Alien Sky: Particularly during night on a planet, the player can usually see the other planets in the subsystem.Alien Non-Interference Clause: Someone averted this for the Avians, giving them advanced technology directly to prevent them dying out.Some foods are more alien than others, like Oculemons (fruits that look like eyeballs) and Automatoes (metallic tomatoes). Alien Lunch: A given since you're now living among the stars and likely hunting and gathering when you start off.Most of them will attempt to shoot at the player. On lower-risk planets (i.e., peaceful ones like Garden or Forest biomes) these are generally limited to the odd ruins of a stone or wooden house, but on more dangerous planets such as those with a Toxic or Scorched biome the background picture makes it pretty clear this planet used to have a pretty advanced civilization until the climate went to hell. Many planets bear the ruins of previous inhabitants.The game begins with you barely escaping the destruction of Earth by a giant tentacle monster from space.And as if that wasn't enough, it also increases its speed relative to how much fuel you're carrying! There's also the tiny matter of the fact that it is completely invincible.

It will constantly advance on you, and has a corrosive aura that kills you in seconds if you get too close. The Erichus Ghost begins to hound you the second you mine a single bit of fuel from a moon. There's even a gun that shoots tentacles! Meanwhile, grenade launchers can shoot rounds that resemble Mario's fireball, cluster bouncing grenades, and even mice and pigs. Abnormal Ammo: Uncommon and rarer guns can shoot bullets with special effects, such as ricocheting shots, piercing shots, bullets that split into two shortly after leaving the barrel, and (for legendary guns only) Sticky Bomb bullets that attach to solid blocks and explode when an enemy touches them.There's one guaranteed on every starting planet.

They're filled with aliens not native to the planet's surface and often filled with plenty of useful items stored away.

Abandoned Mine: A possible randomly generated area on planets.

It seems sometimes the Apex Miniknog take their experiments too far.

Abandoned Laboratory: A possible randomly generated area on planets.

The game receives semi-regular content updates and bugfixes, with the 1.4 Bounty Hunter update as the final update as of June 2019. Beta was released on December 4th, 2013 for all who preordered the game, and the final game was released on July 22nd, 2016.

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