- Sulfur powered mining laser added (can be used in reactorless ships).
- Hyperium powered mining laser added (can be used in reactorless ships).
- Advanced mining laser added.
- Sulfur powered small hyperdrive added. Consumes sulfur instead of batteries so sulfur and hyperium are needed to make a hyperjump (can be used in reactorless ships).
- Motion Mines cheaper to build, parallel to the ordinary mine buffs.
- Miscellaneous other changes, particularly improved textual descriptions to item descriptions.