Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!

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Hello!

Quick note on support e-mails, because we’ve had the MOST INSANE RUSH of them since I mentioned that people who have lost access to their old e-mails or are otherwise having problems should contact me. So many e-mails that I cannot possibly answer them all myself unless I clone myself three times. So here’s some helpful info!
1. When in doubt, use Humble Bundle’s key re-sender tool.

It is the handiest thing ever, and you’ll find that most of you don’t need my help at all!
2. Steam keys are going out tomorrow at 10AM PST, look for them in your e-mail! Any links or things that look like keys currently on your Starbound pre-order redeem page are not Steam keys.

Lots of people seem to be trying to activate them. :P

That’s all! Back to our regularly scheduled hyping.
3. INVALID KEY errors. We’re currently having some SQL database errors on our own site, causing a MySQL “Connection Refused” and “Invalid Key” error on Redeem Pages. It’s ok! Your key is fine!

Your keys are handled by Humble Bundle and all keys are working fine on their end, it’s just an issue of the Redeem Page error on our own site. We’re working to have this fixed ASAP, sorry for the scare!
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CharmingCharlie said:
What the hell I pre-ordered it, not like I had anything else to do at the moment. I like the idea of starbound and I was sort of addicted to Teraria for a while (till I switched to minecraft). So might as well give this a go.

I get the feeling I will probably enjoy it for a while but we will see.
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Just think of all the domes you can build!
 
Was watching some gameplay, I think it would be pretty cool if rain accumulates. Then you could monsoon planets or have to worry about your home getting covered by a flood.
 
eyeball_kid said:
Will there be a way to turn off resource gathering, so you can just build to your heart's content?
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That's not something that I think will be possible by default. However, through modding it's potentially possible to just give yourself whatever you want. There will no doubt be tools created to do just that.
 
Taffer said:
Just think of all the domes you can build!
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Finally my domes will achieve acceptance they deserve as people marvel at the 2D cross cut of a mighty fine dome more commonly knows as a "semi-circle" :-p . Ah I moan and complain but really I am looking forward to trying starbound but I ultimately know I will find the 2D perspective a bit limiting for my tastes. But should be a blast whilst it lasts.
 
Never played Terraria. Retro and Jira made me play GW2 instead. Even though Terraria predates. This game looks.........good. Looking forward to tomorrow.
 
eyeball_kid said:
Will there be a way to turn off resource gathering, so you can just build to your heart's content?
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A while ago, the developers mentioned they'd like to eventually add a "Sandbox mode" that's just straight building. They don't want to do it right off the bat because they want people to play the game 'straight'.

And of course, they want to have a Director's Mode where you sort of play the DM and take control of NPCs and stuff like that.
 
I'll discuss things about the server more when I actually get my hands on the game, but I'd like to bring up a few points:

-There's apparently a Starbound server directory already. Please do not put the GAF server on that directory. Already had a bad experience involving a directory for the Terraria server, so I don't want to ever repeat that again.

-Considering how the beta may cause things like us having to re-roll characters, or even re-generate new universes/server info when a patch/update hits, I'd like to run several tests and mix up how the server is run if we're forced to do any resets. This is dependent on exactly what features are enabled in terms of the server client.
For example, they said it might be possible to create server specific characters (aka, you cant import your characters into the server, you have to create a new one just for the server). I'd like to try the feature at least once, and since we're not suppose to get attached to characters/worlds during the beta, I think it would be a perfect time to test. Now, we're not going to try that FIRST, I dont even know if the feature will be available, but maybe later on during the beta. Essentially, I'd like us to try both ways, and we'll take a vote as to what method we'll use when the beta ends.

-If you've ever played on the Terraria server, you're probably aware I had several house rules in effect. Since its a beta, I'm not going to enforce much in terms of rules, but I do at least ask you guys show some courtesy to other players (don't mess with their structures w/o permission, and don't go trolling)
Things I would normally be mad about (random mass terraforming, draining oceans, etc) I wont be bothered much during beta, because its not permament, and unlike Terraria, if I don't like what I see, I can always just move to another planet. Speaking of planets...

-Planet address directory: Only to be used sparingly during the beta, but at some point, we need to maintain a list of known planets and what's so special about them (for example, we need to defintely know which planet is Retro's OCD paradise, or where the penis planet is, etc)

-Main GAF planet: idea I'm throwing around, and probably useless to do so early in the beta, since we may have to constantly reset the server anyway, but I'm interested in setting up a central planet that's sorta considered a neutral zone. We can all gather there, drop stuff off for others, etc Kinda of like a giant planetary vault/hotel.
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Like I said, more discussions about the server later, just wanted to get that out there.

Also, still looking to see if anyone is interested in streaming when they're on the server.
 
HaRyu said:
I'll discuss things about the server more when I actually get my hands on the game, but I'd like to bring up a few points:

-There's apparently a Starbound server directory already. Please do not put the GAF server on that directory. Already had a bad experience involving a directory for the Terraria server, so I don't want to ever repeat that again.

-Considering how the beta may cause things like us having to re-roll characters, or even re-generate new universes/server info when a patch/update hits, I'd like to run several tests and mix up how the server is run if we're forced to do any resets. This is dependent on exactly what features are enabled in terms of the server client.
For example, they said it might be possible to create server specific characters (aka, you cant import your characters into the server, you have to create a new one just for the server). I'd like to try the feature at least once, and since we're not suppose to get attached to characters/worlds during the beta, I think it would be a perfect time to test. Now, we're not going to try that FIRST, I dont even know if the feature will be available, but maybe later on during the beta. Essentially, I'd like us to try both ways, and we'll take a vote as to what method we'll use when the beta ends.

-If you've ever played on the Terraria server, you're probably aware I had several house rules in effect. Since its a beta, I'm not going to enforce much in terms of rules, but I do at least ask you guys show some courtesy to other players (don't mess with their structures w/o permission, and don't go trolling)
Things I would normally be mad about (random mass terraforming, draining oceans, etc) I wont be bothered much during beta, because its not permament, and unlike Terraria, if I don't like what I see, I can always just move to another planet. Speaking of planets...

-Planet address directory: Only to be used sparingly during the beta, but at some point, we need to maintain a list of known planets and what's so special about them (for example, we need to defintely know which planet is Retro's OCD paradise, or where the penis planet is, etc)

-Main GAF planet: idea I'm throwing around, and probably useless to do so early in the beta, since we may have to constantly reset the server anyway, but I'm interested in setting up a central planet that's sorta considered a neutral zone. We can all gather there, drop stuff off for others, etc Kinda of like a giant planetary vault/hotel.
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Like I said, more discussions about the server later, just wanted to get that out there.

Also, still looking to see if anyone is interested in streaming when they're on the server.
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I'm going to be streaming, for sure.
 
HaRyu said:
-Main GAF planet: idea I'm throwing around, and probably useless to do so early in the beta, since we may have to constantly reset the server anyway, but I'm interested in setting up a central planet that's sorta considered a neutral zone. We can all gather there, drop stuff off for others, etc Kinda of like a giant planetary vault/hotel.
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Like the sound of this. It could be like a super hotel and each member could have an assigned room.
 
More_Badass said:
Like the sound of this. It could be like a super hotel and each member could have an assigned room.
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That's how we did it in Terraria, just a big tower with lots of empty rooms that people could take. The problem is, we added that after they had programs like TEdit that let us copy and paste stuff, so making a huge tower was no problem.

For the Beta, at least, we'd kind of need to just roughly lay it out and have people 'finish' their rooms or something.

It worked really great, some people had some cool rooms (the rule was, you could build OUT from the tower, but not up or down into anyone else's 'floor'). It was a good way to sort of get established before making a house of your own.
 
Just heard in a stream with the developers, they're going to have a Trailer "soon" (within the hour, they said).
 
Terrible timing!

Condensed finals sched won't be done until the 9th.

5 days of this thread being too hard to resist while being the worst thing for me to read =/
 
So apparently there's not map in starbound? Seems like a pretty important thing to leave out. I can't imagine playing terraria with the map in that game ( I didnt play before 1.2 )
 
Trickster said:
So apparently there's not map in starbound? Seems like a pretty important thing to leave out. I can't imagine playing terraria with the map in that game ( I didnt play before 1.2 )
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There's no mention. Maybe its an item you have to find and equip.
 
Well, it's 12:00 EST, which makes it 9:00 PST right? So 11 hours I think? I don't know time zones too well.


Also, I know it's far down the line, but will there be a GAF server to play on, or will it be groups of people on GAF?
 
Some of those armors look really awesome, so glad this game releases when I normally get up in the morning. Rare that I go on binges but I might lock my updates on this thing and just go hard in-game for a while until phase 2 or a really worthwhile update comes along.
 
Ashodin said:
you can get a fucking mech
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Damn straight, son,

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Been watching some streams with the devs tonight, they've all said the Beta is amazingly polished.
 
duckroll said:
Need mech!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mechs are considered Tech, so in the video where you see guys air dashing, super jumping, teleporting, etc? One of those is to teleport a mech down and wreck shit. And since Techs aren't limited by race (that I know of) you could use a different races' mech type (that's the human one, btw). In theory, you could have four at once.... we'll have to see.
 
I can already see a shitstorm aproaching if some people don't get the email at 10:00am PST or like Molly said, it doesn't work.

Could have they send the emails with the key before the game actually goes live?
 
I'm going into this pretty blind. I bought it on instinct just because I loved Terraria so much. Hope I'm surprised tomorrow.
 
I wasn't going to buy until the later beta phases, but the impressions and that trailer finally sold me.

The beta seems to have much more content packed in than they were letting on...
 
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