The Matter Manipulator, which you'll find on your ship, is your basic method of interacting with the world. When you're on the surface on the planet, the same button will teleport you to your ship. Using the teleport pad on your ship or clicking the Teleport Button (the halo with a down or up arrow) on the right side menu will teleport you to the planet. You can use these quickslots to equip your weapons or flashlight while you're out exploring the world. Pressing X will equip the item in the first of these two slots and pressing Z swaps what items are in the L and R slots. The L and R in the center of your hotbar are your quickslots. One glove means the item is one-handed, two gloves denotes two-handed items. Hitting Q throws the currently equipped item, which will be indicated by a colored outline and one or two gloved hands below the item. Shift-clicking on an item in the hotbar moves it back into your inventory. Your number keys choose items on the hotbar directly or you can use the mousewheel to scroll between them. To use an item you can either drag it up to your hotbar or grab it in your inventory with Mouse Button 1 (left-click), move it out of your inventory and click mouse button 1 again. If you have a stack of items in your inventory, right-clicking on the stack will pick up half of that stack. Hitting I opens your inventory, which is a important part of surviving in Starbound. J brings up your Quest Journal, so you can see your current quests, and L is the Starbound Codex, which includes all documents in the game. If you want to craft better items, you'll need to build crafting stations like a Stone Furnace, Iron Anvil, or Spinning Wheel. This will stick until you tap CTRL again, which is helpful for digging tunnels downward.Д¬ is your crafting menu, which can be used anywhere to craft basic goods like Torches or Bandages. Holding CTRL causes your view to slide towards the direction of the mouse cursor.

Hold down Alt to highlight interactable objects. By default, your character will try to interact with the closest useful object, but you can use the mouse cursor to chose a different object. E or the Middle Mouse button allows you to interact with stationary objects or pick up items around the world. Your character will always face towards the direction of your mouse cursor, which is important to remember when you get into combat. Controlling Your WorldДЄ and D on your keyboard are used for moving left and right, Space is your Jump key, and S makes your character kneel. Your Avian can wear the same clothes as any Human, Florian or Glitch. Otherwise, there's no difference in the race from a basic gameplay perspective. Your choice of race determines what you can eat, the appearance of your starting ship, your starting crafting recipes, and a bit of lore. You've been warned.Д¬hoosing Your Race The starting races.and their starting ships.

The tutorial quest will lead you to create a distress beacon.

The Refinery can be used to sell ore for pixels, the game's currency.

If you don't have a weapon out, town NPCs may not attack you.

Meat needs to be cooked at a Camp Fire to eat it. Petals can be turned into dye at your Crafting Table. Plant Fibre can be turned into Fabric with a Spinning Wheel. Bandages heal you, which is also great for exploring.

Plant fibre can be turned into Bandages.

Torches mean light and heat while exploring.

It could be valuable Ore that you need to build new things! If you pass any different colored dirt in your travels, you should go mining.Right-clicking on a stack of items in the inventory picks up half the stack.

Hit X to equip these items on the fly and X to switch between them.

The L and R slots in the center of your hotbar are your quick slots.

You can use this to run away from an enemy while still attacking them.

Your character will face and attack in the direction of your mouse cursor.

Hold down Shift to make that a single square.

Using your Matter Manipulator or a building block will default to a 2 x 2 square in the world.

How do you repair your pickaxe? Left-click on the corresponding ore and then right-click on the pickaxe add one bar of durability to it! This doesn't work with the Stone Pickaxe.

Hold down Alt to highlight interactable objects.

Press the E key to interact with objects, like a camp fire, bed, or crafting table.

Surviving will take some courage and cunning, but more importantly, surviving will take this guide. If you want to get anywhere else, you'll need to head down to that pre-civilized planet and get some resources. Well, hello there, intrepid adventurer! It looks like you've gone and gotten yourself stranded out in the cold reaches of space.

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