f13.net

Ok, who is setting up a server for f13 for Starbound post the wipe this weekend? =D

Does it run on Linux? I've recently discovered the joys of DigitalOcean (running my Hex image server from it) so I can setup another server through there.

Hmmm


So, I guess? Maybe Steam has to be running?

Edit: Does this help? http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/dedicated-linux-server.35351/ or this: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/server-multiplayer-guides.34000/

It runs on Linux (64bit and 32bit) just fine.  I ran a server on a Google Compute n1-standard-1 instance for a couple weeks for some friends.  We didn't really stress it (beyond 3-4 players at once).  It burns about 500MB resident base and another 100MB or so per active player and/or world.  Also one thread per active world.  It was rather memory leaky when I last tried it.

Basically you just need to copy the assets directory and the linux-64 or linux-32 directory, tweak the config files (server password, etc), and run the start server script.

Cool, I'll see if I can get something running.

Thanks for tipping me off to another cloud-computing option.

I've seen various complaints about reliability for DIgitalOcean, but *damn* they are crazy cheap (like roughly half the price of Linode for similar instances, at least from the CPU/ram POV).

Yeah I looked at both Linode and DigitalOcean when shopping for a VPS to host the Hex images on. I definitely got the sense that DO was growing too fast when reading the reviews but they are the new hotness at the moment so I figured I'd give them a try.

On a Starbound related note: I can't get past the character creation screen -- I'm enjoying the piano music too much while I setup another "droplet" to setup the game server on.

Still another day or two before patch release:


https://twitter.com/Tiyuri/status/426722983269261312

The latest update is that it may actually come tonight, they're giving it a  oncethrough.

Okay, server is ready.

Server is at: 107.170.246.210

No password.

I... would put a password on it. You can give it to me and people can message me on Steam if they really want it. Also, looks like the patch was delayed until tomorrow. POOP.

It doesn't have a password now cause of wipe. It'll have a password after patch.

Wordlyfe.

Patch went up this morning. Ohboyohboyohboyohboy.

(loading is SO MUCH FASTER) (it's like a real game now)

My first post launch character is a robot named HUMAN RESOURCES. My home planet is basically perfect and it had Pulse Jump on it. I feel like I'm cheating.

Just starting this up for the first time; how do you heal?

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out.

New home planet is terrifying.

Who should I pester for server passwords? Need to get in deeeeeeeeep.

Me, on Steam. Though I may murder someone for surface hopping and raping a mess of tier 1 planets.

It's okay I plan on resetting the starter planet on a regular basis so new people don't get stuck with no resources.

I've friend requested you so I can get the server PW Schild.

Anyone got a location for a good Gamma Quadrant gun vendor? Haven't found a decent gun yet and the Bone Dragon wtf'd me  :?
Edit: Nvm, spawned him inside a big box with holes for shooting through. He be dead.  :awesome_for_real:

Also, I made a farm!:

Edit: Also, fuck birds.

BEST. STARTER. PLANET. EVER.

Do we all have the same starter planet?  My group started on the shittiest hell hole I can imagine.  A lava biome (digging through magmarock with matter manipulators, great) with frequent meteor strikes ("hey guys, I just got a base camp set up for AAAAAAARGH") infested by legions of monsters (not the least of which are these goddamn moosebear things that like to cluster in groups of 3 or 4 around the entrance to our mine) and the actual valuable metals are rare as hell.  Ugh.

On the up side, there was a Glitch vendor selling wizard hats.

Is there a cap on the number of people who can play on any given server? Or the f13 one?

I meant the server starter planet. Every account/server has a different starter planet. But in multiplayer everyone starts on the same one.

Edit: Falc, don't even know, they took out grouping atm.

Yeah, looks like. I just logged onto the f13 server and found someone's extensive mine works down into the flesh biome :)  I'll pop on later and put some weapons in a crate near the beam-down point.

Cause I was going to ask into the f13 server but I have no idea how active I will be so I was wondering if that would take a slot (or resources) that someone else could use more consistently, or it doesn't matter.

f13 server is currently set at 12 for max players. Depending on how much memory that uses I may adjust that amount. Server has 2 GB of RAM.

Wipe your universe and start over. Need a full universe wipe to have it generate a new random starter world location. I think there's a way to change the starter world too but I haven't gotten very far in learning all the server config params yet.

Oh no. Server update required.

>.>

That was a frustration I had running a starbound server -- there were daily or near-daily updates to the client causing everyone to constantly pester me to update the server.

Server back up.

DigitalOcean's SF facilities are having networking issues >.>

Edit: and it's back (for now)

I was just in the middle of putting some stuff in crates near the spawn point when I got disconnected and can't get back in. I'll let it settle and try again later :)

There should be a bunch of weapons in one of the crates in the little room I dug under the floating lake, take what you need anyone!

Edit: Lots of weapons, melee & ranged, in the crates to the right of spawn point on home planet. Also some armour, couple of blueprints and some other assorted stuff.

I should really log in with you guys and see what you're doing.

I found and empty old chest and took it up with me. Then I realized some of you might have made it and left it there. I really have no idea how the multiplayer works here. I assume we all start on the same planet and can, theoretically, do things together. Then we leave for different planets and unless we make an effort to plunder one together our paths are never gonna cross again? And is there any way to see if anybody else is on (the server)?

EDIT: One more question: we all spawn on the same planet at first, but not on the same location, right?

The multiplayer in the game is... not well thought out. Things it needs:

1. Notes for the Planet and Galaxy screens that we can leave for eachother.
2. A way to warp to players anywhere.
3. Planets should automatically have information for has been visited, who has visited it, who is on it, etc.
4. A planet overview to say how much that planet has been plundered. Resource % remaining. Treasure % remaining. Etc.

I can think of a million things, but those quality of life things would go so, so, so far.

You can hack around #2 if you're in a party -- you can beam up to any party-member's ship and then beam down to the planet it's orbiting.  Clunky, but better than nothing.

The quality of some of that information even for single player should be better--some of the repeated uniques (towns, etc.) should trigger automatic notations of some kind. Maybe they do? I'm still learning, so maybe I've missed a place where that kind of info is auto-logged?

Anybody know what happens if you mess with the two guys carrying swords who always spawn with a statue and a broken cage? I've seen them on a couple of planets now.

Grouping isn't in the game right now.

Wait, what?  Did they remove it?

It worked last time I played a couple weeks ago -- click the + by your avatar, type in somebody else's name, and they get a party invite...

Multiplayer wasn't working for me in a general way when I last tried it.  Sometime in late Dec or early Jan I think.

Hopefully now that they've stabilized the character file format they can spend some time working on the server-side of things. Even the minimal server commands that used to be available are no longer working in the last few versions. Basically to do anything useful through the server you have to use a wrapper and the one that most people are apparently using is this bloated monstrosity that only works under Windows. I did see a wrapper written in Go that might work for basic stuff that I'll look into this weekend.

Odd, it was working for me in the releases prior to this one.

Yeah, grouping worked for me yesterday, too.

It would be nice to have a "warp to party leader" button or something in the space ship, having to recite coordinates to other people is tedious.  Other than that, though, I can wait a bit for other multiplayer features.  The game's got a fine line to walk between giving players enough information to help each other, and not enough to grief each other on public servers.

I never see anyone else on when I log onto the f13 server, but I'm not sure if that's because a) I'm a Euro and you're all in bed or b) there's other people on but I just don't know how to tell.

Currently this feels like it needs a reason to settle on a planet and build bases. The way it is now there's no reason to stay put for long. Your ship can hold all the crafting stations and storage you need, and warping from planet to planet exploring is about all there is to do once you complete the gear tiers.

I feel the same way. Not that I have been putting too much time into it, but it feels like building doesn't have a point at the moment, other than a personal feeling of accomplishment for creating houses that you will leave behind anyway when you'll warp to a different planet. Am I missing something?


EDIT: On the f13 server, the hole I dug in the ground close to where I spawn is still there and has been there for 24 hours. All my items are gone though. My backpack is empty and all the things I built on my ship (table, furnace, chest...) are gone. Is this a known issue, a server issue, just my bad luck? Any idea?

This is why I tend to stay away from this kind of game in multiplayer. You motherfuckers burn through content too fast. I like to take it nice and easy.

As far as content, http://playstarbound.com/how-the-beta-is-going-to-work/ I'm sure you will burn through whatever story they put in and quickly distill the quests down to the core you need to gain the best power curve and then get bored and quit. But they're not in yet.

 :why_so_serious:

Your backpack items are saved with your character, not on the server. The same may be true with your ship items (haven't tested that). For your missing backpack items the possibilities include:

* Your character's stuff was wiped with the latest hotfix for some reason
* You are playing on hardcore mode and you died
* You are playing a different character/account >.>

It can only be the first: wiped because of hotfix since my char is not hardcore and I only created one char on that computer. Ah well, no biggie. It's beta.

Is there any way to see who else is in the server when you're playing?

Not at the moment. I have a server status Web page installed but the code hasn't been updated to support the latest version(s) of the server so it doesn't display player counts and active planets properly. That's something else on my todo list for this weekend.

If you are bored and want to read what schild and Triax are saying to each other, though, you can visit port 8080 with a Web browser :awesome_for_real:

Cool, I'll check that out!

 :roflcopter:

Can't connect to the server. I weep.

Restarted.

I updated the server status page code[1] so player and system information[2] now displays properly. Status page is at:

http://starbound1.gamehost.me:8080/ [3][4]

[1] I'm using commandstar (https://github.com/seriallos/commandstar) currently
[2] Starter planet is Alpha: -11834986, 20403905
[3] JavaScript required from gamehost.me and jquery.com to properly view information
[4] starbound1.gamehost.me also works as the server name when connecting with the client if you don't want to remember the IP

Interesting footnote, if you use your local machine as the host in MP it uses your universe from single player.

Update on their page today (http://playstarbound.com/) has some really interesting sounding stuff about their plans for the future.

The two big items for multiplayer I thought might be applicable to the F13 server:

Sector X

Director Mode
Also stuff like server side characters and security checks for server admins.

There are tons of other proposed changes, and they all sound really great to me, but it's starting to feel like feature creep a bit... Here's hoping.

As someone totally late to the party, I gather there is a F13 server running of this right now?  Are people actually playing/is this worth picking up?

I really want to recommend this game, but in my heart I just don't find it as fun or addictive as Terraria was. There's a variety of reasons for this, but fundamentally I think the planet-hopping element of the game runs contrary to the construction part and the game, so rather than mine-build-grow, you just run from planet to planet, stripping whatever resources you can and moving on; which just isn't quite as satisfactory. That said, the game has a lot of polish and runs really well as a game, and there's definitely fun to be had there. It's just not as good as what I'd hoped for.

Have to agree. Though you can bring things back to your home planet and build there, it just seems like the ship has become the focus as it's the only real constant. And it's weird that it's easier to strip bases and use that stuff rather than trying to build stuff yourself.

I definitely got my money's worth and look forward to revisiting it at release.

My efforts to build a house in Terraria were simply embarrassing and I don't mind just exploring planets.  I only really worked on a house in Terraria for the NPCs, and creating a goblin-proof fortress on the surface appeared to be a huge waste of time.  In the large, I just used the NPC Hotel as a place to keep my boxes of stuff.  In Starbound I basically get a Super Piggy Bank and a limited Magic Mirror to start, so it works for me.

I'm not playing on the F13 server (it's password locked) and I don't know how much multiplayer really adds to the game (there's not much point in grouping up, except when you're killing bosses).  In general, though, I still find the game to be a ton of fun.

I can't disagree with people saying it's less cohesive than Terraria, and I think part of that is because a lot of the features that are supposed to connect the dots are missing, so hopefully it will get better with time as things are added.  But even if it died today, I'd say I definitely got my money's worth, and I find it a fun game.  It's definitely got some issues with tying the various systems together, but you can still do stuff like build a house or statue or whatever, you just aren't rewarded for doing so by anything other than having a big house to sit in.  Mostly, I think I just dig the setting more than Terraria, so I'm really liking it.

TLDR: I really like it, but if you're on the fence, I don't see any down side in waiting for some more content to be added before you buy it.

Server restarted.

If anybody wants the password contact schild.

Quick bump for a PSA. Seems the latest patch ('Enraged Koala (http://playstarbound.com/v-enraged-koala-patch-notes/)') is deleting and/or bugging lots of people's ship chests and storage (http://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/comments/1yb1mi/ship_chest_gone_in_new_hotfix/).

I'd suggest not launching the game until you see if there's been a fix of some kind.

Heh, and I was just about to update our server.

BTW our server is still down -- waiting for things to stabilize before bringing back up. Make sure you back up your ship files if you play somewhere else.

They are still working on a fix for the fix of the fix.

http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/issues-surrounding-hotfix-2-for-enraged-koala.72178/page-21#post-1813022

Server finally back up now that Hotfix 5 has been released. Play at your own risk (and backup first!) as the devs have no idea what's working or not working in this latest patch :awesome_for_real:

Good advice, but I loaded the game right after the game was updated :ye_gods:  My ship's storage container just vanished and never came back.  There wasn't anything really important in there, but the locker itself is worth its weight in gold, imo.  Do you know if there's a way of at least recreating an empty locker?

There are mods that can create items for you. Or if you can find a world that has a locker on our server just let me know and I can pack up the universe files for you so you can play it locally and dup items* to your heart's content.

* Your personal items are stored separately from the universe files so you can put items from the world into your inventory, save and quit, restore the world files and the items will be back for you to take again.

The way that was suggested to me was to delete the shipfile (located in something like steam/steamapps/common/starbound/player/*.shipworld).  That way your ship will regenerate to it's default state the next time you start the game.  If you've got anything on the ship (decorations, forges, etc.) put it in your pocket before you do this or it'll be deleted.  Anything that was in the locker is pretty much vapor now, though.

I gotta say, that last patch seems like quite a fuckup.  Our group ran in to a problem that corrupted the universe and caused spontaneous crashes, so we had to wipe not only the ships, but the universe, too.  Our base is gone, our ships are gone, we can't go anywhere except Alpha (and even couldn't go there until the patch yesterday).  Ugh.  I think I'm the only one who didn't ragequit when they found out we all had nothing but the contents of our pockets when the patch hit.

I have not yet launched Starbound since the fuckup. Is it safe to launch yet?

It is if you make a backup first :awesome_for_real:

This worked great for the Linux version of the game, although there was a /root/ thrown in that path somewhere.  Thanks!

Server down until further notice thanks to an issue reported by Triax and later confirmed on the forums:

http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/developed-worlds-randomly-wiping-and-sometimes-returning.72607/

lol this patch

Seriously, this one is chock full of features...err, wait, that's riddled with bugs.
I swear if I run into them at GDC this year, there will be words...about better practices.

Wonder what happened, they had been doing so well up until then.

I assume that's what the devs are thinking.

Sounds like they're taking some steps to prevent a repeat, at least:

Somebody must have found an old CS textbook.