Can't Find Ammonium or Clay

[Mixin' Nixon]

I've been searching for a while, probably 3 hours of gameplay, to find ammonium and clay, and I've found nothing. I've literally dug to to the underground mushroom forest in the Mantle, and still. Nothing. Does anyone know where these are most common? (Sorry this sounds stupid, I literally downloaded this game yesterday.)

[Terratrox]

Originally posted by Yoshi m 60:

YESSSS! I've finally found ammonium and clay! I also completed the Re-Tooling mission, and I got a Soil Centrifuge. It also wasn't to expensive. 1,750 Bytes out of 10,000 isn't much of a dent. I can make it back pretty quickly. I've finally been to Desolo.

Nice. I recommend heading into the depths of Sylva to get a bunch of Astronium research going. You'll need a lot of Astronium. And I mean A LOT. But it's also plentiful. Good for research at 1k bits a piece. But it can be traded for exo chips in the trade platform, which is an addition that basically locks lategame stuff behind Astronium and the Trade Platform or dynamite (which is a pain to make) for some reason.

[scorpioneyes]

Desolo has tons of ammonium, and clay i always make in soil centrifuge..if you want lots of bytes go running around Glacio for an hour you will make loads of bytes

[Bomoo]

In my experience Calidor is actually a better destination if what you want is tungsten. Whereas the tungest on Desolo is in caves, on Calidor it's right on the surface.

[Bomoo]

Originally posted by Terratrox:

which is an addition that basically locks lategame stuff behind Astronium and the Trade Platform or dynamite (which is a pain to make) for some reason.

Objectively terrible game design unless you're designing a paywalled f2p browser game where you have to buy dynamite in the cash shop.

[Doombringer]

You find dynamite in wrecks, you just wait until you have 3+ exo chests before using one early game.
The MAT quest chest on Desolo always spawns with 3 dynamite around it.

Trade Platform is so by planet 3+ you don't need to worry so much about what resources each planets has unless making a lot of stuff that uses that resource.
If you have a large shuttle you can just bring so much stuff with you this is the case anyways...

Desolo 1st level of caves is pretty open, so finding lots of tungsten there isn't hard.
(The thing that limits your ability to see there is the curvature of the planet, Desolo is small.)

[WhoeverDeltaIs]

its time to whip out the soil centrifuge then

[Terratrox]

Oh there's also the alternative method of cracking crates that I've been using. Set up an Atmospheric Condenser on Sylva and churn out a ton of hydrogen.
Make a Power Cell or connect a platform to your main base through extenders, then slap a Smelter on the platform.
Pile any debris and cases you want to explode around the Smelter.
Remove all valuables that are on your person.
Put the Hydrogen on the Smelter.
Turn on the Smelter.
Profit.

[sneaker]

Originally posted by Brutalino:

Astronium into Hydrazine? How

probably shredding into scrap, then sending that up.

[seven]

Originally posted by sneaker:

Originally posted by Brutalino:

Astronium into Hydrazine? How

probably shredding into scrap, then sending that up.

Or, just sending up 4 astronium on the trade rocket and getting back 3 hydrazine.