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From reddit:
Starbound Devs make surprise visit on tehMorag's stream, talk Starbound for 3 hours

Spoiler: "Future changes to come" (click to show/hide)

Here are some notes I took, listening to about half of it.

NPC SPAWNERS- npcs belong in your house, they are vulnerable. The Npcs you spawn in your house will scan their surroundings, assess the value of what the structure is made of and the items you have in containers.
Better rating lets them sell better stuff and unlock new behaviours.

This can give you incentive to continue upgrading your homebase on a planet and improving a village

Massive changes to the planet as a whole, change the weather, change the terrain.

add more data to the planet scanner. Avian village?

more secrets underground.

(way in the future)- --space combat, boarding other ships.

Have very large spaceship dungeons in space, size of a planet.

sandstorms in deserts, icestorms, meteor showers, toxic planet, planets with no air to breathe. tie difficulty to ore distribution.

each tier will end in a story mission, the mission ends with a boss to open a new tier. sort of like gta story progression.

navigator might be: map has fog of war. can only see local vision, revealing the map as you go. no sector buttons, instead you move out of the sector and travel to the next one. (final sector is infinite).

all difficulty levels are approximate and fractional 1.12 etc., its a sliding scale. within one tier there will be different difficulties within the same tier of content. the progression will be smoother. it will be more clearly communicated to the player how challenging the area is.

monster generation- Currently: monster parts have stats. simple multipliers; spider legs let a monster run fast and jump high. more health/damage. new: unique augments and status effects. fiery monster sets you on fire. spider can now walk up walls. You might get a burning spider dropping on you from the ceiling. projectiles that are currently used randomly, tied more to specific heads. more unique monster types and behaviour. reflect biome in monster parts used.

Circular Rotating map- highlights only, show friendly players, spawn points, no details.

instead you will use a mapping item, creating a map as you travel.

Personal Teleporters. Stargates. Between planets, then servers.

(far off future) Dramatic changes to planets.
strip entire 1st layer off planet. remove surface later. lifeless looking surface, changed background to reflect your orbital weapon's damage. not able to do when a player is on the planet.

coming catagory system so conflicting techs know which needs to take priority, currently disabled to prevent issues. Hotkey to switch as temporary fix.

more server commands otw. Chat, port listening. more control.

villagers aggro when you steal. more aggressively follow you.

fix world storage, organize pak files to improve modding, launcher integration

spawn point assignment on the planet.

control reconfig.

increase ship size, upgrade.

colorblind mode.

more engine optimization.

No racial abilities, instead there is race based armor crafting with abilities on the armor set.
Avian armor set can glide downward.

Capture pods might be able to be used on npcs.
get a monster low on health, throw a capture pod at it.
tier 4 craft a Creature Station. (current highest 'finished' tier, there are more armors but not balanced) capture pod. more items on the station, central hub for pet related stuff: food, buffs, more.
can only capture small baby creatures currently.
leveling system for pets, grow to adult, evolve. pre filled monster pods for sale at merchants.

Mercenaries-
Make monster pod into a beacon, have a mercenaries teleport down as called.

FTL animation getting reworked to be less memory intensive.

Working on system to prevent need for character wipes in the future.

I did not watch the stream, so there may be other crunchy informations there.

[Flying Dice]

Woah. How do, a destructible/rebuildable ship?

I'm curious too.

This mod, right here.

<3


Also sorry to ask another repeatedly asked question, but does anyone know the typical response to a modded-to-fuck player joining a Vanilla server?

... I should make an FAQ.

Here's the one I use. It's not dependent on the original ship structure, and I can confirm that it works for existing characters (move your stuff to a planet before installing it, though!). OTOH, the author just gives you a bunch of spares of the ship equipment, rather than crafting recipes.

Flying Dice's treeship crashed me the first time, but worked fine the second. Not sure what's going on there.

I've crashed dozens of times beaming up to unmodded ships. I don't think it has anything to do with the mods, I think it has to do with the netcode

This. It's to do with the netcode, same as the other buggy parts of MP. I've crashed in my treeship a couple times, but also in vanilla ships, and the ship has never crashed/lagged for me in SP. :|

From reddit:
Starbound Devs make surprise visit on tehMorag's stream, talk Starbound for 3 hours

Spoiler: "Future changes to come" (click to show/hide)

Here are some notes I took, listening to about half of it.

NPC SPAWNERS- npcs belong in your house, they are vulnerable. The Npcs you spawn in your house will scan their surroundings, assess the value of what the structure is made of and the items you have in containers.
Better rating lets them sell better stuff and unlock new behaviours.

This can give you incentive to continue upgrading your homebase on a planet and improving a village

Massive changes to the planet as a whole, change the weather, change the terrain.

add more data to the planet scanner. Avian village?

more secrets underground.

(way in the future)- --space combat, boarding other ships.

Have very large spaceship dungeons in space, size of a planet.

sandstorms in deserts, icestorms, meteor showers, toxic planet, planets with no air to breathe. tie difficulty to ore distribution.

each tier will end in a story mission, the mission ends with a boss to open a new tier. sort of like gta story progression.

navigator might be: map has fog of war. can only see local vision, revealing the map as you go. no sector buttons, instead you move out of the sector and travel to the next one. (final sector is infinite).

all difficulty levels are approximate and fractional 1.12 etc., its a sliding scale. within one tier there will be different difficulties within the same tier of content. the progression will be smoother. it will be more clearly communicated to the player how challenging the area is.

monster generation- Currently: monster parts have stats. simple multipliers; spider legs let a monster run fast and jump high. more health/damage. new: unique augments and status effects. fiery monster sets you on fire. spider can now walk up walls. You might get a burning spider dropping on you from the ceiling. projectiles that are currently used randomly, tied more to specific heads. more unique monster types and behaviour. reflect biome in monster parts used.

Circular Rotating map- highlights only, show friendly players, spawn points, no details.

instead you will use a mapping item, creating a map as you travel.

Personal Teleporters. Stargates. Between planets, then servers.

(far off future) Dramatic changes to planets.
strip entire 1st layer off planet. remove surface later. lifeless looking surface, changed background to reflect your orbital weapon's damage. not able to do when a player is on the planet.

coming catagory system so conflicting techs know which needs to take priority, currently disabled to prevent issues. Hotkey to switch as temporary fix.

more server commands otw. Chat, port listening. more control.

villagers aggro when you steal. more aggressively follow you.

fix world storage, organize pak files to improve modding, launcher integration

spawn point assignment on the planet.

control reconfig.

increase ship size, upgrade.

colorblind mode.

more engine optimization.

No racial abilities, instead there is race based armor crafting with abilities on the armor set.
Avian armor set can glide downward.

Capture pods might be able to be used on npcs.
get a monster low on health, throw a capture pod at it.
tier 4 craft a Creature Station. (current highest 'finished' tier, there are more armors but not balanced) capture pod. more items on the station, central hub for pet related stuff: food, buffs, more.
can only capture small baby creatures currently.
leveling system for pets, grow to adult, evolve. pre filled monster pods for sale at merchants.

Mercenaries-
Make monster pod into a beacon, have a mercenaries teleport down as called.

FTL animation getting reworked to be less memory intensive.

Working on system to prevent need for character wipes in the future.

I did not watch the stream, so there may be other crunchy informations there.

Now I'm drooling. :3

[timferius]

From reddit:
Starbound Devs make surprise visit on tehMorag's stream, talk Starbound for 3 hours

Spoiler: "Future changes to come" (click to show/hide)

Here are some notes I took, listening to about half of it.

NPC SPAWNERS- npcs belong in your house, they are vulnerable. The Npcs you spawn in your house will scan their surroundings, assess the value of what the structure is made of and the items you have in containers.
Better rating lets them sell better stuff and unlock new behaviours.

This can give you incentive to continue upgrading your homebase on a planet and improving a village

Massive changes to the planet as a whole, change the weather, change the terrain.

add more data to the planet scanner. Avian village?

more secrets underground.

(way in the future)- --space combat, boarding other ships.

Have very large spaceship dungeons in space, size of a planet.

sandstorms in deserts, icestorms, meteor showers, toxic planet, planets with no air to breathe. tie difficulty to ore distribution.

each tier will end in a story mission, the mission ends with a boss to open a new tier. sort of like gta story progression.

navigator might be: map has fog of war. can only see local vision, revealing the map as you go. no sector buttons, instead you move out of the sector and travel to the next one. (final sector is infinite).

all difficulty levels are approximate and fractional 1.12 etc., its a sliding scale. within one tier there will be different difficulties within the same tier of content. the progression will be smoother. it will be more clearly communicated to the player how challenging the area is.

monster generation- Currently: monster parts have stats. simple multipliers; spider legs let a monster run fast and jump high. more health/damage. new: unique augments and status effects. fiery monster sets you on fire. spider can now walk up walls. You might get a burning spider dropping on you from the ceiling. projectiles that are currently used randomly, tied more to specific heads. more unique monster types and behaviour. reflect biome in monster parts used.

Circular Rotating map- highlights only, show friendly players, spawn points, no details.

instead you will use a mapping item, creating a map as you travel.

Personal Teleporters. Stargates. Between planets, then servers.

(far off future) Dramatic changes to planets.
strip entire 1st layer off planet. remove surface later. lifeless looking surface, changed background to reflect your orbital weapon's damage. not able to do when a player is on the planet.

coming catagory system so conflicting techs know which needs to take priority, currently disabled to prevent issues. Hotkey to switch as temporary fix.

more server commands otw. Chat, port listening. more control.

villagers aggro when you steal. more aggressively follow you.

fix world storage, organize pak files to improve modding, launcher integration

spawn point assignment on the planet.

control reconfig.

increase ship size, upgrade.

colorblind mode.

more engine optimization.

No racial abilities, instead there is race based armor crafting with abilities on the armor set.
Avian armor set can glide downward.

Capture pods might be able to be used on npcs.
get a monster low on health, throw a capture pod at it.
tier 4 craft a Creature Station. (current highest 'finished' tier, there are more armors but not balanced) capture pod. more items on the station, central hub for pet related stuff: food, buffs, more.
can only capture small baby creatures currently.
leveling system for pets, grow to adult, evolve. pre filled monster pods for sale at merchants.

Mercenaries-
Make monster pod into a beacon, have a mercenaries teleport down as called.

FTL animation getting reworked to be less memory intensive.

Working on system to prevent need for character wipes in the future.

I did not watch the stream, so there may be other crunchy informations there.

Why would you do this to me?! I already suffer from Patchitis with most games (as in, hmm, I want to play X game, but this new feature is cool and coming out in a patch so I'll just wait. *patch is release* oh yay, that feature is in game X, but oh look, a post on the next patch, oo that's a cool new feature, maybe I'll just wait...). Now how am I going to play starbound with all this stuff sitting in the back of my brain!

[umiman]

What they say they will do and when they will do them are two completely different things.

[Darkmere]

Yeah I expect lots of those changes aren't in the immediate future. As in, all the big ones will likely be post-release. There's a ton of work yet to be done just in fleshing out the 10 tiers and weapon/armor/creature balance. I'm expecting the actual release to get pushed back a great deal more, maybe mid next year at this rate.

No big deal, I'm having plenty of fun off and on in the beta already, so things only look up from here.

[Twi]

villagers aggro when you steal. more aggressively follow you.

nooooo

[timferius]

I was poking around the Starbound forums and found this quote, posted just yesterday, by Tiy:

The tier system is entirely placeholder for beta, the final system is not remotely close to it

Are... are we even really playing Starbound right now? I'm having a minor identity crisis here. Why are they working on balancing a temporary system? I'm so confused.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The tier system is supposed to be a storyline mode, with the player proceeding with the story until it's completed, at which point he's in sandbox. I.e. like every open-world CRPG ever, GTA to X3 to Torchlight.

So you won't have "tiers", you'll likely have something more akin to "acts" in Diablo. The work on balancing it now helps tune the difficulty curve for the storyline.

[Flying Dice]

The tier system is supposed to be a storyline mode, with the player proceeding with the story until it's completed, at which point he's in sandbox. I.e. like every open-world CRPG ever, GTA to X3 to Torchlight.

So you won't have "tiers", you'll likely have something more akin to "acts" in Diablo. The work on balancing it now helps tune the difficulty curve for the storyline.

This. The tiers will still exist in the sense that there will be gear progression, but it won't be anything as simple as "make boss item, kill boss, gain access to next-tier items". I seem to also recall them talking about much a much finer difficulty gradient, so you could have T2 worlds that are effectively level 1.17, 1.62, 1.99, etc.

Basically what I've taken away is that there will be progression through an actual plot, and that the difficulty will be less spiky.

[Ultimuh]

I think I found the solution to the FTL bug. Problem is, the fix appears to be restarting the server :I

That only treats the symptom, not the actual problem itself.

[Simmura McCrea]

Woo, I killed the UFO. Now to go harvest forest planets for coal.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I built a staircase up into space above a jungle planet, and found asteroids rich in... coal.

Now, I'm no astrophysicist, but I somehow doubt that coal is something you're supposed to be finding inside asteroids at all, let alone giant clusters of the stuff.

[Gentlefish]

Do not question the biomasses you have found in space, for they are benevolent leaders.

[Ultimuh]

I think I found the solution to the FTL bug. Problem is, the fix appears to be restarting the server :I

That only treats the symptom, not the actual problem itself.

Suppressing symptoms is better than leaving it unchecked, though.

Well, that's true.

[Slayerhero90]

What am I supposed to do with this jelly? I can't find the thing I need to make.