v6.0.0 of Starground is finally released! This is the biggest update yet, which includes entirely new mechanics for both dungeoning and automation.
Power
Power is now in the game! This involves specific machines needing to be powered to function now. These machines can be linked up with the new Tesla Coil.
Research
Research is now fully implemented. This lets players unlock new technologies to slowly improve their factory over time.
Rolling
You can now roll in the dungeon, which aids in avoiding enemies and general navigation.
Sounds and Effects
All of the machines in Starground now have their own unique particle effects and sounds. The word is more alive than ever!
Below is a full changelog of every change and addition:
Additions
- Added Buldogghi to the list of translators.
- Added an option to use a regular font instead of the pixel font.
- Added breakable decorations that spawn in dungeons and drop hearts.
- Added the ability to roll with SPACE.
- Added Starground energy (SE).
- Added the power tab in the building menu.
- Added tesla coils that transmits power from generators to consumers.
- Added fuel cells (double the fuel time of biofuel).
- Added coal and coal ore rocks.
- Added sounds to the crafter.
- Added welding effects to the crafter.
- Added sounds to the furnace.
- Added buzzing sounds to bees.
- Added grinding noises to the shredder.
- Added particles to the shredder.
- Added keyboard number indicators to the hotbar.
- Added functionality to researchers.
- Added an animation to researchers.
- Added particles to researchers.
- Added an animation to the burner when working.
- Added sounds to researchers.
- Added power usage indicators to the build menu.
- Added another section in the build menu to indicate building power usage.
- Added researches that unlock different items and buildings.
- Added the treadmill.
- Added a sort button to grid inventories (chest, collector, inventory etc.).
- Added boss doors for rooms connecting to a boss room.
- Added new sprites for v2 conveyors.
Changes
- Made it so that long words now wrap in the building menu.
- Made it so the Simplified Chinese localization defaults to Noto Sans SC.
- Swapped out static font sizes for size types (large header, medium header, etc.).
- Made it so that item names don't expand with the slot when hovered over.
- Changed the backing color of the slot item name from a plain square to a designated sprite.
- Made it so that the toolbench can only accept a stacksize of 1 item.
- In refactoring this, inventories can now have any stack size, which opens us up to upgrades to increase chest slot stack size.
- Changed the sprite for splitters.
- Made it so movers can move an item directly onto a splitter without needing a conveyor inbetween.
- Made it so movers can take an item directly off of a splitter.
- Made it so splitters can move items into other splitters.
- Changed the dungeon background color to be darker.
- Changed the biofuel sprite.
- Made it so crafters require 5 SE to craft an item.
- Made it so that the burner produces 20 SE when fueled.
- Changed resource spawning to a weighted system, allowing for the change of spawn rates.
- Made it so that shredders require 3 SE to shred items.
- Made it so that collectors require 8 SE to operate.
- Made it so lamps require 1 SE to operate.
- Made it so lamps turn off during the day.
- Decreased the amount of required hits for splitters from 5 to 2.
- Changed the conveyor belt descriptions to make more sense.
- Changed the burner description to make more sense.
- Changed the mover description to make more sense.
- Changed the long range mover description to make more sense.
- Changed the toolbench description to make more sense.
- Changed the starlauncher description to make more sense.
- Made it so bees now hold the items they mined.
- Decreased the volume of picking up items.
- Significantly changed the research menu layout.
- Made it so researchers now consume 8 SE to operate.
- Rearranged the order of the crafter in the build menu.
- Made it so the day indicator turns to a moon during nighttime.
- Made it so that placeholder sprites go invisible when an item is in the slot.
- Locked multiple buildings and items behind research.
- Made it so players can walk on splitters.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the fps counter setting was not saved.
- Fixed an issue where selected language was not saved.
- Fixed an issue where the inventory UI was covered by the chat box on large UI scales.
- Fixed a depth sorting issue where the inventory would interweave into the health bar.
- Fixed an issue where item slots would not expand .
- Fixed a potential crash related to building objects.
- Fixed an issue where splitters would not grab items.
- Fixed an issue where long item names would permanetely increase the background length.
- Fixed a crash related to taking an item from a mover.
- Fixed an issue where burner inventories didn't work on multiplayer.
- Fixed an issue where switching a crafter recipe could cause a crash.
- Fixed an issue where movers would try to insert items into inventories with no item filters even if there wasn't insertable slots.
- Fixed an issue where the research menu and an object inventory could be open at the same time.
- Fixed an issue where clients would sometimes be unable to initiate dungeon rooms.
- Changed the door sprites to look more sideways when going left or right.
Optimizations
- Optimized scene layout of item slots (better control over behavior).
- Significantly improved performance of conveyor belt tiling.
- Significantly improved performance of conveyors.
- Switched building multiplayer updates to the MultiplayerSynchronizer node, making them more reliable and efficient (only 2 bits per packet!).