Not many of these games like it. While it has the same style as Minecraft, you can design your own ships and travel through space (all seamless). I've been looking for a game like this ever since I played spore space. I love being able to travel to planets and travel on them and do stuff on them. Not many games let you do that. There is of course Shores of Hazeron, but that is a different topic...its an example.
Official website:
http://star-made.org/The B12 official server for StarMade: 68.55.212.49:4242
The PvP zones for the server are in sectors 10-20, 10-20, 10-20 (can always change if needed). This means the PvP zone starts at 10, 10, 10 and is any combination of 10 to 20 in each category. 10, 10, 8 would not be a PvP zone. Keep in mind, people can shoot into the next sector.
Blueprint fix (file is usually named wrong when you save a blueprint, but this guide tells you how to fix it. What happens is, you buy the ship, it takes your money and you don't get the ship due to the misnamed file. Be sure to leave the 3.0.0 at the end of the name (or whatever number it is, mine always works with that):
http://star-made.org/content/fixcatalog-issue-baught-ship-blueprint-wont-spawnfixFirst heard about it from the Yogscast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHgcttS39wAnd features (copy pasted from website)
StarMade is a minecraft inspired 3D sandbox space shooter.
Explore: Explore space generated in real time around you
Design: design you own ship or space station.
Customize: create customized weapons, harvesting elements, shields and docking stations for your ship. Combine elements to groups to make your modules even more powerful.
Multiplayer: full multi player: share control of your ship or design a ship together
Destroy: destroy your enemies with your powerful weapons or just infiltrate an enemy ship. There already is a big arsenal of destructive modules: Missiles (normal, heat seeking and target chasing), Lasers, and Explosive modules that detonate on impact
Salvage: salvage the ships of your fallen enemies to gain credits
Physics: fully integrated modern physics engine for real box-on-box collisions
Stealth: use radar jamming and cloaking modules for a surprise attack.
Multiplatform: runs on windows, mac and linux
Share: save, import & export your own ships as blueprints. You can upload your blueprints to any multi player server
AI: fight your own creations alone or in coop mode
Tutorial: interactive tutorial to learn the basics
There are probably better videos to get an idea of what the game is like, but you can check out the website and what not for yourself. Keep in mind, alpha is alpha.