Yup! Also, I found that if you do use the platforms once (like when your freighter is in another system), you can summon them from your hotbar from that point forward. So I try to keep the required mats on me at all times just in case, while exploring.
After a few hours, I’ve got the basics and a decent setup for making money. There’s so many ways of making fairly easy money now, including cooking.
On the other hand, gosh, it takes so long to get those stupid terminals for your base.
Skipper
4917
What tech is that? I don’t have it apparently.
I’ve been doing the same. I blew my money on a REALLY nice class A hauler that had the full 48 main ports unlocked and about 7 tech ports unlocked. I then scrapped my old explorer. I should have just kept in in my collection. Oh well. Loving the hauler though. SO MUCH ROOM.
You guys are talking about all this cool shit. Meanwhile I’m stuck on the second planet trying to build my first base and bored out of my fucking skull. It’s like Conan Exiles, except infinitely more boring. Where are the crocs and topless chicks?
Go to the Anomaly, to the console that sells construction blueprints (middle, left-hand-side of the room when you walk in). It’s in the Exocraft tech tree, 3rd tier, left hand side. Orbital somethingorother. Looks like a Wi-Fi icon. Costs 15 Salvage Units (plus the two above it if you haven’t unlocked them). You build it as a room on your Freighter, though, not on a planetside base.
How much have you played the game before? I ask because yeah, the initial bit can still be a slog, but once you’re past it (can summon the Anomaly) the game opens up massively, and there are now ways to bypass all the old questlines you may have played before, like base construction, Atlas Passes, etc. You can just buy blueprints for everything from the vendors at the Anomaly. And finding stuff around the universe is made easier via buying coordinates from vendors at the Space Station, better scanning units on your vehicles, etc.
Skipper
4921
The missions that take out out into space will help you learn to build a warp cell (via antimatter and antimatter housing.) Once you have warp cell capability, you can go all over the place (and more with upgrades.) Just doing base missions is pretty boring and painful.
It’s unfortunate that there isn’t some semblance of what to do first in the game. But from the long play looking in, focus on space exploration is really important for a bit, then base stuff. You can certainly do both at once though.
Grembel
4922
So after 100 plus hours and multiple restarts I found a planet without crazy weather and shoot on sight sentinels.
On the down side I have yet to get a freighter haha go figure.
Nice, Grem. Yeah, on Sunday, after moving to another new dimension (9th such move), I spent most of the day hunting for a rich, blue system that had an earthlike planet with good weather and non-aggressive sentinels.
Hold out for an S class freighter, you’ll really appreciate the additional inventory slots. Trading up later can be super expensive.
Grembel
4924
Do you still run into the save the freighter mission? Been seeing freighters popping up.
So after i posted I got the save the freighter encounter lol.
Yep, that mission pops up frequently when you warp into systems.
If you want to be choosey about the model of the S class freighter, what a lot of people do is save, then visit systems until a model they really like appears and triggers the rescue mission. Then they reload that save until it ends up being an S class. The reason for this is, models remain consistent but class changes. At least, I believe this is how they do it.
Grembel
4926
Ah ok will keep that in mind the first one i got this play through was a b class so i let it pass will keep the save thing in mind might speed that up a bit
I was impatient and did that. Holding out is so worth it.
Eh. I thought if you rejected him, you didn’t get another chance, so I took the first one offered. I think it’s a C-class, heh. That said, I’ve decided I’m not going to upgrade it much, but definitely focus on getting the Freighter Salvage mats to upgrade whatever new one I upgrade to. To that end, I have a couple Industrial Frigates I keep sending out on missions (2/3 missions so far have found one!) and becoming a Space Pirate. Someone mentioned upthread that you can get them from Cargo Pods in NPC fleets, and that’s true! Whenever you see a fleet, fly slow through it and put each pod in your crosshairs- it’ll tell you what’s inside. Once you’ve identified the ones with Freighter Salvage, blast them all, fight off a wave or two of police, and bug out. It’s good fun!
jpinard
4929
What am I doing wrong?
Trying to find some crashed ships, and I’m coming up with nothing. I have the “Emergency Cartographic Data” and I click that when I’m on a planet, and 80% of the time it is just finding abandoned bases. The other times it is just finding beacons that only point me to dig sites. I’ve gone through 40 of those data chips in 10 different systems and nothing…
That sounds like some bad luck. Are you sure you’re using the right beacon? Another method is to use the upgraded scanner on the ExoMech- it can scan for distress signals. I’ve found several crashed ships that way (about half with pilots still hanging around though, boo), but sadly no crashed freighters.
The distress signal map will point you to abandoned buildings most of the time. According to the wiki, the breakdown is:
- Abandoned Building (12% chance)
- Distress Beacon (4% chance)
- Crashed Ship (4% chance)
- Crashed Freighter (4% chance)
- Observatory (6% chance
That… is nowhere near 100%?
jpinard
4933
What if I do like 10 in a row in the same spot? I wonder if that will increase my odds of forcing a crashed ship to come up?
Also I’m in a Gek system with a space station but it’s a ways out. It says my freighter can’t warp here. Is it a fuel thing? I thought it was supposed to follow me where-ever I went? (Oh wait… is it because they’re on a mission in another system?)
Are you in a red, green, or blue system? Because you have to upgrade your freighter’s drives just like your ships’ to get it to those systems. That’s the Freighter Salvage Tech I was talking about.
