Can't build exocraft summoning station on freighter anymore

[Massacher]

I distinctly remember I had one on my freighter and I'd only have to summon the freighter into the system to be able to summon an exocraft.
I have since changed freighters and I have the room where it shows the exocrafts spinning as holographic icons. But I can't remember how to make it so I can summon one without having to build a summoning platform every time I land on a planet.
I think all the upgrades get deleted when you acquire a new freighter? Because they are all gone. Only the hyperdrive is installed.

[rdouglass1]

It is now one of the Rooms you can Build...
If the Freighter is there, simply use "X" Menu, as normal.

[Massacher]

Originally posted by rdouglass1:

It is now one of the Rooms you can Build...
If the Freighter is there, simply use "X" Menu, as normal.

Yea I did that but it tells me there is no exocraft summoning platform in this system despite the fact that I have my freighter summoned.

[gNg]

If your new freighter only has a hyperdrive installed, you'll need to build a new summoning station on it. Use the build menu when on the freighter (press Z on pc) to install it. If it doesn't show up in the menu, check the upgrade console on the bridge to see if you have it unlocked. If not, you have to unlock it with a Salvaged Frigate Module.

[Massacher]

Originally posted by gNg:

If your new freighter only has a hyperdrive installed, you'll need to build a new summoning station on it. Use the build menu when on the freighter (press Z on pc) to install it. If it doesn't show up in the menu, check the upgrade console on the bridge to see if you have it unlocked. If not, you have to unlock it with a Salvaged Frigate Module.

Thank you. I'm ♥♥♥♥ out of luck because I don't have any Salvaged Frigate Modules at the moment. I did a derelict freighter mission to try and get some but didn't get any. I've sent my fleet to do missions. Hopefully it will yield some.

edit: I already have this on there

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Orbital_Exocraft_Materialiser

but I cannot summon an exocraft when I have my freighter summoned to a system. Is it bugged?

[rdouglass1]

Originally posted by Massacher:

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but I cannot summon an exocraft when I have my freighter summoned to a system. Is it bugged?

This should probably be in the Bug Report Section then.....

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Massacher:

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but I cannot summon an exocraft when I have my freighter summoned to a system. Is it bugged?

You need at least ONE exocraft geobay on a planet surface (for each exocraft) built in order to summon it with the exocraft summoning station or orbital exocraft materializer. You always have.

It only requires one (for each craft) and it can be built, literally, on any planet, anywhere, in any galaxy. But you need that one.

As for building the geobays on the freighter, you can do that with glitch building methods (or mods), but it won't help. Geobays built on the freighter do not count for the requirement.

Without the exocraft materializer on the freighter (or the mobile exocraft summoning station which you can build and carry around with you) you need an exocraft geobay on the same planet.
Note that once you have an exocraft on the planet, you can summon it anywhere on that planet without the need for a geobay or a summoning station. So you can build the geobay, then destroy it right after for just that one planet.

I typically build all the exocraft geobays at my settlement, or first base, so that I always know where they are. But you could just randomly build them on any ol' planet, without any base at all. Once you build and leave it there, you will be able to summon it anywhere using that orbital exocraft materialiser. As long as your Freighter is in the same system as you.

[Massacher]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Massacher:

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but I cannot summon an exocraft when I have my freighter summoned to a system. Is it bugged?

You need at least ONE exocraft geobay on a planet surface (for each exocraft) built in order to summon it with the exocraft summoning station or orbital exocraft materializer. You always have.

It only requires one (for each craft) and it can be built, literally, on any planet, anywhere, in any galaxy. But you need that one.

As for building the geobays on the freighter, you can do that with glitch building methods (or mods), but it won't help. Geobays built on the freighter do not count for the requirement.

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Without the exocraft materializer on the freighter (or the mobile exocraft summoning station which you can build and carry around with you) you need an exocraft geobay on the same planet.

I can carry it around with me? Since when was that added?

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Note that once you have an exocraft on the planet, you can summon it anywhere on that planet without the need for a geobay or a summoning station. So you can build the geobay, then destroy it right after for just that one planet.

I typically build all the exocraft geobays at my settlement, or first base, so that I always know where they are. But you could just randomly build them on any ol' planet, without any base at all. Once you build and leave it there, you will be able to summon it anywhere using that orbital exocraft materialiser. As long as your Freighter is in the same system as you.

Hmm that is strange. I've built more than one geobay on many planets. I wonder why its not letting me summon off the freighter? Maybe I'll just have to delete the Orbital Exocraft Materialiser currently on my freighter and rebuild it. It may reset the requirement.

Originally posted by rdouglass1:

Originally posted by Massacher:

[...]
but I cannot summon an exocraft when I have my freighter summoned to a system. Is it bugged?

This should probably be in the Bug Report Section then.....

Where is the bug report section on here?

[AmberAnvil]

Originally posted by Massacher:

Hmm that is strange. I've built more than one geobay on many planets. I wonder why its not letting me summon off the freighter? Maybe I'll just have to delete the Orbital Exocraft Materialiser currently on my freighter and rebuild it. It may reset the requirement.

This is the problem. When Endurance was released, a lot of obsolete tech was deleted from existing freighter layouts. The old Orbital Exocraft Materializer was not deleted, but it is not functional. You must delete it and build a new one. You'll notice that it does look a little bit different than the old style too.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Massacher:

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Without the exocraft materializer on the freighter (or the mobile exocraft summoning station which you can build and carry around with you) you need an exocraft geobay on the same planet.

I can carry it around with me? Since when was that added?

The change to allow you to 'pick it up' rather than needing to scrap and rebuild it each time you needed to place it was in the Sentinel update, in February of last year.

Hopefully the solution provided by @AmberAnvil works. It sounds like it probably is your problem.
With how you worded your first post and the statement that you just got a new freighter, it didn't even occur to me you could be still using the old materializer but new freighter doesn't actually mean new freighter base so I bet that's the issue.

[Massacher]

Originally posted by AmberAnvil:

This is the problem. When Endurance was released, a lot of obsolete tech was deleted from existing freighter layouts. The old Orbital Exocraft Materializer was not deleted, but it is not functional. You must delete it and build a new one. You'll notice that it does look a little bit different than the old style too.

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Hopefully the solution provided by @AmberAnvil works. It sounds like it probably is your problem.
With how you worded your first post and the statement that you just got a new freighter, it didn't even occur to me you could be still using the old materializer but new freighter doesn't actually mean new freighter base so I bet that's the issue.

Yes and yes. Its on there but its not functional which is what confused me. Time to delete and rebuild!

Goodbye you old piece of crap!

https://i.ibb.co/MZkfF75/20230319125120-1.jpg

edit: Now I just need to get some frigate salvage modules lol. Always in short supply of those.