Starbase

Starbase is a massively multiplayer online game about building and designing spaceships and stations, exploring, gathering resources, crafting, trading and fighting. In its persistent universe, you interact with thousands of players as you discover and settle a vast galaxy. You can mine asteroids alone, haul cargo with friends, or build a station with a large group.

Build and design

You can design and build ships, stations and devices down to the smallest unit, a single bolt. Even small ships contain thousands of parts, each with its own damage model. You can repair and modify your constructions, sell blueprints, and use programming chips to automate ships and create data and electricity networks.

The game simulates structural and elemental durability. Ships must withstand hazards such as collisions and corrosive damage, and poorly designed structures or excessive steering thrust can cause a ship to snap in half. Its hybrid voxel- and vertex-based mechanics support detailed physics and a fully destructible environment: objects can be destroyed or disassembled with the right tools and weapons. Station destruction is noted as a feature to be added in a September Siege Mechanics Update.

Explore and gather

You can explore an expanding universe of stations, asteroid fields, wrecked ships, social hubs and other travelers. Exploration trips with friends can take you into uncharted space and toward faraway moons, where pirates and other unknown dangers may be waiting.

Mine minerals from asteroids, salvage parts from wrecks, and trade the goods at trading stations. You can also buy and sell ship parts, materials, weapons, tools, ammunition and designs, or steal from other players. These activities contribute to a player-driven economy where you can find different ways to earn credits.

Combat and cooperation

The game combines first-person and spaceship combat, with thousands of players able to fight simultaneously. You can fly alone or crew a ship with others, dividing roles and responsibilities; creative plans and daring maneuvers can change the course of a battle.

You can make friends and alliances, form groups and establish factions. Small groups can grow into large organizations that build massive stations and take on difficult challenges. Success is framed around player ingenuity and cooperation rather than hours played or an endless grind.

The universe

The universe is persistent and expands as players explore and settle it. The Early Access setting begins with large stations orbiting a single planet. Players can settle the orbit and seek routes to the planet’s moons, with further destinations described as extending to other planets and distant star systems.

Starting-station safe zones protect new players, and player-owned stations can have configurable dynamic safe zones. Players can begin building home stations and expand the galaxy together.