starbound
I need a lot of Pixels to craft the various shiny weapons and armor that I have my eye on. However, the only ways that I can find to acquire Pixels are by killing enemies repeatedly, and by finding capsules underground. Neither method seems particularly quick, and frequent combat has its own associated risks.
Is there a better way? What is the fastest way to earn Pixels?
The only way to store pixels (as of yet) is via the Pixel Compressor.
Pixel Compressor is a crafting station used to turn pixels into tradeable/storable items called voxels. Decompressing these voxels will yield the equivalent amount of pixels back, it provides a way to trade pixels to others as well as protect pixel loss from death.
This crafting station is crafted at the Architect's Table (third tier Inventor's Table), and requires
You can only compress 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10000 pixels. To decompress them, simple use the decompress table (which acts much like the sell window on a merchant).
You can use campfires to warm up on frozen planets. Just keep one in your toolbar and you should be fine. Nights seem warmer on frozen planets, so you might want to go on adventure at night and stay at camp during day time.
The gear you're looking for in the spinning wheel (Yarn Spinner) is called Snow Infantry gear.
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Exploring the surface for large buildings can prove quite fruitful, as many of the chests and containers therein will contain large caches of pixels. Take them. All of them. As of right now (shortly after the Frustrated Koala update), NPCs don't even get mad if you take their stuff from their containers.
If you cant' find such structures easily, there's another way to find large pixel caches.
Dig deeper down.
The world I am on has a huge underground cavern that has tons and TONS of capsules full of pixels. dig down deep enough, and you'll start running into them all over the place.
This area is dangerous though, so be prepared.
For extra bits, make sure you kill monsters with a strong Melee weapon, which provides a high chance of them dropping bits (with ranged weapons, the chance for bits to drop is lower due to a higher chance to drop meat and leather instead).