Starbound (ISO) [UNSTABLE] Updates March 8, 2014

[UNSTABLE] Updates March 8, 2014


Shiny new stuff:
5 new weathers – sandstorm, snowstorm, fog, ash storm, space dust
A couple new Agaran hats (shroomhead3 and shroomhead4)
More objects for Heck! (heckpillar1, heckpillar2, hecksign)
Some mysterious Floran pods

Bug fixes:
Possible fix for repeat keys never triggering callback, hence resulting in old data being used (e.g. after holding backspace to clear account in server connect dialog).
Unix & Windows LockFile implementation, also fix bug with texturing flag not being moved during operator=
Fixed sit alignment on tier10 chair
Much improved variant <-> lua handling
Assorted engine fixes (e.g “Tag manifest as windows 7 compatible, trying to work our way out from under compatflags”)


Treasure Horde sub-biome development
New treasure room micro dungeon
New objects for treasure horde and treasure dungeon: golden pedestal, grail, treasure chest, gold filled barrel, safe, gold vase, diamond display, wooden gold filled crate, Venus de Pixel
New ‘Heavy Iron Bars’ block
Make meteor showers less likely
New exception system that makes Windows binary much MUCH smaller
New mysterious light object
New ruins platform tiles
New, better, faster, stronger, more entertaining item descriptions
No more version strings required on mods, it was causing more problems than it was solving
New pak update system that makes steam updates of pak changes much much much smaller
Small exception fixes, no longer rename worlds when exception is not io related, better messages in some cases
New random swords
Coordinate corruption recovery for certain world files
Updated to Skyrails 2.0
Logfile rotation for starbound.log and starbound_server.log
Support for animated elements in cinematics
Spinner on loading screen
Hailstone weather
Deadlock fix on shutdown
New random blood / bone based gun and projectile
New items in Heck, including the helmet pictured above
Internal assets and pak based mods (if it is selected during build) will be version checked between clients and servers and must match
Apex micro dungeon changes
Some extra boring bug fixes not listed here