All Station Polls Open & Crafting Changes

Greetings Players,

Station Polls

The polls for the new default stations are up and tallying votes!  Check out the Trade Guild  /  Abandoned  /  Pirates polls to browse the the thumbnails, look up their content pages, even find the Dev Server locations of each station to have a look in person, then cast your votes.  You may also download all the station entries Here.  Many thanks to AndyP for helping sort out all the stations, links, pictures, downloads and information.  Each player may vote for 5 stations per category, you may change your votes at any point, but the polls and votes will lock once the polls have reached their 21 day time limit.  To access the Dev Server, make sure you are running the latest dev build, then in the launcher, select the multiplayer option and this IP  play.star-made.org:4242

Crafting Changes

Many changes have been occuring to crafting in the dev build and players who have tried the recent dev builds have been quite helpful with their input.  After listening to some issues and concerns and doing a bit of playtesting ourselves (Schema won a Race to Space survival match!)  We have found that some of the changes to crafting costs didnt transfer over very well.  These issues, mostly revolving around resource refinement, should be fixed in the latest dev build being uploaded today.  There have also been several other major changes to resource gathering that we felt important to inform players of rather than forcing players to discover through trial and error (and frustration)

1. Capsule Refining - The players personal refinery (the one in your inventory) will no longer grant capsules, instead it will grant 10 Alloyed Mesh or 10 Composite Crystals, depending on the raw resource used.  To obtain the named crystal and metal capsules used in the more advanced crafting recipes, players will need to craft and place the Capsule Refinery block.  When using the Capsule Refinery block, raw resources will be processed into 5 capsules (based on the raw resource used) in addition to providing the 10 Alloyed Mesh or 10 Composite Crystals.  Processing the new rocks in the Capsule Refinery block will yeild 30 capsules of the appropriate type, these are useful for making paint and making carved stone, as well as possible future recipes.
2. The players personal salvage beam has a 25% chance to obtain one bonus raw resource when mining, since players have an easier time spotting additional resources within a block that a ships salvage system might otherwise miss.  
3. Using Build Blocks to strip mine no longer yeilds raw resources as they lack the proper mining and sorting hardware found in specailized salvage equipment.  
4. We are working on changing how the salvage beams mining frequency occurs to close up a salvage speed exploit some players had found in specific ship setups.  
5. Abandoned Station now spawn in with a new condition applied to them.  When you try salvaging them, or building on them, you will receive a warning message informing you that the station is worn and decayed.  Placing blocks onto the station in this state will cause those blocks to also become worn.  Blocks placed will still function on these stations, but when picked up or salvaged, all blocks on Abandoned Stations will yeild only Scrap Alloy or Scrap Composite.  These scraps can subsequently be refined by a Micro Assembler to create additional Alloyed Metal Mesh and Composite Crystal Blocks.  This makes abandoned a decent source of materials for begining players, instead of a get rich quick scheme.  If players find they enjoy a particular station and would like to make it their own, they can pay to have it refurbished.  This will charge the player a price based on the blocks on the station (including any blocks placed by the player).  This then allows the player to salvage normal blocks, as well as giving you the opportunity to rename the station as you see fit.  A good strategy for newer players may be to salvage the decrepit station down to just a few blocks, then pay a cheap price to have it refurbished, giving a fair amount of starting resources as well as a cheap base.  
6. The Capsule Refinery will now also display what items are created from refining specific resources.  

World Manager

Players looking into the new dev build will notice that there is now a World Manager button in the launcher.  This will allow players to play on various different single player saves without needing to reset their universe or run multiple starmade folders.  

Thanks for playing!