Creature pellets bp

[Felis_Exploria]

I m playing a game without the tutorial and purposely avoiding the Artemis mission & starter ship. I was hoping to use creature pellets for cooking, but the blueprint isn't available. I know some missions require specific actions (e.g. base computer missions require interacting with Artemis ship and expanding the base requires building a shelter & portal). Does anyone know what actions are needed to unlock creature pellets?

[wkitty42]

IIRC you have to complete Awakenings and install a Hyperdrive before the blueprint is given to you... i don't remember if you have to also interact with an animal to get it to fire... either way, once you have the blueprint, creating them is easy...

if you are avoiding the normal quests, i think you'll have to get it at the Anomaly...

[Felis_Exploria]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

IIRC you have to complete Awakenings and install a Hyperdrive before the blueprint is given to you... i don't remember if you have to also interact with an animal to get it to fire... either way, once you have the blueprint, creating them is easy...

if you are avoiding the normal quests, i think you'll have to get it at the Anomaly...

I forgot about checking the anomaly. Thanks.

[CatPerson]

I'm pretty sure that bp isn't at the Anomaly.
But I don't know what triggers, exactly, the pellets showing up. I don't do tutorial/main quest most side quests in a lot of saves and the creature pellets just show up at some point.

I think it might be related to leaving your starter planet at the least, or perhaps at least visiting anomaly/talking to npc's there? OR when you get the first ship message and accept it (when you leave the starter planet), which starts MQ I guess, can't not answer it, but then I ignore it. I recall if you did a run never leaving the starter planet even once, they didn't show up then.

But it could be related to something like hyperdrive install, don't know.

[CatPerson]

I looked and far as I can see the bp for that is not sold at anomaly. So must be some other trigger, like installing certain module tech and/or simply leaving starter planet/starter system once, or visiting anomaly or space station once, etc.

[The Knowledge Seeker]

You get the BP for it after you talk to Nada and Polo, after the first warp out of your starter system.

[Other]

You don't necessarily need the blueprint for those. If you go to the anomaly and buy the Nutrient Processor blueprint (at the base parts station on the left side of the back room), you can make creature pellets in the Processor whether or not you have the blueprint to craft them in your suit inventory. The Processor is in the portable tech category, so you don't need a base to deploy it.

[Felis_Exploria]

Originally posted by Other:

You don't necessarily need the blueprint for those. If you go to the anomaly and buy the Nutrient Processor blueprint (at the base parts station on the left side of the back room), you can make creature pellets in the Processor whether or not you have the blueprint to craft them in your suit inventory. The Processor is in the portable tech category, so you don't need a base to deploy it.

Good point. I need the processor for cooking anyway.

[EzzaTheFirst]

I think you have to get to the space anomaly, maybe finish a couple quests and then try to feed a creature, you then get a mission to make creature pellets and the recipe