Hi everyone!

Tiny changelist to resolve a launch issue:

• Fixed issue preventing launch on new MacOS since Sequoia 15.1 update

We're excited to announce the release of Starbound 1.4 - the 'Bounty Hunter' update!

In this update players can become bounty hunters, seeking out criminal gangs through missions and climb the ranks as they rebuild the Peacekeepers and restore law and order to the universe. There's also new elemental variants of many monsters, which have a rare chance to be encountered - if you see one be sure to capture it! In addition there's a ton of new furniture, objects, weapons, and fun new stuff - including drones, password keypad locks, a laser mining tool, and a sports car!

https://youtu.be/cJUh9gjEuOs
We've been working on this update for a long time, thanks so much for being patient while we took the time to get it just right! Here's an outline of all the changes;

• New procedurally-generated quests that see the player travel to worlds and into space, hunting down criminal gangs
  
• New Peacekeeper stations for bounty hunters – work your way through promotions and restore law in the universe
  
• Take the fight to criminal gangs at their hideouts, including a climatic final mission & boss fight!
  
• New quests: Becoming a Peacekeeper, Rookie Assignment, Rising through the Ranks, The Good Fight, Keeping the Peace, Going after the Occasus
  
• New generated bounty quests
  
• New generated criminal hideout microdungeons

• Four new music tracks by Starbound composer Curtis Schweitzer

• Elemental Monster variants - they are capturable, and earn progress in a new collection.
  
• New Collection: Rare Pets collection
  
• New monster variants: Fire Gleap, Electric Voltip, Poison Smoglin, Ice Peblit, Albino Poptop, Electric Anglure, Fire Bobot, Poison Bulbop, Electric Capricoat, Ice Crabcano, Electric Crutter, Ice Fennix, Elecrtic Hemogoblin, Ice Hypnare, Fire Lilodon, Poison Mandraflora, Ice Miasmop, Ice Narfin, Fire Oogler, Poison Nutmidge, Ice Orbide, Electric Petricub, Poison Pipkin, Electric Quagmutt, Ice Ringram, Poison Scaveran, Elecrtic Snaunt, Poison Snuffish, Poison Sporgus, Fire Taroni, Fire Toumingo, Poison Trictus, Electric Yokat, Electric Ignome, Fire Lumoth, Poison Pyromantle, Electric Skimbus, Fire Spookit, Fire Squeem, Fire Wisper, Ice Agrobat, Poison Batong, Poison Bobfae, Fire Monopus, Poison Paratail, Fire Pteropod, Cultist Scandroid, Ice Crustoise, Ice Iguarmor, Fire Oculob, Poison Pulpin, Ice Snaggler, Electric Tintic, Fire Gosmet

• Egyptian set: Egyptian Bed, Egyptian Chair, Egyptian Crest, Egyptian Pillar, Egyptian Statuette, Egyptian Table
  
• Office set: Office Cabinet, Office Computer, Office Desk, Office Desk Lamp, Office Noticeboard, Office Scanner, Office Server, Office Stapler, Office Table
  
• Peacekeeper objects: Peacekeeper Chair, Peacekeeper Computer, Peacekeeper Desk, Peacekeeper Door, Peacekeeper Emblem, Peacekeeper Rusty Emblem, Peacekeeper Furnishings, Peacekeeper Lamp Post, Peacekeeper Mug, Peacekeeper Notes, Peacekeeper Painting, Peacekeeper Tall Poster, Peacekeeper Wide Poster, Peacekeeper Store, Peacekeeper Table, Peacekeeper Vending Machine, Peacekeeper Poster
  
• Neon objects: Bounty Board, Neon Hologram, Neon Lamp Post, Neon Magenta Light, Neon Peacekeeper Emblem, Neon Store, Neon Triangle
  
• Occasus pieces: Cultist Airlock Door, Cultist Airlock Hatch, Cultist Banner, Cultist Chest
  
• Other: Dark Computer, Extractor Drill, Hanging Guardian, Mech Platform
  
• New Teleporter: Peacekeeper Teleporter
  
• New Wireable Object: Numeric Keypad

• Drones: Peacekeeper Drone, Mining Drone
  
• New Weapons: Neo Magnum, Neo Magnum-E78, Neo Magnum-RX, Neo Magnum-ZZZ, Glue Sprayer, Lazercaster, Stun Grenade
  
• New Tool: Mining Laser
  
• New Unique Monster: Cosmic Intruder
  
• New Mission: The Dantalion
  
• New Boss Encounter: The Swansong
  
• New Armor: Captain Noble Head, Cultist General Hood, Cultist General Tentacles, Groucho Glasses, Pharaoh Headdress, Sheep Hat, Shirt Top,
• Peacekeeper Set (Peacekeeper Hat, Peacekeeper Shirt, Peacekeeper Trousers)
  
• New Figurines: Cosmic Intruder Figurine, Swansong Figurine
  
• New Mech Parts: Neo Laser Mech Arm, Peacekeeper Mech Body
  
• New Augments: Peacekeeper I Augment, Peacekeeper II Augment, Peacekeeper III Augment
  
• New vehicle: Red Sports Car
  
• New world spawn vehicles: Dropship, Mini Tank, Mini UFO, Sportscar, Jeep
  
• New object tags: Cultist, Egyptian, Peacekeeper, Office
  
• New Tenants: Egyptian, Peacekeeper, Office
  
• New blocks: Sloped Glass Panel, Polygon Platform
  
• New currency: Peace Credit

• Changed the crafting requirements for all mech parts to match materials in the system where the blueprint is found.
  
• Changed name of 'T-Rex' fossil pieces to 'T. Rex'
  
• Fixed bug where Triplod Figurine was not properly awarding credit to the Collections Library
  
• Various lua bindings added
  
• Added /setdungeonid command
  
• Updated instrument audio position to follow the player
  
• Display for gendered armor in tooltips
  
• Add hover state to mission/crew/tech interface lists
  
• For radial tile brushes, damage tile center instead of tile origin
  
• Allow equalsSelf material render rule to also match on hue
  
• Add a glow to inventory button when inventory has new items
  
• Add a cooldown to ouch noise
  
• Remove monster families and variantParameters
  
• Allow bursting particle emitters multiple times in the same frame
  
• Fix latch object animation bug
  
• Only suffocate if mouth position is inside collision geometry
  
• Fix energypickaxe animation state
  
• Fix projectiles not dealing damage if spawned after the parent projectile has died
  
• Minor bugfixes

We hope you all enjoy this update, please let us know what you think on Twitter or Discord! We'll also be streaming the update live on our Twitch channel later this afternoon if you'd like a preview!

Original Post

Hey, everyone!

Things are busy here as we’re still hard at work on the 1.4 update. A number of players have been encountering a crash bug when switching between weapons of the same type, so we decided to address that with a hotfix update rather than waiting for the next patch.

While we’re at it, though, we figured we’d throw in one more useful feature: category tags for Steam Workshop mods! The mod uploader tool now allows you to select one or more tags for your mod, and these can be used to filter searches in the Workshop. Hopefully this will make it a bit easier to sort through the amazing variety of available mods!

On the development side of things, we’ve been focusing on exciting events for you to encounter in pursuit of your bounty targets. You didn’t think it was going to be simple, did you?

(CLICK FOR GIF)

In this example, your investigation is stymied by a code-locked door with your target tantalizingly out of reach. You’ll need to use clever social engineering to obtain the code from an unwary underling in order to progress.

We’re very excited about the procedural possibilities for this patch, and hope you are too. If you’ve got ideas for cool or silly things you’d expect to encounter on a bounty hunt, let us know in the comments.

Until next time!
<3

Original Post

Hey, everyone!

Things are busy here as we’re still hard at work on the 1.4 update. A number of players have been encountering a crash bug when switching between weapons of the same type, so we decided to address that with a hotfix update rather than waiting for the next patch.

While we’re at it, though, we figured we’d throw in one more useful feature: category tags for Steam Workshop mods! The mod uploader tool now allows you to select one or more tags for your mod, and these can be used to filter searches in the Workshop. Hopefully this will make it a bit easier to sort through the amazing variety of available mods!

On the development side of things, we’ve been focusing on exciting events for you to encounter in pursuit of your bounty targets. You didn’t think it was going to be simple, did you?

(CLICK FOR GIF)

In this example, your investigation is stymied by a code-locked door with your target tantalizingly out of reach. You’ll need to use clever social engineering to obtain the code from an unwary underling in order to progress.

We’re very excited about the procedural possibilities for this patch, and hope you are too. If you’ve got ideas for cool or silly things you’d expect to encounter on a bounty hunt, let us know in the comments.

Until next time!
<3

Hello,

Starbound has been updated with some minor gameplay changes and bug fixes. Everyone on Steam should see the update immediately, but those on GOG and Humble may need to wait a little while for the files to update.

ːSBmmː Check below for patch notes! ːSBmmː

• Reduce cost of player station parts
• Show some system information on hovering over stars in the navigation interface
• Show system name on the system screen in the navigation interface
• Properly beam away a player's mech when a player beams off the world
• Deploying to asteroid fields puts you in a position related to where in the field your ship is
• Allow any number of script panes with no source entity.
• Add player.interact lua binding
• Keep player from starving when in a mech

• Various NPC and Monster behavior fixes
• Fix issue where player ships from other systems would be visible on the navigation screen
• Fix issue where deploying to a party member could result in deploying a mech to their ship
• Improve jarring movement of the sky during flying and warping
• Fix issue where inventory items would count twice in crafting interfaces
• Fix parameters argument for spawnnpc console command
• Fix issue allowing the player to fly the ship before fully repairing it

Hello,

Starbound has been updated with some minor gameplay changes and bug fixes. Everyone on Steam should see the update immediately, but those on GOG and Humble may need to wait a little while for the files to update.

:SBmm: Check below for patch notes! :SBmm:

• Reduce cost of player station parts
• Show some system information on hovering over stars in the navigation interface
• Show system name on the system screen in the navigation interface
• Properly beam away a player's mech when a player beams off the world
• Deploying to asteroid fields puts you in a position related to where in the field your ship is
• Allow any number of script panes with no source entity.
• Add player.interact lua binding
• Keep player from starving when in a mech

• Various NPC and Monster behavior fixes
• Fix issue where player ships from other systems would be visible on the navigation screen
• Fix issue where deploying to a party member could result in deploying a mech to their ship
• Improve jarring movement of the sky during flying and warping
• Fix issue where inventory items would count twice in crafting interfaces
• Fix parameters argument for spawnnpc console command
• Fix issue allowing the player to fly the ship before fully repairing it

Hey everyone!

ːSBmmː We've just released a Starbound update with some minor changes and bug fixes. Check below for patch notes! ːSBmmː

• Added and improved sound effects for a variety of monsters, weapons and mech components
  
• Fixed lots of typos
  
• Fix ‘Parts and Labour’ quest description not matching its requirements
  
• Fix bookmarks not being sorted alphabetically
  
• Fix players ‘swimming’ off rail stops using rail hooks
  
• Fix world.spawnLiquid not functioning on tiles with rails/platforms
  
• Fix a bug allowing placement of blocks on some outside walls of player stations
  
• Fix Triplod not registering in monster collection when captured
  
• Fix final ore type not being listed in navigation interface for some planets
  
• Fix placement of a boulder trap in a challenge room
  
• Fix rustick being affected by physics forces/collisions
  
• Make airless space areas actually airless and require breath protection
  
• Fix tier 4 mech bodies not protecting against radiation
  
• Fix penguin weapon shop not unlocking when repeating weapon testing mission
  
• Fix passive monsters becoming aggressive when player engages hostile monsters
  
• Fix some systems not zooming out far enough in nav and planets going out of view
  
• Fix a bug causing a navigation crash when selecting gas giants
  
• Fix objects with minimum / maximum liquid levels not being broken
  
• Fix item drops being stuck in force regions at top / bottom of world
  
• Fix quest indicators being affected by world lighting
  
• Fix bug preventing some background tiles from being painted
  
• Disable ‘go to quest’ button in nav when that system isn’t explored (e.g. in another universe)
  
• Fix some bugs when dual wielding rail hooks
  
• Prevent activating techs during mech deployment
  
• Don’t show the ‘E’ hint in dialog sequences that are not skippable
  
• Fix a bug where navigation could be canceled after consuming fuel but before starting flight
  
• Rework behavior of hoverbikes in zero gravity
  
• Boats no longer sail out of water
  
• Add an icon to Tonauac’s safe fall blessing
  
• Add a few more mech horns
  
• Prevent rail trams from driving off the ends of active stops

• Add world.setDungeonId binding

Hey everyone!

:SBmm: We've just released a Starbound update with some minor changes and bug fixes. Check below for patch notes! :SBmm:

• Added and improved sound effects for a variety of monsters, weapons and mech components
  
• Fixed lots of typos
  
• Fix ‘Parts and Labour’ quest description not matching its requirements
  
• Fix bookmarks not being sorted alphabetically
  
• Fix players ‘swimming’ off rail stops using rail hooks
  
• Fix world.spawnLiquid not functioning on tiles with rails/platforms
  
• Fix a bug allowing placement of blocks on some outside walls of player stations
  
• Fix Triplod not registering in monster collection when captured
  
• Fix final ore type not being listed in navigation interface for some planets
  
• Fix placement of a boulder trap in a challenge room
  
• Fix rustick being affected by physics forces/collisions
  
• Make airless space areas actually airless and require breath protection
  
• Fix tier 4 mech bodies not protecting against radiation
  
• Fix penguin weapon shop not unlocking when repeating weapon testing mission
  
• Fix passive monsters becoming aggressive when player engages hostile monsters
  
• Fix some systems not zooming out far enough in nav and planets going out of view
  
• Fix a bug causing a navigation crash when selecting gas giants
  
• Fix objects with minimum / maximum liquid levels not being broken
  
• Fix item drops being stuck in force regions at top / bottom of world
  
• Fix quest indicators being affected by world lighting
  
• Fix bug preventing some background tiles from being painted
  
• Disable ‘go to quest’ button in nav when that system isn’t explored (e.g. in another universe)
  
• Fix some bugs when dual wielding rail hooks
  
• Prevent activating techs during mech deployment
  
• Don’t show the ‘E’ hint in dialog sequences that are not skippable
  
• Fix a bug where navigation could be canceled after consuming fuel but before starting flight
  
• Rework behavior of hoverbikes in zero gravity
  
• Boats no longer sail out of water
  
• Add an icon to Tonauac’s safe fall blessing
  
• Add a few more mech horns
  
• Prevent rail trams from driving off the ends of active stops

• Add world.setDungeonId binding

https://youtu.be/iX3Mvvm5vRI
Hello! Starbound 1.3 - Spacefarer Update is here!

With the Spacefarer Update, our goal was to give players more things to do in space! Starbound has always focused heavily on traveling from planet to planet, but objectively space is just much cooler than any planet.

Check out the trailer for an overview of what we've added this patch, or check the patch notes below for a more comprehensive list of changes/additions. This is one of the biggest Starbound updates to date and has been really exciting for us to work on. We hope you enjoy it!


Navigation Overhaul
The cockpit navigation interface has been completely overhauled. Planets, moons and ships are all visible and orbit each other in real time. Systems will now contain NPC stations, friendly and hostile NPC ships, and strange space anomalies to visit!

Customizable Mechs
Explore these new space locations in customizable spacefaring mechs! Traverse hostile space in zero gravity, fight powerful new space monsters, and collect unique rewards as you upgrade your mech to progress through more difficult hazards. Mechs can also be deployed to planets, to crush your enemies with overwhelming firepower!

Modular Space Stations
Make a permanent home among the stars with player-owned stations! Use a station transponder to place your station into orbit, then expand it with modular rooms to suit your needs.

 

• Gameplay now pauses while menu is open (single player only)
• Non-piercing projectiles (e.g.) rockets now stop at the edge of the entity they hit, correcting knockback direction from explosions
• Adjusted player and other physics to behave better in zero gravity
• Remove gravity from asteroid fields
• Asteroid fields now ring their stars and can be entered at any position
• Add rail tram vehicles and tram stop objects
• When opening inventory, first tab will be selected by default
• Auto-sorting inventory will also stack items
• Add visual novel engine
• Fix threat level of player ships to always be 1 for colonist purposes
• Cheese is now considered produce and players will be paid to launch it into space
• Made several block types permeable to liquids
• Perfect armor set now slightly weaker than tier 6 crafted armors
• Fix several issues with NPC pathfinding
• Various performance improvements
• Engineer and Mechanic crew members now give flat bonuses to ship speed and fuel efficiency
• Ancient Vaults will no longer regenerate if the game is restarted while the vault is open
• Added unbanip and unbanuuid commands for servers
• Rail platforms and trams can now be broken using the matter manipulator

 

• Support script panes opening and closing with inventory (like containers)
• Item slots / grids in script panes now display tooltips for contained items
• Special keys are now passed separately to techs as special1, special2, and special3. If a player is lounging, they will be suppressed and instead passed to the active vehicle (if applicable)
• Support rectangular force regions with a linear force gradient
• Support setting gravity for specific dungeon IDs in dungeon files
• Rework canvas widget bindings. Canvas widgets can now be bound to a Lua object and controlled directly
• Support damage sources for vehicles
• ActiveItems will now include the player lua bindings when held by a player
• Techs now have access to the message table for entity message handling
• Add celestial lua bindings for script panes
• Behavior nodes must now be explicitly defined in .nodes files. This includes specifying node parameters and outputs, with associated types. (Supported types: json, entity, position, vec2, number, bool, list, table, string)
• Behavior trees (.behavior) now explicitly specify whether a parameter is a blackboard key or a raw value. This includes parameters passed into module (sub-tree) nodes.
• Behavior node Lua implementations no longer directly perform blackboard lookups (BData methods). Lookups are performed before running the function, and the raw values are directly available in the “args” argument.
• Behavior node Lua implementations no longer directly set blackboard values. Node output is set by returning or yielding a second value. This second value is a table of output key to output values.

Added Lua bindings:

• world.environmentStatusEffects
• world.materialHueShift
• world.modHueShift
• world.materialColor
• world.setMaterialColor
• world.entityTypeName
• world.setDungeonGravity
• world.setDungeonBreathable
• world.itemDropItem
• mcontroller.zeroG
• mcontroller.atWorldLimit
• physics.setCollisionEnabled
• player.blueprintKnown
• player.unequipTech
• player.swapSlotItem
• player.setSwapSlotItem
• player.loungingIn
• player.worldHasOrbitBookmark
• player.orbitBookmarks
• player.systemBookmarks
• player.addOrbitBookmark
• player.removeOrbitBookmark
• player.addTeleportBookmark
• player.isMapped
• player.mappedObjects
• root.materialConfig
• root.modConfig
• root.liquidConfig
• root.elementalResistance
• root.dungeonMetadata
• vehicle.setForceRegionEnabled
• vehicle.setDamageSourceEnabled
• pane.setTitle
• widget.active
• widget.hasFocus
• widget.registerMemberCallback
• widget.itemSlotItem
• widget.setItemSlotProgress
• widget.bindCanvas
• entity.persistent

Removed Lua bindings:

• activeItem.giveOwnerItem (now available via player)
• activeItem.ownerHasItem (now available via player)
• activeItem.takeOwnerItem (now available via player)
• player.addBookmark (use addTeleportBookmark / addOrbitBookmark instead)
• root.materialPath (use materialConfig instead)
• root.getConfiguration (removed for security)
• root.setConfiguration (removed for security)
• root.getConfigurationPath (removed for security)
• root.setConfigurationPath (removed for security)

https://youtu.be/iX3Mvvm5vRI
Hello! Starbound 1.3 - Spacefarer Update is here!

With the Spacefarer Update, our goal was to give players more things to do in space! Starbound has always focused heavily on traveling from planet to planet, but objectively space is just much cooler than any planet.

Check out the trailer for an overview of what we've added this patch, or check the patch notes below for a more comprehensive list of changes/additions. This is one of the biggest Starbound updates to date and has been really exciting for us to work on. We hope you enjoy it!


Navigation Overhaul
The cockpit navigation interface has been completely overhauled. Planets, moons and ships are all visible and orbit each other in real time. Systems will now contain NPC stations, friendly and hostile NPC ships, and strange space anomalies to visit!

Customizable Mechs
Explore these new space locations in customizable spacefaring mechs! Traverse hostile space in zero gravity, fight powerful new space monsters, and collect unique rewards as you upgrade your mech to progress through more difficult hazards. Mechs can also be deployed to planets, to crush your enemies with overwhelming firepower!

Modular Space Stations
Make a permanent home among the stars with player-owned stations! Use a station transponder to place your station into orbit, then expand it with modular rooms to suit your needs.

 

• Gameplay now pauses while menu is open (single player only)
• Non-piercing projectiles (e.g.) rockets now stop at the edge of the entity they hit, correcting knockback direction from explosions
• Adjusted player and other physics to behave better in zero gravity
• Remove gravity from asteroid fields
• Asteroid fields now ring their stars and can be entered at any position
• Add rail tram vehicles and tram stop objects
• When opening inventory, first tab will be selected by default
• Auto-sorting inventory will also stack items
• Add visual novel engine
• Fix threat level of player ships to always be 1 for colonist purposes
• Cheese is now considered produce and players will be paid to launch it into space
• Made several block types permeable to liquids
• Perfect armor set now slightly weaker than tier 6 crafted armors
• Fix several issues with NPC pathfinding
• Various performance improvements
• Engineer and Mechanic crew members now give flat bonuses to ship speed and fuel efficiency
• Ancient Vaults will no longer regenerate if the game is restarted while the vault is open
• Added unbanip and unbanuuid commands for servers
• Rail platforms and trams can now be broken using the matter manipulator

 

• Support script panes opening and closing with inventory (like containers)
• Item slots / grids in script panes now display tooltips for contained items
• Special keys are now passed separately to techs as special1, special2, and special3. If a player is lounging, they will be suppressed and instead passed to the active vehicle (if applicable)
• Support rectangular force regions with a linear force gradient
• Support setting gravity for specific dungeon IDs in dungeon files
• Rework canvas widget bindings. Canvas widgets can now be bound to a Lua object and controlled directly
• Support damage sources for vehicles
• ActiveItems will now include the player lua bindings when held by a player
• Techs now have access to the message table for entity message handling
• Add celestial lua bindings for script panes
• Behavior nodes must now be explicitly defined in .nodes files. This includes specifying node parameters and outputs, with associated types. (Supported types: json, entity, position, vec2, number, bool, list, table, string)
• Behavior trees (.behavior) now explicitly specify whether a parameter is a blackboard key or a raw value. This includes parameters passed into module (sub-tree) nodes.
• Behavior node Lua implementations no longer directly perform blackboard lookups (BData methods). Lookups are performed before running the function, and the raw values are directly available in the “args” argument.
• Behavior node Lua implementations no longer directly set blackboard values. Node output is set by returning or yielding a second value. This second value is a table of output key to output values.

Added Lua bindings:

• world.environmentStatusEffects
• world.materialHueShift
• world.modHueShift
• world.materialColor
• world.setMaterialColor
• world.entityTypeName
• world.setDungeonGravity
• world.setDungeonBreathable
• world.itemDropItem
• mcontroller.zeroG
• mcontroller.atWorldLimit
• physics.setCollisionEnabled
• player.blueprintKnown
• player.unequipTech
• player.swapSlotItem
• player.setSwapSlotItem
• player.loungingIn
• player.worldHasOrbitBookmark
• player.orbitBookmarks
• player.systemBookmarks
• player.addOrbitBookmark
• player.removeOrbitBookmark
• player.addTeleportBookmark
• player.isMapped
• player.mappedObjects
• root.materialConfig
• root.modConfig
• root.liquidConfig
• root.elementalResistance
• root.dungeonMetadata
• vehicle.setForceRegionEnabled
• vehicle.setDamageSourceEnabled
• pane.setTitle
• widget.active
• widget.hasFocus
• widget.registerMemberCallback
• widget.itemSlotItem
• widget.setItemSlotProgress
• widget.bindCanvas
• entity.persistent

Removed Lua bindings:

• activeItem.giveOwnerItem (now available via player)
• activeItem.ownerHasItem (now available via player)
• activeItem.takeOwnerItem (now available via player)
• player.addBookmark (use addTeleportBookmark / addOrbitBookmark instead)
• root.materialPath (use materialConfig instead)
• root.getConfiguration (removed for security)
• root.setConfiguration (removed for security)
• root.getConfigurationPath (removed for security)
• root.setConfigurationPath (removed for security)