Habing hard time finding sticky honey/synthetic honey

[Varathius]

I went for 2 hours to search for this and to no avail. It is for the expedition to bake a cake.... Anyone willing to please just trade this to me?

[Jaggid Edje]

I'd help you out if I could, but I"m fairly certain that people not in the expedition cannot interact with people who are in the expedition. And my expedition 5 save already converted over to a normal one.

[Theblaze]

Best way to get them is to complete the milestone "Best-Laid plans" on phase 3.

Apart from the eggs, it gives you all the required ingredients to 'bake' the cake.

If you finished this milestone and select the milestone "SweetTooth", it should also give you an instruction how to make the cake, otherwise you can use the link below to get the recipe.
https://nomansskyrecipes.com/cooking

Note: The website has ads.

[NZ.Zero]

you get some as a prize for the other quests.
but either way you dont need it for the cake.
Think I used grah grah but you could even use cactus.

[Xautos]

you get synthetic honey from the mission sweet tooth. plus it tells you how to make the cake and use every ingredient to make sure, by the time you finished following the example, you are left with a number of intermediates. While it helps understand cooking, the amounts needed for a single cake are beyond excessive.

as for sticky 'honey'? i managed to find a small jumping mushroom lifeform on a world in a system not far off one of the rendezvous coordinates. it took a bit longer than expected because most of the animals are milk producers with the occasional egg layer.

[Jaggid Edje]

I didn't even remember that one of the milestones gave you honey.
I don't understand why OP is having issues, unless he sold it or stashed it somewhere and doesn't recall doing so.

[Xautos]

Publicado originalmente por Jaggid Edje:

I didn't even remember that one of the milestones gave you honey.
I don't understand why OP is having issues, unless he sold it or stashed it somewhere and doesn't recall doing so.

when i did the second cake i threw out all the immediates and raw items and started over. i managed to find everything, but stick 'honey' was harder to find. so using that sticky stuff in butter to create sweetened butter and a few other ingredients and i made a different cake that was considered a work of art to Cronus.

it wasn't just the cake, but harvesting the raw materials and putting into practice what i learned from the example provided in the mission. i'd rather be taught to fish to eat for a lifetime than be given the fish to be eaten for the day.

[Varathius]

thanks a lot guys ! I had no idea that one of the missions gives that as a reward. Now I can complete it, thx for posting this !

[JimboTCB]

The crafting chains for the more involved stuff like cake batter can be pretty complicated and there's multiple different recipes which will work at different stages of the process. Cactus flesh refined twice to make processed sugar is probably the easiest ingredient for the sweetened butter portion of the recipe, you can do frost crystals processed twice to make flour, then you just need some form of milk and eggs harvested from animals.

[wkitty42]

Publicado originalmente por Varathius:

thanks a lot guys ! I had no idea that one of the missions gives that as a reward. Now I can complete it, thx for posting this !

ProTip: when starting an expedition, look over all of the milestone quests before you get started... they can be done in any order you like... sometimes you can have most of them done before you leave the first star system...

[Prescient Stones]

Desert planets Fly in and look for the cones
https://portalrepository.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/honeypot.jpg

[Xautos]

Publicado originalmente por JimboTCB:

The crafting chains for the more involved stuff like cake batter can be pretty complicated and there's multiple different recipes which will work at different stages of the process. Cactus flesh refined twice to make processed sugar is probably the easiest ingredient for the sweetened butter portion of the recipe, you can do frost crystals processed twice to make flour, then you just need some form of milk and eggs harvested from animals.

i saw that on the second attempt. there was a guide i ran across with a link to some nms assistant website that offered some details how to make things and their raw materials as well as how cronus viewed the quality of the item. I know Jaggid mentioned that it's a random element if the item presented to Cronus will be accepted a few days back, but rather not discount any possibility involved.

But yeah, i didn't realise just how many different cake, donuts and pies there are.. and they say the cake is a lie! xD

[wkitty42]

ProTip: if you shove enough raw carbon in Cronus' mouth, he will eventually give you top rank in the cooking field... his game is nothing more than rolling the RNG dice with your fingers crossed...

[Prescient Stones]

For finding creatures that give honey:
Enter a system go to your map and look at the planet details > Creatures count > Higher number means more opportunity to find a:
Blob - they bounce hop and twirl some have many eyes
Slug - they are smaller than you and even if you don't see them they are the most vocal creature that make a DEEP "WHAAHH" sound near open cave entrances.

Green Star system are almost a given for finding Honey:
Biomes by chance:
Anonymous
Toxic
Gamma Radioactive
Desert for the cone shaped dripping honey plants, See them from your ship. land, scan, harvest: profit. Strafe from air once you scan multiple plant types as the secondary element is honey.

[Jaggid Edje]

Publicado originalmente por wkitty42:

... his game is nothing more than rolling the RNG dice with your fingers crossed...

Yep, pretty much. Though more complicate items do have a better chance, it still does just boil down to RNG. He's running a real racket there, getting all that free food and then just spinning a wheel to see if you win.

[Geldric™]

The Chocolate cake requires no honey. Used it the first time around and used it again this time. Chronos loves chocolate...
https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Chocolate_Cake