The Hidden Tips List

Hey folks! Welcome to the Hidden Tips List!

Basically, you can post any quaint little discoveries you find in Starbound in here or tips you wish you knew earlier, and we can have a fun little list of various "Tips of the Day!" type of deal! I realized that sometimes there were a few little things that we should make more common knowledge in the game, but are never explicitly stated. Sort of like the "Tip Lady" on Earth, except not eaten by a giant squid planet!

It can be useful or just a neat discovery!

I'll try to update the list as more tips get added by you guys!


The List

- Find a Jukebox? If you place it down, and turn it on, sometimes NPCs will start dancing!

- Fuel is only needed to travel to different star systems! Travel as much as you want in your current system!

- Your crew members respawn on your ship if killed in battle!

- Augments are only one-use only! Use them wisely!

- Tired of carrying so much food? Grab a campfire and repeat after me, "Rice is Nice!"

- You can make easy refrigerated storage by scanning a refrigerator and 3D Printing it!

- NPCs naturally fill up trash cans over time!

Wazamaga:
- Bows not only increase the drop rate of food items, but also other drops such as: Static Cells, Scorched Cores, Cryonic Extract, Living Root, etc...
- If you get lucky, some merchants can sell you items and ingredients for REALLY cheap, like I've found some that sell torches/flares/ropes for 4 pixels apiece!
-You don't have to go mining, you can usually find most of the materials you need on the surface in crates!

LilyV3:
- Don't like one of your colonists? Break and replace their colony deed to get a new one to move in!

STCW262:
- Some staves can be used to attack from behind cover!

Masiakasaurus:
- Hold shift to place or remove 1 block at a time!
- Shift click to instantly move an item to/from a container!
- Right click to remove 1 item from a stack, shift right click to split it!

Zerukoba:
- Want an easier way to get augments? Keep playing the story to unlock an augment shop!

starbounder283:
- If you time a bow shot just right it gets stronger. You will know when this happen because a different sound will play, as well as the arrow's tip will change!

Nefer007:
- Most bows, except the Light Bow and the one made in the Replicator, have an alt fire ability in which the bow fires a small spread of three arrows at once.

 

Sound neat.

Some thing's that I've found useful.
-Bows not only increase the drop rate of food items, but also other drops such as static cells, scorched cores, cryonic extract, livingroot, etc...
-If you get lucky, some merchants can sell you items and ingredients for REALLY cheap, like I've found some that sell torches/flares/ropes for 4 pixels apiece.
-You don't have to go mining, you can usually find most of the materials you need on the surface in crates.

 

if you liek to browse npc wares , you can place and replace a colony deed as it respawns a new random NPC

 

Speaking of bows, does anyone know if the adaptable crossbow counts as a bow for purposes of increasing drop rates?

 

According to wiki, regular bolt does.

 

Staves with Rain attacks can be used to attack from cover.

 

Augments automatically get deleted when you upgrade the EPP so if you know you are upgrading soon then avoid using any of the rare augments. Likewise though you don't have to wait endgame to use any of them. A NPC will sell healing II after the 4th artifact mission making Healing I pretty much worthless to keep anyway.

 

Hold shift to place or remove 1 block at a time.

Shift click to instantly move an item to/from a container.

Right click to remove 1 item from a stack, shift right click to split it.

 

if you time a bow shot just right its stronger. you will know when this happen because a different sound will play, as well as the arrow changes its look on the tip

 

Most bows, except the Light Bow and the one made in the Replicator, have an alt fire ability in which the bow fires a small spread of three arrows at once.