I made the first snow planet I found in the alpha sector my homeworld and have been slowly working on my castle. I am wondering if maybe I should wait before getting too comfortable on this planet if there are more benefits to being on a tougher planet?
What benefits are there to having a homeworld with a higher threat level
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As of the patch that rebalanced armor, weapons, and enemy difficulty, this fight has become much easier. I completed it easily with one or two bandages, copper armor, an iron bow, and an iron melee weapon. The summoned penguins all died in one to two shots of my Hunting Knife. After that I just needed to keep firing arrows at the mothership and occasionally dodge its blast. Even if I got hit, bandages could easily keep up with the damage.
I'm pretty sure you don't even need to bother with copper armor to beat this in its current state. Unless you're absolutely terrible at combat, you probably need only the following to take out this boss:
- An iron weapon such as the Hunting Knife (10 iron bars, 30 pixels), to dispatch penguin enemies quickly.
- The iron bow (15 iron bars, 150 pixels, and your previous hunting bow) to shoot at the mothership. You could probably do it with the normal Hunting Bow too, but why make the fight more tedious on yourself?
- Bandages (4 plant fibre each). 10 should be plenty, but if you want to be sure, just stock up on a bunch.
- A basic shield (10 wood planks, 10 iron bars, 20 pixels) is by no means necessary, but binding it to the right mouse button can be handy so that you can block while bandaging yourself. You can use bandages while blocking, which means you can basically back yourself into a corner and become immune to damage (or at least take greatly reduced damage) while you heal.
Total resource cost to prepare for this fight (assuming you've already crafted everything along the quest line to get the ship to appear): 35 iron bars, 10 wood planks, 200 pixels, and 40+ plant fibres.
If you've got the copper handy and want to make yourself some copper armor, knock yourself out. I don't think you'll need it though. And if, like me, you had a ton of silver sitting around too, keep in mind that after this fight, you'll probably just be upgrading straight to silver armor anyway, since it unlocks soon after.
Current version of Starbound allows to teleport to home planet from ship.
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Planets in different/later sectors can have different allocations of ore, as well as different Biomes not available in the Alpha sector.
Note that the ore distribution differences can be a double edged sword - if you are doing something that needs Iron (say, you downloaded a new mod that requires Iron for its crafting station) but your home planet is in Delta or X Sector, you're quite unlikely to find it in any reasonable quantities. You'll also be unable to build your planet on a Tentacle or Magma planet in Alpha sector, because they aren't present there.
The flipside to this, however, is that on lower-level planets (like in Alpha sector), you're at considerably less risk of murder, mutilation, and mayhem caused by the local wildlife. Even Impervium armor only goes so far on threat level 10 planets in Sector X, but it will basically invalidate the threat of enemies in Alpha Sector.