Galactic Gardeners

Quickstart

1. On your first spawn, check your inventory for a Star Map and four Garden Rockets. Use the Star Map and choose Enter Stardust Frontier.
2. Find Nova and Sprig near the landing area. Interact with either botanist to hear tips and check your field guide.
3. Explore the regions and break the four alien plants: Starbloom, Comet Fern, Nebula Lotus, and Orbit Reed. Your sample total appears on screen as you collect them.
4. For a ride, craft a Planetary Field Rover and use it on a block. You’ll mount it automatically. While riding, use the on-screen Tap: Plant Scan action to check for nearby alien plants.
5. Return to the Overworld by using the Star Map and choosing Return home.

Overview

Galactic Gardeners is an exploration and plant-survey adventure set in the Stardust Frontier. It’s one connected alien dimension with several distinct regions, each with its own terrain and plants. The Frontier stays at night, and ordinary mob spawning is suppressed during expeditions.

What It Adds

How To Use

Travel with the Star Map

Use the Star Map to open the travel menu. Choose Enter Stardust Frontier to begin an expedition, or Return home when you’re inside the Frontier. A crafted Starship Rocket opens the same travel menu.

Find and record plants

Look for the region names to get your bearings:

Break any of the four alien plants to record a field sample. Your on-screen total updates, and each botanist can show your count for every species.

Talk to the botanists

Interact with Nova or Sprig near the landing area. They share expedition advice and display your field-guide progress. Their survey goal is eight plants total and at least one of each species.

Drive and scan with the rover

Use the Planetary Field Rover placer on a block to spawn the rover and mount it. Drive with your normal movement controls; crouch to dismount. While aboard, the on-screen Tap: Plant Scan action checks for alien plants in the nearby area. The scan reports its count and has a short cooldown.

Use the rocket launcher

Equip the Botanist’s Rocket Launcher and use it to fire. Garden Rockets can be held in your inventory or offhand. Rockets explode on impact and can knock targets back.

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft these items at a crafting table. Recipe images can be opened for the full ingredient layout.

The Star Map and four Garden Rockets are supplied on your first spawn. The rover placer remains available after use, so you can use it again to place another rover.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Plant samples are tracked per player. Breaking one of the four species increases your total and that species’ count.
• Botanist reward: Once you have at least eight total samples and have sampled all four species, talk to a botanist to receive eight Garden Rockets. The reward is given once.
• Plant Scan checks the blocks around the rover and reports how many alien plants it finds nearby.
• Garden Rockets deal impact damage and knockback, followed by an explosion. They do not cause fire.

Progression And Strategy

Start with a Star Map trip and talk to Nova or Sprig before setting out. Gather Starbloom and Comet Fern in the Luna, Kepler, or Mars regions, then search Vega and Andromeda for Nebula Lotus and Orbit Reed. Keep checking your field-guide counts so you know which species you still need; return to the botanists after reaching eight samples and completing the collection.