Starbound Nightly Beta Findings or Interesting Things

Regarding the current nightly build: How do you make a cake?

 

I can't help but notice that I haven't seen ANY mobs, and the Iron crafting table is curiously hard to find in the crafting table....

 

Did you use admin to fix your FTL before going to the facility? I've found that doing so can break the mission.

The cake recipe can be unlocked by crafting stuff with its constituent ingredients. At some point, I unlocked it by crafting Bon-Bons, which automatically unlocks when you get Sugar; if that doesn't work, try some stuff with Wheat, Milk, and Eggs.

I was able to fix the lack of mobs by deleting my universe file. Apparently, something planet-side got tweaked that broke mob spawning. As for the Iron Crafting Table, it now has to be unlocked via a quest dispensed at the Outpost; not sure if doing so is possible on older characters or not.

 

I can't repair the FTL before doing the mission. Do you mean that did I try to fix the FTL before getting the crystals from finishing the missions? Yeah, I think I have.

EDIT:

Nevermind. Thanks anyway.

http://community.playstarbound.com/...facility-not-being-able-to-be-finished.86188/

 

What is used as fuel now? Can't seem to use coal.

 

Same here, not sure how to get pickaxes either other than chests and still invincible to everything and energy can't regenerate.

 

Uranium, either ore or rod form. Liquid Erchius, which you get from moon planets and can pick up with an upgraded Matter Manipulator. Probably Plutonium too.

 

Speaking of Uranium Rods, it seems you can't actually craft them for some reason, even if you have the correct station to build it with. It seems that you also cannot get a processor through non-adminspawning means right now (this is either true or I'm just stupid), which completely stops your progression.

 

Yeah, I just used /spawnitem uraniumrod to complete a quest.

The tutorial quests are basically done but after that stuff needed for progression starts going missing.

Incidentally, I just started a new character and beamed down to the starting planet and the starter base from my first nightly character was there. Is this normal?

 

Doesn't look normal to me. Delete the files in the "universe" folder of your starbound directory, that fixed things for me.

 

Actually, I've been told that it's intentional for the nightlies. Probably to make it easier for multiple characters to interact with the same area.

Just a friendly reminder that this is for interesting finds, not bugs/issues. If you think something is broken, put it here, remembering that bugs which block progression take priority over small tweaks that are needed.

 

So, asteroids appear to be entirely devoid of anything except coal - ditto goes for moons beyond liquid erchius or what have you. Bug or feature?

 

The fuel amounts have been revamped to be far less in numbers, and not involve travel within the system.(FTL use only, in other words.)

travel in the system is free once you repair the engines making the gathering of a large amount of coal much less a need early game. Since you can't use it for fuel.

 

I am still hoping that they'll change the animation for intra-system travel. It is odd to have a broken FTL drive that works perfectly between planets.

 

You don't actually enter the FTL animation when traveling between same system planets.... So it actually seems to make sense right now.

Other than the fact that all the thrusters are on the bottom of the ships....

 

... yes you do. It spools the drive and everything.

 

Ah, your talking the graphics while sitting in the chair... I was talking about the ship animation. I never sit and wait in the chair.

But yeah, that screen animation should probably change to a different animation.

 

Looks like ocean planets were updated again and the ocean floor is looking quite awesome now!

Also, the islands are a little bigger now, and they have trees and plants!

 

They've had those since sometime last week, at least.

 

I was confused at first when I repaired the thrusters because it wouldn't let me use the fuel gauge, but like you said, you don't need fuel to travel between planets in the same system, which is handy. FTL travel is also a lot cheaper like you said, it only used about 20 fuel to travel to a new system, so it looks like exploring is going to be a lot easier than the current stable build.

Just found out for myself today. Nobody posted pictures of it from what I can tell, so I figured, why not?

EDIT: The ocean planets have been in nightly for a while now, but they didn't look as amazing the last time I checked them out, which was about 2 days ago.