pixel cost problems.

I've been having trouble getting enough pixels to upgrade my tools (bows, pickaxes) is there any tip for how to get more pixels? I've tried killing things, searching for those pixel pouch things that you can cut open, anything i can think of!

 

Advance to the point where you can build a Refinery to smelt ores into pixels.

Once you get to that point, you'll have more pixels than you know what do do with - as you advance, lesser ores are not used anymore and serve only to be converted.

It is really quite imbalanced now that I think about it.

 

Yeah I'm at the point where I'm throwing diamond ore into the refinery and coming out with 8k pixels not including what gold/silver/platinum ores are giving. Putting all that money into building a village though so it disappears quickly.

 

Wait... pixels to upgrade items? What gives? Is this a late game thing? Why not just craft your tools by hand using raw materials?

 

yeah the tier 2 refinery is a wee bit redonk (Yes that is the scientific term I'm using for this). My friend and I restarted characters and hit Tier 2, I went from barely scrounging enough pixels to make what I needed to always having pixels for what I needed because he's the builder and I'm the miner, I have a lot of raw ore laying around.

 

Especially once you move past the need to use silver in crafting.

Then you're in the money, as they say.

 

Surprisingly , any upgrade in tiers 2+ requests pixels to be spend along with other materials

 

ok, ill look into this refinery but it does sound like it needs a nerf

 

Damn, people will whine about anything if things don't fall into their laps intstantly...

 

The whole idea of needing currency to craft things yourself using raw materials is hust jleh. Kind of bad. Because eventually in the game you end up with pointless pixels and death becomes painless. The whole pixel system should just be removed or altered in a really big way, or well, they're just a bad addition to the game that intimidates newbies, and then is completely useless to people in late game. And let's be honest if you've seen streamers play starbound they die so much it's ridiculous lol, but I don't think everyone is that bad.

 

Meh. The system is fine.

 

I remember the pixel-as-reagent-doesn't-make-sense argument coming up a bit ago. I remember wanting to say "well technically in a sprite type of game it could be argued that EVERYTHING is technically made out of pixels and so using a pixel as a reagent makes perfect sense".

But more on topic (and overlooking the refinery as easy money for right now), you could always dig about halfway down a planet and look for large open expanses full of pixel containers. Desert planets work best as you can find large areas of cascading blocks like sand and gravel, allowing you to sink an entire area and have any trapped ores / pixels funnel down to you as you dig.

 

Pixel containers are the worst example, they don't contain any slightly significant amount. That said, eventually pixels become rapidly available from refining.

The problem that I forsee with pixels that coul need a fix is when the game is actually balanced. People are forgetting that ores are currently in super abundance because the devs made it that way and left it. The ores are going to go down in availability eventually, then pixels will be more of a pain. How much of a pain is yet to be determined.

 

Hmm that hasn't been my experience while underground. Several times I've hit open expanses literally filled to the brim with pixel containers - netting me 2k in the matter of 7-8 minutes. Maybe it isn't the best income but it helped me back before the refinery was in!

 

You're all thinking way too far ahead of schedule here. Just wait until selling items becomes functional. It'll make the refinery seem like a joke.