RELEASED FrackinUniverse 6.4.3

I guess a lot of people no longer consider the possibility of failure as a feature but a bug or oversight (from devs).

Blame the major publishers. Today's "hard" setting is what "tutorial" was some years past.

Sadly, I have not yet encountered any unknown planets that had truly unusual features. Gotta visit some more, I guess

 

i found 2 new things in the dungeon but i'm not saying a thing of where they are.

 

next up: Renaming and recoloring the Threat levels for planets so that people know what ACTUAL tier the words represent.


toying with the wording still but right now ive got:

"Harmless (I)",
"Low (II)",
"Moderate (III)",
"Risky (IV)",
"Dangerous (V)",
"Extreme (VI)",
"Lethal (VII)",
"Impossible (VIII)",
"Insane (IX)",
"Unknown"


I'll *definitely* be making t3 and t4 *not* green. I have no idea why they are currently green in-game since they are not safe

 

Then you found them both...I think. One was.... windy....and the other was ...er....climby...right?

 

orbit description changes for Threat has changed.

 

one was aqua like (under the ice where the drill is) another in the ruins it's self.

 

I have a quick question about Frozen Volcanic worlds. I went on one just now with my heating EPP and i realized there isn't any oxygen on the planet, So I went to grab my breathing EPP but now I'm freezing to death. How do I explore these planets?

 

Is there not a re-breather augment for EPP? That should add breathing to your heating EPP
I had like a dozen of those on my previous character
Someone might also sell those, I don't remember.

 

Ah I didn't know that, If you do happen to remember who sells them or where to get one could you tell me please ^-^ Thanks

 

you build them in your nanofabricator, or get one as a quest reward in the FU tutorial quests. The quest for which then informs you to use your nanofabricator to build others.

This is why you do the missions

 

Ah alright, I haven't made it that far into the FU tutorial quests yet

 

Fair enough. It's covered relatively early in the questlines, so you should come across that stuff soonish.

 

I was looking through the coding. In FrackinUniverse/objects/power/isn_powdersifter/isn_powdersifter.object
The Powder Sifter is set to produce "crystal" as a uncommon and rare at the same time. Line 33 and 34.

 

that's intentional.

 

Anyone know where to find fayshrooms? I'm trying to make the wretchel seeds and the spores are the last thing I need!

 

Right, I apologize for the annoyance and my earlier post. What happened when I read "Unknown" was I thought "Oh what the hell? It cant be to crazy". The planet also only said "Extreme" rather than "Unreal". So I didn't think it'd do something so crazy as to set me at practically the lowest point one can go on a planet. I other words: I underestimated what you meant by the words "Unknown and take precautions". And make a personal teleporter so I can just say "Nope" and teleport off if it does something crazy....now I see the use in them.

"Random FU planet"...I'll think of them as that next time . I'd say, unknown should be called "dangerously random we don't know". Or "Rumors spread of a planet in which numerous people never escaped from." combined with the "readings possess no hint of what is on this planet.".

Anyhow

So I messed with the quantum "reactor" finally. I can say, nice but it has to be manually turned off, just like a combustion generator. Kind of makes me wonder how useful it is when my other fission reactor turns off any time it doesn't need to charge the batteries any further. I do like that since I tested the two, how fission reactors are strong with actual fissable materials compared to bio fuels and I was surprised how much better they are than if they use bio fuels. All the while the quantum generator...well one protocite fuel cell half charging a 1000u battery, impressive, but it doesn't turn off when the batteries are filled, making it as much of a gas guzzler as a combustion generator. I'm going to guess thats for balancing reasons as to keep the fission reactor useful, so I don't feel so pressured to make a quantum reactor next time(glad I made two fission reactors...I think I found my favorite power source for devices) .

 

on Unknown:

when playing FU, always default to "i dont know what this is...is it dangerous = YES". Because I am cruel like that.



on power:

Basically, Fission Reactors produce GREAT energy when using more radioactive fuel (more rods in = more power out) at the cost of producing deadly radiation in the immediate area.

Quantum on the other hand, uses decent power without guzzling *too* much, but produces a *lot* more power if you use the right fuel (I believe the maximum is somewhere to the order of 1.5 to 2x the amount a maxed out fission can do. I may be mistaken)

so basically you can go with either but *technically* the quantum is superior in all ways when you have a reliable fuel source (solarium, elder fluid, stuff like that)

However, it seems a lot of people think it uses fuel too swiftly. I'll reduce that.

 

Live on Github

all core biomes in Black stars are now "dark" variants of their normal selves.

Volcanic Primeval is a bit more...er...volcanic. Also a new underground biome to make them distinct from normal primeval and dark primeval worlds

Revamped Tidewater. It's dark, dangerous, and has other liquid types now. Note that water and darkwater provide some rather interesting interactions in the ocean sometimes. This is intended.

reduced Densinium spawns, and made it almost impossible to find in ample amounts under tier 5

ROOF SPRINKLER!!!!! (unlock with Durasteel, build in your farming table where the other sprinkler appears)

ROOF TRAPS!!! (cant build yet. soon! mostly, I'll probably use these in dungeons and the like)

 

In fungal planets.

 

How many batteries can you charge off a single generator? Feels like only one or two?

And do/will we have the ability to charge batteries off of batteries?