Starbound :: Part 3 :: The Erchius Mining Facility

How's it going everyone, welcome to

another episode of Starbound. As you can

see, I've done a few different things to

the area that we're working with. I don't

know what I just did. How do you--? There

we go, it's 'Ctrl', not 'C', ha. But yeah,

I've done a few different things to the

place, let me go ahead and zoom it out for

you, so we can see everything.

I added in this little storage area,

it's really temporary, but I just kinda

wanted to do it someplace to put this,

crafting, you know, situation. Then just

a general little storage area for like,

blocks and what not. Very much temporary,

I do plan on making this whole thing look

a lot better, you know. Once we kinda

progress in the game. But the farm is

doing well, as well. Check that out. Look

at all this food that we have! We have

popcorn, which I could eat. We have

pearlpeas, rice, all kinds of stuff. Like

I said - popcorn, baked potatoes, steak,

fish even, poultry, roasted carrots.

I mean we have everything right now. And

it's all growing really well. This has very useful, so far.

But anyways,

what are we doing today? We are finally,

going to, you know, play along with the

story line of the game. If we've been up

to the ship. You should see I should

probably have, I believe I have, like 40

or so core-fragments, yes, 41. I think I

actually have more in my inventory

somewhere. Yep, 24. So we are loaded

with core-fragments, and other things.

Actually, while I'm here, we may as well

go the furnace, which is up here, and go

ahead and get our, you know, bars here for

what we have. I've done a little bit of

caving, I haven't really done much since

the last episode. But you know, I've just

been playing the game a little bit, and

doing the grind. The stuff you guys don't

really want to see on camera. But yeah,

we're looking good in terms of ore, like

we're pretty set up. We might better do

some armour here soon, who knows? And

even with the matter manipulator stuff, or

the module stuff, I don't know. We're

doing it on that as well. But yeah, I

think we are probably going to be seeing

some new stuff today, cause I heard that

the story line is pretty different from

what it normally is. Let me see, yeah,

there we go, Two manipulator modules, and

yeah, I think that's pretty much all the

important stuff that I want to get out of

my inventory, before I go out and die. I

mean seriously, it's very easy to die in

this game and lose everything now. It's

really scary. Let me go ahead and craft

some of these. I guess we'll make like 10,

or so, why not. I mean I've got a good

amount already, but it couldn't hurt to

get more. If we go over here to the side,

MM upgrade thing, we can see, kinda like

what it would require to upgrade

certain things. And this allows us

to get liquid. This allows us to,

well, it basically increases the range

by two tiles.

This one increases the quickness of it,

and this one basically affects the area,

so, I'm pretty sure, yeah, it can go

up to five tiles, we can go up to 300%

faster, 6 tiles farther than we're used to,

and, y'know, be able to get all kinds of

stuff. This is wire mode. So there's--

there's plenty of stuff that we want to be

able to unlock. I think for now

the first thing we're really going to

go for is power, or maybe even

the three tiles, I don't know yet.

But I know that what we're about to do

should, y'know, produce a good amount

of modules. [Laughs] But, basically

we're gonna grab some of these

core fragments. I think we need, like

maybe twenty...? So let's just grab that

first, and let's go over to our quests,

and continue tracking. So it says

"Use the core fragments

to activate the gate." I kinda wanna

bring a little bit more just in case,

so let's bring like, 15 more...? I don't

really know what it requires, but

hopefully it's not, y'know, too much.

But yeah, while I was, y'know, away

over the past week, I did a Starbound

tutorial video for the house featured

in this Let's Play, so go check that out

if you're interested. I did mention it

last episode, so you guys probably

already know about it, but just in case

you missed it--There we go--[inaudible]

--Yeah, ok cool. But anways, I'm gonna

walk over to the ancient gate real quick

and I will see you guys in just a moment.

All right, it looks like this is it.

It's got a little blue arrow now, if we

activate it, it requires 20. Let's go ahead

and activate it. "You appear to have

successfully activated the gate

and it seems another message is

coming through." Hmm. This is

a little familiar, a little different

though: "Please come, I urgently

require help, the universe depends

on it. Use the ancient gateway and

meet me in the ark ruins just past the

outpost." Alright, so I guess let's just

see where this takes us. It's already a

little bit different than what it was.

What I remember is it being its own little

planet and if I'm correct, the area that

we're trying to go is this way.

Yes! There it is! There's the outpost!

I'm so happy to finally be able to access

this because with the outpost you can, like

seriously get--where are the pixels at?

Whatever. [Laughs] You can get pretty

much anything you need and it's so nice.

But I do need to figure out how many

pixels we have, I don't know where

to see that information, 'cause up here

it's not there anymore. I don't know.

It's probably somewhere.[Laughs] I'll be--

yeah, the outpost, we've been here before,

definitely, not in this Let's Play though.

No! What's wrong with Terra Mart? It's

broken down, that so sad! Ok, you've

got stuff to say, don't you? And I don't

think there's ever really anything, y'know,

in these cases. There might be in some.

No, it looks like they're all pretty

empty. But we're going to one--why are

you following me? [Laughs] We're going

to one location--she's gonna jump! She's

very interested in me. This is a little

weird.[Laughs] I'm able to outrun her,

though, so we're all good. Man, she's even

coming over here--ok--maybe I should see:

"Enjoys travel, wants to see whole universe."

Ok, yeah, that's great! Y'know, I mean,

you might want some friends, I get it, but

I'm a little busy at the moment. [Laughs]

I think this is where we're wanting to

go, it did say right past the outpost, and

maybe not? I can't teleport other than

to the ship. Maybe it's even further past

that? Yeah, still following, aren't

ya? Can I--naw, I'm not gonna [Laughs].

Ok so this definitely looks different,

it's--oh, they ran away, something's not

good here. [Laughs] That's really not good,

they were like, NOPE!

[Sings: Hell-naaaw]

That's basically what they just did.

And uh, alright, here we go.

"Hello dear! Is that a Matter Manipulator

you're carrying? Excellent, so you're a

protector. I'm sorry to say, perhaps the

last, after the...The terrible destruction

of Earth...It's sadly inevitable that we

should meet now...

My name is Esther Bright, retired

Grand Protector.

I left some years ago, an impossible

decision; but my research could not be

neglected.

I discovered things long forgotten that

weigh heavy on the present."

[Goofy voice: Stoory time!]

[Deep voice] LONG AGO [Laughs]

[Feminine voice] "Long ago, there was a

force known as the cultivator, it maintained

balance in the universe.

Under its influence, harmony reigned.

So it was for aeons. But this tranquility

proved finite. A being arose, one of hate

and destruction. It was the Ruin."

This lady's got a deep voice.

"The ruin could not abide life in any form,

and reaped destruction upon the universe.

It fought to blot out all life, and would

have succeeded, but for the sacrifice

of the Cultivator.

The Cultivator rose against the Ruin, and

succeeded in sealing it away.

But in doing so, the Cultivator exhausted

its power completely. Before its last

energies dissipated, the Cultivator

gifted six chosen races with precious

artifacts.

These six artifacts, when united, form the

key that opens the gate to the Ruin.

The defenses are crumbling. We must unite

the artifacts, reach the Ruin, and truly

destroy it.

This is a lot to take in dear, and a huge

request to make of you...But I would like

your help.

The artifacts are scattered across the

stars, I can't find them alone.

We must find them and eradicate the Ruin,

before other planets go the way of

the Earth."

Ah, ok. So, we've learned a few different

things there. One, System Z is terrible

at reading [Laughs].

Two, [laughs], I don't know why I'm

holding three fingers up right now instead

of two.[Laughs].