Something new in the Universe ?

Hey Pals,
havent played for some time. I would like to know what has changed since January ingame ?

Sure I read the Release Notes, but I couldnt find anything...except some new Blocks, Biomes.

Is NPC Interaction, Animal breeding or something like this in now ? Mapping, Starmap Navigation...something gamechanging ?

 

They added a few new weathers among a few other small additions. A lot of bug fixes and the like

By the looks of the recent tweets they may be leading up to a big update with some substantial changes. Mentioned but not confirmed for the next update is ship upgrades. Some screens of a new planet information system have popped up.

 

Well, now you can build "Bioshock: Infinite"-inspired skyrails to travel around, you no longer have to worry about your character being wiped when a new patch comes out and the devs added a fair few new items, biomes and weather effects/types, but I wouldn't call any of them "gamechanging".

 

Take no more character wipes(and other assurances of no inventory loss) with a grain of salt. I feel like people are really going to become set on that and then the developers are going to run into a problem that requires it at this rate. Murphy's law and all that.

 

Oh yes, absolutely: just because there won't be any more intentional character wipes, Murphy's law is still very much in effect.

 

I don't know about this Murphy guy, but he can't tell me what to do!

They new weathers, a flower thingy.. and some other stuff.

In the next big update I believe they are adding ship upgrades, and some enhancements to the space travelling HUD

 

plus I doubt beta characters will be allowed past full release

 

The only reason why characters would need to be wiped is if the formatting for character details was changed.

However, the recent update implemented a version number for character files. This means that if update B changes the character file format, all the developers have to do is implement a converter that converts the character file format from A to B if the character file version is A.
If the developers don't implement something like this and instead choose to make the game delete any character files with the version A format, then you can simply not run the game, (so it doesn't delete the file) have someone program a converter, convert your character from A to B, then start the updated game and everyone would be none the wiser.

TL;DR there will be no more character wipes that aren't a direct result of the developers being lazy or vindictive. (unless you can validate developers not implementing a character converter)