All Planet Crafter Endings ! The Planet Crafter 

The true best ending is just staying on the planet

It makes me think if they ever want to add new and different planets and challenges then they can alter the endings to move you on. Would love it if each ending had a different planet to each other to start on again with new things to find

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Sometimes, the only way to win is not to play. Stay put. You have an entire planet, you are top predator, and have water, food, shelter and pets to keep you company . . . Why leave at all ?

Fun fact: That cave shot in the Warden ending unlocks an achievement if you haven’t been there before.

The way I understand the Wardens ending is, even if they are still alive, they will always be hunted by the humans. Sooner or later, they will be caught by them either because they couldn't find another planet to go to or they weren't fast enough and the humans caught up to them. This is obviously not a good life. Edit : A new playthrough with a different starting point will be fun to watch and a little different from this playthrough

Sentinel corp drops you off on one of the other planets as you still got 20 years to serve 😂

Kind of makes me agree that the best ending is actually just not leaving the planet at all. Just hang out with my fish, frogs, and cool genetically engineered pets forever, lol.

I found you can leave the planet without blowing up the orb if you chose the Warden's ending. Maybe a way to stick it to the corporation.

People are shitting on the devs, but to me it seems like an intentional choice. We're conditioned to think games need an ending and that the destination is what matters... but I think having the 3 very bleak endings is a bit of a meta-textural way of implying what so many people are saying.... the 4th ending is the best one... the one where you stay on the planet. We often think the grass is greener and everything will be better once we work hard enough to get some supposed "reward" at the end, but that's not how life works and many of us end up disappointed with our outcomes because we didn't actually enjoy the journey along the way because we thought the grass would be greener that the real reward was at the end of the journey. But this game is fun to play. You enjoyed the journey. You enjoyed seeing the progress of your work and growing a paradise around you and so staying and enjoying it rather than choosing the greener grass in escape is the "true" ending. It's just as true in life as it is in this game. Enjoy things along the way. Enjoy the day to day incremental improvements that you yourself create and don't wait for the end of HS or college, or the change of a job, or the birth of a child, or the children leaving the house or some other arbitrary "ending" to come to really appreciate what's great about your day to day life.

I really love this game, it's soo satisfying to see the planet change around you, and dealing with all the struggles you might expect when terraforming a planet, like having enough food/water, producing enough power, getting a breathable atmosphere, etc. I have played this game for nearly 300 hours already since early access, but I got so many creative ideas for base building and world design, that I'm still excited for this game! Not to mention the challenge that Hardcore mode brings, it really adds that survival pressure to it all!

So basically: "There is no happy ending for the Prisoner." That's how it seems anyways. 3 Different endings, all for nothing, as you are still stuck in some type of prison.

you can also sell fuses back in a Trade rocket to get the 500,000 Terra Tokens. fuses are 5k to 6k a piece. one full trade rocker is worth 125k or more depending on which fuses you sell back.

Some thoughts about each ending: 1) "We will now re-examine your sentence based on the various deviations from the rules that could be attributed to you. For the moment, you will remain in detention while your case is examined." There's a possibility, however slight, that the Prisoner is pardoned, or at least has their sentence greatly reduced. The 'detention' sounded more to me like "We're keeping you in a room while we figure out what to do with you." 2) "To those who follow us, know that our destiny is that of doom. Hope cannot be the only advisor. Sometimes life doesn't find a way. Sometimes the future is not bright." This sounds like someone who is jaded and scarred by repeated tragedies and is imploring anyone seeking safe haven not to expect it from them, simply because they can't guarantee they can provide it. 3) "There are things in this world that even you or I can't win against, even though we thought we would prevail. I would like this to be a happy ending, but I doubt it will be. Good luck." The Prisoner is being sent on a risky new mission, which Riley thinks will be risky. Doesn't sound like an _awful_ ending, just that our protagonist has a lot of work ahead of them. I admit this is all a lot of reaching, but I like to think there's some hope left for our hero after all.

I was hoping doing the Warden ending without blowing up their device would be a 4th ending but it's exactly the same. My thought on the Warden ending is it may have been a message left by the ones that left, so there is a chance they are still out there. Tip on a new game: If you get the key finder as early as possible you end up finding the keys while exploring naturally. The very end of Subnautica you own billions to Altera, so kind of like the Sentinel Corp ending here.

Fourth Ending.., You give them all the "Royal Salute" and stay where you are.

The dev branch update a few days ago mentioned they changed the dialog for the endings a bit, I haven't tried them yet. Also the tokens needed for the smuggler ending has been cut in half to 250,000.

Thank you great stream yesterday.

Thank you for showing all the endings. The smugglers one was my favorite. I'm looking forward to new season of Planet Crafter. :)

The endings are so unsatisfying. I would like more of a cut scene for those endings so we actually see what happens,

Those endings make me seriously reconsider buying this game. The devs are literally saying, "don't bother because nothing leads to happiness." This is a big disappointment.

I'd like to think the first ending, they wipe your memory and send you to another planet. So you're probably the best terraformer and they're just abusing you on this endless loop. How many times have you terraformed a planet? How many planets have you personally made habitable? Could make for a fantastic reveal, and you getting bits and pieces of information revealing that.

Yes start over fresh terraform

I have a different perspective on the smuggler scenario... You are a criminal, right? You just paid smugglers to help you escape, right? That means you're STILL a criminal! Sentinel Corp will pursue you! Life as a fugitive is going to be much harder than being on the planet or returning to Sentinel Corp, because now you're being hunted. If caught, you'll face additional charges, and the punishment will be much worse.

I'd say that as it is right now bash away because you have 1: corp, indefinite jail time by a mega company 2: portal: possibly death on another planet 3: smuggle: slave or death. Yeah.. not one good ending, they could fix it though by expanding on the endings. 1: explain that you return to your normal worker drone life. 2: that you land on a dead planet and start over again. 3: the smugglers loot the pod and dump you in space. anything like would work to make the endings better.

If you're gonna do a new series from the beginning, there used to be a glitch when I played the game I'm not sure if they fixed it , but one of the keybinds is called reset or something, it's supposed to be used if you get stuck or something but if you spam it you can basically fly infinitely, and you can phase through some caves and through the door of the warden city thing without the key , it's broken , if I'm not wrong you could also phase into some caves before the ice melts completely

Definitely want to see a new play through this game regardless of the endings is a lot of fun to play from start to finish.

The notes left by the Warden make it more clear what their fate was. A large portion of them stayed with the planet and were wiped out, but another portion escaped the planet. An earlier note reads: "...Waiting for certain death is not selflessness, it is suicide, it is self destruction. Some of us have chosen to leave before the inevitable..." The closing note in the Warden ending, where you choose to try to follow them, says "Sometimes life doesn't find a way." I take this ending to mean that those Wardens who chose to leave their loved ones behind in hopes of surviving and making a new home met the same fate, essentially saying that you've been chasing ghosts. I'd say that the Warden ending was probably the best in that it had the most depth and complexity, but IMO the only clear victory is to keep playing :D

It's the perfect trio of cliffhangars for Planet Crafter 2

Wardens End may be the subject of another Planet Crafter game. You can terraform another planet with Wardens Tech. At the end of the game, wardens come to the planet and settle there.

honestly the best ending is to never leave, you can find a message from a previous terraformer that talks about how things have improved on the planet and might as well stay

Its almost like a commentary of how you are treated for going above and beyond for your job, but is never rewarded for it in the real world. Sentinal corp can see how good you are at giving life to a planet, so why would they release you? They can get more out of you by taking you prisoner. With the Wardens, they knew the truth. Everyone has to die at some point and you are no different. The smugglers can see how valuble you are to their wallet, so why would they set you free. Yes, there is no good ending to the game, but sometimes it is the proces og getting to the end that is important.

I knew when I saw the message left behind by the Wardens that the bulk of them were just giving up because of a meteor that (if this were a rl scenario) I wouldn't want anything to do with them. Trusting in the survival of a species that's willing to just give up on life because it's hard doesn't seem like a sound strategy. As such, I wasn't the least bit surprised that the ending isn't exactly a happy one. Seemed like the best you could hope for was finding some leftover tech that was more intact than what was on that planet. Frankly, I think the best plan for getting off the planet would probably involve that ship in one of the warden bases. You can't get to it in the game but it seems intact so if you could just get over there and get it out, you'd be leaving the planet in your very own Warden tech ship.

In feels like they were preparing for the next DLC/planet.The three endings lead to that.A portal that leads to a planet that belonged to wardens,an scape from the smuggler or the next assignment from centinels.

hey z1 can u please make a series of either ark ascended or kingdoms and castles.

Seems all three might be bad, but the pirate ending was the likely more positive outcome. Sentinel Corp has no real reason to commute your sentence, they will find every little thing to say "you broke this rule we didn't tell you about. You did these things that we didn't even want you to do. You also talked to people that were not from Sentinel Corp when you told to not do that at all." not to mention how they will react to seeing the Wardens attempts to keep away from humans. Warden's Ending probably the saddest of the three. We followed their storyline during early access. Their cautionary tale of them meeting humans. It went from how similar they appeared to how different they behaved and the wardens desire to return to the time before meeting them. The collapse of their entire civilization, driven by an overzealous depths to separate themselves from the very aliens, the humans, they once met. The Pirate ending is the only real "happy" ending. You managed to escape with Riley's help. Even if you are doomed to be still a servant of another persons demands, you're not a prisoner in a cell or having to struggle to survive. Only other "ending" is to not leave the planet at all. Enjoy the world you created, crafted by your own hands. It's why the game is saved before you do any of the endings. Not every game needs a "happy ending" or that it leads to such. Maybe the happy ending is the one we, the player, create. I want to see all the combinations of animals I can create for this world. I like being the master of my own destiny, so I don't think I'll destroy that anomaly, so SCREW YOU SENTINEL CORP! THIS IS MY WORLD!

That pirate ship is the same type as the Warden ship you can see underground in one of the Warden areas.

Riley gave you coordinates to somthing in the planet that might be another ending

I like the endings. Why does the ending have to be the Disney Princess happily ever after ending? Love it.

Agreed, the endings do seem a little disappointing however as they say... it's more about the journey than the conclusion. I would have liked to have seen something where you actually have to clean up all that's been constructed on the planet before moving on. That could be tedious, but perhaps drones could be used to auto dismantle everything and then you build a ship that collets and sends all the resources to the S corp or someone else.

where do you get species 4 from? I prefer the Not Leaving "ending", tbh (not destroy the globe and invite Riley to join us)

Perhaps the Warden Parents got wind of their Heretic Offspring's plan and made sure that they did not survive! Then used their escape route to punish whoever destroyed the Anomaly.

These ending are a prep. for the next DLC !

True to life. The grass is always greener on the other side.

What about the massive space ship in completely excellent condition hiding deep below the surface in a cavern . If you go back to Mushroom cavern go right instead of left after the wardens key you will find yourself in a massive open cavern with this space ship .I've been here many times and have no clue why the devs placed this in the game other than the fact they where not good enough to create an expansion that would allow you to take this ship leave planet to be able to terraform other planets. Just my thought on it

Is there a way to end the game without blowing up that sphere?

You're definitely going to have to go to an earlier save from before you exploded the orb and try the Warden ending again. It's certainly different.

The way the Warden ending reads to me is that they are not optimists. They are saying that no matter what, the universe will end.

What was the message with the coordinates of the ancient cave for? Why are we supposed to go/wait there?

Look forward to the new 1.0 full run. I was really hoping at least one ending would end up with us stuck on a planet somewhere, maybe for PC2? I definitely wanted to meet Riley though!

I was expecting more from the ending, but the game was very well played. First time playing it, and it took me less than a week, I only got 2 endings, only have 56k TT so far.

The endings need work for sure. But the game was amazing I loved this game. One of a few games I played start to finish lately. I cannot wait for a DLC or part 2. Hands down to the team great great work …. Ps. I will miss Riley!

have u found the hidden ships there is two very noticable but the 3rd is hidden in the cave behind the ring ships its a red forest

My warden keys are locked in the devices once used and you need to use the keys to get other keys, so how do you even get the 10 warden keys?

Makes me wonder if the endings will lead into future DLC content or the next installment.

Yep, new series please

Questions... 1 How do you get to keep all those warden keys, they were locked after I inserted them. 2 What is the gold thing in your suit inventory. 3. How do you talk to riley.

I think they should have a part 2 of planet crafter, and the ending each player picks should continue from the end of this one..

It would be better with small animated endings. Like 1 being walked back to your cell and the door closes, 2 you end up on a planet that's constantly in and astride storm, 3 flying off to save the next planet crafter.

I see the Wardens ending like warden say life can't continued but you make it continued you did it you prove they are wrong and you will do it agan (the Warden ending sounds like the messages left on the planet)

Is ur base really mostly just 1 floor of cubes? 😅 The rest of your planet also looks pretty devoid of buildings. I like that water surface you got with the storage though. Wonder what that is for. 🤔

pls do one last playthrough of the game

I have been enjoying the game, but because of the hardware limitations on my computer, the game lags way too much.

Can you NOT destroy the warden blocking sphere and take the warden escape option? Then Sentinel Corp can't get to the planet

In my Opinion, this game can easily be expanded on. perhaps we'll get to pick new planets to terraform like different maps. DLC's could be HUGE. We need birds and reptiles, like we need more creatures (I'd love more animals). The Warden Ending needs MORE. Also, the smuggler end seems like a No Man's Sky type of story arc. (Referring to the pirate faction you can join in NMS)

I'm getting a sense of, let build a great game, took time on gameplay, building strategies, but the endings "lets get this game out asap, don't worry about making a worthwhile ending". OK, the main reason to buy games and play them is for the gameplay side, but after putting in many hours, we as gamers deserve more than a " well done" or "hey life sucks your back in jail"

Agree that these 3 suck. I like your wardens ending idea of being given big congrats. I think the first ending should be something like: being given congrats on doing a terraforming very well but sorry you are a crim and still have to do your time, so you are then given the option to go do another planet - ie start all over, or just go back to the one you have done. I'd add another ending option to nuke the whole planet to bits which deleted any save files :D

I think they should add a fourth ending that adds a new map but you must create a city and for colonists

Feels weird that whoever sent protagonist to this planet is somehow unable to find them again if they wanted to. Teleportation clearly exists. Scanners for teleportation locations clearly exist. Protagonist is at known location and probably tracked. No matter where protagonist goes, they would know where he/she is. And could just teleport there. Or even teleport protagonist back to them. So yeah, endings do seem a bit weird. I mean, protagonist should at least fake own death in case of smuggler ending. Whoever sent protagonist to the planet would not care to double check and send the replacement once the tracker can not find vitals. But whoever monitors those vitals from trackers would notice that someone left their designated planet. But I'm overthinking it :D Seems like really nice zen game that has ending just for sense of completion.

The endings that are afford suck .. Just stay on the planet and Enjoy. Hopefully there will be a 4th worth while ending. Glad you showed it.

Fresh start please!

I like the wardens ending personally, they are a bunch of nihilists, everything you find from them is about doom and it is all pointless to resist it. that is why they fear and run from the humans, the ending you get from them is the most true.

all this years we waited for some textbox ending 😂

The Wardens should of left a ship for us to refuel and it is programed to take us into the unknown. and we should of had a 4th ending living out our life on the planet we just restored.

what about hole waterfall where combine 10 warden keys

I know a lot of people did not like the endings. But they all could be tie ins to a planet crafter 2 with nothing extra. Sentinel Corp sends you to a new planet. The smugglers abandon you on a planet. The destination of the warden, you have to terraform the planet to survive. But I think my favorite game is still Enemy Unknown, and the ending on that was not great either.

pretty sure the smugglers take your money and throw you out of the ship!

What about the ship in the mushrooms cave warden first place??

i like to say it would be awesome when you reach 120 k T.T.I. that you will recieve a message from the Sentinel Corp for a mission to Venus to cool the planet and reverse the presure and take the advantage of the runaway greenhouse effect to make it a planetary Jungle , calling for ice commets , while bringing with you a huge ammount of Ice from mars , land on earth , reverse the global icecap melting to bring live to Venus. To lengthen the story.....AFTERALL this game is called planetcrafter not marscrafter 😀

the 4th ending should be building your own ship.

I considered that all endings were a little gloomy and sad. So I made my own ending. You have to put one of each golden effigies in the trade rocket: Portal, Drone, Warden key, Jetpack, Escape pod and Rocket. Then you launch it. After a while you get a message that Riley's escape pod crashed in the lava near the obsidian region. You have to go there and rescue Riley. You go there and open the crashed door with the deconstruct multitool and meet Riley. There is a cutscene with you and Riley at the top of the waterfalls region overlooking the planet and the caption says there is still hope of a new beginning. The end.

the only problem i see with living on the planet you created forever is that the resources and knowledge you have access to only revolve around terraforming the planet, which would guarantee your survival but nothing more, i imagine it would get pretty boring at a point

I was hoping to find Ihklas alive..

My vision for the 3 endings is this: Sentinel Corp: You're going to be found dead in your cell with 18 point-blank shots in your back and be deemed an accident. The Sentinels: They are massive cowards they saw people approaching the planet and just ran away and made a object so ships fail and people don''t approach the planet. The mercenaries: Well you are an escaped convict so now you have to escape Sentinel Corp as hard as you can and every authority on the universe. And just staying on the planet: You disabled the device that impeded the ships from getting close to the planet so as soon as Sentinel Corp sees you are not leaving they'll launch and invasion so they can "Catch the prisoner" and you'll be dead because of your "violent behavior and attack of Sentinel Corp staff". Because this mission you were given was a suicide mission if you failed there's more prisoners to send seen by several capsules and bases all through the planet and if you succeed in terraforming the planet and find the reason why ships can't enter the planet and if you disable the thing that's making the ships unable to enter the planet well Congratulations you're now a problem given that you were not supposed to succed.

I agree with you - none of them are good. I'm staying with the kiddos!

The way i see the warden ending is they ran from humans than got recked by a meteor impact after creating this new home so they likely ran into trouble on the next onethis nakes the sentinel endind seem like a blessing cause atleast your alive and idk can brag to the other convicts about your terraformation and since we folloed there rules we are likely to have our sentence lifted

i have a feeling you had to not destroy the anomaly to get the good warden ending.

All Doom and Gloom.

The Sentinel Corp ending is basically saying _this is why you don't place your trust in any gigacorporation since they're all rotten._ The Warden ending basically says that _it doesn't matter if you have the will to survive against all odds, sometimes your efforts will amount to nothing due to circumstance._ The Smuggler ending has you pay a fare to board their ship and join their crew as a lackey, you earn your keep and made your way away from Sentinel Corp. Basically, all three are painfully realistic endings, the real world is not a fantasy world where things just work out all the time if you just will it, and all three set up room for a post-game DLC in all three situations, maybe entirely different games that start from each point, a great escape thriller and a war of resistance against Sentinel Corp, an ancient murder mystery as you search alien worlds devoid of life to find out what exactly what killing off the Wardens be it humans or something more sinister than even the worst of Man, and a rising-through-the-ranks space RPG where you go from lackey to infamous space pirate smuggler all across the sector beating back all of Sentinel Corp's attacks as they attempt to take you down and arrest you since I got the idea they're a global corporatocracy run amok in a dead-end timeline for Humanity where things went bad.

make video for that, didint fink wardens might be dead

Where the f...err, heck is ending 4: I fly off to some other developed planet and live my life with the occasional guarded, modern transmissions (whatever the social interaction/media is like in the 31st century) pretty certain they won't track me with the warden tech I decrypted in use?

Watched this because I just finally reached endgame. Yeah...I'm just gonna stay here. lol

I really feel like the 3 endings could have been way better than what we got

What about the underground ship

I feel like they should have just focused on 1 ending, instead of providing 3 crappy and unsatisfying endings. All you get is a few still pictures and some text. And the difference between the texts are basically "You're put back into detention, and you're probably screwed because...corporations", "You try to follow the wardens, but you're pretty much guaranteed to fail and you'll likely die or search in vain for the rest of your life", and "You put your life in the hands of very shady smugglers. Yea...good luck with that one..." Or in other words "You're screwed in slightly different ways depending on which of 3 factions you pick." Subnautica did it a lot better. Sure the ending was also bad with you getting saddled with a debt you couldn't have done anything about in order to survive. But it's brought in a more humorous way. Like "oh those corporations and their rules~" *wags finger and shakes head*

Make a new series ❤

I agree, the endings leave a bad taste in your mouth. If there's ever a sequel, or even a DLC, there needs to be a "good" ending. I wouldn't be surprised if someone made a mod that tweaked the endings to make them better.

Searched "Planet Crafter destroy the anomaly". Sent me here - didn't show me where to find the anomaly. Facepalm

I'm not sure the warden ending makes sense. Weren't the people who told you how to leave with the 10 keys the ones who rejected the other wardens pessimistic outlook?

Tell me the devs are depressed and didn't want to make a proper ending without telling me...

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