If you could make or add a weapon to starbound what would it be?

I would add a epee to starbound since I am fencer. The epee would be two handed with the right click ability of a lunge.

By the way if you want you could post a picture of your weapon.

 

A good ol' Farmer's scythe. Utilizing it into combat instead of using it as good ol' farmer tools. Since why not? Never hurts to beat a poor Glitch into bolts, and cogs with their own tools!

 

Already did it, I just can't properly update for the latest version of Starbound without completely re-doing all of my work. (curse you, LUA)

Arm Cannons.

Normal attacks and Charge attacks, with the latest version of Starbound also allowing alternate-fire/special-attack right click abilities (missles, etc.).

 

I'd add placed weapons, such as machine guns, flak cannons, howitzers...All of which able to be towed with vehicles.
Apart from that, I'd add laser weapons. They would tend to be weaker, but shoot faster than ballistic guns. They would also be hitscan.
I'd also add subdivisions in each weapon type, such as guns with caseless ammo, which would shoot faster than normal (Think of the assault rifles tending towards AT LEAST 9 shots per second), and each shot would tend to be quite efficient damage-wise, but each individual shot would be almost as weak as lasers.

 

I think they pretty much added what I had in mind already.

However I don't know if Balistas and trebuchets are in. That would be quite interesting to see at least the former on glitch castles. An object that acts like a turret or at least siimilar. maybe even having to be manned first in order to work properly, if not wired to a device in order to work like the turrets are.

But as far as weapons we would use ourself, whips and chakrams have been added. Maybe a slingshot for the land dwellers, or a harpoon cannon for the underwater dwellers maybe. A chain gun I think is somewhat added in the form of a grapple gun. Although would be nice to have a chain version of that in which relies on chain links.

 

Two-handed shields.

No wait, stop! Just hear me out.

It'd be a really unconventional weapon, more for tanky characters than anything else, but I think it would add an interesting level of variety in two-handed weapon options. Left-click would throw up a shield like the ordinary shields we already have in-game -- probably shielding for a fair amount more than those, considering you're sacrificing a conventional weapon -- but right-clicking could do a variety of things:

• Reverb: Right-clicking throws up your shield as per usual, but drains a certain amount of Energy per second. During this time, every attack your shield absorbs sends out a blast-wave that can hit multiple enemies in front of you. Elemental affinities on the shield cause the reflected damage to apply debuffs.
• Taunt: Right-clicking consumes Energy to create a large wave of energy around you; struck enemies are flung toward you. In addition, elemental affinities cause taunted enemies to be debuffed.
• Launch: Right-clicking causes you to duck down under your shield, draining a certain amount of Energy per second to act as a ramp -- charging enemies will slip directly over you and will not damage you in the process. Releasing while enemies are on top of you will cause you to fling them, taking severe damage upon landing.
• (Energy) Bash: Right-clicking consumes Energy to swing your shield, resulting in a slow but powerful attack with high knockback. Elemental affinities increase the reach of the attack and cause it to apply debuffs.
• (Energy) Throw: Right-clicking consumes Energy to chuck your shield, resulting in a slow but powerful ranged attack that can persist and pass through enemies. Cannot use your shield during the attack's duration. Elemental affinities cause the hurled shield to radiate energy while thrown and apply debuffs.

The concept itself might sound kind of dumb -- two-handed shields -- but I think it could work.

 

more games need shield-based attack options. two-handed shields? please and thank you.

 

On the topic of shields, a simple buckler with spikes would suffice for me. Go full turtle mode with two shields, and never die while crushing monsters.

As for other weapons, give me a throwing broadsword that returns like a boomerang. Just a massive hunk of steel that, if I'm bored of cutting up close, I can just lob a massive blade.

 

We got bows so why not crossbow

 

There are crossbows. They just got disabled in the combat update for whatever reason, just like other race weapons. Avian swords and crystal guns, Glitch maces and crossbows, and Floran shock prods are all gone.

Nightly has a really badass crossbow though; you right click to change the damage type it does.

EDIT: The files for said weapons aren't even in the assets, unless I missed them. They're 100% gone.

 

Already getting mine added

I believe crossbows are in the random gen list, since you can still spawn them in nightly with "spawnitem generatedgun" after a few attempts.

 

I thank you!!!

 

What about light saber? Starbound is taking place in space after all.

 

They probably would have to get the rights from Disney but I hope it is possibility.

 

I'm still up for throwable cards - a la Gambit

I said this like 2,5 years ago though, so probably a lost cause, unless I learn to code.

 

Cards will probably be a throwable item but I could see the devs. using tessens (Japanese war fans) as racially unique weapon for the hylotl that is similiar to the combat of Gambit.

 

Or one could have a stacked deck, that worked as a bow/gun: It's not much weirder having infinite card decks, than having bows where arrows materialize from nothing

 

Nah man, Gambit cards are easily modded in. Just gotta modify a throwing item, and boom. Matter of fact, I threw a quick mod together!

Click Here to download it Works on the current stable, craft using one Paper by hand. No need for a crafting station. I'll upload it as a proper mod later on, but for now, enjoy!

Of course, a proper implementation would be pretty neat, since one of the bosses in the nightly fires energy blades and I used that as a basis for this. Easily implemented.

 

In the future after 1.0 I think they can add more weapons like the solaruim tier backer weapons and racially unique weapons that only certain races can craft.

 

You, sir, are awesome! Is it possible making the card smaller? It's kinda the size of a cheese grater Anyways, nice stuff!!! If you need some help for spriting, I can totally do some stuff
I have no idea what dimensions we're talking, but this one's in 64x92 I can most definitely also make smaller stuff.