How to get good weapons in starbound

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All logos and images are copyrighted by their respective owners. All of the remaining ranged weapons can be bought from merchants, received as a reward for killing special monsters or from high-level chests. Still, they are slow and quite weak, due to which they are more useful for hunting monsters for food than for regular fight. The exception here are the regular bows, which you can obtain at the very beginning of the game.

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Unlike melee weapons, ranged weapons cannot be crafted. For that reason, the energy also plays the role of ammo for firearms. However, unlike the regular melee weapons, ranged weapons consume some of the energy with each shot. As the name suggests, they allow you to attack at a distance and they do not require you to approach the enemy. An alternative for the blades are the ranged weapons.