Introduction I was thinking about things that would be amazing in Starbound and I INSTANTLY thought of this idea. Crystals!! I personally really want this in game so i will add to this regularly. Usage These crystals would be thrown and would be able to do a very wide amount of things. Most crystals will break when they make contact with a solid block/enemy (with exceptions). when they break they're effects will activate, causing wondrous things to happen. These things can range from causing a mist that will allow you to escape while enemies are blinded, to chucking a rainbow crystal that making a pink cloud of smoke with rainbow sparkles appear They use an area of effect. How to get them These crystals would be a minable crystal found anywhere underground. Some of the more common ones would be extremely rare mob drops as well. These crystals would be able to be mined anywhere below surface level, thus you can eventually find on even just 5 blocks under you! Unfortunately, they are very rare (some rarer than others!) and are not found much. When I say rare I mean a player could mine for 30 minutes and only come up with 0-2 crystals. They are thus very precious. Knowing what they are When a specific type of crystal is mined, it will appear as Unknown [color of crystal] Crystal. It will stay that way until you analyze that specific crystal. When you analyze a crystal in a Crystal Analyzer it will destroy that crystal, but the great thing about doing so is that you now have that information stored in the Ananlyzer in the Crystal Logs section where you can view it at any point. Information includes an image of the crystal, what it does, tips and tricks with that crystal, how rare it is and when you analyzed it. That information will then be showed in stead of the unknown crystal message so that an Unknown purple Crystal will now be a Purple smokescreen crystal with info underneath the title. When you analyzed a number of crystal or something youd get an achievement like Awww, baby's first crystal or Crystalic Wise One or You sure love purple crystals when you analyzed all the purple ones. How many are there??? If this idea gets even considered I'd start adding any crystal that comes to mind and any ones that you guys comment that I find nice. I am hoping that if this gets accepted there will be 15-50 crystals by Beta, from there i hope that we just get more until there are over 300+ crystals. I feel like it would be a great kinda side questy thing that you could do if you are bored in Starbound. The more there are, the more the challenge to Analyze ALL of the crystals, thus becoming a Crystal Sage Types of Crystals All crystals will have colors and types that they belong to. Here is a list of current type ideas: Elemental Energy Consuming Aesthetic Combat/Tactical Miscellaneous Crystal ideas Here are a few ideas of crystals we could add. On some I might add info, others explain themselves. Smokescreen Crystals [Tactical] (Causes smoke of the colored crystal to pour out and blind enemies). Shattering Crystals [Combat] (Shatter and do AOE damage to enemies AND you if you are close enough). Fabulous Crystals [Aesthetic] (Causes an effectless cloud of sparkles of the color of the crystal to explode out and linger for about 5-10 minutes). Ice Crystals [Elemental] (Freezes water, slows enemies, puts out fire, causes snow to appear on ground and freezes blocks making them easier to break). Godly Crystal [Miscellaneous] (Grants you invincibility for 30 seconds and double the damage for 45 seconds) Please recommend more. I plan on adding more over time! Rarity Crystals are sorted by rarity as well. The rarer it is, the less are generated. Sorted rarest to least rare. Godly Extremely Rare Very Rare Rare Uncommon Common Thank you for reading, please leave feedback
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The moment i saw "Crystals" i thought "Final Fantasy". While it is interesting, the whole look of the game wouldn't use that idea as it is very well. It doesn't fit. You COULD find... say, variations of colorful minerals [gems or anything similar] that have special craft uses. They could enhance weapon visually or with various effects, or maybe some sort of bomb could be crafted, giving the effects you mentioned. Just keep in mind, starbound is less about magic and fantasy and more about technology and [a bit of] religion.
AFAIK this is already planned to be in the game. I'm pretty sure I saw something like this drop from a mob in one of the streams. Then again, we've been staring so close at these streams for so long that we are starting to see patterns in the chaos. In fact, I do believe that for a few brief glorious moments, my mind and Tiy's mind became one. Either that or the sleep deprivation caught up with me and I passed out, which would explain why I woke up with the keyboard imprinted on my face.
Poor Ezreal can't stop thinking about Taric. I like the Gems. I think, kind of like how in Terraria you can make colored torches, that the gems glow when on the ground or thrown. The gems you've suggested are a bit too "magical" for Starbound's theme IMO, but I like the idea of maybe using them as a sort of battery. The Crystal's colors can be relevant to it's behaviour where some have a better charge than others but are harder to obtain, recharge, etc. Yellow Crystals can be charged by the sun. Blue crystals can be charged with electricity. Red crystals can be charged by heat. Green crystals can be a high-capacity non-rechargeable type. White Crystals can also be somewhat of a one-time disposable crystal but have a low charge and are very common. Things like that. These crystals can be put into machines like mechs so they don't sap YOUR energy, even though yours is rechargeable, so the machines can run longer or something. What's AFAIK?
Personally I think it should be something like the Lightsaber crystals in KotOR. Where you could craft them with weapons and they would produce different effects, and would add strengths and weaknesses to the weapon. Also they would change the laser/bullet color. I don't want some pansy white laser.
Finding crystals in the game was a wonderous sight for someone like me Finding crystal trees and amassing crystals was a dream come true Finding out that these were the only kind of crystals currently and that what i could make was limited was a sad expression on my face More crystals with more uses would be amazing and this kind of crystal hunting could give a nice lump more of content Edit: might be too much to ask for more crystal aesthetics other than what violium and current crystals already have like large animated floating crystal constructs you can place that act like those spinning buff pods you find along the world, only with cooldown and choices
