[STABLE UPDATE] April 25, 2014

Hey molly!! I NOTICED YOUR GOING TO BE PUSHING THE ABILITY TO CLIMB. LADDERS ARE COMING.
Noticed new animations and graphics for frontal climbing and back of sprite heads.... hmmmm i like. Or am I just crazy?

 

I appreciate the good and bad news. I hope the near future brings accomplishment to your offices and awe to the critics.

 

What about OSX 10.6?

 

Thanks for the update. you guys.

 

ALRIGHT last one for the day... it was my day off and i wanted to make some mini-mods. So I made a Jet-pack mech-wing set and my own avatar head mod while i job hunted.
THIS IS HOW EXCITED UPDATES MAKE ME!!

Yes i made both these mods in under an hour...

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There's no apostrophe! Damn you!

 

Are you trying to jinx this thread or what?

 

thanks for fixing the smelting bug

 

Teach me, master.

 

Not sure if its just for me, or maybe I just don't know what this instrument is supposed to sound like but my Hammered Dulcimer sounds very "guitarish." Just wanted to point that out incase it is a bug.
EDIT: Okay, maybe that's how it's supposed to sound.. Nevermind. Never realized that it was basically a guitar where you hit the strings so it makes more sense rather than my initial thought of it supposed to be the instrument where you hit the pipes.

 

Yay for stable updates.

 

Wow. The ocean is looking beautiful! Can't wait to explore it. So curious and excited to see how boats will work! Great job guys and thanks for the update.

 

I don't wanna piss you off or anything, but 10.6 is really teetering on the brink of being completely deprecated now in terms of support. It came out 5 years ago and, although it was a very good version, things move on in Apple land at quite a pace. I haven't been keeping up with the technical aspects of it, but it may well be that adding support for 10.6 would be a giant pain without a huge number of new users coming into the fold. There are also issues with having to use less efficient calls and so on that could drag the performance of the entire game down simply to allow things to run on an OS that old. There's always the option of creating a new build path for an older version but that's extra work from the devs' point of view and, at least at this point, it just doesn't seem like it'd really pay off.

My comp is an 8 year old Mac Pro that shouldn't be able to run anything beyond 10.6, but I've been using 10.8 on it for a while now without problems by using an emulated bootloader to fool the OS into thinking the comp has a 64bit EFI chip. So, ya know, there are always options that don't involve a whole new hardware investment..

Thanks for the updates dev team, they are appreciated.

 

So, when it comes to tracking unstable/stable changelogs, I find it confusing to figure out what was added since I played last, as I didn't play the last couple unstable builds and there isn't a changelog listed for those who just play stable anywhere as I suppose it's intended for us to go back an read the unstable ones to find out where we are now.

But for logistics sake, am I to assume all of the unstable branch updates from March 26 to April 26 are what is considered moving from Unstable to Stable in the most recent update? The name of the Koala hasn't changed on the title screen and the launcher "update page" info hasn't changed, so I'm curious if the whole unstable to stable update thing has thrown a wrench in how you guys track and label 'updates'. As the stable updates are less updates and more like, taking already pushed updates and making them avail to all in one large lump.

So... is all of this (see spoiler below) new to stable as of April 26, and was not avail previously in Stable until then?

The following list of changes was taken from Starbounder.org .

Unstable Update (March 18th, 2014)

FIXES

• Temporarily disable image.cache (was accidentally re-enabled) pending incorporation into pak files
• Fix Lua <-> C++ conversion with maps consisting of integers
• net_socket_test, since it no longer waits on a specific packet type, had a race condition bug (fixed)

CONTENT

• Weather conditions (embers, space junk, minor edits to windstorm)
  • Projectiles added to windstorm
  • New Weather Types
    • Ember (found in Forest, Magma, and Volcanic biomes)
    • Space Junk (found in Forest, Grassland, Savannah, Moon and Jungle biomes)
• Greenhouse random encounter, with lovely little flower beds (not craftable yet, but you can go steal them from a greenhouse!)
  • New Decorative Objects (Hanging Basket, Hanging Basket (2), Flower Bed, Flower Bed (2))
• New Hat (Shroom Disguise Mask)

Unstable Update (April 2nd, 2014)

• New Codex: The Agaran Menace
• New Apex and Floran Giant Pod microdungeons
• Combat Balancing
  • Melee weapon swooshes shortened substantially.
  • Most melee weapons now directional.
  • Monsters are slower, heavier and jump less high.

Unstable Update (April 8th, 2014)

FIXES

• Added case insensitive option to regexMatch, case sensitive by default -> updated pak_ignore file for case insensitive matching
• Fix bug with background mods not being shadowed properly
• Some general cleanup of StarAssets.hpp/StarMonsterDatabase.cpp/StarMonsterDatabase.hpp/StarRoot.hpp
• Added timer to fix monster oscillation while in wander state
• Fixed some objects (drain, midjar1, windstorm2.projectile)
• Add /serverreload server side command, fix ImageMetadataDatabase threading crash
• Cleaned up the build process
• Retain script storage if retainObjectParametersInItem is set in an object
• All directional swords should not override the arm frame, fixes back arm drawing bug
• Don’t allow material ids out of the actual material id range (same for mods), fix skyrail ids by wrapping them to what they actually represent in the file
• Added tileIsOccupied to the Lua Bindings

ADDITIONS/OTHER CHANGES

• Changes to monster behaviors/skills as per this post
• Conversion of existing monsters to .partparams, with a few exceptions
• Some extra notes for modders provided here.

Unstable Update (April 24th, 2014)

• Updated OSX build scripts to allow it to work with OSX 10.7+ – Please let us know if this is working for you!
• Fixed issue where Grappling Hook sometimes causes a crash (and Climbing Rope)
• Added new function to lua API to get item descriptor (not just name) from an entity’s hand “entityHandItemDescriptor”
• Fix visual smelting bug
• Made preview images flippable for asymmetric tiered doors (Violium Door, Rubium Door, and Impervium Door)
• Fixed issue with build tests
• 'Monster part' adjustments
• added variables to allow Treasure Room spawning

 

No Sweat Dev Team. This is best done the Hank Hill way... Right, not Fast.

 

Hi i have a problem with Starbound i tried to lunch it on my Mac OS X version is 10.6.8 and it said this
Starbound cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure Starbound works with this version of Mac OS X. You may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to install any available updates for the application and ac OS X. can u please help me with this problem

 

I'll make everyone a tutorial...the game engine is very simple and clean.

 

I think they are only supporting 10.7 and beyond, but i'm not on staff at Chucklefish.

 

Still no changelogs on the game Steam's page. Too hard to do for the community managers, I guess.