TOKYO: Starbound, the Early Access planet-hopping sandbox, levelled up yesterday. The Spirited Giraffe update is a big one, adding something to the game that hoping would pop into existence.
Teleporters have existed in Starbound since the beginning. Every ship comes with one, allowing intergalactic explorers to jump between ships and teleport from the heavens to the ground. The ship teleporters were limited, though, transporting players to a fixed spot on the planet.
New, player constructed teleporters can be set up and registered on planets, meaning that finally you can beam directly to key locations particularly handy if users have built up a base far from where the ship’s teleporter transports. And thanks to improvements in teleporter technology, friends can now teleport directly to each other instead of just beaming themselves to each other’s ships.
This is a game changer.
Users will need a teleporter core to build their own, and able to customise it to suit style or your character’s race.
Another improvement to travelling the universe has also made its way into this update: planet bookmarks. Save planets on the ship’s navigation interface and build up a list of destinations that you can quickly travel to if you fancy revisiting them.
Spirited Giraffe, on top of travel improvements, throws adorable ship pets into the game, a new location in the form of the mysterious Ark, improvements to NPC path finding and lovely new biome: slime caves! Imagine walking into the aftermath of a hot, sexy Slimer orgy. That’s the slime caves.
