Do you feel we need more coal?

Coal is very scarce in the game, what do you think, we need more? And there was also a bug which caused all my fuel to empty out for no reason, very frustating for me took quite awhile to gather them like 3hrs or so.

 

Currently I'm not having problems with the coal amount I have. I did notice that it's a bit spotty compared to before. I'm at the stage where I'm going to need it for crafting and I'll have to see if there's an issue. As it stands now, I have plenty to move to a different planet as long as the jump isn't VERY far away. Prior to the wipe I had over 2k coal just chilling in my inventory, so there might have been a change based on the abundance there once was.

With the bug, make sure you post in the bug report thread and give as many details as you can about what happened and what you did. That could be a seriously distressing bug.

 

I find plenty of coal if I dig down.

 

If you're having trouble finding a certain ore, it's because of the ridiculously high ore generation rate. This means that the ore slots on each planet have more candidates for each spot.

I suspect it will be toned down in the next patch.

 

I got to admit, after the character wipe I had a hard time finding coal for torches. For a while there I was barely getting by.

 

Travel to a world you haven't been to before the Frustrated Koala patch. Try to find coal there...

 

Yeah, seems like this patch is really promoting the "dig down and explore the planet."

 

I feel you, I was starving for coal too. It would have been really bad, but there was grips of surface gold on my home planet, so I can;t really complain.

 

Yeah, coals a pain now. I can't really explore the universe like I used to be able to. Torches and steel just devour the little coal I can get. </3

 

It really is too bad that there are no other sources of light in this game......

 

Nope

 

No other really reliable ones, at least. If yellow stims were craftable it might not be that bad.

Part of me wants to learn how modding works to write a mod that lets you craft yellow stims and lets you combine any helmet with three yellow stims to make a "mining helmet" version of the input helmet.

 

Torches light a huge radius. Flash light sucks, yellow stimpacks aren't common and last like 10 seconds, and every other craftable light source requires torches AND additional resources.

 

Im on it!

I dont think we need more coal.

But lets get serious, In previous versions, i just scraped the surface for ores, now i need to go underground to find stuff. its awesome.

 

See, I think that this is just one of those RNG things. I feel like I had to dig way more in the past. With this new patch I surface-stripped a few small planets and go tons of good stuff. Either way I think the tweaks they made are helping. Main thing for me is getting that pickaxe upgraded. Gold pick + snow or sand = super fast mining.

 

Scarce it isn't, but it's not common enough for the amount of crap they want you to use it for either. Fuel, steel, durasteel, ferozium, violium, impervium, torches. All very very useful if not straight up required. All of them require coal with the exception being fuel which CAN use other things, but I've never found a single ore of those other things.

 

Why it would almost make sense to have the thing used in multiple nigh-mandatory things not be fuel and the thing that is super-abundant and only has a handful of uses be the fuel.

But what do I know.

 

You mean that thing I have multiple thousand of stored that I can't use for anything other than platforms at this stage and maybe torches if all my coal wasn't going towards fuel and progression? I CONCUR.

 

If you're not the sort that has an allergy to mods, you might like this: http://www.mediafire.com/download/k7s7ugw6pdpr4lc/Biofuel+C.rar

It lets you convert wood, planks, and plant fiber to "biofuel" (1 fuel per unit) at 2/6/8:1 ratios.

 

Coal is a problem now. You need it for just about everything. Fuel? Coal. Torches to dig down and explore? Coal. Steel? Coal. Also I can fly to the moon and back on 1 unit of coal but it only makes 2 torches....