Best way to get the crew you want?

[MortVent]

Is there a way to ensure the crew skills you want (aka technician, etc)

I plan on making a crew farm colony (just a skyscraper on a planet to hold a bunch of them in small rooms... ugly but effective)

[Zhardoz]

http://starbounder.org/Tenant

[MortVent]

crew not tenant, the guide there don't show what ones to aim for regarding crew skill

Unless there is too much random in it

[QuaestComm]

Certain kinds of NPCs are in fact more likely (or only able) to become certain kinds of crew members (example: Miniknog Scientists will always become some sort of Chemist). However, that information is not yet on Starbounder, so if you want that information, you will have to go digging in the assets yourself.

First, you will need to unpack the assets of the game. http://starbounder.org/Help:Unpacking_Game_Files will help you with that step.

Once you have the game files unpacked and in a convenient location, search inside of them for the "npc" folder, then start browsing files. All of the files in there should be readable with text readers even though they don't have standard text-document suffixes.

To find out what kind of crew members a particular NPC type can become, look for the "nextNpcType" section in each file, which will have the probabilities for the different crew member positions that NPC can become.

Hopefully this helps you with your goals.

P.S. You might be wondering what "crewmember" without anything else on the end means. That's the name for Soldier crew members (the red-shirt ones). The other ones should be self-explanatory.

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