RELEASED FrackinUniverse 6.4.3

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* minor adjustments to lab microdungeons to incorporate altered station sizes
* added new Servitor Drone monster to Wastelands. They take a serious beating.
* added new miniboss. Not yet enabled.
* added tags to bees resource items (reagent) so they appear where they should be
* some minor tweaks and adjustments
* fixed some object positions in the shoggoth dungeon
* fixed bees! food data
* added quests and items for all FU techs and got them integrated into progression
* tethersnap now properly unlocks (graphene)

Currently testing new tech unlocks. You'll find them in the nanofab under the AUGMENTS tab for now

 

Quick questions are there suppose to be planets that can have 2 debuff? Like i went to a planet that said i need a heating epp and when i got down i need a breathing epp too. So i had to constently swap epp to try to survive.

 

You could put a Re-Breather (easy to make at the Nano-Fab) on your Heating EPP.

Or, wear armor that protects against cold (like the X-10 armor) and use the air EPP.

Or, even better, wear armor that protects against cold, and put a re-breather on a Xenon Pack or the S-10 Survival Pack. That way you get Cold Protection, Air AND Light.

 

i would of expected that but i'm 2 lazy to try to do those stuff. i alrdy had to explore planets to get me that densium gear set and that was a pain to get. Expecially the protocite bars i struggled to get those the most.

 

If you have densinium, why do you need a heating EPP? Doesn't densinium have normal cold protection anymore?

 

I mostly just jump onto a proto planet without the protection at first, dig down as fast as I can with a mining laser, and grab as much as I can. The terrain is a protective wall, stay out of caves if you can. If you can grab enough protocite, you can manage a pack that protects against it, since proto tends to unlock recipes that guard against it to begin with. Although, if you have Densinium......

 

a smarter idea is stockpile coal, convert it to carbon, and build the carbon suit for its protections

 

I skip that step, because I usually specialize in damage rather than defense, and I have a Missionary Robe at least by then. Sides, I know what Im doing, so if I do it fast, I can effectively skip that step. I usually go to make a protocite pack though. because I like to keep coming back for longer than 5 minutes. Regeneration on Proto Soil doesnt do a thing if you have 3HP to work with.

 

fair enough. Carbon has many other uses though, so I always stockpile that stuff early. I've recently tweaked the Carbon set so its *far* better than it was.

 

I dont waste Carbon on something like that suit though. Youre right when you say it is valuable. Im working on a large scale mechanization of a t8 planet, and it is by far the most difficult resource to get. Which is why I will need to as you say, stockpile coal. Its a godo thing youve got synergy with the Bees mod, or it would be a great deal harder otherwise ;3

 

uh... carbon is easy as hell to get just depends on your approach. its one of the few ores you can literally suck right out of the air, firstly. Second, coal is abundant, moreso than any other mineable resource. Plus (if you are crazy enough to waste them) diamond can produce a lot too. Bear in mind, when you first start using carbon, you don't need it much. So at that point the suit is well worth the material cost.

 

sayter updated FrackinUniverse with a new update entry:

4.19.2

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

And here I was converting my diamonds...

 

I find that the Type-S Survival Pack is an awesome, awesome thing.

It provides light AND protects you from proto-poison, AND you can put a Re-Breather on it. That's like 3 packs in one!

Then all you need is the x-10 Armor and you're set.

To get the carbon for it, you can dump Dark Water in the extractor, or coal. You can also get it from an Atmospheric Condenser, but I don't like having to wait that long (because you need Advanced Alloy to even get that far).

Dark water can be found on Metallic Moons rather often (though I wouldn't recommend this if you're doing Survival....), can also sometimes find it in other places. If you go to Metallic Moon and have somewhere to hide, Liquid Iron will also extract into Carbon and you have a pretty much unlimited supply of that, lol.

Also, if you happen to find an Avali Block Area on a metallic moon, try dumping data chits (the blocks, not the actual weapon crafting material that ain't actually used for anything) into the extractor, too!

Or maybe you'd like to make a suit of Mutavisk Armor and go to a Chromatic World. The dirt there also extracts into carbon and there's a ton of it there.

Lots of ways to get Carbon early-game.

 

Survival? Bah. Hardcore.

 

I find the hydroponic tray cannot grows sweetscoop plant. It is bug?

 

FU + Hardcore = Stupid. There is no point whatsoever to even bothering with Hardcore. You will NEVER reach end-game in FU on hardcore. I don't know why you are such a resistant ass about it, but it is rather frustrating to work on something for 3 years and have someone you thought might actually appreciate the work you do try the stuff on the difficulty it was intended for to have a proper experience.

But y'know what? Fine. You want to never, ever, see the end-tier stuff and instead have to restart like a goddamned idiot every time you make a misstep, so be it. You simply aren't getting the content the way it is meant to be enjoyed, and you'll never actually see the stuff you can eventually get.

Hell, you didn't even know you could do all that stuff with carbon...now imagine the other stuff you missed out on


sorry, this became an unintentional rant. I just can't see how you have *any* @@%$6$ing fun needing to restart every 3 hours because of stupid nonsense. I purposefully designed a lot of stuff in FU to more or less *instantly* kill you if you are not prepared, including environments in some cases. You're literally punishing yourself even attempting the mod on hardcore. It's a pointless waste of time.

 

I had a bad experience in a previous game with a vast slime biome over the lava level and lack of diversity on my initial planet, I don't know but 3 updates later and this new game is totally at the opposite, my first planet is the best I ever had, many different seeds, monsters, even a building with quests...

Anyway, I find the "special" biomes to be quite vast, for instance I landed on my second planet, luckily enough with a floran village so I could immediately do the floran scanning quest. The joke is that the whole village is built on a bone biome which covers 3/4 the length of the planet, and guess what happened? I went exploring and even though I was doing my things 2 screens under relative surface, the floor of the village collapsed and the whole population fell deep in the underworld ending-up "choking" in the bones of their victims because, well, where did the bones come from? That should teach them to bury the stuff and not build their village on top of it... It was fun, passed hours bulldozing their mess, rebuilding a nice floor under their village, and finally building a stair for them to climb back-up, which they did to the perfection...

I appreciate your work more than I sound btw...

 

Some people have fun doing stuff like that, sayter. Don't get overly invested in how people enjoy your mod... Just know that they very much enjoy your work

 

Preach it! lol

I could never understand the Dark Souls nuts who think everything must be unfair, annoying, and just generally waste your time in the most ridiculous ways possible.

Permadeath has to be the pinnacle of "waste-your-time" in video gaming history. I can think of no other mechanic, no not even MMO-style grinding, that wastes more time than permadeath.

I go as far as to outright avoid any game that forces it for the most part, unless it's a game that allows you to have fun from the get-go and doesn't get you attached to your character.

The problem with this, is that people who "enjoy" permadeath and/or survival will oftentimes make suggestions that are contrary to the mod's design because of their game mode, ie, "This almost insta-kill thing is so cheap! I keep losing my character to this stupid thing every time! Could you please nerf it!?"

Or "These random planets sometimes kill me on beam-down... what if I were playing Hardcore? Nerf please!"

Uh, no, we're not nerfing it because FU was not meant to be played on HC. Kthxbye.

@sayter has the right of it here.

EDIT: OK, there's permanent (cannot undo them once chosen) talent/skill choices. Those waste a lot of time too.