Log in, Find Merchant on Ship... What??

Has this happened to anyone else??



I just came home from work and loaded up Starbound... and the first thing I notice is this NPC! Who sells Rope, Bombs, and Flares. Ummmm, WHAT? Is this a bug??

 

Did you have some sort of spawner placed, or? I mean if he appeared out of thin air it's probably a bug, pretty nifty though!

 

Greetings, Beakface. Many waressss, good prices.

Cheap spaceship for sale - many pixelssss worth!

 

You know those petals you scavenged before you logged out? That was someone's cousin. And they want them back...

 

Hmmmm, now that I think about it, one piece of furniture is missing from my ship: it was a blue portal thing that I stole from a chest in an airship. It had a pickaxe pictured on it. I couldn't get it to work so I just placed it in my ship for decoration.

 

Ah yeah that's it then, mystery solved!

 

Yep that would do it. That's a spawner and you get them working by beaming away and beaming back.

 

I tend to randomly place NPC spawners in peoples ships when I join their party. So maybe that happened to you if you didn't place it there yourself.

 

Nah he did it himself, this time.

 

But why would it do anything when I'm not in the game? Definitely missing something here...

 

I was wondering how we spawn NPCs. So they're an item pick-up in game?

 

Ahh, didn't see his post. He post have posted it while I was replying.

Curious though, is there a limit to how many can be placed in your ship?

 

It activates if you beam down to a planet, or beam up if it's placed on a planet. Maybe it activates when the player leaves the area?

 

You can also craft them.

 

You can either pick them up or craft them.

*You ninja'd me Incendiary ;_;

 

You should run, run for your life before that planty thing goes psycho on you!

 

Who knows, let's see how many NPCs we can cram into a spaceship!

 

Wow, that's pretty awesome! Thanks for the info! I recall seeing a spawner on the Metalwork Station, but wasn't sure how it worked so I never made it. Great to know!

 

so does the merchant sell random stuff or is it always the same?

 

Depends on the spawner, example: there is a stim merchant spawner.