Starbound Dev Blog Round-Up! 03/06/2016

10th May - Cool Space Wizards

Do you like space? Do you like wizards, also? Wow! You’re in luck! Steam post image Look out for staves and wands in your travels and become the cool space wizard* you were always destined to be! Staves are two-handed and come with secondary abilities, whereas wands are one-handed and can be dual-wielded! Steam post image They come pre-enchanted (or pre-SCIENCED?) with a variety of useful abilities. Heal your friends! Cast fire and brimstone and electric purple rain down upon your enemies! … or your friends. We’re not here to judge. Steam post image *Robe and Wizard Hat not included.

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13th May - Merch of the Penguins

If you find that your weapon really needs an upgrade but you’re struggling to find anything conveniently in a chest at the end of a dungeon, there’s a shop for that now! Steam post image Seek out this shady salesman if you’re in the market for rare and powerful weapons! You’ll want to bring lots of pixels, though. We’re firmly in the polishing-up phase now! This week we’ve added some more useful codexes to start of the game, and we’re making a lot of improvements to the UI. Looking forward to showing you more shiny new stuff next week. ‘Til then, have a nice weekend! <3

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17th May - Technically...

Steam post image There’s an Apex scientist in the Outpost developing techs, and he needs your help to test them out! If you can beat his obstacle courses, he’ll give you techs to take with you on your adventures. You can also drop by his lab to upgrade techs if you have any tech cards handy, and later on you may be able to purchase portable tech stations so you can swap out your techs on the go!

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19th May - Making Connections

Since Starbound’s launch in Early Access, everyone’s been asking us to implement an easier way to play Starbound with their friends. A huge portion of our emails are from people sort of mystified by the process of forwarding their ports and inviting people to join via their IP (for those reading this who are still mystified, there’s a guide on our wiki!). In version 1.0, you will finally be able to join multiplayer Starbound servers via your Steam friends list. Hooray! You’ll be able to choose whether or not your Steam friends can join your game via a check box in your Options menu. You can also choose whether to allow people to connect via your IP! In this screenshot, ‘Multiplayer via Steam Friends’ is grayed out because I’m playing a dev build, but this feature should already work in the Nightly build. All of the usual caveats about Nightly apply. ‘Til next time! <3

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23rd May - Squishing Bugs

Happy Monday everyone! This week (and for the latter bit of last week) we’re focusing on testing our internal build of Starbound! A handful of us have started playing through the whole game, and the remaining handful have gone to work fixing bugs we encounter along the way, tweaking whatever needs tweaking. An important thing we’ve noticed is that we’re legitimately still having fun playing this game that we’ve spent several years