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Starbound Beta Drops in 2 Days: Your Starting Survival Guide

The Starbound Beta drops in 2 days and like many of you, I am very excited. A few Let's Players have received early beta access and have posted up several videos and I want to break down a few things that will help you out through the first missions of Starbound.

First thing you will do is get your first quest and collect your starting items from your ship chest. You start with a sword, flashlight, 10 torches, matter manipulator and some seeds. After you land you will want to chop down some trees and get some cobblestone with the matter manipulator. The matter manipulator is a cool tool that basically can chop down trees & dig up stuff except it does is very slowly... Read All

Starbound Beta Will Drop Dec 4th

I have been eagerly anticipating the Starbound Beta for quite some time and it looks like we got some word on when the beta will drop from Tiy.

"Starbound beta release is looking to be around dec 4th. Assuming arrangements go through with steam."

I created a Cheerful Ghost event for this, so join it if you want to add it to your calendar and chat about it!

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/events/45
https://twitter.com/Tiyuri/status/405292961044234240

Starbound Beta will Come Soon and In 3 Stages

Didn't think i'd be writing about the Starbound beta this year but it looks like it will be coming very soon. Chucklefish recently posted about how the beta will roll out over the upcoming months.

stage 1: progenitor

"Stage 1 will be move at a breakneck speed. This will be the buggiest and busiest stage of the beta. A bunch of unfinished features will be disabled whilst we finish them up. Updates will come thick and fast, sometimes as often as multiple updates a day.

If you choose to take part during stage 1 you should expect bugs, lots of balance changes, you shouldn’t get too attached to your character or universe as we may make changes that require you to start from... Read All Didn't think i'd be writing about the Starbound beta this year but it looks like it will be coming very soon. Chucklefish recently posted about how the beta will roll out over the upcoming months.

stage 1: progenitor

"Stage 1 will be move at a breakneck speed. This will be the buggiest and busiest stage of the beta. A bunch of unfinished features will be disabled whilst we finish them up. Updates will come thick and fast, sometimes as often as multiple updates a day.

If you choose to take part during stage 1 you should expect bugs, lots of balance changes, you shouldn’t get too attached to your character or universe as we may make changes that require you to start from scratch. You should expect the game to be broken at points as we make sweeping changes but you’ll get to enjoy exciting new content added constantly. The engine won’t optimized during this stage of the beta so performance could be poor on some low end machines."

stage 2: automaton

"Stage 2 will be largely feature complete. You’ll still find the odd bug but they’re unlikely to be game breaking and the chance of you losing your character or save is minimal. The main quest line won’t be in yet but the sandbox experience will be near complete. All sectors of the galaxy will be available including sector X (End game content). Much of the focus in this stage will be on bug fixing, optimization and balance."

stage 3: Bio-organic

"Stage 3 is largely about prepping for v1.0, this means finishing up the main quest line and implementing the post beta content. i.e. the Novakids, fossils. By the time stage 3 is complete Starbound should be ready to launch as a finished game. Worry not however, we plan to keep adding new content for at least a year after release, perhaps a lot longer."

If you are in the Starbound beta are you going to check it out before the release? Are you planning on playing the game heavily at first or wait for the game to be a bit less buggy?

http://playstarbound.com/how-the-beta-is-going-to-work/

Starbound Grappling Hooks!

This looks so fun. I loved Terraria's grappling hooks, but they didn't have these Spider Man physics.

It's updates like this that make me wonder just how much we don't even know about Starbound yet.

Starbound Demonstration at Insomnia Fest i49

Just watched a few minutes of the Starbound game demonstration at i49 and I had to drop it on the site. Molly and Bart show off the game starting with Character Creation, Multiplayer and questing.

The game looks VERY pretty and polished for a pre-beta. The art and music work well together to build the world. The basic exploration elements look great. You seem to start with a nice assortment of items in the matter manipulator, flashlight, basic weapons & torches.

Check it out and sound off with your thoughts in the comments.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 09/03/2013 at 04:14pm

Is this the same company that made Terraria?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/03/2013 at 04:22pm

No, but one of the artists did.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 09/04/2013 at 02:01am

It's interesting that at the beginning they said they were influenced by other "blocked-based" genre games like "Minecraft and such," but don't mention Terraria, which people will assume Starbound is the sequel to.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/04/2013 at 03:53am

Right, well I think there might be some kind of "odd relationship" between Terraria and Starbound so it makes sense that they don't list it. :D

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/04/2013 at 09:27pm

From a recent article in PC Gamer.

http://i.imgur.com/XMUja5Z.jpg

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 09/05/2013 at 05:01pm

Huh, well we shall see! I wouldn't mind "Terraria in space" though.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/05/2013 at 05:10pm

I don't think you are far off truth be told and yeah, I would too :D

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New Starbound Biome Demo Video

Very pretty biome showcase video. Can't wait for this to drop.

Travis Admin wrote on 08/12/2013 at 12:35am

I love the constant updates from Chucklefish, but it's so torturous.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/12/2013 at 04:07am

Right, I agree. That said, looks like the game is coming along nicely!

Jacob_Richardson wrote on 08/13/2013 at 02:57am

I figured you posted about this so I dropped by to comment. Even though it was meant as a showcase it was almost a full trailer. It doesn't really show much of the gameplay, but somehow it really captured me with the atmosphere. Which I think is in great part to the amazing soundtrack song Atlas. Yesterdays update was probably the best one ever posted. Seeing and hearing how a game comes together over time is a special treat to those who enjoy what goes into making them.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/13/2013 at 05:10pm

I agree, I really enjoy watching the game progress too. I really hope the end product feels and plays as well as it looks! I think the music does work well with the visuals to build a world I want to exist in.

Can't say this enough but hoping for a beta as soon as the game is ready :D

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A Long Way Down: Asteroids & Farming

Each night one of the Starbound developers writes the daily game development progress and I religiously read each one. A few recently caught my eye and I thought they were fun enough to share.

The first bit of awesome shown in the above video is of a new feature, Asteroid mining. It seems all you need to do is go high enough to find them and have a suit capable of sustaining you in the low oxygen environment.

"Yup, if you go high enough you’ll now climb out of the planet’s atmosphere and find asteroids to explore.

The terrain here is COMPLETELY temporary. So don’t worry about that. We simply spawned a random jumble of dirt to test this out. It’s going to get far more... Read All

Starbound Gets Playable Instruments

"Bartwe worked hard last weekend to get the system in place, and I’ve been taking full advantage, testing various potential instruments with dozens of ABC files.

At present there’s almost 20 instruments already in the game, with more to come as time goes on.

All that remains really as far as the instruments are concerned is some pretty graphics to make them look the part, proper animations with the hands, a user interface so players can easily select their song of choice, and getting synchronized performances across multiple players."

This feature of the game really interests me. As a musician it interests me, but I am also curious in playing music with my friends with... Read All

Starbound: Updated Roadmap and Some News Blocks

Recently the Starbound roadmap was updated to cover the updated progress of the project. Many of the high level sections are at 90% complete but some still need more love. If you are interested in checking it out, check it out.

http://www.playstarbound.com/roadmap/

The Starbound team has been pumping out daily updates on their website and Starbound News collected all the past week reveals into one video linked above.

This screenshot was released this morning.

http://i.imgur.com/dZv7wZJ.png

Progress Update: Ship Travel, Speech & 3D Printing

Been following all the posted development activity for Starbound over the last few weeks and wanted to bubble some up to your attention. One feature I thought was interesting is that they are adding in game 3D printing. Its an interesting feature and ill have them describe it for you.

"We’re also working on the 3D printing interface, which is very similar to the crafting interface but you’re also able to “scan in” items to reverse engineer them. Almost any object you find in the world can be scanned/reverse engineered to allow you to print it using ‘pixels’. However, anything you make with a 3D printer will be marked as “printed” and will have a much lower value. If... Read All