Void Drifter: Prospector

Void Drifter — What’s New Prospecting & Mining * Roughly one asteroid in three now turns out to be empty, so a scan that finds nothing is simply part of prospecting — you keep searching until something turns up. The farther you travel, the larger and richer the asteroids you can find. * Each asteroid contains a single resource, making even a partial scan useful: uncover one or two deposits and you’ll know what the rest of the asteroid may contain — and how rich it is likely to be. * Asteroids no longer disappear when fully mined. Mining leaves visible damage behind, and heavily depleted asteroids may even crumble while you’re still working on them. New Discoveries & Contracts * Anomalies can now be found throughout the sectors and harvested for Datasets — a new secondary currency used to unlock additional module slots on your ship. Push an anomaly too far and it may collapse before you’re finished. * Stations now offer contracts from their notice boards: prospecting and recovery jobs tied to things that actually exist out there in the world. Once accepted, a contract is tracked in your logbook and on the map. Ships & Survival * Swap between the ships you own in a station’s Garage, and the game now nudges you there whenever a hull is sitting idle. * Manage your loadout at stations: install, store and sell modules, and expand your module storage with credits. Module bonuses now scale more consistently with item level instead of depending so heavily on lucky rolls. * Heavy collisions are survivable again. Structural damage is capped, field repairs can get you out of serious trouble, and collision damage now depends on the asteroid you hit. And whatever roams the darkness now hunts by sight as well as sound. Flying & Interface * A new speed control replaces holding the throttle. Drag it to choose your cruising speed and your ship will maintain it automatically. Tap to quickly set quarter speed, or enable pull-back steering if you prefer flying that way. * Tap an item in your hold, in a wreck or at a station and a card tells you what it is and what it is worth. The logbook also now sorts stations by distance. Fixes * Switching ships in the Garage no longer leaves the module screen showing the previous hull’s slots. * Treasure maps can now be properly retrieved from wrecks and play their audio cue. * The logbook keeps its position when lists refresh. * Lists can be scrolled even when the gesture starts on a button. * The station panel is now fully translated on German devices. We’re continuing to refine the scanning loop, ship progression and controls based on player feedback.