Pixel Farming

What's the best method of farming pixels? Just skimming the landscape killing all the creatures I come across?

 

If you've mined out/explored all your planet, yes.

I find I get the most pixels per minute by exploring dungeons (which are loaded with them). After that, mining down and exploring caverns (especially if you find the tiny houses biome). And, lastly, by killing everything I see on the over-world.

EDIT: Well, can't forget refining ore in your refinery. That can be pretty profitable, makes mining down worth more if you stop and grab any ore not in obsidian.

 

Build the Refinery and use it to convert old ore and bars that you don't need anymore into pixels.

http://starbounder.org/Refinery

 

Pretty much. Or you could go in and modify the treasure pools and drops. Easiest way would be to modify the hunting.treasure file so that you get 1000 10K Voxels when you hunt an enemy. Just do that, hop to an alpha planet, then pluck away.

 

As Reon noted, a very large number of pixels are located in silver pixel chests in the caverns beneath the surface. LOTS and LOTS of them.

 

Ah, I didn't know about the Refinery. That looks like a perfect solution!

@Whimsii I didn't mention that I was looking for a legit method, sorry!

 

I find whole sale slaughter of villages to sometimes just pile on the money. Though some villages are definetly living at or below the poverty level, so you never really know. But whole sale slaughter has gotten me all my awesome hats, so im going to keep doing it.

Spelunking is quite profitable to if you can hit a big cave system. And if you need a few hundred pix in a pinch, just kill everything up top with a gun or a melee weapon.

I havent made my refinery yet, need to try that out when i get home. I was too scared I would need some of those ores later.

 

Exploring structures definitely nets you the most pixels in the shortest amount of time, which you can now bank if you're not using it immediately thanks to the pixel compressor. If you're not up to exploring structures then currently the refinery gives pixels much faster than farming monsters since monsters seem to only give 10 pixels per and even lowly copper ore can trump that.

 

Ha, me too. Copper's definitely useless once you're to T2, though, and Silver is a good bet too, since you only need it for the Silver Armor, Silver Pickaxe and the Distress Beacon, and then never again.

 

I converted all but a few copper ore, which I'm using for pick repairs. Higher ores are going to be a lot more lucrative!

 

By the way, you can take half of the money out of the Refinery by right clicking, in case you have more in there than you need, and don't want to risk carrying around the extra

 

I think the fastest way to earn pixels is by planet hopping and exploring the dungeons and villages each planet has to offer before moving on.

Though if your'e alright with taking your time, using the ore refiner and underground in the little pixel chests.

 

I did try just smashing these, and some of them DO have a lot of pixels in them, but it didn't seem necessarily 'fast', since I had to hunt down each cave system, which potentially led to lots of downtime. I did find it to be great residual income when hunting down ores, though!

 

Well dont forget your going to need maybe 20 bars of each for your drills, but other than that, have at it. I made my refinery last night, and had been scouring gama sector a few hours before. Silver was everywhere, and since it looks similar to titanium, I managed to get like 600 ores. I converted half of it and it was like 4500 pixels. I am now officially in love with the refinery.

 

Oh yeah, forgot about drills

 

Kill guards, and enemy NPCS. Shop/Unarmed NPC = 10 pixel, while guards can range from 100-200. I'm always floating around with 6000 pixels with nothing to use it on... (Alpha planets)