red or purple OSDs for good mek Blueprints

[multikill]

what is better for a good mek Blueprint red or purple OSD?

[Gnome]

Purple for sure if you have a dino army that can survive them. That being said, I’ve gotten some pretty decent Mek Blueprints from Red OSD too.

But really, I don’t think you can go wrong with either choice. I’d say it comes down to how stressful/difficult you want the experience to be.

[Stephen]

Purple of course, it has a higher chance of receiving a mek and the quality is better according to the loot table.

But I actually prefer red, because purple drop always gives me some ridiculously expensive mek blueprints because I am playing on difficulty of 9, although loot quality is the same as official.

Sometimes mastercraft mek bp has similar stats as ascendant but much cheaper. The best one I have found is a lvl ~330 ascendant, but it’s too girding to craft one in single player. And I finally picked one lvl ~300 mastercraft after countless hours of farming, the stats is slightly worse of couse, but acceptable when taking the cost into account.

On normal difficulty of 5 I think lvl 300 is equivalent to around lvl 170. You may want to find something around 200, and it should be craftable. It’s not hard to find a good mek, but the most cost-effective one.

And luck comes to the duty, so feel free to pick your prefer way of farming mek blueprints. Purple and red are both pretty decent I think, though you need more preparation for purple because it’s very hard.

And good luck ;)

[multikill]

have purple drops a higher chance to drop meks with better level, when i defeated more waves, or is it only for more ressources?!

[Gnome]

Originally posted by multikill:

have purple drops a higher chance to drop meks with better level, when i defeated more waves, or is it only for more ressources?!

Apologies for the late reply.

My experience collecting MEK blueprints was similar to collecting other higher tier blueprints. Somewhat random.

I’ve received higher level MEK blueprints that needs a moderate amount or resources, while other times, I’ll get a blueprint, around the same quality that will need a lot more resources to craft but won’t be that much better.

I was farming red drops several times a day and got just as many blueprints from Red OSD with less casualties than I did doing Purples OSD.

In the end I probably did half as may Purple OSD as I did Red ones and I came away with about 10 decent MEK blueprints.

[multikill]

the wiki says purple has a loot drop quality between 400%-800% and red 350%-500%

https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Orbital_Supply_Drop_(Extinction)#Detailed

[Stephen]

Originally posted by multikill:

have purple drops a higher chance to drop meks with better level, when i defeated more waves, or is it only for more ressources?!

Cited from: https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Orbital_Supply_Drop_(Extinction)#Overview

 Purple OSDs (the hardest difficulty) require 8 waves (0-7) to complete, and have a longer "grace period" between waves to allow players to dismount and select the "End OSD defense" should they choose to do so. The players may choose to continue after wave 7 to increase the quantity of the loot. However, since loot is randomized on the start of each wave, eventually they'll reach the cap (149 slots) and will not continue to gain any new items.

So the answer is yes for both, but you can't go forever because of the quality and quantity cap.