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Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!
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Tonight's patch is going to make you a bit less weak in the early game.
dangerbyrnes
Member
Can fit a surprising amount of stuff in your ship.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Finally have a copper axe and mining is improved. Seems weird to be so technologically advanced and mining with a pick-axe 
Love playing on the GAF server though!
Love playing on the GAF server though!
Songs are in ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\assets\songs. You can make your own in ABC notation, though it doesn't seem like the notation is fully implemented in the game.
Is there any point to going along near the bottom of the planet/moon? Any increasingly more valuable chests/hidden rooms? Obisidian is so hard to go through that it is too frustrating at this stage. I've been hunting for platinum, but so far have only found it on random chests on the surface.
Moving horizontally (as a Floran at least) is way too time consuming. I wish my character was a 3 block height.
Moving horizontally (as a Floran at least) is way too time consuming. I wish my character was a 3 block height.
some noob questions
after the 1st time you drop from your ship, if you go in 1 direction all the way will you ever reach your spawn point again?
do vines only appear in caves? if i don't see any caves, should i just randomly mine the ground until i find one?
can i kill npcs without the rest of the town/guards being alerted if nobody saw me? maybe like in a closed room?
if i kill a king, can i be the king or will everyone try to kill me now?
after building a crafting table, can i put them back in my inventory?
is there any way to quickly loot items? or drag and dropping each item is the only way? this is kinda annoying
after the 1st time you drop from your ship, if you go in 1 direction all the way will you ever reach your spawn point again?
do vines only appear in caves? if i don't see any caves, should i just randomly mine the ground until i find one?
can i kill npcs without the rest of the town/guards being alerted if nobody saw me? maybe like in a closed room?
if i kill a king, can i be the king or will everyone try to kill me now?
after building a crafting table, can i put them back in my inventory?
is there any way to quickly loot items? or drag and dropping each item is the only way? this is kinda annoying
Yeah, you'll loop around.
Yeah, just hit it with your pick (manipulator probably works too).
Shift-click to quickly move stuff. Shift-right-click to split stacks.
platypotamus
Member
How can I tell how much fuel I need to reach a destination? I appear to not have enough to get anywhere, but I can't tell how much I need.
EDIT: Figured the above out by adding more fuel and trying again. Kinda lame that you can't tell how much more fuel you need before you can get there though.
Also, do all the various little capsule things just have some pixels, or can I get loot?
EDIT: Figured the above out by adding more fuel and trying again. Kinda lame that you can't tell how much more fuel you need before you can get there though.
Also, do all the various little capsule things just have some pixels, or can I get loot?
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Does anybody else have an issue with quitting the game? I can quit the main game fine, but the launcher stays open. If I just close that window, the game isn't "closed" and Steam still shows me as in-game. Steam itself won't close with a game running like that, so I have to force quit Steam via the task manager, then restart Steam to get out of it to play something else (or just not have Starbound run.)
Finally got the last study check added to my account so now time to pray it works on Steam because I can't take it. The only downside is that I'm sick plus going through a medication change withdrawal at the same time so I'll only play in short bursts. It just looks way too fun after getting burnt out on Terraria.
The planet system sounds like the best part to me.
The planet system sounds like the best part to me.
When in doubt, raze them out.
thanks!
anybody knows whether or not you will be attacked if you killed an npc in a friendly town but nobody saw the killing?
Does anyone know what this giant pod-like thing is? I've encountered it 3 times now. The first time interacting with it set me on fire after it exploded, the second time it sort of folded itself into space and vanished, and the third time it killed me instantly (lost over 1000 pixels FFFFFFFFFF!)
Do planets sizes vary? If I look at a planet in the navigation window and it is smaller do you loop quicker around on the surface?
seem to be random buffs/debuffs - one time it healed me fully.
seem to be random buffs/debuffs - one time it healed me fully.
It either buffs or kills.
Guys, eating feathercrown does nothing for my hunger..should I even bother to continue planting this stuff?
Seems to have a random positive or negative effect. I've had them blow me up, heal me and give me temporary jump boost.
Activating them with a shield up seems to negate the instant damage. You'll still get the burn debuff, but at least they haven't killed me since I tried the shield.
I ran into a merchant on a planet surface once. I didn't try selling anything, but it's probably possible?
bunbun777
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So almost have all iron armor just need some more pixels for the chest piece. Explored quite a bit and came across a temple like pit that eventually dropped into some sort of lava pit with mounted guns and fellows with fire guns. They tore me up lol. I will go back and Rambo that with my iron bow, 4 throwing knives and 2 Molotov cocktails, they have to have some sweet stash in there somewhere. On my way to the fire pit ran into a lone assassin that called me an infidel and was dispatched samurai style with a jumping sword slash.
--edit above-- there is no selling atm I believe, all pixel values are the cost to produce them with the 3d printer.
--edit above-- there is no selling atm I believe, all pixel values are the cost to produce them with the 3d printer.
As far as I know the numbers on the items aren't related to selling at all, the number is strictly related to how much it would cost if you made a copy with the 3d printer. (only items that have a value that isn't 0 can be copied with the printer)
I came across an anchor leading up to the sky once. Followed it up and there was a ship full of Avians. Bought some bombs from them...
I cleaned out an Avian Temple earlier, but all I found was pixels. Lots of pixels from breaking jars and stuff... and killing Avians. I also looted the shit out of all the various decorative items, but it didn't seem like there was much of a point to the temple. It was pretty large, but there wasn't even a single chest in it. What were they... guarding? Lol.
This makes sense. I unfortunately never found a place to sell anything.
DXLelouch153
Banned
mods?!
and its only in beta jesus
Played around for a bit and I like it a lot. It feels like a mix between Terraria and Minecraft in a sense what you need to keep yourself fed and warm to live. Insta-beaming to the ship feels a bit cheap because I can escape anything like that.
Is playing without wiki possible here? I remember having hard time playing MC without knowing lots of stuff what you can only learn from community. Don't want to spoil the game for myself by reading wiki.
Is playing without wiki possible here? I remember having hard time playing MC without knowing lots of stuff what you can only learn from community. Don't want to spoil the game for myself by reading wiki.
yeah mods already.. like 36 hours after beta release... you can find them in the official forums here
I don't believe I can agree with either thing you are trying to say here. While yes it is a beta and there are bugs, they still needed to get the game to a state where they felt comfortable letting the public play around with it to help find bugs. Currently it's getting a ton of praise as a solid game even though it's in beta, that good press will help them a ton. When you get negative press about something, even with a beta, it's really hard to shake it, and given how much build up the game had already they couldn't afford a bad beta. Had they released it earlier this year in a poor state, they could have potentially killed the momentum the game had hype wise.
As for it being a "short" beta period, I don't really see that happening either. I am not expecting the time between this release and "full" release to be as long as minecraft was, but I also don't remotely expect a full release of starbound before Q3 2014, which I can't really consider a short amount of time in a beta. They have never seemed to be in a rush to get it done. They will no doubt take their time and slowly put features into the game. Beyond features though, the game is in need of some serious optimization, and that could take a lot of time to do as they continue to add features.
also...
OOH
shame i have to go to bed so I can work tomorrow.
oh well tomorrow night can be filled with starbound and marvel puzzle quest lol.
oh hey the game loads a lot faster now... time between clicking launch starbound and getting to the title sceen was cut in half... and I no longer hang on the title screen, instead I hang on this screen
Sorry to say that but if your game progression is pushed forward for have "good" press instead of a better way to improve the gameplay, i dont believe you're a good developer.
The UI crashes like crazy. Sometimes I'll accidentally bring up the crafting menu with 'c' (keep confusing inventory for character) and when it types in the search box, it'll crash. Happened at least 4 times so far.
Ah well, on to the
Sector. Running out of things to do it seems like, hopefully I'll start finding the higher tier ore more frequently. It seems like it's much more rewarding to explore the surface of the planets/moons (as another gaffer pointed out) rather than to dig and explore. A little disappointing, but hopefully there are a ton of cool treasure rooms hidden underground that I have just never found. As I mentioned before though, digging horizontally is a huge pain. Waiting for the diamond pickaxe before I do any further spelunking.
Ah well, on to the
Beta