Mech up and Farm The Stars In Lightyear Frontier’s Shifting Gears Update

Skövde, Sweden - 21st May 2025: Lightyear Frontier, the intergalactic open-world farming adventure from FRAME BREAK, is expanding into a whole new experience. The Shifting Gears update, launching on June 4, 2025, will transform the game into a fully reimagined, mech-powered adventure. With a host of updates and improvements, including overhauled progression, expanded building tools, and deeper farming mechanics, players kickstart their journey on a brand-new planet and pilot their mech through a world brimming with endless possibilities.

Watch the Shifting Gears trailer here.

At the heart of this update lies a bold new beginning as Shifting Gears, players will touch down on a newly discovered planet to start fresh in a world that’s bigger, more dynamic, and packed with new opportunities and adventure.

Houston, We Have Liftoff
To prepare for the journey, a special pre-update mission will go live on May 28, 2025, calling all Exofarmers to construct the ship that will carry them to this vibrant new frontier, earning a brand new mech skin in the process - the FM-04 Wireframe mech skin - which will be delivered to their in-game mailboxes when the update lands.

For Steam players, the Legacy version of the game will also remain available as a public opt-in "legacy" branch - perfect for those who wish to revisit their old homestead just as they left it prior to the update.

Lock In & Roll Out
Once planetside in the Shifting Gears update, the frontier lies ahead! With a fully customizable mech, players will have the opportunity to build expansive farms, automate crop watering, and deliver their harvests across the stars. Modular building, new mech upgrades, and a host of quality-of-life improvements empower players to shape their homestead - and their adventure - like never before.

In the Shifting Gears update, players can expect:

• Mega Mech Upgrades & Customisation: A shifted sense of scale means your mech is bigger (and better!) than ever before. Equip new mod chips, tweak your loadouts, and unlock body parts as you craft and progress. With added customization, transmogrification, and a new Power Limit system encouraging thoughtful builds, your mech feels like a true extension of yourself.

• Design Your Own Custom Home: Create your dream homestead with Americana-inspired pieces and brand-new modular building, allowing for greater creativity and personalisation.
  
  
• Symbiotic Survival: The world isn’t without its risks. Both your mech and Exofarmer can take damage - whether it be caused by;rogue weather or alien threats. A revamped fuel system means that smart planning is key - and your mech and Exofarmer truly need each other in order to thrive.

• Farming Overhaul: Farming will feel much grander as new options and changes are introduced. Landscapes are much bigger than before, offering wider plains for farming. Mixing soil and crop types can bring about unique mutations or high-yield variants of crops, with fertilizer also being streamlined and gained from animals, bringing them into the farming loop.

• New Progression: Landing on a new world means rethinking your approach. With farming as the core progression system, you’ll grow and ship your crops across the stars, whilst uncovering ancient ruins that offer new lore.

• Watering Made Easy: Scale up without burning out! To alleviate the pressure of increased farming work, watering drones can now handle large fields, powered by fuel and water supplies. Plus, new abilities for the Irrigation Hose keep day-to-day farming fluid and fun.

• A Smoother Experience: The Lightyear Frontier experience has been refined across the board with a host of quality-of-life improvements to make farm life more enjoyable than ever.
  
  

Lightyear Frontier is available now on PC via Steam and the Xbox Store for $24.99/ £20.99/€24,99, and through Game Pass on PC and Xbox Series X|S.

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