Starbound

[Jacough]

Bottom post of the previous page:

I like the missions and the structures that spawn on planets (even if they don't always make sense, like a Felin city on a heavily irradiated planet, or an Avian temple on a dark, extremely frozen planet). But the damn scanning quests are awful, you always think you can do it with just one settlement but then you miss 1-2 more scans and you have to fly to a different system just for them.

I've also started going into Admin mode whenever I want to just decorate, and spawn decorative blocks that way.

Yeah, the scanning missions just feel like they're there to pad out the main quest for the most part. Even with the scanning missions the main quest itself is pretty short. Most of the time I've spent playing has been more about building colonies and exploring dungeons. Personally I'd like to see them incorporate more side missions. As far as I can tell you've basically only got five of them right now. Three for the Floran chick and two for the penguin shop keepers, all of which boil down to extra boss fights. Other than that you're just kind of confined to MMO type sidequests for NPCs, some of which can be absolute shit considering how they're generated (I had one from a hytol in a small hut on an island where I just passed shit back and forth between her friend... Who was in the same fucking one room hut).

[Comrade Leo]

I haven't found an item that lets me have crops without rain yet because I don't want to use a watering can

You can make a sprinkler system from the foraging table, that does this.

[PKPenguin321]

Progression for minerals and armor is actually really fucking easy, like maybe half an hour of mining leaves you with abundance of ore that has no fucking uses

I have like 300 solarium from one mining trip that I used to make one set of armor

Hardest part of progression is finding a poison planet to make batteries (which you don't actually need to do because you can buy batteries at the outpost) and hunting robots down for sticks of RAM

[Ricotez]

jfc just download more ram

also I've plopped down a teleporter in an apex laboratory I found on a dark planet, my plan was to convert the place into a sciencey colony but the eternal soaring wind and the perpetual darkness of the surrounding landscape makes me kinda depressed so I might just leave it and find another place

[Jacough]

Hardest part of progression is finding a poison planet to make batteries (which you don't actually need to do because you can buy batteries at the outpost) and hunting robots down for sticks of RAM

Poison's easy as hell toget. Just land on a toxic ocean planet, find the shore of the island you land on which takes like two minutes, and then just start gathering it up from the ocean. Takes like five minutes tops and you'll have enough poison to last you a life time. I'll give you robots though. I had some pretty good luck finding them on mutated planets though and I've encountered a shit ton of them on midnight planets as well.

also I've plopped down a teleporter in an apex laboratory I found on a dark planet, my plan was to convert the place into a sciencey colony but the eternal soaring wind and the perpetual darkness of the surrounding landscape makes me kinda depressed so I might just leave it and find another place

Could just do what I've started doing with my scorched planet colony and basically start terraforming the area around your colony. I sort of just plopped some dirt and sprinklers around the area, grew some grass along it, and added some decoration like lamps, a fountain, and some outdoor furniture. Bam, now it's like a cozy little oasis in an otherwise miserable wasteland, kinda like Vault City in FO2.

[Ricotez]

doesn't change the fact that it's a bloody dark planet, the days are as dark as nights on other planets and the nights are even darker

and the wind is driving me fucking insane

[DemonFiren]

/sbg/ convinced me to torrent this one.

So far, underwhelmed by the game I have before me compared to the time and money this thing was given.
Also, no lizards. Disgusting.

[PKPenguin321]

/sbg/ convinced me to torrent this one.

So far, underwhelmed by the game I have before me compared to the time and money this thing was given.
Also, no lizards. Disgusting.

hylotyl are pretty close, they're fish so they have scales

[DemonFiren]

I always thought they were amphibian.

Also, the race mods I've found were too degenerate even for me.
Well, then. Never thought I'd play a human in a game that offered me the choice.

[TheColdTurtle]

Where would be a good place to build a colony? Also is base in a box any good at all?

>race mods too degenerate for demonfiren
Like what? If things are too degenerate even for you that is saying something

[ThanatosRa]

I'm not ashamed to say I got felins because why the fuck not.

[Jacough]

>race mods too degenerate for demonfiren
Like what? If things are too degenerate even for you that is saying something

There was a mlp race mod made back when it was in early access. The guy who made it was clearly autistic as hell although that kind of goes without saying. Like, he wrote this huge and fucking stupid backstory for the race. I think it was about literal brony scientists who infused their DNA with horses or some shit to turn themselves into pony humanoids and became outcasts from humanity.

It actually sounds like something bronies would do if they could which is the saddest part. Turn themselves into genetic fuck ups (as if they aren't already) so they could fulfill their dreams of fucking talking horses and then cry like little faggots when the rest of humanity point and laugh at them for being fucked in the head.

Also
> playing with the mod that lets you hire crew members
> hire some Hylotl as an outlaw because an extra gun is always welcome and she was one of the few guards in my colony who didn't die regularly
> Exploring a planet with her
> pass through a frog village
> teammates fall a bit behind as usual
> hear fighting
> go back to see what the commotion was about
> she's killing one of the fucking frog civilians
> what the fuck woman

Are outlaws supposed to murder the fuck out of unarmed civilians?

[TheColdTurtle]

oh my fuck, I thought he was talking about felins or availi. Jesus christ

[DemonFiren]

>race mods too degenerate for demonfiren
Like what? If things are too degenerate even for you that is saying something

I might be a scalefag, but furshit should not spill over to just anywhere. There's continua and universes where it works, and in Starbound I'm tending towards "except birds it doesn't."
Get your foxpeople, your porkymens, your diminutive equines and your sergals out of my game.

Hell, even the Argonian mod is shit, makes them look like Yoshi hybrids.

[Ricotez]

The Felin have a complicated system of personality aspects with names in their own language that they use to define who they are and what they like. I really wonder why the author went to all that trouble, since anyone who installs that mod does so just to play as a catgirl/boy...

[TheWiznard]

I built my base on an elysium world, I originally wanted it to look like that desert world prison from that one riddick movie but it turned into more of an airlock and a barebones room with an elevator deep into the bowels of the obsidian rock fortress

[DemonFiren]

Meanwhile, I got over most of my noobishness and turned some castle ruins into a base.

Now praying I'll find that motherfucking portal, else I'll be sitting on those 68 core fragments for all eternity.

[Jacough]

The Felin have a complicated system of personality aspects with names in their own language that they use to define who they are and what they like. I really wonder why the author went to all that trouble, since anyone who installs that mod does so just to play as a catgirl/boy...

Looking at the steam page it looks like they have settlements so I guess it might be worth downloading just to flood their towns with lava or use admin commands to spawn a bunch of bone dragons over their village to tear it to pieces

[DemonFiren]

>dragons boning cats
DEGENERATE

[Jacough]

>dragons boning cats
DEGENERATE

Nah, it's a robot piloted by a member of the glorious human races that incinerates the furfags with fire. There's no degeneracy, just a good old human being doing God's work

Speaking of the bone dragon though, I finished the Glitch mission last night which was... Kind of disappointing. I was hoping for a proper dungeon but instead you just camp out in front of the glitch Baron's castle protecting it from huge waves of cultists until the boss decides to show up. It was nice to see two of the people who join you actually do something fucking useful instead of sitting on their fucking asses by the ark doing jack shit.

Spoiler:

also kind of disappointed the humans don't get a proper quest too. Instead the old bitch is just like "haha just kidding we had the final emblem all along so we're good to open the gate now!" which kind of seems lazy as fuck

[DemonFiren]

>that spoiler

Is it possible to kill community-manager-hired-because-head-dev-wanted-to-bone-her-then-turned-ingame-granny-sue-because-wouldn't-it-be-nice-to-have-a-character-based-on-you at all?

[Wyzack]

I dunno, i kinda liked the last mission. Baron goes all PIP PIP CHEERIO LADS THE JERRIES ARE BACK and you get to kick some ass. I brought 4 or 5 of my tacticool SPACE OPERATOR crewmen with me so it was as close to a real battle as you ever really get in this game. What really did dissapoint me is that they all used swords, bows, ballistae and those whirligig flyer machines. This is a game about FUCKING SPACE AND SCI FI YOU DOUBLE FLORAN MOTHER FUCKING SHITTERS. Why did they make a sci fi game when they seem to loathe actual science futuristic content?

[DemonFiren]

Because chucklefuck.

At least there may or may not be a mod for this shit eventually. Some anon on /sbg/ is working on tiered race weapons.

[Wyzack]

You talking about the guy adding in the racial guns? His artwork is really awesome, i especially like the look of the glitch and avian ones

[Ricotez]

The fight with Big Ape was pretty cool, but the dungeon before it could've been a little longer.

And now I'm scavenging lava planets for Glitch settlements because I forgot on which planet I already found a Glitch fort.

[Wyzack]

The apex mission reminded me about an old writing adage.

Is this story the most exciting time in the character's life? If not, why are you not writing about that time?

We get to skulk through some tunnels and not take part in the cool gorilla warfare up above. It is like chucklefish hates fun

[Jacough]

I dunno, i kinda liked the last mission. Baron goes all PIP PIP CHEERIO LADS THE JERRIES ARE BACK and you get to kick some ass. I brought 4 or 5 of my tacticool SPACE OPERATOR crewmen with me so it was as close to a real battle as you ever really get in this game. What really did dissapoint me is that they all used swords, bows, ballistae and those whirligig flyer machines. This is a game about FUCKING SPACE AND SCI FI YOU DOUBLE FLORAN MOTHER FUCKING SHITTERS. Why did they make a sci fi game when they seem to loathe actual science futuristic content?

To be fair all the other missions except the Floran's (which kind of makes sense considering they're a primitive race) still carry a very strong sci fi theme, especially the Apex mission. I'm guessing they went with the whole medieval shit for the Glitch because you know, that's kind of the glitches' thing. Though I'll admit it's pretty stupid that the cultists themselves are using medieval weapons. There's a couple of glitch defenders in the mission who fire at the cultists with bows so it'd probably have made more sense for them to be the ones sticking to their medieval weapons while the cultists use say, guns, artillery cannons, and futuristic VTOLs.

[Wyzack]

That is exactly my point. So far my favorite mission has been the Frackin Flora frozen science outpost mission

[Jacough]

That is exactly my point. So far my favorite mission has been the Frackin Flora frozen science outpost mission

I'm thinkin of reinstalling the Frackin Universe mod now that I've found out there's a mod that gives all the EPPs breathing support. Figured what I'd do is back up my save and just use the admin spawn command to get the other EPPs so I don't have to restart the game and deal with the stupid EPP change so I can explore all the new dungeons and biomes and shit.

[Wyzack]

That works, but be sure to move everything you will need into your ship, as Frackin generates a whole new Universe file so all your planetside bases will be gone. Also i keep forgetting that it is Frackin Universe now, Frackin Flora has such a nice ring to it

[TankNut]

Fracking universe has this end-game storage thing that has 1000(?) slots. Seeing as inventory management is a bitch I just /admin'd like six of them and never had to worry about storage ever again.

[Ricotez]

Waiting for Starbound to get the equivalent of the Applied Energistics mod in Minecraft, which added a computer system that you could store items in and easily access from any terminal connected to the network. With a little fuckery with other mods you could set it up so you could pull and push items to the network from anywhere in the world and never had to worry about inventory again.

I got so dependent on Applied Energistics that I instantly fuck up inventory management in any other game since.

[TankNut]

I usually do fine without something like AE2. The problem with starbound is the absurd amount of different items and how the icons are fairly small so it's easy to accidentally skip over something while searching for trivial crafting component nr. 412

[Jacough]

Made this simple cosmetic helmet sprite from the scouter, scavenger, and medic helmets.


Now I just need to know how to add it in and whether or not it's the right size

edit: nope, it's too big. Guess I'll have to make a smaller one

[Jacough]

Also I gave Frackin a try again and uninstalled it after like 30 minutes. The new biomes, weapons, and armor are cool but holy fuck the overhaul for the crafting system and biome climates is just fucking stupid. There's just too much resource bloat and guess work involved in crafting even the most basic shit you need to survive some of the environments. Even the EPPs have been made stupidly complex to craft.

Also, you want to do something with all the new ore you just found? That furnace you fully upgraded won't do the trick. You've got to craft a fission furnace. How do you craft a fission furnace? You need need advanced plastics, tungsten, an electromagnet, and volatile powder. The volatile powder and tungsten are obvious but what about advanced plastics and an electromagnet? Well for the advanced plastics you need silk, oil, and space age polymer. How do you get space age polymer you ask? You make it from copper and coal at a matter assembler which thankfully is simple. As for the electromagnet, you need to build a magnet and a coil and asdkfhgadkfghadskg fuck the rest. This is all just for building the basic machine for crafting all the new ore. It's just a needless and time consuming process.

[Ricotez]

Sometimes you need something and can't find the recipe and to unlock it you have to make one of its components, but you don't know the components because you don't have the recipe.

[Wyzack]

Yeah, Frackin has its own massive share of problems related to recipe progression and massive crafting ingredient bloat. Overall i still prefer it to the base game, i would rather have a tangled mess of things to craft and figure out than a bare bones game.

Speaking of mods, something in our massive mod cocktail is fucking with the ability to soak/sprout wheat seeds and create fruit mash for the starbooze portion of Frackin Universe, i think it must be the food stacking one

[TheColdTurtle]

Quick get your Aryan race mod before nexus takes it down
http://www.nexusmods.com/starbound/mods/631/?

[confused rock]

is there anyone here who doesn't fucking use mods

[Wyzack]

Rock did a mod kill ur family?

[Cheridan]

>want to play with friend
>"sorry i can't i installed frackin universe so i literally can't play with you anymore unless i delete my save and uninstall the mod"

yeah mods are the best

[Jacough]

>want to play with friend
>"sorry i can't i installed frackin universe so i literally can't play with you anymore unless i delete my save and uninstall the mod"

yeah mods are the best

Should have backed your saves up before you installed it

[confused rock]

Rock did a mod kill ur family?

no but

>want to play with friend
>"sorry i can't i installed frackin universe so i literally can't play with you anymore unless i delete my save and uninstall the mod"

yeah mods are the best

that is basically the entire fucking reason right goddamn there please help I'm lonely

[Wyzack]

I am confused. You don't want mods because they make it harder to play with people. Except no one will play vanilla with you, only modded. So what the fuck dude

[confused rock]

what the fuck with you dude I don't want to download 30 mods to not be lonely

[DemonFiren]

I already have about a dozen quality-of-life mods just to make the damn thing playable.

[PKPenguin321]

is there any mod that increases air and ground movement by like 200%
i feel like the game would be better if it had super meat boy tier movement speed

[confused rock]

that actually sounds rad

[Supermichael777]

fam:got you

[PlaugeWalker]

Why the fuck am I posting here when I'll say is novakids r teh best. But, mods I'm using is frackin universe, and the frackin universe addons, the human ship replacement for novakid because fuck having a ship that's only horizontal. And, the boda mod

[DemonFiren]

After reviewing the thread I'd like to give a big FUCK YOU to our host for not making word filters apply by subforum, because when I write Q O L here I actually mean it, instead of what it filters to.