Early Preview FAQ

Here are Frequently Asked Questions around the Windborne Early Preview build that launched on 11/11/2013
 * What is Windborne?


 * Windborne is a social sandbox game with thousands of pieces to build and play with. You’ll be able to build a civilization of friendly Jin who will help you in your endeavor, although they haven’t made it to the Alpha yet. There will be dungeons to conquer, islands to explore, and combat that is completely optional.


 * How do I play?


 * We are updating the wiki at Controls right now, but here are the basics:
 * The mouse looks around
 * WASD move you around
 * The left mouse button lets you place blocks
 * The right mouse button switches to gather mode where you can pick up blocks in the world
 * The mouse wheel or the 1-9 keys let you select which bubble you are placing from your action bar.
 * Q opens your inventory
 * C opens your crafting book (and can be used to navigate to other menus via the tabs on the left)
 * E interacts with things in the world
 * There are more advanced controls, but this is all you need to start.


 * How do I get help?


 * The wiki will be populated over the next week, and you can always ask at the forums or on facebook or twitter.


 * What do you mean I might lose my island?


 * During alpha, there is a good chance you’ll lose your island when we update the game formats. Right now we don’t have backwards compatibility to old islands, but that’s one of the things we’ll put in and test during the alpha.


 * I’m having trouble running Windborne


 * Being a small team, we haven’t been able to test on the wide range of machines out there. In the next couple of days, we will update the game to upload your crash to us so we can investigate what is going wrong.


 * We haven’t put as much time into performance at the moment, so you’ll need a pretty beefy system to run at a high resolution. You might try decreasing it in the launcher for now. You can still run full screen at lower resolutions.


 * Also, check out the official forums to see if there may be workarounds for your issues.


 * Can I play with my friends?


 * Sure, you can send a game invite through steam to anyone who is part of the preview. They’ll be able to join your island! (We’d love for people to test this out)


 * The Game Crashes on My System - what do I do?


 * Send any .log and .mdmp files from your computer to info [at] hiddenpath [dot] com with the heading Windborne crash dumps. To find the needed files to attach to the email, go to the Steam program. In your Library, right-click on Windborne and choose Properties. Go to the Local files tab and click on the Browse Local Files... button.