Harvester Arrays now hold a ring around the star and draw matter straight from it. • Harvester Arrays fly in an even ring just inside the rest of the swarm. • Each array holds a beam to the star. Matter runs up the beam and splits three ways into the array's machines. • Harvester Arrays now stay in the ring instead of leaving to mine planets and asteroids. Fixed • Machines in formation no longer jump when a group of them leaves to mine a planet or asteroid.

The destination field now shows what kind of star each choice is. • Every star in the field is drawn as its type: a binary as two suns, a neutron star as a hard pinpoint, a red giant large and soft, a brown dwarf as a dull ember. • On iPad, the destination field, the Atlas, the Blueprint tree, Records and the cards that appear during play are now sized for the larger screen. • After a collapse, the destination field arrives sooner. • The explosion at the end of a system is quieter.

The warp drive now holds five jumps. • The warp button shows how many jumps are left. • A new jump is charged and ready to use after a minute of play. • Use all five and the drive recharges in five minutes, with a countdown on the button. • Machines mining the belt now work rocks you can see, and a rock glows while it is being cut. Fixed • Asteroids were see-through, and some flickered even when nothing was mining them.

• Tutorial cards each have a close button, and close themselves once you do what they ask. • The warp drive delivers up to four hours of production at once, then needs ten minutes to recharge. • The welcome-back report shows what the swarm earned while you were away, and offers to double it. • Each machine class now unlocks once you own 25 of the class before it. • The doctrine card has a close button, so you can pass on every doctrine if there's not one you want to take. Fixed • Machines could fly across the system, and over the star, to guide a straying machine back, to arrive, or to join the final ring. • Tapping the star could make machines on their way to the final ring jump forward.

Now on iPad, and the system is bigger and closer on every screen. • Full iPad support, in portrait or landscape. • The view is larger: a shorter machine panel and a closer camera, so the swarm reads as craft instead of specks. • Drag anywhere to look around the system at any zoom. Let go and it glides back. • Tapping the star now pulls matter out of it — from both stars, if you are on a binary. • Binary systems end differently: two seed probes, two collapses. • Derelicts are wreckage you can actually see, four kinds of it, and they break apart when you salvage them. • The Field Manual covers everything you can tap: derelicts, coronal ejections, flares — and comets, which are only weather. Fixed • A save could be lost when reinstalling or moving to a new phone before iCloud finished syncing. • Flares on a binary charged you for time you were away. • The survey notes described systems that did not match what was on screen. • COLLAPSE THE CORE could be hidden underneath the welcome-back report. • Restore Purchases could sit below the bottom of the screen on smaller phones. • The survey alerts offer could cover the doctrine choice. • Stars in the destination field could end up underneath a panel, where they could not be tapped. • Leaving the game part-way through a collapse skipped the rest of it. • Survey milestones announced themselves during a collapse. • On iPad the ×2 milestone floated up through the BUILD button.

Fixes a bug where the swarm could stop appearing after collapsing a star, until the app was restarted. Machines now always arrive in the new system.

The first twenty minutes are faster, and the swarm finally touches what it eats. • Machines now leave formation to strip a world, cutting into it while it cracks apart — and the formation closes ranks behind them. • Collapsing a core is a different thing to watch: it happens to YOUR star, full screen, and takes your fleet with it. • A Field Manual, in Settings — every machine class and mechanic, explained in one place you can go back to. • Records now show which class is doing the work. • Bank Blueprint toward the expensive charts instead of saving in one go. • Share a survey record from the Atlas. • Come back after a while away and the instruments catch up while you watch. • New records to chase, and the destination field shows what each star is projected to pay.

The stars in each system look alive now! Worlds are lit by their star and turn as they orbit. Space has depth. Binary systems got their own treatment: the swarm threads a figure-eight between the two suns. Coronal ejections you can see and ringed gas giants. Gameplay Changes: - Early surveys are dramatically faster — your first collapse now lands inside a single sitting, and the belt visibly erodes within minutes. - Standing-order doctrines whose numbers are now exactly real. - New tutorials for derelict salvage, bulk fabrication, and husk relays. - A cleaner return: when a star finishes while you're away, the game opens ready to collapse — no pile of windows.

STANDING ORDERS Every system now asks the swarm for a doctrine, and holds it until the star is spent. Milestones sooner, the heavy machines answering first, the light classes carrying the survey — one choice per star, and the same system always offers the same three. Two runs on the same star no longer play the same way. A NEW KIND OF STAR Brown dwarfs: small, cold, and quick. Never massed enough to ignite, and they pay evenly right to the end. THE SKY REMEMBERS Stars you have already eaten leave working infrastructure behind. Every husk in a sector makes fabrication cheaper, so the order you consume a sky is now a plan. THE SURVEY TELLS YOU MORE Destination cards show what a star will pay and roughly how long it will take — measured from your own past surveys. The launch window now opens as soon as a star can give no more Blueprint, instead of holding you there for nothing. ALSO • 2× Overdrive now runs on real time, counting down while you are away. • A launch sequence when the game opens. • The dying star looks like a star. • Fixed derelict salvage being unclaimable after the first time.