Hmm I know I already made a couple of posts, I got my first sovereign. I haven’t even gotten an atlas or a world control yet just running around since I got off of work. Still I don’t want to flood the screen shots thread
There are some icy deserts here, lots of interesting terrain. Mostly so far as I wanted to try and merge some gleam shapes I’ve been to a couple of lakes.
My favourites to explore are t3 and t4 sovereigns.
Mapped many of them, just like exploring peoples little worlds. Some sweet stuff can be found if it comes to biome merging.
For example wells and flat tops biomes make interesting neighbours. And flower field 2 makes a good neighbour for most other biomes, on the gentler slope side of it where it always spawns a pond. Seen some cool effects of that merger.
Also, going 3+ biomes over the required minimum creates more tiny bits shoved in between other biomes. Like single tall tree on a cliff or a couple of gleam trees with a bit of water in the middle of a farm field.
I can take some higher distance shots and even some panoramics for you at some point if you want. Could be something we go through together if we could both arrange a time, too.
This seems to have come out pretty interesting anyway. Closest planet to access this?
I’m not sure if it’s cooler if you found the same one, or there’s a few of them. I think it’s near the portal though. I haven’t actually managed to spend a lot of time here.
I love these too. I think I’m logged out inside one now.
That’s also a very picturesque meteor shot, good catch on any planet.
Thank you! Haha, for this there’s going to be a post about me I edited some of what I typed so if you don’t want to read a little story the next post will be more screenshots.
This planet is pretty awesome, so far.
I haven’t actually spent a ton of time there, just wandering around for a couple hours. I think I’ve been in ten regions now, I haven’t brought an atlas.
That makes it extra easy to get distracted
It’s T3 so it has a pretty broad range of biomes. I took the required minimums but it’s enough to make a lot of mash-ups and very interesting features, to me. It’s been literally years since I did any serious “exploring” in Boundless. I remember the rush of exos for a while but after a bit of that I was still mostly just going to high tier ones and grinding anyways.
For the past couple of years I’ve done more or less but mostly just the same stuff until I decided to clean up my “mess” and see how that felt. I spent literally a couple of months just getting almost all of my places reclaimed and sorted and packed down into a single giant pile of stuff. Cleaned out all my alts, deleted the useless ones, etc …
The hunt for a new base was recent but, end of the day it was just a review of the same stuff in large part I do want a “main base” on a public world though. I started TRONK - that build is idling in an ok place and it was great fun again for a minute, as well.
But then I returned to wandering the caves, heh. I paused in large part to watch my new set of builds decay. And also my last shops which has got me some more reclaims scattered onto alts again More sorting to do.
Also I was getting some other stuff in order and remembered about the various accounts/emails/etc… I had associated with Boundless and wanting to get that “sorted” as well.
So everything was in order at my end, there’s a bit more positivity going around right now, and I decided to give it a go. Besides being one of the only parts of the game I haven’t participated in (sov/creative “rolling”) I want to explore the associated mechanics for managing beacons and reclaims.
I still have to empty a 4+ million item reclaim at least once I think, to get it all move into my main’s mess. The other one with a recent shop reclaim (I haven’t checked) should be under 100k items. Also a sad day but the Classy Cuttletrunk Is gone, R.I.P.
So with that many of my gameplay hours will be on this planet for the next 30 days I think. But it won’t be a crazy amount of hours, probably. At the end of that time, if I don’t find something that really excites me, I’m thinking I’d rather roll again than fuel this planet. At least, that’s the idea going into it. I’m clearly not in a rush to build and I don’t want to just take home the first puppy I see
With that said, so far Zarastria is pretty beautiful. I selected some high contrast colors that I like - they’re a bit much together though. It does make for some pretty striking views. At the price point of a small world I think it’s worth it just to go on a planet and be like “Yeah well, I made this. This one’s mine”.
It tickles me endlessly to “own” so many gleam ■■■■■
Totally worth it for a one-off. Two thumbs up. I’m not sure if It will convince me to keep a plant
So last night I went around. Not yet tonight. I headed generally north from the lake I’ve been posting photos around, overland.
The planet is pretty craggy, think Gloviathosa. I picked prominent caves because I like them but they hit the surface in grids all over. Since even in low foliage areas the caves on this planet are leafy - for me it’s pretty cool.
I did ask for, and get a lot of flat space. But much of it has holes in it. I was surprised by this ash plain:
For me this is awesome. I love the lush boundless environments. I love the caves. @NerArth has seen some stuff I was fumbling with on Alcyon recently and this planet is, literally, perfect for that. You could create an entire “Ewok Village” type experience here but with rock instead of trunk. Shadows and waterfalls and clean runs all the way down to large sections of exposed (but usually under water) mantle.
lol what’s even happening with this thing? I saw more of these later on a flat, the tree part I mean. That has to be part of a biome. But in this spot it’s a lot of stuff. This night pic you can see rock, gravel, soil, grass, multiple foliage, multiple trunk, thorn, tangle, ice, gleam - I’m not maybe describing it well but altogether it was a lot going on
Just because I have them and I don’t remember posting them here are a couple of shots from before I reset the colors. The rocks were a LOT brighter and the foliage was blue.
Did you notice the Oortian (man) shaped hole in the foreground?
Looks like someone was sacrificed at such an important structure
The dude was even wielding a rather large slate colored rock.
Yeah, it’s weird. It’s very difficult to make clear some of these planet features without like 5 shots just for one little feature. (Actually, this makes me think of something I need to try)
When I’ve explored this world so far, I did think that the leafyness of it would be something you’d quite like. The extensive pine forests are like the ones on Xa Frant I think and work quite well on this world.
I would have preferred the old rock colours, but no surprise there.
I edited some of what I typed so if you don’t want to read a little story the next post will be more screenshots.
I do want a “main base” on a public world though. I started TRONK - that build is idling in an ok place and it was great fun again for a minute, as well.
More sorting to do.
