Interplanetary Travel

Release Date: 11/5/2026

Version: 0.6.1-alpha

Development Stage: Alpha

📋 Overview

Update 0.6.1-alpha introduces Survival space travel, allowing players to build and upgrade a rocket ship and spacesuit to explore the Moon and Mars.

The solar system map has also been expanded with planet details, improved navigation, discovery tracking, and new travel controls.

This update adds planetary achievements and statistics, birthdays across planetary calendars, new settings and hotkeys, and interface improvements throughout the game.

🚀 Survival Space Travel

• Added a Rocket Ship tab to the map menu in Survival.
• Players can build and upgrade their rocket ship and spacesuit to reach other celestial bodies.
• Both start at Level 0, meaning they have not yet been built.
• Creative players can continue to travel freely.

🚀 Rocket Ship

• Level 0 → 1: 2 Titanium
• Level 1 → 2: 1 Titanium and 5 Quartz

🧑‍🚀 Spacesuit

• Level 0 → 1: 5 Gold Ingots and 10 Iron Ingots

🌙 Moon Requirements

• Level 1 Rocket Ship
• Level 1 Spacesuit

🔴 Mars Requirements

• Level 2 Rocket Ship
• Level 1 Spacesuit

• Rocket and spacesuit artwork changes as each is upgraded.
• Material requirements use the same styling as the crafting menu.
• Traveling to a planet now returns players to their last known location on that planet.

🗺️ Solar System Navigation

• Selecting a planet on the map or in the planet list zooms in and opens its details alongside the solar system view.
• Added buttons to open a planet’s map or travel directly from the planet list.
• Unavailable travel buttons show why the required gear has not been met.
• Added the total percentage of the solar system discovered.
• Updated the Earth, Moon, and Mars artwork.

🏆 New Achievements

🌙 One Small Step

• Travel to the Moon for the first time.

🔴 The Red Planet

• Travel to Mars for the first time.

🌍 World Traveler

• Visit every planet.

🌎 The Whole Wide World

• Discover 100% of Earth.

🔴 Martian Explorer

• Discover 100% of Mars.

🌙 Lunar Explorer

• Discover 100% of the Moon.

🏠 Home Away from Home

• Place your first block on another celestial body.

🛏️ Interplanetary Settler

• Set a respawn point on another celestial body.

📊 Statistics

• Added a dropdown to the main statistics overview.
• View totals across the entire solar system or select an individual planet to see its statistics.
• Walking distance now includes horizontal distance traveled while jumping.

📅 Calendar Improvements

• Birthdays now appear on calendars across other planets based on the corresponding Earth day.
• Depending on a planet’s calendar, a birthday may appear multiple times in one year.
• Birthday labels now display the player’s age, such as 3rd Birthday or 14th Birthday.
• Calendar spaces remain the same size when they contain information.
• The calendar panel stays consistent in size between months, so its buttons no longer move around.

⚙️ New Settings

🚪 Auto-Open Doors

• Doors automatically open when the player approaches and close when they walk away.
• Enabled by default.

🪜 Auto-Step

• Added a toggle for automatically stepping up one-block changes in elevation.
• Enabled by default.

🔍 Default Map Zoom

• Added a dropdown to choose the map’s default level of detail:
  • Solar System
  • Planet Overview
  • Regional Terrain
  • Local Terrain
  • Chunk Detail
  • Tile Art

🎮 Controls

• Added hotkeys for additional menus:
  • L: Calendar
  • U: Skill Tree
  • N: Solar System Map
  • V: Rocket Ship
  • J: Waypoints
• Removed Quick Save and Quick Load.

✨ Interface & Quality of Life

• Enlarged the map, solar system, and rocket ship menus.
• Improved transitions when zooming between planets and the solar system.
• Improved planet details and travel button feedback for destinations requiring additional gear.
• Aligned the rocket ship and spacesuit upgrade buttons.
• Updated material requirement styling in the Rocket Ship, Skill Tree, and Tools menus.
• Survival is now selected by default when creating a world.