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.