A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Greetings, Spacefarer!
We have fixed some bugs and put together a new patch for the Alpha 17 Update. The newest version is now 0.17.2 Build 1.
Alpha 0.17.2 Build 1
- Adjusted the Asteroid Threat level values, making them slightly less likely to have a trajectory hitting the player ship.
- Made Peaceful, Builder and Medium difficulty levels have a lower Asteroid Threat level setting as default. (You can modify this to your liking in the difficulty selection screen)
- Fixed a bug with an alien inside a Rogue Bot preservation tank crashing the game.
- Fixed bugs.
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