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Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!
- Thread starter Retro
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I know the feeling, my colony is on a ocean planet and its a pain in the ass to manage.
Although I have setup a lot of automation now with airlocks and stuff so I dont have to clean up myself now.
Wyndstryker
Member
I had crazy automation on my ocean world. Tons of drains. An ocean plug if i wanted to flood the core. Airlocks and whatnot. And the place rained way too much. But I need some simplicity for a change.
Probably go with a Floran styled space station.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Any news for the 1.0 update?
Not lately, sadly.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I've been looking for a casual time sink to play a few hours every once in a while... what is taking them so long to get to the finish line.
InfiniteBento
Member
Me and Horse Detective started dating right when this thing started rolling. We hit 3 years this October and this game still isn't finished...
Such a bummer considering we absolutely adored burning hours into explorations. We stopped playing because our characters kept getting deleted and restarting felt rather frustrating considering we knew it would just happen again. :/
Such a bummer considering we absolutely adored burning hours into explorations. We stopped playing because our characters kept getting deleted and restarting felt rather frustrating considering we knew it would just happen again. :/
The good news is, the character / universe wipes are over and restarting the game is actually a good idea (there's a whole new intro and depending on how long it's been, a quest hub and such).
InfiniteBento
Member
If this is the case, I'll start it up again today. It was always so frustrating to find all this cool loot and then have it all disappear over n over
If this is the case, I'll start it up again today. It was always so frustrating to find all this cool loot and then have it all disappear over n over
I'd wait for the 1.0 release when everything is squared away. The new intro isn't live yet (I keep forgetting it's nightly-only, sorry about that), but the Outpost and stuff are.
InfiniteBento
Member
Probably going to be a while for 1.0, i imagine?
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
"Soon."
"Soon" is all we know, but less than six months (Supernorn is with Chucklefish, fyi);
Soon enough my ass should get started on the OT.
Sithlord77
Banned
Is this coming to PS4?
Latest news on PS4 is here; https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4d6rll/starbound_final_approach_to_10/d1oau7d
Its been a while, but I believe we were told it was suppose to come to the PS4. But only after they release 1.0 (they wanted to actually release the game before they started work on console versions of any sort)
Then I don't exactly remember when, butwhen MS announced that they were doing the Early Access/Beta thing on the XBone, it was mentioned that Starbound was part of it. So it looks like XBone is getting it first, and we don't know what the status of the PS4 version is.
Warablo
Member
That is amazing, I never thought this was coming to XB1. I even purchased it on PC because I didn't think it would. Nice to see you guys changed your mind on PC/Playstation only.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
It kinda sucks that we got info on 1.0 and now over a month of silence. You'd think they'd want to promote a release date by now, or at least a range of dates.
Candescence
Member
I still can't comprehend how the hell you're supposed to play this game with a non-Steam Controller without being infuriated, btw.
From their blog it seems they are now focusing on fixing bugs, so I guess we can expect a july/august/september release. ( depending on how optimistic we are )I think this is about Starbound, if not let me know:
InfiniteBento
Member
pls pls pls
PandaPedinte
Member
Cant wait!
Retro tells me Tiy had a AMA over at Reddit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/comments/4ncydq/ama_about_starbound_the_upcoming_10_release/
https://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/comments/4ncydq/ama_about_starbound_the_upcoming_10_release/
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Is that July of this year, or a later year?
Just a reminder that we're never silent, we're posting regular updates on our site as always!
We're super busy right now as we're polishing up the game for release.
PeterOliver
Member
Is Controller Support in the pipeline for 1.0? I looked through a lot of the recent blog posts and through the steam pages but haven't found any mention of it.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
PandaPedinte
Member
That's amazing Retro
Thanks guys.
The impressive / insane / annoying part is that I picked an ocean planet for this build as I didn't want to have to put background tiles to retain the water for my lake or keep filling water for the tunnels that lead under the entire island. So all of the landmass has to be built from scratch too (since ocean planets are mostly just floating sand islands). I've been building deep enough that you can't see the light shine from underneath unless you're super zoomed out.
Need to finish the port area (it's a mess) and the towers around that, clean up some of the vines in the semi-walled section (too repetitive), finish the tower near the garden with the pink trees, finish the city up on the brick tower, start on the palace on the second tower (it's much thinner than the city one), get more trees on the cliffs outside the graveyard and then build a proper temple up there with lots of catacombs stretching down into the sea caves. Then build further right of the thinner tower; I have a plan for a small defensive structure, a moat, then a large forested area and then some farms / a village... Not sure what to do after that, maybe drop it down back into the ocean. I'd like to be able to create an aqueduct / lock system to move boats up from sea level, but there's no way to pump water to pull it off. Maybe in 1.0.
After that, who knows. Planet is pretty big though, so lots of space. I had kind of planned for this to be a 'home base' of sorts (thus, the area for storage and village for NPCs).
The impressive / insane / annoying part is that I picked an ocean planet for this build as I didn't want to have to put background tiles to retain the water for my lake or keep filling water for the tunnels that lead under the entire island. So all of the landmass has to be built from scratch too (since ocean planets are mostly just floating sand islands). I've been building deep enough that you can't see the light shine from underneath unless you're super zoomed out.
Need to finish the port area (it's a mess) and the towers around that, clean up some of the vines in the semi-walled section (too repetitive), finish the tower near the garden with the pink trees, finish the city up on the brick tower, start on the palace on the second tower (it's much thinner than the city one), get more trees on the cliffs outside the graveyard and then build a proper temple up there with lots of catacombs stretching down into the sea caves. Then build further right of the thinner tower; I have a plan for a small defensive structure, a moat, then a large forested area and then some farms / a village... Not sure what to do after that, maybe drop it down back into the ocean. I'd like to be able to create an aqueduct / lock system to move boats up from sea level, but there's no way to pump water to pull it off. Maybe in 1.0.
After that, who knows. Planet is pretty big though, so lots of space. I had kind of planned for this to be a 'home base' of sorts (thus, the area for storage and village for NPCs).
There's not much outside of what I've shown in screenshots, honestly. When 1.0 hits I'll probably send a copy to HaRyu for the GAF server.
I've been saying this for YEARS.
Retro doesn't actually need to save his entire universe, he just needs to figure out which planet file it is, and just back that one up. We've done this before, because he needed his planet from the GAF server once, so I found the planet file, and dumped it in Dropbox for him.
Now that I think of it, might set up a little Dropbox repository for us to dump our planets into. (Unless the game's internals have changed so much, that we can't actually save/replace/delete individual planets from the universe anymore)
Wyndstryker
Member
Would be interesting if we tried to make certain systems "archives" of previous planets over time.
Weltall Zero
Member
Stunning as always. Regarding the bit about building on an ocean world, it would be great if planets could have different backgrounds in different places/biomes (so the ocean of a world has an ocean background), although it's probably not a realistic goal considering how they would have to transition into each other.
Hello friends!
We will be streaming some Starbound, and making an announcement live on our twitch channel, tomorrow evening at 5pm BST (That's 12pm EST). You won't want to miss it!
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We will be streaming some Starbound, and making an announcement live on our twitch channel, tomorrow evening at 5pm BST (That's 12pm EST). You won't want to miss it!
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