This hotfix addresses the issues with deleting containers in world.  It also introduces an auto-backup on upconverting files from old versions, as well as a unix log style rotating backup.

If your containers have been deleted from your world, the only thing we can recommend is restore from backup.  The data is gone and we cannot retrieve it. :(

If your ship’s locker or ship’s fuel hatch are missing, you will need to delete your .shipworld file.

We addressed an entire class of incomplete/interrupted connection bugs by being more strict about data reads.

We fixed the drop item chain dropping stuff bug.  Fixed home planet functionality.  Fixed confusion around error messages during dungeon generation.  Fixed crash issues related to shipworlds being reset. And fixed some issues where some Variants compared incorrectly leading to some unexpected behavior.

Finally, for you modders, there is a new vlist() lua function to complement the vmap(), also because of ambiguity with moving data to and from C++ we recommend using the vlist and vmap types for consistency, but if you pass in a regular table we almost always do “the right thing.”

Enjoy.  I’m going to go get drunk now.

WARNING: If you have not yet started playing, please make a backup of your ship file, which is located in your steam folder/player/*.shipworld and backups of your world files located in your steam folder/universe/*.world

CLARIFICATION: We’ve already pushed a partial fix for this issue that ought to prevent more containers from being erased.  Please let us know if this is not the case.

A few hours ago, we pushed a second hotfix to Enraged Koala to fix an issue with seats and beds not being interactive. It worked fine in our limited test cases, but we quickly discovered after pushing from community feedback that it was deleting containers from some preexisting worlds.  Some of these were things like the shiplocker and fuelhatch which cannot be legitimately obtained in the game, rendering that ship unplayable.

The only fix for this issue right now is to remove your shipworld and allow the game to regenerate them, or restore from backup if you have one.  You will lose the contents of your ship if you do not have a backup.

We are all deeply sorry for the lost data, and will work hard in the future to prevent issues like this from occurring.

For those interested, here’s a quick technical write up on why this happened.

Roses are red
The dirt on Alpha Tau Aur 5472 IV is blue
This update is a bit late for Valentine’s Day
Oops

This update will allow us to add new biomes and make changes to worlds without the possibility of the player losing their world. There will likely be one more world wipe sometime in the future when we finalize the universe layout. This won’t include a character/ship wipe, though, and you can still back up your worlds.

A ton of work has gone into our patching system. After this update, we’ll be able to push content updates as and when they’re completed, rather than waiting for big engine updates to be completed. Updates after this patch will come at a near daily rate.
Additional goodies:

• Valentine’s Day items including swords, costumes, decorations, bow, etc
• Engine feature, tech can now be granted by armors
• Keybinding reconfiguration, minus the UI (you can reconfigure keys through a config file- check here for a tutorial)
• Server stability fixes for servers with many players
• New death animations
• Engine feature, all objects are now scriptable and interactive
• More Avian weaponry
• Projectile changes
• Dogs can now be captured (lots more pets coming soon)
• A bunch of new items and smaller pieces of content
• New (actually sounds good!) microphone instrument with sounds provided by Smooth McGroove!
• Bug where warping to magma/volcano biomes caused crashing was fixed.

Additional content has been created (new biomes, etc) but will come out just after this patch, as it needs to be adapted to the new content update system.

*Note: We did an oops and missed some of the content updates when we uploaded the patch, so we’ll be putting out another patch a bit later today that includes the missing stuff (the Valentine’s Day items, new microphone sounds, possibly some more).