The biggest issue that needs addressed is how slow this game is. Literally just about anything the character does takes a tediously long amount of time, for no apparent reason. Mining, cutting wood, collecting any object (even things like torches), combat, etc. The game simply takes too long to accomplish any task, and as a result, they become tedious rather than fun.
The matter manipulator (the item shown in the videos) is just a starter item to help your character advance when you first start. There will probably be tons of faster items you can access later in the game. Basically it's like your fists in Minecraft.
I'd agree that alternatives help, but point out that the role of alternatives doesn't seem to be clearly documented in-game, when it ought to be. Also, even though pickaxes and other tools are faster, they're still slower in terms of time until something happens after you've initiated an action than I've seen in any other game in this genre, even though some work at a faster rate. (Pickaxes, for instance, break blocks pretty quickly, but because they break nine at a time the actual time it takes to break them in order to maintain a reasonably slow rate is very long.)
I'd like to point out I have a pickaxe. It's still incredibly slow. And that only addresses one or two of the issues mentioned in any case.
I don't see the problem. I've been playing almost all day. Sure it's slow in the beginning, but it gets a lot faster as soon as you get Silver or higher. I've just been running around with a gold pickax tearing through Tar getting a TON of ores. I just now made Steel and I've already got so much of it it's worthless to me.
I really don't see how this seems slow to you. They're not much slower, if at all, than in games like Terraria.
I remembered getting petals from grass using a matter manipulator. Just that tiny bit of grass takes well over 10 seconds. But after the pickaxe you can tear down whole planets in a matter of minutes.
Goto starbound/assets/tool folders and select the item u desire beamaxe for example is the manipulator and change firespeed from 0.25 to 0.01 with notepad..(as always when changing any files make a backup ) this will make the tool much much faster
