Status Pod

Status Pod
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A status pod. Take your chances...

Common

500

Unobtainable Object

Status Pod is an object unobtainable by players through normal means. This item's information is present in the game files, but not intended by developers to be in players' possession.

Status Pod is a shrine type object^[1] which, when interacted with by pressing 'E', will shoot out projectiles or apply a status effect to the player. Status pods can be found on all types of planets. Before its destruction, the Terrene Protectorate seeded them on uninhabited worlds, to aid and encourage exploration.

Once used, the pod will collapse and the base will show a red light. After 15 minutes, the pod will raise back up and become usable again. Mining the pods will destroy them without triggering the effect.

Possible Status Pod Actions

Fast Health Regeneration: Releases gas which grants Fast Regeneration for 10 seconds. (Fast Regeneration heals at a rate of 10% of max health per second.)
Health Regeneration: Releases gas which grants Regeneration 4 for 120 seconds. (Regeneration 4 heals at a rate of 10% of max health per 3 seconds.)
Flame Spray: Releases Molotov flames which inflict Burning.
Poison Spray: Releases gas which inflicts weak poison on anything it touches. The poison lasts for 20 seconds.
Pixel Spray: Sprays 91 Pixels, one at a time.
Bomb Spread: Expels bombs in an arc, destroying tiles and damaging players, NPCs, monsters and objects caught in the blast, usually including the Status Pod itself.
Ore Seeding: Launches several Ore projectiles. Each projectile places a small number of ores in a 4 tile-wide area at its point of impact. If the tiles hit by the ore bombs cannot hold ores (e.g. Loose Silt), nothing happens.

The type of ore spread by the Ore Seeding effect depends on the threat level of the planet:

Tier 1 (Low) and above - Copper Ore
Tier 3 (Risky) and above - Copper Ore, Silver Ore
Tier 5 (Extreme) and above - Copper Ore, Silver Ore, Gold Ore, Diamond

Note: Each type of ore seeding is counted as one possible effect. This means that on tier 1 and 2 planets there is a 57.1% chance of a positive effect occurring, which increases to 62.5% on tier 3 and 4 planets, and 70% at tier 5 and 6.

Removed Effects

The following effects are found in the asset files, but have been removed or commented out:

Ore Seeding: Platinum Ore - Triggered on Tier 5 and higher planets.
Run Boost
Glow
Rage
Low Gravity
Bouncy

Racial Descriptions


Apex :	A status pod. Will I be lucky?
Avian :	A status pod. I hope I get lucky.
Floran :	Floran trigger little pod with recklessss abandon.
Glitch :	Cautious. This status pod's effects are unable to be analysed.
Human :	It's a status pod! Should I tempt fate by triggering it?
Hylotl :	I bet something bad happens.
Novakid :	A status pod! I sure hope today's my lucky day!