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A new planetary rail system has been built with routes circling the planet or to the core. Possibly with an asteroid route coming soon.

I'm also dropping by to beef up the base every now and then when I get bored enough to start building.

No big deal. Rebuilt it on my home planet for now.

Inspired by a post on Reddit, I decided to start putting this together on our server:

It's taking kind of forever and I don't really have much to put in it once it's done but hey, why not. 3-ish levels to go.

It's probably worth noting that this isn't on the designated home planet. This hidden castle is...hidden elsewhere in the solar system. Once found, if it becomes the new home, so be it.

Edit: Finished. Just before the server went kaput though. I'll get a screenshot later assuming it's still there.

Edit edit: Annnnnnd it's gone. I take it the only planet getting backed up was the home planet. Wish I considered that earlier. I think I'll just build things offline for most of the rest of this beta.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. I like how open the developers are being with this game. It feels like the way this Alpha/Beta ongoing development process should be. Not just inviting people to stress test the game, but inviting them to have a real hand in it's development. Listening to suggestions from the community while keeping a firm grasp of your overall concept.

The devs are hosting a live stream on Twitch right now while they work on weather systems. http://www.twitch.tv/chucklefishlive

Some notes copied from Reddit (to save you the trouble of visiting Reddit):

• Tiy | ?:?? | Weighted weather settings for biomes. Biome files can define the rarity of certain weather types.
• Tiy | ?:?? | There will be a barren biome in the upcoming update. No trees, very boring biome. Mostly designed for building on a clean slate.
• Tiy | ?:?? | Asteroid biome world type.
• Tiy | ?:?? | You'll be unable to breathe on moons.
• Tiy | ?:?? | Easily mod-able weather.
• Tiy | ?:?? | Modded items will be able to define the quantity of water to spawn.
• Tiy | 10:00pm | I made meteor showers, by the way. They're a little too powerful at the moment.
• Tiy | 10:21pm | Rain crates small amounts of water by using invisible projectiles coming from the sky.
• Only during storms.
• Tiy | 10:22pm | Storms might be given a shorter duration.
• Tiy | 10:49pm | We have storms, rain, drizzle, meteor showers and acid rain. Acid rain needs more work.
• Tiy | 10:56pm | Possible acid guns.
• Tiy | 10:58pm | The next weather I'm making should be a huge single meteor strike thing.
• Tiy | 11:00pm | I'm going to make meteors create meteorite blocks, and hopefully craters.

And this note about wipes:

• Kyren | 9:47pm | The next update will wipe your universe and quests, but not characters. A future update which will include the feature which prevents future wipes will wipe everything.

Considering Tiy was showing previews of Christmas decor I'm guessing the next update will be in the next few days. It'd be kind of silly adding a bunch of Christmas stuff just after Christmas.

Along with an early iteration of these weather systems and Christmas themed items, from what I've read this update or another one on the way will also have:

• Ride-able rails you can construct (as in Bioshock Infinite) edit: Also originally created by a modder.
• An option to teleport to the surface or your home planet instead of just the planet you are orbiting.
• Automated turrets - actually created by a modder but Tiy asked if they'd like it in the game.
• Bioluminescent worlds/creatures ("pretty soon" so possibly not next update)
• Ship upgrades have been in the works for a while according to at least two devs. No word on if that'll be in this update.
• Wiring stations with more advanced wiring/switch items.
• Key rebinding.

We were running out of space in the museum fast. So I added another floor.

Also added some new collections and moved things around a little.

The problem is part confusion over the concept of fair use and how it applies to these videos, part due to an already broken and easily abused copyright system, and partially the current media overlords' complete and utter inability to understand the concept of creators willingly allowing people to use/share their work without trying to get a cut of everything.

I mean, look at TuneCore's tweet:

"...don't know them, how could you give them permission to use your music? It's claimed for you, since you wrote it."

What is this, 1980? No, he doesn't know them.

There's this little place called the internet. Turns out it's a very powerful tool for getting your work out there to more people. You don't even have to lift a finger or spend a cent going through some shitty ad agency looking for their cut of your profit. All you have to do is sit back, let people freely promote you or feature your work on their highly popular broadcasts/videos, and reap the benefits of your new-found notoriety.

Free advertisement, free fame, no shady ass companies looking for their cut in between for promoting you or "protecting your work."

That was a Glitch (Medieval-style robot race) town. It was generated and used to be inhabited before someone decided to wipe them all out a while ago.

Decided to put in a pool...on an asteroid...