Autophage Mission/Upgrade Multitool

[Candy3ow]

Hello, I did the autophage mission, but I must have made a huge mistake or overlooked something. I did NOT get or find the multi-tool upgrade. What did I miss? Can I still get this somewhere later? (sry for the bad google translation) I don't mean the multitool directly but the upgrades from the scanner (Scan Harmoniser & Polyphonic Core), there are apparently 2 things and I'm missing them

[EchoSON]

Different staff parts do different things -

To get more 'modules / tech' options, you need to open suspicious packets (tech)

You can place some normal Multitool upgrades on a Staff - the staff is no different to a standard multitool

To upgrade a Slots , you need to use a multi-tool upgrade kiosk on a space station...

Not sure if I'm answering the question you meant to ask :D

[maestro]

Originally posted by EchoSON:

Different staff parts do different things -

To get more 'modules / tech' options, you need to open suspicious packets (tech)

You can place some normal Multitool upgrades on a Staff - the staff is no different to a standard multitool

To upgrade a Slots , you need to use a multi-tool upgrade kiosk on a space station...

Not sure if I'm answering the question you meant to ask :D

I think he's trying to say that he did the missions, but he didn't get the two tech pieces that let you scan for Autophage Camps (the ones he names in the OP). I don't remember the questline well enough, but I do remember that those are crafted. Simply go to the tool and craft a technology, it should be listed in the options of things you can add.

Or, if you did the entire questline and you're wanting to use a new tool, you can repackage the ones on your old tool and move them to the new.

[Candy3ow]

@ Maestro
That's exactly what I mean. I'll give it a try and I'll definitely let you know how it turns out. First of all, thank you very much for the tip. lg

[DrBonifarz]

What missions exactly did you complete? It starts with "They Who Returned" and then branches out into "Prayers of the Machine" and "Audience with the Autophage". The two mentioned tech bluebrints should become available before that branching point, though. Maybe your can compare you walkthrough with the summary on the fandom wiki.

[Candy3ow]

I don't even know what I screwed up. I have the quest Traces of Metal and I have already visited such a harmonic camp, but somehow I don't have these two upgrades in my inventory or in the weapon that I could also take. I'm currently trying to reconstruct the whole thing, but it's not that easy, I also have this guardian companion and I can also locate such a guardian spaceship with the AI, but I totally messed something up (at the time). Now if I come into a Harmonic Camp like this and just talk to this destroyed mech head, he just wants resources and that's it. I now got this echolocation device again and am trying it again.

[Nettle]

Originally posted by Candy3ow:

I have the quest Traces of Metal

That's... not part of the Autophage mission chain.

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/A_Trace_of_Metal
https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/They_Who_Returned

[Candy3ow]

I know I somehow messed everything up. I have the Minotaur finished - I also have the autophage customization so I look like a robot, I also have a weapon unlocked from storage but not these upgrades because this tech head or whatever is lying in a tent won't talk to me or gives. Excuse the mess
Oh thanks for the tip, I'll try it again today because I now know that the point is that the autophage doesn't have a dialogue with me.

[Nettle]

Well, the upgrades won't appear in your inventory for a start - you learn the blueprints and install them yourself in an empty multi-tool slot.

Here's a wild idea: is your current save derived from the Singularity expedition? I seem to recall one of the more critical tools being the aforementioned Scan Harmoniser or something very like it. We used it to reveal those invisible crystal things on Dissonant worlds.

That being the case... you may already have what you've been searching for.

https://www.nomanssky.com/2023/06/expedition-ten-singularity/

[Candy3ow]

oh yes I did that too mmmh oh my god it's all confusing. But why can't I talk to the broken autophage? But apparently you're right, I'm confusing a lot of things....oh I'm so ashamed

[Candy3ow]

Now I also know that in the Echo Quest I didn't go to the Monolythen to give it the Atlantideum and that's the problem and that's why I couldn't talk to the autophage, that's crap, I think that's where the mistake lies

[Candy3ow]

And in the Singulary I don't have this echo seed detection either and that's where the error lies. There is nothing you can do. Stupidity must be punished

[Nettle]

If all else fails you should still be able to reset the mission by travelling far, far away.

[Candy3ow]

although I have this Robotor Exporter Rugerforh in the anomaly standing next to Tethys.

[Candy3ow]

I found the error and finally have the quest that leads me to the head. I would like to thank you all very much and will thank you again in the form of a “Thank You Award”. Thank you very much and also for the patience you had with me

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by Candy3ow:

I found the error and finally have the quest that leads me to the head.

can you say how you figured it out and what you did to correct it? i may have a save in the same shape as yours was... that save already has harmonic camps and a sentinel star ship along with the autophage staff but no harmonic camp or crystals revealing device...