Starbound: An Action Adventure Exploration Sandbox Game

Leather is rare? Again?

That's not even funny. Seriously. Beef Gates come back, someone forgets to change a variable, and we're all screwed up again.

Also, how's the tech these days? Do we still have to kill three if not four bosses to get a pair of pliers and a spool of wire?

Disappointed to hear that the survival mechanics are getting removed. That was one of the things that interested me in this game.

Removed for easy to be reimplimented later for hard. I would like them to be optional in general via settings like with Fallout NV.

Leather is rare in general yes. But no you don't have to beat bosses for a few measly parts anymore. You get blank tech chips from quest series and unlock tech via a menu accessed in your ship. Tech is ok in general easier to access now that you no longer have to hunt for it. Just do outpost quests. The fetch this item from a specific race one is kind of annoying though. I don't like having to waste so much time planet hopping hoping to find a single dungeon type. Even narrowing it down to a single system would be nice or make it a dungeon type mission like the Floran Party mission and the Mine Mission are.

Nah, the pliers and wire thing I mentioned referred to the triggerable buttons and consoles that could be connected to doors, turrets and the like. IIRC those were unlockable only after you defeated the third boss, along with fancier furniture and tiles.

Oh that? Nah. Lot easier to unlock now. They have the proper wiring tool in now. You unlock it by completing the quests and upgrading your ship.

Yes, and previously the Wiring Tool was available only if you had the Gamma Tech Upgrade that, go figure, was a loot from the third boss.

Winter update is in Stable now.

...up...date?

Looks up and sees no dates

You're crazy. Calling the mods and they'll take you to crazy-jail. Good day, sir.

edited 29th Jan '15 3:37:07 PM by Rotpar

mining is much better now.

also ive just encountered a floran village. i like the cut of their jib.

by which i mean i like their architecture.

Rotpar: Lol. It certainly seems crazy. Now we will have wait almost another full year of chuckle fish bumbling around before actually putting something out.

No kidding - it's gonna be awhile before another update appears on Steam again given how slowly these guys work. But holy crap does the game run better now, no more single-digit frames per second!

I noticed that in nightly build that it ran smoother. Supposedly the whole point of this long drawn out affair was to tinker and experiment with the engine and finish developing the tools and code. The idea is to try and boost the frequency of both development and speed of updates in the near future.

Not gonna be holding my breath on that anymore. What really sucks right now is that my previous saves don't seem to be able to carry over, not even my characters. I even tried dumping the old save file and character files into the new save folder but that still didn't work. I'm guessing it might have to do with the fact that my characters use the mods, but that still sucks balls since I have to start from scratch now.

It's weird that I have like 30 hours in the game and have seen nothing past the first boss. Just got tired of restarting every version...then I waited nine months for a new version.

To be fair, its really unfair to assume they can have update up every month because game development is really fricking slow

Mods are known to cause all sorts of issues between versions I would blame the mods over the update. I haven't loaded it up to test the nightly with the current.

Bosses are different and there are special missions plus more generic quests at the moment. A nice improvement actually.

edited 29th Jan '15 10:55:36 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Looks like us Starbound fans will have to wait a bit until an emergency patch is released to deal with a newfound bug that pops up after you complete the Erchius mines. In particular, as soon as you teleport back to the ship with the Erchius crystals after having defeated the boss, the game server crashes. What's especially painful about the crash that is that it resets your quest sequence back to when you first restore the basic thrusters and gain the ability to travel from planet to planet, meaning that all your efforts on the gateway outpost have been forgotten, and progress impossible.

My progress through the game is going to take a small hiatus for now until this bug gets fixed, or perhaps even until Chucklefish announces that the game is absolutely, finally, and totally complete and ready for a final release.

Starbound has some spectacular doesn't it?

The best thing about this update? The ability to manipulate coffee. Coffee swimming pools, rivers, waterfalls... It's like Willy Wonka for caffeine addicts!

It's just a shame I can't get the darn game to run more than three frames per second on Windows. Y'know, Windows? The OS that most people play games on? That Windows? Yeeeeeeeah. Works fine on Ubuntu, though!

Edit: Though, in all seriousness. I've been playing the last few days, and... well, you have to work for your fun now, which is frustrating to say the least. The first quests wind up having you dig to the core for some sort of ore. I suppose this is to encourage players to dig and get metals that they can use to make stuff, but... really? It's as if Minecraft went ahead and put an Obsidian wall around the biome you're currently in, and you can't mine through it without digging for diamond. Also, coal is annoyingly scarce when you're digging down, which means you're probably going to spend a lot of time on the surface looking for it just to, y'know, see where you're going.

Also, they removed the ability to smelt wood into coal. Or if they didn't, I haven't figured out how to do it now.

Edit 2, since I figure this isn't worth its own post: I assume that Oil is on desert planets? If so, how far down do I have to go to get it? Because I don't know how much more inane digging I have to do in order to get further in the game.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:47:07 PM by TheAlbinoPrimid

Now does this include in singleplayer? If that's the case, a workaround I know of is to simply cheat it in with these codes, in order line by line:

/admin
/spawnitem shipT2 1
Use the item you just spawned, which should upgrade your ship to Tier 2, then do /admin again to de-admin and continue with your life.

Oil can depend. Sometimes there are a bunch of lakes of it on the surface, but there can instead be healing water, in which case you'd have to dig for oil.

My starting solar system has been especially poor in regards to oil. So much to the point that it took me a whole day to find a planet with sufficient amounts underground, let alone enough to forge steel.

As for why the resource grind is so terrible now, I've got a feeling that it might be because there's nothing well-developed beyond the Tier 2 planets. Lots of quests from the Gate Outpost, but aside from going to the radioactive, volcanic, and arctic planets followed by another boss dungeon there's nothing else major going on. Then again, almost everybody's still trying to reach boss #2, so perhaps it's just because we haven't heard from the folks who've reach the end of the line yet.

Zero problems with any resources. Lots of oil as in lakes worth same for liquid fuel.

same. lots of every kind of resource.

You can always find oil in your first solar system on one of the starting desert planets. Lots of fuel on the moons and tons of minerals as you go down deeper into the planets. Finding large clusters of minerals like iron, copper, and silver is seldom an issue. Gold clumps tend to be more common on desert worlds it seems. Desert worlds are great places to find all sorts of goodies for ore.

Right until you get your FTL drive repaired you can find everything you need in your first solar system you just have to dig down for it.

I have been running Starbound in Open GL with no problems. The first option is a bit fubar but Open GL works well for me and my friends whose server I have been on.

Had no issues with the first boss on an MP server to boot with another player helping me.