The 11 crafting steps to get simple Glass to make windows in your base. HILARIOUS.

[Baleur]

Seriously.. As i went backwards through the required stuff to get glass, i just lost my mind at how convoluted and badly thought through these recipes are...
Listen to this, for those of you who didnt bother yet.

1. To make Windows or Glass Corridors, you need Glass.
2. To make Glass, you need a blueprint from a Scientist.
3. To have a Scientist, you need a Science Terminal.
4. To make a Science Terminal, you need 30 Spadonium, hand collected from Barren worlds, no big deal on that one at least.
5. The recipe for Glass requires Coryzagen, which you get from Frozen worlds.
6. To get Coryzagen you require Hazmat Gauntlets.
7. To make Hazmat Gauntlets you need a Weapons Terminal with an Armorer, not joking.
8. To get an Armorer for the Weapons Terminal, you need to find a Vykeen system to hire one in.
9. To start the production of the Weapons Terminal you need a Voltaic Cell.
10. To make a Voltaic Cell you need to gather Antrium, hand collected from cave plants.
11. To get the recipe for Voltaic Cells, you need to just be lucky.

What a load of ridiculous nonsense just to craft GLASS!!
Something humanity has managed to make by smelting sand. Without hazmat gauntlets or exotic frost biome crystals and friggin power cells made from alien plant matter.
I mean i like convoluted crafting chains sometimes, it is fun in the Tekkit kind of way.
But for something as basic as Glass? Just to make a friggin window in my base? I have to wait until endgame just to make a window.

That, is utterly, ridiculous.

[Adreu]

Well... you have a point.

[treabor]

Ironic that you will be doing nuclear fusion(building warp cells) before you can make glass. :)

[Tylerium]

Its a video game... Shall we imitate everything IRL? That just wouldn't be a game or for that matter CREATIVE. This post took alot of typing for something thats so easy. (at least for most)

[Dragorin]

Originally posted by Baleur:

11. To get the recipe for Voltaic Cells, you need to just be lucky.

You had me until #11. That's not correct

11. To get the recipe for Voltaic Cell, you need to craft a science station and hire a Korvax Scientist. The first thing he gives you is the Voltaic Cell.

[kgwrigh]

... and to craft copper wire you do not require or use copper.

[Paradokz]

Well, Glass is a decoration and a Warp Core is an Essential!

Don't forget the whole idea of the game is to be out exploring (and surviving) new worlds.

[Baleur]

Originally posted by orpheus1983:

Its a video game... Shall we imitate everything IRL? That just wouldn't be a game or for that matter CREATIVE. This post took alot of typing for something thats so easy. (at least for most)

So if you had to use your mining laser to dig up sand/quartz on a desert planet to make glass instead of the 11 steps above, that wouldnt be a game anymore or creative?
What are you on about?

[Arran Chace]

Well, not entirely disagreeing here, as it is kinda over-the-top for glass, sadly in games some IRL futile things are in games quite often a real challenge.
Most hillarious is often in the same games, things that needs a rocketscientist IRL and a mega advanced production plant to produce, you can make those things in your backpack on the fly.

I stopped wondering over such things...
Allmost everything in games is pretty much far off, even those that brag on their realism is as realistic as a comic cartoon.
Allthough sometimes they are just too ridiculous even to ignore, i cannot say it makes a game crap due to it.
Matter of fact, glad often they "messed" it up for entertainment value, i really dont want to spend about 15 months in a game just to build my house, and to get it in that amount of time done, i need an army of workers to get the job time within my lifetime ;)

But again a pile of Sand, and your exhaustpipe of your spaceship with running engine and pliers should be enough to make glass in NMS ;)

[Captain Brendig]

I would like to see someone here take a bucket of sand and make a window worthy glass pane IRL. What? Just spread out any old sand in a cookie sheet and hit it with a propane torch. Badda bing, badda boom! New window! Who needs knowledge and skill? Those flecks, ripples, and air bubbles are supposed to be there. It's called art. ;D

[['w']]

this isn't just glass.. that's glAss.. lol gl ass

[Shame]

Man, if only we had SAND obtained from SAND PLANETS to heat up and craft into glass... that would be great.

[kgwrigh]

It's quite obvious from the dissonance between raw material and final crafted product that the backpack is one of those forms of technology that are so advanced (probably sourced from a race of beings with billions of years of tech) they are indistinguishable from magic.
The backpack, capable of storing what seems like mountains of material must be a five dimensional object much like Dr Who's Tardis. It has a built in' fusion crafter' that, given specific materials, can fuse atoms and molecules together into any required product.
Our 21st century technology is therefore not applicable

[Captain Brendig]

Originally posted by ⌠wilb⌡:

this isn't just glass.. that's glAss.. lol gl ass

:)

[Kuroodo]

I need glass for a story mission. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is just too much