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A.C. wrote:A guide to easy and quick progression

• Always cut down trees. Trees are the best fuel source for your ship. 1000 unrefined wood = a full fuel tank, which is enough for multiple jumps
• Don't stay on a planet! Don't dig below the surface! These are wastes of time!
• Go to a new planet with a Threat Level you think you can handle. Pick a direction and run across the surface.
• Keep chopping down trees! Mine any big ore deposits you see. Higher threat level planets will have large deposits of ore visible from the surface.
• Explore every dungeon/location you run across. Loot every chest/crate in villages (they have lots of ingots, pixels, and materials). Slaughter the villagers for more pixels if you want. Dungeons will give you thousands of pixels in no time - an Avian Temple on a Threat Level 6 planet earned me about 12k pixels from clearing it out. You'll have enough to buy anything in shops!
• If you find a larger-than-average enemy (every planet seems to have one), it will drop a magical weapon of some kind. Kill these, exploit the fact that attacks go through terrain by trapping them in blocks if you're not opposed.
• The only base you should keep is in your ship. Build a fortress on a planet later, for now, all of your crafting/storage can be handled on the ship.
• you can take anything you want from villages with no repercussions. Use this to get your anvil instead of wasting iron on it

That's it! Enjoy skipping all the tedium of mining and exploring caves (which currently seem to have no special loot to be found). It's really fun to just explore planets like this and you get more than enough resources to continue progression - it feels a lot faster than pretending you're playing Terraria.

All right, here's a post of random tips & tricks, since people keep asking very similar questions. Not really formatted well but might teach people something they were asking about.

- Holding shift while using the matter manipulator or placing blocks results in a 1x1 block instead of a 2x2 block.
- Right click when placing or destroying blocks to place or destroy the back wall.
- The L/R buttons on your hotbar can be used as a hotkey as well! Anything placed there will be switched to when you use 'x,' and you can use 'x' again to switch back to what you were holding beforehand. Try putting something you use often there, like your weapon.
- Hunting is done with the bow. Killing things with a bow makes it drop meat or leather, killing it with a sword or similar weapon makes it drop pixels. Meat does not always drop, so try killing multiple monsters with your bow until it does! [Soon there will be a hunting knife that allows for meat kills as well.] Alternatively, to grow things, make a stone hoe and till the soil at the top of the planet to make it viable for growing seeds in.
- To collect plants, tap e while near them.
- Things like campfires and crafting tables need to be 'used' (default button is e) to see what you can do with them. For things like crafting, be mindful of the buttons below which sort what recipes you know. If you need to find a recipe fast, search for it in the search bar.
- That "light" indicator bar at the bottom of your screen is actually your warmth meter. Get yourself near a campfire to heat up. You will die if your screen starts becoming foggy and you start losing health. [This will soon be a more obvious temperature indicator.]
- To regenerate health, you can sleep in something like a bed or a wagon. To do it faster, make bandages! First, build a spinning wheel from your crafting table, then collect plant fibres (by chopping down vines growing in caves) to create fabric, then make bandages (back at the crafting table).
- You can fly to a different planet, even if you haven't built the beacon! Go to your ship and use the terminal near the pilot's seat. Coal and unrefined wood can be used to add fuel to your engine. To zoom out of your system, right click.
- As an addendum, sometimes starting planets just seem barren of resources or fun things to explore. Don't be afraid to leave! However, mind cold & moon planets since they have harsher temperatures and may not be as easy to explore in.
- The distress beacon is a one-time use item and summons a really hard boss. Don't put it down until you're ready and be aware that you might need to save up and make one again.
- To repair your pickaxes, pick up ore from your inventory and right click on the pickaxe. I've actually had luck using copper to repair a gold pickaxe, but some people say you need to use same-or-higher quality ore to repair. Repairing brings it back to full durability which lets it go at its best speed.
- I suggest putting things like your anvil and crafting table on your ship. You'll always need them and you won't need to replace or take them with you when you fly to new planets.

DSMatticus wrote: I don't know why you'd complain about how grindy the pickaxes are