Protip!

The world hungers for your (more or less) useful tips and tricks! What do you do to spice up your adventures?

Using ropes and grappling hooks on ocean floor allows you to move faster than just walking!

 

Dual daggers are rarely used, but damm fun and effective at dealing DPS, c'mon now, try em out!

Shields are safe (and admitedly, boring as heck) and as far as skill goes, if you can perfect parry it with a shield, you'l do alright, so its a valuable skill to have.

With the verry reduced armor prices for earlier tiers, skiping armor is verry NOT recomended.It really helps.

Get wood.Seriously, planets have a ton of trees with a lot of wood, and the matter manipulator can perfectly cut em in a decent time, dont be lazy.
You can never get enough torches, or wood.

Personal taste dictates this, but Modding is a verry nice experience, just pick 5 random mods, and try em out, you would be suprised!

You can Dash Hop, by dashing and jumping at the same time, wich increases your speed and air for quite a bunch, and is quite fun to use.Costs ya nothing, and increases mobility, what else ya want?

 

Craft that grappling hook and keep it with you. It can be easily used to eliminate fall damage and it does not drain your stamina!

 

When mining (unstable branch so far) when you're dealing with very few blocks, mine them separately, this way it consumes less of your pick axe and you can hit a few more times. When facing a lot of ore in the same spot, try getting as many in one go, it economizes time to mine even more, although they will break faster. (This are just assumptions, I don't really know if they really work, but with my limited experience with the unstable branch).

 

When exploring a new planet, I always use a bit of the thousands of cobblestone or dirt I end up with to make some out of place landmark, so I know exactly when I loop and don't waste time exploring stuff I've already explored.

 

Don't bother trying to farm coconuts, cactus, or thorn fruit. Don't matter manipulator the thorn fruit bushes since they don't drop seeds. And coconuts and cactus always drop 1 seed so you're better off just farming a ton from the planet and then replanting them.
Also Rain causes cactus to uproot, possibly losing your seed.

 

Chop those metal coated trees found on rust biomes and gather both the seeds and the wood. You can make cheap "metallic" building blocks from the wood and they can be easily farmed on your own homeplanet.

 

If for some reason you want/need to dig straight down, do it in a pool of water. The water will go slightly ahead of you which can alert you to caves, and potentially save you from fatal falls.

Flares are actually pretty useful now, the vision radius they provide is greater than iron lamps and torches, and since they're made from gunpowder, you'll actually have something to do with all that extra coal.

If you'e in a cave and you cant tell how long a drop is, use a rope or grappling hook to rappel down. I guess the Bouncy tech kind of invalidates that, but I havent used it.

 

Also if you find yourself falling to a possibly fatally distant ground with your double jump already used up, energy dashing to the side will take away your momentum and prevent damage if you do it near the ground. If you do it and still have a long fall to go, you can just keep doing it, unlike the double jump.

 

Cunsumables are pretty nice, even with various "survival" mechanics removed.

You can make stimpacks yourself now.
All it takes is sand, which you make to glass. Glass can be made into empty syringes.
Now, you only need the proper ingredients to fill your syringes with.

Sadly, i have now idea which stuff you need to fill syringes with. I guess various plants can be made into stimpacks using syringes.

Also, "Antidote" lets you swim around poison oceans for a while. Hang on to those, if you find any.
I don't know, if you can craft them yourself, tho.

And lastly, food.
Farms are still nice to have, thanks to all the kinds of different buffs, consumables can provide, such as a jump boost, speed boost or the ability to damage an opponent, by simply touching him/her.
Try them all out, for science!

 

Or better yet, if you're falling to your death press F like a madman and you'll survive!

Stimpacks currently don't actually use the empty syringe so don't bother with crafting that on the current unstable. You craft them with plant-life drops from environmental plants on certain biome types.

As far as Antidote goes it is craftable. Glass block and Bio Sample. Bio Sample is also used for green stims, and yellow stims are made with toxic waste.

 

Take drills and pickaxes if you are traveling to a moon. You can find pools below ground with whole stacks of fuel. Even a silver drill can do a lot towards making your way back up.

Usually the level where metallic ores appear plentifully is where the music stops and is replaced with cave sounds. Near the lava layer/seas the ambient cave sounds should stop as well.

If you are faced with enemies with automatic weapons you can get the wildlife to turn on them by getting them hit with the automatic gun's shots. Handy for bandits.

Build a shelter for that random merchant with a wheelbarrow, the wildlife aren't picky with their sentient victims.

 

Feeling sluggish when scouring the ocean floor on ocean/poison lake/frozen ocean planets?

Bring a grappling hook. You can drag yourself across the floor and go faster that way.

 

To play the game turn on your computer.

 

Bring dirt so that you can bury yourself in trying times.
Most enemies can't seem to pierce terrain to hurt you.

 

If you're going to dig straight down, do it right.

1. Equip the Bouncy tech (head)
2. Place your cursor below you (duh)
   
3. Start digging straight down 4 blocks (the height of your character)
   
4. Place your back against one wall (or the other)
   
5. Hold down 'F' (or whichever key "PlayerTechAction1" is bound to)
6. Start digging straight down (refer to step 2)

The Bouncy bubble will not deploy unless you break into a cave or a pocket big enough for it to do so. At that point, Bouncy will immediately deploy and you'll land safely. Once you've landed, let go of 'F' and then repeat steps 2-6.

 

Always aim the cursor in front of you when running. I know I've forgot to do that a ton of times and keep wondering why I'm so slow xD

 

Energy dash and Rocket boots are extremely useful on travelling terrain like gigantic holes,ledges and tall mountains.

These two are perfect combo but it take much energy (like 50%), So use it wisely.

 

Use your pixel compressor when you have several thousand pixels! You will always lose 33% (or 30%?) of your pixels upon dying.

 

You could call this more an exploit that I'm hoping they fix but in the meantime...
Tapping your shield button as fast as you can will keep the "perfect block" up, negating all damage, some may slip through but if you're bad at timing AND dodging this may save you.

An actual tip though? Don't rely on just guns early game, your energy pool is too meager to hold up in extended fights, always keep a good melee weapon on hand as well.