Steam News 15 May 20265d ago

Communinet Signal #16

Hello again Sleepers! The transmissions have been dense lately. From the quick approach of self-hosted servers and server migrations to our first chilling look at The Polar Cap, there is a mountain of intel to catch up…

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changedThe transmissions have been dense lately. From the quick approach of self-hosted servers and server migrations to our first chilling look at The Polar Cap, there is a mountain of intel to catch up on. This edition of the Communinet Signal is your dedicated recap of those major milestones, alongside our favorite community creations and Q&A.

changedSelf-hosted Servers Live Stream

changedJoin us on Wednesday, May 20th at 5pm CEST for a brief live stream. Chief Creative Officer, Joel Bylos, and Tools Director, Michael Sovik, will be talking more about the upcoming self-hosted servers. Feel free to bring any questions you have, but please note that this will be a focused stream and won't include other announcements. You can find the stream here:

changedRound UpThe self-hosted servers are up and ready to be tested on the Public Test Client! If you’re looking to create a server, you’ll want to get in on this, familiarize yourself, and try it out before it goes live. You will be able to tweak various settings in configuration files to change the behavior of the game servers to your liking. You can find details and instructions on how to set it up on our blog post here .

changedServer MigrationsOur date for server migrations has been announced for May 26th! Everything you’ll want to know including how exactly they’ll work, how to prepare yourself and your base for a closed server, and a list of all impacted Worlds, can be found in our blog post here . To give you more control over your experience, you can choose to migrate to a higher populated world or a quieter one, depending on your preference.

addedThe Polar CapWe know many of you are looking forward to cooling down in The Polar Cap after handling the heat of the desert. So , while this new map isn’t available just yet, we wanted to keep you all updated on what the plan is and what you can expect to see. You can find a lot of information in our blog post here , as well as a short video showing an early look at this new biome.

The transmissions have been dense lately. From the quick approach of self-hosted servers and server migrations to our first chilling look at The Polar Cap, there is a mountain of intel to catch up on. This edition of the Communinet Signal is your dedicated recap of those major milestones, alongside our favorite community creations and Q&A.

Self-hosted Servers Live Stream

Join us on Wednesday, May 20th at 5pm CEST for a brief live stream. Chief Creative Officer, Joel Bylos, and Tools Director, Michael Sovik, will be talking more about the upcoming self-hosted servers. Feel free to bring any questions you have, but please note that this will be a focused stream and won't include other announcements. You can find the stream here:

Round Up

PTC Patch 1.4

The self-hosted servers are up and ready to be tested on the Public Test Client! If you’re looking to create a server, you’ll want to get in on this, familiarize yourself, and try it out before it goes live. You will be able to tweak various settings in configuration files to change the behavior of the game servers to your liking. You can find details and instructions on how to set it up on our blog post here.

Server Migrations

Our date for server migrations has been announced for May 26th! Everything you’ll want to know including how exactly they’ll work, how to prepare yourself and your base for a closed server, and a list of all impacted Worlds, can be found in our blog post here. To give you more control over your experience, you can choose to migrate to a higher populated world or a quieter one, depending on your preference.

The Polar Cap

We know many of you are looking forward to cooling down in The Polar Cap after handling the heat of the desert. So, while this new map isn’t available just yet, we wanted to keep you all updated on what the plan is and what you can expect to see. You can find a lot of information in our blog post here, as well as a short video showing an early look at this new biome.

Developer Deep Dive

These are early explorations for how a Planetologist might look in our game. Later, as the game design team built out the player abilities and ability trees, we created an armor set to use in that context. But other Planetologists look different depending on their personality and experiences.

Gabriel Blain created the first two images (ArtStation) and Senior Lead Concept Artist, Josh ‘Badger’ Atack, created the last image.

Community Corner

Fanart, Creations, and Events

Deathrace

LanceWestWalker over on Stoneheart has been hard at work creating Deathraces, so we wanted to share a little on what goes into creating these and maybe you’ll want to create your own!

Want to show your mettle and participate in the next one? You’re in luck! Join the Stoneheart server for their upcoming deathraces this weekend and win prizes!

Friday May 15th: PvP Deep Desert race 10pm CT Saturday, May 16th: PvP tournament 7PM CT and Deep Desert PvE races 11pm CT Sunday, May 17th: Ornithoper tournament CT Monday, May 18th: Castle war base raid 10pm CT

If you’d like to get in touch with Lance, you can find them on Twitch, Reddit, or in-game with the name lancewestwalker.

Watch their trailer to get even more hype:

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