VOID COLONY

v1.15 — Expanded Research Tree

Added tier-2 and tier-3 Laboratory technologies for logistics, construction, jump travel, shields, and exotic weapons
New research can expand fuel and food capacity, reduce build and jump costs, improve freighters, and strengthen advanced weapons
Older saves automatically receive default levels for the new technologies

v1.14 — Infinity

Added Infinity as a passive space station weapon
Press fire with Infinity equipped to toggle a repulsion field around the ship
Enemy projectiles and raiders are pushed away when they press into the field
Infinity radius can be customized with a station slider and higher food activation costs
Active Infinity drains 0.5 food per second

v1.13 — Advanced Weapon Systems

Added Gravity Well Launcher, Kinetic Flak Cannon, Solar Beam Overdrive, and Overcharged Shield Burst
Gravity wells pull nearby raiders into a temporary trap for easier Divergent Ram setups
Kinetic Flak Cannon fires short-range shrapnel with heavy knockback and unlocks after 3 active farms
Solar Beam Overdrive channels scaling damage while consuming food and locking ship movement
Overcharged Shield Burst clears enemy projectiles and disables nearby raider engines as a panic button

v1.12.1 — Leviathan Ship Remodel

Remodeled the Enemy Leviathan from a UFO type ship to a more realistic ship.
Added hostile raider revenge feature - if hostile raiders are within 560px of you black flashing another raider, they call a aggravtaed Leviathan to the system.
Made hostile raiders appear on the map.

v1.12 — Leviathan Diplomacy

Massive hostile Motherships can warp in and siphon nearby colony resources
Added negotiation choices using Credits, Food, raider kills, or Laboratory modules
Failed diplomacy starts component combat against the Leviathan engines and hangar
Quantum Rewind can revive a destroyed hull by sacrificing Credits or a building

v1.11 — Divergent Ram

Added high-speed Collision Drive impacts against enemy raiders
Divergent Ram consumes fuel, triggers hit stop, and vaporizes most raiders
Black Flash impacts distort targets with dark lightning and residual ship afterimages
Low-speed enemy collisions now punish the hull instead of becoming free damage

v1.10 — Trade Routes & Freighters

Added purchasable AI freighters after you establish multiple colonies
Freighters haul food from farm colonies to the central hub for credits
Added escort missions when raiders ambush loaded freighters
Freighters are bulkier, slower variants of the player ship and appear on the map

v1.9 — Void Events

Added random Solar Flares that temporarily disrupt the map or mouse aim
Added mineable passing comets with large credit rewards if you match velocity
Added rare paired wormholes that shortcut across distant solar orbits

v1.8 — Space Station Weapons

Added a neutral space station near the system center
Dock at the station to buy and equip Pulse Wave or Railgun weapons
Pulse Wave deals short-range area damage; Railgun hits hard at long range and consumes fuel

v1.7 — Laboratory Research

Added Laboratory modules and a permanent research tree
Research can improve engines, farm automation, shields, weapons, and max hull
Shielding adds a passive recharging blue bar above hull integrity

v1.6 — Galaxy Starmap

Added a draggable galaxy starmap with selectable nearby solar systems
Jump costs scale with each system's distance from the home system
Visited systems and systems with colonies are marked on the starmap
New nearby systems appear as you push deeper into the galaxy

v1.5.2.1 — Laser Firing Bug Fix

Lasers weren't firing due to cooldown bug — has been fixed

v1.5.2 — Combat Rebalance

Enemy ships now roam peacefully — they won't attack unprovoked
Enemies retaliate only if you shoot them first
Reclaiming an enemy planet triggers a retaliator ship to spawn
Ambient roamers drift between planets instead of idling
Hull integrity regenerates slowly over time (2 HP/sec)

v1.5.1 — Mouse Aim Mode

Press C to toggle mouse aim — ship rotates to face your cursor
Click to fire in mouse aim mode (crosshair cursor shown)
Dotted targeting line drawn from ship to cursor
Thrust and brake controls unchanged in mouse mode

v1.5 — Enemy Raiders & Combat

Enemy raider ships spawn every 45s (up to 5 at a time)
Enemies fly to planets, capture them, and destroy your modules
SPACE / 🔴 button fires cyan laser bolts at enemies
Destroying an enemy earns 40¢ bounty
Hull integrity bar added — take damage from enemy fire
Enemy-owned planets shown with red orbit ring
Reclaim captured planets for 80¢ from the planet panel
Enemy ships display HP bar and claim-progress bar in world

v1.4.1 — Solar Bonds

Added Solar Bond market — buy & sell speculative bonds for profit
Bond prices fluctuate every 30 seconds with random surges & crashes
Portfolio view shows unrealised P&L, average buy price & price chart
Bond market accessible from Pause menu

v1.4 — Economy & Menus

Added Credits currency — colonising costs 20¢, farms 50¢, fuel gens 80¢
Food Market with fluctuating prices (changes every 60s)
Food sell-ratio slider in HUD — split harvest between stock and credits
Fixed: sell ratio now correctly scales with number of farms
Pause menu (P key or ⏸ button) — pause, access markets, quit to title
Patch Notes screen accessible from pause & title screen

v1.3.2 — Farm Harvesting

Farms only produce food when ship is within harvest range
Green dashed harvest-range ring shown around farm planets
Farm slot label shows live harvesting/idle status in planet panel

v1.3.1 — Moon Balance

Moon sphere of influence reduced to 40% of planet proximity
Moon interact range halved — no longer hijacks planet approach
Moon orbits start further from planet surface (60px min)
Wider spacing between multiple moons around the same planet

v1.3 — Proximity & Resource Update

Orbital co-movement: entering proximity locks ship to planet drift exactly
Planet collision physics — ship bounces off surfaces
Fuel gens cost 1 food/sec while actively refueling
Passive food consumption added (crew upkeep: 0.08/sec)
Food supply warning notification when reserves hit zero

v1.2.1 — Map Fixes

Fixed map canvas only showing top strip — now fills panel correctly
Map reads wrapper dimensions after flex layout is applied
Map auto-fits to system scale on open via requestAnimationFrame
Mobile: map opens fullscreen; touch pan & pinch-zoom supported

v1.2 — Solar System & Map

Full solar system layout — named star at centre, planets in orbital rings
Planets orbit in real time; moons orbit planets
Moons colonisable with 1 slot each; planet panel lists its moons
Floating draggable map (M) with scroll-to-zoom
Off-screen arrows point to colonised planets & moons

v1.1.1 — Mobile Support

Virtual joystick (bottom-left) for steering & thrust on touch screens
DOCK / BRAKE / MAP action buttons (bottom-right)
Planet panel slides up from bottom on small screens
Touch-specific controls shown on title screen for mobile users

v1.1 — Modules

Farm modules generate food passively (6s build time)
Fuel generator modules refuel ship when docked (8s build)
Module build shown as progress bar in planet panel
Pulsing yellow dots above planet while module is under construction

v1.0 — Launch

Arcade ship controls — thrust, rotate, brake
Planet colonisation with slot-based module system
Larger planets have more slots (up to 5)
Auto-save to browser localStorage every 5 seconds
Twinkle star field background

SOLAR SYSTEM MAP

GALAXY STARMAP

Select a star

Planet Alpha

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