Planet Zoldath unfinishable planet?

[toasterovenly]

I fully explored the whole area. The translator and bomb are just nowhere to be found. There aren't any more paths to visit as far as I can tell. I literally made a map of the planet and there are no places I haven't been.

Not sure if there is a good way to post images here. I screenshotted the terminal in game which might have some info for debugging? I can also share the map I made or anything else. Not really sure how to repro if that terminal info isn't the seed.

OK, I just beat another run of Planet Zoldath and learned a bit more. My guess is that the translator was one of the trade items from the friendly races, meaning it was unobtainable. And also, if there is always a wall that can be destroyed by the boomerang, then potentially I could have just hit every wall to find that, although I still would have been stuck without being able to trade.

[Zalugar]

Zoldath always has a secret wall, but its location and what opens it is completely hidden. For example, I've needed bombs, boomerang, remote, and the trasmute ray to access it on different occasions. Either way, it's not intended to be found on accident at all. The procedural generation can do some real weird things.

If you get really stuck, you can bomb an acid pool and it'll randomly link to another acid pool.

[toasterovenly]

I had this happen on another run today. I found the secret wall this time and it led to the metamorpher. What I need is the translator! So there is literally no more map to discover. It seems pretty clear to me that the translator is somehow an item I can trade for because there is no other place it could be.

[toasterovenly]

Just learned today that you can talk to one of the friendly species of aliens without the translator. So my "stuck" games were probably fine. I guess I really needed to read the controls to see that one of the buttons is "interact/switch items" and not just a button to switch items. Even after figuring out how to talk to the aliens, I literally never even considered that I could talk to any of them without the translator, though. Didn't try it until today.

[ToolbeltKiller]

This was the info I needed to get unstuck. Thanks!