OK, apologies if this is a worn topic; I’m fairly new to the game and still discovering things.

Early on when I was learning my way around space stations, I found that room off the side of the technology merchants’ area, with a little hallway leading to a locked door that said “AltasPass v3 Required”. My interest was piqued. I eventually found the recipe for an AtlasPass v3 and saw that it needed Emeril. So I looked up Emeril and found that it can only be found on planets around green stars, and that required a special update to my ship’s hyperdrive. Now I was really interested! Something that takes that much work must have an interesting reward, right?

So I eventually got my hyperdrive upgraded, visited a green star, found an Emeril deposit on a planet, and mined it. Crafted my pass, and I was good to go.

The next station I visited, I ran straight to that door, opened it, and… WTF? A hydroponics garden? That’s it?

I felt a bit like Ralphie in A Christmas Story when he finally decoded his Ovaltine message. Is that really all there is to this room? Does the AtlasPass v3 have other uses?

No complaints here, it pushed me to explore a little more which is part of the point of this game. I just thought it was a little weird to have to go to so much trouble for such a pointless room.

Hey Travelers. I’ve repaired a crashed starship I found and all that’s left to fix are three “Corroded Tanks” with Activated Copper. So far I’ve been to three different yellow-star systems and have scanned all the planets but none say “Activated Copper” from space (several say just “Copper”). What further confuses me is that all of the “how to find” articles I’ve found online seem to confuse regular Copper with Activated Copper.

Is “Activated” Copper a separate thing? Will scanning a planet from space tell me if there is specifically Activated Copper on that planet? Any tips on finding it so I can get those storage slots cleared on my starship?