With the upcoming update, as well as colonization already implemented in the nightly builds, I was wondering if anyone's been using this functionality yet. This is just a thread to post pictures of your colonies. Here's one that I made: Let's see some of yours!
Here are two homes that I build, One is a large house with a small lab where an Apex Merchant lives, and the other is super cool floating SNOWCROFT!!!! inhabited by a human Villager, i was hoping that there was an Ice tenant.
Looks good! I think there will eventually be a tenant for all biomes/mini-biomes. They put in the tenants when they revamp a biome though, and they are just now getting to Frozen planets on the Nightly. So hopefully in the next patch there will be an Ice tenant. In the meantime, you can see all the current tenant types here: http://starbounder.org/Tenant (I really need to add screenshots to that page)
My colony isn't that big yet, but here's some pics. BTW, it's funny how the screen turns black everytime I take a screenshot. Here's the 2 houses that have people actually living in them. There's only 2 deeds but one merchant multiplied by himself, and an inspector came to check this place out. Many of my tenants have already been killed because they can't close the damn doors. This one's reserved for a guard. There's one more building, but it's my personal house and this thread is not for showing them off
My version of "Cabin in the woods". I mean something build with wood, of course. hehehe This is just "the tip of the iceberg". I am still toying around with some of the newer materials. As can be clearly seen: I love the new "grassy rock" blocks (what cobblestone should have looked like from the beginning, imho) and the iron blocks also make a good impression. Fortunately I can replace these damn spear racks with gun chests very soon. Oh, btw. this is just my left guard tower. The one to the right... The bigger research lab protected by these two is to be seen soon...
I don't know why, but after having replaced these spear racks with gun chests my guard tower looks so much more massive. ...and as promised... here comes the lab protected by my two massive towers... No, joking aside. My very huge lab is still in development and I am still toying around with various layouts to not just make it look huge, but also interesting.
Work on the lab goes on nicely so far. Here my already finished waterworks with original looking maintenance employee. It took me a lot of tries to get this perfect matching employee. The best part is, he even pays me for this damn boring job. hehehehe To the left a little glimpse at my also finished decontamination room. (It is way larger than can be seen here)
Do you mean the thing with the propeller? If so, press your Enter key to type: /admin Then press your C key to open the crafting menu Then in the crafting menu for filter type: outpost ...you will find more useful things than just this piece. If you are talking about the blue platform my character is standing on/under... Do as mentioned above, but for filter use: ancient
Let's see what he really wants then. He could have clearly said what he is talking about. Like people normally do. ...and who hasn't already seen a sewer valve? Seriously! (I mean him, not you) All one has to do is placing Steel Blocks as backround.
And here comes a little progress update... After the waterworks, every serious Research Lab requires at least a decontamination chamber and a small hospital to treat the ones having caught a deadly disease. Then, of course a catering service to feed the ones still alive. And... while I was digging around to make room for my great lab... I excavated an entrance to an alien weed farm! Yes, it must have been a weed farm, because my computer and linguistic expert told me that the symbols on the wall and all around tell a story about someone getting high, or something like that. And here a "total view" of everything new so far: Yes, there still is a lot of work ahead of me. So long, fellow landlords. Btw. the little "alien robots" are courtesy of "Gardenbot 2 REBOOT", which I can highly recommend.
Fellow landlords... I have serious question (yes, NOT fishing for compliments!) Which one of the following 2 versions you think fits better to my Research Lab Project and also has the overall better aestethics? And no, I am not talking about the crops! Version A (above) is out of question! Version B Version C Thanks in advance for your judgement.
Version B looks better with the background. And bloodbankds, and lifepods (version C) don't really fit with a farmhouse I think
But the research would be about the possible effects of alien plants on humanoid organisms. (Actually in game all the foods cause effects on the player!) A real world example: If one is suspected of having smoked weed or taken any other drugs, a blood-test will be made to be absolutely sure that he has or has not taken any drugs. And the lifepod is required for cases when something goes not as planned with the test-subject testing alien plants. ...and yes, "looks better with the background" is the reason I started with that version. @Both The "I think this looks better than the other" aspect I can't and won't argument about. That's what I want to hear. Thanks so far for the feedback!
And another progress update. I believe the major rework of some parts was worth the time. Even my Doc is totally happy about my new Chef's room. But this story also has a sad part... my former Chef, a Floran, was a very relaxed guy and gave me Molotovs most of the time as rent. No joke! The new one, a Floran too, is relaxed, but gives me the typical crap like seeds, crops and medikits. What a shame. So long.
