Stream Jan 08, 2013

Here's some info on what i've gleaned from the short stream:

• sand physics
  -it falls in piles
  -water drags sand along
• hunger bar (which is optional)
• cooking
  -"bacon" and "steak"
• ocean block <- infinite water source, not spawnable
• flashlight works under water

about 12 hours later there was another stream, showing these things:

• dirt crumbles too, but less so than sand
• lava and water make some stonelike block (obsidian most likely)
• at least 2 tints of water on 1 planet
• weather
  -torches and flashlight light up trees and rain.
  -swaying of trees affected by the wind.
• chopping down trees actually makes them fall sideways.
• a little demo of farming.
  -fullgrown plant dropped a crop and a seed
• inspecting on objects using the magnifying glass gives a short description of the item.
  -inspected ciderbottle, chair, glass, flowers, table, candles
• crates can be stacked and used to stand on
  -removing one of the supporting crates causes the built stack to pop.
• chest as storage box
• a small lit area around the mouse when the buildtool is equipped.
• a small demo of some basic (tier 1 of 10) racial armor
  -aquatic looks as asian as we al hoped
  -avian wings look fun
  -robot armor does indeed look medieval, as we expected from the web character creation.
  -space marine armor, you can now die for the emperor!
  -superman outfit
• a lot of racial weapons were also shown, including warhammers, claymores, katanas, axes, etc
• racial armors are not procedurally generated. so that's 10 tiers per race (3 items per set, so 180 armor pieces) in addition to randomly generated stuff
• cool little bloodanimation when something dies, but this won't be in the final version (collapsing animation/ragdoll <- unless exploded)
• some critters around the 30 menu mark. demo of non-aggressive mobs (that eat your crops)
  -note, only one AI (the charging one) is enabled at that moment
• rockets will knock down trees like chainsaws do.
  

added info to the list, info contributed by:

 

Steak is confirmed.

 

A stream from August 1st, 2012? I think you need to fix the date a little.

 

NOW it's a real survival game because you actually can die of hunger.

and then some guy died because his chest didn't have stacks of food anymore :C

edit: sadron, some countries (like mine) have the date like that except the 2012.

 

It's common in some parts of the world to write dates as "Day/Month/Year" instead of the standard in America of "Month/Day/Year"

 

dear americans,

not everyone uses your date system. the date is in the european format, which is actually more widely used than the american standards.

greetings,
Europe.

but you're right about the year, ty

edit: apparently, i cannot change a thread title. can any of the moderators do this for me? if possible, change the 1 to january, to avoid confusion

edit2: okay, so now it's just the year but it's okay, people will understand that this is supposed to be 2013, there wasn't even a mention of starbound in january 2012

edit: ty for the year-change mods

 

Uhm... No. For example I'm spanish and here we put the date like that. It's not the same way everywhere.

 

*brofist*
Just replace 01 with January.

 

Dear Europeans,

This is an america-based website.

Sincerely,
America

 

tiyuri lives in london.

 

Dear Active Link,

A lot of members in the Development team are not in American, this is the Internet and the forums itself are multinational.

Sincerely,
Ghostar

 

Dear Ghostar,

You're right.

Sincerely,
DarkEspeon

 

Dear everyone, did you screen capture this stream? i just missed it, as usual

 

<legris> holding steak Ghostar

Yes... This made me so happy.

Tiy has asked users not to record the footage.

 

Dear ghostar,

The people that live in America expect the world and everything to revolve around them.

Sincerely,
An American that wishes he lived in Europe :/

Back on topic. I think the game is coming along nicely, I think adding hunger will be an interesting element as long as I can buy food from traders if I so desire... And will certain foods be harmful to one race but not another? Like I can't imagine a robot drinking a glass of water or an avian eating chicken or whatever, you know?

 

bender seems to enjoy his alcohol, i see no reason why robots can't drink water xD
there do seem to be some lore restrictions and preferences on races (especially the florans),
but as the developers have said many times, they want the differences to be cosmetic.

so i'm guessing food won't be restricted.

 

I wish they gave us more of a heads up somehow, i always seem to miss streams, and i've actually never seen one live before

 

I didn't even know about the stream

 

You can watch it here.

 

I was on twitter for awhile, alt tabbed and did a bit of online shopping for 30 minutes, alt tab back into twitter to see a post saying they were doing a live stream 44 minutes ago. clicked the link and it was down.

thank you.