
Assorted minor performance improvements. Characters no longer blink while sleeping in beds. Fixed a sound issue that occurred after many concurrent weapon hits. Added a jeep mech that was supposed to have been in the last patch, but had mysteriously gone missing!.
Added image metadata caching, improved assets caching. Wiring system fixes– wires are rendered below UI elements, wires no longer break when crossed into an unloaded sector. An issue tech slots were unusable under certain conditions. Right shift key was not working as a shift key, now it is. A bug where players spawned outside the ship if they’d previously saved the game while in the Captain’s Chair. A number of issues with players spawning underground. abc fixes as far as key signatures/timing abc files with comments no longer crash the game, plus various. Fixed a crash bug related to GUI controls. Several memory leaks, including the slow-but-significant server memory leak a lot of people were experiencing and GUI memory leak. An issue that could prevent the launcher from starting (MSVCRT.dll). A number of character creation/selection screen crashes related to loading corrupted save files. ds_store in the player folder which caused the game to crash). ds_store issue affecting OSX 9.1 users (A bug where Finder created an invisible file called. Chucklefish did note that this will probably be the final character wipe of the beta, so players won’t have to fear starting from scratch again. That sound you hear is 1 million Starbound players crying out in pain. The bad is another character wipe is on the way, so my beloved Apex, the monkey man I’ve tunneled through countless planets with, will be erased along with my ship and the lockers full of stuff I’ve accumulated.
Along with a new permadeath mode, the first update of 2014 - which is expected to launch next week - brings a drop-everything when you die mode, new weapons, more hats, more random encounters and “possibly more content.” That’s the good. In a post on the official Starbound blog developer Chucklefish delivers the good news/bad news. Permadeath mode is coming in the next Starbound update, a patch that will also mean the untimely death of our beloved characters. Posted on January 14, 2014, Mike Sharkey Permadeath Mode, Character Wipe Hits Starbound Next Week