T2 Deconstructor?

[Gargoyle Girl]

I've run all over the map, and opened every box I could find. I even looked for some videos, hoping someone would have given a direct 'find it here' answer; mostly people just said 'find all the chips and eventually...' (the videos were also mostly 2 to 3 years old). There was no eventually for me. I haven't been able to find this thing, and I'm not sure if I somehow missed my chance, or if some chips appear only at certain points in the gameplay.

In any case... does anyone know what I need to do to get this item to spawn in? It's holding up all of my progress at this point, and I'm slowly grinding through my resources, waiting for it to appear.

[Phoenix Cat]

Originally posted by Gargoyle Girl:

I've run all over the map, and opened every box I could find. I even looked for some videos, hoping someone would have given a direct 'find it here' answer; mostly people just said 'find all the chips and eventually...' (the videos were also mostly 2 to 3 years old). There was no eventually for me. I haven't been able to find this thing, and I'm not sure if I somehow missed my chance, or if some chips appear only at certain points in the gameplay.

In any case... does anyone know what I need to do to get this item to spawn in? It's holding up all of my progress at this point, and I'm slowly grinding through my resources, waiting for it to appear.

Some BP's only open at certain points in the Ti. So here is the info from the wiki. It will show you when it should show up along with everything else.

https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Microchips

[UglyBird]

I got the blueprint early, but can't make it because methane is not available yet. Still way to go unless I discover some in loot.

[Zep Tepi]

You will find it eventually is the correct answer. There are more blueprint chips on the map than there are recipes, so you will have extras at some point. The chips unlock randomly within tiers and T2 deconstruction is in one of the later tiers. It's not dependent on terraforming, but it is dependent on how many other blueprint chips you've already unlocked. You will need it when you have aquariums and drones, and chances are good that you won't randomly find it before then because it unlocks towards the end of the list. You may even find a few circuit boards in chests before you find that chip.

Here's the page with the tier list: https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Blueprint_microchip

If you start finding T2 vehicle chips then you are getting close.

[Robirda]

I would add to what the others mentioned, one crucial fact - to make the durn thing you need methane, and the machine that makes it won't unlock until you hit a fairly high level of pressure, so be sure to keep your pressure as high as you can manage - build multiple pressure-improvers, and send up multiple pressure rockets (the ones that give you iridium).

You can check the information screens to find out just when the methane producer will unlock, it's listed under 'pressure' in the blueprint screen (I think - if you don't see it check the 'pressure' list in the biodome's screen). Good luck, hope this helps! :-)

[Tirandys]

Just keep finding the blue chips and unlocking them. You will eventually find the recipe. It is random in tiers, and it is one of the last tiers.

You will need methane, I don't think I have ever found a random methane. To produce methane you will need the gas extractor. Tier 1 has random methane, oxygen, and nitrogen. It usually gives mostly methane at first. Eventually you can unlock the tier 2 gas extractor and can select what gas you want.

[starlight78sso]

There is no specific place you will find a specific chip, other than some of the new decor items, the regular blueprint chips wont have a name to them, and like others said, it will open a random item in the tier you are currently in. You just have to keep looking for blueprint chips.

[Zep Tepi]

You can find random methane, but probably well after when you need it.

[flint74]

Keep in mind that the wiki page for blueprint microchips is mostly up-to-date for v.1.406 - just the 'No tier' section of the list is missing ALL of the decoration update blueprints, however the numbered tiers apparently got slightly adjusted in the recent QOL update to v1.410