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 Hello and welcome at last to Starbound a terrarialike (2dblockmetroidvanialike?) where you hop between planets, dig, build, kill stuff, and adventure with friends that has finally been released for public testing!  IMPORTANT poo poo This is a BUGGY BETA meant for TESTING - You will lose your poo poo. There will be bugs. You can buy the game from Their Site or through Steam for $15 - 4-packs are available for $45 READ THIS - I really mean it. Chucklefish is the developer - They are quite active and answer many questions. Go Here to make all your goonbound (and IRC) dreams come true - There's also a Steam Group and a modding IRC channel at #starboundmodding on SynIRC Check out the Roadmap to see what cool features are coming up This is not a finished game - THIS IS NOT A FINISHED GAME This is a BUGGY BETA meant for TESTING - You will lose your poo poo. There will be bugs. IMPORTANT TIPS Shift-click to quick-move items Shift-click to shrink block placing and digging Press E (Or Middle Mouse) to interact (THIS INCLUDES CRAFTING) Left-Click to affect foreground, Right-Click to affect background See that bar at the bottom that's going down? YOU ARE FREEZING TO DEATH FIND SOME HEAT The coordinates of a planet are the seed, which you can share You can't sell things as of yet Use something like ShiftWindow to fix the window size Here's a template AutoHotkey script to rebind keys Additional Tippage Some goons have taken to compiling cool coordinates here Clocks posted:All right, here's a post of random tips & tricks, since people keep asking very similar questions. Not really formatted well but might teach people something they were asking about.  Starbound takes place in a procedurally-generated infinite universe, where the coordinates of each planet, moon, or other (inter)stellar body function as the seed for its terrain generation. Every planet can have unique (sub)biomes, flora and fauna, ground materials, villages and structures, and environmental threats such as extreme temperature or toxic liquid. You can explore to your heart's content right out of the gate with just a bit of combustible fuel. Each planet has a 'threat level' assigned to it, the higher this number, the more dangerous it will be to explore, but also the more treasure and resources you can find.              Combat in Starbound is interesting, with a huge variety of weapons with unique animations, effects, and stats, allowing you to fight however you like. Be warned, enemies have access to all of the same weaponry as you, along with surprising and deadly natural weapons and intelligent behaviors. You can easily dual-wield one-handed items, making it easy to mix it up with shields, swords, guns, and more. In addition to armor and weapons, you also have access to special techs which grant you additional abilities such as dashes or morphballing.          For those so inclined, Building is another major part of Starbound, you don't have to flit planet-to-planet smashing pots and looting bedrooms if you would rather settle down and construct a glorious castle. Blocks can be placed (and broken) either in a 2x2 chunk or singly (by holding shift) at range easily, with the first tool you get in the game. Dungeons and villages can be looted for their pretty furniture and decorations, and there are many things which can be crafted as well. Building resources such as dirt, wood, and stone have their own separate inventory in order to reduce clutter, which is for the best, as you'll have many different varieties to choose from depending on what you've explored.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU56Kh731Q0  In addition to all the cool stuff above, there's also MORE cool stuff! Instruments which can play .abc files and endless cosmetic options are out there waiting for you to create the perfect space rock band. Or just look cool. Every race also has the ability to inspect the world around them, revealing their inner feelings about everything from beds to rocks to trees. To go along with this, you can find codex entries around the universe, which contain interesting stories and other bits of lore.       Song Stuff: ABC files are stored in SteamApps/common/Starbound/assets/song, to learn more about ABC files see here. http://reissendewoelfe.de/abc/ http://www.lotro-abc.com/ http://www.thefatlute.eu/  Starbound is an extensively moddable game right out of the box by design. Nearly everything is defined in (more or less) easy-to-read JSON and can be added on to, modified, or removed as you see fit. You can force the game to reload the assets by using the '/reload' command - very handy.  Goon + Dev Streams (* = dev): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0MBDzzW4b0  PM me if you want something added or changed. Syenite fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Jan 18, 2014 |
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Official petition to destroy Caveman Tier starts on the ground floor!!!
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Dec 6, 2013 00:03
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FYI the other thread's OP is still actively posting and has an OP for post-beta:Met posted:I have a new thread planned for after the beta. Generally you should let the old OP repost the thread or ask them if it's okay for you to do it first 
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Dec 6, 2013 00:05
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Any word on when the game will be available off Steam? I bought it six months ago or so, and I'd kinda like to play it.
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Dec 6, 2013 00:06
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So i'm getting ready to try to run a multiplayer server. Will post the link here if it works.
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Dec 6, 2013 00:06
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Anyone know where I can get a Matter Block? It's an item needed for this Neat Welder's Helmet.
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Dec 6, 2013 00:07
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Network Pesci posted:Any word on when the game will be available off Steam? I bought it six months ago or so, and I'd kinda like to play it. It's available right now! A.C. posted:FYI the other thread's OP is still actively posting and has an OP for post-beta: I was told to  since there was yelling or something happening.
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Dec 6, 2013 00:08
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No, off Steam, as in you don't need Steam to play it.
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Anyway, continuing the discussion from the last thread, I just don't think the first tier fits at ALL tonally with the rest of the game. Having crude scifi machinery and camping equipment or SOMETHING would feel so much more in line with the rest of the game than Literal Minecraft Progression.
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Network Pesci posted:No, off Steam, as in you don't need Steam to play it. The updates and all are done through steam so... I would guess either never or much later on.
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Varinn posted:Anyway, continuing the discussion from the last thread, I just don't think the first tier fits at ALL tonally with the rest of the game. Having crude scifi machinery and camping equipment or SOMETHING would feel so much more in line with the rest of the game than Literal Minecraft Progression. Hmm, that's an interesting idea. I like the caveman tier but somehow making it more in line with the theme would be cool.
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Varinn posted:Anyway, continuing the discussion from the last thread, I just don't think the first tier fits at ALL tonally with the rest of the game. Having crude scifi machinery and camping equipment or SOMETHING would feel so much more in line with the rest of the game than Literal Minecraft Progression. Well, that's the thing though. I haven't read up on the backstory, but presumably you are either escaping / a stowaway / setting out on this tiny rear end ship to god knows where. The only things you have with you are this matter manipulator you find, a weapon, and some seeds. The 3D printer isn't loaded with any useful things you could create and you didn't bring any tech with you. It makes sense that the matter manipulator you have now might not be some super duper high tech one from back home or whatever. Even more, it's easier to use technology when you already have it than when you have to make it. I know how to use a flashlight, but I sure as hell don't know how to build one. So starting out with more basic tools and eventually working your way up works even in a lore/immersion sense. So the complaints seem to be -- we have to use pickaxes! To mine ore! Why can't it be more scif-fi! I mean, I guess whatever floats your boat. I don't mind the standard progression and Tiy has made it clear higher tiers (that are not currently implemented) will have cooler sci-fi stuff. Hell, aren't guns technically tier 2 or tier 3? That's not very far removed from the beginning.
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A.C. posted:Missed your post originally (this thread moves fast!) but it's this same planet: I can't seem to find anything at these coordinates. Anybody mind double checking them for me?
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Clocks posted:I haven't read up on the backstory, but presumably you are either escaping / a stowaway / setting out on this tiny rear end ship to god knows where. The only things you have with you are this matter manipulator you find, a weapon, and some seeds. The 3D printer isn't loaded with any useful things you could create and you didn't bring any tech with you. It makes sense that the matter manipulator you have now might not be some super duper high tech one from back home or whatever. Even more, it's easier to use technology when you already have it than when you have to make it. I know how to use a flashlight, but I sure as hell don't know how to build one. So starting out with more basic tools and eventually working your way up works even in a lore/immersion sense. The ~story justification~ doesn't matter, because you can change it to justify ANYTHING, it's about the gameplay. You mention that the sci-fi stuff 'comes later on', but why shouldn't the sci-fi stuff be in the sci-fi game from the get-go? Again, before someone thinks I'm arguing against progression, I'm not. I want Sci-Fi Progression instead of a weird Pseudo-Terriarcraft Progression before the real one starts.
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Shukaro posted:The updates and all are done through steam so... I would guess either never or much later on. Well, when I bought it, it said I could play it with or without Steam. The official site says that I can play it without Steam, it just doesn't say precisely when that will be. I was hoping somebody had a more precise answer than "someday maybe".
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Dec 6, 2013 00:16
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How much is the minimum fuel to make a jump to another planet, and does it cost a proportional amount to distance to fly back home?
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Dec 6, 2013 00:17
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Varinn posted:The ~story justification~ doesn't matter, because you can change it to justify ANYTHING, it's about the gameplay. You mention that the sci-fi stuff 'comes later on', but why shouldn't the sci-fi stuff be in the sci-fi game from the get-go? Alright, let's go with this. Where should it start? What should be the first proper mining tool you make?
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dijon du jour posted:Alright, let's go with this. Where should it start? What should be the first proper mining tool you make? It's already in my hands! It's called the Matter Manipulator, and I shouldn't have to set it down for anything made of stone, copper, or iron imo. edit: But honestly, this is against the point. I'm not a starbound dev, I'm giving my Beta Impressions as a Beta Tester.
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um so heres a vid about going below the lava layer on a planet I just made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv639EsO3J4
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Network Pesci posted:Well, when I bought it, it said I could play it with or without Steam. The official site says that I can play it without Steam, it just doesn't say precisely when that will be. I was hoping somebody had a more precise answer than "someday maybe". They've said that they're doing steam only for now because it makes it a lot easier for them to release patches, and they're planning to release one every day, maybe even multiple per day, for a while. If I've understood correctly, the plan is to release a non-steam version when the pace of patches slows down a bit, probably around the stage 2 beta. I don't think anyone knows when that will actually be, though.
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Varinn posted:Anyway, continuing the discussion from the last thread, I just don't think the first tier fits at ALL tonally with the rest of the game. Having crude scifi machinery and camping equipment or SOMETHING would feel so much more in line with the rest of the game than Literal Minecraft Progression. Well, Tiy thinks it does and said so much in the last thread.  The general idea across all the races is that you are more or less hosed when you start the game. You are some kind of outcast or on the run, the ship you are on may not even be your own or you might be the last surviving crew member. I've only heard snippits from the other races, but it is more or less sounds the same and I know that the Glitch's explanation is that you became self aware and broke off your race's hivemind, you had to get the gently caress off the planet or probably face death. You start off on a shift dead adrift in space with no fuel, and what looks like what you have found in an emergency supplies locker. Crude tools are just that, stuff you scrounge to get yourself going, because you have nothing, hell even your more advanced tech as you start going in that direction comes from the wreckage of a UFO you destroy. You are not a grand space adventurer, you did not come prepared, you are just trying to survive. That is how you start off. Tiyuri posted:You'll be able to later in the game, this beta only really contains tiers 1 - 3 of 10, the other 10 are there in part but smooshed together with broken progression, just for people to mess around in whilst we finish them up. The idea here is to see your player advance from being stranded with 0 resources to developing sci-fi tech. Much of the sci-fi stuff is in the later tiers. I mean, if you still hate the chosen theme of the beginning of the game that much, you could just edit the game files and replace the early stage stuff with more techy equivalents, but what you are asking for doesn't make sense in the context of being "stranded with zero resources" and it is just mind boggling to indicate otherwise.  Clocks posted:Well, that's the thing though. See, this guy gets it. Varinn posted:The ~story justification~ doesn't matter, because you can change it to justify ANYTHING, it's about the gameplay. You mention that the sci-fi stuff 'comes later on', but why shouldn't the sci-fi stuff be in the sci-fi game from the get-go? Because you were stranded without any resources? I mean, you say the story justification doesn't matter, but it kind of does? Varinn posted:It's already in my hands! It's called the Matter Manipulator, and I shouldn't have to set it down for anything made of stone, copper, or iron imo. See now, I wonder if this is the main issue. I don't see the Matter Manipulator as a deconstruction tool as much as a building tool. It reminds me of how Gmod's Physgun works, being able to pick up and manipulate matter. I see it as a general purpose tool used to do things when you don't have the right tool to do the job. Maybe that is where things are going off? Some people see the MatMan to be an all in one super tool while others see it as the build tool? I mean, since the first time we saw the tool, it was used for building stuff, so it never came to mine that this thing should instantly dice up trees and plow through the earth. I also don't understand how you would just upgrade something like that without acquiring the technology needed to do the manufacturing. With "caveman" tier tools and workstations, it makes sense. That is all stuff you could reasonably put together by hand, and it is with those handmade tools that will give you the ability to eventually give you the infrastructure to make high tech gizmos on your own. Enzer fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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Metrohunter posted:I can't seem to find anything at these coordinates. Anybody mind double checking them for me? I just went to this planet and found the Rocket Boots and Avian airship. Are you set to Beta Sector? (The airship had an oboe and a bass guitar, but those are randomized, I guess) Anyone else know some other places I could go to find Tech?
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Varinn posted:Again, before someone thinks I'm arguing against progression, I'm not. I want Sci-Fi Progression instead of a weird Pseudo-Terriarcraft Progression before the real one starts. Hey, at least you aren't getting started by punching trees into submission.
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Seemenaked posted:Anyone know where I can get a Matter Block? It's an item needed for this Neat Welder's Helmet. Pretty sure you get one from downing a space ship after using a beacon.
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Bob NewSCART posted:How much is the minimum fuel to make a jump to another planet, and does it cost a proportional amount to distance to fly back home? Jumping to another star costs 300 fuel. Jumping to another orbit in your system costs 100 fuel. Jumping to another planet in the same orbit (going from planet to moon orbiting said planet) costs 1 fuel.
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Right, so i'm messing about with how setting up a server works. Also dicking around with a new character on one. There's like three ports that aren't really defined in usage so i'm trying to figure it all out. If you're interested in messing about with MP check out 72.45.56.195.
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Varinn posted:The ~story justification~ doesn't matter, because you can change it to justify ANYTHING, it's about the gameplay. You mention that the sci-fi stuff 'comes later on', but why shouldn't the sci-fi stuff be in the sci-fi game from the get-go? I don't think your argument is about gameplay, though; it's about aesthetics. Unless I'm misunderstanding, you want to start off with everything looking sci-fi rather than having to use hand tools, but you still enjoy the resource gatherting / crafting / tool improvement progression, right? I understand where you're coming from, but disagree with you. I enjoy playing through the "caveman tier" and think it is fitting thematically and aesthetically.
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If I want to keep my character but reset the world, how do I do that?
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I'm saying that as someone who avoided Starbound news until right when I downloaded it and launched it, that the entire first five minutes feels like a rug dropping down on you. The new player experience is that, yes, you get the little blurb in the beginning about how you're a survivor/outcast/whatever, but the first thing you do is get your matter manipulator from your spaceship locker and use your teleporter to beam down! This is hype! This feels rad! And then I have to make a crafting table, a pickaxe and an axe, and then I put away my scifi omnitool for the foreseeable future, make a terraria house, and it's super depressing. This all sounds like I'm super critical of the game, I'm not! I really love this game so far, and exploring and stuff is super fun, and the tiers PAST that are fun and show massive promise. It's just that the first tier is not providing a good new player experience at all, and getting this feedback is the ENTIRE point of a beta.
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Caveman tier would make more sense to me if your ship wasn't available/functioning at the start. Maybe get it back/repair it at the end of the tutorial quest line?
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rhoga posted:Anyone else know some other places I could go to find Tech? I'm going to be compiling a list of anything that I find/anything that's posted in this thread with an image of coordinates. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kHix192pKvjA2Q5PSuU7zNMuaRxqN2B1N718t4FWmwk/edit?usp=sharing So far, that location is the only one there. However, anyone with this link can edit, so feel free to add your own, preferably in the same format. At some point I'll reorganize it so it's easy to look for specific things. If you want to add this to the OP please feel free because it would be nice to have a lot of contributors! deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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canepazzo posted:Caveman tier would make more sense to me if your ship wasn't available/functioning at the star. Maybe get it back/repair it at the end of the tutorial quest line? Yeah, if the caveman tier is REALLY important to the devs for whatever reason, then it needs to be made more reasonable to someone starting the game up blind. That's a good idea, or even just making your ship hella busted or SOMETHING.
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Reposting since I didn't notice the new thread: My server's made some new friends.  We also have some dinosaur monkeys with red sunglasses but those are too hostile and fast for me to get a picture.
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I just hope that theres eventually a better indication that we should build tools. I mean, it's completely my fault for not seeing the Stone Pickaxe in the crafting list, but I seriously thought that my first pick was going to be the copper one and spent over an hour digging with the Matter Manipulator before realizing the stone one existed. Again, completely my fault but the tutorial never mentions anything and just sort of dumps you off with the beacon boss quest.
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Varinn posted:I'm saying that as someone who avoided Starbound news until right when I downloaded it and launched it, that the entire first five minutes feels like a rug dropping down on you. The new player experience is that, yes, you get the little blurb in the beginning about how you're a survivor/outcast/whatever, but the first thing you do is get your matter manipulator from your spaceship locker and use your teleporter to beam down! This is hype! This feels rad! To me, having the first tier be a terraria-minecraft-ish kind of thing just makes me more hyped for what is to follow. Personally I really felt like a survivor rather than an adventurer to begin with.
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Anyone know what a Matter Block is and how to get it? I have the rest of the materials to craft a rad helmet and that's all I'm missing.
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FPzero posted:I just hope that theres eventually a better indication that we should build tools. I mean, it's completely my fault for not seeing the Stone Pickaxe in the crafting list, but I seriously thought that my first pick was going to be the copper one and spent over an hour digging with the Matter Manipulator before realizing the stone one existed. Again, completely my fault but the tutorial never mentions anything and just sort of dumps you off with the beacon boss quest. Well, I mean, it is day two of the "unstable, expect poo poo to blow up frequently" beta stage. Just, IMO, phrase things that are deficiencies of the tutorial as observations, not complaints. Not until the ostensibly "stable" beta phase, anyways.
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Anyone found any pets? I see there's slots for them on the character screen, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it, so I'm guessing it's not implemented yet?
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Cryohazard posted:To me, having the first tier be a terraria-minecraft-ish kind of thing just makes me more hyped for what is to follow. Personally I really felt like a survivor rather than an adventurer to begin with. For me, the game is now about searching for and raiding civilizations, and taking everything not nailed down. It is the most fun way to play.
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