Starbound v1.0.4 Changelog

Starbound v1.0.3 Changelog

• remove unbalanced wormerang listing from penguin weapon shop
  
• resolve issue of banner rendering in front of a bookcase
  
• resolve issue where the Grand Pagoda Library boss would sometimes reset
  
• resolve issue where some weapons would let you wall jump in distortion sphere
  
• make ore nibbler critter capturable without exploding
  
• remove inappropriate tag from farm animal eggs
  
• no longer open multiples of the same scripted interfaces (Rob Repairo, Tech Console)
  
• resolve issue where cultists would die on destroying a ballista in the Baron's Keep
  
• remove elemental aura visual effect when changing weapons
  
• resolve issue where techs would interfere with each others tool suppression
  
• improve performance when player has a lot of quests
  
• resolve some issues with grappling hook
  
• bosses are now immune to healing from staff secondary abilities
  
• some pixels in armors were bad and are now not bad
  
• fix issue where crew ship benefits would reset on ship upgrade (this unfortunately resets your current fuel capacity and fuel efficiency benefits as they have been moved to a more reliable storage format)
  
• teach NPCs how to use some trickier doors like wooden gates
  
• npcs may now get stuck in the ground less often
  
• make tech gui not crash when encountering unknown tech
  
• fix 3d printer issue when removing objects
  
• change power scaling of crew members to more closely match the power scaling of the player
  
• make it so saplings don't break when they are unable to grow into a tree
  
• players should no longer get stuck in the ground if they beam to a friend in distortion sphere
  
• remove deprecated keybindings
  
• remove reference to a missing asset for the Avian temple boss
  
• gui adjustment to allow bigger numbers in the Terrramart shipment box
  
• remove deprecated elevator recipes
  
• fix tabbing issues in the codex window
  

• statically link Visual C++ 2015 for the win32 version of starbound
  
• keep rotten food in the food tab
  
• UI usability improvements to server connect screen
  
• dismiss confirmation windows when the source of them is not in reach
  
• adjustments to ore samples
  
• make it impossible to starve to death during cinematics
  
• pressing the key for a selected action bar slot now deselects the slot
  
• non-elemental Fluffalo drop more plant fibre
  
• adjust npc and monster placement for generated quests
  
• grappling hook adjustments; increased range, functional dual wielding
  
• NPCs will now beam away to join your ship crew as soon as you recruit them
  
• natural materials will now magically match the hue shift of the biome when placed
  
• using the paint tool with the default color setting will clear any hue shift on unpainted blocks
  
• make vertical scroll bars start at the top by default
  
• improve one-handed damage of NPCs
  
• add some clothes and dialog for novakids in generated quests
  
• change some confusingly inaccurate labels for paintings in the grand pagoda library
  
• tweak Shockhopper projectile lifetime and damage polys

Visual C++ 2015 Launch Errors

OpenGL 2.0 Launch Errors

OS X 10.8 Launch Errors

10th May - Cool Space Wizards

Do you like space? Do you like wizards, also? Wow! You’re in luck!



Look out for staves and wands in your travels and become the cool space wizard* you were always destined to be! Staves are two-handed and come with secondary abilities, whereas wands are one-handed and can be dual-wielded!



They come pre-enchanted (or pre-SCIENCED?) with a variety of useful abilities. Heal your friends! Cast fire and brimstone and electric purple rain down upon your enemies! … or your friends. We’re not here to judge.



*Robe and Wizard Hat not included.

13th May - Merch of the Penguins

If you find that your weapon really needs an upgrade but you’re struggling to find anything conveniently in a chest at the end of a dungeon, there’s a shop for that now!


Seek out this shady salesman if you’re in the market for rare and powerful weapons! You’ll want to bring lots of pixels, though.

We’re firmly in the polishing-up phase now! This week we’ve added some more useful codexes to start of the game, and we’re making a lot of improvements to the UI.

Looking forward to showing you more shiny new stuff next week.

‘Til then, have a nice weekend! <3

17th May - Technically...

There’s an Apex scientist in the Outpost developing techs, and he needs your help to test them out! If you can beat his obstacle courses, he’ll give you techs to take with you on your adventures.

You can also drop by his lab to upgrade techs if you have any tech cards handy, and later on you may be able to purchase portable tech stations so you can swap out your techs on the go!

19th May - Making Connections

Since Starbound’s launch in Early Access, everyone’s been asking us to implement an easier way to play Starbound with their friends. A huge portion of our emails are from people sort of mystified by the process of forwarding their ports and inviting people to join via their IP (for those reading this who are still mystified, there’s a guide on our wiki!).

In version 1.0, you will finally be able to join multiplayer Starbound servers via your Steam friends list. Hooray!



You’ll be able to choose whether or not your Steam friends can join your game via a check box in your Options menu. You can also choose whether to allow people to connect via your IP!

In this screenshot, ‘Multiplayer via Steam Friends’ is grayed out because I’m playing a dev build, but this feature should already work in the Nightly build. All of the usual caveats about Nightly apply.

‘Til next time!

<3

23rd May - Squishing Bugs

Happy Monday everyone!

This week (and for the latter bit of last week) we’re focusing on testing our internal build of Starbound! A handful of us have started playing through the whole game, and the remaining handful have gone to work fixing bugs we encounter along the way, tweaking whatever needs tweaking.



An important thing we’ve noticed is that we’re legitimately still having fun playing this game that we’ve spent several years of our lives working on! More fun than we’ve ever had playing it before, I’d say, which is a good sign.



We’ve also been catching and correcting plenty of bugs, which is encouraging! We are still adding things to Starbound here and there, but we expect testing and bug-fixing to be our main focus for the next few weeks. :)

‘Til next time! <3

27th May - Stop Right There

Happy Friday, everyone!

It’s been a really productive week for finding and smashing bugs! We’ve also got a few people completing small-but-important pre-1.0 tweaks and features. Like this one!



It’s never made sense for NPCs to be cool with you stealing their furniture and smashing their pots – you’re not the Hero of Time, and those pots were expensive!

So now, if you’re caught stealing from an NPC, they’ll call the guards. Better work on your stealth!



Bonus interior design tip:

In our play testing sessions this week, Harriet and I discovered that a smoke machine placed in a shallow pool makes for a super awesome sauna. :D

1st June - Do Glitch Dream of Electric Fluffalo?

Hello! GeorgeV here.

Today we’re showing you two things. The first is the Fluffalo!


Fluffalo are livestock that can be raised to produce various materials that can be used to craft useful items. They start out as eggs, which hatch into Baby Fluffalos. If you give your Baby Fluffalo specific foods, they’ll grow into one of these five variants of Fluffalo!




The second is a pair of detectors. The Cave Detector and the Ore Detector. These are both craftable fairly late in the game and will help with exploration and mining.


The Cave detector will help you find cave formations!


And the ore detector will help you find those pesky ores. There’s more around you than you realize!

That’s it for today. Until next time…

-GeorgeV

3rd June - A Reading Rainbow

The books you find in Starbound aren’t essential to enjoying the game, but they do provide an interesting look at some of the characters, monsters and cultures you encounter! We’d love for people to enjoy reading them as much as we’ve enjoyed writing them, so we’ve been working on making the experience of reading them easier and prettier.

We posted about making more unique book covers a little while back, but the codex UI itself still made reading and sorting through your library difficult. So we’ve fixed it!



This is one of the more visual changes we’ve made this week, but we’ve been doing loads. We’ve completed another week of playtesting, fixing lots of bugs and making lots of quality-of-life fixes along the way. It’s been fun, but more importantly it feels like we’re making a lot of tangible progress each day. :)

‘Til next week! <3

7th April - Manipulate What Matters!

Hello, and welcome to the new and improved Starbound website!

In preparation for the previously mentioned final approach to 1.0, we've taken some time to give the site a new coat of paint. So take a look around, and let us know what you think!

So, what's new with Starbound? Well, I think you'll all be excited to read that you'll soon be able to upgrade your Matter Manipulator in whichever way you see fit!

Do you focus all your modules early on towards maxing out the Power Generator? Or perhaps you'd find spreading your modules out on each area a more rewarding spend. The choice is now up to you in which order you focus your upgrades.

This feature is still a work in progress, but here's a look at the interface as it stands right now:



We've also got some some exciting news to share regarding Starbound on Xbox One! If you're attending EGX Rezzed in London this weekend, you'll be among the first to play an early build of Starbound on the Xbox One, via their new Game Preview program!

We're already receiving some sizeable interest at the ID@XBOX booth, so come and say hello!



That's all for today!

11th April - Outlaw & Order

Hey, you! Have you ever thought about being a space bounty hunter?

I mean, obviously being a regular bounty hunter is all well and good, but if you stick space on the front of it... well, I'm sure there are statistically a lot more outlaws in the whole of space than there are here on Earth, right? Travel time might be an issue. There's quite a lot of travel. I suppose there are always downsides.

Anyway, now you can do that!



You may come across NPCs who are feeling a bit anxious about the presence of an infamous outlaw near their home. Go and take care of that and receive a nice bounty in return! Outlaws aren't as easy to fight as regular NPCs, and may even have a few tricks up their sleeves.

But who knows? Maybe Shadowy Goldtooth the dark knight is just a bit misunderstood! Maybe you could even be friends?

14th April - Beakeasy

There are whispers of a seedy hidden dive bar at the Outpost frequented by penguin mercenaries...



It's rumored that if you do the bartender a favor, you'll be allowed to hire penguin mercenaries onto your ship crew rather than accumulating crew members by being nice and helping people.

... they're just rumors though, of course!

A Very Merry 2015 Round-Up

5th January - It Belongs in a Museum!

Happy Tuesday!

Starbound 1.0 draws nearer and nearer! Remember fossils? Pretty soon you should be able to dig ’em up in the nightly. Fossil assets have been in the game for quite awhile, but players haven’t really been able to do anything with them.



We’re also working on putting survival mode back in the game, which means that *certain features* will be making a return. But more on that later! Here’s a screenshot of the fossil mini-game in action (the UI is a work in progress!).

7th January - We Have a T-Rex

Hey everyone!

Following up on Tuesday’s post, we thought we’d shed a little more light on the fossil system. :)



The new Fossil Station lets you craft stands for fossils and tools for excavation. Let’s go looking for some! You’ll have to search underground if you want to find any, of course.



Looks like we’ve come across some skeletal remains! Use the tools from the Fossil Station to excavate them, which is done with the minigame we showed off in the last post.



We found a T-Rex skull?! How come there are T-Rexes on distant alien planets anyway? No time for questions, lets display this in our museum!



There are three different stand types for three different size categories of fossils. To complete some fossils you’ll need to find multiple parts. Some fossils might be familiar to you but others will be totally alien, like many things in the Starbound universe! I’m sure that there are people who would be willing to pay a pretty penny for a completed skeleton, too. Better get digging, then!

13th January - My Backpack is Augmented

Hey everyone! After some site wide maintenance, we’re back online. There’s lots of progress to report so let’s get straight to it.

Environmental Protection Packs

Armagon has been working on a more satisfying replacement for the nano-skins, that provide protection against the range of biome hazards. Not only are these new wearable protection packs craftable, you can customise them with augmentations that bestow the player with useful buffs. They can also be used in conjunction with your Techs!



Survival Mode

As you might know, Metadept has been working hard on the reimplementation of hunger. You’ll be able to enable this by selecting the new Survival Mode option at the character creation screen. It’s a heavy work in progress right now, but we have a basic implementation working in-game.

A hunger bar appears beneath the player’s energy bar, and will slowly deplete over time. When the bar is empty, you’ll start suffering from a starvation status effect which will begin to drain your health. In order to keep you on your toes, and hinder those who’d stock an infinite supply of food in their inventories, food will slowly rot and become inedible over time.



<*>Player pets are not only capturable, but you’ll be able to do a lot with them! (There’ll be more on that soon!)
<*>Necotho and GeorgeV have completed work on the new Tier 6 Scorched City biome
<*>Work on fossils continues, with many new fossils to discover!
<*>A lot of work is continuing into the story content and missions (but not much can be revealed right now).

15th January - Collar Duty: Advanced Warfur

Happy Friday!

Tccoxon has been working on a set of pet collars that work much like the EPP augmentations. When you obtain a pet collar, you can right-click on a filled capture pod to place it on that pet.

The type of collar effects range from stat-boosts to damage, health boosts, light generating and even elemental type effects. There’s also the ‘oblivious collar’ which makes your pet invulnerable but non-aggressive, so you can have a completely passive pet.

18th January - Tech Support

Hey everyone!

Metadept’s work on the new hunger system continues, but he’s also been spending some time overhauling techs! Here’s what’s happening with the new tech system:

[ Read the full post! Steam has silly character limits! ]

Combined with the new augmentation system discussed last week, you can pull off some seriously powerful moves. Here’s an example of two upgraded techs in action, the Sonic Sphere and Wall Jump:

20th January - Monkey Business

We’ve been working on missions for the final game! Here’s a little look at the start of an upcoming mission – looks kind of intense. What do you think it’ll be about?



This week’s community-run Build of the Week theme is Crash Sites, and there have already been some really really cool submissions. Here’s a crashed freighter from ElvenCourage!

22nd January - Broom for Improvement

We have talked a little bit about the re-addition of hunger in Survival Mode, which is exciting! There are a lot of different difficulty parameters – hunger, allowing players to beam up from underground, items dropped on death, how much it costs to revive your character, and permadeath. Regardless of how we configure Starbound’s three difficulty modes some players will prefer a different set-up, so to that end Metadept has made all of the modes moddable. Here’s what that looks like!



Keep in mind that what you see there now isn’t necessary what the default settings will look like in the final game – it’s just how it’s configured right now.

In other news, this character is wielding a broom. Why are they wielding a broom? What’s the significance of the broom? Where are they? What’s going onnnnnnnnn?

Watch the trailer here!

[UNSTABLE] Glad Giraffe Patch Notes

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