Discovering all Flora and Minerals.

[Rye Encoke]

So the Fauna has a number, so I know when I have them all...6/6.

I thought flora and minerals were the same, but it doesn't give me the second number. I have discovered 9 flora and 9 minerals but no idea if that is all of them or not....it doesn't say 9/9 it just says 9.

On a planet I haven't done any scanning on...it says.

Flora 0 discovered, Fauna 0/10 discovered. MInerals 0 discovered.

so again, how do I know when I have all the flora and minerals when i don't know how many I am looking for??

[Fighting-Priest]

Go into your log the first secondary mission I think it's like exploration or something, that will tell you what you have to find on a planet.

P.S. Not worth it.

[Jaggid Edje]

When on a planet, go to your Log and pin the mission named "Exploration Guide". That has the info that you seek.

Worth mentioning though that there is no extra reward for finding all flora or minerals. Only fauna has that. So, I agree with the above poster, for flora and minerals it's not worth the time investment. Unless you just enjoy doing it. Then, have at it.

[Marabu]

Every scan gives you units though.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Marabu:

Every scan gives you units though.

Sure, but every planet has things to scan, and there's way more planets than you'll ever visit,

Spending a ton of time to get that last hard-to-find mineral or plant on a single planet just means you are NOT earning as many units as you would if you had just gone to another planet and started scanning there.

[Fighting-Priest]

Originally posted by Marabu:

Every scan gives you units though.

Yes but you will gain more credits if you were to find the scanner upgrades.

[Vinyl Asylum]

On a side note, if you upgrade your Multitool Scanner for Flora, Fauna and Minerals it will give you way more units. Some Fauna, depending on the rarity will give you 200k+ Units, same with the Flora and even scanning Minerals now will give you more units that before. On a planet I like to try and find all the Fauna as you get bonus Naites. I'll Scan as much of the Flora and Minerals as I feel like, bu it's not a priority.

[Jaggid Edje]

^^^
What he said.

Also, it is ridiculously profitable if you also supercharge the scanner upgrades. I keep one multi-tool JUST for scanning in all of my saves, where I supercharge all of the scanner upgrade modules. You can get like 800,000 units for one scan if you do that and have great x-class scanner upgrades.

[chipmonk]

As you explore more of a planet and scan more, you will find that there are often more minerals and plants than the number shown in the exploration guide. As has been pointed out by Jaggid Edje, you don't get any bonus for discovering all the plants or minerals, just the fauna and you need to upload that data on the discoveries page for the bonus.

[Unlucky]

Something else not mention is that even if you do use the planetary log to 'count' Flora and minerals, you can technically scan more than it says.
I've done something like "13/10" flora or "9/8" minerals several times before on many planets. I'm not really sure what is going on there but maybe that has something to do with why it doesn't list an exact limit in the discovery log.

Edit: Haha, I think me and chipmonk posted about the same time with the same info... So yeah, the point is if you're expecting the game to give you a certain 'max number' of plants/minerals for a planet.... the game doesn't have that number for you.

[Vinyl Asylum]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

^^^
What he said.

Also, it is ridiculously profitable if you also supercharge the scanner upgrades. I keep one multi-tool JUST for scanning in all of my saves, where I supercharge all of the scanner upgrade modules. You can get like 800,000 units for one scan if you do that and have great x-class scanner upgrades.

What he said ...lol