A lot of it has no use outside of looking pretty sweet when used to build things to look at. All of the dirt, bone, sandstone, obsidian, tar, goo… Yeah, not all of the materials are familiar ones. I wanted to remove every single block from the world. However, I didn’t just want to reach the centre. Copper is easy, titanium is hard - you get it. For instance, mud is very easy to mine with your Matter Manipulator, and cobblestone is harder. The closer you get to the centre of a planet, the tougher the materials you can find. I had been to the centre of several, of course, because I needed materials. Whilst milling around trying to get better equipment to fight more of the story bosses, I found myself musing what would happen if you tried to dig out the centre of a planet. But I got the urge to build a base inside a volcano, so restarted. Admittedly, after losing my first save file I considered not returning, and in a lesser game I would not have. The different biomes, the sci-fi themes and even the art style appealed to me. I was given the game by a coworker for my birthday a couple of years ago, and really enjoyed it. You can also mine fuel from moons, but man those moon ghosts don’t like that… That’s the best way to describe it - you gather materials, craft things, fight monsters… But this is set in space, and you can travel to different planets in your upgradable ship. Starbound is a pixel-based “Terraria clone”. I have 195 hours logged in the game - some in Early Access, a bunch post-launch, several more after losing my save game to Chucklefish’s no Cloud Saves and the save file being in a non-standard location… That’s how long I spent doing a single task in Starbound. Articles // 13th Feb 2019 - 3 years ago // By Andrew Duncan I Destroyed a Planet in Starbound

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