Your Questions

Will uninhabited planets be in final game? What about extra-cold or extra-hot planets? In example, player must wear special suits to walk over them.

 

On a mac, I download the abc music, and it's in txt format. How do I get it into abc format? Just renaming it .abc won't do anything.

 

Total noob question here - so I just started playing today and I finally created the resuce beacon thing. So I sat it on top of my house and it wasn't doing anything so I clicked on it and it disappeared and this UFO destroyed me almost instantly. Do I have to farm up another beacon and make sure I have enough gear to take on the UFO before I can continue? I completed the quest but I don't have a new quest now and the beacon I created is gone.

 

Yes, assuming he disappeared after he defeated you. On the upside, there really isn't one to having to farm again...., the big update will be wiping our characters so you'd have to do this stuff again anyways.

 

Ah jeez, when is the big update coming? lol... it's a lot of work to farm up minerals! Any tactics to find minerals fast?

 

depends on the world you're on. Sometimes you get lucky.

My method so far is walk all way round the planet looking for easy plunders. Then go down them crevices to see if there are groups of a resource.

When both are exhausted, and you can't find more easy loot, start digging down till you find other caverns, These normally grant the biggest groups of resources together, but sometimes it can have big gaps between loot if you don't find an underground cavern. So best to upgrade your pick axe and keep it restored so you can dig faster. Saves quite a bit of time.

 

Are going to a get a steam key for the sound track

 

I'm curious, but back during the days when it was planned to have a space station(until that was retconned), it was talked that we might be able to recruit NPC to staff the station/our homebase(s) on a planet(s).

Is there still plans to have some aspect of this gameplay?

That is, to have a base(either on our ship or on a planet) for which we could recruit NPCs to staff different positiions or receives different services the NPC might provide? I think I recalled reading a long while ago talk that such NPCs would be able to research/sell/manufacture different recipes/items for examples?

I'm just curious as some of these roles seems like they might have been overtaken by NPC merchants in NPC towns, so I wondered just how much of the gameplay of founding "our" own colony and populating it with NPCs remained in the plans for the game?

I'll admit it's one of the aspects which had appealed to me the most back in those days, of founding a colony /base of our own populated with a recruited crew and having to defend it or do quests for it once in a while, especially since such recruited NPCs would be "our" people at the end after all rather than just a randomly generated village(though I -love- the fact that such villages exists as they do add a lot of life to the game and I am only even more eager to see how they will further shape up as the game is worked on. I'd like them to become more than just "safe zone" and "shopping joints" later on even if in fact there presence and such is quite a good thing).

 

Once you get the steel workplace, you can build npc spawner for villages and guards.

 

I'm curious, will pre-order people get a Steam key for the soundtrack as well eventually?

 

Why shall they, you can download it from humble.com

 

Characters stored locally vs on a server, how the status of this? The way is it now with characters being stored locally makes it very easy for people to cheat so I'm really hoping for a future possibility of characters being stored on the servers.

 

Because it is sold separate on Steam and you get a key for the game on Steam.
Also, weird usage of 'shall'. I personally would've used 'should', but than again English is not my first language.

 

Sorry, I didn’t know that the soundtrack is sold on steam. But when you download it from humble you already have it... And English isn’t my first language too.

 

The idea to put it on steam as a paid DLC, was for people who wished to directly support the creator of the music (as stated by Tiy). It's entirely optional since as mentioned above you get access to it from your BETA purchase through humble.

 

who knows when will the version for windows xp?

 

Wondering when the wipe is? I got kinda demotivated to play after I heard about the wipe

 

Will Starbound ever be compatible with Mac OSX 10.6.8? I'm running on that version with Snow Leopard and I have the necessary specs to run it, but when I open the Starbound.app it just doesn't do anything. People have stated that it works for 10.7.5+ or Maverick, but I don't have either of those. If someone could reply, I would be most grateful

 

"A few days"

That's all I've heard.

 

Thank you, that pretty much directly answers my question.
I had not read that anywhere, which is why I was curious.