Starbase News

A new Starbase Feature video is here!

This video focuses on the asteroid belt, which is where you're going to have to venture into if you wish to mine yourself some materials. It's recently been updated, and is now bigger, bluer and foggier than ever.

The asteroid belt is also the perfect place for pirates to ambush you, which is what we've been simulating with Convoy Events with players in the Starbase Closed Alpha. The video also includes footage from those events so you can see what fighting within the asteroid belt can look like.

https://youtu.be/g7Xsk6W86ZA
Find out what the new asteroid belt is like and see whether the Pirate Team or the Convoy Team were victorius in their battle by watching Starbase - Asteroid Belt Feature Video from the link above!

Join the discussion on the official Starbase Discord.




And don't forget to wishlist Starbase on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/454120/Starbase/

[h2]Progress Notes Week 6[/h2]
[h3]February 8th - 12th[/h3]

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of week 6 of 2021!

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

• Ship diagnostic and Material point scanner designs have been finished
  
• Transponder safe zone and game rule features (device fields that inform the current area rules) have been tested and are now in alpha
  
• Economy design for Central Bank features has been worked on
  
• Thruster balance adjustments and testing has been worked on, new resource consumption values have been adjusted
  

User Interface

• Missions UI has been worked on, logs of completed missions and receiving and accepting invitations to them have been designed
  
• Ships UI design was updated, placeholders removed and the UI was released in Alpha
  

Stations and Cities

• Resource bridges with missing host modes, which enable players to use them simultaneously, have been fixed on the Origin station
  
• Walkway gaps fixed in a few grid slots
  
• Station Designer issue, which caused the grid slots not to snap properly, has been fixed
  
  • There's still some issues with 45° Corner modules, but those are being looked at
    
• Chemosh ship shop has been finished and added to Origin and Robur stations
  
• Okim 3 ship shop has been created and added to Origin and Robur stations
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Autobolting now detects welds as existing connections.
  
• Under-the-hood preparations for a new ship thruster has been made
  
• Player interaction with tripod weapons has been implemented, including locking player in place, aiming, turning the weapon and syncing
  
• Shooting functionality for tripod weapons has been started on
  
• New audio signal device system has been worked on
  

User Interface

• Work on adding search and filter options to the inbox UI has been started
  
• New UI for CV Bank Statement has been completed
  
• Preliminary UI for Company Bank Statement has been completed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on melee animations continues
  
• Rocketlauncher now has unique prone animations
  
• Prone melee animations have been worked on
  
• Work on downed death animation started
  

Stations and Cities

• Work on Skyscraper Roof Module 02 interior has started
  

Other

• Changes to the reconstruction machine were made. Now it doesn't look like you can stuff endo kits under the monitor
  
• A material point scanner asset has been created
  
• Hologram placement in Imperial capital station's red ore towers has been fixed
  
• All Endo Hit VFX have been consolidated for better future management and increased visual flexibility
  

[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! 🪐

[h2]Progress Notes Week 5[/h2]
[h3]February 1st - 5th[/h3]

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of week 5 of 2021!

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

• Design for Paint/Decal Tool features has been worked on
  
• Safe zone sensor has been designed for Transponder
  
• First version of material sensor design has been finished
  
• Mining backpack update has been designed, two ore slots will be added
  
• A split version of the Reconstruction machine has been added
  
  • New machines can all be put into player's inventory and grabbed and there's more space to bolt the machine
    
• Endoskeleton Replacement Kits have been added
  
  • Player may purchase these kits from markets
    
  • Pressing the "Add endo kit" button on the Reconstruction machine will move a kit from the player's inventory to the machine
    
• Remote Explosives and Remote Explosives Detonator have been added to economy
  
• Plasma Thruster design has been worked on, formulas for thruster resource usage have been collected and are ready for balancing
  

User Interface

• Design for Company missions is underway
  
  • UI for invitations, joining and accepting and publishing the missions has been worked on
    

Stations and Cities

• Landing platforms and Ship Design Workshops have been added to the Moon city (currently out of function, due to gravity)
  
• Three Ship Design Workshops and new insurance transfer terminals have been added to Robur station
  
  • Original insurance transfer has been renamed and requires re-binding
    

Spaceship Designer

• Spaceship Modules / Starter Kit now also has pre-assembled ship weapons with fixed mounts
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• A possible fix has been made for disappearing resources in resource networks
  
• Fixes have been made to unarmed melee syncing
  
• Inventory performance for players with large inventories has been improved
  
• 'Sell all' in sell terminal now sells everything and not just the first 250 items
  
• Proper interaction code for Tripods has been added
  
• The creation of a passive tool used to handle tripod weapon shooting has been started
  
• Player stations now have a separate build zone that defines where voxels can be built
  
• Player station default safe zone size has been decreased
  
• Finishing the foundation unit now increases station safe zone and build area size
  
• Adding voxels into a player station increases the station's build area, safe zone and the total claimed area towards a set maximum. Area volume growth is linear, each built voxel increases the volume by a set amount.
  
• Basic functionality of the new audio signal device system is now working
  

User Interface

• First version of the mail system has been finished. It will be used to send mail and credits to other players and can be accessed under social tab inbox
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on melee animations continues
  
• Decalizer & painter tool animations have been worked on (1st person)
  
• "Downed" animations have been worked on further
  

Other

• Ship diagnostic scanner has been modeled and textured
  
• A torpedo laser tracker asset has been created
  
• UI icons for station manager permission toggles have been created
  

[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! 🪐

[h2]Progress Notes Week 4[/h2]
[h3]January 25th - 29th[/h3]

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of week 4 of 2021!

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

• Asteroid spawns and material distribution have been configured to fit the new belt height
  
• Easy build mode design and testing continues, module icon and rotation configurations have been tested
  
• New large asteroid LODs have been tested and configured
  
• New device that provides information about ships' durability issues and whether the ship is inside a safe zone has been designed
  
• Design on material scanners has started, this would be used to identify materials within a certain range
  
• Plasma Thruster (new big ship thruster) design has been worked on
  
• Design for decommissioning owned spaceships and claiming non-owned spaceships has been made
  

User Interface

• Station Manager UI design has been worked on:
  
  • First version of a station "blueprint page" has been made
    
  • Different iterations for Station Manager Player Access settings have been worked on
    

Stations and Cities

• Ship Despawn Area with 5s timer has been added around Ship design workshop's insurance terminal in Origin station
  
• Marketplace has been added to Robur station
  
• Barricades for the cities are being worked on
  

Spaceship Designer

• Test mode now always starts with magnetic boots off
  
• Welds should no longer interfere with automatic snapping
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Broken chairs has been adjusted so that they keep ejecting players until there's room to leave them
  
• A fix has been made for not being able to sometimes snap objects next to beams that are welded
  
• A fix has been made for not being able to pick up welded beams to inventory
  
• Fixes have been made to Tripod and Tripod weapon netsyncing
  

User Interface

• Improvements have been made to sorting and visuals in CV bank statement
  

In-game Designers

• A fix has been made for an issue that prevented entering the Station Designer on specific stations
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on melee animations continues
  
• A new Melee Punch effect has been added
  
• "Downed" animations have been worked on (player is incapacitated but can still be recovered- animation)
  

Stations and Cities

• Planet Beacon has been worked on. Planet Beacon is used to claim the building area from moons/planets
  

Weapons and Tools

• Decalizer and painter tool textures have been added
  
• A scope model for the tripod weapons has been created
  

Other

• Remote utility box has been modeled and textured
  
• Device rack core textures have been fixed
  

[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! 🪐

[h2]Progress Notes Week 3[/h2]
[h3]January 18th - 22nd[/h3]

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of week 3 of 2021!

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

• Large non-mineable asteroid configurations have been tested and updated, non-mineable asteroids are now rarer and clusters are less dense
  
• Solutions for invisible collisions with welds have been designed and tested
  
• Auto-rotation feature for ship modules has been designed (Easy building mode)
  
• Transponder support for developer created stations has been designed
  
• Player looting system design is being worked on
  
• General system for device storage access for more flexible manufacturing has been designed
  
• Utility box device remote variant asset has been designed
  

User Interface

• Improvements for Ship Safe Mode toggle UI design have been worked on
  
• Station and Ship Manager UI designs have been worked on
  

Stations and Cities

• Upper grid slots' walkway issues have been fixed
  
• The rotations of the ships "Mite" and "Mara" have been corrected in Okim Industries' spaceship shop 1
  
• New city sections are being worked on
  
• City borders / barricades are being worked on
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Support for ship vouchers has been added
  
• Unarmed melee animation syncing plus other small melee fixes and options have been made
  
• Accidental deletion of non-empty station inventories has been prevented
  
• More versatile effect support for damages has been added
  
• Transponder feature for developer made stations has been added
  
• Certain specific items within ships now have correct amounts of resources when bought
  
• Auctions with certain specific resource containers now behave correctly
  
• A fix has been made for players being locked to ships that are hidden by instancing
  
• A fix has been made for autobolting only bolting bolts that are visible to the player
  
• A fix has been made for not being able to fix repair job ships
  

User Interface

• Company layout has been reworked
  
• A fix has been made for players being able to promote other players to their own rank
  
• Auction House UI no longer lists auctions when a category containing subcategories only is selected
  

In-game Designers

• Beams are no longer unwelded when moving them with Move or Rotate tools
  
• Beam welds are now included in created modules
  
• Station parts that have been completely or partially built in-game can no longer be removed in the Station Designer
  
• Resaving a station's blueprint in the Station Designer will now remove any parts not part of the station blueprint
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations and Emotes

• Work on melee animations continued
  
• Decalizer & painter tool rigs have been created
  
• Downed animations have been worked on (3rd person)
  

Other

• Base Drone model textures have been updated
  
• Assets for Decalizer tool and Painter tool have been made, these help players insert decals and color their ships while in first person mode
  

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

Until next time! 🪐