v2.16 Incoming! Thread - 3079

Hey all,

Since 3079 was made stable, it was time to get back to adding some fun new features. The biggest new feature in this release are maps. The maps act like a satellite uplink, showing you all of the explored terrain:

Other nifty new features are powerfully destructive satchel bombs, which can destroy practically all terrain and building exteriors. Construction tools got a "building points" increase: now they can be charged all the way up to 256 points (in 48-point increments). These two things combined should make for more building options!

Here are all the changes:
* Map system! Default "M" key toggles map, movement keys pan
* New destructible item: satchel bombs! They can destroy all terrain & building exteriors
* New controls to adjust sound effects and music volume independently
* Construction tool can now be charged up to 256 build points, in increments of 48
* Capital ships will no longer spawn over the starting city
* Capital ship weapons will now destroy terrain like satchel bombs
* Items should no longer spawn inside turrets
* Other blocks are now placed in buildings to give rooms more "character"
* Antigrav device will now be disabled and unusable when flying in a miniship
* You can no longer use /home and /goto commands while flying in a miniship
* "Protect target" quest timer will no longer count down if you are too far away from the target
* When protecting a target for a quest, the target will always accept a follow request
* Local IP address is now shown in addition to public IP when starting a server
* Made the starting Main Menu more space efficient
* Quests will now be generated a bit farther away
* Radar image was slightly improved

Edited by: Phr00t

The map greatly helped me with finding an appropriate level area, previously I was running around in circles and ending up in areas of completely wrong levels (often above or below mine). Maybe for navigation a simplified compass could be useful that shows the level of the current area and the way to the closest higher/lower level area on your HUD so you can more easily find level-appropriate areas. Scrolling around over long distances with the map doesn't seem to be its intended purpose since it has to load the whole chunks and stuff so a display that just shows an arrow "level 8 area XXXm in that direction" would have a role.
Satchel bombs don't seem to work on all materials the game uses for buildings, in some buildings I can blow out the doors or the roof but not the walls.