Hey guys! Some stuff’s been pushed to the unstable testing branch. Take a look. :D

Shiny new stuff:

• 5 new weathers – sandstorm, snowstorm, fog, ash storm, space dust
• A couple new Agaran hats (shroomhead3 and shroomhead4)
• More objects for Heck! (heckpillar1, heckpillar2, hecksign)
• Some mysterious Floran pods

Bug fixes:

• Possible fix for repeat keys never triggering callback, hence resulting in old data being used (e.g. after holding backspace to clear account in server connect dialog).
• Unix & Windows LockFile implementation, also fix bug with texturing flag not being moved during operator=
• Fixed sit alignment on tier10 chair
• Much improved variant <-> lua handling
• Assorted engine fixes (e.g “Tag manifest as windows 7 compatible, trying to work our way out from under compatflags”)

Just updating to let you guys know that all the stuff listed in this post has been pushed to the stable branch! Translation: Everyone should have the latest update now. :)

Broken mods after the patch? Mod authors will have to update to the new .pak file format to keep their mods compatible.

Issues crafting skyrails? With the latest update, Skyrails have their very own special Skyrail Crafting Table which you can craft with the Metalworks Station if you’re at tier 4 or above. However, players who are already at tier 4 or above will need to re-use their tier 4 Starmap upgrade in order for the Skyrail Crafting Table recipe to appear in the Metalworks Station.

Greetings Earthlings :O

Here’s a list of changes currently in the unstable branch!

• Treasure Horde sub-biome development
• New treasure room micro dungeon
• New objects for treasure horde and treasure dungeon: golden pedestal, grail, treasure chest, gold filled barrel, safe, gold vase, diamond display, wooden gold filled crate, Venus de Pixel
• New ‘Heavy Iron Bars’ block
• Make meteor showers less likely
• New exception system that makes Windows binary much MUCH smaller
• New mysterious light object
• New ruins platform tiles
• New, better, faster, stronger, more entertaining item descriptions
• No more version strings required on mods, it was causing more problems than it was solving
• New pak update system that makes steam updates of pak changes much much much smaller
• Small exception fixes, no longer rename worlds when exception is not io related, better messages in some cases
• New random swords
• Coordinate corruption recovery for certain world files
• Updated to Skyrails 2.0
• Logfile rotation for starbound.log and starbound_server.log
• Support for animated elements in cinematics
• Spinner on loading screen
• Hailstone weather
• Deadlock fix on shutdown
• New random blood / bone based gun and projectile
• New items in Heck, including the helmet pictured above
• Internal assets and pak based mods (if it is selected during build) will be version checked between clients and servers and must match
• Apex micro dungeon changes
• Some extra boring bug fixes not listed here

We’d like to move the stuff in unstable to stable soon, so if you’re playing in unstable it’d majorly help if you’d alert us to anything newly broken that would block us from doing so. You can do that right in the comments!