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Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!
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arts&crafts
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I am more worried about the 15min iron bow fight lol What weapon did you use?
Yes I do it all the time. Jump > fall > pulse jump at last second > land
I HOPE they don't nerf it..you can cheese it already.
I used some melee weapon I found. Had level 5 armor penetration. I built a fort to fight him on.
arts&crafts
Member
hmm that could work, to the fort!
How can I get silver armor? The anvil shows scavenger armor as the highest.
Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying that starting a new character doesn't mean starting new worlds? If I build a house on a planet with one, and go to that planet with another, that house will still be there?
There are no more quests after that. You need to craft a thing from something you hopefully picked up from the boss.
Exactly. Your universe is constant amongst all your characters.
It isn't actually called silver armor. I think it's different for every race, but it requires the copper set + silver bars.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
My little addition to the gaf planet. 
It's to the west of the starting house.
It's to the west of the starting house.
There are two sets you can build that require the copper set. Your race set, and the Silver Armor. Race set is 5 armor, Silver is 10.
Roland1979
Junior Member
Just reminded me of that Community episode:
I found that same exact thing. Exactly, like to the pixel. Took that blood bank, server and awesome lightning orb with me.
Hell yes, those are all in my ship now.
arts&crafts
Member
Combat feels identical to Terraria for me, again I played terraria a long time ago, also I am reasonably early in this game (6 hoursish)
Amazing. I'm not sure why I'd need two characters, but I want multiples all the same.
Can you use the same character in SP and MP, by the way?
Combat is much better. MP thing for me for both, I am different, isn't a fun increaser per say. Its great.
Yes, you can. Anything you do with your character in either SP or MP will save all the same. This includes things you put in your ship. Only the universe itself is exclusive to you or the server, for now. Eventually, server side characters saves may be an option.
I had dungeons and green drops on my very first starter world.
big update over the weekend, including character wipes:
http://playstarbound.com/coming-in-a-few-days-sorry-for-the-delay/
http://playstarbound.com/coming-in-a-few-days-sorry-for-the-delay/
STORE YOUR GOOD SHIT ON YOUR SP PLANET
Hmmmm. I have a feeling this will not be the last of this. Which is fine, but yeah currently its pretty weird how the current system works. 100->10 seems a bit drastic though, you'd think they go with a number that provides a bit more breathing room, same for the enemy difficulty. I would think a 5 point system over a 3 point would be better. Say Very Weak, Weak, Average, Strong, Very Strong.
Will that work? I would assume everything would get wiped. I forgot my SP though, could just write down another planets coordinates though and store it there.
This also means stuff on your ship, just to be very clear. Everything on your ship will be gone if there is a character wipe. Your ship is part of your character, not the universe.
I didn't even think about storing stuff on a planet to try to keep it through wipes. Wonder if that'll work.
SP and MP. Characters are saved client side, so there's no differentiation between multi or not.
It'll work unless the universe is also wiped.
It's gotta be it all, they're totally changing both weapons and monsters, and from the sound of it resource/item spawns down into planets. So I can't imagine we can just store those very same weapons and stuff planet side and still have them after the update, especially if the planets themselves will be getting updates.
Thanks, I'll probably get it when its on sale then.
I'm very impressed by the amount of content Terraria has but I just can't get into its mechanics like digging and placing objects, it just feels clunky.
DiscoShark
Banned
Would you rather it happen now or 2-3 weeks from now when you've built your character up even further?
Well, it's not like they want to delete everyone's characters just for fun. It just has to do with the way the game works. Things would be really wonky or just not work at all if they put out certain updates for existing characters.
Starbound is much better about digging and placing objects, thanks to being able to affect more than one "block" of area at a time. There's a lot of digging to be done in this game, but there are other things to do too, like just exploring the surface of planets for decorations to scan into your 3d printer and looking for chests, or looking for merchants to buy things from, or stealing everything from abandoned structures (or removing the occupants of not-so-abandoned structures first).
Well it seems like from his wording that it'll be both those situations.Would you rather it happen now or 2-3 weeks from now when you've built your character up even further?
The changes sound good. The progression right now is definitely a bit confusing, and the weapons/armor UI is fucking awful in terms of informing you about pretty much anything. Even taking into account levels and whatnot, the only way I can tell practically how good something I have equipped is, is to go down on the planet, get hit, and hope I don't die. Lol.
Also, another thing I found a bit disappointing so far in exploration is how you can run into cool stuff which really doesn't offer anything practical at all. Finding an advanced lab deep underground is a really cool experience, but when there's nothing there other than looting the furnishings, it's rather sad. I guess that's a beta thing though. I'm sure they'll populate more content and possibly quest stuff when they're ready to.
Also, another thing I found a bit disappointing so far in exploration is how you can run into cool stuff which really doesn't offer anything practical at all. Finding an advanced lab deep underground is a really cool experience, but when there's nothing there other than looting the furnishings, it's rather sad. I guess that's a beta thing though. I'm sure they'll populate more content and possibly quest stuff when they're ready to.
Trickster
Member
Character wipes are not that uncommon in real beta's afaik. Those fake PR beta's that most developers do these days are nothing like the one starbound has
I'm pretty sure it's going to be a full wipe. Otherwise it makes no sense. There is no actual "character" progression in the game, since it's all item based. They're resetting it because they're making major changes to the way items work, so why would it reset the character and not the entire universe?
too logical....
i have guns and i feel op, i just don't wanna lose them...probably for the best though.
I think after the wipe I'll be an Apex, they look super badass like Planet of the Apes but in space. Though I feel bad, I found an Apex lab a little while ago and they were all like "Don't go in there, or else" and I was "Die you dirty apes" and I slaughtered like 25 of them, scientists, guards, anything living. Then I stripped the place bare. God some sweet lockers and chairs and a ton of posters.
L and R are what you use for left and right click if you have nothing else equipped on your hot bar. X switches between hotbar and "unequipped, which would be L and R. Z switches what's in your L and R slots.
What I like to do is put a shield or flashlight in the R slot, and a two-handed weapon in the L slot. That way, when I hit X, I go to my two-handed weapon. But then when I equip anything on the hotbar that is one-handed, I'm able to use the shield or flashlight with that item.
So far I think my biggest gripe about the game is that digging isn't fun. I'm not sure what to pinpoint exactly, but when you get to the lower depths, even with a diamond pickaxe, it takes a long time to go through some of the stones. Sand and dirt is fun because you can just do one poke and explore what you want. I wish there were some holdover potions from Terraria, like being able to see ore around you, etc. After going through a lot of planets, there doesn't seem to be enough cool secret dungeons underground or things to see like in Terraria. Digging is pretty much finding ores and that's it.
That's what bugs me the most about the character wipe: I don't really want to go through all that digging again to progress.
That's what bugs me the most about the character wipe: I don't really want to go through all that digging again to progress.