You should be able to click on one of those converters and see how much power it has available to it and how much is in use… I’ve never tried putting multiple converters down but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.
Awesome! Yeah, you can (and probably should) daisy-chain at least a few EM extractors together. You’ll see the kP go up as you do so. Just one power line going from any one of the extractors and back to the base, and another to any other hotspot in the area, though. Speaking of, you might want to scout one more time for additional hotspots near your generator site. You never know.
Now that you have that set up, it’s worth considering moving your base computer to a point midway between the two sites. First, place a signal booster down at the halfway point, in a location where you want ro relocate the Base Computer. Then save the game, and using the save editor, browse to your save, open it, and use the editor’s built-in feature to swap that signal booster with your base computer. (You can also swap with a blueprint station.)
Not required by any means, but if you do that your new 1000u (or 1200u if you’re ambitious) base radius will extend equally around a point that you define.
Very nice!
You can also see the usage on a battery. I keep a battery or two (they fit neatly under cube stairs) in my bases when/after using full EM power so I can check. Then I know when I need to go out to the spot and add another converter due to construction without actually going out there.
Just wanted to say, I bought this game on release and this is my first day ever giving it a try! I am hopelessly lost, but learning enough to keep some small progression going and not frustrated at all yet!
My first planet was like -54 C and I froze to death at first, but before I froze the second time I figured out how to charge up my suit to brave the elements. Finally repaired my ship and am on my second planet now, working on a small base just to fulfill the quest progression. I had no idea you could bury holes thru mountains and mine ore that way! Reminds me of the short lived new EQ game in how you burrowed in the earth to harvest.
I think I am going to like this game!
I just started playing this a few months ago and I agree at the beginning everything seems so foreign,Plus you start on a veryPunishing planet by by design.But after a few hours things are clicking and I have had a great time playing.
To me, the first hour of the game and the rest of the game were two totally different experiences.
I think I am done with my base building for now, barring a couple of extra decorative touches here and there. I’ve got everything working to produce components for Circuit Boards in my biospheres (about 5mil units per harvest), tons of storage, all of the technician stations, large refinery, portal, landing pad and the Roamer, Nomad and Colossus geobays (no water nearby, so no Nautilus). With easy access to the Colossal Archive next door, and a series of short jump trade routes to multiple high economy systems that can make tens of millions of units per route in trade, I’m set for making money and staying supplied.
I’m going to finish off the tail end of a couple of tasks in my journal and maybe hunt for an S-class freighter next, maybe loot a couple more derelict freighters too, then I may be out of stuff to do again until the next big update.
Anyway, screenshots!
Slainte Base Alpha
Slainte Base Alpha @ Night
Specialist and Transportation Terminal
Exocraft bays and maintenance center
Every good Vy’Keen mechanic needs a workshop!
Colossal Archive with my base and freighter in the background
Looking good!
Do these actually serve any purpose after you’ve done their story tasks and unlocked the things they give you? Do you ever need to build them a second time?
Unless anything related has changed in Origins (doubt it), they no longer serve a purpose once you’ve completed all their tasks.
Cheers. With the hundreds of hours I’ve played this game I never actually got that deep into base building, and always wondered if maybe there was something later on that they were useful for!
Technically, No.
Aesthetically though, it’s nice to have your base “populated” by some other characters. Each of the technicians does have a final end state where they either attempt to give you something (the multi-tool guy) or send you out on a simple task with small rewards (overseer, farmer, exocraft guy).
In my case, I hadn’t actually completed the quest line from the exocraft tech so I needed to build his station, the others I just wanted for the effect of making my base feel like a living, working space with stuff that happens when I’m not there (even though nothing actually happens).
Also, except for the exocraft guy they can all be placed on your freighter after too. So I usually build a nice sciences/lab room and sometimes an armory on my freighters. But like you say just aesthetics.
Now the freighters have the exocraft store/port beam they should probably allow him too. I wish they’d then give you a widget you could build like it that would act as the base for each exocraft as well. Better in the long run for freighter nomads.
So, I got myself into a pickle this morning!
I had my brand new Cadmium Drive installed and ready to go and was excited to find my first red star system that needed it. So, I scan and charge straight to the nearest planet all ready to start a new adventure and mine some Cadmium when my ship starts breaking apart and I couldn’t warp away, and crashed on the planet. Now my Cadmium Drive is damaged and needs Wiring Looms, which I don’t have the blueprint for (if there even is one).
So, I am ready to explore and see if I can find a way off this rock! I am not quite ready to ask for advice or help and I have a few ideas in the back of my head on how I can maybe get out of here, but my Grave is a 7 hour run away and I would like to recover that instead of just warping out of here! It is just the cargo I had on my ship at the Grave, but I had a pretty good stash of high quality metals I don’t really want to lose.
I am still not sure why I crashed, but suspect it was that I didn’t charge up the Cadmium Drive first, if you need to? Ugh! Hmm, consulting the Wiki, it doesn’t appear to need a charge or fuel. Perhaps I just never actually built it in the first place! I will try to avoid the Wiki for a while longer; I just wanted to know what happened so I can try to avoid it next time.
This should be an interesting morning!
It sounds like you might have encountered an asteroid field on your way to the planet, or maybe some pirates? This is an odd one. I’ve never had a ship randomly break down like that. Nor have I had a grave appear so far away after a death.
As for the ship, maybe post a screenshot of its general and tech inventory slots here, to show what’s broken. You should be able to look, even if it’s far away.
Awesome to see you getting into the game. Looking forward to seeing the eventual dino tames. :)
Edit: oh, is that grave labeled “Unknown Grave”, or “Your Grave”?
The only time I encountered something like this was when I was being attacked by pirates. As long as you have fuel you can always warp unless you’re next to a large mass or being attacked. Is it possible you were under attack and didn’t realize it? It could explain the inability to warp and the ship damage.
Asteroid fields don’t cause damage when you’re flying into them (as least not enough to worry about), so the only thing that fits this scenario is pirates.
Or, did you maybe find a crashed ship and swap them by accident? They’re usually in pretty rough shape, and wiring looms are a pretty common repair item for them.
Aha, that’s a possibility I didn’t consider. Either way, Kelan, what ships do you see in your Quick Menu list? While standing outdoors on a planet, open the Quick Menu → Summon Vehicles, and then either summon the default ship shown there, or go one step further to Select Other Ship to see if there’s another starship available.
And yeah, HideousRex, it would take some doing to succumb completely to asteroids.
Yeah, still not sure what I did. At first I thought I forgot to fully build the Cadmium drive I needed, but it wouldn’t have even let me warp to the system, would it?
I believe it said Your Grave… It definitely didn’t say Unknown.
So I built a quick base, teleporter and power and ported out! Went to my home base and fixed my ship up. I lost all the inventory on my ship, which was okay. The only bad things I lost were my Atlas v2 and v3 passes. No big deal. Right after I went to Red, then Green then Blue systems and planets and never had another issue. I didn’t see asteroids nor pirates, but who knows?!
Had a blast all day. Finally upgraded to a little better fighter. Sold off my other claimed ships I had no intention of repairing. Wish I would have canceled the first freighter as the second one I saved was awesome! Oh well!
I think it’s likely that you mistakenly switched to one of the ships you claimed, then sold the one that had your inventory in it. I’ve done this myself before, more than once. ;)
Weird thing was, I crashed landed on the new planet. My ship was next to me, but all busted up, including the Cadmium drive and many other components. They did say damaged I am almost certain. And it shows a Grave 7 hr away, but the inventory on the Grave was my ship inventory, the Atlas Pass I put there just for room and Silver, Gold, Platinum, and that alloy thingy you get blasting Asteroids (I mean I never got to the grave, but those were the only items missing). My Exosuit was completely intact! I did not change ships and barely knew how to, heh.
All that ship selling stuff I did many hours later…
So yeah, strange. Sounds like an unusual circumstance.