We are opening the steam workshop to the public today.
This patch includes 1 significant bug fix, however it is primarily a release of the new features necessary for interaction with the steam workshop. You will notice that we have added a mod upload option to your main menu.
If you have no interest in creating or uploading custom content, you should ignore the new button and instead check out the newly opened...
Wayward Terran Frontier Workshop
You can use the steam workshop to import custom ship hulls made by other users into your single player game world for added variety and customization. You will still need to find these ships, and they might be rare, but you can subscribe to as many as you like for potentially unlimited ship diversity.
Also I created a comprehensive guide on how to use the workshop features, and how to make custom ship hulls here:
Guide - Creating and sharing custom ships
...And if that wasn't enough, Jan has been working tirelessly to create a image editing tool that honestly should not be given away for free because it is so freggin good. The tool is specially designed to help make really great looking custom ships for our rendering engine, and preview them without having them in game. You can find the tool inside my steam guide, or just download it here:
This represents the first time we, as developers, might find a really cool space ship in our game that we didn't expect to see, so that's pretty exciting for us.
Enjoy!