Cheerful Giraffe

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Cheerful Giraffe, referred to as the "Story Update", was Starbound's final beta version released as Version 1.0 on July 22nd, 2016. It was under development from early December 2015 through July 2016. This update changed crafting and progression almost entirely, rewrote almost all of the lore and developed the final pieces for what would become the final feature set for full release.

This update was the final build to use animal naming conventions. After this builds are only referenced by their number.

It was announced on the developer blog shortly after release.[1]

Changes

Story

Lore

Crafting

Pets

Crew Members

  • Ability to recruit NPCs as crew members aboard your ship
  • Ability to recruit becomes available after completing a set number of generated tenant/generated quests
  • Alternatively, if players choose not to colonize they can recruit penguin mercenary crew members from a bar at the outpost.
  • Crew members can follow and fight alongside players outside their ship
  • Crew member roles provide passive effects, enhance your ship and provide unique benefits.
  • Crew outfits are colored by role, but can be customized to any outfit provided the crew has a tailor.
  • Ship size upgrades can now be unlocked by crew size expansion (optionally)
  • Upgrading ship size also increases the number of crew members that can follow the player and occupy their ship
  • Penguin mercenaries can be hired using dubloons at the outpost (as an alternative method to gather crew outside quests)

Quests

  • Reworked quest progression entirely
  • Each racial mission now has a quest line to locate clues to find the instance and obtain a special artifact. These clues can be found by inspecting artifacts, talking to NPCs or completing other quests.
    • New Museum side quests
    • New Arena side quests
  • Techs are now unlocked by quests that send a player through a unique course to train them on the tech.
  • Generated quests - These quests are generated to have villager NPCs and tenants throughout the game request players do things like gather a specific item or defeat a nearby enemy. Completing these quests can give players reputation with the NPC, and they may join your ship crew. These quests are endlessly generated, ensuring players will never run out of objectives they can choose to take on.

Fossils

Rails

Tech

  • Tech challenge courses added, players must pass through a challenge course questline before unlocking initial tech.
  • Completely remade & greatly simplified tech unlocks and progression.
  • Tech is now unlocked at the Outpost in the newly added tech lab
    • There are now three main tech types, and three available upgrades for each type for a total of twelve techs.
    • After unlocking the initial type through the challenge course, additional upgrades can be purchased in any order using tech cards.
    • Utility/abilities of techs has been balanced. They work much better in combination together.
  • New (and updated) tech:
  • Techs can initially be switched out at the Outpost, a placeable Tech Console is unlocked later for purchase

Backer Rewards

Planets

Other New Additions

Other Changes

  • Steam achievements
  • Many monsters now explode into unique particles when killed
  • The action bar can now be locked, preventing picked up items from filling empty slots
  • Improvements in stellar cloud/coloring
  • Monsters are now better scaled and animated in targeting portraits
  • Survival Mode (reimplementation of hunger)
  • The hotbar has been completely redesigned
  • Restyling of chat bubbles
  • Restyling of SAIL console and window
  • The Ark has been moved beside the outpost
  • There are new areas of the outpost, including a penguin bar
  • The Outpost ore vendor has been replaced with a full shop, Ursa Miner
  • Updated many racial respawn animations
  • Huge overhaul of most UI windows
  • Many swords now have combo attacks when swung quickly
  • Updated health and energy bars. Added hunger bar to UI
  • Bosses now have a large health bar which also displays their name.
  • Added staffs and wands as procedurally generated weapon types.
  • When hurt the player now has increased invincibility frames.
  • Villager NPCs now respond when players take objects from their dwellings.
  • When a monster is hit by a player it’s unable to damage the player for a short period (Meaning you no longer have to worry about being hit by monsters caught in your special attacks).[3]
  • Adjusted character name generation (now first names only)
  • Items dropped on player death no longer time out
  • Wide seats can seat multiple characters.
  • Redesigned armor tooltips
  • Replaced regeneration while in beds with resting effect
  • NPCs now have chatter sounds when speaking.
  • All weapons reworked/optimized as they were migrated to active item type
  • Novakids now glow faintly
  • Glowbugs now glow faintly, and glow when captured inside jars.
  • Added crafting material tab to the inventory window
  • Inventory tabs now automatically change to the correct tab when picking up an item
  • Food now rots (becoming rotten food, can be placed in refrigerators to keep from decay)
  • Reset all food stats and healing values
  • Added new Floran, Avian, and Apex village types
  • Added Hylotl villages, ocean city, and ruined city
  • Added new npc race Fenerox

and much more

References

  1. http://playstarbound.com/starbound-release/
  2. http://playstarbound.com/4th-december-craft-punk/
  3. http://playstarbound.com/final-approach-to-1-0/