Request: Map seed for easier Master Adventurer unlock

[mythvapor]

I'm thinking of a map where there are bunch of high rich wilderness planet in a single quadrant so you can loop explore them for artifacts while cutting down the time spent. Please also tell the starting faction that will place you nearest to that quadrant. Thank you.

Because I got ******* tired wasting half a day playing only to come short by 1 artifact by the deadline date. These 10+ years on hard unlocks are just the worst because of the long play session and you don't even get a consolation prize or something if you fail.

[Trese Brothers]

While it lasts, using Macabre Harvest while fighting Xeno during Exploring or Ship Combat Boarding counts as finding Xeno Artifacts for this reward. That can be a guaranteed way to reach 30.

I don't have a map seed to suggest atm.

[mythvapor]

But getting Xeno Artifacts from Rare Trade Goods cards during Exploring don't? Because I would have already succeeded if it were counted...

[Trese Brothers]

Originally posted by mythvapor:

But getting Xeno Artifacts from Rare Trade Goods cards during Exploring don't? Because I would have already succeeded if it were counted...

I can check that, I would imagine that should be counted.

[mythvapor]

Funnily enough, today I think I have generated a good map for this unlock by myself. Start with De Valtos, the Thulun quadrant and another De Valtos quadrant adjacent to your starting quadrant contains quite a number of wilderness planets with decent richness. In addition, each quadrant also contains an indie orbital station with trade law 2 so you can sell those artifacts you get for easy cash. Using this map I finally succeeded in getting this unlock with about 4 years to spare. Also, I have only used the Macabre Harvest exploit twice so my success doesn't hinge on that. I do think this map really helps me in getting this unlock so invite others to try. Of course, RNG could simply be on my side on this run...

Map seed:
st-v01-20-6-114333844

[Trese Brothers]

Great post on to your own question!

[davea]

Sorry necro, blame google for efficient search

Originally posted by Trese Brothers:

using Macabre Harvest while fighting Xeno during Exploring or Ship Combat Boarding counts as finding Xeno Artifacts for this reward. That can be a guaranteed way to reach 30.

Is this still true? I just got xeno slayer (20 xeno fights) and macabre harvest fired every time to yield one artifact; plus I got other finds from other places; but I wound up nowhere near 10 after 5 years, not even close to 30 after 10 years.

I had a pretty strong ground team and I got about half the xeno fights from blooded lure from xeno hunter crew. So practically none of the xeno fights also had artifacts.

Is that still the best, and pretty much only way to get xeno artifacts? Salvage seems to drop double-fights too often which makes it risky for chasing this achieve.

[Gilmoy]

Yes, Macabre Harvest has always counted as:

+1 to your "uncovered the rarest artifacts" per bundle (regardless of the quantity)
+k to your "Discover xeno artifacts" for Master Adventurer (per bundle of size k)

I relied heavily on that in my Master Adventurer unlock attempts.
Every Macabre Harvest of 4 txas counts as +1 "rarest" and +4 "xeno artifacts".

Ergo, it suffices to fight any 8 xeno crews and trigger Macabre Harvest 8 times at 4 txas each.

[davea]

Interesting. Have you tried that recently? Yesterday I did a run where the awards say:

Uncovered the rarest artifacts: 11
Defeated xeno in crew combat: 20

I have a number of xeno hunter crew with macabre harvest and I see it triggering after every xeno fight for 1 artifact per fight. If that counted as a "uncovered the rarest", I should have at least 20 of "uncovered the rarest". Right? I am pretty sure the 11 that are shown, were granted when the artifacts were specifically listed as a reward from the fight. Those are stacks of some number, like 11 or 15 artifacts, which count as one "uncovered".

Also I have never had macabre harvest give me more than one artifact, so I did not follow your comment about getting 4 from a single fight.