Is there any way to locate your body after death?

[TravisNJ]

I had the greatest game going, finally understood some things, combat was going great, had sooo much stuff from finally getting low enough to get cores, so, on my way back up to the surface(after about 2 hours underground), I happened to budge a slim block and the whole ♥♥♥♥ing mountain collapsed on me and suffocated me, now, being that i'm waaaay underground, and covered in slime. I should probably just quit this stupid ♥♥♥♥ing ♥♥♥♥ and start over?

[TravisNJ]

or just quit as a whole, thats how pissed I am, why make such a stupid mechanic? Somehow the slime magically sits in place, but, if you budge it with your manipulator, your sunk. This is the second game I've had where ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ happened, that completely sucked the fun right out of it. Good stuff.

I was really having fun too. Shame I'm done for now, no point in even trying again, either hunger will make it so my fresh character can't get to his stuff, or i'll just die some miraculous way again. I want a challenge, but, I would also like the game mechanics to make sense, the random falling of slim when it was sitting over your head perfectly still, is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid.

[TheSuit]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=732992186&searchtext=died

[TravisNJ]

thanks man, doesn't help this game, but, hey! next time I'll actually have a chance. I'm so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deflated after actually doing so well, and dying to the stupidest mechanic I've ever seen in a game, along with that fact that being covered by the slime, how would I even find myself/stuff. Hours of in game work, gone because I harvested the wrong thing getting back to the surface, when it was nicely held in place above me, like gravity didn't work all the time.

[Lord_Greyscale]

I'm guessing you haven't played Minecraft then, as it's Sand and Gravel both are "gravity defying" untill something destroys one of the blocks, and then they all start falling as they plainly should have.

Part of the problem is that gravity doesn't work all the time, due to how those blocks were generated.

Everything is stone, then caves are dug, then a "painting" pass changes what the block is, without actually causing a block-update.
You harvesting one of them does cause a block update, and from that point onwards, they have gravity.


How'd it manage to suffocate you though? You should have been able to dig your way out, unless it was literally thousands of blocks.

[TravisNJ]

apparently it was thousands of blocks, armed with only the beginning matter manipulator, and salves, I lasted 2 or 3 savles before I suffocated all the way from full health. Good to know about the block generation though, thank you. Yeah I grazed the slime and everything just came down on me, and just filling in any removal I made. It was one of the single most disheartening deaths I've ever faced in a game lol. Good guess on the minecraft thing though, never have played it, so, yeah the blocks having graity, but not having gravity thing was new to me ;).

[TravisNJ]

when I realized it was thousands of blocks, and that I was done for. I was crushed, i actually yelled a profanity at the screen, and thats not my personality at all. I just knew that a million miles under ground, under thounsands of blocks, I was never getting any of my items back.

[Ernasty]

I had a similar experience as OP the first game I started :p..

This game is super fun...should of bought this first before NMS lol

[darkdisciple1313]

I will admit to swearing loudly and at length at the game myself a few times...and I only have 45 hours invested thus far. Yeah, getting knocked off a tall bluff via avalanche is no fun. I think it's why some people start out on casual mode first, to avoid losing everything when nature moves to kick your tail off the planet. Then once you get used to the gameplay (and learning how not to die 42 times, as I seem to have done), then switch to normal mode. I don't mind dying, but I do so HATE it when it's my own damned fault.

[TravisNJ]

I luckily didn't get caught in the NMS web of lies, somehow I remaind oblivious to the NMS phenemenom lol. Needless to say, when I have the drive to pick this up and try again, slime will never, ever, ever get me like that again. OMG i was just gonna make a stupid t"date/date" never forget joke about the slime, then I saw that its actually 9/11, hmmm, perhaps that would be in poor taste today.

[Rio]

Slimes biomes in general are best to avoid. They are just a headache trying to get through, even with a max level MM I avoid them unless I need a slime biome specific item.

[QuaestComm]

Just so you know, digging down to the planet's core isn't the only way to get Core Fragments. If you walk around the planet's surface, you will eventually come across a mine which has a bunch of monsters inside of it. Kill the biggest one, and you'll get enough Core Fragments to activate the weird teleporter.

[Wheastonian]

Originally posted by TravisNJ:

I had the greatest game going, finally understood some things, combat was going great, had sooo much stuff from finally getting low enough to get cores, so, on my way back up to the surface(after about 2 hours underground), I happened to budge a slim block and the whole ♥♥♥♥ing mountain collapsed on me and suffocated me, now, being that i'm waaaay underground, and covered in slime. I should probably just quit this stupid ♥♥♥♥ing ♥♥♥♥ and start over?

just dont play in the mode where you lose your things when you die
its way more fun for casual play dude.

[TravisNJ]

okay, thanks to everyone, and yeah I think I'm gonna go casual, theres no real point to playing survival other than utter frustration. Since it doesn't really change that much other than death penalties.

[Rio]

Originally posted by TravisNJ:

okay, thanks to everyone, and yeah I think I'm gonna go casual, theres no real point to playing survival other than utter frustration. Since it doesn't really change that much other than death penalties.

It does change something very important. A casual player can teleport any time. A survival player can only teleport near or on the surface of a planet. Unless they get lucky and enter a challenge room where you can beam up inside of. Or place a teleporter.

Casual players also don't have hunger.

[TravisNJ]

okay, that would be a thing, i'd rather not be able to teleport anywhere as that would take almost all the difficulty out, its just survival stacks it on for the early gamers.