Sounds luck of the galaxy generator + placement conditions affecting who gets spawned. Also some of the indie colonies may be story-related, which might skew one way or the other.

Yes this is related to new functionality that was added from Expanded Battles development. You have the option of loading designs from the standalone ship designer from the DLC.

However, do note that ships designed in standalone ship designer work under different constraints compared to the ...

Are there supposed to be 5 Boskara minors and 4 Dhayuts? I'm used to 2 of each.


Not sure what you mean. Are you referring to indie colonies or empires?

What did you set your indie colony settings to when starting your game?

Unless these are story-related indie colonies, basic indie colonies ...

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Crash logs should be in the form of text files.


Sorry for my mistake, but in the ..\data\Logs directory the last crash log was for the 1.3.6.3, now obsolete.

I started a new game with beta 1.3.7.0; everything worked perfectly for 45 years. Boskara declared war on me, and after a ...

The debris fields spawning around homeworld are an issue and should be resolved in next update.

A new public beta is live now! See OP for details.

Verdandi wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2026 5:00 pm Hello,

Thank you, the fix is working, I can load my design now !

I have a question though. I have a pop up with a Stock choice in my campaign but from my understanding this is DLC related, is it intended ?

Do you have a screenshot you can share showing what you're referring to?

Great to see that after three years this still hasn't been fixed. If that is the 'near future', I'd hate to see the far future.


This item is still on our list that we're investigating.

Just like anything in development, priorities change based on internal discussions, developer vision, and ...

The most concerning thing for me in this expansion - can AI does all this stuff effectively too as a human player does? If majority of AI pirates will struggle to evolve into standard empires or never build Anarchopolis it would be very disappointing... In Distant Worlds 1 pirates often suffered ...

We included a fix for this in the 1.01.44 official update. Please update and let us know if this resolves your issue.

1.3.6.8 freeze and crash after a while as 1.3.6.6: I've notice that at "resume" time start the fleets don't moves and only if I click over the units they "jump" at the correct positions. And the game crash at save action.


Do you have a crash logs you can share with us? You can find them ...

1.3.6.8 freeze and crash after a while as 1.3.6.6: I've notice that at "resume" time start the fleets don't moves and only if I click over the units they "jump" at the correct positions. And the game crash at save action.


Do you have a crash logs you can share with us? You can find them here ...

Looks like there's an issue with this event. The Study choice should be placing a new ruin on the planet that grants a Hyperdrive Research bonus.

We'll investigate.

@Buio @Xirael, we've received several reports of performance issues on this build. We'll investigate.

Eagle2046 wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2026 11:51 pm Whereis the link to download Patch 1.3.6.6 ? I must be blind because I don't see it. Thanks.

We release public betas only on Steam and GOG. If you're looking for an installer download for standalone - we will have one ready, once we release this cycle of updates as an official update.

Unfortunately, that will have limited value in pinning the issue down.

If you see this occur again, please send us a save from just before you encounter the event.

Do you happen to have a save from just before you encountered the event?

Well, I can't get the new 1.3.6.3 update to work at all. Never happened to me before, all updates up to and including 1.3.4.3 were all working correctly. I've tried both the Steam version and the Matrix Games installer. Various uninstalls and installs. The initial Distant Worlds 2 window shows up ...

Hello, sorry to hear you're having these issues. We would recommend reaching out to our Tech Support team at support@matrixgames.com and explaining the issue to them. It sounds like whenever CSVN was removed or uninstalled previously, it wasn't cleared completely from the registry. Our Tech Support ...

Typically, ruins would be discovered after something gives you exploration on a planet and a ship investigates it. This can come from finding maps or exploration ships surveying a planet.

We really would need a save to take a look at your specific case. The UI here shows the location as not even ...