[Spoilers] The scanning Quest

[Plumpeach]

Is it all in one planet? Or do I have to hop around?

[Crawling Chaos]

If you are talking about scanning quests related to the main story line you can scan objects on any planet, wherever you want. If you are talking about new bounty quests, you have to scan handprints in the location on the planet stated in the quests description.

[ehyder]

For the main story scanning quest one thing you can do to reduce additional hopping around is:

1: collect items from the different races as you encounter them, and put the items in chests on your ship. Once you get the scanning quest for that particular race you load the items you have collected back into your inventory. If you happen to have collected an item that is targeted for scanning putting it in your inventory counts as scanning.

2. Liberally leave those teleport flags at each type of race location (e.g., temple, village, castle, prison). By the time you get your last few scan quests you should have enough locations and stored items to get through the scans pretty quickly.

[Plumpeach]

Yeah guess I am just confused as what to do atm. I got that and on a planet. I got some fuel (a lot of quick mining, jump, and teleporting). Are you suppose to get gear to mine on moons before switching systems?

[Crawling Chaos]

Originally posted by MonthOLDpickle:

Yeah guess I am just confused as what to do atm. I got that and on a planet. I got some fuel (a lot of quick mining, jump, and teleporting). Are you suppose to get gear to mine on moons before switching systems?

The only thing you need to mine on moons is a breathing EPP made on a regular iron anvil. You need a btreathing EPP because you know, you can not breathe on the moon because there is no atmoshpere. Tungsten ore can be found on any planet except for the first one where you land.

[Plumpeach]

Thanks I was just moving around current system so I missed a lot of things lol

[ehyder]

I was able to avoid a lot of moon mining by "visiting" hostile ships while exploring the starting system. Typically these ships carry containers with fuel. Friendly ships may have lootable fuel containers but I had more success from the hostiles.

To visit the ships you will need to do the mech quest through the stargate (lower level), if you have not done that already.

[Plumpeach]

Stupid pet thing on ship....

[ehyder]

It does get in the way. Just wait until you have tenants and/or crew members.

[土 GalTeXx (Не сосал)]

u have to

[Plumpeach]

I went out in my mech and it pointed me to this, but what do I do here? I quickly jumped out and interacted with circle thing. But it still points to this location.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1776714937

[ehyder]

You have to be outside of your mech to loot containers. Based on my own experience you probably just need to exit the mech, loot that one container, and go warp back to your ship. I believe that is an anomaly? If so, the anomaly should be "grayed" out when you look at your star map again, to show that it has been visited.

edit: don't worry about the circle thing, it is just an alarm. What you want are any containers.

[Plumpeach]

Is there one there? I mined one in that room, silver chest.

[ehyder]

One quick tip, that I keep forgetting myself when I start a new game, DO NOT get rid of your original protectorate weapon! Stash it somewhere once you get better gear.

[Plumpeach]

I don't even know what my OG weapon was...

[ehyder]

Originally posted by MonthOLDpickle:

Is there one there? I mined one in that room, silver chest.

You may be done I cannot remember if that one to the left of the mech is lootable. I have found the arrows do not necessarily go away.