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So pissed but its expected I guess.

Spent 7 hours yesterday and got a ton of stuff/ore/etc on me. I quit the game to relaunch really quick but steam kept saying I still had the game running. I checked the processes and killed it cause there was no game mode and it still said it was running so I restarted steam and logged back on and I had a complete rollback and my 7hr game session was lost. I lost all my gear and everything >.< My multiplayer server was saved and all stuff in my chest/house was fine too. Just my inventory was rolled back and all my good gear/ores were in there

Anyone else have this happened?

the last version (beta v. offended koala) failed to patch properly without some workaround for alot of people including me, I would suggest a cache verify to make absolutely sure everything is up to date. otherwise never had a problem with saves yet, even when it crashes on the way out.
 
I'm confused. I built a metalwork station finally and it only shows me the exact same things as an anvil. Is it a bug? How do I start tier 2 stuff?

Thanks!
 
I'm confused. I built a metalwork station finally and it only shows me the exact same things as an anvil. Is it a bug? How do I start tier 2 stuff?

Thanks!
Tier 2 should be anything you can craft with steel ingots (coal + iron ingot) and matter blocks. That will also include the Inactive Robot parts and brain extractor. (Good luck trying to get a superior brain! Took me four planets and half a dozen deaths to get even one. ><)

Re-check your Metalwork Station to see if you get an option to craft steel ingots and steel blocks. The Metalwork Station does everything that the Stone Furnace does, and adds new recipes that require steel and matter blocks.
 
Mine didnt show the next tier until I crafted and used the Starmap Mk2 upgrade.
 
This game is really cool but it has its quirks I played it for several hours a couple of days after it came out and it sucked my attention for hours. A couple of things annoyed the crap out of me inventory management, no sorting, lack of early recipies and having no idea where to find more (I have dozens of gold bars and can't make anything useful out of them except for a gold pickaxe) I tried fighting that ufo boss since apparently you can make steel afterward but he was super overpowered and couldn't do squat against him. I can't find or can't see silver ore very well so I have found more gold than silver oddly (although I do have a silver chestplate and leggings.) Having to spend long periods digging isn't exactly what Id like to spend 50% of my time on. The mini-dungeons are cool but I cleared at least a dozen of them and found nothing remotely useful in any of them.

I do like the combat thus far, its easy enough to stay alive for long periods but hard enough where a few mistakes will make you carry a bed with you to sleep on. If you liked terraria you will LOVE this game, to me its like terraria on steriods.
 
Making the Racial armors requires the various Ore armor of the same tier.
You need silver leggings to make the Tier 1 racial armor leggings, gold leggings to make the Tier 2 leggings, etc, so gold bars are needed for that stuff. I think i was running around with an Iron bow and the full first set of racial armor and stomped the ufo boss pretty handily.
 
nice guide posted on reddit today for setting up an amazon ec2 server, did not realise they had a free trial tier. what this means is you can get a free instance for 750 hours a month/12 months without paying a dime, enough to run a single instance 24/7 for a year (ram limit is 600mb, no idea how many players that would support without lag). just follow along for the ssh setup, the linux command tut and ec2 terms are linked in the about post. you can create a windows instance too but this would probably eat into your ram limit, so there's not much point to it when starbound has a linux dedi that that works through a debian/ubuntu shell.

warning: you will have to provide a valid cc# to get an account, and after the 12 months are up they will start charging so remember to shut it down when you're not using it, so they can just reclaim it when you're done. otherwise they are kind of shady with the default pricing details, but a quick look at the specs for lowest matching tier (600mb m1.small) will run you $.06 an hour, which works out to about $45 a month, pretty terrible deal as far as small game servers go.
 
600MB of RAM!? Will Windows even run on that? lol

That's NOT going to work. Are you sure thats what it says?
 
It would just be running the server client on Linux, unless I am missing something...

The game wont even launch without 2GB.
I still think he mis-read something. There is no way that is their physical spec limit. You can't run this game server on 600MB.
 
The game wont even launch without 2GB.
I still think he mis-read something. There is no way that is their physical spec limit. You can't run this game server on 600MB.
Seems like a complete waste of time for just 2 connections.
That wasn't convincing at all. If you really want to play with just 2 people, host it yourself.

you are making assumptions on something you know nothing about, why would you do this? see for yourself, the specs are laid out right here in the link provided in the video description, and that tutorial would not have been made if this wasn't possible. that is not how dedicated servers work, you're not actually loading the game. it's enough to at least host for a few buddies when you don't have the resources to do it on your own.

the problem here isn't memory, but the limited processing power you may have when they're prioritising paid hosts, cpu time is a bit less predictable.
 
you are making assumptions on something you know nothing about, why would you do this? see for yourself, the specs are laid out right here in the link provided in the video description, and that tutorial would not have been made if this wasn't possible. that is not how dedicated servers work, you're not actually loading the game. it's enough to at least host for a few buddies when you don't have the resources to do it on your own.

the problem here isn't memory, but the limited processing power you may have when they're prioritising paid hosts, cpu time is a bit less predictable.

Actually, no I'm not. I checked every link you posted, this doesn't work.
You obviously missed the post under that video (which appears to be the only feedback..) that it runs like crap, and the guy states you cant even play with more than one person. Same on reddit, 3 people max? The sensible posts recommend getting hosting. It's retarded to run this off a cloud when the specs won't even let you play with more than 2 people, and in practice it doesn't even work with one.
 
Actually, no I'm not. I checked every link you posted, this doesn't work.
You obviously missed the post under that video (which appears to be the only feedback..) that it runs like crap, and the guy states you cant even play with more than one person. Same on reddit, 3 people max? The sensible posts recommend getting hosting. It's retarded to run this off a cloud when the specs won't even let you play with more than 2 people, and in practice it doesn't even work with one.

you are. and it does. this is free and fine for co-op, not sure what you were expecting.
 
you are. and it does. this is free and fine for co-op, not sure what you were expecting.

I am what?
I fact checked your links, the feedback is poor, the proof is there. What's to assume? Have you tried it? I'd love to hear if your experience isn't like everyone elses, but I'm not counting on it...
 
I am what?
I fact checked your links, the feedback is poor, the proof is there. What's to assume? Have you tried it? I'd love to hear if your experience isn't like everyone elses, but I'm not counting on it...

you didn't fact check anything, since this is something you made clear you're not even remotely capable of. seemed fine to me for at least 2 players, so you saw one bad experience and thought that would be some kind of saving grace for your ignorant comments, I don't get it. why bother getting into something like this if you have no idea what you're looking at?
 
A free server for two distant friends to play around in Starbound with is a great deal. Period.
 
you didn't fact check anything, since this is something you made clear you're not even remotely capable of. seemed fine to me for at least 2 players, so you saw one bad experience and thought that would be some kind of saving grace for your ignorant comments, I don't get it. why bother getting into something like this if you have no idea what you're looking at?

OK, since you are so dense that you can't read the comments through the links YOU posted, I will show you the experiences everyone else is having. Again, where is your experience? You seem all about this, surely you have tried it yourself.

Reddit:
I did this shortly after the Reddit Linux Guide was posted, and found that the free t1.micro was way too slow. Was getting major lag with just one other person. I ended up using a c3.large which costs 15 cents an hour (while the server is on) and have gotten no lag, supporting 3 other people. Just a heads up!
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Yeah, you'd be much better off getting a paid server like you did, but the free option is great for people who don't feel like spending money/don't need a "smooth" server with a large number of players.


The guide:
This worked like absolute hell for me. You are limited to a 2ghz Proc and 4gb ram on the micro tier. Which would probably be okay if they weren't giving resource priority to vm's that are paying customers. Playing was horribly laggy, and once you had more then one person it was basically unplayable.&#65279;

And there's this.
Be very careful with free EC2. You will quickly find you owe lots of money from exceeding various limits

Did you read the pages you are even linking? Your personal attacks are amusing
 
I can not believe this started an argument. Jesus Christ. Just get over it, guys. It works. Move on.
 
I haven't touched this game in a long, long time...was really content-thin back then.
 
I've been meaning to pick this up, but the fact is, my kids and I still play Terraria. I have some persistent worlds contantly running on our network, so we can hop in and out at will. It hasn't gotten old yet, so I haven't felt the need to pick up SB yet. Still on the list though.
 
I've been meaning to pick this up, but the fact is, my kids and I still play Terraria. I have some persistent worlds contantly running on our network, so we can hop in and out at will. It hasn't gotten old yet, so I haven't felt the need to pick up SB yet. Still on the list though.

Terraria is leaps and bounds better than Starbound. If you're still enjoying it, then I wouldn't even bother, to be honest.
 
Truthfully I'd offer a counter opinion - Terraria and Starbound are similar, but I wouldn't count out the latter. Maybe years prior when Starbound was content-light in comparison, but the current game and in fact the entire title since 1.0 release (and some say, even prior) has meant huge overhauls and lots of new content and things to do. The scope and scale of the game is significant and there is even an overatching story - new character tutorials introduce each players as new graduates of something not unlike a Starfleet Academy, when a catastrophe occurs! The player makes it off the homeworld and gets started out on their initial "gameworld" with objectives that require learning game systems etc... which in turn eventually repair your ship's navigation sufficiently to make it to a central "hub/civilization" world where you learn more about the alien life and what caused the catastrophe alongwith what it may take to stop it etc. Things only go on from there and of course, this is to say nothing for the player's own desires to say... set up a base somewhere and play the way they want!

Overall I'm very happy with Starbound's options and I'm very glad they continue to develop it - lots of developers would have walked away at 1.0. This, combined with its Linux client and potential to run dedicated servers make it a fantastic title of its genre. If you enjoyed Terraria then I think its certainly worth a shot in the "2D, build/explore/survive" genre - one of the better offerings at current!
 
Yeah, I'll definitely pick it up sometime soon. Probably during a sale as I'll need to get around 6 copies.
 
Starbound and Terreria are both treasures with differences. If you don't own both, you're missing out.
Starbound is better for free-form exploration, Terraria is better for more linear progression action/RPG. As an added bonus, Starbound has Workshop support and some really nice mods.
They both have their merits but overall Terraria is a superior game.
 
Yeah, I'll definitely pick it up sometime soon. Probably during a sale as I'll need to get around 6 copies.

Steam has it 33% off (single and four-pack). Not the best I've seen it, but it's something!
 
Funny, I've owned it for years and never played it. Started playing it this am with no idea 1.3 came out, total coincidence. 5 hours later..
 
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