# Starbound beta release - Intergalactic Terraria **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 4, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520 "2013-12-04T22:37:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/61 "2014-02-07T13:51:40Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > What to do next is entirely up to you. You can even build your own little village if you want and build spawners to populate said village. > > I don’t know if more quests are available anywhere in vanilla; if they are, I think they’re only offered via NPC. As I said upthread, there are mods which add them. I made a villager once. He got himself killed by the local monsters. Seems kinda pointless. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/62 "2014-02-07T15:03:54Z")
All right, thanks all. I just thought there was going to be a way to quickly refine fuel for my ship or sumthin. Mining a thousand coal sounds like it would be tedious. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/63 "2014-02-07T17:24:30Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > All right, thanks all. I just thought there was going to be a way to quickly refine fuel for my ship or sumthin. Mining a thousand coal sounds like it would be tedious. You can smelt unrefined wood to make coal, but it’s still kind of a drag. There are better fuel sources than coal in the late game, though. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/64 "2014-02-07T21:02:24Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > You can smelt unrefined wood to make coal, but it’s still kind of a drag. I did not know that! Thanks! > [@](#): > > There are better fuel sources than coal in the late game, though. I figured there were… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/65 "2014-02-07T21:44:58Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > I made a villager once. He got himself killed by the local monsters. Seems kinda pointless. That’s what you get for not making guards. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/66 "2014-02-10T14:19:08Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > That’s what you get for not making guards. 🙂 Are the guards actually effective? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/67 "2014-02-10T18:05:59Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Are the guards actually effective? Never tried making guards so I don’t know how they’re equipped but the ones that come with generated villages do fine. One helped me take down the bone dragon. Created villages will definitely be more useful later. The finished game will allow players multiple sources of income, not only the selling of items that have been plundered or farmed but also the building of villages and charging rent! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/68 "2014-02-12T03:00:02Z")
Whoa. Poison rain! (I would say “acid rain” but it has no effect on structures. :)) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/69 "2014-02-12T04:52:41Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Whoa. Poison rain! (I would say “acid rain” but it has no effect on structures. :)) At least it’s not meteorites. My first character got killed twice before leaving her first planet by those things. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/70 "2014-02-13T02:12:51Z")
Note to self: stay away from Level 9 planets until better equipped! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/71 "2014-02-13T18:18:18Z")
Volcanic and Magma planets are currently bugged. [Here’s a mod to fix them.](http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?resources/unofficial-parallax-fix.1384/) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/72 "2014-02-14T17:49:43Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Do I mine coal until I can fill the ships fuel tank? (That will take about a thousand coal!) Filling the tank is 500 coal but all you really need is enough to get to the next planet you feel like exploring: 1 coal to go between objects orbiting a planet (including the planet itself). 25 coal to go between objects orbiting the same sun (right click to zoom out). 100 coal to go between objects in the same sector or travel between sectors (right click to zoom out again). You should have more coal than you know what to do with by the time you upgrade to a gold pick. Once you’re up to using uranium for fuel, you still need coal to combine with metals and make torches. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/73 "2014-02-14T20:05:01Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Filling the tank is 500 coal but all you really need is enough to get to the next planet you feel like exploring: > > 1 coal to go between objects orbiting a planet (including the planet itself). > 25 coal to go between objects orbiting the same sun (right click to zoom out). > 100 coal to go between objects in the same sector or travel between sectors (right click to zoom out again). > > You should have more coal than you know what to do with by the time you upgrade to a gold pick. Once you’re up to using uranium for fuel, you still need coal to combine with metals and make torches. That was not the experience I had two weeks ago. It cost me 50 or 60 units of fuel (and 1 coal gave 1 fuel unit) to go from the starting planet to an asteroid belt in the same star system. One way. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/74 "2014-02-14T20:23:42Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > That was not the experience I had two weeks ago. It cost me 50 or 60 units of fuel (and 1 coal gave 1 fuel unit) to go from the starting planet to an asteroid belt in the same star system. One way. You likely were playing a version from before the fuel efficiency was increased and using wood (1:1) instead of coal (1:2). There’s also uranium (1:4), plutonium (1:6), and solarium (1:8). ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/75 "2014-02-19T05:55:14Z")
A heads up; they [just released](http://playstarbound.com/) the new patch. And they say that we can expect “near daily” updates from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/76 "2014-02-19T16:46:05Z")
And something broke my Avian in Sector X. Attempting to load her crashes the game. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/77 "2014-02-19T23:57:19Z")
They introduced a container bug in the latest hotfix, and are [telling](http://playstarbound.com/) people to make backups if they haven’t started playing since the patch. > [@](#): > > WARNING: If you have not yet started playing, please make a backup of your ship file, which is located in your steam folder/player/_.shipworld and backups of your world files located in your steam folder/universe/_.world ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/78 "2014-02-20T13:52:30Z")
Yeah, I lost my Ship’s locker that way, and all the neat stuff I had in there. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/79 "2014-03-10T20:07:35Z")
'Nother good mod to recommend: [Variety is the spice of the Universe](http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?resources/variety-is-the-spice-of-the-universe-a-universe-biome-overhaul.199/). More weather, biomes, and planet types! Haven’t tried it with Dungeoneer Dungeons so I don’t know if they work together. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520/80 "2014-04-03T21:26:48Z")
Would people mind stopping by Alpha Lapine 550 VII at -31030119, 73677683? I’m curious if others see an unoccupied village as well, the eastern entrance of which should be visible from the spawn point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbound-beta-release-intergalactic-terraria/675520.md?page=5)