The teleportation pad is the way to travel to and from a ship.

Your race choice will determine the appearance of your ship.

The difficulty will determine certain game altering mechanics such as Hunger and the consequences of death, and cannot be changed later in the game.Īfter selecting a character (or completing the optional intro mission) players will appear on a ship floating over a planet.

Your Shirt and Pants are given to you as items and are placed in your chest and legs item slots at the start of the game.

'Personality' gives you some options for the pose your character will keep while standing still.

The exception are the Novakid who, unlike the other races, are able to craft guns and not close range weapons at the Anvil. There's no impact on gameplay or limitation on acquiring other race items or objects.

Racial options are almost purely cosmetic.

However, any object can be acquired with enough gameplay.

Your race choice here will determine the appearance of the ship you'll start off with, the ship's pet and how your character will describe objects you inspect.

The character creation window provides choice between race, gender and appearance. At the select character screen, click create character to create a new character or an existing character to advance directly to the game.

Starbound changing character appearance