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Gyhthy

Sep 4, 2016 @ 11:09am

Apex City Apartments Codex?

I'm looking for two final Apex Codexes(?), but I'm unable to find them. According to the wiki, they're both found in Apex City Apartments, but I've gone through about 20-30 and I haven't found a single codex. I'm not referring to the Codex that I'm missing, but rather, any at all. Am I missing something? I'm searching EVERYTHING searchable in the cities, digging around them, everything I can think of, but I haven't seen a single codex, at all. Other races seem to have 1-2 per spawn, but these guys, they don't seem to keep a single one. Is it a bug that was introduced, or are they given via quests instead?

What I'm referring to is below:

http://starbounder.org/Apex_Ration_Book
http://starbounder.org/The_Superior_Species
http://starbounder.org/Apex_City_Apartments

Anyone seen these codexs in game lately? Or any Codex at all coming from that location?

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Azure Fang has Starbound

Sep 4, 2016 @ 11:23am

I've gotten them from apartments, but rarely. It just so happens I am also missing The Superior Species. It's all luck, I'm afraid.

I do wonder, though... I'll dig into some of the treasure tables when I get back to my PC, to see how distribution differs between Rebel Base, Lab and Apartments.

Last edited by Azure Fang; Sep 4, 2016 @ 11:26am

Gyhthy

Sep 4, 2016 @ 11:47am

Isn't it odd then that Apex Apartments have a far less spawn rate for their books/codex than others? I literally just walked through an Avian City, and they had about 3 books in it - had them all granted, but they were there. Temple had about 2 in that as well.

Are the treasure tables binary, or are they stored in a Json? I can take a peek myself if its Json, or if you know a guide that can decypher the Binary stores. I ask only because I figure if I can get the answer for us both sooner, doesn't hurt. Likewise, I just skip over all other Apex sites myself, if only because the Wiki says "Nope, they're only here."

Last edited by Gyhthy; Sep 4, 2016 @ 11:48am

Azure Fang has Starbound

Sep 4, 2016 @ 12:42pm

Well, I just opened all of the Apex City Apartments .json files in Tiled... NONE of the containers in the chunks contain reference to "apexcityLore", which is the only treasurepool that contains The Superior Species and Apex Ration Book, yet I have ARB... I'm going to dig through the rest of the Apex dungeons and see what I can come up with. Perhaps, and I certainly hope not, I got it as an NPC drop from a city that turned on me when exper rain started burning it and the destruction detected as me stealing :P

Azure Fang has Starbound

Sep 4, 2016 @ 1:21pm

Just opened all .json files for all apex dungeon types. NO reference to the treasurepool with these codex entries. Couldn't find it on the NPC tables, either. Seems the devs forgot to include it, but it confuses me as to how I got the ARB item...

Gyhthy

Sep 4, 2016 @ 1:32pm

Maybe it was removed with a recent patch then? I mean, it's possible that someone accidently removed that bit of Json during anything from 1.0 to 1.0.5 I guess... do you recall when you got it? Do we bother posting this under the bug section? Thanks for taking a look man.

Azure Fang has Starbound

Sep 4, 2016 @ 1:49pm

No idea when I got it. What's worse, if you're looking for only 2, then you've found one of the entries only on the apexcityLore - there are three entries that are only found on that treasurepool.

Gyhthy

Sep 4, 2016 @ 3:59pm

Really...? Well then, it has to have been removed in a rather recent patch then - likely something in between 1.0.2 - 1.0.5 I'd say. Lemme take a peek at the diff between a couple versions and see what changed.

Edit: Looked through the Nightly diffs and searched for apexCityLore, and none of the updates from the release of 1.0 to now have it within the nightly builds as being changed. Looking through the Json myself, and I can't find a reference to apexcityLore anywhere either.

Last edited by Gyhthy; Sep 4, 2016 @ 4:59pm

Gyhthy

Sep 4, 2016 @ 5:46pm

Just razed an Apex City to the ground and killed everyone in it, and I didn't get a single Codex, so I'm going to assume now that they're simply unobtainable at all for the time being. Thanks for the input.