Server/Client Patch – 12/23/2025 – Neuroforge 2.3

New: Arena of Darkness (Temporal Rift)

A new, harder 6 player Matriarch Aurora encounter has been added to the Temporal Rift: Arena of Darkness. It’s intended to be tougher than standard Matriarch Aurora, but not as punishing as Scarra or Carmine. It features a 2 hour lockout and a weekly personal loot mission, and is accessible after beating the first stage of The Fighting Pits.

Zaphragi Heist Updates

• Added new T23 Exalted ships: Kangaroo, Wallaby, and Tiger Prawn (each with inbuilt items), plus blueprints for each ship.

• Blueprints now support working item hotlinks, and several chat link issues were fixed (misalignment/bad returns).
• Radar: clicking on the radar now cycles through targets.
• Context menu improvements:
  • If you have both pinned and unpinned items selected, the context menu will show both Pin Item and Unpin Item.
  • Fixed an empty selection entry at the end of the Possessions context menu.
  • Added extra separators in Possessions / Mission / Squad context menus to reduce accidental clicks.

• Transferring improvements:
  • Fixed an issue with transferring while docked at a station (extra empty field in the context menu).
  • When transferring while docked, the context menu now shows Station (name) instead of base and adds a separator if there are ships docked too.
  • Added the ability to transfer goods via inventory context menus to Storage (formerly known as TSL).
  • Added the ability to pin/unpin items in Storage (TSL), plus refresh improvements so changes display properly.

• Item description UI:
  • Re-added Cargo to item descriptions with a new color.
  • Icons in item descriptions now match the color of the text after them.
  • Mod description icons now reflect the color properly.

• Minor fixes: spelling fixes in the inventory manager and neurodoc.

• Zauron’s Mask and Heart of Sol once again grant 2000 visibility when equipped.
• Fixed missing Electric Tempering text in Rewired capacitor descriptions.
• Carmine’s Temporal Protection, Redbeard’s Temporal Tricks, and Scarra’s Temporal Doom received multiple balance passes; final versions now use cooldowns / updated effects and durations, including longer debuff durations in some cases.
• Scarra’s Temporal Doom and Redbeard’s Temporal Tricks buffs/debuffs were updated (including intended duration and debuff values).
• Scarra's Drone Controller no longer gives a bonus to hull space.
• Players who owned Scarra’s Oppressor, Redbeard’s Rogue, or Carmine’s Reaver in their possessions before January 1st are eligible for a free augmenter reset.
• Juvenile Tiger Prawn Blueprint costs were significantly reduced.
• Juvenile Tiger Prawn’s Presence no longer works on Trade Bots.
• All Empyreal ships that have -%Tracking now have a reduced -%Tracking malus (e.g. -50% -> -15%).
• Increased the augmod bonuses on the Dark Earthforce Mount.
• Removed Kalthi Planetary Blaster as an ingredient from Gonzales Trion Blaster Blueprint.
• Adjusted the stats of the Empyreal Grand Eclipse and Empyreal Total Eclipse.

• Earthforce layer: Juxtas are now locked to their half of the spiral; only Concourses will cross the spiral.
• Paxian Foothold: Paxian Operative ships no longer require Tech 21 ships and Tech 22 Hybridizations to purchase, and are now sold as Ship Upgrades for the Hybridized T22 Pax ships (instead of being sold as ships).
• Wild Space galaxy naming updates:
  • Added Fate of Ninx as an eligible galaxy name.
  • Edited Tornado’s Alley to Tornado Alley.
  • Added Vics DJ Booth in honor of Vicious01.

• Guaranteed/bonus exotic item chances added to Angre’s and Gonzales Treasure Vaults.
• Reduced blueprint costs for exotic quality Matriarch Aurora items (up to 50%).
• Added the 6 Kalthi skills to the same AI bases that sell Imperial Seal skills (Sol, Glass Matrix, Bonnet, Iq Bana, Temple Grounds) with the same costs.
• Reduced Olympus Entrance Item Exchange weapon costs
  • From 100 Shards to 25
  • From 25 Honorary Diplomas to 10

• Adjusted multiple Red Outpost boss-related drop tables and rewards.
• Added a large dust cloud to all galaxies in the Zaphragi Heist instance.
• Dungeon minion requirements for Paxian Peacekeeper’s Signaculums were reduced (from 30 to 8 per tier), and Signaculum requirements for Peacemaking 12–15 were reduced.

• Neuroforge: for items with low enhancement level, the Neuroforge will no longer offer extremely small enhancement increases (e.g. +1 enhancement level).
• Crates now allow Item Linking.
• All husks which cannot have their inventory interacted with now get fuel for free if they had a fuelled energy (wild bots, fighters, drones)
• Adjusted default drone slide speed to improve drone movement behavior
• Improved description of Composite mod on weaponry (text clarity only).
• Updated Treasure Box item type text to be clearer.

• Fixed an additional edge case preventing use of Enveloping Monkey / similar effects when weapon damage is 0.
• AI spawned from asteroid ambushes will now get intended stat changes that non-ambushers of their type get, if any.
• Boss spawn scripting fixes and cleanup
• Fixed Strontium mission styling on the Nurse Orc mission.
• Fixed various typos in missions and items.
• Achievements: fixes for station laying, prospecting, and capturing ships; plus clarification text updates for certain achievements and Zen of Ranger.