This is VN-1229. It's horrid and blocky but it's a test bed for a world generation layer which makes the equator hotter and the poles colder, whilst manipulating the biomes near the poles to give some semi-realistic replication of polar terrain. Currently this makes the entire planet look like a bizzare giant cylinder but with a little work and a perlin injection it should look a lot nicer.
What you see here is a bleak, no-frills map of temperature values which for some strange reason has been turned on it's side. The far left and right of the image show polar temperature values, and the center of the image shows equatorial temperature values. Since the majority of the planet is desert the temperature values are affected little by polar fluctuation, making some areas of the image redundant. It still gets the point across though, it works, sort of.
On top of this, moon dungeons now have a hibernation system in which they'll hibernate, then junk any npcs inside them if there's nobody in them.
On the mundane side however many unannounced updates have been made, such as advanced materials from exotic asteroids and gas clouds in distant systems finding use as materials for advanced armor and weapons, as well as various improvisable items, new materials, new weather types, new biome types, etc.
Not far to go, beta gets closer by the day.
