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!
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! 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!
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? Let's see if we can beat MC 1.13!
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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Hiya everyone! Its me, Akitori here today. I have a special announcement for you all!
I have been working on the past few weeks on something special.
Introducing the Space Expedition modpack!
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/space-expedition
Its a small modpack, with a lot of features put in to make space expedition fun, while keeping true to the main map. Its not a random mishmash of mods thrown in and called done, its something I spent a lot of time making right!
That being said, I'm one person. If you find issues or bugs, scream at me and I shall fix them as best I can.
P.S: Non-curse version is being worked on, stick around for updates!
Enjoy!
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Heya dan me and tm have a important video for you
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No the main reason we're waiting for the update is to fix potions, as well as add graphical fixes, potion fixes, etc etc. Plus i've been feeling lazy so
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I'm waiting on my friend to update NEP so we can fix things around a bit more easily. We might upload a video tonight or tommorrow depending on luck.
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Found the reason, bad mobs
Also glider fix worked, yay!
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I am for the meteors dropping metals a bit more
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Had a feeling he did something like that, thanks!
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Heya dan, wanted to ask, if a server is left on and no one is online, does day and night still transition?
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I wonder how the glass/armor color will be changed? will you use some sort of Armor Color or Helmet color scoreboard?
I'm all for it though.
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HEy dan, akitori here....
So a issue/bug i found/ didn't know...Yeah those random meteors falling actually supposed to drop resources....
I didn't even KNOW the single meteors dropped anything till i was in the giant stone crater and one exploded next to me, dropping titanium dust...
So the bug? they don't drop anything! Like ever! If i get a few drops I'm lucky!
Not sure how the item comes into existence, but maybe give it a lot more item health? or something to prevent it from dying from meteor death?