Starbound Update 8.1 (Furious Koala) *Cracked*

Changelog for v. Furious Koala 26/01/2014

Hey there Stargazers and Sports Racers, it’s been quite some time since the last patch, and we have some very large changes dropping this release.

Code Changes:

• Absolutely massive changes to disk serialization (sorry reversers), which will allow us to never need to wipe players or ships again, and hopefully never need to wipe worlds again.
  
• - Related, we now have a proper versioning system for save files.
  
• Added difficulty levels and permadeath characters to the game.
  
• Packed assets into databases (speeds up startup significantly), and included asset packing and unpacking utilities with the distribution.
  
• - This should also allow for easier distribution of mods, and easier construction and management of slimmed down distributions for dedicated servers (official server paks coming soon.)
  
• Fix some graphical glitches with the wire nodes.
  
• Fixed some pretty nasty deadlocking bugs with networking.
  
• Fixed some very strange memory leak bugs stemming from a gcc lambda capture bug.
  
• Fixed various crash bugs related to a number of different issues (more specifics listed in “Info About the Upcoming Patch“– thanks for the bug reports, keep em coming)
  
• Speed up improvements with falling sand and other projectiles.
  
• More efficient databases storage layout.
  
• Documentation for lua functions have been written, and we’re going to release them soonish.
  
• Removed NaN floats from the code for performance reasons (reenabled -ffinite-math-only), we had been using them to signal that the float is disabled or in an invalid state, but we have a system for that now.
  
• Some internal changes that make maintaining code much happier for us, including better enum to string handling and much faster compiles.
  
• Other minor things, too numerous to list here (see “Info About the Upcoming Patch“).

Fun Changes:

• It’s no longer the holiday, so we’ve removed the holiday stuff for now, we’ll put them back when we have a better way of enabling it for holiday time.
  
• PVP is now forced enabled within Sector X. If you’re in a party there’s no team damage though.
  
• All player drops are persistent now. So if you accidentally throw your diamond drill down a mineshaft, you don’t have to suicide trying to get it back before it disappears.
  
• New Monster attacks (gravity slam! gust attacks! other stuff!)
  
• Fixed Legendary Weapons damage (adjusted up to be more… well… Legendary.)
  
• We’ve put in new Techs (such as a Glitch Mech).
  
• New biome type enabled. Savannah.
  
• Boss Lore!
  
• No more eating bandages and stims, they have their own thing now.
  
• Better, more featureful .abc file support, and we have Wanderlust music in the game now. (Thanks Leth and D2!)
  
• Made NPC chatter more configurable and slightly more varied.
  
• Added new objects (such as lava biome treasure chests).
  
• Added new items (like nightsticks and bonesaws).
  
• Sword swooshes are only active for 0.6 seconds instead of 0.9 seconds.
  
• Making cooldown times actually matter without slowing down combat. Also fine tuned their hitboxes.
  
• Viking helmet? Viking helmet.
  
• Watch out for landmines.
  
• Various changes to treasure drop pools (like Avian Guards actually dropping their guns…)
  
• Minor tweaks to existing armors to make them look better.
  
• Medieval Furnace now actually acts like a Furnace. (Rejoice).
  
• Graphical upgrades to some existing plants, and new plants.
  
• Lots more secret stuff! :OOO
  

We look forward to hearing what you think about the patch. It was a very big one this time around.