Starbound (interplanetary terraria)

[djzombie]

new desktop background

[Sonomaa]

server is still up, since there is a wipe coming at some point I might toss some mods on there.
might actually rent an official server too since they arent terribly expensive

[djzombie]

cant wait to play this, one of the first games I put on my new laptop (not new, just new to me, old one died, boight cheap replacemnt from friend that fixes and flips) and it runs beautifully even with the crappy intel graphics

[Jakson]

A ton of new content in this update. We've added a bunch of new features to world generation, which might require you to start on a new universe. To make sure you get access to all the new crafting items you either need to unlock sectors again or create a new character.
Also..

• Added skyrails based on Apjjms mod!
• Added a brand new weather system, moddable weather/new environment effects
• Hydrophobic objects are destroyed by all liquids
• Trees can now be planted
• Critical items stay on the ground longer
• Some new monster behaviours
• You must now be orbiting a planet to set it as your home
• Free teleportation to home planet from ships teleporter
• add acid rain, meteor showers, water collecting during storms and more
• made species mods easier to combine with one another
• add support for keysignature and keysignature changes for the abc system
• Disable speedlimit for default projectiles to fix inaccurate bullets
• New craftable turrets based on healthire's mod
• You can now land on asteroid fields, based on hints mod
• Tech now has descriptive instructions
• Tons of Christmas stuff!!
• Pos no longer 1 hit kill you
• You can no longer breathe on moons or asteroid fields without the proper equipment
• Better fix fall damage
• New barren planets perfect for building
• Gravity now varies from planet to planet
• Some planet backgrounds improved
• Existing biomes can appear with different liquid types
• You can now craft racial flags, to show you've been to a planet
• NPCs will now switch to melee weapons up close
• More random encounters
• Pos can now be captured
• Wiring station can now be built to access to a ton of different wiring tools
• fixed mech legs
• tons of server improvements
• more

[Odin'sLaw]

been playing this for the past few hours (haven't played for a week or more) i keep getting Planets that remind me of metroid had one planet beam me down into lava , nothing like a threat lv 1 planet insta murdering you lol

[arus2001]

Picked it up this morning and got maybe 3 hours in. Having a hell of a time finding copper and iron. Wondering if I might have better luck on the arrid or snowy planet instead of the forest one.

[Corrderio]

Odd. I never had any real problems finding those by just screwing around on the surface and looking inside any underground holes. Maybe just bad luck on a starter planet?

[arus2001]

Perhaps. I've been trying to dig into bigger stony chunks that I can discern or going for little gobs I see via tunnels, but it's rarely more than 3-5 blocks. About to break my stone pick, assuming that's what the red bar under it means.

Also, potentially stupid question. Any way to pause? Hitting Esc just seems to bring up the menu.

[Mina]

Also, potentially stupid question. Any way to pause? Hitting Esc just seems to bring up the menu.

Build a wall of blocks around you.

;P Actually the truth is I don't know of a pause button. Definitely none on a multiplayer server which is all I do anymore.

I tend to log out more if I'm going afk for longer than a bathroom break now because I've lost tons of pixels from hunger deaths when I step away too long and forget about the game.

[Chrian]

hunger death is the worst death

[Kelenae]

Build a chair/bed and sleep/sit in it. Boom, no hunger deaths while afk.

[Jakson]

Built a Impervium bed, doesn't heal any faster than any other bed afaict.

[Sonomaa]

devs said there is one more full world+character wipe coming and that should be it, we shall see. BG server is still up but mostly unused since the last wipe

[Corrderio]

Hopefully we're nearing phase 2 then.

[Prothescar]

I wouldn't expect phase 2 until summer at least.

[arus2001]

Guess I'll hold off on progressing more, then. Any ETA on wipe?

[Prothescar]

January. Probably early January

[Corrderio]

I wouldn't expect phase 2 until summer at least.

Eh, probably. At least this should be the final one hopefully.

Also holy shit at some of the mods coming out. I love the looks of the speed boost from Metroid.

[Corrderio]

Info about the upcoming patch!

http://playstarbound.com/wp-content/...3-21.13.23.png

Heya! Long time no front page post.

After taking it easy over the holidays, we jumped straight into preparing the next patch. The reason it’s taking awhile? Bug fixes. Bug fixes everywhere. They can be a little slow-going and unpredictable, but I think you guys will find the improvements worth the wait!

We’re still working on a few things, so you can expect the patch in about a week’s time. Not all patches are going to take this long, of course.



Fixes:

.ds_store issue affecting OSX 9.1 users (A bug where Finder created an invisible file called .ds_store in the player folder which caused the game to crash).
A number of character creation/selection screen crashes related to loading corrupted save files
An issue that could prevent the launcher from starting (MSVCRT.dll)
DirectX crash bug (303 bug)
Several memory leaks, including the slow-but-significant server memory leak a lot of people were experiencing and GUI memory leak
Fixed a crash bug related to GUI controls
Reduced memory load of FTL animation
.abc files with comments no longer crash the game, plus various .abc fixes as far as key signatures/timing
A number of issues with players spawning underground
A bug where players spawned outside the ship if they’d previously saved the game while in the Captain’s Chair
Right shift key was not working as a shift key, now it is
An issue tech slots were unusable under certain conditions
Wiring system fixes– wires are rendered below UI elements, wires no longer break when crossed into an unloaded sector
Added image metadata caching, improved assets caching
Added a jeep mech that was supposed to have been in the last patch, but had mysteriously gone missing!
Object flipping issues
Sped up the crafting window
Fixed a sound issue that occurred after many concurrent weapon hits
Characters no longer blink while sleeping in beds
Assorted minor performance improvements



Additions:

New game modes! Permadeath and drop-everything-on-death modes.
Revolvers, pulse rifles, hand grenades, shivs, Floran needlers, Floran thorn hammer
Human guards now wear soldier uniforms
More decorative hats! Yay, hats!
More random encounters
Possibly more content, if it’s finished on time!



Of course, there’s also the highly anticipated/possibly feared final character wipe– this patch contains a fix for save files so after this, you won’t need to worry about our patches destroying your characters or ships. This patch will wipe everything– characters, ships and worlds. It will definitely be the last time we’ll need to wipe characters or ships, and will hopefully be the last time we’ll need to wipe worlds. This explanation from Kyren should help clarify things a little:

“The problem is that the organization of planets may change so if they go muck with a planet, how do we put it in the celestial map? Or if they build on a biome we remove, or something. So no promises, but we’ll try. But promises on the player / ship.”

I hope that clears up a lot of your questions and concerns about the upcoming patch and wipe– I’m just as excited as you guys are.

http://playstarbound.com/info-about-the-upcoming-patch/

[Zetanio]

Just do it already! Every one of my friends has stopped until the wipe