MONDAY, MAY 18
Free Fly Starts
DefenseCon 2956 Day 5:
MISC, Mirai, Argo Astronautics, and Greycat Industrial

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20
DefenseCon 2956 Day 7: Aegis Dynamics
Roadmap Update

FRIDAY, MAY 22
DefenseCon 2956 Day 9: Crusader and Tumbril Land Systems
RSI Weekly Newsletter

SUNDAY, MAY 24
DefenseCon 2956 Day 11: Anvil Aerospace
Star Citizen Live: DefenseCon Showcase | Odin Battlecruiser (twitch.tv/starcitizen)

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Community member MrKraken has put together a variant localisation patch that updates mission strings to indicate if certain missions drop blueprints, and what they may be.

This is completely safe, and approved by CIG, and highly recommended.

STARSTRINGS

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Additionally, the Star Citizen Mission Database website lists various information about blueprints, which missions drop them and what materials are needed to craft the items.

SCMDB

CRAFTING

RediMake Item Fabricator is available from the following locations:
Kel-to on Orison, Stratus mall Cloudview platform Crusader, Stanton
Kel-to - Aspire Grand, New Babbage, Microtech, Stanton
Dumper's Depot, Area 18 ArcCorp, Stanton
Tammany & Sons Lorville, Hurston, Stanton
or on L1 station Refineries.

It is not available from Kel-to's in spaceport lobbies.

It is apparently possible to break the crafter when dismantling some items.

The Drake Clipper does not have a working crafting station as of 4.7

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BLUEPRINTS

Can be obtained through doing missions.

You can see where each one can be obtained via SCMDB.NET

The only way to see what BPs you have is via the Item Crafter.

CIG have said that BPs will become physicalised as datapads.

ALPHA 4.8.3 RUMOURED SOON TO INCLUDE XENOTHREAT EVENT

ALPHA 4.9 EXPECTED JULY

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How do we know?

CIG rarely ever tell us exactly when a patch will release, except for on the day they beginning "warming the environment".

All we have are clues such as, Wakapedia posting English days in the MOTD (Message of the Day), when otherwise in Norse.

PTU patches in Open/All Waves include the letters 'RC' for Release Candidate.

An exception for this if Jared mentions it on an episode of Star Citizen Live, or Inside Star Citizen.
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WHEN A PATCH DROP IS ANNOUNCED
AVOID BUYING SHIPS AND ITEMS, BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR UPDATE
Ensure all ships are properly stored.

Last wipe completed was for 4.8, May 14 2026

Intentional Long-term Persistence wipe was confirmed by CIG for 4.8 in TWISC and Spectrum.

In-game resources, items, vehicles purchased with aUEC, and earned aUEC balances were wiped.

Only blueprints persisted along with any item or vehicle pledged (visible in your account Hangar).

Much of this seems specifically in response to the current state of the economy, money and item duping.

[Official Spectrum post]

[PATCH NOTES]

If you do not have access to PTU (after the one-time copy of your account to PTU) you may not be eligible for access for the current wave, until 'All Waves'.

Recurring issue with mining nodes on planets and caves, typically gem deposits of Aphorite, Dolivine or Hadanite.

Appearing on ship scan, but trying to scan with ATLS GEO or Multitool has no result, and mining beam passes through them.

Some nodes within clusters may work, but most not and seems completely random.

Potentially fixed in 4.8

Citizen GraeWulf has a tool for tracking projects for anyone working towards more involved Wikelo rewards.

‍WIKELO PROJECTS

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Regularly fails to load contents.

Seems to falsely report available backspace capacity.

Delays in updating equipped items, and moving items around.

Inventory Kiosk may fail to show items that are stored, but only visible via Cargo Terminal, or reappear with subsequent access to it.

Randomly reloads after some interactions.

Not fixed as of 4.7

FEs required for entry level missions such as Shubin SCD-1 can be very slow to respond or broken.

Inconsistent reports that Freight Elevators and local inventory for ASD Onyx and QV stations in Nyx are not functioning, making it difficult to leave with large reward items such as ship components.

It is possible to take some items out via the lifts.

OPEN TO ALL WAVES
Testing for new Transit System including lifts and trams/shuttles.
Expected release 4.8

Note that copying PTU account may take significantly longer than typical. Please wait for the confirmation email.

It is not necessary to recopy account if one is already active.

Rewards for subscribers, such as ships and flair are released in two waves.

The first is typically the first Tuesday of the month, the second roughly a week later. This which would be the deadline to subscribe to qualify for that month.

The cut-off point for the current subscription month is until 20:00 UTC on the 14th.

What rewards are made available are not known ahead of time.

Subscription does not provide access to the game.

"Quick update on our previous note: As you know, the first iteration of Crafting will be launching with Alpha 4.7 next week, but the Item Fabricator RediMake "Alliance Aid" will be coming in Alpha 4.8."

Noted that the Alliance Aid Item Fabricator seems to have been pushed back to 4.8. Why is not known.

With the introduction of Engineering gameplay in 4.5 there are some issues and inconsistencies that need to be addressed.

Powering down ships now is considered a 'Power Plant Failure' and can prevent doors from working/opening, in some cases difficult or impossible to enter.

Single seat ships such as fighters seem to be unaffected.

Not fixed as of 4.6.

New to 4.6 is LAMP, also known as night vision in ships.

It is activated in your ship MFD or with Right ALT + L

It is not in all ships, most small ships and some indutrials with more to come later.

According to a recent post from John Crewe, the priority was on ships that had less complications related to how they were originally made. More ships are coming but may be a while yet.

Requesting undocking in a large ship such as Polaris or Idris from a station sometimes fails, despite ATC responding in the affirmative.

This is likely because you have an active hangar for another ship and ATC believes you are requesting clearance for that, not the ship you are physically in, trying to undock.

It may be necessary to wait for the hangar request to time out, auto-store the ships and reposition you, to try again.

Not fixed as of 4.6

It is possible to be caught in a situation where Reposition Player fails to put you somewhere useful. This should be immediate but you can be locked in this state, unable to more or interact.

If this happens you can try Alt+H (which changes your helmet stow state) to fix it.

Most of the issues in Star Citizen are server or game logic related and as such cannot be fixed by reinstalling the game, or your entire operating system.

This assumes in good faith that there is nothing technically wrong with the system you are running the game on.

Please avoid turning your PC inside out to get around a bug.

Available ammo for first person weapons fail to correctly report until inventory is opened.

It has been found that this happens if pressing [esc] to exit interacting with lootboxes, rather than pressing [I].

Not fixed as of 4.0.2

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If a player starts at, or their last known location is their Home Residence, they will load into their Persistent Hangar. At other locations, the expectation is that the player will awake in a hab at that location, or in a medical bed if the player had died prior to disconnecting.

Some ships have a bed that offers the ability to "bed-log", which allows the player to load in on their ship, provided that they own that ship, it is in space or landed, both outside of an Landing Zone. The prompt for this is given when laying down in the bed, holding F.

It is possible however due to a bugs that this option is not available, incorrectly marked as being in a landing zone, in active combat, or if the F prompt is not accessible due to bad placement or in some cases depending on the character model or equiped armor are in the way.

CIG have announce their intention to allow bed-logging in any ship regardless of whether it has a bed or not, but would have consequences.

The intention of Character Repair is to help in situations when a player is stuck in the world and needs to be moved to their home location. This is all it does, and can be found to use on the RSI website.

Unfortunately Character Repair will not help you in 90% of cases of problems, ship and item losses.

It is unlikely to help with connection issues, other than being stuck connected to a shard in that it has the possibility of kicking connections.

Although it may mention Character Reset on the page, it is not possible to reset your character account.

With every new patch it is unfortunately very likely that some ships and items may become lost, beyond the expected consumables and refinery jobs that happens every patch.

You can try to file a ticket with CIG, but if it is not a pledged item, it is highly unlikely there will be any support or possibility to recover it.

Issues related to ship, component and other items are still under investigation and not resolved, in addition to no official word on why this keeps happening, and seemingly at random.

Items lost as a result of normal play or bugs that are either pledged or account bound will be returned in the next patch.

Not fixed as of 4.3