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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#1076: Aug 9th 2016 at 11:20:09 PM

[up][up]If you're lucky you can loot staves on irradiated planets and above difficulty tiers that have an aoe heal effect. Pretty useless since it heals hostiles but a nifty thing to have for villagers.

edited 9th Aug '16 11:20:24 PM by carbon-mantis

Rotpar Always 3:00 am in the Filth (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Always 3:00 am in the Filth
#1077: Aug 10th 2016 at 3:50:36 AM

Is iron surprisingly rare? Don't remember the last time I saw some.

But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you.
Malco from the Gungeon Since: Oct, 2015
#1078: Aug 10th 2016 at 4:01:06 AM

Iron is part of the difficulty curve, so they pretty much don't exist at higher level planets meanwhile copper, silver, gold and coal are everywhere regardless.

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#1079: Aug 10th 2016 at 12:38:06 PM

And the last patch made it run worse. Yeah this is going on the back burner until they unfuck it.

Who watches the watchmen?
Malco from the Gungeon Since: Oct, 2015
#1080: Aug 10th 2016 at 9:12:35 PM

So I'm at the Glitch story mission. I wonder if they'll still fix the broken sword I swiped from a new character... [lol]

I am currently using a 47 damage hammer, I wonder if that sword gonna be better than that. Hm?

edit: fixed tenses

edited 10th Aug '16 9:13:01 PM by Malco

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Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#1081: Aug 10th 2016 at 9:46:02 PM

I found a sniper rifle in the mine in the beginning that has rendered every weapon since redundant.

WodashGSJ Since: Aug, 2014
#1082: Aug 11th 2016 at 12:49:45 AM

Sniper rifles have great damage, but against the flying stuff I miss too often. When I get a decent quality shotgun with a grenade launcher attachment I generally use that more than anything else.

Malco from the Gungeon Since: Oct, 2015
#1083: Aug 11th 2016 at 3:35:43 AM

I currently got the next best thing: a shotgun with shrapnel... but what's sad is that I still miss the flying enemies 70% of the time when they're swooping in... like Sonic said, I'm too slow!

My current hammer is super satisfying and easy to "aim" and time though...

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#1084: Aug 11th 2016 at 10:03:41 AM

So, that mission the penguin at the first outpost sends you on...

WTB Rocket launcher or other flying-saucer fighting ordinance?

SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#1085: Aug 11th 2016 at 6:15:24 PM

Grenade launchers, molotov cocktails, and the casting staffs can work in a pinch if you lack better gear, but they'll be obviously harder to aim with. Just keep in mind that Dreadwing does a lot of damage, and as the fight progresses he'll start spawning quite a few Penguin soldiers and mini-saucers to assist him.

Malco from the Gungeon Since: Oct, 2015
#1086: Aug 11th 2016 at 6:26:35 PM

Yeah basically find a gun and run like hell from one end of the map to the other. If your melee weapon is pretty OK, you can also wait until the boss runs out of energy and fall to the ground, giving you free hits.

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SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#1087: Aug 11th 2016 at 6:32:11 PM

Yep, that's how I ultimately took him down too; the melee weapons do a ton of damage to the guy.

Still died three times before winning due to how many freaking penguin troops he kept spawning.

Malco from the Gungeon Since: Oct, 2015
#1088: Aug 11th 2016 at 6:39:56 PM

Well it's more impratical with a hammer or axe, but a spear or sword can melee the ground troops pretty good while running like hell,

For the UFO part I just did more running and shot down the mini UF Os instead of the boss.

Oh yeah, if you don't have a gun, it is very practical to redo whatever story mission you desire (probably the mining base or the floran story mission) until you get one.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#1089: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:22:39 PM

Yeah, I had a gun from he mining outpost that's decent againt minion-level monsters but a pea shooter against the ship. I did find and buy a sniper rifle/grenade launcher from the Avian village near where I'm working on setting up my new home base but not re-attempted the mission yet. I have a spear from a chest that does decent melee damage and the tungsten-level armor.

Malco from the Gungeon Since: Oct, 2015
#1090: Aug 14th 2016 at 7:33:21 PM

I actually wouldn't shoot the boss... I'd shoot the minions (including the mini-UFOs) while running left to right (or vice versa) since it's even more practical than meleeing them. Then when the boss runs out of energy, I'd melee it.


So I finally found some healing water, after mass-producing it, I used it to heal the two avian merchants I saved from the burning ship... of course, I was blindsided by a meteor shower suddenly happening, and it two-shot one of them along with myself. Note to self: make the dirt block roof even thicker.

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Serac she/her (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
she/her
#1091: Sep 4th 2016 at 9:15:46 PM

I just started searching for the Floran artifact. I went to a forest world and scanned everything in the settlement, but the objective bar isn't even half full. Is this normal?

edited 4th Sep '16 9:15:59 PM by Serac

Nerevarine Since: Mar, 2016
#1092: Sep 4th 2016 at 9:23:33 PM

Did you try talking to the people there? They often give a line of dialogue that fills the bar a little. But you'll often have to find a second settlement or a dungeon for that species to fill the bar.

Serac she/her (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
she/her
#1093: Sep 4th 2016 at 10:46:24 PM

[up] Thank you. I had to visit a second settlement (within the same system, fortunately) to finish the mission, but I didn't know that you could talk to people to fill the bar. That will be helpful later.

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1094: Sep 6th 2016 at 7:34:05 AM

I just found out that I can put up a tenant in my own ship!

I thought my game crashed when I slapped the colony permit on the wall of my ship, but after the game recovered, I got a chef who does pay me the rental dues...

Downside is ship tenants give minimal rent amounts.

Although I luckily got a chef with alien fruit juice and pies on sale, which I devour by the truckload so that's nice. But rent-wise, vastly inferior to my moon base.

As for each house in the base you only need a light source and a colony permit. That is it. But you'll get a random tenant. You can add furniture to control who you will get as a colonist.

Also a door. So making wallprisons like in Sims requires a little bit more.

edited 6th Sep '16 7:36:31 AM by Adannor

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#1095: Sep 6th 2016 at 4:22:20 PM

The game is still sadly not working for me. It seems chuckle fish hates AMD cards.

Who watches the watchmen?
Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1096: Sep 8th 2016 at 9:25:09 PM

And then 1.1 is out, fixing more of the bugs that I enjoyed in the game [lol]

edited 8th Sep '16 9:25:36 PM by Adannor

Malco from the Gungeon Since: Oct, 2015
#1097: Sep 9th 2016 at 1:02:20 AM

I'm curious though, what are the (awesome) Good Bad Bugs they fixed?

> "Fixed a few edge cases in pathfinding"

DOES THIS INCLUDE THE NOVAKID SHIP??? CHUCKLEFISH..!

Downside is ship tenants give minimal rent amounts. Although I luckily got a chef with alien fruit juice and pies on sale, which I devour by the truckload so that's nice. But rent-wise, vastly inferior to my moon base.

I was more interested in someone I can see vendor trash or buy food from to than the actual moneys. <3

Though I wish they'd be one of the chefs that sells raw meat, since it's incredibly cheap, but Sushi is fine. I tried cycling but none of them have meats for some reason, and they keep turning out to be Glitch chefs. [lol]

Also since that time, I fired him and then stuck his replacement into a small room.

edited 9th Sep '16 1:08:55 AM by Malco

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Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1098: Sep 9th 2016 at 1:20:30 AM

Well stuff they fixed that I liked as it was

  • Sellable base blocks. Expanding 1 (one) log into 3000 (three thousand) classic baseboards and then selling them for pixels was hilarious.
  • Moon ghosts being vulnerable to lava. It was hilarious to sit in my moon base, surrounded by a cocoon of lava and watch them fly in like moths to a flame.
    • Before the moonbase, hastily digging up a trench and filling it to burn them was nice challenge to extend the mining time available.
In the new update
  • Fireworks damage. Them dealing incredible damage to everything was hella fun, aiming was properly challenging and limited use so it doesn't steamroll the whole game (although some bosses go down to it very easily), and having friendly fire on (which nothing else in the game does) added nice risk element to using them.
  • Moon's challenge rating. This is more straight up abuse, but my colony of 10 fleshling tenants has already stuffed me full of top-tier weaponry. This update kills the gains.
    • Moons still remain a prime estate for farming crew members though.

edited 9th Sep '16 1:22:25 AM by Adannor

TheMoccasinKing Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#1099: Jan 24th 2017 at 6:36:51 PM

Just found the game. Premise is straight out of my dreams, though it's a bit rough around the edges. I'll probably lose interest if I don't find a good multiplayer server. Don't suppose Tropers have one?

Florans forever

A monument to all your sins
SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#1100: Jan 24th 2017 at 9:31:45 PM

Not for Starbound we don't. I haven't touched the game either since I beat the storyline. Your best bet would probably be to check either the Starbound official site's forums, or if you're looking for another language, it's Steam page forums (though admittedly that's far more of a crapshoot...)

Dunno why, but for some reason it feels far less creative and open-ended than Terraria does.


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