Older Types of Media I do and always have enjoyed good books and good movies (and sometimes even bad ones!). Books are hands-down the best way of telling stories - they can describe everything, in...

The original plan for this update had been to add farming, but since that did not get ready in time, the “only” thing we got was a new planet: Escarion. And a whole slew of quality of life improvem...

I feel that raytracing gets a bit maligned these days, mostly due to the way that Nvidia is marketing, advertising and pricing their RTX brand of graphics cards. But RTX and raytracing are not exa...

A new test wave has landed on Jan 25. The new feature this time around was refining, which allows you to turn crafting materials into different crafting materials, using a refining station. Previo...

How it all started Kickstarter - or more generally crowd-funding - was an important ingredient and driving factor behind the indie boom we saw really take off around 2012. I personally feel that a...

It took me all afternoon, but after a fair bit of fiddling I now got a fully running Jekyll installation. Which means I now only have to write markdown files to more add posts to this blog. Sure, I...

Pyromycis is of course the name of the fourth planet that got newly added as part of this test-cycle. But before we get to that, a short word on the previous test-cycle: Because of the holidays, it...

This will have to be a shorter report then the previous ones. Reason being, that this test was all about Homesteading, and I barely managed to even start building my house yet. Therefore, the real ...

And once more, this entry is gonna be a bit different. Where the PAT5 report was a text-only description of the test, the PAT6 report was more of a travel-journal, with lots of images added. To kee...

The sixth big Pre-Alpha Test for Stars Reach took place on Saturday, Nov 2. There were a few repeats of PAT5 between that and this sixth large test, so I’m not entirely sure if “6” is the correct n...