Let me know if you find any alternatives that look promising. I'll be looking for a second home site to post updates on my maps. I've got them on Curse.com, but I really don't like the forums there so I'll probably keep it project only.
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Ok, here's our update:
Today We finished a full test of the Adventure portion of the new Space Expedition Update. We found mostly small issues and one big bug that might've been a problem in our testing. I've fixed them all now and the adventure is now officially finished, though we will still have a few people testing tomorrow in Single-Player. I still have some small additions and housekeeping that I will take care of tomorrow such as writing info files and tomes for all the new areas and creatures, testing a few new ship upgrades and synthesizer recipes, final polishing, and then I will create the update files and new download for Beta 1.11: Crash Site!
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Alright, the work day this evening went well! We finished the adventure portion of the update all the way to the point the next update will pick up today! Finally! we will be testing the adventure in MP tomorrow before we ready the update for download and make new copies of the map for Beta 1.11.
thanks for your patience!
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Hey guys! Comp and I ended up too busy today and yesterday to finish up the update. Sorry for the delay again. But we are very close to finishing it still! 1-2 more evenings of work I think. I will give an updated release date after this evening, but it will still probably be in the next few days.
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Hey everyone! We got a ton of work done today on the Update! We need one more day of development and then we will be into the final day of testing before the Update is released! I am projecting that we will have Beta 1.11 go live sometime Monday or Tuesday night, as long as the bugtesting doesn't reveal anything very difficult to fix! Stay tuned!
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Been doing a bunch of work this past two weeks! I was trying to decide how much progress to post since it is hard to be specific without saying a bit about what the content of the new adventure/areas will be, however, I figured I'd go ahead and post some specifics for anyone that is still following and curious!
You may have seen some of this stuff mentioned in the past but I'm not sure what I'll I've mentioned so far, so here's a pretty full list. These features are now completely finished. My list is pretty short so I'm expecting to be done with the update and doing final testing with our group sometime this weekend!
Also, if you want to keep up with Dev work or be a tester of early builds, please message me and I will give you a link to our discord server which has a channel for bug reports and where I post updates and ask players for feedback and stuff!
This is the biggest update we have ever done, so I hope you guys enjoy it! The new quest and adventure has a chance of randomly starting after you have completed your first year and survived the first winter, so if you have played past that point in your games it will immediately start having a chance to happen after you install the update in your in-progress games.
Here's some items completed so far for the Next Space Expedition Beta Update: Crash Site Quest
- Added: New Region, Icy Asteroid Chain
- Added: New Region, Ship Crash Site
- Added: New Region, Ice Cavern Village
- Added: New Region, RF Base
- Added: New Adventure, Crash Site Quest
- Added: New Adventure, Alien Encounter & Prison Escape
- Added: New Unique Creatures - Villagers, Warrior Villager, Summoner Villager, Scientist Villager, Elder Witches, Laser Eye Sentries, and Vexes
- Added: Shulker boxes can now be placed down on piston blocks in adventure areas (including the ship), ship upgrades and models will now include stations to set down your shulker boxes
- Added: New Synthesizer recipe, Shulker Box pick - picks up shulker boxes in adventure mode!
- Added: New NPC dialogue system and new NPC aliens to meet on your adventure!
- Added: Comments when you first meet all the new creatures
- Added: Info files for all the new creatures/aliens
- Added: Holograms for new creatures and aliens
- Optimization: various small improvements to Ocean Planetoid and Mysterious Laboratory in new games
- Bugfix: players could appear wearing the biosuit before they found it
- Bugfix: meteors can no longer hit the very top of the Glass Cockpit
- Bugfix: explosive arrows will no longer destroy blocks if shot in adventure-mode areas
- Bugfix: death markers now disappear again after items are gathered
- Bugfix: new dynamic update systems should now prevent any issues like spawn obstruction or game setting resets after crafting ship upgrades or updating
- Bugfix: The Recycler and Disenchanter station ship upgrades can now be crafted normally again
- Bugfix: Elder Witch and Sorcerer could despawn in winter
- Bugfix: fixed various bugs with creature comments triggered by wrong creatures
- Bugfix: fish ponds near spawn now work again in new games
- Bugfix: sounds from placing and active modules now work in multiplayer, playing to all nearby players
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Work on the update is coming along well! Still a few features left to add and test, but we have finished most of the list now! I'm aiming to have the Beta Update ready to release this weekend now!
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Alright everyone! I am pleased to announce that work on Space Expedition is officially back to full time!
I finally got my new PC set up and have some regular free time again so we plan to be working on the map with the help of our 2 new helpers Redsky34 and WanderingSoulofTime 2-3 times a week till final release! So expect the Beta 1.11: Crash Site Update VERY soon now! I'm hoping sometime during the next week! I'm excited to finally share it, it's a huge update adding a bunch of new areas and adventures we have been working on!
It looks like we unfortunately missed beating the MC Version 1.13 release which is a shame! In the past I've focused on porting Space Expedition directly to the new version quickly and have continued to update it to the new versions ever since we started building in MC 1.9 three years ago. However, unfortunately MC 1.13 is a pretty big paradigm shift on the command side of things. Most of the command systems break in 1.13. So, since we are so close to finishing the ending to the map (within about 2 months or so), I've discussed it with the team and we all agree that we will finish the map in MC 1.12.2 version and let people play on the final release for a while and report bugs and give us suggestions. We will then update to 1.13 in the future and fix bugs and make improvements then. 1.13 has a lot of new mechanics to play with so I need some time to run tests and see what all we can use!
I'll post some progress updates soon!
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Thanks man! Sorry we have been silent. We ended up busier than we thought over the past few weeks so not a lot to report, but the next Beta update is almost complete now. It just needs some fine-tuning which I will hopefully have time for over this coming week.
We are doing a bit of reorganization. One of the reasons development slowed down so much since January is because we only have 2 people and both of us were busy with our graduation. We have just recruited 2 new helpers to help us with building, NPC design, and other details and this will hopefully speed things along. I will introduce them next week when we start posting progress updates again!
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Quick Update:
We had a long workday this weekend, finished some dialogue systems, and did a full test of the crash-landed update questline for the next Beta update! we found it was still a bit rough around the edges and also found some bugs which we will be working on this week, but we are slowly getting there! This is the first major storyline with NPC's and stuff so it'll be a bit different. I hope you guys enjoy it! I think that we will be done within the next 2 weeks if all goes well.
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Hello Space Expedition players! Compsogbrickus and I are done with graduation and back and ready for map development!
This is just a quick announcement regarding map development plans so you guys following know what is coming.
We will be resuming work on the Beta 1.11: Crash Site Update this weekend. This update was nearly done when I had to put work on hold and will likely not take longer than a week or two to complete. After that, we plan to have another update released every 3 weeks or so till final release for 1.12 at the end of August. Development will go on hold for a bit after this while we wait for player feedback and we will be launching our creator Let's Play series as planning around then! Right now we are planning for it to be me, Akitori, Lezandria, and Compsogbrickus. Adventuring and building will be done in multiplayer but I may do some tutorials or mechanics showcases in SP as well based on player preferences. The port to 1.13 will happen later and we will take our time with it, waiting on player feedback and adding new features that take advantage of the new systems. So it probably won't be available until the end of the year, well after MC 1.13 release.
In addition, we are planning a few late mechanics changes which I would love to get your feedback on:
- shulker boxes can be placed and picked up in adventure areas (including ship)
- there will be a hover-mode added to the jetpack, making it superior to plain rockets and giving a reason to use the whole biofuel system. Hover-mode will be activated by crouching with the jetpack active in midflight and the jetpack will automatically switch to maintaining rather than boosting your height.
- passive stats that used to be leveled with the season changes will now be leveled by individual player experiences to better accommodate multiplayer and be more fun. Speed will be leveled slowly over time from walking, running, and exploring. Health will be leveled through days survived and through recovery from damage. Attack speed will be leveled based on your combat experience and mob kills.
- explosive arrows will be a secret recipe discovered in ruins/adventure areas rather than automatically discovered
- we are talking about a new ship upgrade where you can upgrade your Emergency Warp System so that you can use it to teleport to other player locations in multiplayer after death. Since many players do this anyway, it is a way to support it that players can work towards.
- There has also been some talk about disabling fires from meteor showers and adding an item that let you carry tamed animals and pets (which you can't currently carry using CCC's)
thoughts about these late mechanics changes?
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Thanks for the offer! The big bottleneck atm is all the programming as I'm the only one who knows the map's systems lol and how to make more or edit it. However, we might be able to use some help building in Beta Update 1.12 or 1.13. I'll let you know for sure in a couple weeks when we are getting started.
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Awww yeah!
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Hey everyone! We have an announcement regarding Space Expedition future updates and the final release:
First, of all, I wanted to thank everyone that has enjoyed and supported this map during development. I was never expecting it to get so popular before I had a chance to finish it! Since this past Christmas the survival features I had planned have mostly been complete and players have been able to enjoy surviving in the unique world of Space Expedition. Thank you to everyone, and thank you for the comments saying how much you have enjoyed our creation!
It has been a VERY long road for us! I have been working on this project for more than 2 years now and several groups of helpers have come and gone in that time. You can see them all on the Wall of Fame. Since Christmas it has pretty much been down to myself and Compsogbrickus. This slowed the map's development considerably because both of us were nearing graduation and we had no free time these past few months. However, both of us are graduating in the next few weeks, so we will finally have the free time we have needed to finish Space Expedition to EPIC 204 this Summer! HYPE!!
Introducing: The Adventure Updates
In past updates you have braved the elements, experienced difficult seasons, and survived dark twilight winters with dangerous monsters. You have explored strange ruins and seen glimpses of the past, when visitors from other worlds came to the system of EPIC 204. There was evidence everywhere that you were not the first to explore here...but no one else was to be found. Many of you probably wondered who made the ruins and if you would ever meet them. These next few updates all will be revealed through a series of new adventures that we have been working hard to bring to you, introducing new storylines, alien civilizations, NPC's, quests, combat, and a finale we hope you enjoy as much as we have while working on it! We have been planning and working on these final additions for a very long time and we are excited for the full reveal!
Here's some teaser pictures of various things we've been working on, the next update is huge...biggest we've ever done...
You can thank Compsogbrickus for the beautiful architecture and landscapes. I think you will really enjoy the next few updates. I need a few more weeks to finish work, but then I will be back to map development. Beta 1.11: Crash Site Update should be out not long after that in mid-June. After that, the next updates are smaller and will come more rapidly. We estimate that each new update will come about 3 weeks after the last. This puts the final release for the map in the last couple weeks of August!
This map has hundreds of secrets to discover from ruin tech to hidden Synthesizer recipes! I'd love to hear what all you have discovered in your games before I show some of it off! I know not a lot of people check the dev threads, but if you are, let me know if you are interested in seeing this!
Let's see if we can beat MC 1.13!
The next few updates I will be releasing some teaser videos and also starting to work on the map trailer. I haven't gotten to play my own map in a while so I was thinking I would do a Let's Play series of the map on YT after final release, just so I can enjoy it, get to know some of you better, and show off all the features that the map has to offer! It takes many days of in-game play to discover everything I programmed into this map, so even experienced Space Expedition survival experts may learn a lot from a series! I will be focused on revealing what makes the world unique and how it is very different from vanilla, allowing for a lot of new player creativity! For new players it can also be something you can follow to get some tips and early direction, and to find out what you missed!
I also plan to post pictures of the fully revealed info file chests so you can see how many creatures, recipes, or ruins you may have missed and see what you discovered out of 100%. In the meantime, enjoy the game, and I hope you guys are excited for this summer! In about 3 weeks I will have free time again and the Beta updates will start to come out very rapidly, so stay tuned! We are finally getting this project finished! Took long enough right?
In the meantime, We have a special treat for you guys to enjoy while you wait for Beta 1.11!
Akitori, who has been a long-time tester of the map has put together a modpack especially for this map! This modpack is specially focused on enhancing the survival aspects of the map and to preserve the balance of the game and I have seen and approved all of the mods as being fun additions. If you want something to spice up your Space Expedition games while you wait on Beta 1.11, then we will have that ready to download and play with this coming week!
Message from Akitori:
The Space Expedition Modpack is coming in a few days! It adds loads of features to make your experience more fun!
We have plants and trees that change with the seasons, snow accumulates in winter, additional machines to craft, rope ladders, new totems, an airship, and even a shiny HUD to make things nice and tech looking, without exploding your computer! Try it out, give it a whirl, and take a picture to hang on your wall!
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Yay! Thank you! I hadn't changed mine yet hoping this would get fixed haha.
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Hey guys, another update from our work this weekend:
- Another floor of the new, secret custom location (largest one yet!) was finished
- NPC and encounter systems have been finished and I've made several examples for this update
- Tested and implemented some new optimizations and improvements to adventure-mode areas
We have decided that a few new changes will come with Beta 1.11, let me know your thoughts!
- The jetpack will be getting a new "hover mode" which when activated will maintain your height instead of boosting you. This will make it more suitable for inspecting or mining on cliffs or crossing gaps and help to again give it an advantage over vanilla rockets now that those also work to help you fly (some players weren't making the jetpack upgrade)
- A new synthesizer item called the Shulker pick, which will allow you to pick up shulker boxes in any adventure area, including your ship
- All shulker boxes upon being mined by the player will get a tag which allows them to be placed on certain blocks. This means you can finally place and pick back up shulker boxes in multiple locations within the ship near your chests and also in many large adventure-mode areas, hopefully removing the annoying experience of having to walk outside to a survival area and shuttle stuff from your shulker boxes to the ship.