exo dynamics research aid?

[Mizu]

Anybody happen to know how this works and what it is?

[anynamewilldo]

i found one and i'm guessing power has to connected to it.

[03timmy]

maybe you just gotta do something with the purple structure

[anynamewilldo]

i found it both underground and fairly near the purple thingy. since it seems you can't carry it and i wasted time carrying a platform out to the exo with one large solar panel on it and it didn't open when i connected it in one daylight period [it did suck the power] i'm skipping it for now.

[Runebasher]

there is a symbol on it showing what you need to open it, some need power and others need a material or resource, i opened three so far, so there´re working

[John F. Ketamine]

Originally posted by anynamewilldo:

i found it both underground and fairly near the purple thingy. since it seems you can't carry it and i wasted time carrying a platform out to the exo with one large solar panel on it and it didn't open when i connected it in one daylight period [it did suck the power] i'm skipping it for now.

I've never found a research aid above the ground. Did you really bring a solar panel into the caves with you thinking it would work?

[anynamewilldo]

i took solar to the above ground exo and it didn't work. just for laughs i pushed it back to my base with my tractor and trailer and it popped open immediately when i plugged it in.

[Zarinthal]

some of them require a resource on the socket, match the symbol it shows to the guide in the menu

some of them require a power source to charge a certain amount and then open

some will only open for a high enough power input, but will suck up how ever much power you put into them and nothing happens until you put in enough power at one time.

[ReaperWolfsbane]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

some of them require a resource on the socket, match the symbol it shows to the guide in the menu

some of them require a power source to charge a certain amount and then open

some will only open for a high enough power input, but will suck up how ever much power you put into them and nothing happens until you put in enough power at one time.

I thought the ones requiring power would require more than what it needed, so I pulled my tractor system up next to it and plugged it in, a few seconds later it popped open. Just two small solars and two small wind, while yes it might take up 4 out of 16 slots for my setup, I don't have to worry about charging during the day for constant driving around.

[Havaren]

Originally posted by ReaperWolfsbane:

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

..... Just two small solars and two small wind, while yes it might take up 4 out of 16 slots for my setup, I don't have to worry about charging during the day for constant driving around.

nab a small battery and a small solar/wind. dont ever need to worry about tractor power with that.

[Macaronis]

It needs a good amount of power to open. Most of them give about 275-375 Bytes once it opens

[𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕚𝕕𝕠𝕟]

3 small generators is enough to open the one requiring a specific amount of power.

[BHarm]

If they have a power connector, use power. Otherwise, they will have the symbol of the resource you need to open it. In my current world, all the above ground ones have required laterite or malachite. They usually have nice resource buds inside. Instant bytes, don't have to research.

[ReaperWolfsbane]

Originally posted by Havaren:

nab a small battery and a small solar/wind. dont ever need to worry about tractor power with that.

I would think of installing batteries, but for the most part the combo of 2x2 usually keeps me going and feels similar to sailing for night-time driving. Sometimes the sea just calms down and you have to take a break.

[Midnight_Panda]

I know what you put in it you put Laterite in it just look at to symbol on the both of them

[Rodos]

There's at least 3 different types of Research aid that I've discovered so far:

- One requires a steady source of power. The symbol on these are a box with a lightning bolt and the bottom section with power plug is all white.

- One just requires you to fill the internal battery. The symbol on these are also a box with a lightning bolt but this one will have black bars next to the plug that will fill to yellow as you restore power. Fill the bars to unlock.

- And the last requires a certain type of resource. The symbol on the pod indicates the material requested, some of which will require the alchemy lab to create, though those are at the higher difficulty planets.

If you take the research you find in these pods back to your research station rather than consume on the spot, you can pretty much double your earning of bytes extracted. I've never gotten any less than 1k bytes out of the smaller research samples by taking them back to the station, and 2-3k bytes that for the larger samples (they look like the old big tech research in the Beta). This goes for any other consumable research you find in the world. If you take the extra time to throw it in the research station, you usually double the byte amounts gained for a little extra of your time (even the little 'flowers' that normally give you 10-20 will give you around 60 or so in the machine).