Expedition on hold due to rare Faecium

[Ankido]

I've managed to get through to Phase 4 but now I'm stuck with Feet To Form. I need Faecium and it's a rare rare and I mean rare object to get. I've tried feeding pets and follow them around and they seem to want to poop randomly. I've managed to one to poop ONCE and that was it for the past 3 hours. Let me guess, my expedition is over because I can't get animals to POOP?

[笛野めのん]

If you feed the animal and wait a minute or so, you should get what you want from the fed animal.
There is no need to chase the animal while it is in the feeding state, as it tends not to move very far.
If you don't want to hurt the animal, shoot the multitool in a safe direction when the "product" is released, which will reset the feeding status of the animals in the vicinity and you can feed them again immediately.

[AmberAnvil]

You need to toss Creature Pellets at a herd of critters, don't hand-feed them individually. You'll be swimming in Faecium in no time - just wait for it.

[Ankido]

After some soul searching, I found out you can make Faecium with Di-Hydrogen and Carbon. The guide in game did not state this can be done.

[MechWarden]

You can also get Faecium from broken machinery. Or can buy some from the market.

[toxicprime]

Another great way is to land at a trading post and see what the incoming pilots have to sell. They almost always have 1 of the farmable crops, including faecium. It wont be a matter of if they have it, but a matter of when.

[Silyon]

Mordite can be converted into Faecium and vice-versa with the backpack refiner. And Mordite is gotten as a drop for killing any non-sentinel, so you could go to town on a Fauna-rich planet.

Myself, I just tracked down a planet with Faecium deposits to mine. Typically swampy or fungal planets. Hitting one deposit got me more than enough to finish the stage.

[Felis_Exploria]

Grow gutrot, visit a swamp world, kill creatures and refine mordite, or search damaged machinery. I think the latter is the easiest, since these are everywhere! Yes, other junk items appear (like living slime), but I got enough faecium within 20 minutes. You don't even need to extract the technology if you play by those modified rules.

[Gerustroncio]

Took me like maybe 5 minutes.

Found a group of animals, fed pellets to a bunch of them, a few seconds later they all start dropping it, then I farmed it like that for a bit and had plenty enough.

[momopovich]

I ran into an issue feeding animals. After feeding them i went out to farm carbone and ferrite and when i came back animals had either despawned or lost the "recently fed" status. I then fed them and did nothing for a bit, just staring at them. They started pooping.

Maybe that's just your issue. Feed a bunch of animals, stay with them and do nothing, and that should work

[Jacen Organa]

Plant the Gutrot flower in your base farm. You will have more faecium than you can possibly ever want. I farm that and gamma root to create lubricant, then combine that with glass. 11 million for a stack of 20 Living Glass.

[The Cog (O.T.H.G.)]

I noticed an issue during the Expedition in acquiring the Faeciem. While trying to gather this from the creatures it would drop into the ground. The same thing happens with the green combat supplies from the small spider Sentinels on occasion. They probably were dropping it, but it was probably falling through the ground.

At least you found a work-a-round though!

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Ankido:

... Let me guess, my expedition is over because I can't get animals to POOP?

Along with the plethora of alternate ways of obtaining Faecium listed above; there are numerous well-labeled bases offering both Faecium and Gamma Root <- which will be your next crisis to overcome. You did install your Haz-mat gauntlets, yes?

Stay safe out there Traveller

Originally posted by momopovich:

.... to farm carbone ....

Isn't that a low carb drink/snack? WTF is it doing in No Man's Sky??

[Ankido]

The guide is supposed to provide you information. I didn't read in the guide about Di-Hydrogen and Carbon in refiner. It would have been helpful and I forgot since I only expeditions now due to work travel.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

If I remember right, one of the planets in the system where you need to do that has faecium deposits. I just mined some. It was the easy way.

Edit: I always get a kick out of that...a planet with shi*t deposits.