The 2D planet-hopping building game will also get several important bug fixes

Jan 15, 2014 12:17 GMT  ·  By

Starbound will receive a new patch next week, fixing a considerable amount of bugs and adding a couple of new features for its fans to enjoy.

The news arrived via the official Starbound blog, detailing the many issues the upcoming patch will solve and listing the additions, while also reminding that the patch will wipe all worlds, characters and ships for the final time, and will introduce a fix for save files, so further patches won't destroy any characters or ships.

The new patch will introduce two new game modes for more hardcore players, a permadeath one and one that just makes you drop everything you were carrying on death, along with several new weapons (revolvers, pulse rifles, hand grenades, shivs and others), more decorative hats and more random encounters.

The list of fixes is a little bit longer, as next week's patch is planning to address several crashes and memory related mishaps, as well as some in-game mechanic functions.