{"id":1554,"date":"2015-11-17T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:55:54","slug":"alpha-17-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/alpha-17-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Universe Sandbox \u00b2 Alpha 17 Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1648\" alt=\"Universe Sandbox \u00b2 - Star Glow System\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Star-Glow-System-650x365.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Star-Glow-System-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Star-Glow-System-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Star-Glow-System.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you already own Universe Sandbox \u00b2, just run Steam to update to Alpha 17.<\/p>\n<p>Or buy Universe Sandbox \u00b2 via <a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/\">our website<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/230290\/\">Steam Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Alpha 17 | Star Glows &amp; the Likelihood of Life<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alpha 17 introduces better looking star glows, a new Halley\u2019s Comet simulation, and two values which show how similar a planet is to Earth and the speculative chance of it forming basic life. There\u2019s also a \u201cMake Pulsar\u201d tool, better crash handling and reporting, and some bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For a full list of what&#8217;s new in 17, please&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1TTsJL-ddM_i5RjfnQV5_R-hocRCin6hxAiCuVlytRtA\/view\">see our release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You can read about some of the other features we are working on for future updates in our last post: <a href=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/alpha-17-beyond\/\">What Are We Working On? | Alpha 17 &amp; Beyond<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Earth-Life-Indices-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"Universe Sandbox \u00b2 - Earth-Life Indices\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Earth-Life-Indices-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Earth-Life-Indices-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Earth-Life-Indices.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\nLet us know what you think of Universe Sandbox \u00b2 Alpha 17 using the in-game feedback or via&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/forum\">universesandbox.com\/forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/universesandbox\">facebook.com\/universesandbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/universesandbox\">twitter.com\/universesandbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/signup\">Signup to be notified<\/a>&nbsp;every time there&#8217;s a major update for Universe Sandbox \u00b2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you already own Universe Sandbox \u00b2, just run Steam to update to Alpha 17. Or buy Universe Sandbox \u00b2 via our website or the Steam Store. Alpha 17 | Star Glows &amp; the Likelihood of Life Alpha 17 introduces better looking star glows, a new Halley\u2019s Comet simulation, and two values which show how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}