Original Post Hey everyone! Following up on Tuesday's post, we thought we'd shed a little more light on the fossil system. The new Fossil Station lets you craft stands for fossils and tools for excavation. Let's go looking for some! You'll have to search underground if you want to find any, of course. Looks like we've come across some skeletal remains! Use the tools from the Fossil Station to excavate them, which is done with the minigame we showed off in the last post. We found a T-Rex skull?! How come there are T-Rexes on distant alien planets anyway? No time for questions, lets display this in our museum! There are three different stand types for three different size categories of fossils. To complete some fossils you'll need to find multiple parts. Some fossils might be familiar to you but others will be totally alien, like many things in the Starbound universe! I'm sure that there are people who would be willing to pay a pretty penny for a completed skeleton, too. Better get digging, then!
Like the display. Good to see this coming along nicely. i will more likely enjoy adding a museum of a different kind to my colony... when I get around to building one that is. lol red rope is a nice touch.
YES. Love the ammonite texture there, and especially the T-Rex. Though, the artist kind of forgot some of the holes in the skull for the eyes and/or ears. Still, it's just what we needed! Can't wait to see more alien stuff come from this.
This is awesome! But as a dinosaur enthusiast, please, please, please correct the in-game spelling. T-Rex is incorrect, the named Tyrannosaurus rex is a scientific name, therefor the shortened version would be T. rex, rather then T-Rex. Likewise, there's no plural form, it's T. rex rather then T. rexes. On another note, those sprites look incredible, I'm so excited for the entire fossil system! Hoping we'll be able to find Liopleurodon on ocean and/or desert planets
Very cool idea! I can't wait for this to come to the Stable version! (I like the new jester outfit too!)
Hey there CF team! Happy, belated, New Year! That T-Rex looks pretty good, but now I'm really excited to take a look at those alien fossils.
I don't like the stands to much. i mean, why do you need those support pillars to hold the T-Rex up? They have FTL tech, so why can't they use anti-gravity to support the parts? I don't think you should remove the support pillars, but also give the player the option for a more futuristic design using anti-gravity.
Will excavation serve any functional use? Such as weapons, armour, vanity wear, consumables, etc etc?
It seems that the fossils will be able to be sold or given to some NPCs for a reward, considering the last line.
wow really cool you guys are adding arcology already its a bit ealy though but really cool anyway i hope there will be ailen bones too not just dinosaurs and maybe pots and rusty armors and weapons and some time very rarely goldend artifacts also remains of long lost ailen races
Apart from skellingtons, can we expect some artifacts? Maybe bring some of those skellingtons to life in one way or another?
So it's cool that we can find these remains but is it just another distraction that leads to another decoration type or will there be actual reasons to go looking for these skeletons? I mean can I actually set up some sort of museum that npc's will warp to and look around for a fee or are we just kind of getting something else to do once in a while?
NOW - with that title, we really-really-really need to be able to bring these back to life as either the slotted pets or soOomething. I want to ride a t-rex while shooting lasers through a world made entirely out of eyeballs.
Beautiful, and it'll give me an excuse to expand my base again. Also, you guys left that poor wooden chest beneath the large stand. Have you no shame?!
That's really cool~ Looking forward to becoming Indiana Jones up in this By the way, any word on when we can expect the new quest system that allows progression with the current crafting tables and system?~