Found the cores, nothings happening.

[Oplender Jimstigmatacker]

I have spent all day trying to figure this out, I have deleted and remade 3 characters. I am using Frackin Universe and I know that makes somewhat of a difference but idk if it does for the first quest. Either way I have gathered the 20 cores and the quest says to locate the energy source in the caverns. When I get the cores the little bar on the mission fills up. I have run around the entire world twice trying to find the Archaic portal and there is nothing anywhere. I just end up right back at the slugs station thing. I know it says to use the Personal Tricorder but idk what to do with it, it isnt doing anything for me. What do I do?

[Şeyma]

enter the cave and do the cave mission

[ChaosFungus]

There should be a cave entrance somewhere in the mine on the planet. You will want to find that, then traverse the cave inside.

[Oplender Jimstigmatacker]

Originally posted by Erich the Fed:

enter the cave and do the cave mission

I do enter the cave but I am confused as to where it is. I remember when I first got the game the Archaic source was on the surface. Has it been changed since?

[kbrayaquar7]

Originally posted by Stryker:

Originally posted by Erich the Fed:

enter the cave and do the cave mission

I do enter the cave but I am confused as to where it is. I remember when I first got the game the Archaic source was on the surface. Has it been changed since?

FU is COMPLETELY changed from vanilla. I don't use it, so I do n't know exactly how different, but I do know it's quite different. I believe there's a wiki out there on the net about it though. Might want to search that up.

[CarThief]

Yeah FU changes the beginning a fair bit. I don't remember much of it, but what i do know is that you need to get 20 core fragments before or during the cave mission, defeat the boss in that mission, progress to the gate there (right after the boss), feed it the 20 core fragments, and go to the Outpost.

Presumably, the Outpost will help you in fixing your ship so you can go to other stars/systems instead of being stuck in the same one.

if you're having trouble with a boss, you could always use the /admin command to turn on or off admin mode, which by default adds invincibility and also lets you craft all recipies the crafting station has available, for free, along with other various commands. (But i'd mainly recommend using it for when you're REALLY stuck on some hard mission you need to complete.)

Oh, and once you're at the Outpost, there's a Teleporter shop with a functioning teleporter, you may wanna interact with that teleporter to bookmark the Outpost so you can freely travel back to the outpost from any teleporter (including your ship's teleporter).

That's about the most i remember from getting started on Starbound with FU installed.

[Tame]

FU Starting Mission:

1. Talk to S.A.I.L.
2. Beam down to starter Lush planet
3. Find Scientist (White slug) on the surface of the planet, get mission to acquire your Tricorder.
3a. Build Machining Table
3b. Craft Wire
3c. Craft Electromagnet
4. Get Tricorder for doing the above.
5. Locate Cavern, also on the surface of the planet.
6. Complete Cavern to acquire "Dash", "High Jump" & "Ball" techs, and Mama Poptop Claw (Tier 2 Unique Weapon)
7. Exit cavern to the Ark
8. Turn in Intro quest with old lady.

[BrotherVocalis]

Originally posted by Tame:

FU Starting Mission:

1. Talk to S.A.I.L.
2. Beam down to starter Lush planet
3. Find Scientist (White slug) on the surface of the planet, get mission to acquire your Tricorder.
3a. Build Machining Table
3b. Craft Wire
3c. Craft Electromagnet
4. Get Tricorder for doing the above.
5. Locate Cavern, also on the surface of the planet.
6. Complete Cavern to acquire "Dash", "High Jump" & "Ball" techs, and Mama Poptop Claw (Tier 2 Unique Weapon)
7. Exit cavern to the Ark
8. Turn in Intro quest with old lady.

yeah heres the problem, #5 doesnt show up. at all. above or below ground.
so basically like the OP, my character gets stuck, without any admin aid.