Can voltaic cells or marrow bulb be bought?

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I don't think I seen either available for purchase, but I'm not sure. Anyone seen either available for purchase? I need a bunch and don't really want to go slogging through caves to mine 100 marrow bulbs. thanks,

[japp_02]

Voltaic Cells: I'm pretty sure you cannot, it's an item you must craft from a blueprint only given to you by the Overseer (or Scientist, one of the 2). And Marrow Bulb may be randomly in the last item list of a single NPC or trading device out of the space station, so yes, I don't remember having seen it yet but other similar materials or plants like Coprite or Aquaspheres are sometimes shown (rarely though) so in theory it should be possible.

[tkwoods]

1500 plus hours of game play and I've never seen either for sale... But marrow bulbs are not just in caves... I always gather a few whenever I see them and store them in a container at the base.

[Lord of Planar]

I too have never seen either for sale. Marrow bulbs are available just about everywhere though. Almost always just outside of monoliths so close, I can shoot them from the monolith and collect a large share.

[Ameesa]

I'm lucky and currently have my homebase on a planet with HUGE caves with tons of marrow bulbs, I can usually get enough for 2 cells within a minute.

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Thanks all,

I just went ahead and went on a marrow bulb run. Picked up a little over a 1000 units of them. I'm going through a lot of them now in the later game as lots of things need voltaics. I went to a planet that I remember had nice open caves with lots of the bulbs so it wasn't too bad.

I sortof wish I could grow a few on my farm to gradually stockpile.

[Lord of Planar]

I use lots of them because I leave a Nomad Geobay at every portal I find. I also put atmospheric processors next to portals.

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Originally posted by Lord of Planar:

I use lots of them because I leave a Nomad Geobay at every portal I find. I also put atmospheric processors next to portals.

I'm still trying to get atmospheric processors to work in my game. Does using the portals for collection work pretty smoothly? thanks,

[Namaride]

Lol 100 takes like 3 whole minutes. And almost every planet has them x)

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Originally posted by Heph/Nama:

Lol 100 takes like 3 whole minutes. And almost every planet has them x)

I did a run that took about an 30min to an hour, and havested about 100 bulbs (@1000 units) which would make about 20 voltaic cells. You use alot of the votaics later in the game, so alot are needed.

[Namaride]

Wait till it get night, those flowers give light.

[6Taylor4]

hold on - i found them, showed them to scientist, scannned them before harvesting, and thereis nothing beyond that, he keeps asking when I'm going to go get the cave marrow.
If you could post a step by step procedure, so a dumb pilot like me can get on with this game? It's pretty boring if you can't advance. Thanks.

[Ket]

Originally posted by 6Taylor4:

hold on - i found them, showed them to scientist, scannned them before harvesting, and thereis nothing beyond that, he keeps asking when I'm going to go get the cave marrow.
If you could post a step by step procedure, so a dumb pilot like me can get on with this game? It's pretty boring if you can't advance. Thanks.

Is the mission selected? what does the hint that appears in the bottom right say?

[Wanderer]

This is one of the few areas in survival mode I find annoying - the harvest amount of marrow/kelp is half of normal mode. It takes a lot more time to collect what you need.

[p0pt@rt]

if you're on PC, you can just grow them..
https://nomansskymods.com/mods/growmoar-for-atlas-rising/

[Izargon]

Actually, I've seen the voltaic cells in stations sometimes, cant recall which one tho... Before I got the mission for the volt cells of course...