February 24th - A busy week of dev time!

The Avain starting pet is almost guaranteed to be a bunny. If you've ever explored an Avian temple, it's impossible to miss all the bunnies.

 

1) The "8th race" is a tentacle eyeball.
2) Assuming those are heads, of course.
3) The eyes are the same, just depicted at different angles. The eye is head on in the gate, while slightly to the side on the tentacle bits.
4) The armor looks similar to the Hylotl Ocean Set of armor, though the helmet is a bit boxier and the chest plate bulkier.
5) My bet is that if we ever saw "written Agaran" it'd use the same symbols. They're almost certainly connected in some way.

Another likely is that they are the Creator species who made the Glitch, boosted the Avians along the evolutionary track (if those species are even the same), and ended up fighting the tentacle monsters to their own extinction, like the Halo Forerunners.

 

*thinking to myself* Aw, the hylotl are the most difficult race to come up with an alien pet... They're pacifist japanese- like amphibians...
PACIFIC NINJA BIPEDAL SPACE FROGS!

 

It all comes together. Earth is vanished in some "incedent". Now teleporter technology is offered to us by advanced code-wielding beings so we can freely travel from one planet to another. I can see a pattern here.

All I can think now is Lions and Tigers and Bears. If you know what I mean.

 

oooh yes planet bookmarks and teleporters ! ! About the Pets: if I´d prefer aspecific race for what eve reason but want a pet of an other race ?! Like human + a bug Pet Glitch + Cat Pet Avian + slimeballthingie ... ??!! Pluuus the Captured Monsters ... is there a way to keep them from teleporting at me ? Didnt find any jet ... just cause I liked to have a kind of petarea / zoo ... ... not wanting 50 cute creatures to fffollow mearround !!

 

I like these new updates, but could wild caught pets be fed, or have wild monsters eat food, hunt other monsters, ect.?
Also, the new AI looks great, my shipmate RoboGhandi will appreciate it. (he can't get to the top bunk, keeps running into the walls.)

 

The bunny statues/tombs/etc are in reference to those of Grounded that will "never get their wings in the afterlife; they are doomed to hop on the ground like a rabbit". Being associated with rabbits in Avian culture isn't a good thing.

... Still though, aaahhh pets and teleporters and bookmarking, this is super exciting!

 

NICE!

Bookmarks and teleporters where 2 of the 3 things I wanted the most! Now we are cooking!

The thing I want the most is still the same, though: Maps.

Now all we want is:
* A world map to see the current area's map (ship, mission, etc) that you can open on the toolbar to the right.
* A minimap that shows nearby terrain, creatures and objects that would appear on screen. Preferably on the bottom right corner, and with four buttons: + and - buttons to change the zoom, a button to collapse into a small buton to hide it, and another button to enable a grid on the screen and show coordinates on the minimap to help us build.
* An extra zoom-in for the selected planet in the ship navigator for previously visited planets that allows teleporting to any revealed area on the surface, and any active teleporter on the planet. Teleporting to planets this way without bringing the ship could cost fuel, though.
* A way to be able to enable and disable teleporters with wiring, so we can find disabled ones we can enable with a switch to let other players reach spots we reached with their ship's navigators.

 

does anyone know if they are still planning on releasing a tool to convert old characters?

 

When will you begin using the existing assets in the game? There's still no implemented Hylotl villages, despite having the dungeon files for such. your world generation is clunky at best, forcing specific structures to be generated at a very specific height. you have art assets for story elements that aren't in use. you have many blocks that are in high demand with no way to craft them. you have many art assets for things that aren't even available in game. I mean, how hard is it to make plant fiber craft able into the plant block? your delivery of new content is in response to the outcry of "broken" elements in the game, but you aren't even aware of how the content already released isn't appropriately implemented. the game needs to be completed in it's currant state, with art assets, dungeons, blocks, and items accessible, BEFORE you decide to generate more content. at the current rate this game is going to remain in development hell.

 

I'm not going to agree or disagree with you - there's a lot going on here, and I'm really not well qualified to argue for or against you.

I will say, however, that a very vocal minority has been loudly saying the opposite of what you have for a long time - they've been saying "new content! new content!"
Just as a side note, simply having the art assets does not equate to having the thing be implementable. Ocean planets are still a little incomplete, I believe (though I may be wrong), so trying to stick Hylotl villages on them already wouldn't make sense.

Oh, come on, man, if you're going to quote what I said almost verbatim in the last line, at least mention me
(@Type1Ninja)
I had noticed but not really processed the similarity to the Hylotl armor set. I was too busy thinking about Halo.

... I feel like it isn't right that stringing together and googling arbitrary words yields an anime themed after those exact words.

 

I never had a pet in Starbound, and i don't play Minecraft, but thanks for explaining for me

 

Believe it or not, you're not the only person to think that up. I read his comment and replied to it before read the 2 pages after it (which includes your comment)

Not like it hasn't been been a theory for ages that the Creator race was destroyed by the eldritch tentacled monstrosities that destroyed Earth and infected many other worlds.

 

... Yeah... I guess I mean I would have liked you to put "some have said..." before it, that helps credit the community as a whole (and me, the egotistical maniac! ). But yeah, it has been a theory for ages and we are taking turns informing people.

I asked about Minecraft because the pets (cats/dogs) in MC are notorious for enjoying things like:
- Walking into Lava
- Walking off of pits
- Engaging creeper hordes in 1 on 18 combat
- Walking into Lava
- Being hard to find
- Being hard to tame
- Being next to useless
- Dying permanently
- Walking into Lava
- Dying permanently even after installing mods that make them invincible
- Invincible pets being included in mods that never get updated
- Pets with skills being included in mods that never get updated
- Being included in badly made mods
- Walking into Lava

 

I got some combat suggestions, I hate that fast swing animation, so... Hhope it helps. http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/combat-suggestion.93132/

 

This looks great so far! I appreciate the time used on these. I do have one concern, however. If you intended to state that weapons will be swung instantly upon clicking, I do not believe that weapon swings should be instantaneous. I believe that lining up an attack is an interesting and realistic aspect of combat. If you intended to state that the "swoosh" effect that damages enemies will remain only for 0.05 seconds, it is possible that this may make combat even more difficult for players with slower computers.
I also have several questions:
1) Will planet bookmarks be universe-sided or player-sided?
2) Remote teleporters are planned to be usable to warp between each other, even on different planets. Will they be usable to warp to other locations on the same planet?
3) Will the player arrive at the standard beam point or the remote teleporter placed should they use a remote teleporter?
4) How will the warp list function to display all of the remote teleporters in the universe, or perhaps in nearby systems should they have such a restriction, if worlds aren't loaded unless a player is visiting them?
5) If a rather mischievous player places remote teleporters on every single planet that they encounter, will there be a system to minimize the negative effects, or will it be up to the other universe's players to remove them?
6) Will there be an option to disable blood particles both for aesthetic appeal and to increase FPS slightly?

Thank you again for all of the time that you've used on Starbound! It is an amazing game so far.

 

Nice stuff! ... but I hope the starting pet is optional. I'd hate to have to kill a cute critter every time I start a game. >_<'

Are the teleporters in the current nightly? <_<

 

Once upon a time pets were going to say stuff in text-speak like ilu and plz. Is this still going to happen? I hope that it does.

Also it should be possible to feed bugs to pets.

 

was going to make an xcom reference to a good monthly report... but i forgot the lines...
any ways... good work