The next patch update for Starbound has been released, but wait just a moment before you update your game. Acting too hastily could lose you your ship’s locker and fuel system.

The patch released last night is called ‘v. enraged Koala’, following Chucklefish’s tradition of naming their beta stages after angry marsupials and was released in two stages, an initial one and then one to add some of the new content that wasn’t included with the first patch. The major changes are engine tweaks that will allow Chucklefish to more easily add new biomes to the list already found upon the planets you can visit in game and make changes to existing worlds although they acknowledge that a future world wipe (but not character/ship wipe) could happen in the future. There’s also been a massive overhaul of the way the game is patched, allowing new content to be released when finished rather than having a chunk of content updates happening in one big patch as happens now (they say updates could be ‘nearly daily’).

New content include a greater variety of weapons for the Avian players/NPCs to wield, Valentine’s Day themed items, tech that can now be granted by armours, new death animations, dogs that can be captured (the first of the pet system! Hooray!) and most noticeably the microphone’s sounds are now being provided by ‘Smooth McGroove’.

However, as I said above hold off updating your game just yet. The original patch broke interactivity with beds and pilot seats and the hotfix applied to try and fix this issue has reportedly caused a number of players playing pre-existing saves to lose the locker on their ship and the fuel gauge that allows players to fuel their ships so they can travel to new systems and planets. Chucklefish have been very apologetic to those affected and a partial fix has already been applied to try and stop more players from losing theirs but it is still recommended that you make a back-up of your ship file and your worlds files in case the fix doesn’t work for you. Instructions on where to find these can be found on the blog post at playstarbound.com which I have linked below.

Patch notes are here.

Hotfix issue post is here.