Hark, a Stable Update! v. Upbeat Giraffe

You can copy the save folder outside of the Starbound Game folder, and they will be save.
But to use them again, you must wait till the Converting tools that was written of in the Anouncement are released. ^^

 

finally..

 

i thought they said no more character wipes

 

PRAISE THE SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

 

Still super bummed about the removal of survivalist mechanics (losing more shit on death isn't a survival mechanic, it's a nuisance, and yes there is a difference.) but if I think of the game as an adventure game, and not a survival game, and pretend hunger was never there, mostly everything else excites me...

...I guess I do have quite a lot of survival games already, but none of them were as surreal or imaginative as this one is.

Oh well, I can at least still enjoy the lore and the universe of this game, which is one of, if not my absolute favorite things about this game, probably more now that the game has taken a somewhat more metroidvania approach to progressing, but if you ever nerf and/or remove said lore I will bail on this so fast you'll just barely have time to register my middle finger. I don't see that happening but given how much the game actually changed between stable updates anything is possible now.

also I want that boat. I also want a pet parrot. Why is this not a thing? >:L

 

I'd love to play the update but Avira is claiming the starbound_OpenGL.exe has a virus in it TR/Crypt.XPACK.gen2.

 

They said there will be an external tool in the next few weeks at the end of the post.

 

Amazing, it seems that is always Avira...

 

So, I might be able to play with my old character if they develop the tools to convert it from the koala to the giraffe?

EDIT***: Of course I read the whole release, but didn't read the last paragraph, figures.

 

Just an update for OSX users. I can't get the game to launch from steam but if you go to your Library > Application Support > Steam > Starbound > osx > "Starbound" entry you can launch from there. Enjoy.

 

Kill your Avira for a while before playing? Or just switch to Avast!

 

It was resolved in later posts. No worries. Mostly just tom foolery and some light joshing.

 

I can't start the game!

Everytime I click on "Launch Starbound", nothing happens... OpenGL version is not doing anything as well. Only the Launch Server button works.. .-.

 

Okay, It's 7:52 pm In california right now and 5 min ago I got an update for stable on my Mac. Because I can't launch through steam I browsed my local files and found two programs with penguin icons; The first labeled "Starbound" and the second labeled "StarboundLauncher" I try launching "StarboundLauncher" but it force quits itself, I next try to launch the one called "Starbound"
It launches perfectly but on the top of the window it is labeled "Starbound-Beta" Am I still playing nightly or am I playing stable??

Oy, my head. Can someone clarify what is happening?

 

So... I'm in stable!
WHOOO! THIS GIRAFFE IS WALKIN' PEOPLE!
(sorry for the caps I just got exited)