GamePatchNote Digest
The Crust Patch Notes — May 25, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
Patch 0.99.88
- Added a new research — AI Trade Analyst. The Analyst automatically calculates the potential profit of a contract against current market resource prices and ensures the maximum reward for early contract completion.
- New research to increase the number of resource types available for auto-sell and auto-buy.
- New research to increase the speed of all trucks in the Tech Center.
- Fixed a bug where modules wouldn't consume water available at the base, reporting a shortage instead.
- Fixed a bug where in sandbox mode with custom settings the CPU limit value couldn't be changed.
- Fixed a bug where the Tech Center upgrade for faster colonist training wasn't working correctly.
- When conveyors are connected to farms and Rare Minerals Refineries, drone maintenance is now automatically disabled, and re-enabled when they become overfilled. This behavior can be changed in the module settings.
- Renamed the Beacon of Hope module (Supporter Pack).
- Balanced the capacity upgrades for standard and large trucks.
- Increased base colonist speed by 15%.
- Reduced the failure chance of the gas extractor in the Echo-7 quest by 50%.
- Reduced the average science point generation at outposts by roughly 25%.
- Reduced the number of science anomalies in orbital generation by 10%.
- Reduced the total number of anomaly points in orbital generation by 8%.
- Increased the cost of late-game research in the fundamental and engineering branches by 2–4%.