I imagine we'll get something more than a Stone Axe?

Upgrading the pick is cool but we're always left with a Stone Axe for trees? I imagine upgrades and other high-techy things will be added in future? I know trees are pretty speedy to cut down anyway but it looks out of place when you're wielding electric guns and Diamond pickaxes.

Here is a few bugs too: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/duplicate-molten-cores.67235/

Peace.

 

Plasma saw.

 

Drills take down trees well enough, so I just ditch my ax at that point.

 

It takes like 3 seconds to cut a tree down lol, surely you can wait for 3 seconds. You must get so frustrated at mining lol
All joking aside I do see you're point, maybe make the stone pick a very lot slower than it currently is and have the same upgrade system in place.
Leading on to a chainsaw maybe then copper, platnum and diamond chainsaws for example.

 

The stone axe could definitely use an upgrade. But I wouldn't put in more than one upgrade, as, unlike the mining, chopping wood is not as central in this game.

Thus I would just have an upgrade to the chainsaw eventually.

 

Hopefully...

 

Chainsaw is within the coding of the game.

 

seeing as there is chainsaw grafics, sounds and coding

id propley say its a chainsaw

 

I really hope they incorporate axe and even hoe upgrades, it really does feel weird to have a diamond drill and a stone axe.

 

the tree chopping speed is fine, its just the vines that take too long, especially as i just burn through bandages

 

I wont be happy until I have a rocket propelled chainsaw that deforests entire planets.

 

How exactly would a hoe upgrade work?

 

Just what it's made out of, it wouldn't really affect the hoes performance. Perhaps if axes and hoes had wear effects it would make more sense.

 

maybe the hoe upgrade would till 3 blocks at a time

 

That could work.

It would also be nice if farming were a little bit more complex than simply placing a block of dirt, tilling it, and planting a seed. Then you could get upgrades to the hoe that actually make sense.

 

maybe a scythe would be useful for cutting down multiple plants at a time, it would save a lot of clicking or button pressing

 

The most logical reason why the axe doesn't have upgrades is because unlike ores, trees don't have any higher tier versions. You can cut any of them, on any tier planet, in 5 chops or so? If they decide to do something more expansive with woodcutting, axe upgrades would be nice.

 

You didn't pay attention. My problem wasn't the length of time it took to cut things down, it was the aesthetics. Why would a high-tech space guy, upgrading his weapons but insist on sticking with a stone handaxe? You should be able to upgrade them the same way you do as Picks.

And I'm very patient at mining, I've played 100s of hours of Terraria and quite a number of hours in Starbound... if I wasn't patient enough or got frustrated with mining, I wouldn't buy games like these (or Minecraft) which has such a huge emphasis on it.