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I'm not keen on enforcing too many rules. So instead everyone has one catalog slot that you can use. I'd really like you to not upload ships, but turning that off means you won't be able to save your builds for use elsewhere. That is price to pay for adventuring on the final frontier. I've currently set it to restart ever 12 hours. The game is still in alpha, so there are crashes to contend with that will wipe some progress, and I might have to reset the world to to fix the server. We can't promise your ships will survive. Build mode allows you to connect computers to various parts, and also protects your ship so no-one can mess with it. It's still clunky, and I struggled with basic building: you can fly around your ship placing blocks, but entering the ship and hitting Space shifts from direct control to build mode. Your ship can be anything, and all you need is the raw materials. Plexiglass, the material in space station windows, is the best resource to gather. You earn money by mining asteroids, planets, and abandoned space stations, and selling what you've gathered to the shops. If you're in-game and complaining about your power output, I'll know why.

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Handily, they're explained in this 'Basics' series from one of the game's designers. You can use it to fly around, but that's an absolute last-resort. In fact, the ship core is technically a ship. You begin with a single cube, the ship core, and build out from that. The most basic thing I struggled with is the reversal of Minecraft's control scheme, but there's now an option to fix that.

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That way you can figure out how the shops work (those giant, needle structures floating in space), and how to place and destroy builds. It's an odd game, and requires a bit of fiddling to get comfortable, and that's probably best done away from everyone.

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If you do, please do yourself a favour and play offline for a couple of hours to familiarise yourself with the controls. The game's currently free, and Multiplay has given RPS a 64-player server. What's out there? Pirates, planets, and plunder. I can just hop in a lumpy ship and fly off to poke around the universe without worrying about fuel, food, or even finding my way home. But it does have a sense of space adventure, which is something I've been longing for lately. I have to say I'm quite impressed: it's not quite the blocky Elite I'd hoped, because there are no missions and Newton is looking at the space physics and crying. I spent the weekend tooling around with it, trying to find its secret sauce. It is the latest of Minecraft tribute games, this time set in space. Also, I'll try to implement shop economies: shops will vary their prices based of their stock and their demand.You might have heard of StarMade. I'll focus on different types of asteroids and space stations, as well as enemy AI that will be randomly guarding sectors (or spawn in sectors). Well, as I took a detour to the further make the basics more robust, my goal for the next updates haven't changed much. I finally managed to get rid of this bug, as it tuned out that racing conditions of multithreading when two threads simultaneously asked for the camera's position caused one result to be faulty.Īlso, the missile crash bug has been fixed. It happened absolutely at random and even detecting that the bug just happened was not easy, since a sudden camera movement by the player would have a similar signature. The camera would start to flicker (or quickly jumping to another place and then jumping back), when the game was started or new objects were loaded. Also any bugs with missing single blocks have now been fixed. It's now fixed and I didn't encounter it ever since. The missing segments fortunately never were actually missing (it was just not drawn), but of course it was annoying and confusing if parts of structures were missing. This pesky bug happened once in a while and was therefore very hard pinpoint.