No AI Core for space ship / Please Help!

[Powermonger]

Hello, I hope somebody can help me.

Play a community for a good 50 hours now, everything is well secured with a number of towers and thick walls, everything is researched, the spaceship is built ... only I just don't get an AI core to complete it.

Neither from traders, nor through quests. Would like to end the game after more than 200 hours.

Does anyone have a tip on how to get to the core of building the last component for the ship? Thanks in advance for your help. Regards Matthias.

p.s. actual screenshots from the base and the spaceship can you see on my profile

[grapplehoeker]

There are two ways to get the AI core.
The first is via an Item Recovery Quest. This usually pops up fairly early in the game as a scripted event. The first occurrence is scripted but thereafter it is random and extremely rare.
In one game I shall never forget, I experienced a 20 year long wait before it came again and then two more came after that lol.
The second is usually only possible in the late game... it will be purchasable from an Exotic Trading Ship. Again, random, but relatively frequent by comparison to the quests.
Other than that, there is still the other spaceship (complete with core) at the other end of the world. You will already be aware of its location and may attempt to travel there, claim it, defend it until it is charged up and then use it to escape Rimworld.
Good luck!

[stevasaur]

A sure-fire way to acquire an AI Persona Core is to get one of the other factions to Allied relations, then build a Comms Console: you'll have an option to purchase the location of an AI Persona Core. This will spawn an Item Stash on the world map that's guaranteed to have an AI Persona Core (it's actually a separate event from a regular Item Stash that's completely identical except it's forced to contain a Persona Core).

This was added in Beta 19, because AI Persona Cores used to be looted from Poison/Psychic Ship Chunks, but that Beta replaced the AI Persona Core the ships used to drop with the Advanced Component that we get in the current version.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Powermonger:

Hello, I hope somebody can help me....

Actually, no... You'll have to play the game yourself! ;)

But, for suggestions, know that you can't "force" the issue - AI Core opportunities will come when they come.

You can, however, use the devmode to magic one in if you're really hurting for one. There's nothing wrong with using the development tools to hack your game from "This is painful and I'm gonna go polish the bumpers on a moving bus" to "This is fun, again."

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by stevasaur:

A sure-fire way to acquire an AI Persona Core is to get one of the other factions to Allied relations, then build a Comms Console: you'll have an option to purchase the location of an AI Persona Core. This will spawn an Item Stash on the world map that's guaranteed to have an AI Persona Core (it's actually a separate event from a regular Item Stash that's completely identical except it's forced to contain a Persona Core).

This was added in Beta 19, because AI Persona Cores used to be looted from Poison/Psychic Ship Chunks, but that Beta replaced the AI Persona Core the ships used to drop with the Advanced Component that we get in the current version.

^--- This I didn't know! (Likely because I paused playing during Beta19. :))

[kevinshow]

just wait for a quest for it, it's random.

also save your game right before you complete it.

then use one path of playing to complete it and enjoy the end credits.

use another path to either keep playing this same colony with your favorite colonists or go start over on a new tile...or even use the Save your Ship mod and keep a few people for another totally new playthrough.

In my current playthrough, I got 2 quests for AI cores before even researching the ship, so I was in no hurry.

[Powermonger]

Thank you for the answers and tips.

In fact, I got the core through a radio message from a neutral community for 1500 silver.

the ship is ready to go but before I activate it I try to strengthen my base, that seems to be quite violent in the 15 days;

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Powermonger:

Thank you for the answers and tips.

In fact, I got the core through a radio message from a neutral community for 1500 silver.

the ship is ready to go but before I activate it I try to strengthen my base, that seems to be quite violent in the 15 days;

Meh, it's not too bad... a bit of an anticlimax really. If you can already handle the worst of the regular raids, you should be fine. You'll just get more of them at the same time ;)

[Powermonger]

Ok, we started, nobody was left behind :)

The attacks weren't that bad, half of my security measures would have been enough; At least glad to have finished the game.

I was of course not prepared for the extremely long final video;

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Powermonger:

Ok, we started, nobody was left behind :)

The attacks weren't that bad, half of my security measures would have been enough; At least glad to have finished the game.

I was of course not prepared for the extremely long final video;

Congrats... on to the next colony ;)