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Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!
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I'm assuming you mean sent back, as in sent back to your ship. If so, they have talked about allowing you to change beam down spawn points. I would assume having open sky on top rule of point would still apply but it would definitely help since you could create a spawn on the surface of the area where you are and not have to walk all the way over.
Do they already have a direct download installer for the beta and will I be able to play the beta if I buy the game now from their homepage? If there is a direct download version, is there some kind of DRM or do I have to set up some kind of account system etc.?
I want to buy this game for my nephew, who is a big Minecraft fan and after watching a Let's Play is also interested in this game. He is too young to really setup anything so buying the Steam version for him is out of question. I also can not set anything up for him because he lives with his mother, who is divorced from my brother.
I want to buy this game for my nephew, who is a big Minecraft fan and after watching a Let's Play is also interested in this game. He is too young to really setup anything so buying the Steam version for him is out of question. I also can not set anything up for him because he lives with his mother, who is divorced from my brother.
I also didn't get that much into Terraria. I think this game is somehow more fun because it relies less on digging tunnels or it's just way easier. For some reason that part just never was as much fun for me as it is in Minecraft.
There is no direct download of the game, yet.
It was stated before the beta began, that it was decided to make the beta run strictly in Steam, because it ensures they can get the updates out to everyone quickly. This choice was made because they held a vote as to which method most of us preferred (Steam = quick on the fly updates -or- Direct download = normal updates that require user to actively download them), and the majority chose Steam.
After the beta is over (no ETA on that), they will start having direct download/non-DRM methods of getting the game.
NO! No mods, Mr. Tiyuri! GIMME NO MORE WIPES PATCH NAO!!!!
I havent played this game in almost a month and I AM ITCHING!!!
I think the mods are in addition to the no-wipes patch.
Thank you. Personally, I prefer Steam for my PC games myself but this special circumstances make it to complicated. Sucks because my nephews birthday is coming up next week and Starbound would have been a great gift.
I posted my favorite mod, which I won't link here because I'm on my phone, but it's a printing press, to make signs showing what is in crates, or it also lets you make your own sign, letter by letter.
(edited because I realized that my post implied that I made the mod, which I did not.)
Sorry to double post, but I figured editing my last post wouldn't mark the thread as having a new message, so no one would see this tweet that the patch will probably be up on Monday. (By which I assume they mean tomorrow.)
https://twitter.com/Rhopunzel/status/424205361260662784
EDIT: The tweet was from the 17th. I REALLY hope this isn't old news.
https://twitter.com/Rhopunzel/status/424205361260662784
EDIT: The tweet was from the 17th. I REALLY hope this isn't old news.
It's news to me!
Oh man please be tomorrow. So excited to dive back in. Took the week off from playing in anticipation for the next patch.
Edit: actually it seems like it's likely to miss Monday.
bartwe said:
How is this game considered playable when you can't descend stairs? Started three characters and they all started me on planets in rooms where I (a) was forced to ascend stairs when I walked by them and (b) it was impossible to descend the stairs.
It basically made all the buildings on the planet unusable. I was stuck having to ascend every floor of every building, then jump off the top, then lose a bunch of health, until I could get to some woods or something.
Searched the forums and everyone said that this was a known issue and to quit whining. Oooookay.
It basically made all the buildings on the planet unusable. I was stuck having to ascend every floor of every building, then jump off the top, then lose a bunch of health, until I could get to some woods or something.
Searched the forums and everyone said that this was a known issue and to quit whining. Oooookay.
The one thing that I wonder - Do people who run Multiplay servers have to do anything for the update? On Jestservers you had to go in and make it update, but I don't see a place to do that on Clanforge.
Down + Jump to fall through stairs and other platforms.
Down + Jump to fall through stairs and other platforms.
Er... yeah... exactly what RetroGamer said.
Pushing down+jump is kind of the go to standard for dropping down in pretty much nearly every 2D platformer in existence...
Wyndstryker
Member
And holding down after down+jump allows you to go through any other platforms while falling. Which can lead to accidents if you're not careful.
CoolMarquis97
Banned
How should I start off when playing this game? And if anybody ever wants to play together or just other Steam games in general add me Marquis_James.
While true, as I said, it is the standard, so if you've played videogames before, you'd have the common sense to actually let go.
Yep. First thing I did and it absolutely did nothing.
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Um. That's weird. Are you on a platform or stairs? It doesn't work on more solid blocks, only on platforms.
That's really odd. Haven't heard of a bug like that at all for this game.
You try hopping on a multiplayer server and have someone there with you when you try dropping down?
That must be a rare bug or something because I don't have this issue. Stairs work as I tended for me.
Weltall Zero
Member
Never heard of that bug either. Are you sure you're holding down? IIRC down doesn't do much on its own so it might be bound to another key or something and you haven't realized? Otherwise, you might want to file a bug.
What people usually complain about is that you automatically go up stairs when you run across them. This might seem counterintuitive but it actually gives the architect the freedom to decide if going up or going forward is the default action, since you can just remove the lowest step in a stair to get the "don't run up" behavior. Can you give us a link to the thread you mentioned to see if this the case?
Your best option until you figure out what the issue is might simply be to mine/remove a bit of the platform below you to get down, and/or remove the botton step of each stair as mentioned. Awkward, yes, but better than jumping off the roof each time.
What people usually complain about is that you automatically go up stairs when you run across them. This might seem counterintuitive but it actually gives the architect the freedom to decide if going up or going forward is the default action, since you can just remove the lowest step in a stair to get the "don't run up" behavior. Can you give us a link to the thread you mentioned to see if this the case?
Your best option until you figure out what the issue is might simply be to mine/remove a bit of the platform below you to get down, and/or remove the botton step of each stair as mentioned. Awkward, yes, but better than jumping off the roof each time.
XT Vengeance
Member
That is incredibly odd. I would make a bug report on the chucklefish site. Other than that I honestly have no idea.
if you're just using the server.exe from the steam folder, you just need to allow steam to update the files. Usually don't even need to refresh shortcuts or links or anything.
Deified Data
Banned
My god, it took forever to find coal. I found several deposits of gold and diamond before I found any coal.
Unrefined wood + furnace is your friend. Just like the olden days.
Deified Data
Banned
Haha, yeah, I read that was a good way of getting it. This was for one of the first quests where you're actually using the coal to make the furnace.
I'm confused. Starting ship locker should have the torches you need to build a campfire (torch+wood), and then all you need is cobblestone. Shouldn't require any additional coal mining.
E: Unless your shiplocker didn't have torches for some reason, in which case yes that would be shitty.
E: Unless your shiplocker didn't have torches for some reason, in which case yes that would be shitty.
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people are waiting on that. Steam says I haven't even started up the game since Dec. 29th. That's cool for me though. I don't mind the wait at all now that I've had a taste of the game. Looking forward to what's coming.I'm waiting for the patch to drop that will wipe everything. I was really hoping it'd be out by now so I could start over but I haven't seen anything yet
Chezzymann
Member
Patiently waiting until there are no more character wipes. How many more are there going to be?
I think this is the last one.
XT Vengeance
Member
The devs have said that this is the last Character wipe. There will be universe/planets wipes though at some point. You and your ship are supposed to be safe.
For anyone who's trying to get on the server, looks like my computer auto-rebooted during the night (for Windows updates, not because of a crash).
Although now, it looks like the server software always crashes when I try to start it up. I'll troubleshoot it later (need to work), but because of that, server won't be up for a while (most of the day, probably).
Although now, it looks like the server software always crashes when I try to start it up. I'll troubleshoot it later (need to work), but because of that, server won't be up for a while (most of the day, probably).
Ooookay... managed to work in a little break, and messed with the server.
Looks like the server was generating some sort of stack overflow, and the fix was to wipe the universe. So... er... yeah... server universe is wiped.
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE! There's a wipe coming anyway!
ANYWAY... since the next update will introduce a wipe, I'm going to leave the server off for now, because there's no point in any of us building up anything if its all going to be wiped in the next few days anyway.
Looks like the server was generating some sort of stack overflow, and the fix was to wipe the universe. So... er... yeah... server universe is wiped.
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE! There's a wipe coming anyway!
ANYWAY... since the next update will introduce a wipe, I'm going to leave the server off for now, because there's no point in any of us building up anything if its all going to be wiped in the next few days anyway.
XT Vengeance
Member
That makes sense. Let the server have a break before we unleash the hounds of hell upon it. When the update drops we shall charge forth into the universe, looting and pillaging all the planets unlucky enough to be in our path!
do you use a server manager or just the included .exe?
Possibly this week. It's unclear.
Vanilla server, I don't use anything special. The errors were caused by the actual universe files though, not the server software.
Tiy just tweeted they just finished the patch, but considering how much it changes things, they're going to be doing some internal testing now first, before releasing it.
Update: Official Starbound Twitter feed says to expect the update to be this weekend.
Ah cool, just curious because I run my own.
Check my previous post. Starbound Twitter feed soon after Tiy tweeted, said to expect it hopefully by the weekend.
this makes me sad, tonight is my gaming night and I was hoping the new patch would be out for tonight... oh well... guess I will play something else... or still starbound to be even sadder when my character is wiped
Whoops, sorry. I am literally illiterate. 8)