If you were to add one new kind of material to Starbound (for example, hellstone in Terraria), what would it be? I would like Hailstone. Maybe on the ice planet, you'll get a message that says something like "A hailstorm has begun!" If you aren't under cover at that time, you'd better hope that you're not hit by huge, falling hailstones. When the storm ends, it will be the middle of the night. There will be small craters here and there ringed with a small amount of "hailstone" (like much smaller meteor impacts in Terraria). Hailstone stuff is good, but slowly deteriorates when held in your inventory, so use it wisely. It will melt when the sun comes out, so mine it while you can. Discuss.
I dunno... having a metal called hailstone seems a little weird. And I would add Unobtainium. Basically once you place it, you can't (re)move it again no matter what. And if the planet blows up, there will still be your little unobtainium hut floating around in space.
Tyur - Bluish silver colored ore, found in hot places. Can craft very strong weapons, the material is almost as hard as obsidian.
Unobtanium is a general term for something you can't have. It's used in many sci-fi stories as a catch-all material to explain mysterious properties like anti-gravity or cold fusion. Kinda like how Metal Gear Solid 4 blamed everything on nanobots Materials can be named anything, like Germanium named after Germany. It would be cool to run into some new material with certain properties give it a nickname until it can be identified by your spaceship.
I would simply add platinum, as another basic tier after gold (even though we all know that they are both fairly malleable (but come on, this is a video game we're talking about here)), to extend the period between when you'll craft your weapons/armors and when you're gonna be carrying chest/boss drops around. Also, you should be able to create a gundam-style robot out of it. Ignore that last statement.
I thinks it confirmed, that Starbound won't have ores like terraria did. But that it'd have precious materials. So I guess, Diamonds. Diamonds are amazing.
Diamonds, amazing? Diamonds are too mainstream. Give me rubies, sapphires, emeralds, onyx... JADE! And... yeah. Imagine laser weapons crafted in such materials as these.
I don't know, you seemed to focus on jade really weirdly as we all know quasi-crystals beat the ever loving hell out of jade!
Excuse me, sir? I believe I did not hear well what you meant to tell me. Compare emeralds with jade. Same colour, right? But jade still slaughters the emerald in terms of hipsterity. I mean, gawd, jade is like THE magical and ritual material, emeralds are just fancy crystals for... Well, maybe chaneling green laser exploding beams through them à la prism cannon, but jade... I mean jade... DUDE, you can THROW IT AT PENGUIN'S FACES! P.S.: On a more serious note. Jade would be great to see. I know it's probably nothing really special but it always had a kind of mystical appearance to me, just like onyx. I guess I just like the names
White Coal. It provides more power than regular coal, can be smelted, made into special spheres, and those can be used to make "Sci-fi styled" energy.
Well I'd say gold is a "precious material", so its still possible. Plus gold is a very conductive metal, so even it could definitely be used for the electronics. Diamonds are also a metal, just ask /b/:
can i suggest bubble metals? metals/alloys smelted in zero G and then foamed with inert gases and yea i did just steal the idea from neal asher but his books are too fun!