Silicon??

[Tempus Thales]

Stuck at the beginning because I need Silicon to progress further and can't figure out how to aquire it or craft it.

[Phoenix Cat]

Look for the Rectangular panels hung in pairs off of towers usually several in a group.

[Lochar]

old post but this held me up as well, not sure why can't break down synthetics for it as those balls are plentiful

[ChanceGateau]

The solar panels on those towers near to where you start. You can break them down with the extractor.

[Dracuras]

synthetics in this game's case are mostly plastics from what I've seen, so you'd get tiny traces of silicon at best unless ya find a big strip of silicone rubber or similar. photovoltaic cells, that is to say solar panel's main component have a ton of silicon in them so that's a much better source of the stuff.

[Shodan]

It is REALLY hard to find them unless you spend a long time just clicking everything
My friend also got stuck here over an hour searching for these

They are roughly in the north east direction and you are seeing these thin panels from their side, so they are very narrow and hard to see.

Sorry we didn't get a screenshot.
But it's roughly here

Most people pick them up when they spend a lot of time clicking on everything
but people who want to finish the tutorial quickly don't have the patience to look over every pixel for an hour
https://i.imgur.com/edexqJp.png

[Kyle]

You can acquire silicon by the abundance of Solar Panels everywhere, 2 per panel, I'm not sure if the method was different back in 2024 at time of OP though.

This is what they look like, this picture is taken from the spawn/tutorial area.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3466975199
Not sure if the other biomes are different, in the red one they just float around like this.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3466972204

[Shodan]

Those two in the first picture are easy
The problem is finding the other because you need 6x silicon to progress
That is where some people get stuck for one hour or two then give up and never play the game again

[Shodan]

Is the second picture taken from inside the tutorial

[Nerevar]

non issue. easy to get. people claiming hard to get are not even trying.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Shodan:

Is the second picture taken from inside the tutorial

No, it's another biome, just loaded the wrong save and took it because it was there. The first photo is the spawn/tutorial, meant to show that the biome has a lot & what it looks like for those unsure.

You don't require any silicon to get the ship moving, you'd have to lose your batteries somehow, but that shouldn't be possible unless you somehow manage to get 12 Silicon without ever building a scanner, as the Airship builder requires Electric Parts.

There are four batteries at the beginning.
One is used to open the door
One is used to power the Research Station
One is used for a Scanner (Allows you to research and build the engine, just synthetic/metal stuff)
One is used for an Airship Builder (Requires 6 Silicon each, you'd have to somehow build two of these without ever getting the scanner/engine, which I don't think you can do.)

[Shodan]

We needed to make an electrical thing and that needed silicon.
But I'm not sure and I don't want to go through the tutorial again.
But I saw while searching on google a lot of people were looking for this silicon to finish the tutorial.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Shodan:

We needed to make an electrical thing and that needed silicon.
But I'm not sure and I don't want to go through the tutorial again.
But I saw while searching on google a lot of people were looking for this silicon to finish the tutorial.

I went through it, it was probably the Airship Builder quest. It's not mandatory in order to move your ship and get more silicon, but I could imagine getting confused.

I restarted though and I have found them flying around randomly in the starter biome as well, so it should be fine, (although didn't see any directly at spawn.)

It requires 2 Silicon to research, then 6 silicon to craft an Electrical Part. There's only 4 immediately available from the platform, then right in front of them a bit of reach there's 8 more silicon you can fly to, with lots more spread around the biome for you to fly to.

Anyways, good luck boss, I wish many silicon upon you.

[Asmosis]

Originally posted by Shodan:

We needed to make an electrical thing and that needed silicon.
But I'm not sure and I don't want to go through the tutorial again.
But I saw while searching on google a lot of people were looking for this silicon to finish the tutorial.

You don't need silicon at all to finish the tutorial, but its a common mistake.

I thought i did too, you need 6 silicon to build something (i forget what) but after looking around and only getting 2 nearby, i realised i could just take off and pick it up on the way to my next destination. Silicon is all over the place in the first biome.l