Pumps and Airlocks: Pumps and airlocks are planned, to flush water out of a structure, or otherwise move it around.

Passive Racial Bonuses: Racial abilities will be passive.

Automation/Expanded Wiring: Automation systems are planned along with generally expanded Wiring capabilities, similar to the Starfoundry mod.

Dramatic Planet Modification: Ability for players to modify huge chunks of planets through things like orbital bombardment removing the entire first layer of a planet and leave behind a lifeless surface.

They will have main biomes within other biomes, so you can have a Volcanic section of a Forest planet, for example. Large planets with far more biome variety than usual.

Nebulae: There will be a Nebula type of star that has all planet types at the highest difficulty.

Player Made Structures: Tiy 'definitely wants' to add more player made structures, as they are 'easy to add and coming across them is awesome'.

Custom created monsters: The player may get to 'bio-engineer' a monster together from chosen parts.

Breeding Pets: Breeding Pets is a possibility, since 'it's easy to mix and match parts from two parent pets'.

Summon NPC Mercenaries by using the pod as a beacon.

Capture Pods & Mercenaries: May be able to capture NPCs with pods.

Events: An event system similar to Terraria's events is planned.

XBox One: Blitworks is working on a port for Starbound that runs on Xbox One.

PS Vita: There will be a version of Starbound that runs on PS Vita.

Parties will be able to enter these instances together as many times as they like. Custom missions installed on a server will be available to all players at any point and will function as instances.

User made mission sharing: Using in game wiring tools players will be able to create their own mission maps and challenges that can be shared with other players.

Chucklefish has a demo Steam controller that is 'wonderful for Starbound'.

Controller Support: Controller support is still planned, possibly for the new Steam controller as well.

More graphics options: After the game is out of beta, graphics options like disabling the parallax background are planned.

World Storage: Improve world storage and organize *.pak files to improve modding.

FTL animation being revamped to reduce memory strain.

Engine Changes: Colorblind Mode & Engine Optimization.

Craftable Shields: There will be many more craftable shields, possibly as many as one per tiered armor set.

Super-Legendary Armor: There will be some armor that is either super rare or has massive requirements.

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