Infinite Chemfuel Reactor

[WiseOdin]

I got an infinite Chemreactor as a trade quest reward for 22 whips (Not asking what my ally needed 22 whips for...)

Colonists get back, unpack the muffalos, there is no infinite chemfuel reactor.

Is there a better way to search for this thing? Because twenty minutes of search each room in three buildings didn't work :/

[Edmund Greyfox]

A lot of the quest rewards spawn at your base as soon as the quest is completed. Have you looked around your base for it?

[kevinshow]

if it's from the reward of doing a caravan quest, they will usually have it in their caravan and bring it back to your stockpile. check the stockpile to find it, then install it like a furniture item near some electrical power lines.

i had one colony where i had about 5 of them, and they worked very nicely to supply my colony with chemfuel.

[Terripan]

Did you click the fulfill trade offer button, or did you sell them the whips for money? If you wanted to get the reactor, you had to do the former.

[TwoTonGamer]

You can create a one tile stockpile set to 'Critical' priority that allows just that one special item. Set all your colonists to hauling priority '1' and see who finds it first.

The Infinite Chemfuel Reactor is under Buildings-Special in the stockpile settings.

[Astasia]

Caravans often fail to unload everything. Check your animal and colonist inventories if you still can't find it in a stockpile.

[M.K.]

I have, on occasion, received a chemfuel reactor as reward from a mission, with the reactor appearing assembled and trying to run out in the field somewhere. I needed to repackage it to move it to inside my base. Maybe look for an unexplained "building" out there somewhere?

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by TwoTonGamer:

You can create a one tile stockpile set to 'Critical' priority that allows just that one special item. Set all your colonists to hauling priority '1' and see who finds it first.

The Infinite Chemfuel Reactor is under Buildings-Special in the stockpile settings.

^-- This is the fastest method to find it without mods.

Check map edges, too. Some poor Pawn may have been carrying it and just dumped it when they entered the map. (Shouldn't, though. But... /shrug)

Check your History/Event log. I don't know if you get a Completed message in there, but you should IMO. And, if it completed, then you got the "Reward."

[WiseOdin]

I set up a shelf to only be able to house the infinite chemfuel reactor. Thing has sat empty for a few days, now. I clicked the "fulfill trade request" or however the wording was, and got the archotech eye and arm both just fine. I'll have to set the shelf to high priority, and see if that works.

I didn't see it assembled out in the field anywhere, I'd imagine that'd stick out pretty badly, but I'll keep my eyes open for that. I got the rest of the rewards. I know I got the reactor, because I traded with the ally after fulfilling the request, to sell them a bunch of garbage I brought with. I specifically looked at the chemfuel reactor to see how much it was worth, but didn't sell it. I'm wondering if they somehow lost it. I can check my muffalo, I already checked my pawn's inventories.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by WiseOdin:

... I'd imagine that'd stick out pretty badly, but I'll keep my eyes open for that. ..

It depends on the terrain. An "uninstalled" building/installable object gets a weird "wooden base" thingie overlay on it that tends to blend in with things, I've found. I don't know if the Chemfuel Generator gets that, though, as some objects don't seem to. Basically - Don't expect the standard looking Chemfuel generator graphic. (I "think." I don't know that all of those items get that same graphic overlay. Check your inventory for an uninstalled chair or something and you'll see what I'm talking about - Not really easy to spot sometimes.)

In any case, setting a single square storage zone, making it critical priority, and then only allowing an Infinite Chemfuel Genertor to be stored will work if you have one on the map and don't allow it in any other similarly prioritized storage zones.

[WiseOdin]

I found it setting a shelf to high priority and making it so only a chemfuel reactor could go there. Still took a few days to pass in the game, but my haulers ended up finding it. Thank you all for your help. I'm pretty sure the priority setting is what sped this process up!