Stranded on Glacio

[Cybertronus]

This is my first play through and I apparently did something dumb. I've been creating a bunch of stuff on the starter planet and my living area was starting to look a little messy so I decided to research the scrapper to convert the stuff I wasn't using into scrap. However, the scrapper required iron to be created. Being a first time player, I had no idea where to find iron or the components to create iron.

So, I travelled around the world looking for the components for iron. I went to the highest peaks and the deepest pits. But no matter where I searched, there was no Iron to be found on Sylva.

So, I went to the Astroneer Wiki to find that the components for iron can only be found on Novus and Glacio. Glacio seemed to be the easiest since the wiki indicated that I could find the stuff on the Ice Dunes. So I researched the basic rocket, a solid fuel thruster, and a landing pad. Once created, I began a test flight and landed back where I began to attach the oxygenator to the rocket. Then I blasted off. With nothing else to my name.

Landing on Glacio, I found all the Iron Component I will ever need but when I blasted back off, I didn't have enough fuel to make it back to Sylva.

Now, I'm stranded on Glacio. This planet has boatloads of Resin, Hematite, Graphite, and the rest but doesn't have the key component I require to even build tethers and printers. This planet doesn't have compound. At least nowhere near in my landing site. I've gone everywhere I could possibly explore but the roundish grey bubbles are nowhere to be seen. How can I get back home?!

[Snubagaff]

All planets should have compound, even Glacio. If you can just get a few compound, you should be able to make a soil centrifuge, and then you can use soil to make more compound. But you will have to find 5 or so by just exploring

[Cybertronus]

I finally found some compound at the peak of a mountain and was able to manufacture another thruster to get off that god-forsaken snowball with my bounty of hematite. That took me a good hour of exploring considering all that I had was one package of tethers. Now I'm never leaving without at least one replacement thruster.

[Xilo The Odd]

you say forsaken snowball? i say the last place you ever need for iron or titanium. then its off to atrox for literally a gas so you can make nanocarbon alloy for all the end game OP stuff.

[Cybertronus]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

you say forsaken snowball? i say the last place you ever need for iron or titanium. then its off to atrox for literally a gas so you can make nanocarbon alloy for all the end game OP stuff.

You would be just as exasperated as I am if you were ever as unprepared as I was. All I had was one package of tethers and the starting oxygenator you get at the start of the game. And to make it all worse, my thruster burnt out with no replacement prepared.

There was no compound anywhere near my landing site. I began digging, running as far as I could from my tether system to see if I can spot anything. I eventually found some crash sites that had some tether packs which I used to expand my search radius even further. I eventually found one patch at the very top of a mountain next the crater I landed in. And that was just the start of the headache.

I had to then begin the process to manufacture the thruster. Which meant that I had to build a printer, then a bigger printer to build a furnace, mine for aluminum component and ammonium, and uproot the local flora to fuel the generators that powered it all.

What was meant to be a simple landing, resource gathering, and take off turned into an hour and a half quest for survival.

[vindicar]

And that's why you read item descriptions carefully. It mentions that solid fuel thruster is only good for one trip there and back. However, I admit they could've been more clear on which parts of the flight consume fuel (planet takeoff and interplanetary travel).

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Cybertronus:

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

you say forsaken snowball? i say the last place you ever need for iron or titanium. then its off to atrox for literally a gas so you can make nanocarbon alloy for all the end game OP stuff.

You would be just as exasperated as I am if you were ever as unprepared as I was. All I had was one package of tethers and the starting oxygenator you get at the start of the game. And to make it all worse, my thruster burnt out with no replacement prepared.

There was no compound anywhere near my landing site. I began digging, running as far as I could from my tether system to see if I can spot anything. I eventually found some crash sites that had some tether packs which I used to expand my search radius even further. I eventually found one patch at the very top of a mountain next the crater I landed in. And that was just the start of the headache.

I had to then begin the process to manufacture the thruster. Which meant that I had to build a printer, then a bigger printer to build a furnace, mine for aluminum component and ammonium, and uproot the local flora to fuel the generators that powered it all.

What was meant to be a simple landing, resource gathering, and take off turned into an hour and a half quest for survival.

eh i've had worse. i went to atrox and a plant blew up everything i brought with me.

[Killer]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by Cybertronus:

You would be just as exasperated as I am if you were ever as unprepared as I was. All I had was one package of tethers and the starting oxygenator you get at the start of the game. And to make it all worse, my thruster burnt out with no replacement prepared.

There was no compound anywhere near my landing site. I began digging, running as far as I could from my tether system to see if I can spot anything. I eventually found some crash sites that had some tether packs which I used to expand my search radius even further. I eventually found one patch at the very top of a mountain next the crater I landed in. And that was just the start of the headache.

I had to then begin the process to manufacture the thruster. Which meant that I had to build a printer, then a bigger printer to build a furnace, mine for aluminum component and ammonium, and uproot the local flora to fuel the generators that powered it all.

What was meant to be a simple landing, resource gathering, and take off turned into an hour and a half quest for survival.

eh i've had worse. i went to atrox and a plant blew up everything i brought with me.

Wow what a coincidence. The exact thing happened to me.
Freshly landed, came out from shuttle and died immediately. All volatile gasses blew up and hours of work wasted. Sometimes RNG hates with passion.

[Mistar]

In this situation you can just drag your rocket with oxygenator in it no need for thethers, and you can go anywhere you want :)

[crab.king274]

This reminds me of when I technically got stranded in space. When it was in early access, the solid fuel thruster had way less range for selecting a planet to go to, so if you wanted to go to a late game planet from the starting planet and vice versa with a solid fuel thruster, there was a possibility you would have to float around above the planet for a long time to wait for the planet to orbit near the planet you're on.

[vindicar]

Originally posted by crab.king274:

This reminds me of when I technically got stranded in space. When it was in early access, the solid fuel thruster had way less range for selecting a planet to go to, so if you wanted to go to a late game planet from the starting planet and vice versa with a solid fuel thruster, there was a possibility you would have to float around above the planet for a long time to wait for the planet to orbit near the planet you're on.

Make a medium rover, slap a couple trusters on the ends... and make a ramp as high as it would go. You will get stranded in space. And since your rover will start to flip over and over, you will be able to use both thrusters to maneuver.

[«- Flippie_X -»]

I had a similar thing when landing on Glacio. I got some preparations for printers, platforms and handy materials like Zinc and Aluminium. However, I assumed the planet had compound so I didn't bring any. I landed in a red crater but as far as my oxygen tank allowed me, I couldn't find any compound. Eventually I did found resin (which was also rarer than iron) and that got me rolling. I advise you the same strategy.

Find a resin location. Relocate your shuttle by point and drag (using the force) next to the resin. Your shuttle supplies you with infinite oxygen. Mine resin and craft the resin into oxygen filters. You use these oxygen filter to explore larger areas. Especially the high snow/ice dunes on Glacio have compound and resin on top, which can be used to craft more oxygen filters and mine a few compound. Possibly relocate your shuttle into a red crater and print a small printer, medium printer, platform and smelter. Dig a slope down. The first underground layer does contain Laterite to make aluminium bars. It also contains more resin for oxygen filters. Most Glacio snow/ice mountain/dunes also have ammonium. Combine the aluminium and ammonium to build solid thruster to get home. If you cannot find ammonium closeby, the alternative is to build a soil centrifuge with the aluminium in which you can either generate more compound for tether of generate an ammonium for the thruster.

[Pahbi]

Without going into it to much, every planet (except maybe atrox, I'm not sure) has all of the base resources to build and launch a rocket.

That said, random being random, it could be possible to get stuck in such a way that you can't get to those resources.