Hello all! I am happy to announce that the wait for Title Update 6 is over! This update mainly focuses on improving upon already added features, and improving visuals. Here is the full list of features:
As discussed before, Tiny Pixel Planets now has a light render. I am really happy with how this turned out, and I want to sometime make a video explaining how it works. It is really efficient and runs well even on older devices. A lot of shader magic involved on this one. Along with the light system is of course lights. Colored LED lights, torches, and lanterns will help light up your world. Display blocks have also gone through a massive change, and now look really good!

Using the updated display blocks!

Why I allowed the old crafting system to exist for so long may never be known. What is known is that I am here to make up for my mistakes. Introducing Super Amazing Button Crafting V2: Ultra (SABCV2U for short). Easily shows what you can and can't craft, as well as the resources required. Also displays how much of those resources you have in your inventory.

Say hello to the new you! Now with the ability to customize eyes, more hairstyles, and revamped armor, the new character design has it all.

This update adds a lot, here is a brief overview of everything not mentioned above.

• Added quartz bricks for every color variant
  
• Added Asteroid rock bricks, polished, and carved ateroid rock
  
• Added timespeed [float] command
  
• Upgraded items (Including upgrade modules) now shine
  
• Upgrade modules now say what they apply to
  
• Now able to split up items when transfering between volumes (Such as chests)
  
• Added cooking pot which completely overhuals the previous food system.
  
• Added new tutorial system and replaced the old tutorial button with a walkthrough button.
  
• Updated settings menu, now each category has it's own tab
  
• Added sound effects and environment audio sliders under audio settings
  
• Settings menu can now be accessed from the in game pause menu
  
• Added walking sfx
  
• Player walk animation now varries with player speed
  
• Player now uses oxygen when underwater
  
• Bubbles now form from player when underwater
  
• Added placing and breaking sound effects
  
• Added coal ore (stone and sandstone) and coal
  
• Added torches
  
• Mines now generate with wooden floor if no blocks are underneath
  
• Complete overhaul of the frigid and scorched dungeon
  
• Added fan blocks
  
• Doors no longer have to be placed from the middle of the door
  
• Trees no longer have to be mined from the bottom most block
  
• Updated most achievements icons to look better
  
• Changed achievement menu completely
  
• Updated premade planets to fit the new light system
  
• Added vsync setting in the new graphics submenu
  
• Reworked entity spawning system slightly (Planning on redoing system completely in TU6.5 or TU7)
  
• Structure save block have been renamed to Structure block, and can now load structures.
  
• Structure blocks now highlight the selected area
  
• Structure blocks now save from the local position of the block instead of the global position in the world

• Fixed copper bucket recipe resulting in a bottomless silver bucket
  
• Fixed being able to discover the same planet multiple times
  
• Fixed leaving planet with inventory open freezing the game
  
• Fixed completely empty worlds freezing the game (this was caused by the creature spawning process)
  
• Fixed reaching the bottom of the world (below bottom rock) crashing the game
  
• Fixed blocks not updating in the forground when breaking the block directly behind it
  
• Fixed armor being replaced with space suit when loading a new world that was saved from space
  
• Fixed entities sometimes spawning in the air or in the ground

I would like to mention that as of now all of the cosmetic clothes are not functional, this is because I wanted to get this update out quickly and remaking all the sprite sheets for every piece of clothing was taking forever. This will addressed soon.
Well that is all for now, I hope you all enjoy Title Update 6!

Hello again! I find it very important to keep everyone up to date with development progress and behind the scenes of Tiny Pixel Planets. So today I will be discussing some of the feedback I got on the last post and how I plan to tackle these issues.
First of all I must get this out of the way because I have seen a lot of comments, and not just on the last post, comparing my game to Starbound or Terraria. Obviously that cannot be avoided given how look wise they are similar, but that is in no way my goal. I really don't care what Starbound or Terraria have done or how to make my game more like those games. I am a solo developer that is working on a free open source passion project, I could care less if people prefer games that are made by entire studios over my game. In fact I highly recommend if you are looking for something big and layered, go play those games, as they are both great games on their own. Now with that out of the way let me address my plans for fixing issues that have been brought up.
I had a lot more features planned for Title Update 6, but it would appear that my game is in desperate need of a revamp, so I have scrapped any feature I haven't added yet in order to focus on these issues. Let me go over the revamped features I have added/plan to add.
Like I mentioned in the last post, the current tutorial in TU5 sucks. It hardly goes over everything in the game, and you have to exit and create a new save after finishing it. So I have added tutorial popups that will be displayed throughout your play through. You can toggle these tutorials on/off in the save creation, and that decision will be auto applied to all new saves from then on. This is already in TU6 and can be played tested in the beta versions in the git repo.
I am in the works on a new sound system that will allow for customizing not just sound effects volume, but different categories of sound effects. This is a feature that definitely should've been added sooner, but I guess I got to ahead of myself on features.
I am also working on completely changing the settings menu and adding much more settings. Instead of having one page with all the settings thrown on there, there will be tabs for each setting category (sound, graphics, keybinds, ect...). I am also planning on making it so you can change settings in the game and not just from the main menu.
I have never felt like the GUI was a problem, but admittedly I am the developer so I tend to not notice things like this. I made the GUI the way it is because I find pixel density very important. Almost every single pixel in Tiny Pixel Planets is the same size, making the game feel consistent. I fear that if I have different pixel density fonts or make the GUI not match with the pixels in game, it will make it look horrible. I will experiment with GUI resizing, but I make no promises that it will change. I guess my alternate would be to resize the entire game to make the global pixel size smaller.
I have been experimenting with new player animations that are much more fluid then the ones currently in game. My biggest hold back is that if I redesign the characters, I will also have to painstakingly redesign every clothes/armor in the game. And if I add more frames to the animations that will be even more work. I will work on the animations, but this will delay TU6 by a sizable amount. Also I have increased the player's base speed which feels so much smoother now.
I don't necessarily understand what is wrong with the current space navigation system, but I will be adding a star system map to help with navigation.
I am a solo dev, that does all the programming, art, and game development myself. I am trying my best to make Tiny Pixel Planets something everyone can enjoy, but maybe it's about time I accept that I need help with working on Tiny Pixel Planets. If you are someone that can lend a hand with development, or have some ideas of your own, feel free to take a look at the github repo[github.com], or get in contact with me at sppossibilities1@gmail.com. Anyways until next time, go explore space!