The books you find in Starbound aren’t essential to enjoying the game, but they do provide an interesting look at some of the characters, monsters and cultures you encounter! We’d love for people to enjoy reading them as much as we’ve enjoyed writing them, so we’ve been working on making the experience of reading them easier and prettier.

We posted about making more unique book covers a little while back, but the codex UI itself still made reading and sorting through your library difficult. So we’ve fixed it!

This is one of the more visual changes we’ve made this week, but we’ve been doing loads. We’ve completed another week of playtesting, fixing lots of bugs and making lots of quality-of-life fixes along the way. It’s been fun, but more importantly it feels like we’re making a lot of tangible progress each day. :)

‘Til next week! <3

Hello! GeorgeV here.

Today we’re showing you two things. The first is the Fluffalo!

The Cave detector will help you find cave formations!

And the ore detector will help you find those pesky ores. There’s more around you than you realize!

That’s it for today. Until next time…

-GeorgeV

Happy Friday, everyone!

It’s been a really productive week for finding and smashing bugs! We’ve also got a few people completing small-but-important pre-1.0 tweaks and features. Like this one!

It’s never made sense for NPCs to be cool with you stealing their furniture and smashing their pots – you’re not the Hero of Time, and those pots were expensive!

So now, if you’re caught stealing from an NPC, they’ll call the guards. Better work on your stealth!

Bonus interior design tip:

In our play testing sessions this week, Harriet and I discovered that a smoke machine placed in a shallow pool makes for a super awesome sauna. :D

‘Til next week!