Is it normal to start off on a planet that is incredibly hot? I swear I had literal seconds to spare figuring out where to find the sodium I needed to keep myself alive. So, I didn’t die, that much is good. I traded with one bird/reptile dude eventually. Named a few crazy lookin beasts. One looked like a beaver and a ground mole had a gigantic child (two big beaver-looking tails and the finger-star mole nose on a pretty basic quadruped body). Another looked like a stegosaurus and an iguana had a baby. Got my spaceship up and running by some miracle and harvested a ton of Na+ just so I wasn’t on edge walking around. Explored a few wreckages and tower thingies. Found a distress signal and a bunch of broken stuff on the ship where the alien died. I left most of it. Had no idea where to find most of the resources to fix it all. And now finally I am on the next planet over. A big toxic fungal ball. This game is weird. I think I like it though.

This is not quite as easy as just putting down mass Activated Indium miners, but I find it a lot of fun to set up 🙂

You will need…

Production Blueprints:
Glass, Lubricant, Poly-Fibre, Heat Capacitor, Living Glass, Circuit Board, Grantine, Frostwart, Gamma Weed, Gutrot Flower, Star Bramble, Echinocactus, Solar Vine, Nitrogen Salt, Enriched Carbon, Thermic Condensate, Hot Ice, Cryopump, Cryogenic Chamber, Semiconductor, Superconductor, Quantum Processor, Iridesite, Stasis Device.

Blueprints can be found in Manufacturing Facilities and Operations Centres, some can be acquired through quests, or purchased from the Anomaly Synthesis Laboratory with nanites.

Satellite bases:
Oxygen Mine: 8000+
Nitrogen Mine: 8000+ (Toxic and Lush planets)
Radon Mine: 8000+ (Radioactive and Frozen planets)
Sulphurine Mine: 8000+ (Scorched and Desert planets)
Dioxite Mine: OPTIONAL

Main Base:
Electromagnetic Hotspot (you need lots of power)
29 Biodomes

A trade source for the following two advanced materials: Magno-Gold, Aronium

A trade/mine source for the following materials: Dioxite

Medium/Large refiner(s).

Setup

For the satelite bases, you need to find the right gas hotspot, one for each of the three exotic gasses, and one for oxygen. If there is an electromagnetic hotspot nearby, good, but it is by no means needed.

I use this setup for each satellite base:
1 Base Teleporter
10 Solar Panels
5 Batteries
4 Gas Extractors
8 Supply Depots

For the main base, you need enough electricity from the hotspot (multiple Electromagnetic Generators), and 29 Biodomes. In those biodomes, you plant:
96 Frostwart (6 domes)
128 Gamma Weed (8 domes)
32 Gutrot Flower (2 domes)
128 Star Bramble (8 domes)
16 Echinocactus (1 dome)
64 Solar Vine (4 domes)

Aronium and Magno-Gold you can find either in space stations, or in Trade Stations on planets. They can also be produced manually, but it is far easier to just buy them. Jump between new 3* systems until you’ve found them, then remember the stations. You can usually buy 120+ which is enough for 7+ production runs.

Grantine can not be found in trade (at least I’ve never found it), so has to be produced from Dioxite and Ionised Cobalt in a refiner. You need 800 of each for 16 Stasis Devices. Both can also be found in trade, and Dioxite mined on Frozen planets. I usually produce a big batch of Grantine at a time.

The following refiner recipe helps make Ionised Cobalt:
1 Ionised Cobalt + 2 Oxygen = 6 Ionised Cobalt

You also need this recipe to make Condensed Carbon (you need 4800 per production run):
1 Condensed Carbon + 2 Oxygen = 6 Condensed Carbon

These two recipes is why we need the Oxygen mine. They provide unlimited Ionised Cobalt and Condensed Carbon as long as you have Oxygen enough.

Production Run

Harvest all the plants, have 16 Aronium, Magno-Gold and Grantine (acquired as described above), 8000 of each exotic gas from the exotic gas satellite bases, and 4800 Condensed Carbon (using the above recipe).

Then you can produce, in this order:
80 Glass
16 Lubricant
16 Living Glass
16 Polyfibre
16 Heat Capacitor
16 Circuit Board
32 Nitrogen Salt
32 Enriched Carbon
32 Thermic Condensate
16 Hot Ice
16 Cryopump
16 Cryogenic Chamber
16 Semiconductor
16 Superconductor
16 Quantum Processor
16 Iridesite
16 Stasis Device

Those 16 Stasis Devices sell for around 240m units 🙂

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