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[joesmokey]

Victory at last.

 

[Skab]

For those who haven't figured it out yet, you can hold ctrl to scroll the screen away from your character. Press it once to recenter.

 

[Anilusion]

Another tip is so shift-click rather than drag and drop when moving items between containers. Use it carefully though because it was bugged for a friend of mine and he lost some items trying to shift-click them to a full container.

 

[Fitz]

Another tip is so shift-click rather than drag and drop when moving items between containers. Use it carefully though because it was bugged for a friend of mine and he lost some items trying to shift-click them to a full container.

You're able to get the items back by removing/picking up the container.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

How do you upgrade this matter thingy? So goddamn slow omg.

 

[Agkel]

FRIENDLY REMINDER:

-This is a REAL BETA, shit will break and shit will break hard. So expect things to break at the least opportune moment.
-Report any bugs and crashes you may have, this will help the dev fix them.
-Try and avoid posting things that may be too spoilery (Including Screenshots) in the mean time,ie you played these next 12 hours consecutively and you found some really cool mid game thing. If you must post something, use the spoiler tags.

Remember that the game just came out and a lot of its enjoyment is exploration. It's just until everyone has had the chance to play the game and see stuff on their own. And that way people will know they wont get spoiled and keep coming to the thread to talk.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Tonight update

- Massively reducing the pixel cost (sometimes eliminating it entirely) on early weapons/armor. You can build a refinery in later tiers to turn ores of all kinds into pixels. (done)
- Monsters now have a small chance to drop meat when killed with normal weapons. (done)
- You can no longer teleport to another players ship from underground (done)
- Bandages are now craftable with 4 plant fibres, no longer require fabric (done)
- Fix human starter chest showing apex starter items (done)
- Monsters now have a 70% chance to drop meat when killed with a hunting weapon, up from 50% (done)
- Make guards you’ve summoned refer to you as their boss (done)
- Make the refinery appear earlier in the game (done)
- Reduced fuel costs a bit to go to other planets (done)
- Tweaked wording of starter quests to encourage exploring of more planets. (done)
- Added hunting knife weapon that also makes monsters drop meat (done)
- Added new legendary weapon (done)
- Pixel loss on death reduced to 20% for testing, might change further (done)
- [16:27] <Mortvert> Tiy_, Also, could you make silver more visible, please? (Done)
- Added new armor that provides a good amount of warmth early on in the game at the sacrifice of armor levels. (done)
- Tweaked the UFO boss to make him smash blocks. (done)
- Also make him a little bit easier by changing him to level 9 from level 10 (done)
- Revamping the warmth bar to make it more obvious (suggestion by thedbp on reddit)
http://i.imgur.com/O2IYd6k.png (done)
- Increase mining speed a little (done)
-Add numbers above the hotbar slots http://i.imgur.com/qTJiFrS.png (done)
- Craftable climbing ropes! (done)
- Tons of bug fixes
- Bartwe is working on the windows XP issues, not sure yet if it&#8217;ll be done by tonight but fingers crossed.
This is just what I&#8217;ve done so far this morning, I&#8217;ll add to this list as more is added for tonights update.

http://playstarbound.com/coming-in-tonights-update/

 

[DeadNames]

The music in this game... So fucking good.

 

[FloatOn]

Alright, grabbed a screen shot of my simple little starter house.

Damn, that's really nice Retro. How do you make the support beams flip to the other side?

 

[J. Bravo]

2 questions: is building in this game way better than terraria? because building in terraria was a tedious annoying process.
also, can you beat the game in the beta? as in, how much content is currently in the game?

 

[Anilusion]

2 questions: is building in this game way better than terraria? because building in terraria was a tedious annoying process.
also, can you beat the game in the beta? as in, how much content is currently in the game?

Yeah, building is way better. Left click places a block in the foreground, rightclick places it in the background. You default to placing 2x2 blocks at a time but by holding shift you only place one block at a time. Building is super smooth in this game.

 

[arts&crafts]

Anyway to get back to the surface? I dug a hole to get a vine to get a fibre to get a bow to get a piece of meat for the first crafting thing now I am stuck in a hole lol

 

[BrettWeir]

Holy shit. This game is so damned good.

Anyway to get back to the surface? I dug a hole to get a vine to get a fibre to get a bow to get a piece of meat for the first crafting thing now I am stuck in a hole lol

Dig at an angle above you? Thats what I do.

 

[KyanMehwulfe]

so i've seen this thread for about a week and never clicked it because EVERY time I see it, I see Shadowrun in the title, and then when I realize it's not, I don't click. but i just finally clicked it expecting a classic 4X space sim but instead found something that looks super cool, so I'm happy I finally clicked the OP today going to look more into this now haha

 

[Anilusion]

Anyway to get back to the surface? I dug a hole to get a vine to get a fibre to get a bow to get a piece of meat for the first crafting thing now I am stuck in a hole lol

Leaving game and rejoining should put you back in your ship.

 

[arts&crafts]

Leaving game and rejoining should put you back in your ship.

well if thats the case I hope they add a teleport to ship option

 

[Kouriozan]

well if thats the case I hope they add a teleport to ship option

There is already one but you can't use it underground.
You can also warp to your party members ship.

 

[shysaursoft]

well if thats the case I hope they add a teleport to ship option

If you rightclick mine the background out behind you, the teleport to ship option appears (you just need sky behind your character, even underground).

 

[muffs92]

Anyone else thinks it's fucked up that in order to make a better pickaxe you have to upgrade incrementally from stone-copper-silver-etc...?

 

[J. Bravo]

how do I even make a pickaxe? i found a few iron bars in a box that iwant to use

 

[duckroll]

how do I even make a pickaxe? i found a few iron bars in a box that iwant to use

You'll need at least an Iron Anvil first, so you're probably better off spending those bars to build one.

 

[VariantX]

been playing this game for 9 hrs total now, done nothing but dig holes. Can't stop myself either, the only thing i want right now is a better pickaxe to let me dig faster (assuming thats possible anyway)

 

[muffs92]

Have to make a stone pick at a crafting table.
Also there is no iron pick. Goes from stone to copper to silver.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Tonight update

http://playstarbound.com/coming-in-tonights-update/

Like the idea of increased mining speed. Right now it's my only complaint. It takes too long for some things.

 

[xxracerxx]

You'll need at least an Iron Anvil first, so you're probably better off spending those bars to build one.

You can make an iron one without the anvil...just need some iron and wood. Or it might just be stone, I forget.

 

[Einbroch]

God damn, well done Curtis Schweitzer, well done.

 

[Qvoth]

gaf halp
how create bow?

never played terraria before ; ;

 

[Ray Wonder]

Anyone else thinks it's fucked up that in order to make a better pickaxe you have to upgrade incrementally from stone-copper-silver-etc...?

I only think so because the pick can decay. I'm not exactly sure what happens when it runs out of juice though, or if you can repair it.

If the pick was indestructible I wouldn't mind leveling through the tiers, but if I break my gold one and have to go all the way through the tiers again, that would blow.

 

[Trickster]

Like the idea of increased mining speed. Right now it's my only complaint. It takes too long for some things.

I think the best way to make mining speeds make more sense would be to have the time needed to destroy blocks vary depending on the number of blocks you're hitting.

 

[VariantX]

gaf halp
how create bow?

never played terraria before ; ;

There should be a recipe for it if you hover over the item in the crafting menu.

 

[muffs92]

I only think so because the pick can decay. I'm not exactly sure what happens when it runs out of juice though, or if you can repair it.

If the pick was indestructible I wouldn't mind leveling through the tiers, but if I break my gold one and have to go all the way through the tiers again, that would blow.

Yeah if the picks can break I expect to not be making high tier picks very often.

 

[Qvoth]

There should be a recipe for it if you hover over the item in the crafting menu.

yeah after some reading on reddit etc, realized i need to find vines for the plant fibre
anybody has a picture of what a vine looks like in this game?

 

[Atomski]

I bought it, but never played it. Not really sure why, just never felt like installing it.

If you like this you should do yourself a favor and play Terraria..

 

[DeadNames]

How do you guys play this game? Hopping from planet to planet?

 

[Finn of Ooo]

I only think so because the pick can decay. I'm not exactly sure what happens when it runs out of juice though, or if you can repair it.

If the pick was indestructible I wouldn't mind leveling through the tiers, but if I break my gold one and have to go all the way through the tiers again, that would blow.

You can repair them by right clicking it with an ore of equal or greater value

 

[fluffydelusions]

How do you guys play this game? Hopping from planet to planet?

pretty much and building gaf fortress lol

 

[DeadNames]

pretty much and building gaf fortress lol

I have a little settlement... And I want to explore this planet more, but it's such a pain in the ass to have to walk back every time I want to put stuff away.

 

[arts&crafts]

If you rightclick mine the background out behind you, the teleport to ship option appears (you just need sky behind your character, even underground).

cool I will check this out

 

[HaRyu]

Server is back up. I hope the updates kicked in.

If you havent hopped on the server yet, quote OP to get server info.

 

[xxracerxx]

yeah after some reading on reddit etc, realized i need to find vines for the plant fibre
anybody has a picture of what a vine looks like in this game?

Dangly plants in caves. Explore man and collect everything in the beginning! This is the joy of the game.

 

[Chezzymann]

Is it a requirement to use a wiki in this game? Because thats one thing i hated about terraria and minecraft. In order to actually advance i had to look everything up and figure out what does what.

 

[DeadNames]

Is it a requirement to use a wiki in this game? Because thats one thing i hated about terraria and minecraft. In order to actually advance i had to look everything up and figure out what does what.

The game is pretty self explanatory so far.

 

[arts&crafts]

Whats the penalty for dying? just pixels?

 

[Gurrry]

I just heard that they are going to do character wipes before the game is released.. is that true?

Im on the verge of buying but dont want to do that if they are going to wipe characters.

 

[Lissar]

I know it says that it does, but is the bread actually decreasing hunger any? It doesn't seem to do anything when I eat it. Or is that only for certain races?

Also, I find it a bit weird my heat goes down when I'm sleeping in bed. You'd think a blanket would be good for a bit of heat!

 

[muffs92]

You can repair them by right clicking it with an ore of equal or greater value

Aaaaaand disaster averted.
Thank ya.

 

[Mandoric]

You can repair them by right clicking it with an ore of equal or greater value

Any ore, actually. Use copper, 10 copper ore will fix up even gold.

I have cheesed boss 2 to death (

Spoiler

no jumping when in melee mode?

yeah that's getting patched) and moved on to gamma sector, where I have discovered titanium ore on the surface. Cutoff for new ores on the surface seems to be around level 25, as the level 21 world I tried first didn't seem to have any.

Edit: Titanium opens up ilvl25 gear, so that's probably a safe bet.

 

[Soule]

Got it working eventually, oh my god there is no iron anywhere and I hate life because all I'm doing is wondering the land looking for iron lol.

 

[Lissar]

Got it working eventually, oh my god there is no iron anywhere and I hate life because all I'm doing is wondering the land looking for iron lol.

D:

I found a very large cache of copper and iron ore just below ground only a short distance from where I built my house. I got a pretty good starting planet this time around.

 

[DeadNames]

Whats the penalty for dying? just pixels?

Yeah. It's annoying as hell because you fold like wet paper in the early stages in the game.