I'm having fun with the sandbox mode on Alpha 0.5.3.  Everything was going great, until all work on my new ship ceased.  Little did I know, my entire crew was asleep on the mining station! lol  Lazy bums!!

On a serious note though, how exactly does mining work?  I found on the map several resource locations, and I ticked the "+" button to increase the resource "amount".  I also assigned miners.  Is this all I need to do?  I was told I was low on "critical resources".

Thanks! Love the game so far!

Hello team,
first of all thank you for this wonderful game. Still in Alpha and it's a blast and so far challenging

I had a question to ask if i may. I searched the forum but did not find much unless i badly searched.

I boarded an alien vessel and they had an interstellar bed in one of the rooms. 
When i opened it, the human crew who was in his suit, stood for a second and died right away... no oxygen!
I loaded the game back to before going into the ship and when i cleared it, i tried to build an oxygen machine but i couldn't build anything on that ship.

Is there a way to get that crew alive or he is gone for ever?
Is it possible to recruit new crewmen in the future?
I am still in the first mission in Alpha.

Thanks!

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Greetings, Spacefarers.

How has your summer been? Ours has been a nice mix of hot and rainy. We enjoyed our 3 weeks of vacation immensely, and it brought us a whole lot of new energy to work more on Space Haven. We've been quietly working more on this next Alpha update for more than a few weeks already, wanting to announce our vacation ending and giving you a nice surprise in form of a new Alpha update at the same time =)

What is new? You might ask. Well, what is not new! Let's jump into it all, shall we.


NOTE! Some of the new facilities are still lacking coloring and texturing.

New Facilities and Resources

We've added 7 new resource production facilities, and modified the functions of the existing ones a little bit. The purpose of this resource overhaul was to give us a better base to expand on, and make it easier to continue adding some more depth to the game in the future. The underlying resource tree will enable a wider array of various resources and both low and high tech facilities, as well as production chains that make sense.

• Water Purifier - Transforms ice into purified water, essential for many life forms.
  
• Water Purifier - Transforms ice into purified water, essential for many life forms.
  
• Chemical Refinery - Used to produce various chemicals. Releases hazardous gas and is noisy.
  
• Metal Refinery - Transforms carbon and basic metals to steel plates. Releases heat and is noisy.
  
• Energy Refinery - Transforms energy crystal to energy rods and hyperium to hyperfuel. Releases hazardous gas and is noisy.
  
• Scrapper - Transforms scrap materials into a variety of usable resources. Releases heat and is noisy.
  
• Assembler - The assembler produces basic construction components, including Soft block, Hull blocks and Infrablocks.
  
• Micro-Weaver - The Micro-Weaver creates fabrics from fibers.
  
• Cell Fuser - The Cell Fuser uses electronic components and energy rods to create energy cells.
  
• Electronic Fabricator - Transforms noble metal and raw chemical to electronic parts.
  
• Optronics Fabricator - The high-tech Optronics Fabricator is capable of producing optronics components.
  
• Advanced Assembler - The advanced assembler facility is capable of producing high-tech construction components, such as tech blocks and energy blocks.
  

• Method 1: You can use the in-game update mechanism. Launch the game and go to main menu and click Update! (You need to be logged in to Cloud with your account you used to redeem your Reward Code)
  
• Method 2: Navigate to the Bugbyte redeem site and log-in with your account (Created when you redeemed the Reward Code) to grab the newest build: http://bugbyte.fi/redeem
  

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• A new resource tree with new added resources and new facilities.
  
• Sandbox scenario added - Start in a sector with a ton of resources!
  
• Sandbox scenario added - Start in a sector with a ton of resources!
  
• Ability to haul dead bodies and turn dead humans into human meat. If times are desperate...
  
• Ability to haul dead alien bodies and turn dead aliens into monster meat. Time to become an alien hunter and sell that sweet monster meat for the best price on the market!
  
• Rename your own characters and ships (not NPC). This feature was asked for a lot! To keep all naming rewards value intact NPC characters or ships cannot be renamed. This also applies to shuttles and mining pods.
  
• First set of backer names imported to the game. We will import more soon =)
  
• General improvements to the UI, such as improved resource categories in storages and ship resource management menus and the ability to customize which resources are shown in the top bar (Added resource display settings in ship settings.)
  
  

• You can now choose to start a new game with or without tutorial objectives. Tutorial objectives window has been made more noticeable.
  
• Food values have changed and offer now more in hunger value.
  
• Trade statuses added to trade notification in top right corner.
  
• Power view mode now shows where power is being generated.
  
• Power nodes and cores has reduced power storage capacity.
  
• New Facility: Power capacity node. Stores more power but has smaller power radius.
  
• Toilets and kitchen show a bad environment icon if they can't be used.
  
• Toilets and kitchen show a bad environment icon if they can't be used.
  
• Resource categories changed in storage and ship resource management.
  
• Combined Fabrication and Refine jobs to Industry.
  
• Removed Engine job.
  
• Build costs for facilities have been changed.
  
• New music track added to the music pool.
  
• Fixed so many bugs that we ran out of them. Hah! Just kidding, we're sure you can still find some =)
  

Space Haven Alpha 3 - The Resource Overhaul Quick Patch.

• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when jumping to hyperspace.
  
• Fixed a bug that made jumping npc ships return to same sector, but continue traveling on the starmap.
  
  

Use the in-game update in main menu to get the latest version. Be sure to check known bugs in the bug report menu before you submit If you have reported a bug before and it's not fixed or listed no need to report again, we have a back log to fix! Have fun playing and have a great weekend!

Space Haven Alpha 3 - The Resource Overhaul Quick Patch.

• Fixed a bug with transporting items from a derelict, where transporting also bodies could cause transport to not work anymore.
  
  

Use the in-game update in main menu to get the latest version. Be sure to check known bugs in the bug report menu before you submit If you have reported a bug before and it's not fixed or listed no need to report again, we have a back log to fix! Have fun playing and have a great weekend!