Riftborne

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• Patch Notes·2 Sept 2026Official

  11.81 Patch Notes

  Gameplay Changes Costs of resource production buildings has been decreased for higher levels and the overall cost curve has been smoothed. ROI scales much more smoothly now as they reach higher levels. Increased the cost of spire upgrades for each additional colony so new colonies get increasingly more expensive to create. Reworked the Dyson sphere cost scaling: Max Level is now Level 100 and it can now only be constructed on Star Planets. Dyson Sphere will now out scale multiple Solar Arrays after level 20. Shards gained from Kraken objective kills reduced to 25% of normal shard value QoL Added the ability to choose which minute of the hour you send cargo routes, and how many times you want the route to trigger each time Added 'load from seed' to Map editor, automatic save on exit, plus optional 'quadrant mirroring' so you can automatically mirror your map edits across the quadrants Made certain numeric fields capacity bounded and added support for mouse wheel, Delete, Shift (+-10%), and Ctrl (mix/max) to allow for more fine control over the values Bug Fixes Fixed cargo route travel speed being permanently clamped to freighter speed regardless of ship type sent Fixed the combat simulator visual bug where all ship stats were the same AI Improvement Improved the AI brain with further tournament data training and prevented stuck/stalling behaviors that were occurring due to recent updates
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• Patch Notes·31 Aug 2026Official

  11.80 + Patch Notes

  New QoL Feature - You can now designate a resource floor freighters may not pull a settlement below, and a ceiling they will not deliver past - This setting is accessible from Cargo Routes, by opening up your storage buildings via Infrastructure screen, or from the Economy -> Resource bands menu screen Other Bug and Gameplay Fixes - Fixed valor points not accumulating for custom factions - Fixed interceptions destroying Solar Harvest, Nebula, asteroid, bonus, feature, mining, or tile data. - Fixed cargo return leg charging 2x Astra upkeep to the receiver - Revanchism now accumulates losses from multiple attacks without overwriting existing recovery progress. - Faction strongholds can now be attacked, raided, and spied on under normal diplomacy and protection rules. - Power rankings now count ships in garrisons, allied reinforcements, travelling fleets, stationed fleets, and ship transfers. - Enemy fleets sharing the same tile can now be explicitly attacked, raided, or engaged in espionage combat. - Stationed fleets can now intercept hostile travelling fleets occupying their tile. - Crowded tiles now group targets by owner and fleet, filter actions by legal mission, and support scrolling, Page Up/Page Down, mouse selection, and stable selection during refreshes. - Cargo routes now use *all* incoming cargo in their outbound % designation, so if you choose to send 100% outbound cargo, it will use both the base production + incoming cargo
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• Patch Notes·24 Aug 2026Official

  11.80 Patch notes (Guided Tutorial added + lots of QoL)

  **Game clarity and QoL** - Added a new guided tutorial accessible from the title screen. More advanced sections to come soon. - Reworked the cargo route and send interfaces screens into a simpler design - Reworked building descriptions into simpler, clearer explanations and stat breakdowns - Added explanations for diplomatic relationships in the relations matrix - Build queue forecasts improved (now accounting for astra upkeep). New total deficit, "to ship" and excess displays were added - Added a safer settlement destruction flow. **Bug Fixes** - Fixed a bug where stations were always too slow for intercepts, you can now use stations to intercept normally - Fixed build queues appearing busy when nothing was building. - Fixed Split across lanes creating phantom zero ship training batches. - Smoothed combat round behaviour and fixed mixed owner force attribution. (no more 'cliffs' where adding 1 ship to combat changes losses a lot)
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• Patch Notes·18 Aug 2026Official

  Visible Fleet Movements!

  - Added visible fleet movements to the star map on the multiplayer world, showing their direction of travel and composition when in your vision range, and these will auto move across the map. You can intercept directly from the map too when you are belligerent with someone. - Added visible fleet movements as a game startup setting (best used with fog of war) - Added two map filters - Stationed Fleets: Visible/Hidden. Travelling Fleets: Visible/Hidden.
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• Patch Notes·17 Aug 2026Official

  11.79 + Patch Notes

  Factions in the multiplayer server act normal, you inherit the colour display and faction label, can participate in equal resource exchange, the faction marketplace, the aid board, leader elections can take place and expeditions can be placed as normal by the leader. Factions created by independents now get a stronghold placed nearby the leader Can now add an escort fleet to your cargo route freighters Added more colour coding and symbols to the stationed ships to differentiate them on the map
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