Starship EVO News

The push tool has been replaced by a grab tool.
It mainly solve the issue of putting hovercraft back upside up but it can be used for any purpose.
Press the rotate key with / without shift in order to move the entity grabbed closer or further away.

The hovercraft has also been improved:

• Fixed issue on down ramp that sucked the craft to the ground
  
• hoverpod are now rotating
  
• the direction the force is applied now depends on distance to the ground.
  
• Power down is now smoother.
  

Cheers!

The hovercraft repulsor logic has been overhauled, it now feels much closer to the suspension of a car.
The ride will feel much less stiff and more natural.
If set very soft it will be wobbly for a nice hovercraft feel.

Hovercraft changes:

• New spring stiffnes and damping setting.
  
• Some tooltip help have been added to the setting
  
• Hovercrafts can now ride on the planet water too.
  
• Incorrect sfx origin issue has also been fixed.
  

Also some much needed crash fixes related to crafting.

Bugfixes:

• #5350 Wrong symmetry on some rounded bricks
  
• #5320 Crashes will crafting
  
• Missing chunk of terrain
  

Cheers!

This build fixes the crashes introduced in the last version regarding terrain generation.
An engine refactor was needed which in turns will free up roughly 300mb/400mb of memory on planets.
Another improvement was done that should yield an 10-20% improvement to fps when CPU bound on planet.

Bugfixes:

• #5386 #5387 crash on planets
  

Cheers!

This build focuses on improving the mining experience as the player will spend quite a bit of time mining in survival.

Changes

• New mining beam sfx.
  
• Mining stone feels different: stone will breaks in less often but in bigger chunk compared to dirt.
  
• More rocks are dropped
  
• Ore will drop ore and rocks
  
• fixed several issues linked to mining deep underground.
  
• fixed and improved several VFX
  
• added some new rocks sfx.
  

Bugfixes:

• #5374 camera effect issue at low FPS.
  
• #5375 improper symmetry on new stone blocks
  
• #5382 Fan not saving their state
  

Cheers!

The jetpack camera effect have been improved with a new physics based solution.
Also they wont applied when using speed keys (as it is too extreme)

Bugfixes:

• #5364 FOV dash effect when speed is high.
  
• #5367 Manual crafting does not create multi-shapes blocks.
  

Cheers!