xSB-2

This is a fork of OpenStarbound. Contributions are welcomed. You must own a copy of Starbound to use xSB-2. Base game assets are not provided for obvious reasons.

Compiled builds for Linux and Windows should be available in the usual place on this repository.

If you're compiling xSB-2 anyways, make sure it loads the game assets in /assets/xSBassets/.

Changes:

• You can now make .patch files that are just merged in, early-beta-style (Kae). That's why the patch files in assets/xSBassets are unusually simple.
• Almost all Lua callbacks from the original xSB (by FezzedOne), input callbacks (by Kae), plus some extra player callbacks for compatibility with OpenStarbound mods and some StarExtensions mods. The setSpecies and setIdentity callbacks will not let you switch to a nonexistent species. Documentation has yet to be updated.
• Various crash fixes (Kae and FezzedOne).
• Character swapping (rewrite by Kae from StarExtensions): /swap <name> (case-insensitive substring matching) and /swapuuid <uuid> (requires a UUID; use the one in the player file name).
• Custom user input support with a keybindings menu (rewrite by Kae from StarExtensions).
• Positional voice chat that works on completely vanilla servers; is compatible with StarExtensions. This uses Opus for crisp, HD audios. Rewrite by Kae from StarExtensions.
  • Both menus are made available in the options menu rather than as a chat command.
• Multiple font support (switch fonts inline with ^font=name;, .ttf assets are auto-detected). By Kae.
• World lightmap generation has been moved off the main thread (Kae).
• Experimental changes to the storage of directives in memory to greatly reduce their impact on frametimes (Kae).
  • Works well when extremely long directives are used for "vanilla multiplayer-compatible" creations, like generated clothing.
• Client-side tile placement prediction (rewrite by Kae from StarExtensions).
  • You can also resize the placement area of tiles on the fly.
• Support for placing foreground tiles with a custom collision type (rewrite by Kae from StarExtensions; requires an OpenSB or xSB-2 server) and, via world.placeMaterial(), placing tiles not connected to existing ones (FezzedOne; requires an xSB-2 server). Tile placement with this feature is not network-compatible with servers that support the similar feature present in StarExtensions, although already-placed tiles work just fine. A fork of WEdit with support for these features will be on GitHub within the week.
  • Additionally, objects can be placed under non-solid foreground tiles (Kae).
• Some minor polish to UI (FezzedOne and Kae).

Discord

For support, suggestions or just plain old chit-chat, check out the xSB-2 Discord server.