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Change history of the Xterium space strategy: what was added, changed and fixed — by category and year.

1180 changes 2018–2026 Latest: 03.10.2026

Each change is broken down by category and type (added / changed / fixed / removed) — this is a brief summary; the full patch text is on the forum.

Changes by year

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Changes by year and category

Year EconomyFleet & DefenseCombatResearchAlliancesExpedition & PvEEvents & PromosInterfaceOther Total
2026 8 7 48 1 16 4 5 20 12 121
2025 9 8 67 2 4 23 8 21 1 143
2024 15 9 45 · 14 · 6 2 5 96
2023 33 7 42 4 9 10 24 22 12 163
2022 23 8 28 1 9 10 25 7 6 117
2021 11 28 15 4 11 8 22 18 9 126
2020 3 11 5 3 8 22 6 5 1 64
2019 39 9 22 10 2 42 25 21 23 193
2018 26 7 36 6 14 23 8 18 19 157
Total 16794308318714212913488 1180

All changes — Expedition & PvE

  • 24.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Added Added an upgrade mastery indicator in Hostile: the sum of enemy levels (up to 15) boosts upgrades by 10% per level Changes 24.07.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Added Added a Hostile enemy — the Devastator Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Added Added enemy maps in Hostile and the Ruins — over 100 unique points Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Added Added contracts for flights to the Devastators and the search for their blueprints Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Added In the Endless Expanses, Distribution Points from Astrophysics were added to raise the reward chance (with growing risk of fleet loss) Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Removed Removed fleet waves in Expeditions and the Endless Expanses — the total batch is automatically split into equal parts Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Added In Hostile you can now instantly analyze the enemy fleet composition and see the efficiency stars Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Drop chances and the amount of parts from Barbarians increased roughly 5x Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Announcement of the Expeditions section rework: the main menu will become a map of galaxies, and missions objects with an interaction window Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Sending expeditions: unbound from the planet — you can use the entire empire fleet, which is automatically split by the number of expeditions Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed The send window now immediately shows matching contracts and their progress; for Hostile — the enemy fleet with efficiency stars Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Reward collection: a single window with the total across all expeditions, without separate messages for each; you can claim it on any planet Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Added Separate enemy maps are being added with strongholds and bosses whose composition and technologies change every 24 hours Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.02.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Dark matter gains in the Endless Expanses doubled for everyone Changes 21.02.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.02.2020 Expedition & PvE Added Introduced a dark matter bonus based on fleet batch size: +100% at 100 points, dropping to a minimum at 25600 Changes 21.02.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.02.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Initial Ruins profitability reduced from 50 to 13%, the Expedition penalty eased from -48.75 to -10%; the result with a batch of 25600 grew 2.4x Changes 21.02.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 14.02.2020 Expedition & PvE Fixed Fixed a bug present since 2.4.1 that gave everyone +100% to resource and dark matter search in the Endless Expanses Important bug fix in calculations [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed The anomaly bonus switched from lifting the speed cap to the fleet and defense construction speed itself Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed Flights to the Ruins and Expedition no longer count fleet capacity — the resource is loaded in full without transports Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed When sending Expeditions, the maximum number of waves is selected automatically Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Added Added 137 new tasks (260 in total now) Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed Starter tutorial fully reworked Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Added Added automatic checking of task completion Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Added Added a chain of tutorial tasks with a hint prompt and progress tracking from any section Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Added Added a set of Artifacts with development plans for the feature Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Added Added a contract filter that hides ones unavailable by level Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.10.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed Removed the reduction of flight-count contract requirements from premium bonuses Changes 21.10.19 [WoA] ↗
  • 08.08.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed The bot's Modernization Center bonus in Hostile now scales proportionally to the % of the enemy's fleet points Changes 08.08.19 [WoA] ↗
  • 08.08.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed Reward for the Search for Star Ore contract reduced by 50% Changes 08.08.19 [WoA] ↗
  • 08.08.2019 Expedition & PvE Added Added Pirate parts (Accumulator, Reflector, Microcooler) and a Stabilizer to contract rewards Changes 08.08.19 [WoA] ↗

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