New Player Guide

Welcome to the New Player Guide! This guide is an attempt to teach new players certain basic features of Starbase and prepare them on their endo journey.

Closed Alpha naming policy

• In Closed Alpha the naming policy for endos, ships, stations and other things is work-in-progress
• Currently strict, and does not allow spaces or numbers
• Some old pioneer users have names from a time when the policy was less strict
• There will be a way to rename (or request renaming of) things before the Early Access release

General gameplay info

Your Endo life

• Your character is always "safe"; you can die but you won't lose everything
• You may lose ships and items in the ship inventory if you e.g. get destroyed
• You can always use "Insurance Transfer" (ESC menu) to get away from tough situations - this will take you back to the Origin station

Factions (clans)

• Dev factions are Empire and Kingdom
• You can create your own faction
• You do not need to join or create a faction, you can play Starbase solo or in a group of friends or "impromptu" gang of endos

Safe zones

• Safe zones protect endos from damage and unwanted attacks
• Your ship cannot take damage (except due to bugs etc)
• Safe zone around the starter area is big, and has plenty of asteroids to mine as well
• Outside the safe zone has rarer ores/asteroids, and in the future will have other benefits (higher risk, higher reward)
• To exit the safe zone, you'll need to go to Settings > Gameplay > Ships > Allow Hosted Ships To Leave Safezone to enable ships to leave the safe zone

Tutorial

• Tutorial is the first thing in the game, and will teach you some basics.
• At the end of the tutorial you'll get your first ship, the Laborer. It's a nice, upgradable ship that will serve you well in the beginning.
• You will also have a Pickaxe (for mining asteroids) and a Mining Backpack.

Troubleshooting

• If you end up destroying or crashing the Laborer, you can go to the Starbase Discord in #help-request-ingame and write a report, and the devs can refund the ship so you can buy it again or try another ship.
• You can reset the tutorial by using Insurance Transfer (ESC menu) to get back to Origin, and pressing the F8 key.

Important additional controls

• Q to align
• G to switch Magboots on/off
• (Left) Shift to boost endo walking / sprint

Tutorial jobs and additional credits

• In Closed Alpha the available Tutorial jobs are the Mining job and the Demolition job
• Other jobs such as Repair are under construction (you may see signs for Repair and Assembly in the game world though, but they don't work)
• Tutorial doesn't give you any credits, so if you want additional credits, you can go to the jobs and do some additional work using the same skills you learned during the Tutorial