UPDATE: All official servers are now back on-line with patch 16
GRAV PATCH 16 NOTES
NOTICE: Nexus shields have been replaced with 'shield generators'. These work in a similar fashion, except without the bubble. Any rooms within their radius are provided damage protection.
IMPROVEMENTS:
- New planets have been spotted! It's said they have vast expanses of arctic biomes and a rare resource called Tundrite. Beware! The cold has fangs on these lonely blocks of ice.
- New gear set: Tundra! Protects against cold
- New pet: Medibot! - heals health over time
- New pet: Constructobot! - reduces build costs of base items and rooms
- 3 New SunStone swords!
- 3 New Tundrite swords!
- New visuals for Artifact Sword
- Drill Platform is now in the Game. The mighty Drill Platform is fueled by plasma. Every N hours the platform will ERUPT with a huge amount of resources. Check the Drill Completion time and be at the platform to fight or perhaps share the resources with your fellow players.
- New item: Wingsuit+. High level wingsuit with improved attributes and visuals
- New base item: Custom Sign. Set custom text on this sign to warn your allies of danger, OR TRAP THEM BWAHAHHA
- New base item: D Fences!
- Another New fence! Cheaper, non stackable version of the D-Fence
- Armory now has a button to fill ammo up in one click
- Armory now displays how many bullets are in each mag
- Storage crate now animates opened/closed when it's being used
- Room placement code is now more robust. Allows for rooms to be slotted into empty spaces without there being empty space above them.
- Storage Bin now updates the lists automatically (you no longer need to click off and on the category again).
- Better Crafting Material filters in the inventory screen. -SHOUTOUT: Arctic Rusty the Freshmaker
- Added OMCR stair room type
- Organized rooms into nice subcategories for easier navigation
- All glass rooms now use the glass floor piece instead of the normal floor piece
- Elemental Armor is now active! Based on the number of total pieces of armor that you are wearing of a specific type shall determine what overall Elemental Type you are.
- Interact text for turrets now displays how much ore is remaining
- In-Game server browser now displays how many people are in the overall metaverse (meta population across all planets)
- RUS Localization updates -SHOUTOUT: Alexander Radul
- You can now set custom text on beacons.
- DEU Localization updated -SHOUTOUT: Maxunit
BALANCE:
- Turrets now do more damage when upgraded
- Smaller flying bugs no longer do ranged attacks
- Wingsuits now need a flying bug material. It's thematic to what the wing suit does! -SHOUTOUT: Rusty
- Area Totems now require some Artifacts. -SHOUTOUT: Rusty
- SunStone will now appear in desert planet caves
- You can no longer damage friendly buildings protected by shields
- Turrets no longer damage buildings
- 'Metal' rooms now cost more to better reflect their much stronger health and armor
- Glass rooms now have less health to reflect threir being glass
- Wingsuits now have the same behavior as other vehicles when shot; you are ejected from the vehicle -SHOUTOUT: Wiggling_snake
- Jetpacks now drop everywhere, not just on the moon
- When players are very low on stamina, they now move slower
BUGFIX:
- Fixed an issue causing doors to be difficult to place when multiple doorframes were near the build site
- Fixed issues causing bases to be destroyed on server restarts when they were built on top of certain rocks
- Fixed Resource Crafting Materials not showing up in in the Filtered Menus of the Storage Bin and Inventory
- Fixed crashes related to players building outside of the world bounds
- Fixed rotation of the character doing strange things when flying straight down with the wingsuit -SHOUTOUT: Rusty
- Fixed being able to build base items in the air
- Fixed being able to stack rooms that are not supposed to stack
- Fixed not being able to interact with flags
- Added checking to prevent things from being built in cave null space
- Ammo should be no longer be lost when traveling to moons and Exo planets
- Fix blueprints not showing up in the inventory menu
- You can no longer loot bags through walls
- You can no longer use vehicles on the ladder. No more monocycle ladder madness!
- Fixed several issues with materials for base items getting set incorrectly (friendly vs unfriendly colors, etc)
- Fixed base items not getting added to player log when destroyed during server bootup verification
- Fix leaderboards rotating if they had never rotated before.
- Fixed sprinting consuming stamina when not moving
PATCHEMOTE: New Emotes Added. 'plot' and 'fingerwiggle'