Some things about the recent patch

I'm quite happy that Starbound is in beta, believe me, and I had a nice char and the recent patch wiped it but I'm okay with that. What I'm not okay with is the fact that after 4 hours of a new char, I have less copper than I do anything else. My other ores are gold, iron and silver, which are extremely easy to find now. I don't even have enough copper to make a chestplate, yet I have enough iron to make a full set of the scavenger armour. This is really making me frustrated, as I am killed easily by monsters on my starter planet even. 15 damage per hit from them (I don't have any armour). Also, I can't figure out which planets are more difficult than others, because they're all threat 1. If there was maybe a threat 1.1, 1.2 and so on, that could be useful. I really don't mean to come off as negative, it's more constructive criticism. Some things could probably and hopefully be tweaked in the next update, and I hope they are.

 

They're all threat level 1 cause they're all easy.
An entire sector doesn't have the same threat level, once you reach the harder ones (X specifically) they can range by 2 or 3.

If you're lacking copper have you tried traveling to a new planet? You say you've found tonnes of other ore, why not just explore another planet for copper then? Or better yet just go straight to making silver armour.

It's a game about exploration, you shouldn't stick to one planet and if you have explored and still haven't found copper, well you're unlucky, keep exploring. I had to go through at least 5 planets before I found a decent supply of aegisalt.

 

The "next" update is , right now, downloading on my steam.

 

I'd suggest making yourself a hunting knife / bow and making the leather set instead. It'll be useful when / if you go to snow / tundra planets, and it's still got really good armour values.

 

Alright, I'll restart my Steam, and hopefully get this update. Thanks!

Yeah, the problem remains with the wrath-of-god birds, but I'll give it a shot.

 

Some other things about the newest patch.

Had to restart again because all my crops got erased as well as all the seeds I currently had In my possession (had boneboo, glowmelon, wheat, and chili - and chili rocks for the speed buff, I had a very nice garden for early game)

I wasn't willing to lose all sources of food so early on so I feel the need to restart.

Also yes the birds thing. Ouch. It was fine before, why the change?

I also seem to have encountered a bug that allowed my health to drop below zero. A flock of birds followed me into my house as I tried to run away. Somehow I took several hits for 25-ish damage with just one sliver of life left and managed to survive. Health dropped to zero on the display, and it took a pretty long time laying in bed before the first bar became visible.

 

They're supposed to be fixed in this patch

 

Yea, they're specifically mentioned. They accidentally made birds homicidal gods of DEATH

 

I believe armour is broken in this patch... I also know that shields are broken, all of them only protect from 6 damage... >.<

 

http://community.playstarbound.com/...notes-for-v-indignant-koala-12-11-2013.48839/

 

Yes, Khyren personally went around feeding all the bird mobs their halcyon meds.

 

Every sector has a set threat level. The only reason the X sector has multiple threat levels is due to the fact that it combines all the incomplete content (tiers 5-10) into a single sector. This will change as they finish more content.

 

Whoops, that's my bad, wonder why didn't just set it at 4 and leave it at that though. Could make the higher threat levels just show up when new sectors are released.