Maybe an iron electrical rod, or some kind of satellite that lets you direct the beam point elsewhere. It would have to be crafted obviously, preferably with low-tier items- This way, if we find a cool village on the surface- we can beam down there and live there. It would only be usable in a beam-able area Or maybe just a "set beam point" button.
This is a great idea. It's no fun to run for several minutes then die and have to beam down to the same spawn point only to have to run allll the way there again
This would be rather nice, and from a technical stand point of having a teleporter, there's little reason it wouldn't be possible. Unless you could only beam directly down... but then why would you be able to beam up from anywhere? Anyway, given that the ship's teleporter seems to be a placed item I'm thinking there may be intent to make teleporter pads you can take with you and install in places. In other words I'm thinking this may be something they already intend on but it hasn't been implemented yet.
This is badly needed, and would make exploring the surface more fun. It's also another feature that would help distinguish the game from Terraria by emphasizing its sci-fi nature, which I think is a big plus.
Its good to see that I'm not the only one that wants this. At the moment building your house far away from spawn is useless, this really dissapoints me because I tend to walk far away to search for the perfect stop.
My idea is that there could be some craftable beacon item that you could place above ground on the planet and when you are beaming down, you could have the option to choose between your original spawn point or any of the beacons that you have placed.
Wow, i really am astonished this ISN'T a feature. I did a google for this very thing, and that's how I found this topic. +1 to you sir, and I will let others know about this post. Hopefully, we can get enough attention to make this happen. In before this is already an intended feature that hasn't shown up yet, because beta is beta.
I find it funny how many people have posted something like this. I even did, but I didn't have the luck of anyone finding it at all. Mine: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/movable-spawn-satellite.68630/ Mine only got, like, 70 views and three votes, and it's practically the same thing. And your's has 1120 views. All in the luck of the draw.
I want this too. Would be nice if said point would be different that other players, but even just changing the initial point will make a lot of people happy.
I have an idea. @CookieEpic Edit the OP and add a poll, so people don't post just to say "I want this" and actually add to the idea. For example, we need an example of a recipe. My suggestion is something like I said.
I've posted this idea as well, probably a number of others have as well. I'd love to have a craftable teleport beacon I could set down near the surface and activate as the active beam-down location would be excellent. It goes without saying (for balance purposes) that you'd only be able to activate it from locations you could beam up from. I think we'll see something along these lines at some point. +1
