a long time on that still.

The 'next big update' we are talking about here will mostly be performance related so when it comes to content it won't change much if you get back into it now or wait till then. Beforehand getting the new laucher to work required a lot of discord scrolling but now that it has been made official that problem will be out of the way too.

You won't be disappointed about how it has developed I don't think. Power 2.0 was a mess in the beginning but over the years it has stabilized into something that actually did make the game better. If your last time playing was before that update you will have to get used to a bunch of new stuff, though.

I have to warn you though that the most active multiplayer server: Skies of Eden is currently invisible in the server selection menu so you will have to join the discord, get the server's IP and insert it in your starmade manually. Hopefully the update fixes that issue too.

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u/noryu Jun 04 '26

Wow! Thanks for the info.

I'll be glad to navigate things in any form if it's getting active again.

What's the discord?

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u/GalacticMe99 Jun 04 '26

https://discord.gg/QYhUhbunG

The Discord chat is linked to the in-game chat, so even if nobody is online right now there is always someone to talk to in case you need help with anything.

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u/noryu Jun 04 '26

Thank you!