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[h2]Progress Notes Week 43[/h2]
[h3](October 19th - 23rd)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 43 - hope you enjoy!

Please note that the "Progress Notes" are different from the Starbase Alpha "Patch Notes". Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Right-click context menu has been tested: transferring large amounts of ore between ore crates in ship and station storages is now possible
  
• Safe zone ore distribution has been re-designed and configured (18 areas that each use their own material sets)
  
• Design of symmetrical angled beams has been finished (15, 30 and 45 degrees), matching plates will follow later
  
• Resource bridge maximum tether length has been increased to 100m (50m in jobs)
  
• Design for Bolt Tool improvements has started
  
• Economy and inflation/deflation related design plans have been worked on
  

User Interface

• Tutorial transitions between jobs have been improved with better hints and triggers
  
• Ship Ownership UI design has been worked on
  

Stations

• The Dragonfly, Chemosh Ark, Chemosh Badger and Vigo has been added to Rando 3
  
• Heptifili and Sinthgut have been added to the DURΛTΞCH shop
  
• Okim Industries spaceship shops' layouts have been updated:
  
  • Widukind, Eurypterid, Spiker and Shale have been added or relocated
    
• Halloween themed spaceship shop has been added and contains the following ships:
  
  • Skull, Mr 'Umpkin and Bat
    

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• First functional iteration of fast travel gate has been implemented
  
• Multiplayer stability improvements related to interlinked objects have been made
  
• Item purchases and sales now list localized names in the CV bank statement page
  
• The game should now remember the last zoom mode and used tab in Universal tool after quitting the game
  
• Being able to vacuum mining job nuggets to player ships was fixed
  
• A fix was made for not being able to pickup material cubes to ore crates
  

User Interface

• Auction House UI has been worked on
  
  • Single listing UI has been added to sell tab
    
  • Context menu has been added to Auction House and Storage
    

Spaceship Designer

• Placement and transformation preview no longer check for overlaps due to performance issues, overlap checking can be re-enabled from the settings
  
• YOLOL script editor will now save changes when the text field becomes unfocused
  
• Cables, sockets, bolts, weld bolts and autobolter attachment plates will now automatically attach themselves to the nearest station module in the interior designer
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on 1st person animation polish & sprint animations continues
  
• Rummage animations have been polished
  

Weapons

• A new explosion effect has been created for the upcoming Remote Explosive Tool
  
• The exploding ammo effects have been updated to be a lot more explosive
  
• Reticle/crosshair effects have been added to all the weapons
  

Other

• Preliminary tests for rich (mineral) rocks on asteroid surfaces are underway
  
• Assets for the different new modular cargo crate sizes have been added
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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Don't forget to check our official Starbase forums and our blog for more pictures and videos of the weekly development.

Until next time! 🪐

[h2]Progress Notes Week 42[/h2]
[h3](October 12th - 16th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 42 - hope you enjoy!

Please note that the "Progress Notes" are different from the Starbase Alpha "Patch Notes". Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Building Tool UX improvements have been tested
  
• Ore distribution design in safe zone and nearby areas continues
  
• Keybinds and usability improvements have been worked on
  
• Ship to ship propellant and power transfer configurations done and are ready for testing
  
• Auction House Buy Order design and feature planning has been worked on
  
• Electricity and power related design has been worked on
  

Stations

• 12 new player spaceships added to spaceship shops:
  
  • Beli, Fornbogi, Herfjotur, Momento, Merchantman, Nusa light shuttle, Micro, Mammoth, Eurypterid, Tabletka, Chemosh Ark I, Marlin
    

Other

• Decorative Short Interior Girder and Decorative Girder 144 cm are no longer considered as beams
  
• Ramp 72x144x144 cm is now Plate Triangle 72x144x144 cm and moved from Decorative plates to Plates/Triangle folder in asset browser
  
• Plate Triangle 72x144x144 cm default material is now Bastium
  
• Plate Triangle 72x144x144 cm Base color also changed to match with other plates
  
• Decorative column A,B,C and D are no longer available in Spaceship Designer
  
• Snap point fixes: Turret Cradle Side Armor should now snap with both Mounted Weapon Bodies (Fixed Weapon Mount 1 combination), Turret Cradle Side Armor also should now snap with Fixed Weapon Mount 2
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Work on station building continues
  
• The implementation of ship-to-ship resource transfer via resource bridge was finished
  
• A fix was made for coordinate issues in ship towing that made possible to tow ships from almost everywhere
  
• Initial implementation of printer device is done
  
• The first version of repair job tutorial has been implemented
  

Spaceship/Station Designer

• A tooltip for the test flight mode in Spaceship Designer has been implemented
  

Spaceship Designer

• Lag spikes from placing cable and sockets on large ships have been fixed
  
• Entering the test mode while editing a YOLOL chip now saves the changes instead of discarding them
  
• Added localized user error messages to mega station designer if the user tries to save a station blueprint with too many parts or parts exceeding the station building area
  
• Mega station designer's rotation tools rotating around the scene origin rather than selection origin has been fixed
  
• Autosaves in Spaceship Designer were changed to show in the correct order from newest to oldest and to include dates in their names
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on 1st person animation polish and sprint animations continues
  
• Point, Yes and No emotes (1st person) are in the making
  
• Pistol stand ADS aim poses polished
  

Armor

• Praetorian textures and Adamant paintjob polishing is in progress
  

Other

• Surface objects (rocks) were reduced to a reasonable amount on largest asteroid
  
• A fix was made for a flickering issue with the surface objects in most situations
  

[h3]Gallery of the Week[/h3]

Don't forget to check our official Starbase forums and our blog for more pictures and videos of the weekly development.

Until next time! 🪐

[h2]Progress Notes Week 41[/h2]
[h3](October 5th - 9th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 40 - hope you enjoy!

Please note that the "Progress Notes" are different from the Starbase Alpha "Patch Notes". Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Building Tool UX improvements have been designed
  
• New Mining Job has been tested and configured
  
• Durability Tool modes can now be toggled from Blueprint tab in Universal Tool
  
• Autonaming of the thruster device fields has been tested in Spaceship Designer
  
• Design for a new armor system has been worked on, new system is more streamlined and simpler than before
  
• Economy design regarding credit generation to the world and starter jobs has been worked on
  
• New player health system is being designed (Along with features such as healing/repairing, missing limbs, their effects and attaching them)
  
• Sprinting has been implemented and going under testing by QA
  
• Design for how to establish your own station in the space and begin the building process is under works
  

Other

• Design adjustments to the Ship Permissions UI and Ship menu UI have been made
  New five-part control table set has been added ( Devices/controls )
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Work on station building and Auction House continues
  
• Modifications were made to projectile damage calculations to make them more simplified
  
• Towing ships was allowed within safe zones
  
• Frame integrity was config-tweaked to compensate for last week's calculation changes
  
• A number of optimizations were implemented for the station server
  
• Station visibility range was increased from 50 km to 250 km
  

Spaceship/Station Designer

• A fix was made to a bug that caused the Spaceship Designer to freeze when bolting, unbolting, removing objects and undoing in a certain order.
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on 1st person animation polish continues
  
• 1st person rummage animations were worked on
  

Stations

• All legacy assets should now be removed from station scenes.
  
• A new version of the blueprint projector was created for player station building
  

Weapons & Armor

• Adamant armor set texture quality was polished
  
• Praetorian armor set texturing is in progress
  
• The scale and the distance the Mining Laser FX travels were reduced to be more balanced
  

Other

• Ice rock placement tests on large asteroids are underway
  
• Testing and fixing was done on rock flickering and fading issues on asteroids
  
• An asset for transponder unit was added
  
• A new unique effect with a 'measurement pulse' for the Rangefinder was created so it is now more distinguishable from other similar beam effects
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

Don't forget to check our official Starbase forums and our blog for more pictures and videos of the weekly development.

Until next time! 🪐

A new Starbase video is here!

There’s been quite a few big updates to the Starbase Alpha during the past month. There have been changes made and new features added that change gameplay, especially when it comes to building ships and mining.

This video takes a look at these new features, including the Material Selection Tool for the Spaceship Designer, the newly redistributed asteroid field, Demolition Job, Audio Signal Device and more.

https://youtu.be/BPHWtuF7XGA
Want to see what the new asteroid field looks like? Or hear what kind of sounds the Audio Signal Device can make? Watch Starbase - Alpha News September from the link above.

Join the discussion on the official Starbase Discord.




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[h2]Progress Notes Week 40[/h2]
[h3](September 28th - October 2nd)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 40 - hope you enjoy!

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Ore Collectors adjustable power consumption design has been finished
  
• Universal Tool usability improvements regarding ship blueprint have been designed
  
• Armor system testing is underway, values have been fixed and tested based on feedback
  
• Material design: density values of heaviest ores have been fixed to make them less painful for ships to carry around
  
• First phase of transponder re-design has been completed and code tasks were created
  

Stations

• DURATΞCH Spaceship shop has been added to Starting station
  
• Crusader's "Nate" has been placed back into Okim Industries' spaceship shop 2
  
• Duplicate ships "Vigo", "Port Authority Shuttle" and "Merino" have been removed from Rando spaceship shop 2 and Okim Industries' spaceship shop 2
  
• New player spaceships have been added:
  
  • Salamander, Transferens (updated), Consultor, The Martok, Mitersaw, Walter, Chemos Badger-28, Bumble, Worker Ant, Marmot-TNK, Modulus FR, Modulus MN, Modulus, Markolf Typ1, Javelin, Immerius
    

Spaceships / Spaceship Designer

• Design for thruster device field automatic naming to match Main Flight Computer in Spaceship Designer was finished
  
• Virtual mass for ore crates in Spaceship Designer has been worked on; allows testing how cargo mass would affect spaceship durability and behavior
  

Other

• Shipwreck for upcoming Repair Job is under work and being tested
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Work on station building continues
  
• Work on ship-to-ship resource transfer continues
  
• Work on Repair Job continues
  
• A fix was made for Player velocity to not start immediately decaying after unseating (with mag boots turned off)
  
• Sound manager anomalies, related to frequently changing sound sources being handled as a combination, have been reduced
  
• Frame integrity now detects chains of poorly connected frame beams, further reducing for example the exploitability of replacing long beams with several short ones
  
• A fix was made for angular forces being produced on other objects by thruster exhausts
  
• Pushing things with exhausts has been made less stable
  

User Interface

• A fix was made for item shop not having savior for preview
  
• A fix was made for item sell panel not updating icon
  
• A frame for test flight mode tooltip was made and tested in a few places that could be used to open or close it
  
• The implementation of dialog for test flight tooltips has been started
  

Audio

• Bullet impact sound system has been worked on
  

Spaceship/Station Designer

• Station part count limit added to Mega Station Designer
  
• Station build area limit added to Mega Station Designer
  
• Rotating multiple objects in local space now chooses the local space of the latest chosen component
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on remote explosive animations continues
  
• Work on 1st person emotes continues
  
• New rifle fire animations have been made (3rd person)
  
• Rummage animation has been polished (3rd person)
  

Stations

• Floating holograms have been removed around Work Hub
  

Weapons & Armor

• New upcoming armor set "Praetorian"
  
• Strix armorset texture quality polished and paintjobs have been updated
  
• Adamant armorset texture quality polishing in progress
  
• Updated Mining Saw effects by reducing them in size to make them less prominent and dominating over the action
  
• Updated Pickaxe Hit VFX to be quicker and the sparks more random
  
• Updated the Mounted Laser Hit VFX to be more stronger and intense at the point of impact
  

Other

• Large ice asteroid tests are underway
  
• A new version of the audio signal device has been made
  
• All Ship Designer asset icons should now be finished and assigned
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Don't forget to check our official Starbase forums and our blog for more pictures and videos of the weekly development.

Until next time! 🪐