Finding Red Exotics on Exploration

[Shockwave]

Can you find red exotics on the first Promethus exploration mission (30 days no objective)?
We've only done the first two missions plus this one.
I know you could find regular exotics on the exp,oration missions.

[Mourn]

yep, pretty sure it's set up so that there is always at least one lot of red exotics.

[The Klang Is Good]

Yes, there should be one exotic tree (shows on radar) and few (+5) strange plants scattered across the map. Just keep in mind red exotics you find are raw and should be processed in organic residue cleanser.

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by The Klang Is Good:

Yes, there should be one exotic tree (shows on radar) and few (+5) strange plants scattered across the map. Just keep in mind red exotics you find are raw and should be processed in organic residue cleanser.

Yeah I saw that... just haven't found any plants yet and was wondering if there was a mission that you have to do first before they start showing up. Since there is no way to scan for them seems impossible to find them (plants) without checking a map online (we don't like to do that might).

[The Klang Is Good]

Originally posted by Shockwave:

Yeah I saw that... just haven't found any plants yet and was wondering if there was a mission that you have to do first before they start showing up.

Oh. I'm not sure if you need to do something to unlock plants, but if exotic tree is there I'd guess plants are there too. They just are very rare.

Originally posted by Shockwave:

Since there is no way to scan for them seems impossible to find them (plants) without checking a map online (we don't like to do that might).

Yeah.. We really need better way to find the plants. If we could tame a boar and use it like a truffle pig for example..

[Mourn]

Originally posted by The Klang Is Good:

Originally posted by Shockwave:

Yeah I saw that... just haven't found any plants yet and was wondering if there was a mission that you have to do first before they start showing up.

Oh. I'm not sure if you need to do something to unlock plants, but if exotic tree is there I'd guess plants are there too. They just are very rare.

Originally posted by Shockwave:

Since there is no way to scan for them seems impossible to find them (plants) without checking a map online (we don't like to do that might).

Yeah.. We really need better way to find the plants. If we could tame a boar and use it like a truffle pig for example..

You don't need to do anything to unlock the red exotics or plants.
IcarusIntel shows the plant locations on their maps, but each plant has only a 20% chance of being there, it's random, you just need to keep searching.

[william_es]

Originally posted by Mourn:

You don't need to do anything to unlock the red exotics or plants.
IcarusIntel shows the plant locations on their maps, but each plant has only a 20% chance of being there, it's random, you just need to keep searching.

My effective experience is that it's way way way less then that. In many missions and in open world, I've only ever found 3 plants. Ever. And that was with going to and visually checking every spawn locations shown on online maps. The 3rd time I farmed the seeds extensively, and ended up with 40+ exotics. It hardly seemed worth the effort, especially after teching up to make a residue cleaner. The plants produced less and less seeds, and eventually ended up with a -200% growth factor from overfarming.

Next missions I had 289 red exotics from a single tree. Washed and cleaned, that was doubled. So strange plants are kind of a novelty, but nothing I even go out of my way to look for anymore.

[Mourn]

haven't found many plants myself, you don't get much from them, but I think having points spent in the "farming" skills helps, not sure.
The 20% is "individual" meaning, each potential plant location you come across has a 1 in 5 chance of having a plant in it, so if you're not lucky on that map, it may not have any plants, but the next mission may have 8 of them on the map.

[The Klang Is Good]

Originally posted by Mourn:

haven't found many plants myself, you don't get much from them, but I think having points spent in the "farming" skills helps, not sure.

Yes, you can get up to 5 crops (last needs growth fertilizer to grow) per planted seed if you have all relevant farming talents (growth speed) and use aeroponic/hydroponic crop plots inside greenhouse. High-quality fertilizer (for first four crops) does not seem to have any effect on yield.

However, I don't know for sure if harvesting or foraging talents increases crop yields or amount of seeds you get from spawned strange plants.. Seeds maybe, crop yield maybe not?