Hi there. I have wonderful news. We’re not dead!

Our server had a hard drive crash. We knew it was coming, but because kyren and I are both system administrators and programmers, we allocated our time to the game rather than to the server, (perhaps incorrectly).

We had complete backups, so no data was lost permanently. We also took this opportunity to migrate to a new server with a RAID1. The new server is physically located in England, rather than in Chicago. Which might means some extra latency to you folks in the US, and less latency to you guys in the UK. You shouldn’t notice it much though. Special thanks for the folk at Creeperhost for supporting us through this. Things probably would have gone much worse without their tireless help.

Work is still being performed on the server right now. I’m setting up a backup system and some monitoring tools. There might be some hiccups as I install stuff, etc. So we’re not quite back up to 100% yet. Just wanted to open up the site again ASAP.

Hopefully, we’ll have an interesting content update for you guys soon. Rather than a boring technical BS update. But at least it’s better than “ERROR ESTABLISHING DATABASE CONNECTION”

Hey everyone! It’s time for another wallpaper!

This time, the wallpaper is from Bietol, and it features all of the playable races! Hooray!
So which races are your favorite?

You can see more of Bietol’s work on his Deviantart!

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Hi guys,

We’ve just launched our first proper issue of the Starbound Chronicle. If you’ve already signed up it should appear in your inbox sometime today or tomorrow. (We had over 20,000 subscribers in the first couple of weeks of signup, and our server is only sending a limited number at a time). If you don’t want to wait, or you haven’t signed up yet. Just hit the newspaper button on the right bar and you’ll get access to the signup page plus an archive of previous issues.

The first issue contains a bunch of goodies, an exclusive piece from the soundtrack, a document on avian history and some info on development.

Also some community emails and responses.
It’s worth checking out!
Also keep an eye on your spam folder and make sure if it ends up there, you tell your filter it’s not spam. You should be fine receiving the rest of our emails from then on out. Hotmail seems especially prone to doing this right now.