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I cannot find any ore and pixel

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by Alkung, Jan 2, 2014.

  1. Alkung

    Alkung Space Hobo

    I play this game for like 3 hour.

    All I do is dig dig dig dig dig dig and dig

    I got only 17 iron ore and 64 pixel (I think die about 2-3 times)

    Why this game is so hard and so pain to play ?

    I cannot even escape or change the planet.

    Moreover I hate night time why do not let me skip night time when I sleep ?

    I usually open the game and do something else during night time and wait for it to pass.
     
  2. You might just be having bad luck with your planet, I'd suggest hopping over to a neighboring planet and giving it another try. Also I'd suggest killing monsters along the surface during the day. You'll have hundreds of pixels in an hour or so, then once you unlock the refinery in the next sector you can turn ores that are no longer useful into pixels. Also finding prisons or temples etc. and killing the inhabitants drop way more pixels than normal monsters, youll have thousands by the end of a settlement purge.

    Chop down some trees and smelt them into coal for fuel as well can just surface skimming all of the coal you see, you'll have enough to get over to another planet. Sayin there is no way for you to go to another planet is nonsense.
     
  3. Alkung

    Alkung Space Hobo

    look like I need 200 fuel to continue the game ..... okay I will make another character instead
     
  4. PHaeTH

    PHaeTH Space Spelunker

    you can go to a planet in the same planetary system for 1 fuel and to a planet in the same star system for 50.
    Just right click after sitting in your ship's pilot seat
     
  5. RyuujinZERO

    RyuujinZERO Supernova

    Sounds like you need to work on your prospecting skills.

    - Cut down all the trees you see. Unrefined wood can be coked in a furnace and serves as a coal substitute.
    - Run a full circle of the planet's surface, this will likely take a couple of game days but you should find plenty of coal seams.
    - Use your matter manipulator to "scan" blocks that are too deep to see by eye for seams or hidden caves.
    - Go to ground in a cave and mine overnight; it tends to be safer below ground and you'll likely walk past surface seams in the dark.
    - if you build a planetside shelter, consider re-planting the saplings so you can chop down more trees for wood (and coke it for fuel)

    Just chopping down the trees and coking them should provide enough coal to fly to another star system without even putting a pick in the ground.
     
  6. Alkung

    Alkung Space Hobo

    well.... after 2000 block of dirt in my new game

    got only 2 copper and 6 silver .......
     
  7. MildSky

    MildSky Astral Cartographer

    Just go over the surface, not much below.
     
  8. NightCat

    NightCat Void-Bound Voyager

    This. If you dig straight down you won't come across much ore compared with what you'd get by skimming over the surface during the day. You can see a few blocks down and the different types of ore are highly visible during the day in any biome. Then, at night, take some of those dirt blocks and wall yourself in with a bed, sleep in the bed, and then get going again once the sun comes up. You'll be off that starting planet in no time.
     
  9. Alkung

    Alkung Space Hobo

    Thank you people skimming the surface really help

    Got new problem now. I cannot find pixel enough to make a Beacon.

    Is there anyway better to get money from T1 planet than finding it drop from the ground ?
     
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  10. Kujar3

    Kujar3 Existential Complex

    Meenwhile I found Platinum nad Diamon alongside hundreds of tier 1 ores on my starter planet... You must having a really bad luck
    Anyway pixels drop from monsters as well as alien meat, holiday spirit and other loot that will not drop on Tier 1 planets. Just kill some monsters and get their pixels. You should probably make some bandages, just to be safe when they get your health down.
    And you can kind of skip the night, when it turns into night time, beam back to your ship, stay there for a few moments and than beam back down, it will be morning again.
     
  11. Alkung

    Alkung Space Hobo

    Thank you but monster here do not seem to drop any pixel.

    They drop only meat and skin but I rarely found rogue that drop some amount of pixel.
     
  12. Kujar3

    Kujar3 Existential Complex

    Monster will drop pixels only if you kill them with melee weapons. It seems to me like you are killing them with a bow. If you kill monsters with a bow, they only drop Meat and Skin :)
     
  13. Marianne Asteri

    Marianne Asteri Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    If you want monsters to drop pixels, kill them with any weapon other than the hunting bow.
    Hunting bow will make them drop either meat, leather or nothing. No pixels.
     
  14. Alkung

    Alkung Space Hobo

    Thank to you I have just destroy the penguin ship.

    What should I do next ? I heard my friend talk about going to 2nd tier planet but I do not know how ?

    All planet that available to me is 1st tier planet.
     
  15. MildSky

    MildSky Astral Cartographer

    You'll be able to make the MetalWork Station with the Inner Core. After you make that, look for the MK1 upgrade. Right-click with it & be on your way. :) Goodluck.
     

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