Tips and tricks thread!

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

Let's give each other tips and tricks in how to survive and kill stuff in starbound.

the only i trick i know for now is when you find a fire barrel and a cottage keep it with you at all times so you can quickly take it out to recover hp while the fire barrel takes care of your temprature! :3

would love if this thread got stickied so that people can go here for good information!

Der roads excellent tip: Gun merchant coordinates 59877410 y-70634402 alpha umbraxion 1207 II threat, desert planet level 10, go left to the anchor and use blcks to build a stairway to heaven because i don't know how to climb the anchor, more info on page 4.

i will add more useful tips like this to the front page!

Mai the trolls cool find: if you travel to alpha umbraxion 1207 III(use the coordinates from der roads ^)

and go to the small planet to the right threat level 2 biome forest and goes to the left you will find a pretty cool avian dungeon with cool traps and objects for you to harvest!
you will also find obsidian if you dig deep down, be prepared to bring blocks to build a bridge over hte lava tho.

[Jiggles]

Press E to harvest crops and don't just break them for two hours like I did.

[Cuddle_Rat]

引用自 Captain Jib：

Press E to harvest crops and don't just break them for two hours like I did.

THANK YOU!!! JUST THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[Jiggles]

引用自 PandaPuncher：

引用自 Captain Jib：

Press E to harvest crops and don't just break them for two hours like I did.

THANK YOU!!! JUST THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

YOU'RE WELCOME BECAUSE I STARVED TWICE CRYING TO THE GODS WONDERING WHY GOD WHY WON'T MY CROPS WORK.

[Cuddle_Rat]

引用自 Captain Jib：

引用自 PandaPuncher：

THANK YOU!!! JUST THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

YOU'RE WELCOME BECAUSE I STARVED TWICE CRYING TO THE GODS WONDERING WHY GOD WHY WON'T MY CROPS WORK.

I know how you feel...I kept getting spanked by mobbies trying to get meat but kept getting leather and my crops kept getting destroyed by my own hand *cries* your tip will be a big help in the future! :D

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

another trick when facing against gunmen, jump up and down and you should be able to evade most of their shots!

[Cordysepsis]

You can use unrefined wood, or coal ore, to fuel your spaceship :D

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

引用自 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Headbob°：

You can use unrefined wood, or coal ore, to fuel your spaceship :D

I recommend using unrefined wood for the fuel since coal is necessary for torches in the beginning of the game :3

[tsu]

You can hurt animals with your sword, and kill them using your bow.
Why don't they drop flesh when killed using the sword?

引用自 Captain Jib：

Press E to harvest crops and don't just break them for two hours like I did.

Thanks! Wow, such great information!

[SketchyGalore]

Here are a few from my first ultra-long playthrough with a friend!
-To spite what the game may have you believe, the distress beacon is not a prerequisite for traveling to other planets, just to traveling out of your "sector" (difficulty range). Coal works as fuel.
-If you craft a one-handed weapon and put it in the L or R slot, you can put a flashlight in the other and use both at the same time, as well as swap quickly to your weapon at any time by pressing X
-There are a lot of possible "friendly" npcs that spawn with houses, storage, or other things near them. I'm not sure if they attack you for taking their stuff, but if you see them get killed by something (which happens reasonably often) you can take it for yourself... or you can just kill them yourself, if you're a jerk :P This got me 5 diamonds really close to my starting point. It seems like this is the main way to get a lot of unique decorations and blocks, as well.
-Right-click zooms out on the starship navigation.
-An upgraded weapon or bow (one of the first iron ones) can be a good investment as it can often one-shot a lot of surface aliens on a starting planet, getting you your pixels back fast.
-Harvest plant fibres whenever possible and weave them into bandages (your only portable health kit at first)

And a few multiplayer tips:
-There's a compass by your friend's portrait when in a party, constantly pointing in their direction.
-You and a party member can have ships on different planets and can quickly travel between the two by beaming to each others ships.
-The rescue beacon boss flies away if not in combat with someone for a little while, so if you're fighting it with someone, try to make sure one person is alive at all times.

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

引用自 SketchyGalore：

Here are a few from my first ultra-long playthrough with a friend!
-To spite what the game may have you believe, the distress beacon is not a prerequisite for traveling to other planets, just to traveling out of your "sector" (difficulty range). Coal works as fuel.
-If you craft a one-handed weapon and put it in the L or R slot, you can put a flashlight in the other and use both at the same time, as well as swap quickly to your weapon at any time by pressing X
-There are a lot of possible "friendly" npcs that spawn with houses, storage, or other things near them. I'm not sure if they attack you for taking their stuff, but if you see them get killed by something (which happens reasonably often) you can take it for yourself... or you can just kill them yourself, if you're a jerk :P This got me 5 diamonds really close to my starting point. It seems like this is the main way to get a lot of unique decorations and blocks, as well.
-Right-click zooms out on the starship navigation.
-An upgraded weapon or bow (one of the first iron ones) can be a good investment as it can often one-shot a lot of surface aliens on a starting planet, getting you your pixels back fast.
-Harvest plant fibres whenever possible and weave them into bandages (your only portable health kit at first)

And a few multiplayer tips:
-There's a compass by your friend's portrait when in a party, constantly pointing in their direction.
-You and a party member can have ships on different planets and can quickly travel between the two by beaming to each others ships.
-The rescue beacon boss flies away if not in combat with someone for a little while, so if you're fighting it with someone, try to make sure one person is alive at all times.

actually if you trap the UFO he will stop attacking and get stuck there even if you beam up or get killed in action, great post! :3

[Fleder]

to get silver ore relatively quickly, just run around the surface and try to find a modern tower filled with terminator like robot-drones. the chest above them usualy contains some silver ore.

also, if you want to explore a cave which is filled with water, try to break/mine the background and the water will vanish out of the hole.

for the UFO Boss, just make a bunker with holes in the ceiling to shoot arrows at him.

[Princess Fuzzy]

Farm wheat!
I started off with 4 wheat seeds.
I used a hoe to break the ground, then planted the seeds.
After a while, the wheat plants matured. I used E to harvest them, and ended up with 4 wheat and 6 wheat seeds.
I re-planted those seeds, and repeated the process whenever I noticed that my wheat plants were ripe.

Now I have over 500 wheat seeds, and I carry something like 250 bread with me at all times.
Bread is really good because it stops your hunger and also heals you!
Whenever I run into something that is really hurting me badly I just scoff lots of bread while running away.


Also, sky highways are a great way to cover lots of distance across the landscape safely and quickly.
If you've been mining for a while you've probably got a couple of thousand dirt blocks in your inventory.
Throw them into your hotbar, and then hold shift to place them one at a time instead of in a 2x2 block.
Just build a gentle slope up into the sky and once you're above the tops of the trees, just run it straight across.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=200949373
Once you start running low on dirt, just start building your road back down towards the ground in a gentle slope.
It's a much safer way to travel since monsters tend not to spawn up there, only birds. and as a bonus you can use the long straight sections as wheat farms!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=200949467
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=200949508

[Goofball]

Holding Ctrl will pan your camera in the direction of your cursor so you can make those extra long snipes. Tapping Ctrl will re-center your camera.

[Princess Fuzzy]

Thanks for the tip about fuel for the spaceship! I've just dumped all the wood I had into it and gone on a journey to another planet, where I quickly collected 1000 more wood and now my ship is fully fueled!

[tsu]

引用自 Legendman (Fuzzy)：

Now I have over 500 wheat seeds, and I carry something like 250 bread with me at all times.
Bread is really good because it stops your hunger and also heals you!

How do I make bread?