Hang Glider

Tired of running around while having a space ship? The hand hurts because of the energy dash? Here's the answer: Hang Gliders!

Explanation: The hang glider is a tech so the crafted blueprint has to be used and the hang glider has to be and selected in the inventory. To use it just jump up and press jump and left or right. The flight is separated in two alternating modes. It starts slowly falling and thereby taking up velocity. As soon as you lift your finger from the direction key, while still holding the jump key, the glider takes up while it's velocity decreases again. Before losing all speed, but long enough to raise in height, you need to press the direction button again. To spice these up and down a bit up you can increase it's speed significantly for the cost of energy to maneuver over bigger heights. But be aware that this can end in a crash if used in the wrong moment. All this together will hopefully result in a more entertaining and faster but still challenging way to explore all the planets.

Please share any problems or suggestions with me. Especially on the flight behavior. It's quite tricky to keep it balanced between being fun but not overpowered.

Sorry for the bad glider image. I'm really no artist and that was the best I could do at the moment. If someone want's to make a better one I would be very happy.

Installation: This mod doesn't change any game files and is compatible to other mods. You'll need to make a new character to use this mod. It is compatible to the new modloader (Starloader/Starbound Mod Managaer) format and I recommend using them. But check if they add this line to your players.config file.

{ "item" : "glideTech" },

To install it just extract the content of the archive to the starbound/mods/ folder. Then modify your starbound/assets/player.config and add { "item" : "glideTech" }, under "defaultBlueprints".