Gathering of some resources is a real drag

[Darth Vader]

Hi There

I've now been playing for almost 100 hours and have been enjoying my experience. However as I advance, something has been clear - gathering raw materials for upgrades and some tecnical machines is a real drag and has really put me off the game, to the point where I think I'm going to let it go.

For example, I wanted to upgrade my visor but I needed cobalt mirror, I didn't have a blue print so I had to get planetary charts to find structures who might have the blue print, did this 3 times and couldn't find it. Until now I haven't been able to update it. Same thing for plant resources, these are really rare and difficult to find, each component has to be its own mission which is a matter of probability if I find it or not...

I understand that to have the material simply available to buy would remove the gathering component, but the game could introduce the ability to buy specific blueprints from merchants, even if they involved a mission to convince the merchant to give them to you, especially for rarer materials. I'm not sure but I'm sort of stuck and can't really see myself spending the next 30 hours looking for blueprints that I might or might not find...

[Wizard of Woz]

Ummm, you are doing it the hard way. Just buy the parts you need. Visit merchants at the space station or any trading station.

Also if you haven't unlocked the Space Anomaly yet, do that. Then you can just use salvaged tech to unlock the recipes.

[tkwoods]

Yes, like wizard_of_oz states. Your doing it wrong. I play and rarely need to bother with gathering resources at all/ I just gather whats available where I'm at if needed.

Find and scrap a few crashed star ships you'll have everything you need very quickly.

[Wizard of Woz]

Wizard of Woz, just to clarify.

[Darth Vader]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von wizard_of_woz:

Ummm, you are doing it the hard way. Just buy the parts you need. Visit merchants at the space station or any trading station.

Also if you haven't unlocked the Space Anomaly yet, do that. Then you can just use salvaged tech to unlock the recipes.

I need destabilized sodium, I've searched literally 15 systems and couldn't find it... How exactly am I supposed to find it or build it?

[SteelFire]

Medium refiner. https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Destablised_Sodium

Also, if you have your freighter and some frigates, it can sometimes be returned on a mission.

[SirProsik]

Ultimately you need to get the recipe. Fastest way is to go to a Gek/Korvax system and hunt down manufacturing centers. Look for buildings that have locked doors. Blast them with ship guns and answer the "correct" way to get access to the "system" and learn a new recipe. For some reason in the other systems the reward is often not a recipe. Gek seem to be more often able to be unlocked for me than others but Korvax works about as often.

The nexus does not sell the recipes for crafting unfortunately.

[titanopteryx]

Doing the expand your base missions for the guy at the science terminal will unlock some recipes. Only some though.

Doing missions from the Anomaly, the multiplayer ones, can reward things like that. Not recipes, the actual items. You can do them solo. Some are like dig up dragon bones or kill 10 hazardous flora or tame 12 fauna. They send you to a system to do them at. You might be able to pick up some suit upgrades from the stations there.

[swingline]

As sirprosik says above - to get many of the crafting recipes you need to break into secure facilities. There are lots of blueprints there, and with successful answer you can pick the ones to pull from the system.

[Cannenses]

@Ya boy: Destabilised sodium will be made available to you, as a blueprint, if you do the Science Tutorial or the Overseer tasking, I cannot remember precisely. But it is one of the early terminals to be created and you will get the blueprint.

Do not fly around the space stations and systems like a headless chicken. They did that to me with circuit boards, so I basically said to myself I'll ignore the idiots who created the tutorial. Really brainless kids who likes to play hoodwinks.

===

I don't know how long any of the current commenters have been playing. I suspect they are long time players. Maybe they forgot what the issues are or didn't even face them.

I'm a new player, and I have only slightly more hours than OP, about 120 hours. And I will state upfront, Hello Games are brilliant game developers but REALLY REALLY STUPID when it comes to human psychology.

Here's why I'm calling them out: They like to play hoodwinks/gotcha/village idiot with new players, especially because they are new. The established players knows the way round the issue, but the new players feels like an idiot or chump as they say, because they do not understand what is required.

Let me state in one simple sentence: Do not take players, especially new players, for an idiot.. Why? Because they are humans, with emotions. In essence, they tell you to do this (e.g. circuit board or destablised sodium in the case of OP) and you try to find the item, but in fact, it is hidden and not available to you until you finish another tutorial. So you will never find the item until you finish the other tutorials.

===

Just in case anyone thinks I'm ranting because I do not have sufficient items in this game, so I'm frustrated, don't worry --- I'm fine and doing great. I run an S-class Hauler full-slot, 2-Exotics, an A-class fighter and A-class freighter with 20 frigates. I eat them Sentinel starships for fun, shoot the salvaged modules when I'm bored, and have about 10-bases. All this with less than 150 hours in the game. And I bought this game early last month. Finally, I got all these items in-game, without touching their stupid tutorials. I did not need their free blueprints -- I had so much units and nanites I bought them all before the tutorial started giving me some "rewards".

But I have to play the idiot role because I want to try the Exocrafts. So, I feel OP's frustration and Hello Games are typical pommies, arrogant Brit boys. I've seen that IRL and know this trait quite well -- I'm just being real blunt.

[BlackWater]

Not sure if this is intended or not.....Cadmium and Emril blues have you down? Then save those warp cells and use a stargate, even with one glyph, it will connect you to better areas, AND, your ship comes with, love to know the science behind that one. Current system has the remaining 3 resources required to fully repair all 5 ships ive found and Ive yet to actually warp yet.

[Kaeru Gaman]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ya boy:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von wizard_of_woz:

Ummm, you are doing it the hard way. Just buy the parts you need. Visit merchants at the space station or any trading station.

Also if you haven't unlocked the Space Anomaly yet, do that. Then you can just use salvaged tech to unlock the recipes.

I need destabilized sodium, I've searched literally 15 systems and couldn't find it... How exactly am I supposed to find it or build it?

sorry, but it seems all my foreposters just "doing it wrong"... ;)

if you searched 15 systems you MUST have seen "Curious Deposit" or "Floating Crystal"
the first is a yellow <III> the second a <I> marker in your visor. the small simple scan visor you get in the tutorial right after you get your ship.
both of these deposits drop those six super rare special ressources like Destabilized Sodium.

I don't know where you "need" it for, but I haven't come across a mission where someone asks me to build something I need Destabilized Sodium for.

And I thought I was "doing it wrong", because I played over 160 hours without finding the Anomaly, because I just did not start the "Main Mission"...

seriously, in this game there is no "doing it wrong".
you can just do some things the hard way and later see it could have been easier.

PS:
also you can make Destabilized Sodium in the Medium Refiner, just put 50 Sodium and 50 Sodium Nitrate into it.
https://www.nomansskyrecipes.com/medium-refiner.html

[titanopteryx]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Cannenses:

I don't know how long any of the current commenters have been playing. I suspect they are long time players. Maybe they forgot what the issues are or didn't even face them.

I'm a new player, and I have only slightly more hours than OP, about 120 hours. And I will state upfront, Hello Games are brilliant game developers but REALLY REALLY STUPID when it comes to human psychology.

Here's why I'm calling them out: They like to play hoodwinks/gotcha/village idiot with new players, especially because they are new. The established players knows the way round the issue, but the new players feels like an idiot or chump as they say, because they do not understand what is required.

Let me state in one simple sentence: Do not take players, especially new players, for an idiot.. Why? Because they are humans, with emotions. In essence, they tell you to do this (e.g. circuit board or destablised sodium in the case of OP) and you try to find the item, but in fact, it is hidden and not available to you until you finish another tutorial. So you will never find the item until you finish the other tutorials.

I've been playing 85 hours.


@Ya boy - Go to a station and talk to all the pilots who land in the station and then stand by their ships for a while. You can trade with them. Their stock is random but eventually you'll find a cobalt mirror. Additionally, try to find a minor settlement on a planet and then put a save beacon I think it's called there, The portable item that sets a permanent waypoint. Minor settlements sell stuff like that. Either the npc merchant pr the trade terminal.

[Cannenses]

@titanpteryx - I didn't mean to say you guys were wrong. But I will say, I have never once found a single item that the NPCs wanted me to get by visiting stations/systems/asking other NPCs. The tutorial requests are really a waste of time. But not in your case it appears as you seem to find exactly what you need, when you need them. Not my experience at all.

[titanopteryx]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Cannenses:

@titanpteryx - I didn't mean to say you guys were wrong. But I will say, I have never once found a single item that the NPCs wanted me to get by visiting stations/systems/asking other NPCs. The tutorial requests are really a waste of time. But not in your case it appears as you seem to find exactly what you need, when you need them. Not my experience at all.

On the contrary, it's the case that when the tutorial wants me to get something, if i don't have it I move onto something else I'd rather do instead and keep an eye out for the item along the way. I still haven't found a circuit board but I finished the science terminal and military terminal missions so far. I'd be done with the farming one but I haven't gone to a desert planet yet since I got the mission to grow the cactuses.

[Cannenses]

Ahh, you have the patience. I've gotten past the circuit board request, which wasted my time because the reward is a trade terminal. I had at least 5 installed in different bases when I got this "reward". :-)

Don't bother looking for it or "keep an eye out" because you won't find a circuit board for sale.