This whole time I thought bobbers your uncle 
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This is how we get religion.
I am at the point in my new save where I’d rather build a mining base than dig up a surface deposit. The mineral of the moment being paraffinium. I’ve played enough to know that every salvaged ship requires more than I am likely to have on hand unless I have a mining base with a full silo, and a lot of times the deposits are kinda small so it can even take digging up more than one.
So off I go to a recently observed tropical planet, thinking there’s nothing else that I need there. I already have a copper mine, and a tapped oxygen cloud. The other available mineral is cobalt, and I basically never run low on cobalt. And if I ever did, well, I have a tapped oxygen cloud.
So all I want is a coastal location with a paraffin source. Even an energy hot spot is optional, really. A single mine can run on solar well enough. It’s not like I’m actively looking for that ideal spot to settle in and build a home base. So I aim at what looks to be the coast and hit the gas.
Next thing you know I am flying along the coast. Pretty enough, blue water, green grass, palm trees… I pop a pod map to see if it gives me a particular place to land and…of course it leads me a million miles inland. After fixing the pod and wandering a bit…and harvesting a 1500 unit paraffin deposit…I fly back to the coast. I’m just gonna land anywhere and start prospecting…but…
Sure, might as well land there and see what Hirk has to say. So Hirk blesses travelers like me. Thanks HIrk, but are these empty words…? There is a great beach to build on right next to this little island…let’s see…
Hit the scanner.
These are taken from straight above the beach. There’s a paraffin hot spot right off that point. 200 units away, won’t even have to fool around with extending construction boundaries. Platform in the water will be great for shallow water fishing. Thanks Hirk!
Across this channel, up against where the water hits that big hourglass rock, is a power hot spot. The rock goes way back in there before it flares out to hit the seabed, and the channel is deep. Floating barge power plant, again less than 300 units away. Perfect for deep water fishing.
Thanks again Hirk!
And so begins a life of zealotry.
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This is the foundation for most amigarumi. You can now crochet your add ons. Add a couple of cute eyes and some dangling tentacles and you a have cute octopus 
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Valleys deep and mountains high
And that was just the start of what this planet has to offer in terms of vistas.
Mountain range after mountain range, valley after valley. It didn’t stop - although the destination got closer ever so slightly after each stop. Which was every five meters or so, because that planet is littered with knowledge stones and other collectibles.
Sometimes I got really lucky with their distribution - two machineries and three knowledge stones at the same spot.
Is this actually the light of the sky illuminating the bottom side of this platform? The lightning introduced with Worlds II leaves me speechless again and again.
On the journey goes, reaching mountain peaks where you can actually see the curvature of the planet!
Even with my Roamer exocraft and my ship my inventory got full all the time, making me set up a marker, flying to my base, emptying my stuff, then continuing on the journey. Which is when I encountered a strange incident, just as I was flying above the ranges: Two trading ships apparently battling each other for no apparent reason.
Ignoring the skirmish, I continued on my way, the mountain peaks apparently growing ever higher. Some lakes being so far at the bottom, they can’t be seen due to the haze most of the time.
A transmission tower is always a welcome sight on my travels, even though it can cause detours to gain a crashed ship. This time it wasn’t the case however, in fact it neatly aligned with my destination. No need for a detour at all.
When getting to the bottom of a valley, most often caused by lakes, the surrounding heights are appearing all the more impressive.
And again the sun is setting after another day of long travel, filled with discovery and wonder. Not much longer until I finally reach my destination … the first of many.
The ocean getting closer is a sign for my …
... for this journey soon to end.
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The new lighting system really is just endlessly breathtaking and doing a lot of the lifting with the wow factor on the new terrain gen. I didn’t realise just how much until I went to a yellow star system I was familiar with and it brought so much new life into the hillsides and vistas.
I think I’d been musing I’d find it hard to go back to y/r/g/b systems after purple but they look absolutely stunning too, I take back what I said.
I keep thinking the game finally has the look and tone that’s been present in its concept art and cover art, it’s been close but now it feels wholly representative of it.
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Ran one of the Nexus missions and was sent here. Strange planet. Collecting storm crystals. It was very hot, very dark.
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I like how there are different varieties of many tiered trees, everyone came to the party on theme.
Not sure milks the right tool for the job lil buddy
Big torch, little torch (cardboard box)
Sandstorm wall
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One Nexus mission took me here.
Fascinating place. The caves weave in and out of and mingle with the terrain.
But the excavating crew needs to be replaced
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You have me wanting to take a break from fishing and do a nexus missions, maybe there’ll be fishing on offer 
A wandering, pondering, existential Sentinel.
Aeron, or aeroff? That is the question…
Fishing up a storm (200 bionic lure later, still no medium sized toxic legendary. )
Edit: Just checked, it’s nocturnal, gonna save my bait and work on my backstroke during the day
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Reaching the destination
It took hours upon hours of traveling in my Roamer, gathering resources and items, flying back to my base to store all the collected stuff and then returning to the Roamer to continue the journey.
Pretty much the only hazard on this planet are the electromagnetic disruptions, which are more of an eye candy if viewed from afar.
Stumbling across this ruin was a welcome change of scenery.
This one might be the tallest mountain of the entire planet. It might be, it might not be - which makes me thinking that it would be nice to have a geology scanner as an upgrade that allows you to scan a planet for its highest / deepest point (and maybe other geological features?). Might be worth suggesting to HG.
And on it goes, searching abandoned buildings …
… enjoying sceneries …
… charting unknown lands.
As I got closer to the destination near the ocean, the rugged mountainscape gave way to plain hills. It wasn’t long until I witnessed the last sunset before reaching my destination …
… and the last morning on this journey. This image, you might’ve seen it before a few posts back, seemed perfect to encapsulate the incredible beauty of this planet. It was the last obstacle to overcome, before …
… I finally arrived.
And so this journey has come to an end.
It is kind of strange. When flying above a planet, I always keep lookout for outposts where I can land to check for its multi-tools and saving launch fuel. It never felt much special to arrive at an outpost. Even on foot.
This one however was a special one. Finally arriving at a seemingly random point after several days of traveling was … exceptionally satisfying and fulfilling to do.
After witnessing all these incredible sights this planet has to offer, realizing that I only surveyed a tiny, insignificant part of the planet - in fact, only a pretty straight and forward line - is an incredibly humbling experience. Now upscaling this to an entire system, an entire galaxy, an entire universe … this feeling hits even more intense.
It was never about the destination. In fact, both the multi-tool and the crashed ship just a few minutes away were both C-Class. Rather disappointing, taking such a long journey to receive lackluster equipment for it.
And yet it wasn’t a waste. Far from it. Not only could I gather all four stellar materials by digging out buried cache, enabling the emeril warp drive from the get-go, I acquired lots and lots of nanites, upgrade modules (some x-class ones even surpassing max s-class stats) and Korvax words … lots and lots of words.
Though even more important than all the materials and achievements during this journey are the memories of incredible awe and astonishment. On this fictional planet, I made real memories. Maybe some of them will pass and become forgotten - just as everything. But those moments were … are real.
Still, this was just the beginning. The journey continues. It always will. Once it won’t, it has been concluded. It just is, until it isn’t anymore.
Having arrived in the Eissentam galaxy, a new adventure awaits. Although not as long and detailed as before, I’ll make sure to give the planets I come across an apt description and fitting impressions.
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