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To those wondering what's at the bottom of a planet...

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by SuperNess56, Dec 6, 2013.

  1. Hobo_Mayhem

    Hobo_Mayhem Space Hobo

    The screen stops scrolling down when you get to the point i was at.
     
  2. Grimmturd

    Grimmturd Cosmic Narwhal

    I like the idea of the flesh blocks for the core. As you drill/pick through the flesh, the planet should occasionally shake in pain. When you get to the core, there should be some sort of boss.
     
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  3. Hobo_Mayhem

    Hobo_Mayhem Space Hobo

    Bout a half an hour down at the bottom...i put my initials and year in the lava...sooo bored!
     

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  4. Terwin94

    Terwin94 Pangalactic Porcupine

    With blood for water and fat blocks along with it? Some cell like enemies to simulate an immune system.
     
  5. Hawk Novablast

    Hawk Novablast Black Hole Surfer

    It would be really cool if, in tentacle planets, tentacles split out of the ground through giant shafts, and you could actually battle them (they'd have a crap ton of health, and would try to smash you or pick you up and throw you). The lava core would spawn higher up (although, the shafts the tentacles make would go through the lava, sealed off on either side with dirt), and if you got past the lava you'd find the core, with an enormous tentacle octopus/squid behemoth alien monster boss.
     
  6. Zehrok

    Zehrok Void-Bound Voyager

    Possibly the tentacle comet? Hmm, that would be an interesting way to implement that boss.
     
  7. Hawk Novablast

    Hawk Novablast Black Hole Surfer

    Nah, maybe the comet is how the infection got to the planet in the first place. But this thing should be enormous, like, a superpowered one of these would be the Human's endgame boss.
     
  8. Zehrok

    Zehrok Void-Bound Voyager

    I'm pretty sure that the tentacle comet (or maybe multiple) were the monsters that destroyed Earth. Also, a wall of flesh-like tentacle boss would be horrifying.
     
  9. Grimmturd

    Grimmturd Cosmic Narwhal

    A wall of flesh-like tentacle boss would be... Terraria?
     
  10. Hawk Novablast

    Hawk Novablast Black Hole Surfer

    Well, in the WIP intro cinematic, it says 'Something rose in the darkness' and then it shows giant tentacles smashing out of the ground from the core of the planet and destroying everything. Here's my take on it:

    1. Tentacle Comet smashed into Earth, nobody notices anything strange.
    2. Over the course of a few years, the tentacle monster burrows into the core of the planet, and then grows AROUND the core.
    3. Several more years pass, the monster becomes enormous, and smashes its tentacles out of the crust, each one hyper intelligent, absolutely eradicating all civilization, and corrupting the environment.
    4. See Chapter 7 of your USCM Field Handbook 'How to survive a Tentacle Planet'
     
  11. Zehrok

    Zehrok Void-Bound Voyager

    The Wall of Flesh was the final normal-mode boss of Terraria, and beating unlocked hard mode. It was a wall that took up the entire screen and killed you if you left the underground area it was in. It scrolled from one edge of the screen to the other, making it sort of a timed fight. In my opinion, it was fun.
     
  12. Grimmturd

    Grimmturd Cosmic Narwhal

    Yeah, was a lot of fun. That is what I thought u were referring to initially.;)

    Still, even if there was no "core boss" of a planet, I still like the idea of the ground shaking all around while you drill thru the flesh blocks.
     
  13. Ramus73

    Ramus73 Starship Captain

    "The cave is collapsing!"
    "This is no cave"
    "What?!"
     
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  14. Grimmturd

    Grimmturd Cosmic Narwhal

    That's the first thing I thought of concerning the flesh blocks. But, adding a giant worm-like behemoth to the game... I'll settle for bug fixes for the time being.
     
  15. SKARM64

    SKARM64 Void-Bound Voyager

    Not the suggestion forum but I think something else should be at the centre of the planet because the core of a planet is solid or at least semi-solid
     
  16. D-16

    D-16 Spaceman Spiff

    and for kilometers upon kilometers above that, it is liquid.

    the magma we reach drilling straight down? that's not the core, that's the mantel.
     
  17. marsman21

    marsman21 Intergalactic Tourist

    I went mining all the way to the bottom last night. I hit a cold biome near the bottom and eventually hit the lava lake. Eventually, the screen stopped scrolling and I knew i had hit bottom. I tried mining the last two blocks and the game insta-killed me when I did that. I need to go back this weekend and see if the tiles I tried mining are still there or if I managed to remove them before the game insta-killed me :)
     
  18. Akado

    Akado Oxygen Tank

  19. Zehrok

    Zehrok Void-Bound Voyager

    Nice. Also, that requires a huge amount of dirt and other resources to fill stuff up.
     
  20. Akado

    Akado Oxygen Tank

    I usually get by with about 200, if you mine it as you go. Make very, very sure to place a "hard" exterior for floors and walls, anything that takes more than 3 "hits" to break. That way, there's less accidental leakage, because that's just bad news.

    Also, try to NOT remove lava with dirt blocks in places that you don't plan on building. The background changes when you do that, I think it removes the "veins" and stuff, and changes it to a generic, flat background. It's pretty boring. You can see it just above my Mystic Circle in the first link, it's different from the rest of the lava background (solid orange, vs orange with a darker background).
     

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