Awesome changes!

I recently started playing the nightlies, haven't played since several months ago, and I have to say I applaud the thought that went into the recent (and maybe not-so-recent) changes to the game.

The garden biome is a brilliant way to introduce new players to the game, with a little bit of familiarity to balance the overwhelming possibilities of exploring the universe. The broken ship quests at the beginning seem like the perfect way to acclimate new players to the mechanics, without feeling like a spoon-fed tutorial. I love that you have to acquire core fragments from DEEP underground to fix your ship, and that you have to put more thought into mining now since you'll lose the ore you've collected if you die (actually having to plan your way back UP as you're on the way down!) And the mine shaft dungeon is absolutely PHENOMENAL for preparing the new player to go underground. The crates stocked with torches, brilliant, and the changes to the crafting tiers (stone, copper, iron, & steel) make the game a lot more logical in my opinion.

I can't wait to see the ocean planets, and to get quests from NPC's, and to storm dungeons looking for the shield generator switches, I'm loving the changes, and I hate how long all this is taking but I'm sure the dev's feel the same way.

Anyway, just wanted to say, all around great job. Especially on the thought that went into affordances for new players. Brilliant work.

 

Oh, I have to download fast nightly build and test it on my own ^_^

 

I downloaded it too yesterday, just to see how it is now.
Novakid is a very interesting race, i like the Gun-Stuff instead of swords. Just just have not seen the racial ability jet (is it just glowing?)
Also it was very nice to see that there are some additional recipes now (i think, could not remember that wooden bar for the corners)
There are still a few things that i would wish for (like cut out a piece of the world to relocate your home) or buy alternate ships later in the game (i like Glitch and Novakid, but not their ships^^)
But so far...i wish 1.0 would be there yet, so that i could start my server again
It looks so nice

 

i go download nightly build too ^^