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Starting Area, Friends and Lamps

Starting Area

  • New worlds now start with a Starting Area. This a 48 by 48 area located where new players spawn
  • Custom games have an added toggle to turn off the spawning of the Starting area
  • Ancient Marble has been added to the game. This is a very strong marble used to make up the starting area. It has strength 200, so it cannot be mined by any pickaxe in the game. It also can't be crafted

Steam Friends and Lobbies

  • You can now join a friend's game from Steam's Friends menu
  • You can now invite a friend to your game from Steam's Friends menu
  • You can now set your game to have an 'open game server' to have your game show up on Steam's Server list

Lamps

  • We've added the Tall Bronze Lamp, Orange Lamp and Dark Lamp to Ficterra
  • These decorative lamps can be used to light up an area with white (or orange) light
  • The lamps can be crafted at an Anvil with glass and other components
  • All 3 Lamps are unlocked by the power systems research

Other

  • Fixed a bug with the starting pad when in multiplayer when disconnecting from a server
  • Minimap icons now correctly show up within bounds
  • Changed the LOD levels on lower quality settings, from switching to lower detail models to early
  • The default quality setting for the game has been increased
  • Added the console command 'convert'. This can be used to convert one type of cube to another type within an area. Used by 'convert X to Y' where X, Y are the names of the cubes
  • The Harrowing Woods biome is no longer considered a safe biome for starting the game in. When creating a new game, the game will try to spawn you in other biomes if possible