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[⎛Double Double⎞]

It's like 1.3gb... It looks similar to terraria and that game is only like 48mb... why is this so much bigger?

[Wait]

i have 3.2 gb =)

[GreenSmokeFalling]

Because the game is alooooooooooot bigger.

[Pheex]

more pixels

[Wait]

oh sorry 3,002 gb

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More content, and the game is unoptimized. If you look into the game's files, you'll find plenty of unfinished things. A lot to look forward too. Not to mention the multiple OS versions.

[Chad770]

Terraria is 1 map, Starbound is millions of maps/planets in each diff sector

[Haby001]

Most games take a lot of space from the files to render the graphics of the game. Terraria is not the case (pixel art) and so is starbound, but starbound has a much larger space to cover as well as object. Even when the planets are procedurally made, they still need a blueprint or a small sample of what it must have (color, materials, ore %, etc) so this adds up to the formula. Lastly, the 3 platforms it must substain, even when you only use 1/3 of the engines (Win, Mac, Linux) you need all of the assets that come with them so you dont get any bugs.

[☠ Darth Chocula ☠]

Massive numbers of large, hard, erect, bags of pixels for everyone to jump right into

[∞]

422 quadrillion maps approximatly

[Toloth]

Anyway to force steam to update it..it wont for me? What download servers are you guys using?

[TwoToesBarbarian]

Terraria uses a more simple programing and scrypt writing sofware. Starbound uses the complicated C++, which is a much more resource intensive program to use.

[bensrob]

One of the reasons it is so large at the moment is that they decided for the first few weeks of the beta to leave the debugging symbols on when compiling the game. It means teh exe file will be alot bigger however it gives them a lot more information back if the game does crash, speeding up the development process

Edit: Which will add quite abit onto the 600MB game exe and 400 server exe

[bensrob]

Originally posted by TwoToes:

Terraria uses a more simple programing and scrypt writing sofware. Starbound uses the complicated C++, which is a much more resource intensive program to use.

C++.... resource intensive compaired to scripting.....

[elvenspirit]

Originally posted by Sabre:

It's like 1.3gb... It looks similar to terraria and that game is only like 48mb... why is this so much bigger?

The sound files alone are bigger than terraria (this is probably to be expected with the instrument showcase they had)

The game also installs a launcher for win32 as well as linux32 and linux64 which are each larger than terraria.

Not sure what's causing the launcher to be so large though - i guess you'd need to ask someone who knows more.

[Rail]

Originally posted by TwoToes:

Terraria uses a more simple programing and scrypt writing sofware. Starbound uses the complicated C++, which is a much more resource intensive program to use.

The fact that Terraria is written in C# and Starbound in C++ has absolutely nothing to do with the size... The reason Starbound is so much bigger is due to the huge number of assets (object images, sounds, music, etc). That being said the binaries do seem kind of big which is strange, they probably have some embedded resources in each one..