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[Gentlefish]

Anyone know where to look to find Uranium? I'm guessing radioactive stars but I can't survive on their planets at the moment.

Radioactive planets. I found a load on a jungle world.

But how do I survive down there? Presumably some tech I don't have yet?

Yeah, there's a radiation suit. Get it from a hylotl who wants a bunch of kelp at the outpost.

[jhxmt]

Anyone know where to look to find Uranium? I'm guessing radioactive stars but I can't survive on their planets at the moment.

Radioactive planets. I found a load on a jungle world.

But how do I survive down there? Presumably some tech I don't have yet?

Yeah, there's a radiation suit. Get it from a hylotl who wants a bunch of kelp at the outpost.

I think you can also find small amounts of uranium on non-radioactive planets.  I found some while I was digging out fuel on an atmosphere-less moon (early on - I only had steel tech).

Edit: wait, no, sorry, my mistake - I was thinking of plutonium.  I always get those two mixed up.  I'd make a terrible nuclear safety inspector.

[Slayerhero90]

What purpose is plutonium? It's not used in any armor tier.

[Flying Dice]

Was the third tier of fuel last time I checked. Coal -> Uranium -> Plutonium -> Solarium. Not sure what it might do now, since I haven't played for a while.

[Slayerhero90]

Was the third tier of fuel last time I checked. Coal -> Uranium -> Plutonium -> Solarium. Not sure what it might do now, since I haven't played for a while.

Yeah, none of those are valid fuels anymore.

[scriver]

What purpose is plutonium? It's not used in any armor tier.

You use it with titanium to make an alloy that ie used. The one that's called "something steel", iirc.

[Sergius]

Plutonium is only used in a ship upgrade I think.

[WillowLuman]

Since we can't use it for one things it (can) be used for IRL (nuclear fuel), we should be able to use it for the other thing (nuclear weapons).

As a side note, it should be impossible to mine plutonium.

[MaximumZero]

That's bothered me for a long time. It'd be like mining steel. Just not right.

[Ultimuh]

Well you guys never complained about the stuff you could mine in Terraria.
Or the ability to wear diamond armor in Minecraft.

[Sergarr]

Terraria (and minecraft) are magic-themed, so there's more leeway given to them.

Starbound is sci-fi themed, so you can't simply get away with that.

[BigD145]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

[Ultimuh]

Terraria (and minecraft) are magic-themed, so there's more leeway given to them.

Starbound is sci-fi themed, so you can't simply get away with that.

Exactly. Science-FICTION. Not Science-Reality.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Plus, like, Plutonium totally can occur naturally, admittedly in trace quantities generally. But we're dealing with spehss planets, in spehss.

[Sergarr]

Terraria (and minecraft) are magic-themed, so there's more leeway given to them.

Starbound is sci-fi themed, so you can't simply get away with that.

Exactly. Science-FICTION. Not Science-Reality.

It's a tradition in science-fiction to EXPLAIN the reason behind the "fiction" elements.

Is there an explanation in spacebound why you can mine STEEL?