Starbound Tips Community Edition - AFK pixel Farm

[@EJAParaguin]

I came to this small channel through reddit and honestly had low expectations... but you are well composed and did a great job articulating and explaining everything. I would have thought you had a much higher subscriber count but you at least got one more here. Very well done.

[@Firespark81]

+Paraguin Thanks! Welcome to the community! And also thanks for letting me know you found me through the reddit link. Also I'm kinda new so we are still working on the subs issue :)

[@EJAParaguin]

Hey, I have been doing youtube for a long time and you already got 6 times my subscriber count so your obviously doing something right :D keep it up man!

[@Forcedminer]

Watered down Erchius fuel....what could possibly go wrong? :P

[@sam248]

Lol exactly what I thought

[@nightell4099]

I make ez pixels by fluffalo farms and make perfectly generic items to make perfect leggings and sell those.

[@loyaltea6800]

I was searching through some forms on the Starbound ships, and in one of the conversation, someone spoke of changing your starter ship into a different race's ship. (Exp: Floran = Floran ship, Human = Human ship, etc.) Here is a link for an example of the swap. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=744851755 *[I should warn you that if you want to do this it WILL reset your ship and all the items in it. So you should test this with a new characters.]* *Follow these instruction if you already have ANY characters so they don't get affected* 1.Go to your steam library 2.Right click Starbound 3.Properties 4.Local files 5.Then click "Browse local files" 6.Find the file labeled "Storage" 7.Go into the "player" file 8.Create a new folder on your desktop and copy paste everything in the "player" file into the new folder. 9.Once you have made a copy of all your character/shipworlds, Then you can delete all the files in the "players" file. *(IMPORTANT NOTE: You will not see those characters in the the new file, If you want to see them again then repeat steps 1-7 and drag the character/shipworld files back, Also all the other stuff you see that might be labled "bak1,bak2,etc" are also important so don't lose em)* ~To achieve this, you should: 1.Start on the Starbound main screen 2.Create two characters (Pick two different race) 3.Do or skip tutorial 4.Then quit out of starbound. 5.Go to your steam library 6.Right click Starbound 7.Properties 8.Local files 9.Then click "Browse local files" 10.Find the file labeled "Storage" 11.Go into the "player" file 12.You should see at least two "character files" and two "Shipworld files", To know which character* is which: open one of them in Note pad and do [CTRL + F] type in one of the name of the characters you created. If you do not see it, then it is the other one. 13.Now this is hard to explain: Both of your character's files will have some randomly generated name Exp: (0dd74133244e234d9089b9ec7758cfac Yours should be different but a similar length) I will call this the "File tag." 14. Copy this long "file tag" from the "Shipworld file" and paste both onto a blank note pad or somewhere where you can refer back to it. 15. Swap the "File tag" of the "Shipworld files" and launch starbound. 16. If everything works out, you should have a different race ship and also the ship pet corresponding to that race's ship. If you get lost or confused on any of this just reply to this comment. This is on a different note but if you have s ship over Tier 1, then you need a couple more steps to make that work, If anyone cares enough to want to know I can type out the rest of the instructions.

[@L2thelastdwarf]

Patch 1.1 (September 8, 2016): Reduced moon threat level from 10 to. R.I.P. OP Moon Colonies =,)

[@Firespark81]

+thelastdwarf Yup, sucks. But I show a way to still get high level weapons in my patch video. Need to put an annotation in this one letting people know. But I'm a slacker lol

[@L2thelastdwarf]

FireSpark81 No problem dude i love you videos

[@YaksBall8]

thank goodness, I was like "cool, just wasted my life building on a level 6..."

[@pellesnurr]

thelastdwarf i

[@Loderyod]

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[@Cerasum_chrysanthes]

"If I can't pronounce your name, you get a nickname!" I can hear the fingerguns~ Also this is an adorable solution to this :P I REALLY like your videos so far... :)

[@justin_cgamer3198]

tip: you can capture a monster twice using a capture pod by throwing two capture pods one after another in quick succession.

[@luka6508]

That is really convenient and smart. Well done to the people who came up with these ideas!

[@justin_cgamer3198]

tip: you can use gauntlets to negate fall damage; just use them in mid air and it resets your downwards momentum. You need 2 gauntlets though because you need to be able to use the uppercut finisher.

[@piterrospl9512]

About moon colony - if you don't want to worry about meteors, you can also use brain blocks, found in the centre of The Ruin. The only thing you need is a few people to mine it, because a single person with fully upgraded MM takes over 2 minutes to break. It's the only block that can be used as meteor-proof wall, as far as I know. It's also the hardest block in the game.

[@enthomorf]

I just bought this game a few days ago, and Im loving it. When I watch pro players do things, I get very impressive and surprised with all the potencials that the game has! Is amazing so many things u can do using ure imagination. Is incredible! Each pro players has nice ideas!

[@ericgoehring4405]

One of ur best work, man! GJ! SO MANY new idea. And if i might ask for: I am hunting for an Bluescript of automatic factory (farm &crop includin) but none at all might able 2 xplain it cause for em so many things allready basic so they even dun mention on it....

[@itsraventm]

If you are doing the moon thing: dig to the bottom. No caves, easy to break blocks, no erchius, and you are 100% protected from meteors. Expantion is super easy as well. Also, moons are lvl 6, which is still ok early on, but not so great for later.

[@bandon41]

as for the liquid conversion, if you put lava on oil you get the same result as if you put poison on water

[@Gryphonzwing]

bandon41 Liquid slime will do that too just like oil.

[@Sacramentix]

You farm moon rock too! 1 moon rock = 1 pixel and it's super fast to mine!!!

[@Firespark81]

+benjamin gylourie really? Gonna have to look into this. Thanks for the tip.

[@billcipher147]

Doesnt work for me... :/

[@madscientistshusta]

How do u turn rocks into pixel? Its not ore and doesnt sell.

[@tt-wisty6878]

You can sell moonrock!!!?

[@spoonikle]

I was looking at the fuel/fluid dupe and found a way to make it faster.If you use many small dupe tanks that drain into a main collection tank you can multiply the speed equal to the number of dupe tanks you build. the speed of the fluid duping is limited to the rate that water and target can mix so the obvious solution is to make the smallest possible dupe tank, multiply it as many times as possible and pipe its overflow into a collection tank. dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19143385/StarboundFuleDupe.png the 2nd Generation is on the right, more compact and same reliability. simple logic controls the dupe pool draining without it overflowing or draining too fast. If you don't drain the dupe pools from the bottom you only get water.

[@Twisted_Code]

That's a nice poptop setup. I'd been wanting a way to farm those mother poptops since I know they can produce infinite offspring, but didn't really think about trapping them and using blocks to separate out the children

[@michelchaman6495]

If you have the Frackin Universe mod you can try to find a strange sea of beer... then you set up pumps to pull the ocean into a storage area, route the storage into extractors and have anouther routing system take the outputs and drop all the pixels u extracted into a storage device.... now literally what you do is afk, come back like 30 mins later you should have around 20k - 30k pixels... this is all theoretical right now, I almost pulled this off, but there was a bug with the beer and it was picked up as liquified crystal their fixing it this week so.... i'll let u guys know if it'll work (if any of you are interested, since it does require non-vanilla starbound).

[@theblackdragon7321]

Another tip/trick is to make a liquid erchius farm. I did make a video on that if you would like to check it out. They did chance the price of it from 2 to 1, but still a good way to fuel your ship and to make money.

[@LukasJampen]

poptop farm is more efficient if you take them to high level planets and let the baby poptops fall into lava. Not sure if it would be possible to afk farm but in theory you could cramp several poptops into a very small space.

[@Hopalongtom]

The mother poptops don't spawn on those worlds though, you would have to cheat one in!

[@Hopalongtom]

I made an emergency fuel duper on my ship but that is a much cleaner comact design! Thanks.

[@ov3rkill]

I'm shy so I just gave it a thumbs up and subscribed! Oh wait... ;)

[@luka6508]

You can capture Mother Poptops from other dungeons and put them into the farm a with 2 turrets instead of 1. about 5000 pixels in 15 minutes with 3 Mother Poptops.

[@luka6508]

Could also duplicate the poptops with the relocator glitch to make the farm even more efficient!

[@Firespark81]

+Itz Atomic! After I captured one it stopped spawning baby poptops. I think your suggestion has been patched out. Can you verify this still works in 1.1?

[@luka6508]

FireSpark81 working on it.

[@2SavedByChrist]

Awesome video!

[@ranger2803]

Right when I heard you I thought you would be good at being a radio speak man guy

[@helpfulfriend3632]

Replace pop tops with poop golems and you get a lot more pixels

[@Mordaxe]

really cool tips ! :)

[@Firespark81]

+Mordaxe Thank you. Glad you found them helpful.

[@TommyLikeTom]

whats the point of the trapdoor opening and closing in the pop farm? surely leaving it open would do the trick?

[@Firespark81]

+TommyTom Nope the AI will not fall down the hole. That's why you need the trap door. I had it without and they were getting stuck on the sides.

[@TommyLikeTom]

cool. Thanks for the videos!

[@Terra-Antares]

You seem to have no parallax enabled Is it lag? dont worry all of us (I have an I3) have the same freaking issue

[@luminisone5421]

Loved the video, just one question. Do windows count as background blocks so meteorite's don't spawn when building on a moon?

[@Firespark81]

They should. Any block you place should work.

[@dogstar7925]

Why do you need the timer for the poptop farm? Can't you just leave the trapdoor open?

[@Firespark81]

+Kerple No. The ai won't fall down

[@dogstar7925]

FireSpark81 Yeah, in hindsight I've seen that happen in my own farm. Thanks for the reply, that was really fast

[@TeufortCTF]

4:05 i took over one of these and made my base there... the person that was there is now buried

[@Cosporcos-Q]

Try protecting your base using brain blocks

[@Firespark81]

+He Who Betrays They are so hard to mine. I gotta test ways to get them faster..

[@zacharia4061]

ya the best way right now is maxed lvl manter muniplutor

[@natesimon4782]

+FireSpark81 if the moth traps only work at night will a completely dark planet (like on frozen stars) always generate silk?

[@Firespark81]

Nope it is based on sols. Those planets appear to be always night but they are not. If you look at them on your nav screen they have sols just like other planets.

[@echtvergoldet]

can you see the day cycle in the new navigator? Man I miss the old one...

[@badtime6532]

her* it's the mother poptop

[@simiczero3163]

Supreme Leader Lazarus Its a adult Poptop :D

[@badtime6532]

*An adult and the game specifically refers to it as a mother

[@temacore1057]

This one is Mother Poptop,specific boss on lush planets. They different,then Adult Poptop. They can spawn poptops and has 500 hp, Adult ones can't spawn poptops and also got only 180 hp Also,when you capture Mother she transphorm in to Adult Poptop and losing all her abilities.

[@normalhello7507]

What are the befits for making a village on a planet? PLEASE RESPOND I NEED TO KNOW!!!!!

[@CarBENbased]

I don't understand how you're getting the infinite water to drip, shouldn't it just level off? could you elaborate please?

[@Firespark81]

You would think it would level off but starbound fluids don't work that way. They have pressure until they fill a whole area and are level. Because I have this below sea level and a hole in the background it can never find that equilibrium, so it drips. The same would go if I had a tank of water above it. Hope that helped.

[@sam248]

They fixed the moon weapon farming in a recent update guys...

[@Firespark81]

Yup it appears they fixed it in today's patch. playstarbound.com/starbound-1-1-changelog/ I'll see if this is still a thing on moons you have already been to or not.

[@sam248]

Awesome if you find it out get back to me if you can. Also its cool to think that theres a chance the devs are watching your channel, because that may be how they found out

[@the_stray_cat]

dose anyone know if the watered down fuel still works?

[@tvojamama4888]

Why is your navigation console different than mine 2:30?

[@Terraphice]

Because this was a 3 year old video.

[@dr.cheeze5382]

how do you spawn infintite weter (what is the name of the pump thing)?

[@tt-wisty6878]

He was using the ocean water. I don't know the name of the punm.

[@tt-wisty6878]

Pump*

[@taruix603x5]

I love it

[@spongthe1st]

Cool vid. I am trying to make the fuel tank in my game (well several, one for fuel, one for lava and one for poison) but can you tell me what the small gate that lets the water in is called? I can't seem to find anything like it on any of my crafting stations. Also what is the logic panel that the sensors are wired to?

[@Firespark81]

+spongthe1st it's in the crafting station that crafts all the furniture and stuff it's with the doors all the way at the bottom. Pretty sure it's just called a gate lol.

[@spongthe1st]

Thanks! Yeah I found it actually it is just the gate lol. I also figured out which logic panel it is: a "NOT" panel. One other thing I noticed, I expected the drain system would drain the liquid into the tank below but in my game the liquid just gets vented into...well I dunno where, the ether, the ocean? who knows. Is that how it is with yours too?

[@Firespark81]

+spongthe1st yes the drain is just meant to remove liquid.

[@houssgoldnightcore6764]

I love your vidéo toi earn à sub

[@zendokai1527]

LMAO This is absolutely hilarious, but effective afk farming.

[@Firespark81]

Yup! I have to hand it to the devs they did not make it easy to afk farm.

[@benjaminferrigan899]

What is your power like when you run ?

[@jackricho3505]

it is a sprint get it with tech card upgrade

[@synovialthered6003]

My cave is exactly the same

[@tt-wisty6878]

Fluffalo

[@tree320]

how to unstack item

[@tt-wisty6878]

Your intellect reminds me of kan's

[@Firespark81]

No idea who that it.

[@solzuchtvalashu5794]

i thought moons are patched again, so u do not gain these stuff anymore.

[@Firespark81]

I just tested it. Still working fine for me.

[@solzuchtvalashu5794]

meant as new generated moons wont have these difficulty setting again (maybe)

[@Firespark81]

Not sure about that one. Will have to test that later.

[@KirokireHameraky]

craft a LOT of molotovs and sell them

[@Firespark81]

+Kirokire Interesting idea!

[@Absent641]

this is inhuman. im calling PETA

[@Firespark81]

Let me know what they say.

[@Absent641]

they told me they approve. hahaha keep up the videos! love it

[@comicsans6138]

What's that afk gun thing? And now moons are threat 1 right? So it's nerfed

[@Firespark81]

Yup I mention that in other videos. :)The gun is a turret.

[@comicsans6138]

FireSpark81 ok thanks

[@1giuz]

What's the lowest sols planet you've found ?

[@Firespark81]

12 so far.

[@1giuz]

maybe that's the lowest it can go, i haven't found a planet bellow 12 :p

[@tooktook51]

i was thinking of doing a fluffalo farm on an asteroid field, seeing how long it would take.

[@Firespark81]

That is interesting because I don't think they have days. Hmmmm. You should test that and let me know what you find out.

[@tooktook51]

well they have a day cycle, as in you still harvest from from them but it was inconsistent, sometimes it took 11min, then others 15, and then 9. i found the best was to have it on your ship, 12min every time, and didnt matter what sol the planet you were above was

[@monleyslumpd1561]

yay my cmt . Early game, when everybody can't make turret, they can do like this imgur.com/2TZMXif

[@Firespark81]

I can't get that link to work. Did it get cut off cause it's so long? Maybe try imgur... Hope you get it to work cause I wanna see your set up. I like to know things :)

[@monleyslumpd1561]

i'm fix link above :). early game i'm build base on starting planet, and farm poptop baby with lava . get pixel, meat and sell poptop figure.

[@Firespark81]

Got the link to work now. This is a great idea.

[@monleyslumpd1561]

thanks :)

[@maikawebster2438]

did u find out how much u make per hour?

[@HopeArk]

Can't you just put it in your ship :P

[@HopeArk]

The moth traps

[@a_pufferfish3468]

0:07 if you dont want to watch the intro

[@Dearon_]

do /admin and then do /spawnitem Money 999999

[@Firespark81]

+Theomin Lirbank that's a great idea your the first one to mention it. Gj

[@metalyoshi5k]

Theomin Lirbank first of all, you have to beat the game to use admin mode, and that’s no fun.

[@ming8916]

Metal Yoshi 5000 no you can use it whenever

[@tt-wisty6878]

Is the pixel spawn code real y MONEY?

[@amegatron07]

whats the fun in playing the game such way?

[@paultannock2066]

Who disliked? D:

[@kaskins117]

i know right!? this vids great learned alot from him already keep up the good work

[@DOKA-ij5mr]

lol 11111 views

[@JacobKinsley]

Why do you sound so upset? Every time you talk you sound like you really don't want to be talking.

[@TheMCCraftingTable]

Back in the days I built a poptop farm merely to get the action figure lol (it did work) Also, the quicker way to fill the fuel duping would be to use more floodgates.