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Starbound

Project Ancient Cosmos
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Update: Apr 30 @ 12:41pm

--- COSMIC RECORDS UPDATE ---

--- Additions
+ Added compatibility with Galactic Almanach to every biome.

+ New Underground Biome: Carina Caverns, a starry cavern layer made of stardust and star matter. Watch out for stellar gleaps.

--- Biome Changes

+ Added more objects to: Nova Mines, Cosmic Industrial, Cosmic Industrial Zone, Astral Wilds, Dimension Rift, Dimensional Aqueduct, Ancient Caverns, Industrial Zone, Residential Zone, Residential Layer, Server Layer

+ Added Gravity Melon and Starbulb seeds to the Astral Wilds biome.

Update: Jul 12, 2024 @ 9:16pm

- Removed redundant files due to alleged issues with other mods. They weren't being used anyways.

Update: Jun 21, 2024 @ 12:22pm

COSMIC CLEANUP UPDATE!

--- Additions
+ Minor Cosmic Planet Redux: The cosmic planets were given a huge facelift, with new parallax, tree, plant, and tile sprites.

+ Visual Improvements: Lots of sprites from items to equipment have been improved or straight up remade. Improving the look of a lot of stuff.

+ Quest Improvements: Along with a slightly rewritten questline, the beginning quests and side quests have been improved clarity and gameplay wise.

+ Lore Rewrites: Completely remade lore, almost every codex has been changed.

+ Lore Expansion: A few codices have been added relating to a shadowy sect of the Ancients, as well as old Protectorate excursions to Artificial planets, now called Relic planets.

+ New Weapons: Added 2 new weapons to the mod, one found in ancient chests occasionally and the other rarely found in places where the void is present.

+ New Weapon Tooltips: Usually relating to where it originated or just a generic one. They all have stats and a description.
* Generic Cosmic
* Illuminus
* Architectus
* Oculus
* Void
* Cosmos

+ New Resource: Cultivation Crystal, replacing Eridanus Diamonds in quite a few recipes, also easier to find.

+ New Structures: There have been a few new structures added to both Cosmic, Artificial, and Corrupt Garden planets.

+ New Furniture Set: Enchanium Furniture, the previous versions of the Ancient Furniture, can now be crafted at an Ancient Workbench.


--- Planets
+ Cosmic Planets have a new look, including the parallax and trees.

+ Artificial Planets have a daytime now, taking on a brown, rusted look. Underground is unchanged.

+ Cockpit and bookmark sprites for Cosmic and Artificial planets have been updated.

+ Updated the Ancient trees in the Ancient Ruins to look like pillars.

~ Artificial Planets have been renamed to Relic Planets.

+ Updated the Black Hole sprite on the parallax and system view.

- Eridanus Diamonds spawn in fewer locations.

+ Ancient Ruins can now spawn as a subsurface biome of Cosmic planets, it won't just be Dimensional Aqueducts.


--- Equipment
+ Updated the sprites of: Celesteel Melee Weapons, Celesteel Guns, Celesteel Blade Staff, Cosmic Clockwork Staff, Fluxonite Guns, Event Horizon, Polaris, Zephyr Spark 2.0, Kerenzikov Coil, Ancient Xiphos, Ancient Dory, Ancient Bow, Oculus Xiphos, Oculus Dory, Tempus Mortis, Heaven Piercer, Ruin's Wrath, Soulsaver, Dromine Claymore, Blazar Cannon, Stellar Cannon, Stellar Broadsword, Stellar Beam-Whip

+ Added Dark Night, a broadsword that reduces enemy defense using its alt-fire.

+ Added Ancient Rifle, an assault rifle that while a bit cumbersome, can be upgraded at the Ancient Workbench to become much more powerful.

+ Updated the sprites for multiple projectiles.

+ The Event Horizon spawns a bit more frequently.


--- Items
+ Updated the item sprites of: Celesteel Bar, Stellarite Crystal, Destruction Essence, Creation Essence, Dromine, Eridanus Diamond, Ancient Handle, Ancient Hilt, Ancient Grip, Ancient Shaft, Cosmological Coil, Focused Erchius Crystal, Generator Core, Lava Core, Aurora Core, Bio Core, Cog, Master Powercore, Dimensional Fluid Tank

- Removed the items: Neptune Core, Elemental Core, Celesteel Ratchet, Celesteel Motor (They are still in the files to prevent crashes upon loading character, fix will be found to completely remove them, hopefully.)

~ Changed the recipes of the items that use the removed items to use other items.

~ Renamed Technological Core to Generator Core.

~ Renamed Aurora Core to Cirrus Core.

~ Renamed Pure Essence to Creation Essence.

~ Renamed Terra Cog to Cog


--- Quests

+ The Ancient Workbench quest no longer requires you to collect every single Cosmoscript Codex. It shows up along side it.

+ Minor remake of the quest line, a bit more dynamic, should hopefully be more clear about what you need to do. Also The Baron is now part of it!

+ Every quest's text has been overhauled to be more clear about what must be done.

+ The "Workbench of Creation" quest now gives you a few materials used in the crafting of the Ancient Workbench.

+ The "Reborn Project" quest now hands you a Cosmos Reality Anchor which gives you the blueprint rather than just the blueprint.

+ The "A Device to Transcend Eons" quest has been moved to the Baron NPC, now requiring all 3 addons and some Enchanium. Now gives you a Duplicator Addon, along with its recipe.

+ The "The Sacred Texts" quest has been slightly overhauled to be a bit more engaging, changing the quest's look overall.

+ The "Ruins Older Than Time" quest has been given a slight overhaul to accept any encrypted codex, rather than the bookcase.


--- Tiles
+ Updated the tile sprites of: Starsidian, Stardust, Astral Dirt, Nebula, Every Galactree Block

+ Updated the matmod sprites of: Astral Grass, Celesteel, Eridanus Diamond


--- Codices/Lore
+ Almost every single codex has been rewritten to fit a new view of the lore.

+ Updated every codex icon sprite.

+ Changed Encrypted Icons on all Encrypted Codices.

+ Added Protectorate codices surrounding the Relic planets.

+ Added a few rare codices.

+ Corrupt Codex expansion. Look to the corrupt edens.


--- Objects
+ Ancient furniture has been given a complete overhaul to their look. Along with their Ruined counterparts.

+ Old Ancient furniture sprites have been reused in the new Enchanium furniture, crafted at an Ancient Workbench.

+ Ancient Pod Chest sprite has been updated.

+ Crafting icons for the Ancient Workbench and Duplicator Addon have been updated.

+ Pixelflame statue sprite updated. :3

+ Added a Tea-Loving Lad statue to the list of modder statues.


--- Monsters
+ Updated the sprites of: Protectorate Scandroid, Ancient Drone, Architect Drone, Ancient Mimic, Ancient Charger

+ Ancient Charger now charges more often.

+ Ancient Drone's projectile has been changed to better fit its design.


...and a bunch of other things changed to polish the mod itself.

Update: Dec 4, 2022 @ 11:14am

-Updated Preview Image

Update: Oct 20, 2022 @ 9:18am

-Fixed a boot to ship thanks to a microdungeon on Artificial planets having invalid spawning ids.

Update: Oct 19, 2022 @ 1:19pm

-Fixed Zephyr Spark 2.0 not being able to be crafted due to a material error.

Update: Oct 18, 2022 @ 3:28pm

-Fixed issue where Astrofae didn't spawn on Half-Moons.

-Void Whisper only appears half as often on Half-Moons.

Update: Oct 18, 2022 @ 2:24pm

NEW PLANET! - Half-Moon
A new planet so soon? What am I doing? Well, I generally wanted to make a more whimsical and smaller planet than before. Don't expect too much content from these, they're more side content to help with the main side.

These planets are a chaotic mess between a lush prairie, cloud covered midnight, and the Erchius laden moons. The cosmic forces that surround these planets end up in chaos, creating some strange environments. Especially underground.

You can explore these planets the moment you get the Reality Anchor Prototype.

-New Biomes, found on the planet. All of them are found on the surface or underground.
*Half-Moon Expanse
*Cosmic Lunar Caverns
*The Aether
*The Edge

-New Block: Stellar Block, a sloped block that looks like a star-filled sky. You find them quite a lot.

-New Material: Stellarite, a niche item that is used in a few items and equipment. You won't need too many of these.

-New Stellarite Weapons, all of them are of the fire element, since the mod was lacking on those. Crafted at the Duplicator Addon.
*Stellar Cannon, a cosmic cannon that rapidly fires stars. It's strength creates shockwaves as well, dealing more close damage sources.
*Stellar Broadsword, a brightly glowing broadsword that holds a unique alt-fire, that combos enemies into the air and sends them flying.
*Stellar Cutter, a large boomerang type weapon that burns and pierces enemies. Has long range and a large cutting area.
*Stellar Beam-Whip, a wand type weapon that creates a whip out of plasma orbs. It's alt-fire shoots out a large energy blast that pierces enemies.

-New Weapon: Polaris, a strange spear made from starlight, can be found rarely within chests on Half-Moon planets.

-New Fuel: Ergospheric Erchius, 5x as powerful as normal Erchius Crystals and can be made into Stellar Warp-Cores. The recipe of which needs to be learned.

-A brand new codex that sheds more light on these strange new worlds, it is certainly a long read. Might give some insight into better utilizing the new fuel.

-New Weather: Star Shower, a sparklier form of glowing rain to better fit the many cosmic worlds.

-Treasure chests added to these planets for extra loot.

-16 new structures to find on the surface of this planet.


ITEMS
-Recipes for the main ore materials, including Stellarite, are now seen from the start.

-Stellar Warp-Cores can now be crafted at an Ancient Furnace and it's sprite has been updated to better fit the crafting recipe.

-Cosmic Geodes now have an updated sprite to better fit their more chaotic drops. Also the handheld sprite not being seen has been fixed.

-The patched Erchius Crystal Blocks now only give you 2 fuel per block.


OBJECTS
-Dromine, Ergospheric Erchius, and Stellarite Samples can be found in Cosmic Geodes.

-Fluxonite Sample now glows the same way as it's ore counterpart.

-New Ancient Objects
*Ancient Marker, a flag used to denote important areas.
*Ancient Wind Chimes, a strange creation for the Ancients, they sound hollow.


EQUIPMENT
-Cosmic Katana now requires Stellarite to craft, it now no longer needs Blackhole Matter, but requires more Pure Essence.

-The Heaven Piercer now requires Stellarite to craft, however it now requires less Celesteel to make.

-The Zephyr Spark 2.0 now requires Stellarite instead of a Magma Core.

-The Lightspeed Lasso now requires Ergospheric Erchius crystals to craft, the Essence cost has been halved however.

-Cosmic Clockwork Staff's stars now have their own explosion, though it's radius is smaller.


EXPLORATION
-New Weathers for Artificial Planets
*Coolant Rain: A storm that rains Teslogen across the landscape.
*Electrostatic Storm: Storms that occur due to the electrically charged atmosphere.

-Artificial Planets now have their own pool of weather patterns. Including the new weather. One pool has space debris, the other doesn't.

-Removed dead pixels on Artificial Planet's parallax.

-Parallax stars found on Cosmic Planets and similar areas have been reduced in number, hopefully making them a bit easier to look at.

-Corrupt Garden planets now require the Reality Anchor, not the Prototype, to traverse. With a new status effect called "Cosmic Erasure".

-Cosmic Planet weather chances changed, they also use the new Star Shower weather, the previous Star Shower weather has been renamed to Star Storm.

-The Star Storm and Gamma Lightning weathers now changed to spawn projectiles less often.

-The Falling Stars during the Star Storm weather have their own explosion, same as the Clockwork Staff's. Also the Star Storm now has it's own particle effects.

-Stellar Warp-Cores are now found much more rarely in all treasurepools that contain it.

-Ergospheric Erchius can now be rarely found in the Industarial Wastes.

-Cosmic Geodes now show up in greater numbers within Novalcanic Chests.

-Individual Cosmic Geode sample drop rates have been slightly reduced to offset the new additions. Though now they drop basic geode loot less.

Update: Oct 6, 2022 @ 10:19am

-Minor changes to some of the new codices, created earlier in Artificial planet development. Should now better fit the vision.

Update: Oct 4, 2022 @ 8:38pm

-Neo Magnum-NUL is actually obtainable. Forgot to change the recipe to the actual item. Oops.