Starbound [Winter Update!]

Figured it might be a good idea to post some of the news from the website, in case someone didn't see it yet. Links for the source and Spoilers for the lazy. Should I format this differently?

http://playstarbound.com/a-brief-look-at...this-week/

 A brief look at what we’ve been working on this week

Hi guys,

A quick update of what we’ve been working on this week.

First off we got all of the craftable (non-procedurally generated) armors finished up and in game. That’s 60 armors so far, not including costumes and clothing.

Every single one of these armors can be dyed a large number of different colours:



We’ve also got planets appearing in space/the night sky now, as you can see in the screenshot above. These planets reflect the solar system you’re currently in.



This week we’ve also got shields working, we’re still tweaking them but at the moment they can be equipped in either your left or right hand (or both if you’re that way inclined). Holding a shield up will highly raise your armor level when projectiles or enemies hit the shield. Holding your shield up also stops your energy from regenerating and blocking attacks costs energy. The next step here is to load in art and special stats so we can get the game generating a large number of unique shields.



We’ve also added a new style of biome, the frozen ocean biome is a cold biome full of deep water and small islands of ice.



We’ve continued to work on the glitch Castles, giving them new layouts, rooms to mix up and decoration.



We’ve also continued to improve the space travel animation and feel, added new weaponry, added new NPC behaviour, fixed some netcode issues that popped up, produced some new tracks for the soundtrack and a whole bunch of smaller bits and pieces.

I know some of you are eager to see this sort of thing appear on the roadmap, we will update it soon, we’re just deeply entrenched in our work at the moment. We’re going to try to update it around once a month.

Cheers guys <3

http://playstarbound.com/10th-may-progress/

 10th May Progress

Hi again,

Today we’re continuing to finish off this weeks work.

Shields functionality is now finished and bug free. Bartwe stomped a bug with collisions that cause some projectiles to pass through the shield. Blocking now works flawlessy in multiplayer.

We’ve added even more new attacks to NPCs, acid spitting, water spraying, bubble…beaming?

Functionally the crafting window has been done for a long time, now we’re starting to add a ton of info on the item you’re crafting, as well as a system to allow you to search through all your available blueprints. We need a nice search box given the sheer number of items in the game.

Our wonderful artists are beginning to work on ocean environments, coral reefs, plantlife etc. Ocean diving is about to get a lot more interesting.



We’re also adding a bunch more interesting costumes. I’m also pushing to get a ton of regular clothing in the game for people who just want to mirror themselves in the game.



Kyren is working on a deep world storage change that will do some great technical things, then moving onto more combat related code.

We’ve also been improving the UI, we now have a message system that allows any item or UI element to pop up messages on the screen that slide nicely in and out, similarly to the food meter. A food command was added to check your current hunger level.



Also, someone broke the sword icons!! *rage* (psst, I think it was Bartwe)

http://playstarbound.com/11th-may-progress/

 11th May Progress

It’s the weekend! Yay!

Today we’ve been finishing up some crafting changes. Each type of item now has its own swanky layout within the crafting window.

There are lots of different kinds of items, so this was quite a bit of work and it’s nice to have it finally out of the way.



I’ve also thrown a bunch more recipes into the game, given our 1300~ items so far there are a lot of recipes!

Bartwe is working on a sorting and searching system to make the number of items manageable. That will sit in the gap below the schematics list.

Kyren is continuing her super technical work, which will be out of the way soon.

Omni has more or less finished up the log book UI, but I need to configure where all the text/images sit, so no images of that just yet.



One of contributors also made me this with the paint tool <3

Roll on Sunday

http://playstarbound.com/crafting-requirements/

 Crafting requirements

A lot of people were asking where the materials required to craft something are displayed.

They appear on mouse over: