When will Alpha 12 be released?

[creeperz1211]

Hello, not to be impatient or anything but I was just wondering, when will alpha 12 be released?

[Dan Dixon]

We had intended to release it last week but had a few more improvements to make... We will almost certainly release Alpha 12 by the end of this month.

[creeperz1211]

YAY! 
Well, happy Halloween from Dan Dixon and the rest of giant army I guess.

[Dan Dixon]

Some of the physics and collision improvements are taking longer than expected (turns out this stuff is pretty complex) so we're going to go ahead and release without that... but everyone can look forward to a couple cool UI improvements, a solar system creation tool, and many more choreography presets to experiment with.

[creeperz1211]

Hey a few thing also, 1 Will you bring back the 3d craters that were in alpha 7, 2 if you aren't releasing alpha 12 with the improved physics, will it be in alpha 13 and 3 will super heated planets gradually have its surface melt of instead of melting off all of a sudden?

[Xriqxa]

If you suddenly set a planet's temperature to 17million C, it's crust would instantly melt, like it should.

[WitheHole18]

Some of the physics and collision improvements are taking longer than expected (turns out this stuff is pretty complex) so we're going to go ahead and release without that... but everyone can look forward to a couple cool UI improvements, a solar system creation tool, and many more choreography presets to experiment with.

wow sound cool!
We can have screenshot?

[creeperz1211]

I would quite enjoy seeing overhauled physics and please, bring back the 3 dimensional craters that were in alpha 7.

[Dan Dixon]

... bring back the 3 dimensional craters that were in alpha 7.

Do you have Displacement Mapping turned On, under Home > Settings ?

[creeperz1211]

Oh i didn't know

[Dan Dixon]

Did that fix it?

[creeperz1211]

Yes it did!

[Tornadopelt]

Hey, um, just a question... in Alpha 13, could you please add an Aurora mechanic to allow users to see the Northern and Southern lights?

[creeperz1211]

YUS! So we can see the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis.

[Xriqxa]

Or Aurora Orientalis/Occidentalis, if you're on Uranus.

[Tornadopelt]

And another request - could you make it so that you can land on a planet like the original US?

[Xriqxa]

You can land on planets: Click "C" when focused on a body