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Patch 1.0.5 delivers a broad set of fixes and quality of life improvements, targeting crashes, softlocks, and long-standing progression issues. The update also introduces a new buildable structure, the Shrouded Wind Turbine, alongside refinements to asteroids, landers, trains, and underground systems.
Beyond technical stability, the patch includes extensive political, balance, and interface adjustments. Many systems have been tuned for better clarity and consistency, with several changes aimed at smoothing early and mid-game progression.
Patch Notes
New Content
- Added a new building, the Shrouded Wind Turbine, a large rotatable turbine structure
Progression and Stability
- Fixed an issue where Mystery progress could be lost, blocking further progression in new games
- Fixed a softlock on the Research screen
- Fixed several common causes of crashes
Quality of Life
- Added the ability to move the Martian Assembly via a button in the building infopanel
- Made underground entrances visible on the map at game start
- Added plus 5 and Max Quantity shortcuts to all resource transfer interfaces
- Increased Dumping Site Waste Rock capacity by a factor of 4
- Updated existing saves to scale stored Waste Rock capacity accordingly
- Added maximum stored amount information to Dumping Site descriptions
Trains
- Fixed train tracks failing to transfer power when built in a specific order
- Fixed trains endlessly transporting some resources while ignoring others
- Enabled trains to be added to Pins
Asteroids and Landers
- Reduced the number of resource deposits on asteroids while increasing resource quantity per deposit
- Fixed Asteroid Lander landing sites remaining reserved after canceling auto mode
- Tweaked asteroid map generation to provide more landing spots in some cases, affecting new asteroid maps only
- Enabled landers to clear small debris such as rocks when landing
Politics
- Fixed rightmost laws not displaying correctly in the Laws UI
- Fixed Factory Automation law not functioning in certain cases
- Added notifications when the Governing Assembly law is active, showing proposed actions and vote outcomes
- Fixed Renegades bypassing Crackdown law effects
- Fixed Economic Interventions law not increasing production of the least stored advanced resource
- Fixed Workers Shifts law providing higher than intended bonuses
- Fixed Tourist Campaign and Applicant Campaign laws not granting the promised number of Applicants
- Fixed interaction between Seniors Put Them to Work law and Forever Young breakthrough, preventing sanity loss when seniors die during work
- Allowed Open Domes law to be prepared without a breathable atmosphere
- Prevented Open Domes law from being repealed, domes now close only if the atmosphere becomes unbreathable
- Fixed unavailable laws being suggested or enacted by the Governing Assembly
- Fixed Founder’s Privilege law not being repealed when all Founders die or leave
- Fixed Faction Disasters repeatedly starting and stopping
- Reduced repeated Faction Disasters from the same faction
- Stopped Faction Disasters when a faction becomes Content or Happy
- Fixed Underground Domes appearing empty while populated
- Fixed Colonists becoming stuck in passages
- Prevented Terraforming Special Projects from appearing when Terraforming is maxed
- Fixed techs displaying research progress above 100 percent
- Prevented Mars Reservation from being re fabricated
- Fixed The Last War mystery effects blocking Asteroid Lander travel
Balance Changes
Politics
- Rebalanced Assembly choice outcomes
- Added upkeep costs to selected multiple choice laws
- Reduced required researched techs for the Colony Independence goal to 80 in new games
- Adjusted Dominion of Mars law demands to reduce early game political crises
- Updated faction likes and dislikes to rebalance faction behavior
- Delayed Interplanetary Codex tasks for Ministries
- Reduced Electronics requirements for High speed Comms Satellite and SETI Satellite projects
User Interface
- Fixed buildings under construction being difficult to select
- Fixed Dust Storm notifications not despawning
- Fixed arrow keys navigating the HUD instead of scrolling
- Removed No sector set for scanning warning after all sectors are scanned
- Clarified that Melting the Polar Caps always causes a Dust Storm
- Clarified that Import Greenhouse Gases always causes Toxic Rain
- Added missing maintenance cost and remaining time for the Earth Embassy
- Fixed Earthsick notifications appearing for recently deceased Colonists
- Fixed Party Animal trait tooltip displaying incorrect recovery stat
- Fixed Dome at risk notifications appearing incorrectly
- Clarified Cold Wave effects on buildings
- Fixed Planetary points of interest becoming unselectable
- Removed Colonist icons from buildings displayed in the Command Center
Modding
- Added IDs to XDef controls of UI elements
- Separated dust storm and cold wave into smaller independent functions
Gamepad
- Updated bottom menu navigation to match the info bar behavior using the D pad
Patch 1.0.5 is available for Surviving Mars Relaunched, which launched on November 10, 2025, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X S, and PC.
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