Portals

[Zec]

Hi, is it only me who have difficulty finding portals? I found the monolith that are suppose to give me the location of the portals but only thing they gave me is a new word. So far I bought 20 Alien Artefact chart and nothing just chest ans words.

[MarStrMind]

Normally you solve a riddle (mostly philosophical in nature), then you offer the Monolith a relic of the dominant race in the system, for example a Gek Relic or Vy'Keen Dagger. It will then reveal the Leyline that shows the Stargate location.

[LazerRay]

You need to get the ruins that give you a puzzle to answer, then use the item it gives you to locate the portal.

Once you do find a portal, I recommend placing a Save Beacon near it and keep track of that star system (optionally building a planetary base somewhere nearby, keeping the marker in view on your HUD)

[Jaggid Edje]

First, you need to make sure you are at an actual "Monolith" and not one of the other types of alien structures that charts/exocraft scanners can locate.

2nd, you need to interact with it TWICE to get the portal location.

The steps are as follows:

1. First, interact with it and correctly solve it's riddle.
   
2. Select your reward (learn some words, or one of the other options.
   
3. Exit out of the 'conversation' with the monolith entirely.
   
4. Interact with it AGAIN
   
5. Give it the item that it requests (dependent on dominant system race) and select to reveal a portal.

Every monolith will work to give you a portal location, if you follow those steps (and got the riddle correct in step 1). My guess is you are not interacting with it a second time (step 4). That's what trips up most people who make posts saying it's not working for them.

[BlackWater]

One thing I try and do is if you find a planet you really like, I put the effort into finding a portal, this is easier if you have an exocraft with all the radar upgrades. Also, using charts for ruins will lead you to them. Carry at least 1 Vykeen dagger, Gek Relic and TWO Korvax casings, depending on which race is dominant in the region of space you are in. The Korvax casings, You need one to locate a portal, and the 2nd one will be needed for a certain pain in the ass quest that I just cleared after much frustration so I'm just going to tell you you will need ALL the portal glyphs before attempting said quest. These are obtained by stumbling around in the dark or clearing one of the primary quests. I opted for the 1st option. The relics I mentioned can also be sold, but Ive always used them as gifts to bump up relations.

[indigo]

I just spot them from the air. It's kind of hard to miss. Same with those boundry things - big metal cheerios sticking up. Nothing else looks anything like them.

[BlackWater]

Originally posted by indigo:

I just spot them from the air. It's kind of hard to miss. Same with those boundry things - big metal cheerios sticking up. Nothing else looks anything like them.

I hope they expand the game story-wise in regards to those.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Every monolith will work to give you a portal location, if you follow those steps (and got the riddle correct in step 1). My guess is you are not interacting with it a second time (step 4). That's what trips up most people who make posts saying it's not working for them.

Actually there are a few (fairly rare) monoliths that do not provide coordinates, but they provide other very useful services. Although with the recent update, I wonder if those still are operational. Repairing broken multitools, for example. The vast majority of all monoliths however will provide coordinates, but you must interact with them TWICE. The first time to answer their worthiness riddle CORRECTLY, the second time to ask for the coordinates once the monolith deems you worthy by your answer. If you don't answer it's riddle correctly, it won't give you the option of asking for portal coordinates. Also, there are other monoliths that will provide portal coordinates no matter how you answer their questions. Most, however, require a correct response.

[Creative Guy1]

The easiest way (for me) to find a Monolith is to get a Roamer and upgrade with all (3) scanning blueprints. Then scan for Ancient Artifacts and it always finds a Monolith (well at least 9 times out of 10). Remember, if you are in a Vykeen system to visit a Trading Outpost before scanning for a Monolith and get a Vykeen Dagger from any landed pilot otherwise you won't be able to locate a Portal.

[Smoking Flowerpot]

Make sure it's a monolith and not just an ancient artifact. The monolith will give you an Atlas word instead of the local Gek, Korvax, or Vy'keen.

After the monolith gives you a new Atlas word, it seems like you're done, but click to interact with it again. This time (as long as you answered correctly earlier), it will then give you a portal location in trade for either a Gek Relic, Korvax Casing, or Vy'keen Dagger.

You usually get one of those items, along with the word, if you answered the question right earlier, but if not you can buy them from the ships that land at the planet-side trading posts.

[Rexxer]

I run into monoliths all the time just flying around, but if you really need help, you can also buy the alien artifact cartographic maps at any space station. You have a one in three chance for it to mark a monolith. If you don't want to waste maps, then just save the game before opening the map. Quickly reload if it's not a monolith and try again.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Rexxer:

Actually there are a few (fairly rare) monoliths that do not provide coordinates, but they provide other very useful services.

I think you're confusing the times that monoliths are repurposed for specific missions in the game for normal functionality.

If you are not on one of those missions, all monoliths function the same. Even those ones used for those missions function normally outside of those missions.

Either that, or your confusing one of the other alien structure types for monoliths. Because there are no 'special, different' monoliths outside of the mission repurposing.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Rexxer:

Actually there are a few (fairly rare) monoliths that do not provide coordinates, but they provide other very useful services.

I think you're confusing the times that monoliths are repurposed for specific missions in the game for normal functionality.

If you are not on one of those missions, all monoliths function the same. Even those ones used for those missions function normally outside of those missions.

Either that, or your confusing one of the other alien structure types for monoliths. Because there are no 'special, different' monoliths outside of the mission repurposing.

No, these monoliths I marked because of their uniqueness. No special mission. Their purpose was to fix broken multitools. It's possible they may also provide coordinates afterwards as I don't think I checked since I usually marked these out for their repair function. They are rare. It's possible they may have been patched out, as I have not checked recently, but I used to take broken multitools to them to get repaired. But it's one and done, like all initial monolith interactions, so I never activated them until necessary.

[Jaggid Edje]

Yah, those aren't unique monoliths. They still offer coordinates if you interact with them a second time. Monoliths just have a range of possible 'rewards' that you can get from resolving their 'riddle' on the first interaction, and fixing multi-tools is one of the possible rewards.

These are all of the possible rewards you might see, at Monoliths:

• Increased alien vocabulary (of the dominant alien entity within the Star System or the
• Atlas language)
  
• Increased standing with faction
  
• Recharging of health
  
• Repairing of broken technology
  
• Faction-specific rare items (Korvax Casing, Gek Relic, Vy'keen Effigy)
  
• Blueprints
  
• Multi-tools

Those rewards are independent of the option to reveal the location of a portal, which you will always get if you interact with it again after answering its 'riddle' correctly and claiming whatever reward was offered.

[Johny_Drifter]

I see this question a lot. Finding a portal is incredibly easy. It's so easy, I think I will make a thread on how to do it. Anyone can find a portal for free in about...3-5 seconds. First you need to know the location of 1 portal in the Galaxy you are interested in. Next, go to the planet you would like to find a portal on. For example, you found a nice Paradise planet you would like to establish a base on but would like to know the portal location. Go to your Paradise planet and land on the surface. Bring up "Photo" mode and grab a screenshot. Bam! Right there in the bottom left is the portal address. Now go back to your known portal and enter the portal address from your screenshot and warp on through.