On the tentacles planet, I managed to find myself in "Heck." So, I guess I've gotten kind of deep on a planet. I did take a sign that says, "Welcome to Heck." I did finally leave the planet after needing more Titanium, which I wasn't finding. I did find plenty of other rare materials, like diamonds, which I now have little use of.

I am now on an Asteroid mining Cerulium. I like that I've unlocked new ores to mine and things to craft, it's still what's pushing me to other planets or sectors.

Feel free to say as much as you want. Yeah, I've read about the sectors being redone and maybe at least one final world wipe. That just gives me more reason to explore and look forward to new updates.

I think it's cool finding random chests and things around.

Awesome, I haven't used any guns. I've been sticking to heavy damage dealing 2-handed weapons. I've probably found about half of the amount of instruments as you have. I haven't been doing much farming, but I have a chest full of various seeds. I also haven't been building, but I do have a Skyrail Station. I captured one creature, but an asteroid is no place for them as mine ended up falling and I lost it.

So, I'm currently working on crafting the final tier armor for my character. This makes me feel a bit disappointed in that I've gotten so far in the game in so little time. I know I spent more time in Terraria before getting top-tier armor, there was so much to do in order to get the necessary materials. In Starbound, I cam currently on a tundra planet with a threat level of 9, so I can get Rubium (and mix it with coal for my armor). This planet is definitely hard even with the second best armor in the game and a powerful weapon.

I've found a couple of prisons on this planet, but I didn't survive in them long enough to fully explore them. I'll need to revisit them when I have better armor. I believe I also made it to the planet's "Heck" layer. As I was mining away in a cave, I noticed lots of pixel capsules, which lead me to those small houses you can smash for pixels, too.

After I get the last armor pieces that I need, I'll do a bit more exploring. I want to visit at least one planet of every biome and I feel like I've already visited most of them. Still at this point in the game, I'm wanting more. I'm going to want more reason to move on to other planets as I'm not sure how long my desire for exploration will last.

Well I have my top tier armor and weapons. I went back to the prison I found and cleaned it out. It wasn't as difficult this time, although I did rest in beds often as I found and needed them. I thought I had found a second prison, but I didn't realize that it was one prison and that I had wrapped around the world, thinking there was a prison to my left and right.

That is interesting that skyrails were in a mod and are now included in the game. I haven't done much with mods at all in any game. I haven't even tried out any for Minecraft. It's just one thing I haven't gotten into or too interested in, I may eventually look in to it.

So now it's time to do some more exploring. I think something I'd like to see in the final game is perhaps some more difficulty in obtaining higher armor and weapon sets so it takes longer to obtain them. As I've said, I spent a lot of time in Terraria to get them, which made the game more fun and enjoyable. I want to spend more time with Starbound, but am having little reason other than some exploration. I like when I'm exploring because I need something, which pushes me forward.

Because I kept dying on the tundra planet, I got to experience more of a variety in the music, which I really appreciated and enjoyed. That was something I wanted to see when I first played and spent so much time alive that the music didn't differ very often. I have the music stuck in my head.

Steam is telling me I've spent 153 hours playing Starbound, I hardly believe it. Granted I've been playing for long hours at a time, but it doesn't feel like I've spent that much time in the game. Steam says I've spent 188 hours playing Terraria and I thought I played it longer.

I think those Starbound hours include time having the launcher open, but not actually playing the game, as I've left that one open for a long time. I created a Steam account for my son and added my account to his Friends List and it said I was playing Starbound, when I actually only had the launcher open. I'm trying to figure out the Family Library Sharing part of Steam so that my son can play Starbound, but then again as long as I'm playing he won't be able to play it unless I get another copy, which wouldn't be a bad thing.

Cool. I found out that my issue with getting it working is because I can't enable Steam Guard until I get that email address verified. Howevver, I have not yet recieved the verification email for that account. I may have to contact Steam support, it's probably an AOL issue (since my son's account is using my very old AOL email address).

Well, after being on three different planets, they seem to be at least as large as a Terraria large world. I just finished wrapping around a desert planet that had snow in places. But, I also found a temple. I'm still exploring the planets in the system I started in. The original two that I found are just two among a few others revolving around a sun, which I failed to notice on my initial view of the navigation system, which I've gotten used to.

Yes, if you compare a world to a planet, Terraria offers much more diversity in one world of biomes and things to do. Although Starbound seems to break large biomes up into planets, moons, and asteroid belts.

Oh and did anyone else notice the "FTL Drive?" =)

I don't think it's picking up pixels, as I know that sound. And yes, I haven't been refining my copper ore, but I've been using it to repair my diamond drill. It only takes one ore to repair one bar, which is pretty cheap, but I have plenty of copper.

Another bug perhaps or just simple user error? I don't know, but for some reason after I made and put a campfire in my structure, my sword was no longer grayed out and I could use it. I also found out that running the OpenGL Launcher performs better than the other default option. Apparently the default option uses DirectX.

I honestly haven't played long enough to see if that cycle is important and it wasn't obvious to me in Paul's videos. I think he said more enemies come out at night. Further investigation (Google search) reveals that more difficult monsters come out at night. I just recently finished Paul's Starbound videos and will be playing more very soon.

For those of you who've played Starbound and Minecraft or Terraria, I want to know what your thoughts are on this game compared to the others. What do you think about the various similarities and differences? Are you aware of any other similar games?

Ok, as for the issue I had in the first comment I left here, I figured out what happened, which I want to share here so that others might learn. Haha. I was running around with my Broken Phoenix sword, which I found on my ship (among the other things). When I switched to something else in my hand, my weapon icon was grayed out and I didn't realize I could click on it in the hotbar. I also didn't realize that I could have simply pressed "X" to switch between held items. That's kind of a duh because I read the configuration notes while I was on my ship. But it was simply something I overlooked and was misled by the name of my sword. Each race is given a sword or weapon at the beginning and it's usually named Broken something relating to the character's race, hence mine is called "Broken Phoenix." Weapons in the game don't degrade, just tools, which can be repaired with any type of ore apparently.

Did anyone else fall for the same mistake? Hahaha

Ok, I've played during the night and yes it is worse! I also found out that my issue with the teleporter was most likely due to not hovering over it with the mouse pointer. I like the music and using the flashlight. I think it's cool, too, how the sound changes when you go under water.

1st tier, copper helm, copper greaves. I stored the Broken Phoenix since I made a Tomahawk.