Played for another hour or so, a lot smoother than last time! However I did encounter additional, repeatable bugs:

-Received "derelict ship" message, hailed them and received the "repair guy" message (?). When I tried to take the cargo platform over there as instructed, the game locked on a black screen. I was able to repeat this bug when I loaded my save, and later on. The derelict ship event seems to be bugged.

-On a distress call there was a one-tile invisible obstruction just below my character (see image)

-Same bug, different distress call. Invisible wall to the right of my character in this image:

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-Final bug: got stuck in a door/wall when I tried to place a box down into the door tile:

Really looking forward to this!

After playing for about an hour, I really like it! It has a strong gameplay loop and the writing is just as sharp as ever. The visuals are clean, so it's easy to tell things apart, but not so simplistic it looks like a crayon drawing. The audio provided satisfying feedback for each action and generally just made the game more fun.

However, I did find 3 problems, two of which were major bugs:

-The first (and least important) one is that when walking through uninhabited planets the framerate would randomly slow down. My computer is kinda terrible at running a lot of games so that's most likely the problem, but just in case it isn't exclusively my computer's problem, thought you should know.

-The second problem is a lot more complicated: So you can accept missions from the Galactic Federation through the ship's comms, right? Well I did that...but I selected the "TAKE JOB" option three times, which meant I had accepted the job three times. So when I arrived at the planet and got ready to take the cargo into my ship, I was greeted by not 5 crates of vivadium ore, but 15. I had also picked the "Speedstar Salmon" ship, so that was kind of annoying.

-After blocking off several doorways with cardboard boxes, telling myself "I'm sure this won't break while I'm flying" I encountered the third problem. Because it was so fast I can't exactly tell what happened, but what I think happened was this: I was holding the final box ready to put it in the cockpit because I had run out of space in the ship. I walk to the cockpit and, realizing it won't fit at the front, I walk back and I must have dropped the box on the doorway while the door was closing. The game froze and no matter what I pressed nothing happened. I tried alt-tabbing and then opening the game and all that did was turn the screen completely white. The game also refused to close unless I turned off my computer, so I did. However, when I turned my computer back on, the .exe file was missing from the folder. I tried downloading the game again and it seemed to work. Even my save file was still there. But after I tried opening the save file, the screen turned white and I got this error message:

############################################################################################
ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object con_onboard:

Variable Index [0] out of range [0]
at gml_Object_con_onboard_Draw_0
############################################################################################
gml_Object_con_onboard_Draw_0 (line -1)

Overall, the game is great and I am really excited for the next few updates, but the problems I listed above, especially the last two, are quite literally game-breaking. 

Best of luck with the development,

-A random stranger on the Internet

So, after playing for about an hour on the new build, I think the biggest thing it's missing right now is a generic "action" button. Something that can be applied to the spacebar, which is already the main button, or another one like "e," but for simply talking to NPCs and looking at (or searching) desks/shelves/trees/etc. Also more of a penalty for reneging on contract jobs would be good, and (in the long run) some sort of ever-changing commodity market like what was in Fantabulous Wonderment, where I can take these bananas across the star system to the people who worship bananas and make a fortune as the supplier for the banana religion.  

Reading through the fixes and changes, and it sounds like an awesome amount of work went into improving things. Keen to try this out tonight!