Starbound Patch Coming Next Week

Chucklefish are back with their first patch of the year for Starbound, the procedurally generated exploration title. I'll kick things off and tell you that this is the patch fans have been waiting for as it contains the final character wipe. After this, Chucklefish have said there will be no more.

There's a handful of bug fixes coming in this patch and, to save time, I won't mention them here. You can check those out on their blog post.

The additions, however, I will cover. What you can expect from this patch is:

• New game modes! Permadeath and drop-everything-on-death modes.
• Revolvers, pulse rifles, hand grenades, shivs, Floran needlers, Floran thorn hammer.
• Human guards now wear soldier uniforms.
• MOAR HATS.
• More random encounters.
• Possibly more content, if it’s finished on time!

One big thing to take into account here is that this final wipe promise isn't to everything. Chucklefish have promised that the ship and the player will not reset however, the world might.

The problem is that the organization of planets may change so if they go muck with a planet, how do we put it in the celestial map? Or if they build on a biome we remove, or something. So no promises, but we’ll try. But promises on the player / ship.
- Kyren, Chucklefish Developer