Closed Steam Starbound update disk write error

... meaning literally everything necessary to actually run the game is self-contained in that folder? I certainly hope so, considering I purged all traces of Starbound - Unstable from my Steam directory.

I'll give it a try here in a little bit.

EDIT: Ah, that's what I was afraid of -- the game closes immediately upon startup. I suspect this has to do with the lack of first-time setup in this case. I'll see what I can dig up from my recycle bin.

 

mod is not loading problem culprit is sbboot.config error

 

So basically, what we need to do is the following to get the Nightly to run;

1. Delete all contents in the "Starbound - Unstable" Folder
2. Copy all contents from the "steamapps/downloading/367540/" folder into the "Starbound - Unstable" folder
3. Play the game

And to make mods work, we do;

1. Open "sbboot.config" from the folder we choose to play the game from (32, 64, Linux, OSX)
2. Change the line "storageDirectory" : "../storage/" to "storageDirectory" : "../storage/mods/"
3. Move all mods to the "/storage/mods/" folder


I like how simple these methods are. Easy to do, easy to understand. I just hope it gets fixed soon so we don't need to do this workaround every time it breaks lol. Good find x567!

 

Do this, this works perfectly! ty i can now play my broken fluff avian

 

That's strange. I tried this method and the game closes immediately upon startup. Is there perhaps a step I'm missing?

EDIT: I copied sbboot.CONFIG from my stable Starbound folder, changed the storage and mod directories, and the game at least ran. Trying to select a (new) character caused it to crash.

EDIT 2: Found starbound.log and had a look-see.

Code:

[07:44:20.210] Error: Application exception thrown, shutting down: (ConfigurationException) No such configuration entry 'inventory.pickupToActionBar'

I may have just found my problem.

EDIT 3: Perfect! Declaring that configuration fixed things up. So far, the game runs perfectly.

If anyone is having trouble getting the game to launch after the aforementioned steps, make sure you have a sbboot.CONFIG with that configuration included.

 

When I booted Steam this morning, the game finally downloaded without the Disk Write Error. It's finally been fixed!

 

Can confirm. I downloaded the nightly shortly after it was released last night and still had the disk write error, but this morning it went through fine.

 

I will also confirm that the nightly disk write error is fixed. I had to delete local content and reinstal the nightly. all is nice and snug now

 

Hmm.
Something is still wrong for me, at least. I can successfully download the update, yes, and it's playable on the 64-bit version, but the 32-bit version closes immediately upon launching.

 

Check your log.

 

The 32-bit version has a different configuration from the 64-bit version, so it may be missing config parameters.