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Coming in tonights update

– Massively reducing the pixel cost (sometimes eliminating it entirely) on early weapons/armor. You can build a refinery in later tiers to turn ores of all kinds into pixels.   (done)
– Monsters now have a small chance to drop meat when killed with normal weapons. (done)
– You can no longer teleport to another players ship from underground (done)
– Bandages are now craftable with 4 plant fibres, no longer require fabric (done)
– Fix human starter chest showing apex starter items (done)
– Monsters now have a 70% chance to drop meat when killed with a hunting weapon, up from 50% (done)
– Make guards you’ve summoned refer to you as their boss (done)
– Make the refinery appear earlier in the game  (done)
– Reduced fuel costs a bit to go to other planets (done)
– Tweaked wording of starter quests to encourage exploring of more planets.  (done)
– Added hunting knife weapon that also makes monsters drop meat (done)
– Added new legendary weapon (done)
– Pixel loss on death reduced to 20% for testing, might change further  (done)
– [16:27] <Mortvert> Tiy_, Also, could you make silver more visible, please?   (Done)
– Added new armor that provides a good amount of warmth early on in the game at the sacrifice of armor levels. (done)
– Tweaked the UFO boss to make him smash blocks. (done)
– Also make him a little bit easier by changing him to level 9 from level 10 (done)
– Revamping the warmth bar to make it more obvious (suggestion by thedbp on reddit)
http://i.imgur.com/O2IYd6k.png    (done)
– Increase mining speed a little (done)
-Add numbers above the hotbar slots http://i.imgur.com/qTJiFrS.png (done)
– Craftable climbing ropes! (done)

– Make sure hunger bar is always shown when eating food (done)

 

– Make hunger bar display when the alt key is held down (done)

– Added a dumb, quick way to advance through some of the tier 4-10 content (armors, weapons), just for fun. Complete tiers of content are coming really soon. I’d like to get 1/2 tiers of content done per week. (done)
– Fixed a bug where minibosses over level 11 were not dropping the rare items they were supposed to be dropping. They now drop guns. (Thank you to <ippia> for finding this) (done)
– Ufos should hopefully not fly off anymore, they were actually flying off to attack birds! (done)
– Tons of bug fixes
– Bartwe is working on the windows XP issues, not sure yet if it’ll be done by tonight but fingers crossed. Might be tomorrow.
This is just what I’ve done so far this morning, I’ll add to this list as more is added for tonights update.

Useful Beta Support Threads!

Hey! We’re currently working hard on bug and crash fixes. If you’re having issues with those, or with missing Steam keys, or just about anything else, please check this thread and all the threads linked within before e-mailing support!

GENERAL BETA FAQ

Current Bug Work-Arounds

Pre-order Problems/Missing Keys

General Bug Reports

Crash Reports

Multiplayer Set-Up Guide

We are absolutely swamped with e-mails, so bear with us if it takes awhile to get back to you!

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Notice: Support E-mails

Hello!

Quick note on support e-mails, because we’ve had the MOST INSANE RUSH of them since I mentioned that people who have lost access to their old e-mails or are otherwise having problems should contact me. So many e-mails that I cannot possibly answer them all myself unless I clone myself three times. So here’s some helpful info!

1. When in doubt, use Humble Bundle’s key re-sender tool.

It is the handiest thing ever, and you’ll find that most of you don’t need my help at all!

2. Steam keys are going out tomorrow at 10AM PST, look for them in your e-mail! Any links or things that look like keys currently on your Starbound pre-order redeem page are not Steam keys.

Lots of people seem to be trying to activate them. :P

That’s all! Back to our regularly scheduled hyping.

3. INVALID KEY errors. We’re currently having some SQL database errors on our own site, causing a MySQL “Connection Refused” and “Invalid Key” error on Redeem Pages. It’s ok! Your key is fine!

Your keys are handled by Humble Bundle and all keys are working fine on their end, it’s just an issue of the Redeem Page error on our own site. We’re working to have this fixed ASAP, sorry for the scare!