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Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!
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yup... I have also seen
an item that allows you to turn ore into pixels.
consoles.. around 100%
as for mobile, I can't say... I don't really follow that scene so I don't know if they have mentioned anything.
there was a patch, they never said for what... but it does seem likely that this will be a case like dungeon defenders again where any time they want to change anything it's going to be a 500+mb patch as I have been reading the game is programmed in a way that to patch it they need to push a new .exe :/
Someone did not read the memo it seems.
Phase 1 of the BETA wil have regular updates and patches that may even make your characters incompatible, or wipe them.
The first patches will be mostly bug-fixes, but they already talked about a content update in a few days.
The lava layer
appears to be exploitable: it generates as an empty layer filled with liquid (safely traversible by building and then hollowing out shafts) but dirt blocks placed there will occasionally transform to ore.
On the other hand, if you touch the bottom of the map you're stuck in a permanent fall animation until you build and "fall upward" onto a one-block-high platform.
On the other hand, if you touch the bottom of the map you're stuck in a permanent fall animation until you build and "fall upward" onto a one-block-high platform.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
So what does glitch need to keep powered?
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
It takes so damn long to smelt ore. Is there a shorter way? a different furnace or something?
Make more furnaces?
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Do higher tiers of beds increase health regen? Cause they're kind of slow...
Having fun with the game so far, even if I haven't been doing many different things than Terraria yet. I think it might be time to switch planets and change things up. I haven't hit the distress beacon yet but I guess I might as well give it a shot.
My starter planet has a ton of obsidian and very little gold. The obsidian takes so long to go through despite having a gold pickaxe. I haven't found any platinum/diamond to mine and I've found very little of value while exploring.
I reached
.
What are those rare things that you can find that look like giant breakable jars that rotate and are usable? I haven't figured out what they do or if I'm using them incorrectly.
My starter planet has a ton of obsidian and very little gold. The obsidian takes so long to go through despite having a gold pickaxe. I haven't found any platinum/diamond to mine and I've found very little of value while exploring.
I reached
the molten lava center, so I guess there's not much there
What are those rare things that you can find that look like giant breakable jars that rotate and are usable? I haven't figured out what they do or if I'm using them incorrectly.
Someone assumes too much it seems. I do know they will be patching constantly I just had the server exe out of the folder, it redownloaded it so I put the download down to that.
I have no idea, used one and it broke into a yellow cloud that made me glow for a short time.
Hey buddy! We should play sometime.
They give you buffs. I got a run speed one but I was underground anyways heh.
They can give you some kind of buff or explode and burn you.
Indeed, massive upgrade. I only use my starting weapon for the melee knock-back now.
Oh, I expect file formats etc. to change and break things like when Minecraft gets patched. I just do it for now in case I suddenly lose all my inventory when there AREN'T patches or something.
Yea I'm not expecting them to never break. I'm sure they will quite a bit. I just think it would be interesting to see how long it lasts.
This is coming from someone that has his 200hour Terraria saves and worlds backed up 3 times on different devices lol
davidsaurus
Member
Mmm, yeah. I was sticking to the same system and going between the two level 1 planets on it trying to explore so when I died I was going back and trying to get back to where I was...which was 5minutes running to the right or left.
Isn't Steam using a differential patching system now? It should only be downloading changes to files, not downloading the entire file again.
Kocolino67
Member
I have 10.6.8 and I read in the starbound forum that it works at least with 10.9
Played a good 3-4 hours yesterday , pretty slow at the start, you need to mine a lot and that iron is pretty rare. I managed to get an anvil but now i need 30 iron bar for the beacon .
My Spawn point is right next to an Avian village (Pretty big) with lot of merchants and chest to loot
There's a few things I noticed :
1. No hostile mode on/off for village (accidentally hit a guard while defending myself close to village from monsters)
2. Spawn point seems to be your ship only ?
3. Not sure everyone's gonna love the difficulty at the start
4. Is it me or mining is kinda slow ? (even with copper pick-axe it's pretty slow)
But I'm really enjoying this game so far , building a house is much more fun and less of a drag and so much faster .
I need to play online now
My Spawn point is right next to an Avian village (Pretty big) with lot of merchants and chest to loot
There's a few things I noticed :
1. No hostile mode on/off for village (accidentally hit a guard while defending myself close to village from monsters)
2. Spawn point seems to be your ship only ?
3. Not sure everyone's gonna love the difficulty at the start
4. Is it me or mining is kinda slow ? (even with copper pick-axe it's pretty slow)
But I'm really enjoying this game so far , building a house is much more fun and less of a drag and so much faster .
I need to play online now
fluffydelusions
Member
love the big "believe" logo on the gaf house lol
Game was pretty cool.
The progression initially is a little slow. Mining with a stone pickaxe is draaaaaagging. I have a lot of copper but can't seem to make any new tools with it so I'm stuck using my stone pickaxe to look for iron. I tried digging down but god that was painfully slow. So I started exploring the world and died quite a few times. I like the higher difficulty over say terraria but I really wish mining was a little faster and/or had the ability to upgrade to a copper pickaxe.
Didn't get to play a lot. I don't want to burn myself out in the Tier 1 portion. Just happy to be able to play it a bit and support the development.
How do you make a copper pickaxe? Do I need something besides a crafting bench? Looks like I could make an iron pickaxe if I had the materials but no option for a copper one
The progression initially is a little slow. Mining with a stone pickaxe is draaaaaagging. I have a lot of copper but can't seem to make any new tools with it so I'm stuck using my stone pickaxe to look for iron. I tried digging down but god that was painfully slow. So I started exploring the world and died quite a few times. I like the higher difficulty over say terraria but I really wish mining was a little faster and/or had the ability to upgrade to a copper pickaxe.
Didn't get to play a lot. I don't want to burn myself out in the Tier 1 portion. Just happy to be able to play it a bit and support the development.
Played a good 3-4 hours yesterday , pretty slow at the start, you need to mine a lot and that iron is pretty rare. I managed to get an anvil but now i need 30 iron bar for the beacon .
My Spawn point is right next to an Avian village (Pretty big) with lot of merchants and chest to loot
There's a few things I noticed :
1. No hostile mode on/off for village (accidentally hit a guard while defending myself close to village from monsters)
2. Spawn point seems to be your ship only ?
3. Not sure everyone's gonna love the difficulty at the start
4. Is it me or mining is kinda slow ? (even with copper pick-axe it's pretty slow)
But I'm really enjoying this game so far , building a house is much more fun and less of a drag and so much faster .
I need to play online now
How do you make a copper pickaxe? Do I need something besides a crafting bench? Looks like I could make an iron pickaxe if I had the materials but no option for a copper one
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
It's a BETA, there are going to be many frequent patches, some large, and game saves will be wiped, progress will be lost. Starbound is in BETA phase, it's not technically released yet.
Personally, I'm buying this now because I know I'll be buying it upon release anyway, but I'm not going to seriously play Starbound at all until the game is finished. This is just a preview for me, a chance to fool around with the early game and have fun seeing shit.
How do you make a copper pickaxe? Do I need something besides a crafting bench? Looks like I could make an iron pickaxe if I had the materials but no option for a copper one
Yeah like Sarcasm said you need an anvil but for that you need iron ingot (I think 7-8 IIRC) which is not so common to find at the start , I had to dig to get some
But it's awesome!
Strife In a Teacup
Member
Steam/SteamApps/Common/Starbound/Win32
Starbound.exe
&
Starbound_server.exe
Then:
Steam/SteamApps/Common/Starbound/Win32/launcher
Launcher.exe
Right click--->properties--->compatibility tab and check the Run as Administrator box at the bottom.
Improved my FPS and that's literally all I did.
Note: I have an ATI card and this fixed it.
SJRB
Gold Member
How do you make a copper pickaxe? Do I need something besides a crafting bench? Looks like I could make an iron pickaxe if I had the materials but no option for a copper one
You need an iron anvil to forge metal items like the copper pickaxe.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Yep gonna have to buy early access this weekend. Can't wait to get into it.
Really awesome. I was at 2x zoom and hit the wrong piece. Suddenly a huge avalanche forms of sand. I was jumping like a fool to stay on top of it.
OminoMichelin
Member
According to the forum, the low fps is a widespread issue with no clear fix as of yet. Time to play the waiting game I guess :/
I think I left enough room for the N logo on the right there - kind of hard to fit it in 8x8 block pixels.
For anyone on the GAF server today, the arrow pointing down to the right of the spawn has a path that eventually leads down to the bottom. If you kill stuff on the bottom level it gives up to 40px and you can save up for a gold pick you can buy from the
frog merchant
Highly recommend the 45 degree dig approach - too easy to die of falling damage with the platform shaft.
If you run to the left fron the house, you'll eventually find a
prison
RepairmanJack
Member
Check your Humblebundle account or check the original receipt email. If you don't have either you can put your email in at hubmlebundle to have them resend the email to you.
Don't think they sent out seperate emails for the beta.
Yeah I discovered this! Thanks though.
HappyBivouac
Member
Game was pretty cool.
The progression initially is a little slow. Mining with a stone pickaxe is draaaaaagging. I have a lot of copper but can't seem to make any new tools with it so I'm stuck using my stone pickaxe to look for iron. I tried digging down but god that was painfully slow. So I started exploring the world and died quite a few times. I like the higher difficulty over say terraria but I really wish mining was a little faster and/or had the ability to upgrade to a copper pickaxe.
Didn't get to play a lot. I don't want to burn myself out in the Tier 1 portion. Just happy to be able to play it a bit and support the development.
How do you make a copper pickaxe? Do I need something besides a crafting bench? Looks like I could make an iron pickaxe if I had the materials but no option for a copper one
You'll need to make an anvil. It's basically the crafting table for most of the metal stuff.
Kos Luftar
Member
This game has taken too many GW2 GAFGuild officers away from GW2...I therefore do not like this game.
Train of Midnight
Banned
I need this poster in my space life, you guys.