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[Sirus]

Something struck me that seems a bit odd about the universe:

Aside from the outpost and whatever colonies you create (and Earth, for what it's worth), there don't seem to be any multi-racial settlements at all. I think it's a crying shame. There's no real reason I can think of for small towns to be generated, using generic blocks, that are populated with random selections of playable races.

[umiman]

Something struck me that seems a bit odd about the universe:

Aside from the outpost and whatever colonies you create (and Earth, for what it's worth), there don't seem to be any multi-racial settlements at all. I think it's a crying shame. There's no real reason I can think of for small towns to be generated, using generic blocks, that are populated with random selections of playable races.

There are multiracial settlements.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I mostly found them underground though... for some reason.

[Sirus]

Oh, there are? I haven't come across any yet, which I obviously found strange.

[chaotic skies]

The only huge problem I have with Starbound is that there are no Novakid settlements. Actually, there's very little Novakid anything. I've found hundreds of nearly every racial village, and tons of dungeons, but no Novakids. It's almost like my character is the only Novakid in the whole universe, which I hate, because a Novakid town would be awesome; Space cowboys have to build something interesting. There's probably a mod for it, and I could make one I guess, but it's still sad they're not there in the base game.

[Mephansteras]

So colonists are generated based on the items around the colony deed, right? Aren't human colonies basically just tents?

USCM prisons and bunkers count, too.

The Lunar Base stuff is also human.

[Sirus]

The only huge problem I have with Starbound is that there are no Novakid settlements. Actually, there's very little Novakid anything. I've found hundreds of nearly every racial village, and tons of dungeons, but no Novakids. It's almost like my character is the only Novakid in the whole universe, which I hate, because a Novakid town would be awesome; Space cowboys have to build something interesting. There's probably a mod for it, and I could make one I guess, but it's still sad they're not there in the base game.

There's a western-themed set of furniture that will give you Novakid colonists...but that's about it. Lore-wise they're incredibly nomadic and even they aren't sure where they came from, but the real answer is that Chucklefish just didn't do much with them.

[umiman]

Oh, there are? I haven't come across any yet, which I obviously found strange.

There's nothing special about them. Just huts with varying races all saying generic things.

[Darkmere]

I seem to remember novakid full implementation would be sometime immediately post-release. But instead we're getting fishing, which is about what I've come to expect.

[Sirus]

Oh, there are? I haven't come across any yet, which I obviously found strange.

There's nothing special about them. Just huts with varying races all saying generic things.

As long as they can give quests and potentially join your crew...

Do you use mod races? Do any of them show up in these villages?

[umiman]

Oh, there are? I haven't come across any yet, which I obviously found strange.

There's nothing special about them. Just huts with varying races all saying generic things.

As long as they can give quests and potentially join your crew...

Do you use mod races? Do any of them show up in these villages?

No I didn't.

Like I said, I only ran across them underground and they were really generic. They gave out quests and stuff so I suppose you could recruit them. I would imagine actually trying to do the quests would be... extremely tedious though considering these places were underground.

[Darkmere]

Teleport flags lead anywhere, provided they still send you to surface locations for quests.

[Shadowlord]

Yeah, and even the escort-quest are compatible with teleporting.

[Tiruin]

Oh, there are? I haven't come across any yet, which I obviously found strange.

There's nothing special about them. Just huts with varying races all saying generic things.

As long as they can give quests and potentially join your crew...

Do you use mod races? Do any of them show up in these villages?

Everything (as in all PC races, that means except penguins) can be recruited :3 And spawned as tenants! (Minus penguins.)
Although Novakids require a REALLY specific set to spawn -_- As in, these things. And currently the only benefit is for the steam achievement. >_>

Something struck me that seems a bit odd about the universe:

Aside from the outpost and whatever colonies you create (and Earth, for what it's worth), there don't seem to be any multi-racial settlements at all. I think it's a crying shame. There's no real reason I can think of for small towns to be generated, using generic blocks, that are populated with random selections of playable races.

There are multiracial settlements.

I mostly found them underground though... for some reason.

Tiny spoiler request on this please? I'm interested in this too.

[umiman]

Uhh... did you want me to put a spoiler on it or tell you where to find them?

I'll put a spoiler on it but I have no clue where I saw them any more.

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They were fairly early planets and weren't next to anything particularly special. All the times I encountered them they were in standard wooden huts with flowers and stuff and generic wooden chests, chairs, etc. There would be all the races except Novakids just chilling around and I never understood why they were living underground in a strange little commune. I think I even asked this question before in this thread in the past about why these guys were living underground in wooden huts.

By the way, when I say underground I don't mean the usual just under the surface stuff. I mean like... just above the magma layer.

I also saw one that kinda merged with a gnome city so it was fairly confusing seeing all these wooden huts and the tiny little gnome buildings together.

[chaotic skies]

I get the Novakid are meant to be nomadic, but Chucklefish specifically stated that all races would have villages. And Novakid don't, as far as I can tell. They're just not there at all, and it's kind of annoying.

Totally off-topic, but can someone please explain to me how to build a podtown or whatever it is that people build on moons and stuff? The really compact village, where everyone lives in-guess what-a pod.