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[MagmaMcFry]

I thought that the only reason they packed things was to decrease game loading time.

[Sappho]

Someone responded to me in the modding forum at Starbound:

*Maybe* You should read the patch notes again.
Most probably it's going to stay that way.
They did it to improve loading times.
If you're in the CMD, you can also cd to the path where Starbound resides and use relative instead of absolute paths (or just drag/drop the folder to the cmd, which will type the path for you.)

Tl;dr:
Read the patch notes

So apparently, yes, it's to decrease load times. I suppose the game does load faster now. Still, there has to be a better way to handle the situation.

In any case, my mod at least did not break the game. It will be a long time before I can say for sure if my changes worked, though.

[azurelao]

Someone responded to me in the modding forum at Starbound:

*Maybe* You should read the patch notes again.
Most probably it's going to stay that way.
They did it to improve loading times.
If you're in the CMD, you can also cd to the path where Starbound resides and use relative instead of absolute paths (or just drag/drop the folder to the cmd, which will type the path for you.)

Tl;dr:
Read the patch notes

So apparently, yes, it's to decrease load times. I suppose the game does load faster now. Still, there has to be a better way to handle the situation.

In any case, my mod at least did not break the game. It will be a long time before I can say for sure if my changes worked, though.

Watch out for commas if you start modifying other things. They're hard to track down and they can and will crash your game.

[Sappho]

All I did was remove some lines, careful about the brackets. Hopefully it will work okay.

So at what tier do I get that back armor for breathing in space? I beat the UFO but I haven't left alpha sector yet. I'm still getting my ass kicked by threat level 1 creatures, even with the best armor I can make. I'm a bit afraid to go to beta sector.

Continuing my exploration log. I have altered the writing style a bit to better reflect my glitch personality.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Entry VIII

Appropriate. It turns out this place is home to a Floran prison. I am inspecting it now, on the lookout for useful items or information. Hostility. The inhabitants, guards and prisoners alike, are attacking me.

Interesting. Everything here seems organic, much like their treehouse villages. They are my opposite in every way, these florans. Organic, violent, chaotic. I do not understand them, and yet there is a beauty in their architecture and design. I will take some specimens for further analysis and possible later use.

Entry IX

Cold. I have beamed down to my first snow planet. Quickly fashioned a warm hat out of local animal skins to keep warm.

Beautiful. Surprisingly, the snow and ice takes on different colors. Blue, purple, white. The landscape is less monotonous than expected.

Planetary specifics:
Alpha 19 Psc 073 III
Coordinates: 66817376, 9391714
Gravity: Medium
Day/Night Cycle: Long
Natural Hazards: None found yet
Climate: Mix of snow and frozen desert

Animal life:
Purple reptiles. Small, hostile.
Green/white cyborg snowmen. Large, hostile.
Chickens. Found in a coop. Origin unknown. Friendly.
Gold-hatted Llamas. Large, friendly.
Purple easter bunnies with yellow ears. Nocturnal. Very large, friendly.

Plant life:
Metal trees (various colors)
Giant cacti (purple)

Entry X

Discovery. On the surface of the planet I came upon an abandoned camp next to an open mine shaft. Explored the mine. Infested. Many hostile animals living inside. No sign of original owners of the mine. Samples of useful materials and furniture removed for later analysis.

While in the mine shaft, discovered new professor beasts. Strikingly similar to those on Alpha 1 Gem 6278 II b, except hostile. Were they brought here from the other planet? Where did they originate? Astronomical. The odds of two separate species evolving nearly identically is almost zero.

Relaxing. The snow is easy to dig through and my hat keeps me warm. Finding many useful minerals. Indigenous life is mostly not friendly, but not terribly dangerous.

Encounters. One Hylotl, one Avian. Each living alone in small houses, each selling the exact same clothing. Nothing of interest to me. Curious. How do they stay in business with no customers? Why are they not surprised at my presence?

Explorations completed. No further reason to remain on this planet. Departing.

[azurelao]

Think it's Durasteel where you get the breathing pack.

[Sappho]

...and when do you get that? I've never gone beyond tier 2.

[Rose]

Tier three, I think.

[MagmaMcFry]

You get Durasteel after beating the third boss.

[Sappho]

I guess I have to keep fighting then. I really want to explore those asteroids.

Does it ever become possible to add further pages to your inventory? It's amazing how quickly mine fill up, even though I trash all unwanted weapons and constantly unload building blocks into storage containers on my ship. I suppose I'll need to build a base soon.

[Rose]

regarding warm clothing: you make warm leather armor at the spinning wheel.

[Sappho]

Okay, I've built the robot, but I haven't used it yet. Any tips for fighting it? I'm really, really terrible at platform combat, so I'm perfectly fine with any and all spoilers and cheaty ways of doing this.

Thanks!

[Rose]

It can't fit through doors, because it's too big. So just make a room for yourself with a you-sized entryway, and watchas it hopelessly flails at you.

Also helps to fight it in a town for this reason, and to give it canon fodder.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Alternatively, find a decent damage-over-time spear, and stock up on speed boosts. You can outrun it on rough terrain, and you can just keep running backwards and attacking it with the spear's long range.

Failing that, whack-a-mole, with you as the mole. Prepare a little arena that would allow you to run under it and pop up to hit it with a ranged weapon. It'll take a while, but you can just plink it to death.

[Sappho]

Well that turned out to be very easy. Dug a 2x5 hole in the ground, hid inside, activated the robot above me. It just hovered there while I beat it to death with a hammer, which took less than a minute. Whee! On to the next level...

Edit: I assume I have to go to gamma sector to actually find titanium? Or is it something I can craft somehow?

[MagmaMcFry]

Well that turned out to be very easy. Dug a 2x5 hole in the ground, hid inside, activated the robot above me. It just hovered there while I beat it to death with a hammer, which took less than a minute. Whee! On to the next level...

Edit: I assume I have to go to gamma sector to actually find titanium? Or is it something I can craft somehow?

Wait a moment, it didn't fall into the hole? I know for a fact that it can fall into 2 wide holes, it's how I beat it.

And yes, titanium is only findable in the gamma and delta sectors.