What to do if you get stuck on a planet?

Through legitimate means, it seems like it's actually possible to be permanently stuck at a planet. If you somehow use up your supply of coal and wood, what are you supposed to do aside from cheat and reroll your universe?

 

Get a friend to give you fuel

 

Allthough possible it seems HIGHLY unlikely since you can mine for more coal on basically every planet. And if you use that up too then you might have more issues than just being out of fuel

 

All planets in my experience have coal and with the size of the planets I highly doubt you are going to stripmine even a small planet without 10-15 people at least.

 

Mmmm. While I don't see that actually happening, should that be a concern, you could always hoard some coal and wood in your ship in case that would occur, that way if you do manage to strip a planet you have something to fall back on.

 

I'm pretty sure in the months it would take you to legit mine out every coal deposit, chop down every tree, I'm certain you would use some foresight to ferret away some fuel for a rainy day.

And if you don't, you're going to have to remake the character.

 

There's zero way you can actually get stuck on a planet by accident.

Every planet has trees, and every planet has large amounts of coal.

Then, it takes literally 1 fuel to travel to a planet orbiting the same sun as the one you're in, which will also have trees and coal. If you don't have enough wood/coal left on the planet for 1 fuel, to get out of the planet you're on, then you did it on purpose.

 

Not every planet has trees.

 

not every planet has trees, but they all have coal yes.

 

CURSES! I wanted to be the clever one!

 

But the question is what-if? or have you won at losing the game by doing this?

 

You've been to a planet with no trees?

Every single planet I've been on have had trees, even lava planets...

 

Given that all of your characters share the same world, you could roll up a new character, load him up with coal/wood, travel to the planet where your other character is stuck, drop the fuel in a chest on the planet, and then have your stuck character grab the resources from the chest.

As to the trees issue, every planet has trees, but not every planet has trees which will give you wood.

 

Make a house, Get food, settle down, Make a family.

And then get them all killed in a wipe.

 

First of all, trees regrow on a planet. If a planet doesn't have trees, there are tons of coal. If however you still get stuck, be happy You set your homeworld without pressing the "Set Home" button.

 

All the moons I've been on lack trees. So shit just got serious.

 

Been on multiple ones. A few lava and desert ones mainly where I circled and never found a tree. Had crystal trees and other "trees" that don't drop wood and no wood trees.

 

*moon orbiting the same planet (or the planet itself, vice versa, etc). Planets in-system are cheaper than out of system, though.

 

Moons have no atmosphere... Why would they have trees?

Also, moons are not planets bro...

 

thats not how the worlds work