justporter: That's always an invigorating feeling, not knowing how or when you may be able to leave. Feeling stuck until you explore farther and farther away until you find something that helps you out.

I'm exploring an awesome planet now, and I don't want to leave. Gold is everywhere, and tons of other things to help me get rich and expand my inventory space. But I want to move on to the next system...

Socratatus: It can be very dangerous to start getting cocky...

Found a very high toxicity planet, explored a bit then saw a crashed ship. It was better than what I had. I wanted it.

Problem was, my suit couldn`t really handle too much of this toxicity. I`d need to repair this ship and not end up stuck on this planet. However, there was a huge Heridium column that made me confident I`d find everything else I needed.

Well 2 hours later, I`m still looking for more Heridium. I used up the first column fixing the shields. I would`ve fixed the thrusters first, but since the ship was part underground I reckoned some shielding would protect it from damage on start-up and was more imprtant to fix first than the thrusters - It was a judgement call.

I only need 22 Heridium to get me taking off, but can I find it? Heck no.

Add to that the really frequent toxic storms and nights and it`s quite a nightmare. Several times I`ve been caught out in the open searching and ran out of zinc for my suit. Only a cave I found saved me. I had to sit in it OVERNIGHT which was quite a long time game wise, I dunno, felt like an hour, but was probably about 15 minutes. Those caves saved me.

Made it back to the ship just in time for another ruddy toxic storm... Saved game.

I think I may have been a bit too cocky....

I wonder if I can re-use my old ship? It`s still there.

Desjay: Why on Earth would you not fix your only mode of transportation's engines first?

If you can save enough to get out of the atmosphere you can at least mine a ton of Thruster fuel from the asteroids

justporter: That's always an invigorating feeling, not knowing how or when you may be able to leave. Feeling stuck until you explore farther and farther away until you find something that helps you out.

I'm exploring an awesome planet now, and I don't want to leave. Gold is everywhere, and tons of other things to help me get rich and expand my inventory space. But I want to move on to the next system...

cyion: I'm in the exact same situation as you right now.

Also to Socratatus:

I think if you use your grenades, you can tunnel into the ground anywhere and make your own cave. I know I make tunnels all the time to go from cave to cave mining gold.

Socratatus: I wonder if I can re-use my old ship? It`s still there.

Sardonyx: Yes, you can reclaim your ship old ship. However, it doesn't seem abandoned ships persist in the save file. If you save the game and exit, I don't think it will be there when you log back in. At least, the times I've exited the game in a new ship sitting next to an old one I, the old one was gone when re-starting the game.

Sardonyx: Yes, you can reclaim your ship old ship. However, it doesn't seem abandoned ships persist in the save file. If you save the game and exit, I don't think it will be there when you log back in. At least, the times I've exited the game in a new ship sitting next to an old one I, the old one was gone when re-starting the game.

trusteft: I needed protection from the weather once (that was like 2 hours in the game) and what I did was mine a hole inside a heridium column and get inside it with my jetpack. At that moment I knew I was going to like this game.

misscrabtree456: How do you reclaim old ships, just for future reference?

Socratatus: I don`t think you can.