The purple sky's meaning

[So-]

Does anyone know if there is any modification made by the purple sky? Because there is no meteorite that accompanies it, as for the blue or orange sky...?

[Volrishan]

blue sky is osmium / sulphur
purple sky is super alloy
orange sky that is not from you launching a rocket is regular materials like iron, titanium, cobalt, magnesium, silicon and aluminium

just because there is no meteors near you does not mean there was none that fell in another nearby biome. the super alloy does despawn really fast. if you go out during the storm and collect it sometimes you can get an inventory full of super alloy if you are fast enough.

[So-]

Originally posted by Volrishan:

blue sky is osmium / sulphur
purple sky is super alloy
orange sky that is not from you launching a rocket is regular materials like iron, titanium, cobalt, magnesium, silicon and aluminium

just because there is no meteors near you does not mean there was none that fell in another nearby biome. the super alloy does despawn really fast. if you go out during the storm and collect it sometimes you can get an inventory full of super alloy if you are fast enough.

Thx for your answer!! I didn't know that meteors could appear in another biome :)

[CrazedBumblebee]

Originally posted by So-:

Thx for your answer!! I didn't know that meteors could appear in another biome :)

Generally they don't. They typically fall where your character is especially if they're from a rocket. Purple sky afaik always comes down on your player location.

Many of the meteor storms will follow you too, but some will apply to an area and not move.

It pays to put your base out in the middle of nowhere with no surrounding lake/caves etc... as it makes picking up any dropped resources so much easier. Putting your base in the Sulphur field, up to the top of a hill or on the edge of a lake will often make it impossible to collect some of the resources, but it's rare that storms are in a separate biome.

[Volrishan]

it is rare but it can happen, i have seen it a few times especially when running between areas heading back to base. if it was something i wanted i would quickly jet pack around neighboring biomes until i found it.

[So-]

Originally posted by CrazedBumblebee:

Originally posted by So-:

Thx for your answer!! I didn't know that meteors could appear in another biome :)

Generally they don't. They typically fall where your character is especially if they're from a rocket. Purple sky afaik always comes down on your player location.

Many of the meteor storms will follow you too, but some will apply to an area and not move.

It pays to put your base out in the middle of nowhere with no surrounding lake/caves etc... as it makes picking up any dropped resources so much easier. Putting your base in the Sulphur field, up to the top of a hill or on the edge of a lake will often make it impossible to collect some of the resources, but it's rare that storms are in a separate biome.

yeah that's i was experiment but sometimes, the sky become violet, i don't hear neither see meteor and i'm running in every direction but i found nothing....

[So-]

Originally posted by Volrishan:

it is rare but it can happen, i have seen it a few times especially when running between areas heading back to base. if it was something i wanted i would quickly jet pack around neighboring biomes until i found it.

Okay, i will insist ;) but it happend often : big mystery ;)

[hinoron1]

I have had storms without meteors too, including purple, blue and red sky (which typically means ordinary mineral meteors, AFAIK). Also one that seems... like a very bright yellow.

I'm rather dubious of the idea that meteors are falling (in total silence) in some distant area far from me. That makes real-planet sense, but not "we can/would program a game to do that" sense. Graphics don't load in places you aren't either. Call it the "Tree falls in the woods" law of programming if you like. :P
I find it a lot more plausible that:
1. The code glitched a bit and the meteor part of the storm sequence didn't initialise.
2. They programmed deliberately some non-meteor storms, either to seem more realistic, or just to keep us guessing! ;)
2a. The Devs have mentioned they're planning to include more environmental hazards. Some of these no-meteor storms might later become those different dangers that haven't been implemented yet.

Now, I can certainly see if you're making a long trip back to base from one of the far-end areas, had a storm start while you were in that area, meteors and all, and because you've left the area the storm started, you leave the meteors behind. (Someone else said they follow you? That would depend on how many times the game checks your coordinates; at the start of the storm, or continuously as the meteors keep falling. I have no idea which; either seems possible from a programming standpoint).

[avitous]

For myself, by the time I see the purple sky events I'm already mining both osmium and super alloy, and with all my other mines am making more of the latter than I know what to do with in addition to mining it directly. So the purple or blue sky events I tend to just ignore if any meteors fall, as there is little or nothing to be gained by dropping what I was doing at the time, hurriedly emptying my backpack and rushing out to collect as much as I can before they despawn, all while the ground shakes so much (more so than with other meteor events) as to render collecting fallen samples quite difficult. Instead I chuckle to myself about all the stress I'm avoiding, carry about whatever I was doing (harvesting the various things needed to build more tree spreaders, usually) and pick up anything I stumble upon without trying.

Hopefully these events will be made more useful or otherwise *ahem* impactful *cough* with coming changes...

[hinoron1]

Blue sky meteor showers drop osmium with sulphur though. You might have all the Osmium you need (though players on their first playthrough may not have gotten on top of that as fast as we are now, or found all the caves) but you'll still need a bunch of sulphur late game (all that fertiliser for tree spreaders). Granted with those, and the rocket-generated uranium/iridium meteor showers, It's often easier to wait a bit for some of the bigger rocks to despawn, so yeah, by all means, finish what you're doing first.

And you need the Super Alloy pretty much constantly too (including for tree spreaders). I don't object to having some extra of it provided free, right about were I'm already standing (yeah I found the mining spot, though it's a while before you get the T2 extractor, and it's not always close to where I am when I find I'm out of S.A. again). They can be tricky to catch if they're still rolling, but many of them land on relatively flat spots too. If one's rolling to fast, skip it and go to another one. I can't say I've ever grabbed up enough to fill my full T5 backpack; about half-full at best, but that's fine. Whatever I got is free and will be useful soon enough.

[avitous]

Eh. I've never collected more than 5-6 superalloy from a meteor event, the ground shakes so badly with constant impacts I can't keep the mining laser centered on the resource nuggets easily. I have a T2 miner in the sulfur fields too, so am getting more than enough sulfer just from mining along with everything else: 2x T2 miners on: iridium, superalloy, osmium, uranium, and a T2 miner each for sulfur and aluminum. I get more than enough resources for my needs with this, and now that I'm finally building T3 tree spreaders if I need more sulfur (have 2 lockers full currently) will just add another T2 miner or two there as needed. So with all of that I can do without the frustration of hustling to harvest SA/sulfur/osmium short-lived meteor drops; mostly it's just a bunch of rocks that get in my way if they don't despawn quickly enough...

That said, I'm sure with the additional content coming the resource needs will alter significantly, so perhaps I'll need vastly more SA/sulfur than I'm anticipating.

[hinoron1]

Okay then, you've got it figured out to your satisfaction.
I can provide one little tip I hope might still be helpful, if you're just starting on the T3s:

Those T3 tree spreaders use up a LOT or power, as do the T2 extractors. If you've got way more production and a significant stockpile of those mineables than you're actually using, you might want to shut down (well, deconstruct) some of the extractors to free up more power.

The Fusion Nuclear plants are great, but they ultimately take 5 Zeolite to build each, and since there's a finite amount of Zeolite, those could be going into more T3 Tree spreaders.
(Also, keep building more T2 Nuclear plants whenever you accumulate enough uranium for a new one. Not as strong as the Fusion ones of course, but at last Uranium is an infinite resource. Need an awful lot of them to power those energy hogging T2 tree spreaders.)

[So-]

Thank you so much for all your answers !
101 hours of game, and i continue to discover this game!! And I love that !!!

[Maljen]

Originally posted by So-:

Thank you so much for all your answers !
101 hours of game, and i continue to discover this game!! And I love that !!!

I've got 100+ hours in too and I just discovered tonight via a screencap that we can put the large chests outside, lol

[So-]

Originally posted by Maljen:

Originally posted by So-:

Thank you so much for all your answers !
101 hours of game, and i continue to discover this game!! And I love that !!!

I've got 100+ hours in too and I just discovered tonight via a screencap that we can put the large chests outside, lol

haha

[Wuulfe]

I’ve got several bases spread out. Oddly I’ve got some with a lot of green, grass and so forth. You go a fair trek south or east or any direction really away from the base and it’s all desert again.