Hey, everyone! It’s patch day!

Version 1.1 is our first content patch since the full release of Starbound — we’ve added a fishing game, item collections, Novakid villages and more! Check the changelog below for a list of major/minor changes and bug fixes, and then go relocate some Fluffalo!

Major Changes

• Fishing
  • Two tiers of fishing rods are now craftable from the Foraging Table and can be used to fish on ocean planets (including arctic, toxic and magma oceans)
  • Added 48 unique fish types to catch
  • Rare fish can give valuable rewards, including reel and lure upgrades to enhance your fishing rod

• Collections
  • New Collections interface tracks various kinds of collectables including captured pets, figurines, fish, cooking recipes, fossils, and bugs

• Added the Relocator tool, which allows non-hostile creatures such as critters, fish, bugs, and farm animals to be moved

• Added friendly Novakid villages including a variety of new Novakid-themed furniture and objects

Minor Changes & Bug Fixes

• Saloon furniture previously sold at Frogg Furnishings is now available in Novakid villages, and has been replaced with the Pastel set (which has its own unique tenant)
• Novakids can now be generic tenants or guards
• Added Novakid NPC dialogue
• Implemented party chat and local (planet) chat
• Acid rain now applies poison instead of direct damage
• Console objects are now available as themed tenant rewards
• Added option for “borderless window” style fullscreen mode
• Improved sound effects for Staff abilities
• Improved sound effects for several unique boss weapons
• Adjusted which bugs appear in Midnight, Mutated and Giant Flower biomes
• Shockhopper Mk I and Dreadwing now have a chance to drop their respective action figures
• Mother Poptops on starter worlds now drop enough Core Fragments to complete the initial gate quest
• Added chance for Snuffish to appear in ocean biomes
• Kelp now unlocks the Rice Cake cooking recipe when picked up
• Reduced moon threat level from 10 to 1
• Fixed a bug causing merchants to offer material items for free (which made them impossible to purchase)
• Fixed several armor descriptions that didn’t fit within their tooltips
• Fixed a bug causing fireworks to deal large amounts of damage
• Fixed birds and other monsters spawning in the atmosphere and asteroid layers of moons
• Made several NPC-like monsters uncapturable
• Fixed monsters getting stuck outside arena in final arena side quest
• Fixed friendly NPCs and monsters being damaged by environmental effects such as traps
• Fixed a few edge cases in pathfinding
• Fixed several items displaying erroneous recipe unlocks when obtained
• Fixed a bug causing underwater audio filters to continue after quitting to title
• Fixed several cases of incorrect cursors displaying over GUI elements
• Fixed a bug in LoS calculation determining whether the player can reach objects
• Fixed a bug causing Dreadwing’s UFO to visually flip
• Fixed a bug causing boats to oscillate at the surface of water
• Fixed a bug causing physics AoE effects to move projectiles
• Wire Mode overlay is now hidden on protected tiles
• Lots of typographical/grammatical text fixes