Going up (hunting for asteroids)

So how far up are these asteroids that have plutonium etc, i built a skybridge up 1,000 blocks and found nothing but those damnned birds.

Surely it must be in? Maybe just not for T3?

 

I've found asteroids on level 1 planets and on level 40 planets.

However, this was back before the major balance update, and I had impervium armor, and the impervium armor allowed me to use butterfly dash indefinitely. So I can't actually tell you how high up it is.

 

Well I found this - http://starbounder.org/Asteroid_Biome

So damn, must be a couple thousand blocks high lol, though thats not the problem, they need to stop spawning birds above the cloud level.

 

I'm not an experienced asteroid miner, but I can give you some tips from my few attempts.

-You'll need at least 3 full stacks of blocks to build a tower up, assuming you're not holding shift for single file rows which is time consuming.
-It will take you a good half hour to reach the space layer. Get a snack, you'll be her a while.
-Birds suck. Be prepared to give polly some iron on a near-constant basis
-Once you get to the space layer it will be COLD no matter what you do. Even more than snow biome. Don't bother with the heatsuit; wont do you much good on its own.
-With decent armor, you'll need two campfires minimum to keep warm. Less than that and you'll need 3. Even then, three will warm you up faster
-You will have 10 seconds between fire "warm up" stops before the ice starts to damage you. Swiftness is key.
-Bandages and campfires. You need these in bulk.

Aaaaand thats about it. I tried mining asteroid plutonium earlier today but couldn't find any. Not sure if it was because plutonium doesn't spawn in beta sector or something else, but it might be wise to try mining on a higher difficulty world. With the time investment getting up there, you don't wanna risk it going for bust.

 

Thanks, man.....kinda glad I didn't make it up there now lol, no way could I have survived that cold!

 

I'm curious why someone would want to go through that effort just for plutonium ... tons spawn on the planet in later sectors.

 

See quote - Also it is a challenge. The sense of discovery!

 

Incidentally there are ALWAYS asteroids, no matter what tier

"Brian, why is there a giant pillar of dirt on top of my house?"

"I remembered the devs posting about some sort of asteroid thing really high up! I'm gunna get to it! Also I stole all your blocks and logs."

 

To stop the asteroid level cold, put on a space helmet, or have imperium armor ;p

not much really up there tbh; unless you wanna collect a ton of meteorite for some reason [plutonium is simply fuel atm as well] :i

 

I think we should be able to build a radar dish, or in some way be able to map topography of a planet. letting you pinpoint asteroids and such.

 

I want to build a crude mini-rocket ship to get up there, or at least a jetpack, lol