Character Carry Over? just a tiny question.

hey hi, just curious if I go out and farm blocks and furniture now for my colony...could I use the character and items I farm now in 1.0? just to give items to a friend to then trade to my new 1.0 character?

So excited about the 22 @_@ I actually cried in joy yesterday when they said it on stream.

 

Characters will be wiped.

Don't know if universes will be wiped too. I suggest you back up your universe folder (r at least the worlds you want to keep) just in case.

 

Oh okay, well guess I will play something else til the 22nd then ^^ thank you~ ♥

 

Did the devs confirm there would be wipes at 1.0 release? I thought they said no more wipes if they can help it a while back.

 

It was in their livesteam Friday. There's far too much that's changed with progression, crafting, Outpost buildup, etc that using old characters would basically lock you out of a TON of abilities and options, and finding a way to successfully bring those old characters into the new systems would be, basically, a giant headache and waste of time. They did say that there will NOT be any need to wipe after 1.0, tho.

Frankly, I don't care about character wipes due to all the changes, plus most of the "stats" are entirely in the gear... which is why I'm wondering if the UNIVERSE will get wiped and rebooted. If the universe remains the same from your old game, then all you need to do is strip all the equipment off your old character before the release of 1.0, plunk it in a storage bin on some planet, jot down those coordinates, then build up your new character til they can travel to said coordinates and pick it up. My idle plan is to take my new character to my old base... then tear down the old base and rebuild on a new planet with the better biome distribution and whatnot without having to re-gather all those blocks.

It might not pan out that way, but oh well.

 

What about nightly build characters? I thought the current nightly build was very similar to what the 1.0 release will be.

 

If it was a 1.0 nightly build I assume yes.

I am using my nightly one, although I only started recently; sometime before it hit the regular unstable branch. So Most likely if you were able to do the intro quest then yes... Otherwise it will just simply not show up in menu of even the unstable version. Meaning most likely too old of a nightly character.

 

Always assume nightly-builds will get destroyed. We might get lucky, but almost any game I have ever alpha/beta tested uses that for code, mechanics, etc testing, well after primary release. Think of it no differently than test servers or demo releases from other developers. If we're really really lucky, Chucklefish will just wipe the current "old" servers and use nightly as the release build, but I would play it safe and assume not, so as not to be let down.