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S.T.A.R.V.E. PlaytestNewsNew Playtest Build: 0.4 — Weekly Contracts
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New Playtest Build: 0.4 — Weekly Contracts

S.T.A.R.V.E. Playtest · published 14 Aug 2026, 10:47 UTC · build 24732255

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Added

  • Weekly Contract, a new mode: a fixed loadout on the normal galaxy map, ranked on its own leaderboard. Everyone starts with the same deck, the same character and the same module

  • The first contract is Overflow: a melonana-heavy deck built around Rain Dance, with a Requisition Cell that raises your action points. Play it as often as you like

  • New contracts arrive with patches, roughly one a week, each with a leaderboard of its own

  • Ash drifts down through the Solar Flare season, and the Junk and Rainy skies move now instead of sitting still

  • New card art for Underdog, Last Resort, Sprawlweed, Cascade Vine, Skybean, Novaberry and Photon Bath

Changed

  • Twenty-five cards have proper, themed names now, in English and German, and no two cards share a name any more

  • The pre-run choice screen shares the galaxy map's parallax backdrop instead of picking a random one

Fixed

  • A mid-season event's warning banner and its tile markers could stay on screen for the rest of the season, long after the day it was due

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Game update11 Sep 2026New Playtest Build: v0.4.4Added · Monsoon, this week's contract. Drown the field, then pour some more: reeds feed on the flood · Floodgate, the module it hands you. Every three points of 💧 that soak the ground pay 1 ⚡, and every season quota is 50% higher Balance · Giulia's Water + waters five fields you pick, and lets you stack them on one. It watered three in a row before, which made the upgrade worse Fixed · Quantum…Game update4 Sep 2026New Playtest Build: v0.4.3Added · Blue Ribbon, this week's contract. One perfect specimen: feed it before it is in the ground, age it, and do not harvest a day too early · Sommelier, the module it hands you. Any harvest worth 125 💰 or more pays double, and every season quota is five times what it was Changed · A Weekly Contract is the same run for every player now. No welcome gift, and the shop, the reward drafts and t…Game update1 Sep 2026New Playtest Build: v0.4.2+406Back from gamescom with a midweek package: a Lab with more to find, faster seasons, a quieter tutorial and smoother frames. Added · More Lab recipes, less junk · 55 more cards have a + upgrade. Pair two of the same to get it · Recipes you find yourself land in Known Blueprints · A subtler tutorial. The basics explain themselves in one sentence, the first time they come up. Switch it off next to…