Hot on the heels of Starbound's last big update comes their latest patch entitled “Indignant Koala”.
The patch comes with many fixes as well as an awful lot of balancing. Among the things balanced are the strength of early armours such as copper, the effectiveness of shields (which had a tendacy to be useless before) and melee weaponry. The update also nerfed 'bird'-type monsters to reduce their projectile range as well as to stop them chasing players across a map and made players invincible in their own ships (an update that comes as a result of traps being set on the telepad spawn point in a ship leading to a character never being able to respawn at all). Although this isn't a wipe-patch, it's being recommended that players start a new game to be able to experience the new balances implemented.
A full set of patch notes is linked below.
Starbound Review: Annoyed Koala: http://www.sanitarium.fm/archives/2389
Indignant Koala Patch Notes: http://playstarbound.com/patchnotes-for-v-indignant-koala-12112013/
