Awkward moment on the moon

U know what happen if you drill in the moon and try make a hole in the moon? yea it shouldn't kill you because gravity isn't that great. Particular...it did, it would be fun if the game start making players rotate in the middle of the moon discovering he is caught small gravity ball that doesn't kill a human nor other races. Well its random game theory for starbound

 

Unfortunately, the maps are no circles with your character on top, but rings (laying on their side) with your character standing on the rim. Therefore, digging down just leads you deeper in that ring segment, but not any closer to the other side of the ring.

 

Amusingly enough, someone else just discovered that a couple of hours ago. I myself suggested being saddened at this development since that means any attempts to dig a hole straight through the planet are a wash.

FYI: Not busting your chops in a, "Oh gods another thread about this?" since the title doesn't inherently make one think your situation and theirs would be related.

Damned good way to describe it I must admit. Even then, it may be possible to replicate a circular map even then. Still contemplating ways to pull it off.

 

Thank you!

 

I see that you understand how the maps work, but a ring laying on it's side isn't quite correct. The maps are more like a rectangular map, similar to Terraria's, but if you go past one end, you come out at the other end (similar to Pac-Man). Just clarifying.

 

Well, but a rectangle that touches on both ends IS a ring. At least that's what I was trying to express.

 

Yeah, but it doesn't actually touch at either end. It's more like it teleports you to the other end of the rectangle, like how the center of the maze in Pac-Man had the two "doorways" that would teleport you to the other side.

 

Well, its not realy teleportation either (theres no border where you just zap over to the other end).

Its a rectangle map that loops. The most logical presentation of that in a 2d plane would be a ring. (at least in my humble opinion). Even if it isent 100% accurate.

 

I'm glad that you currently can't bore a hole through a planet because, scientifically, you can't.
NOW BEFORE YOU START YELLING ABOUT THE ENTIRE GAME BEING UNREALISTIC, HEAR ME OUT!
There's actually pseudo-science that the game follows quite realistically, such as levels of gravity affecting jump height and fall damage that are a huge boost from the early-early beta in which falling a few feet nearly killed you. They do a good job of making sure that the deeper you dig, the harder it becomes to go deeper in most planets. This is because the rock becomes more dense in any geo-spherical (yes I just made that up to have a term for geological spherical planet) the deeper you go. This is due to the crust. While the Starbound planets admittedly lack a molten mantel under the crust which supports it, they do have a core, and digging through said molten ore/boiling gas cores is completely unfeasible by the game's own rules.
At least until we can craft our own teleportation pads that allow us to set custom spawn points for our characters.

 

Topologically, a rectangle whose ends are connected forms a cylinder, ie. a ring. This can be seen by imagining a rectangular piece of extremely stretchy material, then imagining stretching it enough that you can bring the two shorter ends together. The result would be a circle with the center cut out, or, in short, a ring.

It's entirely possible that the "core" is actually the mantle or even just deep crust, though. You're not going that deep, after all, maybe a few thousand blocks? Say, 10,000 at an upper bound? Each block is certainly no more than 0.5 meters tall judging from character height, so this can't be more than 5 kilometers--which, as it happens, is about as deep as people can practically drill in the real world, and about as thick as the crust is for oceanic plates...

 

I believed ur theory is correct. I still want go up and down side map like moving around like 360 of all direction so I can at lest enjoy funny moment of bungie fall (by translate by I mean: its falling into a core that has no core but still falling by gravity that pulls you into that direction or other way that points everywhere which this is pose show up in chaos graphic if there is no core but gravity pulls all 360 around planet still, this is what I call bungie fall because you doing of all directions of chance might be pulled nearly everywhere without being crushed by gravity due of 0 gravity). Am I a scientist? *push my glasses back*, nope. I am simple theoriest (person who theory of logistics, fantasy, and so on stuff that could be on list and see hows play as see in plan that has in print)

Anyway, it still one thous awkward moment digging all the way to moon's empty core when they should at lest block it that is unbreakable so I don't go insane wondering why, just call it bedrock don't care they stole that idea form minecraft at lest I can greif of my fun journey to the moon's core has end.

Note: if theoriest isn't real word, I just adding that new to dictionary because thx to Christoffer Columnist said or thought on the map he had theory it the world will take him around the map so that makes him a Theoriest guy.

 

I had something strange happen on a moon somewhat recently. I landed to refuel my ship and stock up so I wouldn't have to again for a while. I didn't realize how long I had been digging until I got to the end of a ledge that lead to what I assumed was the core of the moon. Obviously not having any lava in the center, I figured it was safe to drop down. My character "fell off the screen" and the death animation was played, and I was in my ship. I had never gone deep into a moon before, so I assumed the moons have some weird "void" in the center? It was a little odd and after exploring some more, I'm wondering if this was just a glitch. Either way, I tend to not dig as deep now on moons for fear of falling into another abyss. Thoughts?

 

Caerulas
All planets, asteriod fields, and even your ship have death zones
Death zones exist up and down. If you touch them, you die. You can go left or right and loop around the planet without a fear of hitting a death zone.

 

It's entirely possible for those planets to be that small, seeing as you can circumnavigate them in a matter of minutes.

Also, our moon has a molten core as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_structure_of_the_Moon)