They come in various colors, depending on their job. The villagers/Tenants, if you complete enough quests (and get lucky), will put on a Protectorate Uniform like the one you start out with. Both were Avian, and, due to RNG (Random Number Generation), they both turned out as… janitors. Personally, my first crew members came from a village. Of course, you can always decline a quest if you’re not ready, and most villages have more than enough quests. These range from finding lost friends, to supplying crafting materials, to defeating rogue criminals. If you can, complete it for them, and they might ask to join your crew (explained below). Eventually, the Tenant may give you a quest. Buying a Colony Deed from Frogg Furnishings, placing it in a valid house, and getting a Tenant (this guide doesn’t really cover that kind of thing, so I’ll explain briefly).Once you do beat that stage, there are two main options: Of course, you’ll need to defeat the Erchius Crystal Mining Facility before hiring any crew, because you’re bound to a single planet until then. As the Starbound Wiki states: “Crew members of most races can be obtained by gaining favor with regular, non-merchant NPCs through quests.” I wasted probably almost an hour on that once, and believe me, I’ll never do it again.

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