StarMade News

Only one more day is left to buy the game for 6$ until it will be raised to 10$. You can of course still play the game for free.

- schema

Hello and welcome to StarMade,

EDIT: The Faction Config is now automatically downloaded to clients connecting to a server. The game will create a ./customFactionCofig directory when starting (you can also create it manually). Just place the FactionConfig.xml in there, and it will be used to overwrite the one in ./data/config. Unlike the one in ./data/config, the one in ./customFactionConfig won't be overwritten on update, so you don't have to do work at every update. Several small fixes have been done for generation. There are also new admin commands to reset or make territory not claimable. The Admin Command Forum Thread has been updated.

finally the big update is finished! Enjoy!

Please make sure you choose to backup when updating, just in case!

Galaxy Update

This had a long time coming and is now finally here. It will switch to the new system once you reset your world. So you can use your old world as long as you please, but a reset is recommended.
Make sure to export all the sectors you need for the new universe.

Galaxies

A Galaxies in StarMade contains of 128x128x128 Systems, each containing 16x16x16 sectors. This means a galaxy is pretty huge.
However not every system actually has something viable in it. Most of a galaxy is composed of so called 'Void' systems.

Void Systems do not have a star, and will have an increased chance of spawning pirates. Note that in the future the pirate spawning will get ramped up even more the farther away you go from claimed territory. Also, claimed territory will make that system safe, and decrease pirate spawning in the surrounding systems (not in yet).

The most common viable system is a stellar system. A stellar system can have different variation or stars in different sizes, and can even be even binary system with two stars in one system.
Note that the damage rates and distances on stars depend on color and size: Blue stars are more intense and do more damage on a longer range, giants have 8 sun sectors in the system, and binary star systems count distance from the nearest star.

The view distance for galactic entities has been increased by a great deal, so you can now see planets and stars or other objects of your surrounding systems. It might look a little crowded with planets in the old universe, but gives you an idea on how much planets there were :)

Also, the stars in the background now represent the exact galaxy you are in, so you can get a kind of fell for where you are.

Of course there are a lot of other galaxies you can visit, and every one of them has a different look to it (although they all follow a basic pattern)

You can also find black holes in the galaxy. They form a wormhole network which warps you if you go into one. The network goes from the inner galaxy to the outer arms, and the furthest worm hole leads back to the closest to center. That means if you get lost, you can always find your way to the center if you follow the worm
holes. In the map you can arrows from near, and also have an indication of the line getting whiter in the direction of the destination.

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Stellar Systems now also generate differently from the old universe. Every system has now a generated name, too, which players will be able to change in a future update. Each stellar system has a random amount of orbits, within the sectors that are intersected by those orbits, certain things will spawn. On planet orbits, a planet will spawn somewhere on the orbit, and there is a very small chance of a second one. The other type of orbit are asteroid belts. On asteroid belts a high amount of asteroids will spawn. Everywhere else there is only a small chance of finding them, and if they spawn, they do it in much less amounts.

Keep in mind that in a claimed system (see faction points), you get a 6x bonus to mining.

Galaxy Map

Since all of those things are not easy to navigate, there is now a galaxy map (press P) available to all players. It not only shows you the complete galaxy with all its systems, they also show planets and stations in each sector (that is open to change with the introduction of radars in the future).

You can see all faction territory in the map, so you can easily find your way around on a server.
You also see all the FTL connections in the map. Colors for faction warp gates will be added later.

You can now also easily plot a path for a waypoint within the map.
There are several filter options available which should be relatively self explanatory, like blending out orbits, objects, etc, as well as changing the color of territory to a per-relation color instead of a random color per faction.

 

Faction Points

Most of the information in this section is already in the dev update post.

Faction Point System

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL VALUES OF THE FACTION SYSTEM ARE EXPOSED IN A CONFIG FOR ADMINS TO CHANGE (./data/config/FactionConfig.xml). That config doesn't distribute yet (next update), so please only try changing it in singleplayer.

Faction Points

Faction Points are a new form of currency in StarMade and shall be abbreviated 'FP' from here on out. They are shared throughout the faction, and in the future can be made physical for reasons I will go into later.

Their value can not be compared to credits and resources, as their total availability doesn't follow the principle of an infinite universe like credits and resources do.

Their existence as the name says depends on the factions of a server. So on a server with more players the overall faction point count will naturally be higher (but the demand is also rising with that)

 
Faction Point Acquisition

A server now does hourly calculations. I'll call this a "turn" from now on.

At the end of a turn the following will happen:

•     You get 50 FP for every online member of your faction
•     You get 20 FP for every active online member of your faction (see member activity)
•     You get 0 FP for every inactive member of your faction (see member activity)

Member Activity

A member counts as active if the member at least spent 10 minutes playing within 48 hours. After 48 hours after logoff, the member will become inactive and the faction no longer gets any FP from his membership.

There are several methods in place to combat FP farming with multiple nicks on the same server.

Territory

One of the biggest things with FP is the ability for factions to take territory. You can take a whole 16x16x16 sectors at once. 16x16x16 sectors are also known as "system" as mentioned above.
Taking a sector can be done easily with the faction module on a station or planet. If someone else has already taken the system, that faction module has to be destroyed before another faction can take the system.

Territory has the following advantages:

•     Your faction gets a mining bonus in that system of 6x (other factions get 3x still in an owned system so be alert of eventual thieves)
•     Your faction gets a notice whenever a player enters your territory. You even get a faction news post if that player is an enemy. (No names are transmitted though, so you have to go there with a scanning capable ship to check out the location (see scanning))
•     Scanning range (see scanning)

Faction point spending and loss

Of course you can't just go and claim every system as fast as possible as you like. You also have expenses each faction point turn. The following are the costs explained:

•     Each owned system costs 10 FP each turn
•     Each owned system costs FP in the distance in systems it is from the homebase (or a random owned system when no homebase exists)
•     Each owned system costs FP in the distance it is from a galaxy center (something that will be more clear with the structure update. it is the system 0,0,0 in this case)
•     The cost for center distance will decrease the more total territory is taken. This means, factions will probably move together a bit. Roaming vagabonds are still a thing since they don't use too much points (the first system is free). However they don't have the luxury of a bigger base of course.
• There is a flat expense of 1 FP

FP loss from player deaths

•     Each player death costs a fixed FP amount
•     Each player death costs also an FP amount times the amount of members in the faction. That means that while you get more FP each turn with a bigger faction, you lose more when someone gets killed. suicide does not count in that regard. Admin commands are in place to allow admins to protect players against faction point loss (that will be broadcaster on death to all players to avoid abuse), and making sectors safe against FP loss, so minigames can be played there without problems.
•     After dying, the player gets a 30 min protection of losing faction points again.

Repercussions for to few FP

Should at the end of a turn the FP of a faction be below zero, the faction will lose the system that is farthest from the homebase (random if there is none).
You also can NOT take any territory if your faction has below zero faction points.

Home Base danger

This is an admin option in the server.cfg. If a faction has below zero FP and no territory (this will only happen if a players get taken out repeatedly), the home base becomes attackable. Server have also the option in the faction point config to set a flat FP expense every round (as mentioned in expenses). This will make it possible that completely inactive factions (depending on config) will get attackable eventually.

 

Scanners

This is a new block you can put on your ship or station. Its mechanics work similar to the jump drive as it needs to be charged up to do a scan.
But unlike the jump drive, the scanner will automatically charge. You are also only allowed one scanner per structure.
The basic range of the scanners is fixed, but also depend on the territory you are in. The recharge time depends on how many blocks you place, of course costing more power. The textures are of course made by the great Kupu (Tom)

•     Default scan range is 4 sector radius
•     In an allied territory you get twice the default scan range (as do the owners) (8 sector radius)
•     The owners of a system ADDITIONALLY get the whole system scanned.
•     If you scan in an enemy territory, your scan range is halved (2 sector radius)
•     if you scan in an owned system, you always get the location of the station that has the faction module owning it.

This means with good strategy and infrastructure, as soon as your faction gets signal of someone intruding, you can send a player with a scanner ship into that system which can find out the exact position.

Scans are a snapshot, so to track moving targets, you need a very good recharge.

Scans are also persistent, so you always, even after logging out and in again, have access to the last 5 scans you made.

 
Future Uses for Faction Points

In the future, faction points will be the main currency for diplomacy and missions. The only way to earn additional FP is to do missions.
But also factions themselves can issue missions. A faction can pay FP for a bounty on the head of another player, or for a mission taker getting them an amount of resources. And many more.

Faction points will also be usable to replenish asteroids in a system.

GUI

Because nobody would be able to remember all the rules and keep track, the GUI has been expanded with several statistical functions regarding FP and scans.
Just click the "Faction Point" button in the faction tab, and it will tell you exactly how much you gained and lost, listed per type. it also gives you an overview of all your owned systems.

You can access your scans in your navigation panel.

 

Sitting

The great Omni (Keaton) has made some nice sitting animations for dave. You can sit on blocks and wedges. Just press 'O' on a block to do so. Your sitting position depends on how close you press on an edge. You can also sit on the ceiling/etc if you have the gravity to do so :).

 

Database Size

An upgrade has been made to how fast the StarMade database grows. More then 70% reduction in growth has been achieved by not saving planets and generated station in the database as long as no block is modified. This change was always delayed by planets being generated to slow.

Planets generation speed

Planets now generate up to 4x faster. On top of that they now use the full power of multithreading (something planets could not use until now since they need a huge amount of data and parts of them depend on other parts).

Admin Commands

Beside a lot new admin commands for the faction point system, such as setting faction points, protecting against faction point loss on death, and even protecting a sector so no one dying in it will lose faction points, server admin management has been added. Admins can now allow and disallow admin commands by admin and command. This should help server super admins to manage their admins much better, and reduce admin abuse. This can also be done on the admin file directly, if you need to do a lot of it. Make sure to disallow other admins to use the allow/disallow commend themselves, or they can grant themselves the rights to use anything.

 

Default Sector Size

The default sector size has been upped to two times the value it was before. This value will only apply if you either remove the server.cfg, of change the value yourself (or do a fresh install of course)

Balance changes

Calbiri has been working hard on getting the game balanced further. The power usage of tertiary effects have been reduced to make it more managable on ships. We are not going to allow a good for all ship, so block counts keep the same. Also there have been several changes to other weapons and support systems. As always, this is not final, and you also have the option to modify the configuration yourself if you disagree with what the balance should be. Support beams are also currently being worked on to make them also fit into the bigger picture.

Other changes

This post is unfortunately too long to mention a lot of the smaller teaks, fixes, and updates made.

Station Contest Winners

Thank you all for voting. You can see the winners in the repective threads. The stations are not yet included as we need some time to go through them and do a last check up. Once they are in there will be a news post dedicated to that.

Bugfixes

Missiles should now have a much better lag reduction, meaning that they should much less rubberband around.

Most of the fixes have been done on the active dev builds, so they are not listed here, since they never were in the current release.

Closed 37
1226	Closed	critical error on start up
1220	Closed	HealBeam in a Factory Causes Crash
1217	Closed	java.lang.ClassCastException: obfuscated.xK cannot be cast to org.schema.game.common.controller.SegmentController
1214	Closed	ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException When Updating to .179
1208	Closed	Random deaths
1206	Closed	Stars render on top of everything else
1203	Closed	Suns and backgrounds appear in void system blocks with Bloom on
1200	Closed	Neighboring Galaxys Don't Render (Map)
1198	Closed	Cannot Leave Wormhole
1197	Closed	Crash on log in when using 256x texture pack
1195	Closed	Map: "Entered System" message appears every time you enter/leave a sector
1191	Closed	Map: bloom overrides black background
1182	Closed	java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
1175	Closed	Nullpointer - catched but persistent
1173	Closed	Nullpointer on death - resulting in server-shutdown
1164	Closed	SQLSyntaxerrorexeption on new install after 0.1751 in SP
1150	Closed	Shield drain beam's power cost not increasing.
1131	Closed	Custom Textures - Error on startup - missing normals
1126	Closed	Multi slot stack disappears
1115	Closed	Map does not render till you press shift
1092	Closed	Defensive effect piercing added armor bonus uses the wrong formula
1071	Closed	Rotating a paste sets all contained logic blocks to "active"
1001	Closed	Storage/factory connections break after sector is unloaded
988	Closed	NullPointerException crashing client while on remote server. Crash repeats at every attempted login at spawn dialogue.
984	Closed	Lag causes power production to stop.
909	Closed	Safety element: Entering and/or leaving ships
893	Closed	Max visible missiles on screen
891	Closed	Flickering Objects - Occlusion culling
782	Closed	Crash at 100% (cube shader)
728	Closed	Effects increasing power consumption on missiles and increase damage for cannons/pulse/beams + other issues, last message
566	Closed	Deffensive stop effect computer not working
540	Closed	UI is unusable in large lists
505	Closed	"Shop in Range" still showing after teleport - using shop = nullpointer
488	Closed	Linking already linked computers - hides but preserves the sublink
412	Closed	Game crash at loading 100% (explosion shader)
386	Closed	Blocks disappearing when advanced build mode activated and rotatable block selected
347	Closed	Feature: one click beam activation

 

 

With this update, in one week, we have to up the price to 10$, as more and more money has to be spent on manpower and servers.

Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema

 

Hello Players,

big things are coming:

 

Faction Point System

This system is a big addition. It will shape the multiplayer experience of StarMade, and takes it to a whole new level.

There was often criticism that there is not much to do after building, and this is the first step to change that. A lot more stuff will come in that regard.

This system was planned for almost 2 years now, and I'm finally having the core systems developed to a state where this is viable.
Also, one of the things that were most important to me, was that the design is abstract and can be adopted and changed should there be any need.
In a "lets just add this feature without making any groundwork" approach, I would have probably got it out way faster, but the problems that players and me would run in over time would have taken more time than getting the basics in an acceptable state for it.

The system is an essential part of the galaxy redesign. I've made it available first so existing servers can test it on the current universe structure. A lot of things of course don't matter as much or matter more as long as the structure redesign isn't released.

All numbers I mention in this whole faction point system explanation are all exposed in configs, so they are very simple to change.

But on to what the system actually is:

Faction Points

Faction Points are a new form of currency in StarMade and shall be abbreviated FP from here on out :). They are shared throughout the faction, and in the future can be made physical for reasons I will go into later.

Their value can not be compared to credits and resources, as their total availability doesn't follow the principle of an infinite universe like credits and resources do.

Their existence as the name says depends on the factions of a server. So on a server with more players the overall faction point count will naturally be higher (but the demand is also rising with that)

 

Faction Point Acquisition

A server now does hourly calculations. I'll call this a "turn" from now on.

At the end of a turn the following will happen:

• You get 50 FP for every online member of your faction
• You get 20 FP for every active online member of your faction (see member activity)
• You get 0 FP for every inactive member of your faction (see member activity)

Member Activity

A member counts as active if the member at least spent 10 minutes playing within 48 hours. After 48 hours after logoff, the member will become inactive and the faction no longer gets any FP from his membership.

There are several methods in place to combat FP farming with multiple nicks on the same server.

Territory

One of the biggest things to come with FP is the ability for factions to take territory. You can take a whole 16x16x16 sector chunk at once. 16x16x16 sectors are also known as "Galaxy System".
Taking a sector can be done easily with the faction module on a station or planet. If someone else has already taken the galaxy system, that faction module has to be destroyed before another faction can take the system.
Territory has the following advantages:

• Mining bonus in that galaxy system of 6x (other factions get 3x still in an owned galaxy system so be alert of eventual thieves.
• The faction gets a notice whenever a player enters their territory. You even get a faction news post if that player is an enemy. (No names are transmitted though)
• Scanning range (see scanning)

Faction point spending and loss

Of course you can't just go and claim every galaxy system as fast as possible. The following are the costs explained:

• Each owned galaxy system costs 10 FP each turn
• Each owned galaxy system costs FP in the distance in systems it is from the homebase (or a random owned system when no homebase exists)
• Each owned galaxy system costs FP in the distance it is from a galaxy center (something that will be more clear with the structure update. it is the galaxy system 0,0,0 in this case)
• The cost for center distance will decrease the more total territory is taken. This means, factions will probably move together a bit. Roaming vagabonds are still a thing since they don't use too much points (the first system is free). However they don't have the luxury of a bigger base of course.

You can also lose FP from player deaths

• Each player death costs a fixed FP amount
• Each player death costs also an FP amount times the amount of members in the faction. That means that while you get more FP each turn with a bigger faction, you lose more when someone gets killed. suicide does not count in that regard. There will also be a way to temorarily turn it off for minigames by admins.
• After dying, the player gets a 30 min protection of losing faction points again.

Repercussions for to few FP

Should at the end of a turn the FP of a faction be below zero, the faction will lose the galaxy system that is farthest from the homebase (random if there is none).
As an option for admins to turn on, the home base will also become attackable when the faction loses all its territory and are below 0 at the next turn.

Scanners

This is a new block you can put on your ship or station. Its mechanics work similar to the jump drive as it needs to be charged up to do a scan.
But unlike the jump drive, the scanner will automatically charge. You are also only allowed one scanner per structure.
The basic range of the scanners is fixed, but also depend on the territory you are in. The recharge time depends on how many blocks you place, of course costing more power.

• In an allied territory you get twice the default scan range (as do the owners)
• The owners of a galaxy system ADDITIONALLY get the whole system scanned.
• If you scan in an enemy territory, your scan range is halved
• if you scan in an owned system, you always get the location of the station that has the faction module owning it.

This means with good strategy and infrastructure, as soon as your faction gets signal of someone intruding, you can send a player with a scanner ship into that galaxy system which can find out the exact position.

Scans are a snapshot, so to track moving targets, you need a very good recharge.

Scans are also persistent, so you always, even after logging out and in again, have access to the last 5 scans you made.

 

Future Uses for Faction Points

In the future, faction points will be the main currency for diplomacy and missions. The only way to earn additional FP is to do missions.
But also factions themselves can issue missions. A faction can pay FP for a bounty on the head of another player, or for a mission taker getting them an amount of resources. And many more.

Faction points will also be usable to replenish asteroids in a galaxy system.

GUI

Because nobody would be able to remember all the rules and keep track, the GUI has been expanded with several statistical functions regarding FP and scans.
Just click the "Faction Point" button in the faction tab, and it will tell you exactly how much you gained and lost, listed per type. it also gives you an overview of all your owned systems.

You can access your scans in your navigation panel.

 

Implementation Status

Almost all the things you just read are already implemented. One big thing that is left is the galaxy map, which i hope to finish in a few days.
You can already check out the system in the current dev build.

The spawners explained

In the last update you saw the first occurrence of spawners. This system an abstract system which is not only there to spawn in creatures.
Spanwers have conditions and components.

 

Conditions plenty, and the first implemented are:

• Timer
• Blocked
• Block exists
• Less than x creatures on that structure
• Less than x creatures in that sector
• Player proximity

Conditions can be configured and combined as pleased. If all conditions are met, all components are called. These include at the moment:

• Spawn creature
• Spawn meta item
• Spawn item

There will be many more coming, as the spawners will be a vital part of the mission system planned.

 

I hope you like the new additions,

Thanks for playing StarMade,

- schema

Hello players,

another update with new features and bug fixes. Due to some more pressing bugs with multi slots and some finally fixed server issues, this update is being pushed a little bit sooner than I thought.

Here are the new Features:

Build Helper Restriction

Build helpers now allow building restriction to be turned on and off. Build restriction means, that you can only build or remove inside the Build Helper area. This should make using them even easier. Furthermore, most of the work has been put into a thread to prevent the game from freezing and eventually disconnecting when selecting a build helper.

 

Dynamic Prices

This last piece of the crafting update has now been done. Prices of items are now based each other

 

Secret little Special Feature

A secret feature has been added. I will talk about it in detail tomorrow. You will maybe run into it if you explore a neutral space station that has not been found before on foot. This is a proof of concept of what is to come next

 

Custom Server Textures and adaptive BlockConfig

This feature was requested for some time. Admins can now create their own blocks without having to resort to the default sheets, which eventually overwrite it. Also distributing custom texture has been not an easy task. Furthermore, a modified config had to be changed every time the game updates. All these problems are no longer an issue.

Here is how it works:

An admin can place the texture sheet and their normals (if needed) into ./StarMade/customBlockTextures/64, 128 and 256 as custom.png and custom_NRM.png. The game will create a the default structure when starting it once with the update. These textures are packed into pack.zip when starting the game and sent to the clients. The clients can accept or decline the download. Server admins are responsible for their content.

The adaptive BlockConfig works in a similar matter. Copy the BlockConfigImportTemplate.xml in ./StarMade/customBlockConfig/ to ConfigImportTemplate.xml. This file is a stub with two examples. The file will merge with the current block config, only replacing fields that changed, or adding a new block if it didn't exist before. In the blocks.properties there have meen made 256 values to use which won't get overwritten by something else in the game.

Clients ask for a hashcode before downloading so they can verify if they already have the textured cached for that server, so each client only needs to download the textures once, or when they changed.

Server save optimization

This optimization should help servers that have huge lags when the server is saving the game, especially with bigger stations and planets. It also increases performance if a lot sector changes are done.

 

Server crash fix

Another crash on servers has been fixed. This harder to find issue was caused by a running condition.

Other Bugfixes

As always, thanks to the testers!

 

Multiple warpgates are now working on the same space stations (as it was always intended). Also the multislot bugs should be fixed. If not, please report.

Resolved 7
1131	Resolved	Custom Textures - Error on startup - missing normals
1126	Resolved	Multi slot stack disappears
1111	Resolved	cant access standard factory while in build mode
1089	Resolved	Rotating a template puts all status blocks on a default mode (logic, lights, doors,...)
1082	Resolved	God mode : docked entity's can be destroyed
1071	Resolved	Rotating a paste sets all contained logic blocks to "active"
1053	Resolved	Defensive effects still working with a disproportionate block ratio (re-report of ancient bug)
Closed 17
1124	Closed	Multislot: Preview block to build - missing
1118	Closed	Template rotation causes Runtime exceptions (with some combinations of blocks)
1098	Closed	Multiple warp gates on 1 station don't work like they should
1096	Closed	Warp gates don't work in a specific orientation+location relative to the station/planet's origin point.
1094	Closed	Glass Door Wedges can not be opened or be linked with logic
1079	Closed	Factory/Micro Assembler doesn't work when powered by Pistol
1076	Closed	Orange Standard Armor Tetra .. shows as grey
1075	Closed	build helper shape out lines not working with space stations and planets
1072	Closed	Block icon orientation is incorrect
1052	Closed	IllegalArgumentException: gT when trying to rotate a template with rod lights
983	Closed	Naming pattern in the hull section is not uniform
960	Closed	Updating SegmentsDrawn gives ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
940	Closed	Docking beam switches between active camera and ship core when moving mouse
915	Closed	Exiting a build block on planets changes gravity to sector alignment
833	Closed	Sideways rod lights rotate when turned off
770	Closed	Beam and missile weapons without a support don't use their effect.
319	Closed	Tertiary effects on damage beam have no effect on asteroids

 

Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema

 

Hello Players,

another update is uploading now. Of course there has been further work on the universe, but it's something that needs a lot of fundamential ground work so it will take some more time.

Here are the new features and changes:

Crafting Update

Calbiri put in a lot of work to make crafting more enjoyable and more balanced. The essential system is still the same.

When putting raw resources into the capsule refinery you will now get 10 generic resources (alloyed metal mesh and crystal circuits depending on the raw type), as well as 5 capsules of the raw flavor. But the 5 extra capsules will only be made in the capsule refinery. In the personal refinery, you will just get the generics.
You can turn the capsules into generic resources in the micro factory, too, but depending on strategy it might be better to hold on to them, since they are needed in more advanced recipes.

The micro factory also can process scrap, which I will talk about in the next section.

There now are 3 types of factories: The basic which replaces the macro, which can make all essential block needed for survival, the standard factory which you can make from the basic, which has most of the ship building materials, and the advanced which makes all the effects and more advanced stuff in the game.

Please note that all placed factories/refineries consume power as long as they are switched on, even if there is nothing to produce.

Scrap Stations

All newly generated/spawned neutral stations will now be scrap. This means harvesting blocks will get you scrap, instead of the blocks themselves, which you can turn into generic resources. You can repair a scrap station by pressing M on a block of the station. This will turn all blocks into real blocks, but the price to repair is the price of all blocks in that station.
This is done to prevent the get-rich-quick method of stripping down space stations. They still have a lot of value, but it's much more balanced now. A trick is for example to strip a space station down to one block, and then repair it for cheap, to have a very cheap space station, since you only pay for one block.

IMPORTANT: Placing blocks on a not repaired scrap station will turn any block into scrap, so you will lose that block, unless you buy the station. Only newly generated Station are scrap station, so if you have build on them already, everything is like it was before on those.

 

Raw resource texture switch

As it was often pointed out, and also our own opinion, the overlay texture for metal looked more like crystal, and vice versa. These textures have now been switched around. We have planned that for some time, but we waited for the crafting update to do it, so it's all in one with the new system.

 

World Manager

You can now manage multiple universes (databases) in the same client. You can also import and export universes to share with other people. The button to do that is in the startup settings.

 

Multi Slots

Another change are multi slots. Those were harder to implement as I though, since there are so many cases of those slots interacting with other multi-slots, compatible multi-slots, other compatible single slots, incompatible single slots... you get the idea ^^

Basically these slots hold all shapes of the same type of block in one slot: Normal, wedge, penta, tetra, and corner. You can just drag them together to form a multislot, and right click them to take specific blocks out. To use in buildmode you can just scroll over them to select the block you need to build. This will make building a lot faster and more efficient, as the number of objects that can be in the hotbar at the same time rises to max 5 times what it was before.

 

Server Lockup fix

A bug that has been around for a very long time has been finally caught in the act. This bug caused servers to lock up, and all players to disconnect until a forced restart.

 

Other Bug Fixes

there were other fixes, too, but I will go in detail in the next update. As always, thanks to all the testers!

 

The next update will have something special (if everything goes well).
Keep voting in the station contest,
Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema