I don't understand this game, honestly. I died a lot before I moved on to something better (This War of Mine). However--and I know this doesn't answer your question--after playing it on PC and Vita, I thought the Vita version was superior by a lot.

So, go buy a Vita.

Mainly, if I remember right, the Vita version had been polished up from the PC version, so that might be true of the PS3 version, as well.  What I really liked, though, was that aiming was a lot better with an analog stick, so that should definitely carry over to the PS3, I would think.  You just hold your stick in one direction and spam attack or mine or whatever.  That made the tedious fights less tiresome.

Vita version sounds like a nice bet, it's portable to boot which is a nice bonus.

Wouldn't hope too much on Starbound, we'll be lucky if it even gets finished on PC, I've been following and playing the game since it released on steam (2013) and updates haven't been all that great...

After dinking around in Terraria for about 10-20 hours with my wife... I got pretty bored with it. She kept playing for probably another 20 hours after that before I picked it back up again with some mods this time. Ended up putting another 50 or so hours into it with mods and that made it a pretty excellent experience. If you can get it on PC, go for that. Games like Terraria, Minecraft, and Don't Starve are all made even better with mods because imo, the vanilla experience gets pretty boring pretty fast.

Not my type of game and didn't get it when it was free on the 360.