A pirate, robbing towns and ransacking villages. Perhaps you prefer to be a builder, charging npcs rent based on the quality of the homes they inhabit. On the other hand, if you prefer to be an adventurer, taking quests and gaining pixels as rewards. The farming feature will be fleshed out enough for that to be your means of pixel gathering.

If you’d like to become an intergalactic farmer, growing and selling crops, keeping livestock and so on. In the finished game you’ll be able to earn pixels in a multitude of different ways, essentially allowing you to play through the game the way you want to play.

In large part however this is down to unimplemented features being missing. Particularly given the pixel death penalty and the high cost of various pixel sinks. To access the mission in each tier you must first gather a certain number of pixels.Ĭurrently obtaining pixels in Starbound feels like a bit of a grind. Obtaining pixels will be key to progressing through Starbound. > access the tier 1 mission > fight tier 1 boss > gain oxygen tank tech > now able to access tier 2 planets with non breathable atmosphere Play through tier 1 and gain enough pixels too. To access a mission at the end of each tier you need to obtain a certain number of pixels. The current 10 tiers of gameplay will all play out on the same Starmap, with each tier introducing hazards that can only be overcome by progressing through the previous tier and completing a mission at the end of each tier. The final game will be structured differently. Built quickly to enable some basic gameplay during beta. ProgressionĪs it stands, almost the entirety of the progression in Starbound is temporary. Not included are smaller self contained features like ship upgrades, vehicles and so on. The following is a collection of some of the broad changes coming to Starbound in terms of progression. As well as where Chucklefish is going in the future. So I wanted to go into detail on what we consider the finished Starbound experience to be (subject to change! as always). But we’ve had an increasing number of requests to detail what the finished game will be like. It’s been a while since we posted an update as we’ve been feverishly working away on the game.

How to plant in starbound