Starbound Adventures

Hello Internet, I bring more tales of galactic conquest and experience where no man has done before (quote from Star Trek). So far Starbound has been updated a few times a week, either to fix errors, adjust balancing or to add new features. The latest update was to improve balancing to make the game easier for advancement. There are new crafting recipes to try out and a new boss to defeat. In order for you to unlock more advance crafting recipes, you have to craft certain items to proceed. The main ingredients for them are all boss drops, which mean you have to defeat bosses in order to get better tools and armor.

Some planets you explore may have settlements. These places allow you to shop for their cultural garments and clothing blueprints for you to craft later. There are also new food recipes to discover. The settlement I discovered is shown in the pic above. It was an avian settlement that I found while exploring a magma planet. Explore the houses, found some pixel, some books for the codex and shops selling weapons, and armor. Oh, equipping weapons in public is a no no. Do so and the guards will keep watch. Know that killing one of the settlers or guards will immediately deem you a hostile and killed on sight. It was nice to see the cultural difference in these settlements. Avian building use lots of wood and clay, Apex buildings are more modern and Glitch buildings are medieval.

The pic above shows a building with a sign in front that says USCM penal colony. I have no idea what that means but when I entered I was attacked by people who look like convicts. They were wearing orange jumpers and attempted to kill me. As I explored the area, the building was actually a prison with its bar doors and cells. Looked around found some pixels and weapons in the cupboards and crates.

Yes, I have found a tentacle planet. As you can see it looks creepy from the space ship. When I went down, it was pretty average. Just another planets with its flesh soil (it was red and as I dug it out it had a squishy sound) and tentacles sticking out of the ground. When chopped one tentacle, it dropped wood. That was unexpected; I hope to find a piece of the tentacle.

Here I was fighting the newly added boss, the Jelly King and its babies (think it was its babies). I got it stuck in my trap. It can’t reach thus it can’t kill me, not even with its babies. I simply built a small platform and attacked from there. It was so easy; it shot me a few times but nothing serious. When it defeated it, it dropped an endorphin jelly as an ingredient for new upgrades and thus unlocking new crafting recipes.