Update 0.9 Live with new save system — Astral Terra Steam update #618580

Greetings folks, In order for us to move forward with multiplayer world sharing after the initial voxel engine rewrite from late 2016, we discovered we would need to change how world data is saved to reduce the new larger save file sizes. This ended up taking much longer than originally planned as many systems needed some changes made to them. The new save system is done, there is one more big backend update coming in the following weeks that will reduce the save file size even more. We plan to re-enable world sharing with that update as well. We also have read the reports about some folks crashing for unknown reasons and this is something we continue to look into (crash reports help, ty). Hopefully the update that went live today will fix this as numerous back end bugs have been fixed and systems modified with this update. The new terrain alignment when in caves can sometimes get wonky ...