[Mac OS] Game will not boot

Just reinstalled. No joy.

 

sorry. this really isn't my area of expertise, so i don't really have any other ideas.

 

What version of Mac OS are you using Lavender?

Just to update people, I'm running Mavericks - I used the trick of deleting the player folder entirely, and that seemed to solve the issue for me. I didn't have to delete the universe folder.

Game booted, runs, I stopped playing early today and started again this evening. So far no issues at all.

 

Problem and fix found: delete hidden file .DS_Store in player folder.

 

Im redownloading it now. Ill update you guys on what happens after that.

 

unless i actually load up the game and get on to is then i won't have loaded up and of the player/universe folders.

 

I swear i have done that but i will give it a shot

Did you guys by any chance change ur res when you started? cause mine doesn't work after i did that

 

Nop...
Try to change te res on the ".config" file.
Starbound > Starbound.config
In this case I can't think in other solution.

 

Im running version 10.7.5 on my mac. And I was never able to even start the game all i ever got was a crash report. I am pretty sure that the player and universe files won't load because the game never initialized them.

 

So guys, I was trying some things right now.
I decided to put my player and universe files(I did a backup) back on the folders aaaaaaand it start to crash again!
So don't try to keep your character, open your mind and have a fresh start.
Be happy with your Starbound running, It's better than nothing!

 

oh, you're having that problem. yea, the game won't load on anything below mountain lion ATM. the devs are aware of this, and are trying to find a solution.

 

I found this, but I'm not too sure what it means. Its different then the crash logs some people have been sending.

Error: Fatal Exception Caught: UuidException: Size mismatch in reading Uuid from ByteArray: 4 vs 16
0 starbound 0x0000000104e7fc71 _ZN4Star13StarExceptionC2ERKNSt3__112basic_stringIcNS1_11char_traitsIcEENS1_9allocatorIcEEEE + 273
1 starbound 0x0000000104e57111 _ZN4Star4UuidC1ERKNS_6StringE + 161
2 starbound 0x0000000104b33a9f _ZN4Star13PlayerStorageC2ERKNS_6StringE + 1535
3 starbound 0x00000001046b8bc1 _ZN4Star17ClientApplicationC2Ev + 305
4 starbound 0x00000001046c93cc SDL_main + 364
5 starbound 0x00000001047df0a0 -[SDLMain applicationDidFinishLaunching:] + 48
6 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8b3c7fcc __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
7 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8b2bbc5d _CFXNotificationPost + 2893
8 Foundation 0x00007fff948304aa -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationNamebject:userInfo:] + 68
9 AppKit 0x00007fff937dcb79 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 289
10 AppKit 0x00007fff937dc8ac -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 195
11 AppKit 0x00007fff937d9796 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenEvent:] + 570
12 AppKit 0x00007fff937d91eb -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 242
13 Foundation 0x00007fff9484eeaa -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 294
14 Foundation 0x00007fff9484ed1d _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 106
15 AE 0x00007fff8d99ce1f _Z20aeDispatchAppleEventPK6AEDescPS_jPh + 381
16 AE 0x00007fff8d99cc32 _ZL25dispatchEventAndSendReplyPK6AEDescPS_ + 31
17 AE 0x00007fff8d99cb36 aeProcessAppleEvent + 315
18 HIToolbox 0x00007fff912fc5f1 AEProcessAppleEvent + 56
19 AppKit 0x00007fff937d50f6 _DPSNextEvent + 1026
20 AppKit 0x00007fff937d48db -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
21 AppKit 0x00007fff937c89cc -[NSApplication run] + 553
22 starbound 0x00000001047df6f3 main + 1299
23 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff8bdb05fd start + 1

 

Ok guys, redownloaded starbound, and tried to get on but it just crashed. There are no player or universe files in the game directory and verifying my local game files don't do anything. I need help! Im running 10.7.5

 

oh, you're having that problem. yea, the game won't load on anything below mountain lion ATM. the devs are aware of this, and are trying to find a solution.

 

What version is mountain lion?

 

10.8.x

 

This error was the one I was getting - try deleting the hidden .DS_Store file in the player folder (you'll need to tell OSX to show hidden files). If you can't find any such file, try deleting the entire player folder, and launching again.

Bear in mind if you're running anything earlier than Mountain Lion, then Starbound won't run.

 

I'm running 10.7.5 also. I really hope the dev's don't try and cop-out of fixing it by saying that ML is required to play, like some other devs have done in the past. mind you, they're trying to get it running on XP, which is being ditched next year.

 

Yeah I really hope the don't make it so we need to upgrade to Mountain lion, but if its necessary then i probably will.

 

I just made a thread about this.

I had 1.7.5 and it wouldn't work. Download OS X Mavericks. It's free from apple right now. It worked immediately.
The only thing is that once the game launched I couldn't see the buttons cause it was zoomed in too much. So you have to resize your window, and then the single, multiplayer, options, and quit buttons appear.

The game works flawlessly on mavericks. The only thing that I can't get is the starbound launcher to work. Which means I can't host a server. I hope they fix this, or just include the server part on the actual multiplayer screen. I don't know if that is possible though.