Early game pixels and first boss

I would like advice about what gear I should use to battle the first boss. Not only that, but I also want advice about pixels...

Right now, I have a lot of ores that I can use to get up to a platinum (and maybe a diamond) pickaxe, but I don't have pixels for them. Not only that, but I also found a flying ship where I found some pirates selling weapons, but all the cheap weapons have a very low DPS and the average ones are damn expensive. Everytime I go out hunting monsters for pixels I get killed, and when I look for pixels inside a cave, they are most times not enough and I end up being killed. When I succeed at farming around 500 pixels or so, I end up spending all them in a single piece of armor/pickaxe., it is being very painful to progress through the game right now.

Not only that, but what gear should I use against the first boss? I plan to have full iron armor and my iron hunting bow, but is there something better? Maybe I should buy a gun? Unfortunately, I didn't find any guns that have DPS bigger than 9 at the ship, so this might be a problem.

 

An iron hunting bow is all you need for the boss. Maybe make a few bandages too. You don't even need any armor, he doesn't do much damage.

Edit: You shouldn't be trying to make platinum or diamond tools this early on. You definitely won't have enough pixels. If you keep getting killed when trying to grind pixels then you need to find a mini boss, they can be found on the surfaces of most planets if you look hard enough. They look like regular monsters but a lot bigger. Once you find one don't attack it directly, you will get torn to shreds in a matter of seconds. You're going to need to exploit it's size by digging underground once it starts chasing you. It won't be able to fit in the hole you made for yourself and from there you can just attack it without having to worry about it hurting you. They drop pretty powerful melee weapons that are usually able to one hit all the mobs in Sector A so you will be able to make pixels easily. Good luck!

 

That's true but personally, I don't like take chance...

 

run around and kill stuff, destroy the tiny capsules for pixels above and below ground and most importantly, kill everything that moves in dungeons. My first hour into the game I made over 3k in pixels just killing everything even neutral monsters, and raiding a glitch castle. Gathering pixels will get easier once we can finally sell items.

As for the first boss use iron armor or silver armor and a very fast 2 handed weapon with bonus effects.

 

For the pixel problem, wait until you have defeated the first boss and unlocked the new recipes with the starmap. You'll be able to make a REFINERY. It transform any ore / bar into pixels. Very useful !

 

Prior to the refinery I often have money problems UNLESS I find a village or installation to wipe out. I've often found that guards drop decent amounts of pixels.

 

Thanks for all! I defeated the final boss and made the star map level 2. Now I don't know what to do. I travelled to a beta planet to see how it was and it is being very hard to get through it... I found a city that was giant, it took me almost ten minutes to get through it, I think it covers more than half of the planet and sells all kind of things.

 

Start putting together the robot pieces that you got new recipes for. You will use that to summon the 2nd boss.