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Made in ca
Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought





Canada

Cool, things are well under way.

I had been hosting Minecraft and Terraria for my kids.
Guess I will get the 4 pack and get that going for them.

I hope we will not get a repeat of the "pouring lava on the floor of the tree house for more light" incident.

Really looks well thought out so it may be a fun playable beta.

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Made in us
Fireknife Shas'el




Gah. I can't kill the ufo boss. I am finally well equipped, but it keeps running away from me. I also found a neat item a merchant spawn.
   
Made in gb
Committed Chaos Cult Marine






Just got the game last night and spent just under an hour on it.

All I can say is the hunting bow is horrible, either that or I just suck at using it.

Quite like the look of it though I dunno if I prefer its or Terrarias looks. Really need to play more of it to get a better feel of the game.

When the rich rage war it's the poor who die

Armies I have: Chaos Space Marines, Tau, Necrons, High Elves

Armies I want:Lizardmen, Warriors Of Chaos, Dark Eldar

Armies I may get: Dark Angels, Tomb Kings, Vampire Counts

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USA

Hunting bow takes timing. You charge it up until it flashes, then release for maximum damage.

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Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






London, UK

New update this morning has quite a few changes:
http://playstarbound.com/launcher/

Some highlights:
Massively reducing the pixel cost (sometimes eliminating it entirely) on early weapons/armor
Monsters now have a small chance to drop meat when killed with normal weapons
Bandages are now craftable with 4 plant fibres, no longer require fabric
Monsters now have a 70% chance to drop meat when killed with a hunting weapon, up from 50%
Tweaked the UFO boss to make him smash blocks
Also make him a little bit easier by changing him to level 9 from level 10
Increase mining speed a little
Make sure hunger bar is always shown when eating food
Make hunger bar display when the alt key is held down

I'll update the server at some point today if/when I get time.

   
Made in au
Veteran Knight Baron in a Crusader




Behind you

That UFO is going to be the bane of the server.

 
   
Made in us
Consigned to the Grim Darkness





USA

Glad I killed the UFO before that change was made.

How about we make a rule that you have to call the UFO AWAY from the server's home planet?


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Okay, the Stimm packs do the following...

Red: Regeneration
Blue: Jump height
Green: Run speed
Yellow: Makes you glow

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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut





Just got this.

Really not used to the matter manipulation tool compared with the Terraria pickaxes and drills....

hello 
   
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness





USA

Tools in this game are slightly better. For one, when mining ore you get both the ore and the block. For two, the matter manipulator mines four blocks, while other tools mine nine.


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Also I'll connect again whenever Dark updates the server. Currently cannot conenct.

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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
 
   
Made in gb
Committed Chaos Cult Marine






 darkinnit wrote:


Some highlights:
Monsters now have a small chance to drop meat when killed with normal weapons
Monsters now have a 70% chance to drop meat when killed with a hunting weapon, up from 50%


These two alone make me happy XD

Really need to get playing it more


When the rich rage war it's the poor who die

Armies I have: Chaos Space Marines, Tau, Necrons, High Elves

Armies I want:Lizardmen, Warriors Of Chaos, Dark Eldar

Armies I may get: Dark Angels, Tomb Kings, Vampire Counts

DC:90SGM-B--I+Pw40k03++D+A++/eWD-R+T(Pic)DM+

 
   
Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






London, UK

Server's updated and working. But I'm off out for the evening.

   
Made in us
Consigned to the Grim Darkness





USA

If anyone does a lot of hunting and has a ton of leather, the new leather armor made at the spinning wheel is really, REALLY good.

As in "they're probably going to have to nerf it before the game is released" good. It's better than steel armor overall (slightly lower defense, vastly higher cold resistance), and better than gold armor entirely

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Fireknife Shas'el




Checked the patch notes. They are nerfing it in the morning. That was rather fast.
   
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USA

Hah. I'll jsut switch to my steel armor then.

Steel is remarkably easy to make once you have the right crafting thing-- AND I DO. BECAUSE I BEAT THE SEOCND BOSS.

Man, I am SO boss.

Going to try to get to titanium tier over the weekend. Platinum is, sadly, bugged in that it rarely spawns save for on the surface.

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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Fireknife Shas'el




They are doing a character reset soon. They have a plan set out yo rebalanced combat. Removing AP, reducing the number of levels by a factor of 10. It sounds like it might help a lot with the games unbalanced combat. Right now combat feels twitchy because being just a little over or under equipped leads to curb-stomps.

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USA

Hm. I better store all my stuff on the server then? Or are they resetting everything?

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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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Made in us
Fireknife Shas'el




It said character reset, so I don't know if that means server. I imagine, you won't be able to keep your items seeing as it's a patch about completely redoing all the items.
   
Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






London, UK

I've heard that they'll try to alternate character and universe resets so that you can transfer items that way.

i.e. Character reset, move all items to the world, universe reset, move all items to your ship, etc.

Of course, anything that relies on some aspect of your character that is changed, like energy, AP? etc may suffer some loss in some way. Also, don't forget it's a Beta and rumoured promises are only rumours, if they introduce an account system or start tying your character to one universe, you might end up having to reset all the things.

   
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USA

True on both regards. I just figured I've gotten to the titanium tier (which I can't do anything with because of bugs in how platinum ore spawns) so I might as well save my stuff while I can.

The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
 
   
Made in us
Fireknife Shas'el




I'll just let my items reset. start over as a new race. Maybe one of the flower people. I could play a man-eating rose.
   
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness





USA

I deposited a number of weapons and outfit pieces in the server's homeworld in various containers. Please feel free to use them. The stuff in the chests behind the locked door are the ones I 'd like to keep.

I actually need to expand our storage, because I have more stuff to deposit. IS it possible to sell useless weapons?

The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
 
   
Made in us
Fireknife Shas'el




Selling isn't implemented yet. You can refine ores and bars, but I think weapons you just have to trash.
   
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USA

In that case, feel free to take whatever weapons that look neat to you that I've deposited in the base. done playing for today I think.

The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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Made in ie
Screaming Shining Spear






looks really nice, if anyone has spare beta keys and has no better candidates id love to try it out!

 
   
Made in gb
Stealthy Warhound Titan Princeps





South Wales

Or just buy it like the rest of us.

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Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






London, UK

Quick note that I discovered today, your player and ship isn't synced to the Steam cloud at present (or saved on the server). So if you go to another computer, you need to copy the .metadata, .player and .shipworld files from the player folder in the game directory to the same location on the other computer.

Using something like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Sky Drive can help with this.

   
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USA

Ah, thanks.

My lappy can't handle the game in its current form, so I didn't know that.


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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
 
   
Made in ie
Screaming Shining Spear






 MrDwhitey wrote:
Or just buy it like the rest of us.

oh sorry thought you had to be picked but you can pay in for invites

 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






London, UK

Hmm.. they didn't seem to be getting enough ores from the lava for it to be worth the risk to me. I've seen the same levels of ores higher up on a level 1 planet. (Unless there are certain types of ore only obtainable at that level?)

   
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USA

True, I'd want to do that on a higher level planet.

The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
 
   
 
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