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[Elephant Parade]

PS: 42 inferior brains and not one superior brain is ridiculous, particularly the extractor is such a pain in the ass to use. I swear, sometimes I clearly hit the enemy with it but it does nothing (never mind that they could be too close to get hit with the beam, as happens more often with rifle guns), on top of the inconvenience of its low damage virtually necessitating switching back and forth from it and real weapons, with the (probably intended but otherwise) inexplicable delay before it can be used and high energy cost.

Heh. I got a superior brain on my first kill.

Not even joking.

[WillowLuman]

I just wish there was something you could do with inferior brains. Maybe eating them or something.

[Niveras]

You could use the Lantern on a Stick at night and a flashlight, assuming you have a 1H weapon in your central slots. (or a two-hander there and switching between it and flashlight) That gives you enough light to see whats near you, but for mining you either have to dig more or bring brighter light sources with you.

Unfortunately the lantern or lantern/flashlight is not nearly enough. I am looking for something that would, for example, change night from "gameplay altering" to "mere ambiance." I guess similar to what you see in most MMOs, where nightime is mostly just a tinting.

The sheer darkness of Starbound might not be such a problem if I had Terraria's "shift" tool convenience, something that I sincerely hope will get added back to Starbound. (I could see this sort of thing being a tech-ish thing, even; really, I can see a lot of such convenience things/items/functions being implemented as techs, although it would require many more tech slots as well as the ability to have more than one active a time, and probably the ability to research them independent of simply being found.)

That said, there are mods for brighter backpack lanterns and one for a 360-degree flashlight which is pretty nice, so I've heard.

I think I saw that in my cursory googling, but unfortunately it was a head item. I guess it shouldn't be too difficult to just make it a back item for my personal purposes.

[BigD145]

Nightvision goggles exist as a mod.

[WillowLuman]

Here's a mod for brighter back lights. Though the highest tiered ones are a bit OP'd, combining light, heat, and warmth. And one of them has an annoying parachute effect.

Does anyone thing the microphone instrument sounds really, really bad?

[Twi]

Microphones generally sound silly. Not...bad, just very, very silly.

[Sappho]

I sure hope it's intended that you'll eventually be able to change your beam-down point on a planet. It's just ridiculous (not to mention irritating) that your ship is only capable of beaming you down to one specific place over and over again. Is that something that can be modded? I imagine if it were, then it would have been made by now, but I don't see it anywhere...

EDIT: And how does one obtain the lantern on a stick?

[Darkmere]

Changing beam-down location is one of the top requests since ever. They say they're figuring out how to do it, just might take a little bit to implement.

Lantern on a stick is craftable from the work table once you kill the UFO and craft the tier 2 navigation upgrade.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Changing beam-down location is one of the top requests since ever. They say they're figuring out how to do it, just might take a little bit to implement.

Lantern on a stick is craftable from the work table once you kill the UFO and craft the tier 2 navigation upgrade.

Which really makes me question the intelligence of the player characters.

You can craft lanterns as soon as you get iron. Why do you need an encounter with a UFO and the creation of an advanced metalworking station to figure out that it'd be neat to tie one to a stick and wear it on your back?

[scriver]

Changing beam-down location is one of the top requests since ever. They say they're figuring out how to do it, just might take a little bit to implement.

Lantern on a stick is craftable from the work table once you kill the UFO and craft the tier 2 navigation upgrade.

Which really makes me question the intelligence of the player characters.

You can craft lanterns as soon as you get iron. Why do you need an encounter with a UFO and the creation of an advanced metalworking station to figure out that it'd be neat to tie one to a stick and wear it on your back?

* Hunt-Singer clinks the glass walls of flame-cage with his stabby-slasher

"Ssstab..?"

[Sappho]

Hm... There are some really lovely varieties of cobblestone in the game, yet when I mine them, they all transform into ugly boring light gray cobblestone.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Beautiful dark cobblestone, below the obsidian, was mined and then placed on the ground next to me.

Is this a bug? Should I report it?

[WillowLuman]

Sure, go ahead.

[Darkmere]

Thought I'd pass this along:
Tiy, Bartwe, and Molly did an Ask Me Anything on reddit regarding the "Future of Starbound" post from yesterday. There's some pretty interesting plans for stuff that will probably make it into the game someday, so if anyone wants to read over it, the main topic is stickied here. The robot-generated summary post is available here, though I haven't looked over the summary for completion.

[Slayerhero90]

Hm... There are some really lovely varieties of cobblestone in the game, yet when I mine them, they all transform into ugly boring light gray cobblestone.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Beautiful dark cobblestone, below the obsidian, was mined and then placed on the ground next to me.

Is this a bug? Should I report it?

That's been in since the game came out.

[scriver]

I found the "rabbit people" (to me they look more like fleas, for some reason) on a planet myself, now. Surrounded by rainbow palms and neonmelons. A connection to the rainbow biome suggested.