[Megathread] Starbound

[Treeskee]

Having a blast so far, going to start up a small colony/farm today to make life easier. Loving the Hylotl cosmetic armor too <3

[Deleted]

I'm gonna become an intergalactic Donald Trump once I get a bit further, and start setting up colonies and renting out apartments.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Damn... Food spoils now. Here I am, going for the core fragments deep underground, and suddenly my bags are full of inedible green goop!

Automatoes, they're electronic tomatoes. Also scour for chocolate plants until you get enough to grow a nice farm of them, and farm chocolate. It lasts forever.




I'm freaking loving this game.

I'm getting vibes of,
Megaman
Tomb Raider
Legend of Zelda (love putting up a shield)
Minecraft
General intergalactic exploration


Does anyone know how to get copper wire easily? I can't seem to make a wiring station yet but I can upgrade my forge to level 3, just can't seem to get the copper wire for it. Only known location is mob drops, and I'm not farming 20 copper wire from electronic buggers.

Nevermind I found it.

[Morae]

Anyone know, if you can move Fluffalos? I got too many of them on one spot. They overlap and it is hard to click the correct one. I would like my milk flufflos moved elsewhere. You can't seem to do anything to them.

People suggest *GASP* killing them with lava when I went and googled. Then grow new ones on other location. Those suggestions, I think, were from early access so things may have changed. Didn't find any after release information.

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Meh... there really should be a way to craft sticks of ram.

This item is needed apparently for all automation that you wish to build. I can't even build the table before I find 2 of these. I got one, but I don't know where I got it.

Apparently these drop from mechanical enemies. I don't recall any such enemies. I have been trying to find, but with no luck.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Anyone know, if you can move Fluffalos? I got too many of them on one spot. They overlap and it is hard to click the correct one. I would like my milk flufflos moved elsewhere. You can't seem to do anything to them.

People suggest *GASP* killing them with lava when I went and googled. Then grow new ones on other location. Those suggestions, I think, were from early access so things may have changed. Didn't find any after release information.

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Meh... there really should be a way to craft sticks of ram.

This item is needed apparently for all automation that you wish to build. I can't even build the table before I find 2 of these. I got one, but I don't know where I got it.

Apparently these drop from mechanical enemies. I don't recall any such enemies. I have been trying to find, but with no luck.

Find a planet with gnomes, those massive cities with tiny buildings. There will be an entire "layer" across the planet. Guarding these gnome cities are these weird looking gray robot things, and they can drop mechanical parts. There are others but that's the easiest I know of, since there's gnomes in my "home" planet where I set up my homestead. If you find a good spot with mechanical enemies, bookmark that planet with a flag next to a tunnel leading down to where they are, since yeah, mechanical parts are a PITA to come by.




So I found the best way to make money. Make the machine that converts ore into pixels, then go to an asteroid belt. Mine the hell out of it. Asteroid belts just have massive asteroids that can be pure copper/silver/gold almost. Managed to make over 50k in a couple of hours of farming an asteroid belt.

As far as food goes, put a kitchen table and fridges on your ship. In your farm, grow rice and cocoa and then anything else you want really for the buffs. Rice stacks and so does cacao. Rice can be cooked at a campfire into boiled rice and cacao can be turned into chocolate at a kitchen counter. Both the fire and kitchen counter can be carried with you into deep expeditions. Cacao and dry rice both have infinity shelf life, and can be cooked whenever needed, and stack up to 1000 like most things that stack.

[Morae]

Find a planet with gnomes, those massive cities with tiny buildings. There will be an entire "layer" across the planet. Guarding these gnome cities are these weird looking gray robot things, and they can drop mechanical parts. There are others but that's the easiest I know of, since there's gnomes in my "home" planet where I set up my homestead. If you find a good spot with mechanical enemies, bookmark that planet with a flag next to a tunnel leading down to where they are, since yeah, mechanical parts are a PITA to come by.

Gnomes? I have not seen those yet. Are they usually on some specific type of planet?

[Cthulhu 2020]

Gnomes? I have not seen those yet. Are they usually on some specific type of planet?

Mine was a forest planet with lots of rain. Incidentally a great planet to create terraced gardens. But I've seen them on several planets now. It's funny how you can continuously run into new "layers" you've never encountered before. I only just ran into slime and tar layers last night.

But it's cities that expand forever across a single layer of the planet with lots of tiny buildings. If you have a conscience you can avoid destroying the gnome cities. If not gnomes are throwing weapons.

[Dezerte]

Thank Kluex for sprinklers.

[Morae]

Mine was a forest planet with lots of rain. Incidentally a great planet to create terraced gardens. But I've seen them on several planets now. It's funny how you can continuously run into new "layers" you've never encountered before. I only just ran into slime and tar layers last night.

But it's cities that expand forever across a single layer of the planet with lots of tiny buildings. If you have a conscience you can avoid destroying the gnome cities. If not gnomes are throwing weapons.

Meh... by that description I know I havent seen any of them yet. I did finally bump into some steam styled area. There were some robot enemies around it (not many, but if I run around, they respawn eventually). So yeah... now I got it bookmarked. It is just very very slow. It is probably 1 stick of ram for about 10 mobs (there arent that many mobs around when I pass the area, but I can come back).

[Treeskee]

The gnomes I've been finding have been on a variety of planets a fair bit underground/water. Mostly around frozen stars. Throwing them at monsters is hilarious too because they do a good bit of damage if they all land.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Meh... by that description I know I havent seen any of them yet. I did finally bump into some steam styled area. There were some robot enemies around it (not many, but if I run around, they respawn eventually). So yeah... now I got it bookmarked. It is just very very slow. It is probably 1 stick of ram for about 10 mobs (there arent that many mobs around when I pass the area, but I can come back).

Are you using spears at least? With high level armor spears can one shot a lot of things, and they give the highest chance to drop rare items and food.

[Gorsameth]

Find a planet with gnomes, those massive cities with tiny buildings. There will be an entire "layer" across the planet. Guarding these gnome cities are these weird looking gray robot things, and they can drop mechanical parts. There are others but that's the easiest I know of, since there's gnomes in my "home" planet where I set up my homestead. If you find a good spot with mechanical enemies, bookmark that planet with a flag next to a tunnel leading down to where they are, since yeah, mechanical parts are a PITA to come by.




So I found the best way to make money. Make the machine that converts ore into pixels, then go to an asteroid belt. Mine the hell out of it. Asteroid belts just have massive asteroids that can be pure copper/silver/gold almost. Managed to make over 50k in a couple of hours of farming an asteroid belt.

As far as food goes, put a kitchen table and fridges on your ship. In your farm, grow rice and cocoa and then anything else you want really for the buffs. Rice stacks and so does cacao. Rice can be cooked at a campfire into boiled rice and cacao can be turned into chocolate at a kitchen counter. Both the fire and kitchen counter can be carried with you into deep expeditions. Cacao and dry rice both have infinity shelf life, and can be cooked whenever needed, and stack up to 1000 like most things that stack.

For pixels I would recommend Clay.
Find a desert planet. dig down to a clay layer and gather up a ton. turn the clay into fired bricks and turn those into Roof Tiles.
1k clay is like 30k pixels this way.

[Morae]

Are you using spears at least? With high level armor spears can one shot a lot of things, and they give the highest chance to drop rare items and food.

I wasn't aware there was any difference with weapons and droprates. I'm mainly shooting things using guns. I'm finding that close range combat is dangerous. If I miss a hit (which with spears is easy) I will most likely get hit. Mobs start to hurt at high levels so I rather stay far away from them.

[Deleted]

So I built a small hut on the starting spot on my home planet, and then rented it out and got a robot tenant, who also invited several of his friends (whom I had to save and escort into the house first), but now he wants me to build another house with Apex furniture so they can have guards. I have no idea where to get Apex furniture though. Oh well.

http://starbounder.org/Furniture
http://starbound.gamepedia.com/Furniture

A list of some Apex furniture but I suppose I'll actually have to start exploring other planets. Apparently "Classic" and "Cool" furniture would get me some Apex guys. Been busy doing these quests and building, haven't even killed the penguin boss yet.

Here's my little hut so far:


(Click to enlarge.)

[Morae]

Why is it that every time I see a screenshot of someones house, it is very well constructed and I find them pretty. When I look at mine, they are random rooms produced when I needed room for them. Materials are always easy to get (coblestone and wood). Storages and crafting tables randomly spread around in the random rooms. Farms all over the area, some underground, some above and some on both sides of the "house". If had npcs in my house, they would get stuck everywhere...

How do you get the patience to construct all the little details?

[Deleted]

Heh well... The small hut in my screenshot is hardly anything to be proud of. You should've seen my underwater base with airlocks and everything. That was pretty nifty. But yeah, I find crafting games to be soothing, and a nice change of pace from other, more hectic games. I just think that most of the stuff I craft tends to be pretty ugly compared to other people's beautiful buildings, so I feel you buddy.

I'm actually going to start my game over; I got very unlucky with drops so far, and haven't gotten powerful enough weapons and armor to beat the penguin boss, and I screwed up a questing hub (a hylotl village), where I had several quests to farm something. So I made a farm smack dab in the middle of the village, and when I gathered the stuff, they got angry at me. They kept yelling, so I thought they're not going to do anything. But, they aggroed me and now I'm not sure if they go back to friendly anymore.

But yeah, got a few new ideas and it's more fun to start over anyway.

That hylotl village had pretty amazing houses though; they were like "three dimensional", in that they had built "houses" into the background wall as well. It's hard to explain, but yeah. I'm going to try that as well, see how it goes.

Really liking what they've done with the game. Much, much different from the alphas and betas and so on. The penguin used to just attack you wherever you summoned it, so you were able to build a structure and kill it from within that. Then they gave it the ability to destroy blocks. Apparently not a very good idea, since then it would just destroy everything. Having bosses in their own levels is much smarter I think.

I just want all that technology (switches and so on), so I can find a water world and build an underwater base again.

[Cosmic Janitor]

From some of the comments I take that it is worth it now? Originally I just blasted through the progression system, got bored and haven't touched it since then.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Found a legendary sword today named Soulseeker that's about 150% the size of my character, spewing embers, and just "looks" legendary. Pretty decent stats too, 23.3 damage per swing with 0.8 attack speed. Kinda slow for a one hander but when you dual wield it with another strong one handed sword, most things tend to blow up in a single hit anyway.

Heh well... The small hut in my screenshot is hardly anything to be proud of. You should've seen my underwater base with airlocks and everything. That was pretty nifty. But yeah, I find crafting games to be soothing, and a nice change of pace from other, more hectic games. I just think that most of the stuff I craft tends to be pretty ugly compared to other people's beautiful buildings, so I feel you buddy.

I'm actually going to start my game over; I got very unlucky with drops so far, and haven't gotten powerful enough weapons and armor to beat the penguin boss, and I screwed up a questing hub (a hylotl village), where I had several quests to farm something. So I made a farm smack dab in the middle of the village, and when I gathered the stuff, they got angry at me. They kept yelling, so I thought they're not going to do anything. But, they aggroed me and now I'm not sure if they go back to friendly anymore.

But yeah, got a few new ideas and it's more fun to start over anyway.

That hylotl village had pretty amazing houses though; they were like "three dimensional", in that they had built "houses" into the background wall as well. It's hard to explain, but yeah. I'm going to try that as well, see how it goes.

Really liking what they've done with the game. Much, much different from the alphas and betas and so on. The penguin used to just attack you wherever you summoned it, so you were able to build a structure and kill it from within that. Then they gave it the ability to destroy blocks. Apparently not a very good idea, since then it would just destroy everything. Having bosses in their own levels is much smarter I think.

I just want all that technology (switches and so on), so I can find a water world and build an underwater base again.

I don't really see much reason to start over to be honest, as there's no defined time that you need to do that penguin quest by. You can keep it until you feel you have good enough gear to do it.

I also don't really see any reason to get attached to a particular planet or city unless you've invested a lot of time and energy into building your own house/homestead/village there. The scale of the universe is MASSIVE. Like seriously, just go and look at your star map and watch the numbers on your X/Y axis scroll around, and realize how long it would take you to reach the ends. There seems to be limitless possibilities here, and if you want to end up on the other side of the universe at a completely different hyotyl village, you can.

I do find the villager rep system extremely odd. You can ransack their book shelves, fridges, cabinets, drawers, etc. and they don't give a flying fuck. You can take legendary upgrade modules from their bedside tables and they don't care. But you uproot a rice plant in their yard? Oh fuck watch out. Just never use the "R" function in town and you'll be fine.

[Deleted]

From some of the comments I take that it is worth it now? Originally I just blasted through the progression system, got bored and haven't touched it since then.

Well... If you didn't play it as what it is originally; a crafting game, then it's doubtful you're going to like it much more now. If you like linear adventure games then you might want to play something else, as this is most likely not a game for you.

However, if you already have it, and have paid for it, then hey, you might want to check out the new plotline.

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From the latest patch; "natural materials will now magically match the hue shift of the biome when placed".

Happy happy. It was so weird having dirt become completely different color when digging and replacing it. Although, then again, it used to be fun to have several different colors of dirt in the betas.

[Morae]

:/

I think the rail system sucks.

Just for fun I wanted to create a rail system in my ship so I can move around quickly and dont have to do boosted jumps just to go to upper level.

First of all. The rail platform will break if you click it. Yes, you just need to E it.
It also needs some kind of stoppers at the end points. Otherwise it will break yet again. This means, for example, on ship where you can dig 1 block deeper, the rail platform will be 1block above ground. I can't just walk on it and let it move me. I need to jump and if I need to jump I might as well use boost to get to higher level rather than use the platform. Once I get npc in my ships, they wont use the rail platform either since they wont just walk on it.

Some older version of the game during EA had very good system. I even built a massive rail system around my base and to my deep underground laboratory! It worked well back then, but this system. It is extremely fragile and has some functional problems.