Driftbound 1.3.5: craftable best in slot for every gear type, exact item counts, and the Chinese star map finally translated

Hey everyone! Another quick release has just gone out...

It's out now on Android and the iPhone build went to Apple this afternoon and should clear review inside 48 hours, and because iOS skipped 1.3.4 it gets that one at the same time, sharper artwork and all.

Here's what was added...

Crafted gear is now the best in the game in every slot. u/HolidaySevere2897 checked the claim I made back in 1.3.0 and found it was only true for weapons: crafting stopped at Mk4 legendary while the shops happily sold you Mk5. He was right and I didn't notice! There are now four new craft-only modules above anything you can buy, the Null Aegis, the Slipstream Drive, the Voidfold Hold and the Corebreaker Beam. Fair warning that they are a climb, the first wants Crafting 36 and the last wants 42, so this is something to work towards rather than something waiting for you when you update. There is also a test now that fails the build if anything buyable ever outranks the best craftable again, because clearly I cannot be trusted to remember.

You can see the exact number behind a shortened one. u/Thoresen1 pointed out that everything over a thousand reads as 1.34K and there was nowhere in the game showing the real figure, which makes working out whether a craft will clear your stack pure guesswork. Tap a cargo box, or look at a recipe, and the precise number now sits underneath. Nothing changes for counts already shown in full.

Chinese got two real fixes. u/Ashamed-Kitchen-7167 sent a screenshot of the Admiralty page running off the side of his screen, which turned out to be one line of text that could not wrap forcing the whole page wider than the display. He also spotted that half the star map was still in English: the places I wrote by hand were translated, but every galaxy the game generates was assembling its name out of English words buried in the code. That is 101 words now translated properly, so the map reads in Chinese end to end.

If you have been sitting on something that annoys you, this is your evidence that saying it works 😄