What completely useless thing do you hope is in Starbound?

a normal sized hamster?

 

1: Farming things(plants, trees, etc)
2: Collecting little pointless things like bugs like OP said.
3: Animal breeding and placing on your homeworld to just wander around.
4: Interactions with tons of things.
5: The ability to lay down anywhere you want.
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The ability to run a sitting or resting animation anywhere, or on any "prop" which is large enough to sit/rest on.

 

Oh yea, I would also like monster statues. Just thing, you could get a statue of any monster you tamed and put it in a huge room to "log" them.

 

Oh also, the ability to hold a logbook where you can write stuff yourself!

 

Books / Data Archives that can be written in by the Player.
That way we can leave behind creepy clues and stuff to where all your left socks are hidden.

 

That's what modders are for.

 

You cannot really copyright a cardboard box. There is no way Konami has copyrighted hiding in a box. That's like copyrighting walking, or eating pasta.

Edit:
In reply to the idea of farming and putting animals in places they shouldn't be: Zoos!

Also collection journals. "you've seen X many animals, you've collected X many types of rock"

 

Wigs

 

Vanity! Obvious use as vanity!

Hmm... useless... I got nothing.

 

did you honestly forget about wigs for that hideous bald-patch on your baby-tiger-fur-boots?
/james_bond_villain_laugh/

 

This is really weird but I had a dream about this last night. I'll just sum it up (and also include some of my own conscious interpretations and idea, but the main idea is authentic), but it isn't necessarily what I want in the game. But I think it would be awesome.

In the dream, there were innumerable gloves. Thousands of differently colored gloves, glowing, varying sizes, fists, pointers, rock-paper-scissors style gloves, anything you can imagine. And each one had a different function or purpose, mostly trivial and simply interesting collectibles. They could be found virtually anywhere, but they were found increasingly more frequent as you neared "Glove World" (I'll refer to it as Glove World, but the basic idea is that it's a fixed area that has varying forms, but they are all dark, with lightly glowing strips of fluorescent colors, as if in a Tron-esque cave with very low lighting. It was a sort of a dungeon, but could have possibly been it's own planet or asteroid or even a moon.) One glove that I had obtained had the functionality of a Terraria style grappling hook, one was able to throw around bits of rock, or mobs, one slapped thing around without total control, one had a mean sucker-punch, One of them just shot colored sparks, one of them was an excellent source of light, anything you can think of, there was a glove for it. Possibly in the center of Glove World, you'd face a Glove boss, which is an idea I just came up with, but with good reason, for what else would Glove World's purpose be?

Super Summary:

-LOTS of Gloves.
-Possibly originate from a Glove World sort of asteroid that might house some sort of boss.
-Do many many things, from weaponry to armor, utility, building, and light.
-Most gloves are purely collectible and shoot sparks or glow or something.

I obviously have some strange dreams, and this isn't even one of the weirder ones.

I'll leave you with this:

 

Ooh, gloves sound interesting. But not useless. 'Specially considering you would be able to throw around rocks and monsters

 

*cough*copyright*cough*

I jest.
just don't let anyone flip mechs and we'll be good.

 

Ah, Halo. Gotta love being able to flip tanks and Elephants.

 

What are you talking about... i do this irl... does this mean i havwe bad taste

 

I wanna see a giant head floating around space spewing guns and ammo and inciting barbarians... >.>

 

Mr Toots the Unicorn.
you guys know what I'm talking about

 

I want to see a giant head that is built over the course of the game by other ships in space and when it's complete it tries to your ship while talking shit to you.

 

giant floating baby head is the best part of that show.