Starbound Suggestions and Such

This is my first time contributing to the Starbound community, and I just want to say this game has been one of the best games I've experienced. I just have a few thoughts on the game, some curious omissions, and some possible inclusions.

I'm not a modder by any means, so I can only really throw out ideas here and hope that Tiy or someone picks it up for official use. I'm sure some of these have been suggested in the past, so don't be too hard on me if I'm being repetitive!

Survival
One thing Starbound does in a limited degree is some survival elements -- things like needing to eat, stay warm, seek shelter from adverse weather, but there's a couple things I find amiss that could make it that much more rich.

• Bedrolls: While we can craft beds and warm clothes, why can't we create something smaller like a bedroll to take on the road? I feel like it would be logical, given you can find tents in the wilderness, and could be made from fabric, or plant fibre, or both!
• Heat: While clothing seems to give you heat, nothing else really does. Rain makes you colder, and I'm still unsure if being in water does as well, but what about in a bed? You're wrapped in blankets and such, that should give you at least +1 heat, or more, depending on the grade of sleeping arrangement.
• Material Cost Balancing: It costs a lot of leather to make the one outfit I've seen that is meat for warmth. Given how rare leather is dropped, maybe the cost should be reduced for making a hat. Also, there should maybe be some more options for warm clothing options.

SocialIt's no secret exploring the cosmos with friends is far in a way more exciting than alone. That being said, it can be clunky and frustrating when you die, are separated, or if you are playing with some unsavory folk.

• Loot/Housing Protection: I would like to see some way to make chests and doors you own/have built only able to be opened by you, as to better protect your stuff from looters and unsporting players.
• Teleporting to Friends: It's frustrating to die on a long expedition around a planet only to die and become separated from your party member(s). I would like to see a way to teleport back to where they are, if they're in a place you can warp down to (not underground, not in a structure, etc.)
• Emotes: Maybe this is in the game, I don't know, but it would be cool to have little emotes added to add some character to our, well, characters. Simple things that only take a couple frames, like bowing, or sitting, or something like that.

Inventory MaintenanceThe inventory system is a little messy as it stands. There aren't enough tabs to separate all the loot you tend to retrieve. Also, there's no real way to purge your goods outside of trashing them.

• Selling Items: I know this has been mentioned a million times before, but a way to sell items you don't want would be spectacular. I know those dozens of Avian merchants are hankering for something. Beyond just SELLING the items however, it should be added to the vendor's inventory for other players to purchase should they find that merchant.
• Trade: I would love an easier way to trade items and/or pixels with other players. Splitting stacks and throwing them across the room is funny, but also a little impractical.
• Splitting Stacks: Splitting stacks is an easy way to break down larger stacks of goods to give to people, however it would probably be better for a more conventional numerical system of selecting X items of a stack to separate.

Bugs and StuffOf course, I feel there's an obligatory section where I should echo bugs I'm sure a thousand other people have talked about, but I guess I'll add to the chorus!

• Teleporting to the Planet: Since the latest patch, teleporting has been... strange. Into structures, above the ground, into the ground... there has to be a way to restore the anchor point to solid ground, and not within a structure or something lethal.
• Grappling Hook: While not a bug, it feels that way. Why is the grappling hook a one-time-use only? I feel like that should be a multiple use item. Even have it degrade like the pickaxe or something, but to have to make new grappling hooks constantly makes little sense.

Thanks for listening, Starbound! Hopefully I'll have something more creative to contribute in the future. Happy exploring!

 

I think you mean Climbing Rope instead of Grappling Hook, the Grappling Hook is a infinite use Climbing Rope while the Climbing Rope isn't, and you must remember that this is a beta and most things can change like trading and selling which is possible to come on the final game or earlier.

Also this sort of thread should go to suggestions as general discussion is only for talking about current game aspects and alike

 

these ideas are wonderful but I think you should move this to the mods section because I'm sure someone could make these things happen and then the devs might see it

 

The game does have emotes, but only 4... Happy, Crying, Mad, and I don't know the 4th one... Annoyed maybe? Human stretches their mouth wider, avians get a sudden unibrow.
Selling will be added in.
I would like to trade.
Splitting stacks yes, I only want to smelt a small bit of ore, not all of it. I might need the ore for repairs.
I teleport in midair if I dig downward on that spot.

 

Ah! Oops! I don't know how to have a thread moved, but maybe a mod could do that.

Thanks all, glad you're all receptive to the ideas.