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Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!

Has anyone actually found any guns? I figured it's maybe a rare chance to get a gun drop from killing things using guns, but no guns in any chests or drops yet.

I have to wait a bit, but certainly not minutes.

Bought one from a pirate, it's horrible.
 
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If building a biodome in the middle of the desert entirely of glass is wrong, I don't want to be right.
 
so I found a "schematic" or blueprint or whatever it was a blue square icon, I used it and it said I learned the schematic. Where can I craft it? I checked all the crafting options
 
Beat the UFO with the leather armor that will be nerfed today when the patch is out :P

Have a full set of Tier 1 Iron Avian armor though. Even though I have access to the beta sector, it's probably still too hard for me. Will likely just try and dig down and explore various planets for more resources. One chest had 5 platinum bars, but I don't seem to be able to do anything with them at the moment.

Also acquired the dash tech, but you don't seem to be able to have more than one active at a time. Tech is missing all tooltips in-game explaining what it does as well. Besides other gaps in crafting - the 3D printer just ate a second chef summoning machine without giving me a schematic.

I'm sure these things will be fixed though. As polished as it seems, the game is still very rough in parts with the crafting not being fully fleshed out and the balance of everything a little wonky - will probably seesaw back and forth until a sweet spot is found.
 
so I found a "schematic" or blueprint or whatever it was a blue square icon, I used it and it said I learned the schematic. Where can I craft it? I checked all the crafting options

I've found a few of them and each one was furniture that appeared at the bottom of my crafting table recipe list, only thing I can suggest is checking every crafting object (table, loom, anvil etc) you have.
 
I've found a few of them and each one was furniture that appeared at the bottom of my crafting table recipe list, only thing I can suggest is checking every crafting object (table, loom, anvil etc) you have.

Maybe it is for the "metalworking" lab i cant make yet
 
Yea I had no idea what the thing did so ended up having to do corpse runs to get all my stuff and run off to another planet. :(

So wait, your UFO persisted after calling it in with the distress beacon and dying? I was running a set of copper armor when I called it in, was checking behind some menu immediately after activating it, and then I got smited by a random penguin before I could even see the mothership. I respawn and head back over to where i summoned it and everything was business as usual again, no UFO in sight and nothing in my quest log to point me in to any other objective.

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So wait, your UFO persisted after calling it in with the distress beacon and dying? I was running a set of copper armor when I called it in, was checking behind some menu immediately after activating it, and then I got smited by a random penguin before I could even see the mothership. I respawn and head back over to where i summoned it and everything was business as usual again, no UFO in sight and nothing in my quest log to point me in to any other objective.

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The thing likes to fly up way outta reach where you think it's gone. Me and some friends summoned it... it disappeared for quite awhile... then suddenly it was back.
 
The thing likes to fly up way outta reach where you think it's gone. Me and some friends summoned it... it disappeared for quite awhile... then suddenly it was back.

Thanks for the clarification, I'm just glad I don't have to gather the resources to summon another one.
 
Has anyone actually found any guns? I figured it's maybe a rare chance to get a gun drop from killing things using guns, but no guns in any chests or drops yet.

I have to wait a bit, but certainly not minutes.

bought them from an airship, they have no armor penetration though despite the high damage numbers so they basically suck ass. Youre better off crafting an iron bow. It can at least one-shot most of the lvl 1-4 monsters on a full charge
 
Question about the distress beacon -
It got swiftly destroyed when I summoned the UFO, do I have to recraft it each time I fail the UFO boss, or is there a way to activate and keep it protected? I guess im asking if it is a one time use consumable? At least it was cheaper the second time, but dat silver!
 
For anyone wondering how to give items to your other characters, it's simple. Put the items you want to transfer into a container on a planet, then go to that planet with your other character. The universe is saved separate from your characters.
 
For anyone wondering how to give items to your other characters, it's simple. Put the items you want to transfer into a container on a planet, then go to that planet with your other character. The universe is saved separate from your characters.

Is there anyway to delete yet? My entire list so far is "test 1, test 2, etc..."
 
Now see how high up you can go lol. I started making a stairway into the sky on gaf server if anyone wants to continue that. It's right outside the fortress to the right. There is a campfire at the peak.

Just a few rocks, with grinning aliens:

some plutonium...

and the end of the sky

Falling from there to the ground took longer than falling from the ground into the planet's core.
 
Is there anyway to delete yet? My entire list so far is "test 1, test 2, etc..."
Go to the Starbound folder, go into Player, and delete the .metadata, .player, and .shipworld for the character you want to delete. You can go by date last modified to find the ones you want/don't want to delete, or you can open up the .player with a text editor and find the character name.

If you lose it, or want to go there, the world everyone seems to start on in the server is ...
Alpha Alpha Ant Minoris I
x: -47078397 y: 38152688

Mind the fact that the X is negative and the Y isn't. Also there are probably no trees still, but there has been a decent bit of work done for the warp area.
 
I found a huge avian temple right in the middle of my starting planet. It has an entrance shaped like a giant hawk head, like the one you see in one of the trailers. It was pretty huge, andhad lots of Egyptian-themed avian stuff. It also had saw traps that insta-kill you, but you can pick up even those.
I don't have a clue how common/rare these are, but I got easily 60+ item types I hadn't seen yet, including a bunch of brick types and all kinds of cool sarcophagi. Should I drop it all on the GAF server (tomorrow) so that Retro or anyone who wants it can use it to make a museum or whatever? Or is this stuff pretty common?

whenever i die ill go to GAF server
managed to dig so far under ground im surprised i havent found lava yet

It's crazy deep that you finally find lava. Like, perhaps a hundred screens?

In any case, you can get back up to your ship by simply save-and-quitting and loading. If you have a load of pixels it beats losing 20-30% of them. :)
 
Go to the Starbound folder, go into Player, and delete the .metadata, .player, and .shipworld for the character you want to delete. You can go by date last modified to find the ones you want/don't want to delete, or you can open up the .player with a text editor and find the character name.

If you lose it, or want to go there, the world everyone seems to start on in the server is ...
Alpha Alpha Ant Minoris I
x: -47078397 y: 38152688

Mind the fact that the X is negative and the Y isn't. Also there are probably no trees still, but there has been a decent bit of work done for the warp area.

Thanks I owe you.
 
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