yeah. Its early beta so can't lean on anything too much yet. We'll see how it develops.
My experiences.
Start it up.
Crash on load. have to stop the process iirc.
start again. good to go.
Crash on shutdown. Have to stop the process to load it up again.
NPCS/monsters are randomly generated. This is neat in making weird monsters, bad in the fact its very hard to tell if a monster is hostile and hasn't seen you yet or neutral. Hostile DO generally make noises of aggression as a tell. but again, they may have simply not aggroed yet.
The other problem is because of this random generation drops from them are all uniform. Pixels aka gold aka cash when killed with a weapon. or leather/meat when killed with a hunting weapon.
This makes all the monsters basically exactly the same, regardless of how they look. I don't know if they have something planned here, but right now this is a terrible choice. and really boring.
"champions" do spawn and drop items.
I do not know if world size is random, or if all are one size. But the first world I spawned on was giant, and seemingly empty.
Played for hours and found 2 chests, no champions. 4 apex bomb shelters(which have nothing in them but deco), 2 avian house(again just deco)1 friendly avian npc who didnt seem to do anything.
Lots and lots of digging. like 5 kinds of cobblestone, which all get turned into the same basic kind on collection.
Nearly full silver now. tons of iron/copper. silver is a bit too rare it seems, for how much you need of it early.
Had to wiki/reddit a few things.
1. coal is fuel for your ship.
2. you can repair your pickaxe. right click ore in your inventory, then while its hovering, right click your damaged pick. 1ore=1bubble. must be equal or greater then axe quality.
heat mechanic is neat.
Particularly in hostile environments. frozen/moon. First place I went too was a moon. about 10seconds there, while Im jumping around testing moon gravity. screen starts going white. haha. evac! evac!
I wonder if they are going to keep the place material on liquids. letting you tunnel through it with ease.
Summoned the first boss too early. Didnt make a dent, ran away.
Was in iron/copper. And using iron bow, and basic sword I think.
will try again with full silver, and crafted iron weapons.
the weapon system is hard to read. that armor pen is really important it seems.
Crafted iron weapons read 5 pen, 28 damage vs the starter sword which is 1 pen, 25 damage.
Those iron weapons however hit monsters for like 60-100.
And bows are not attacking weapons at low levels at least. don't use it vs the boss, even if it seems like you should.