Starseed News

[p]Just a small update[/p][p][/p][p]- Fixed storage and transporter being placeable, these will be reworked but are removed for now[/p][p]- Other fixes[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks and see you soon![/p]

Gameplay

- New Area: Lava Mountains:

• Has unique features and dangers
  
• Drone hubs can be placed in the Lava Mountains!
  

- New Area: Forests

• Forests are similar to mines, with unique sets appearing on each planet
  
• Exploding Plants
  
• Hit and it will drop spores and eventually explode! It will take a while to recharge
  
• Geodes
  

- New feature:

• Consumables: These can be used from the menu to restore energy or health. And may have other boosts later on!
  

- New Resources/Items/Recipes:

• Obsidian, Processed Obsidian, Brown Geode, Black Geode, Laser Cutter, Phantom Quartz, Garnet, Celestine, Sulfur Gas, Condensed Sulfur, Purple Spores, Yellow Spores, Biofuel
  
• Consumables: Energy Pack, Health Pack
  

- New Machine:

• Laser Cutter: Will be used to open Geodes for now might have more uses later like cutting gems or other materials.
  

- Other:

• Drone hubs can harvest gas from geysers
  
• Drone hubs can be placed in the lava area!
  
• Health and knockout effects
  
• Camera zoom control
  
• Hitting colossal ores will now take much more energy
  
• New orders
  

Technical

• Bug fixes
  
• Performance Improvements
  
  • Improved how HUD UI is handled (big performance improvement)
• Polished sensitivity of multiple scrollviews
  
• New icon in shop to show which items will refresh
  
• Orders
  
  • New orders for new items
    
  • Order balancing - Orders will scale with game progress, the further you progress the tougher they will be to finish
    
  • Orders will refresh when on the screen now
    

Screens:
The Lava Area entrance on map:


The beautiful atmosphere of the Lava Area:


Use water on a lava block to walk over safely:


Hit a burning rock to stop fire sprays temporarily:


Laser Cutter:


Exploding Plant and Geodes:


Consumables:


What's next immediately (Upcoming week or 2):

• Monitoring and fixing any issues
  
• Better storage for dronehubs, some people reported an error that not all slots are used, this was intentional as it's each slot per different item type, so next is to improve that
  
• More teleports, now with the lava area added, it can be annoying to walk that far every single time so sub area teleports will be needed
  
• More polish and content in the added areas, the basics are set up but there is room for a lot more
  
• Updating tutorials
  

What's next for the Early Access plan (Long-term):

• Underwater area (With new resources, etc)
  
• Controller support!
  
• Updating missions
  
• More upgrades
  
• And more!
  

Please report any errors or issues, any ideas are also welcome.

Thank you for the continued support and enjoy!

See you soon!

Just some quick fixes

- Fixed ingredients being returned sometimes by machines
- Added rice seed recipe

Work continues on the big update.

Thanks and see you soon!

Just an update letting you all know the Hazards update will drop within 1-2 weeks.
Working hard to get it released ASAP.

Here are some screens of tests with new plants that explode and also the Forests updated. This will bring more resources and also the Laser Cutter machine and the lava area.







Thanks for your patience!

See you soon!

Just a progress update!

The Hazards 1 Update is progressing, thanks for being patient.
Here is some of the new stuff coming: (Images are of work in progress)

1. Shop Refresh - The shop will now have an icon on items that refresh
   
2. Fire - This can harm you, you can temporarily turn it off to pass safely
   
3. Damage - Player will be able to knocked out when health reached zero, which will cost a small amount of credits (The game will never be too punishing)
   
4. Laser Cutter - The machine interface. It will be used to open geodes which contain some resources. Here are some of the new resources (Gems will be introduced)
   
5. Forests - Are coming along and this is where you will find the geodes
   

And more to come!

Thank you!