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I keep on struggling to get past the unrealisticly strong shilds of "temporary _____________ station" that the NPC's make alot so how do you get rid of them

Probably a common story, but I randomly remembered the game, used to play before the power rework for some time.

I was thinking of picking the game up again (if even for just a weekend of messing around for nostalgia), and was wondering which version others prefer to play on. This goes for single or multiplayer.

Also if there are any servers with players on, I wouldn't say no to some company.

I was considering making the systems larger from the 16000 to 20000 or bigger... I wonder if this will help with the weird passing through glitch you get when in combat where your not where you were when passing the line?

Hey all, wondering if anyone's still around playing this beauty of a game. Any active servers around?

Is there a way in game to see what the different blocks do/are? I'm coming back to this game after about 10 years and the in game information is pretty lacking from what I can see.

Last April, I had StarMade installed on both my boys' Ubuntu boxes. They wanted to get into it again, but the launcher wasn't working. Not remembering how it worked, and wanting to just start from scratch, I tried downloading the latest Linux version for both of them.

I'm getting the same issue on each computer - I can proceed as a guest, and download the latest version, and switch back and forth between versions with 'Update.' But when I try to Launch, it doesn't do anything. If I use the default bundled Java, it doesn't visually react to the button push at all. It does add a bit to the log:

Launching game

Loading memory settings

| maxMemory: 8192

| initialMemory: 1024

| earlyGenMemory: 256

| ceiling: 14907

Using bundled Java

| bin path: /home/steve/starmade-launcher-linux-x64/Linux/dep/java/jre1.7.0_80/bin

Child process: detached

Custom java args:

| -Xincgc -server

And then... that's it. If I push the button again, it adds another timestamped circuit of the same to the log.

I've done a custom java (JRE17) as well, and that has added an "exiting" line to the log, and the launcher closes. That doesn't happen every time, though, and whichever Java version I use, nothing else appears. No game launches.

Did I screw up the cleanup of last year's install? I could try out a clean user I suppose, and see if that solves it. I basically deleted every folder I found that the old Starmade install had created, then I downloaded and unzipped the intsaller. Then I ran starmade-launcher, and got the results described above.

Thanks in advance. My youngest is getting bored with Minecraft, and I wanted another game we could all do together. He really liked designing his own ships last year.

Hey everyone,

I've been having some trouble trying to run StarMade on my Macbook M1. Every time I attempt to launch it, the game just closes unexpectedly. I've seen some discussions suggesting that this could be due to the new architecture of the M1 chip.

Has anyone else encountered this issue, and if so, have you found any workarounds? I've been struggling with this problem for quite some time now, and any help or clues would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance for your assistance!

I tried slaving salvage with 100% supported missile computer, but I didn't notice any difference at all. What's it supposed to be doing?

Is there any sort of reward for the people who have been playing since 2015? like i played this game back with the mushroom fleet a long time ago, and i don't remember why i stopped playing, but like, i've been around since the beginning.

Do the devs reward the OG players with anything? or nah?

Edit: just realised this game hasn't been updated since 2020 by the look of it. is this game even alive still?

basically i get a lot of resources. and i notice sometimes the stacks end up at 2147483646 and any items beoynd that gets lost so manufacturing has to be done very carefully.

in any case... is there any way to work around this other than manually splitting up the stacks of items...?

I started playing Starmade way back when planets were still flat and player character model looked like a squished space astronaut with large funny head and want to experience those old childhood memories again.
Unfortunately the earliest version available on website is from 03 October 2014 and by the few posts I found other people can't find earlier version either. Am I out of luck and those versions lost forever?

Starmade used to be my favorite game before the 2.0 update. Anyone still playing this or can recommend any active servers? I'd love to get back into it.

Basically title.

Occasionally while traveling to and from a particularly juicy asteroid cluster, my ship is attacked by pirates. They looove to fire missiles at me.

I'm looking for a low-power basic defense against missiles while I earn enough money and resources to begin building a better ship.

I understand how to make turrets, I'm just not sure what type to build.

Ok so I built a missile turret, lock ons, and such. but then I see I have 7/7 in the magazine. but I cant for the life of me figure out how to fire more than one at a time. tried the salvo settings and still to no avail. removed the beam pc to fire dumb missiles. still cant. am I being dumb?

"Starmade server issue - "chunks around spawn position are being loaded: 2 seconds to spawn in sector 2,2,2" never stops.

we dedicated more ram to the server and had it working with three people and now I log in an hour later and it is doing it again. Anyone have any ideas?

the only info I can find on this is 2015 old and pertains to the old client launcher:
https://starmadedock.net/threads/starmade-chunks-around-spawn-position-are-being-loaded.20636/

Anyone know how to fix using an ftl chamber jump drive throwing up "nullpointerexception: null" with literally every jump? Latest public build, only thing that previously fixed it was complete reinstall of the game

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Post-Fix Edit: u/Fireknight014's proposed fix of "Turn space dust back on" succeeded :D I put it in the post here as an edit for ease of finding in case anyone later on down the line has the same problem. This is Jankmade :'D

Never was a fan of Power 2.0 but that doesn't matter, any update below v0.200.311 just does not download? It stays at "Getting checksums" and does not change from that. Anyone know of a way to fix this or some alternative to get rid of Power 2.0?

Something wierd is going on with the official site (star-made.org). You go there and it says that it's down and that if you're the application owner, to contact support but yet you can get to the download page via google lol

Hey there, I was a prominent member of the french community in 2012 to 2014, noticeably, I'd built a very large star wars themed ship, and, with the french website down I can't download it, even with the wayback machine.

Here's a link to the original download page on the (now offline) french website : https://web.archive.org/web/20210124181336/http://www.starmade.fr/resources/g-xd003-black_cloud-une-cit%C3%A9-volante.264/

I know this is only a file but... i'm quite attached to it, I've spent a lot of time with friends with this ship and I regret not keeping a copy.

If by any chance, any of you know of a backup, or heck, even a refurbished, could you please send me the link?

Thank you.

edit : managed to track the english link on the registry, but the download link is dead https://starmadedock.net/threads/black-cloud-a-flying-city.10629/#post-157372

Some sort of control panel where I can deactivate shields or generators?

So I’ve finished my station in a sector that’s rich with asteroids, and I’m trying to figure out how my mining fleet can dock to the station by giving it orders but I’m confused as to how to do it instead of individually docking every ship, I’m also trying to figure out how I can produce ships from shipyards I’ve made in other sectors or do I have to individually go to them. Basically I’m making my empire in starmade but without having to go to every sector and micro manage

just started playing as I found this game hiding in my steam library. I can't seem to find any shops spawning anywhere even though i turned the spawn rate up to max. any tips for locating them and other structures?

I remember putting hundreds and hundreds of hours into this game years ago. Is there still a community?