[UNSTABLE] Glad Giraffe Patch Notes, now with more bug fixes!

Glad Giraffe Patch Notes

Hey everyone! A new unstable build is upon us! This means that a new stable build is nearly here. Need a reminder of how unstable updates work? Here you go!

• We automatically upload everything we’ve changed in-game to the opt-in Nightly branch each night.
• When we’ve completed the update we’ve been working on, we push the update to the Unstable branch. You can learn more about opting in to the Unstable branch here.
• When we’re sure that the update isn’t causing crashes or terrible bugs, we push the update to the Stable branch.

Click 'read more' for a changelog listing the most significant changes we've made to the game since the last patch!

• Vehicles are a work in progress! You can purchase/repair them at the outpost, but the repair UI is... definitely WIP.
• Some one-handed, unique and biome weapons which still use the old system will be replaced in a future patch

• Weapons
  • Generated and tiered two-handed weapons now have special abilities that can be activated using right click. Many (45+) possible abilities are available for various classes of ranged and melee weapons!
    • Yes, some guns now have flashlights

  • Change to hammer mechanics: hold left click to wind up, release to fire
  • Change to spear mechanics: continue holding left click after a swing to keep the spear out to fend off enemies
  • Several new classes of hard-to-find unique weapons: boomerangs, chakrams and fist weapons. Find blueprints to upgrade these weapons into even more powerful and specialized versions!
  • A few miscellaneous unique weapons and items such as flamethrowers and remote-detonated grenade launchers

• Major changes to monster and NPC combat mechanics
  • Lots of new unique monsters found throughout the galaxy
  • Hostile monsters now damage the player on touch
  • Knockback is more powerful and reliable
  • Monsters have clearer ‘telegraphing’ to indicate when they are about to attack
  • Remade shields and improved blocking mechanics
  • Replaced electric stun status effect with Electrified, which periodically damages other nearby enemies

• Vehicles
• New system for player-controlled vehicles which can be spawned and despawned using Vehicle Controllers (acquired at the Outpost)
• Hoverbikes!
  • Great for travelling across planet surfaces quickly!
  • They include a passenger seat so you can transport your friends!
  • Come in several attractive colors!
  • Drive carefully to avoid blowing yourself up!

• Coming Soon! - Boat and Mech vehicles replace previous tech equivalents
• Repair your vehicles using auto chips, which can be found in the world or purchased at the Outpost
• Quests
  • Quest givers’ portraits are shown on quest dialogs and in the log
  • Colonists now occasionally give players new procedural quests to help improve their house or social standing
  • The abandon button can be used on procedural quests and the same quests can now be declined

• Added lots of biome content to Tier 5 (frozen) worlds
  • New ‘Midnight’ planets
  • New ‘Frozen’ planets (replaces Tundra)
  • Prism, Steam Spring, and Hive sub biomes
  • Lots of new microdungeons and other improvements to all underground biomes, including background caves and parallaxes

• Loads of item descriptions have been fixed/replaced/added, including lots of Novakid ones!
• Too many new objects, items, costumes, colony tenants, etc. to list
• Too many bug fixes, item tweaks, and balance changes to list

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Glad Giraffe, now a little less

There's a new unstable patch out!  This will hopefully be the last patch before we release a new stable, if everything goes well.  For a list of everything new that will be in the next stable, see this post.

Here is a list of just what has been changed in the most recent unstable update:

• Fixed a bug causing players to get stuck in barbed wire
• Fixed a bug causing colonists sometimes getting stuck in the ceiling
• More hover bike and boat vehicle tweaks, both visually and in behavior.  The hover bike now feels much better and can climb steeper slopes
• Changes for how vehicles are sold and repaired
• Much better vehicle spawning from the vehicle controller
• Fixed some more bugs involving lounging, removed the ability of two players to sit in the same seat if they timed it right
• Added knockback for shields
• Changes for how status and movement modifiers are applied to be more clear and more capable
• Armor dyes!
• Fixes for terrain generation at the bottom of oceans
• Fixes for the floran boss damaging too much, also make the ixoling smarter.
• Fixed chat bubbles rendering behind certain interface elements
• Versioning fixes importing characters from previous versions
• Assorted networking fixes, mostly revolving around items
• Fixes for displaying quest rewards
• Several fixes for projectiles so that they don't miss when a small target is near their point of impact
• Fix endlessly repeating sounds
• Fixes for the turret object
• Fixes for the trictus monster
• Fixed monsters sometimes ending up invulnerable near death
• Fixed monsters not aggroing PvP players
• Fixes for capture pods
• Include some things in our distribution for using the Tiled map editor
• A bunch of other miscellaneous fixes too boring to accurately describe!

We're currently working on a modder's guide for using Tiled, which should include everything you need to create dungeons and missions using it.  There should be a post later today or tomorrow with more details.