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Alpha 12 - The Anniversary Update - Now Released!


Greetings, Spacefarer!
May 2021 marks two very big milestones for us and Space Haven. 1 Year in Early Access and 5 Years Since the Start of Development.



To celebrate this event we have assembled a big package of some of the most requested features by you, our players. We want to make this event special, and celebrate together with you. Thank you for being with us on this journey with Space Haven!

New Major Features
Bigger Ships

The Widowmaker is a 2x3 s... Read more

Greetings, Spacefarer!
Space Haven Alpha 12 is now available to play in the experimental branch. As a reminder, the update process is as follows:

1. A new Update is first available in the Experimental Branch.
   
2. Players, who do not mind playing a more unstable version, will first want to test the new update.
   
3. Once the experimental game build looks solid and stable enough we will push it out officially to all players!

NOTE! Joining experimental is completely optional, and you should only do it if you are willing to risk that some new bugs are introduced, which could affect your game play and potentially break your save.

Please do not join the experimental branch if you don't want to risk breaking your save or have the game break on you in midst of play! ... Read more

Alpha 12 - The Anniversary Update (Coming Soon)


Greetings, Spacefarer!
May 2021 marks two very big milestones for us and Space Haven. 1 Year in Early Access and 5 Years Since the Start of Development.



To celebrate this event we have assembled a big package of some of the most requested features by you, our players. We want to make this event special, and celebrate together with you. Thank you for being with us on this journey with Space Haven!

New Major Features
Bigger Ships

The Widowmaker is a 2x3 shi... Read more

Greetings, Spacefarer!
It's a pleasure to return to you with another progress report. This time we take a look at what's upcoming in Alpha 12! Alpha 12 will be a very special milestone, for the reasons mentioned below.



2 Milestones: 1 Year in Early Access - 5 Years Since the Start of Development
Alpha 12 will mark a big milestone, two big milestones actually. We are closing in on not only 1 year since the Early Access release, but also 5 years since the start of development. 5 years! Just a month or two and we're there!

Upcoming in Alpha 12 - Some of the Most Requested Features
We've decided to make this event special. Alpha 12 will be an anniversary upd... Read more

Greetings, Spacefarers!
We have an update for Alpha 11, which includes lots of bug fixes, some improved graphics and a few new ships added to the NPC fleets.

New wide styled ships have been added for the Pirate Coalition, the Merchant Federation, the Slaver's Guild and the Military Alliance. You may meet them on your space voyage towards Eden.


The Pirate Coalition wide styled ship.


The Military Alliance wide styled ship.

... Read more

Greetings, Spacefarers!
We have a small patch for you today. When the roof graphics were updated for the hyperdrives an uneccessary restriction was introduced, preventing you from stacking hyperdrives close to each other.

We wanted to fix that as soon as possible to make let you have more space at the back. =)

We also had time to create a new wide styled ship to be added for the Pirate Coalition fleet. The ship design is inspired by what other players had created before! Hope you like it.

Patch Notes

[version] 0.11.1

• A new wide style pirate ship added to the Pirate Coalition fleet.
  
• Hyperdrives should stack closer to each other once again.
  
• Fixed bugs.

Join Space Haven Discord: ... Read more

Alpha 11 - The Slaver's Guild, the Military Alliance and More
Greetings, Spacefarer! We've been working on a big update for a few months now, which will expand on your interactions with factions and also introduces slaves as a mechanic related to the Slaver's Guild faction.

There's lots of new interesting features added. All of these should make your space adventures more interesting and open up some new possibilities.

The Slaver's Guild and Slaves

Mark and Cooper are slaves, not amused by their Algae Dispenser as their only nutrition.

You will be able to enslave crew members you capture from other factions, but you can also choose to... Read more

Greetings, Spacefarer!
Space Haven Alpha 11 is now available to play in the experimental branch. As a reminder, the update process is as follows:

1. A new Update is first available in the Experimental Branch.
   
2. Players, who do not mind playing a more unstable version, will first want to test the new update.
   
3. Once the experimental game build looks solid and stable enough we will push it out officially to all players!

NOTE! Joining experimental is completely optional, and you should only do it if you are willing to risk that some new bugs are introduced, which could affect your game play and potentially break your save.

Please do not join the experimental branch if you don't want to risk breaking your save or have the game break on you in midst of play! If ... Read more

Alpha 11 - The Slaver's Guild, the Military Alliance and More
Greetings, Spacefarer! We've been working on a big update for a few months now, which will expand on your interactions with factions and also introduces slaves as a mechanic related to the Slaver's Guild faction.

There's lots of new interesting features added. All of these should make your space adventures more interesting and open up some new possibilities.

The Slaver's Guild and Slaves

Mark and Cooper are slaves, not amused by their Algae Dispenser as their only nutrition.

You will be able to enslave crew members you capture from other factions, but you can also choose to be a force of good and seek out to rid the universe of slavery. The choice is yours.

The Enslavement Facility
... Read more

Season's Greetings, Spacefarer!
And thank you for this year. This year has been truly eventful and special. After 4 years of hard work our small 3 developer indie team was finally able to launch Space Haven into Early Access, but we never imagined it would be in such turbulent times. It has been quite the journey and we're extremely grateful for how it all has gone and excited to keep working on the game.

We wish you happy holidays, and hope every one of you get at least a moment to relax. It has been a special year for us here at Bugbyte, and we're looking forward to 2021 with new exciting updates to come. =)

Upcoming Update
Now for the fun part. A report on what we've been working on for the past month for the upcoming update! We've been working on a bigger update, which will expand on ... Read more

Spacefarers. I come to you with a dream. A dream of balloons, some beer and a Steam Award! Together we can do it! Hear my speech, Spacefarers.
Aye, fight for it and we may be disappointed. Dying in our beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the beers from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our beers and balloons, but they will never take our passion!

I can hear you shout in unison! "You have my beer! You have my balloon! We will vote Space Haven for the Best Soundtrack category and make this dream come true!"

Spacefarers, vote now at the top of this post. Let's do this Together =)
If you feel like Space Haven could possibly be nominated in other categories too, that's great! However, if we focus our efforts... Read more

Greetings, Spacefarer!
We've been working on improving the Alpha 10 version of Space Haven and we also have an exciting new feature implemented. Ship-to-Ship battles now come with music fitting the scene, giving ship battles that nice space battle feel.


Listen to "Hot On Our Tail" above, another masterpiece by Paul Zimmermann!



We also worked further on the starmap, adding some new elements to the UI to show where the player is and which star systems have been explored. A star system cluster will ... Read more

Spacefarers!
We have arrived, the Alpha 10 update has been released! Alpha 10 is one of the biggest and most exciting updates to Space Haven so far, and it is now available for you to experience. Alpha 10 brings in a lot of new features and additions, and many tweaks and modifications to existing ones. Let's take a look into all the new features and what Alpha 10 has to offer.

Some of the most exciting additions include:

1. A new modified starmap with a new layer showing star system clusters and faction presence
   
2. Space Stations and derelict space stations have been added to the game
   
3. Crew combat can now take place on asteroids in addition to spaceships and stations
   
4. A Research Tree has been implemented along with a research lab facility
   
5. IRS M...

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Greetings, Spacefarer!
Space Haven Alpha 10 is now available to play in the experimental branch. As a reminder, the update process is as follows:

1. A new Update is first available in the Experimental Branch.
   
2. Players, who do not mind playing a more unstable version, will first want to test the new update.
   
3. Once the experimental game build looks solid and stable enough we will push it out officially to all players!

NOTE! Joining experimental is completely optional, and you should only do it if you are willing to risk that some new bugs are introduced, which could affect your game play and potentially break your save.

Please do not join the experimental branch if you don't want to risk breaking your save or have the game break on you in midst of play! If ... Read more

A New Starmap, Space Stations, Research and More!


We've got some very exciting news to share! To celebrate the 10th big Alpha iteration for Space Haven we have decided to expand our plans with Alpha 10 and implement some modifications to the starmap, along with some new elements added to the mix, like space stations!

A New Modified Starmap


We wanted to venture out and try something new with the starmap, something that would give you more meaningful choices when planning your route.

The new starmap combines a set of star systems into clusters, and gives you some information of what type of cluster it is. This will give you an idea of what type of fac... Read more

Greetings, Spacefarers!

How are you all doing? Darkness falls upon Finland, it's raining every other day and it's getting colder and colder. It's starting to resemble space over here. This means it's great to sit inside and develop Space Haven further and implement new features! August was our month off, and we spent it recharging our batteries. It was much needed after a very hectic time.



You are all probably very eager to hear what we've decided to implement for Alpha 10. We have started planning and implementing a research tree, something we want to expand on with time. Last week was spent planning the research tree, it's structure and visual present... Read more

Bugbyte and Space Haven are taking part in the first ever Tiny Teams Indie Festival, shining a spotlight on games from indie micro-studios, one to three-person indie development teams. The Yogscast Tiny Teams Festival runs from August 9th to August 15th and will be broadcast live here on Steam and twitch.tv/yogscast.

As you may or may not know we here at Bugbyte are three developers strong, making us a micro-studio of indie devs! We've taken upon us a great challenge with a game like Space Haven, but we've come very far and we're determined to go all the way and keep building upon what we have currently. There's much more to come =)

We're excited to take part in this Tiny Teams Indie Festival and ... Read more

Alpha 9 is now Released! Below is a recap of the new main features included in Alpha 9, along with a full list of patch notes. Enjoy this new update and let us know if you stumble upon any big problems!

Faction Interactions


So far all the communication requests have come from the player, whether it is the want to trade or have a simple discussion otherwise. We've spent some time and implemented these interactions further, allowing other factions to contact you in case there's something they need or want.

These additions will give more life to your encounters with other faction spaceships, as they can now signal their want to communicate with you too. Current... Read more

This report is a continuation to the previous reports, which you can read below:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/979110/announcements/detail/4093160907703783176

Watching Solid Content play the new patch was interesting, seeing how space hazards can create emergent situations, whereby a part of the ship has been cut off of power and a power node needs to be repaired in order fo... Read more