How to get first exo chip?

[silwi80]

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[Alucard †]

Break the EXO chip crates with explosives.
https://astroneer.fandom.com/wiki/EXO_Cache

[silwi80]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Break the EXO chip crates with explosives.

In order to make explosive I need explosive powder which I can't make without chemistry lab and to make chemistry lab I need tungsten which is on another planet.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by silwi80:

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Break the EXO chip crates with explosives.

In order to make explosive i need explosive powder which I can't make without chemistry lab and to make chemistry lab I need tungsten which is on another planet.

Correct.
Tho explosives can be found occassionally in wrecks.

Loose Exo chips super rarely can be found in wrecks too but you'll faster find explosives than you'll find these.

[silwi80]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Originally posted by silwi80:

In order to make explosive i need explosive powder which I can't make without chemistry lab and to make chemistry lab I need tungsten which is on another planet.

Correct.
Tho explosives can be found occassionally in wrecks.

Exo chips super rarely can be found in wrecks too but you'll faster find explosives than you'll find these.

So the only way to get first exo chip is to search for explosives?

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by silwi80:

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Correct.
Tho explosives can be found occassionally in wrecks.

Exo chips super rarely can be found in wrecks too but you'll faster find explosives than you'll find these.

So the only way to get first exo chip is to search for explosives?

As early game method? Yes.

You can also trade Astronium for Exo Chips but that's a late game method. (Since Astronium is within the planet's outer Core layer and is quite limited so best way to mine it is to use Auto Extractors)

Alternatively you use hostile plants that shoot explosives to open the Exo crates for you but it's risky and requires traveling to different planets than your starting one.

[silwi80]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Originally posted by silwi80:

So the only way to get first exo chip is to search for explosives?

As early game method? Yes.

You can also trade Astronium for Exo Chips but that's a late game method. (Since Astronium is within the planet's outer Core layer and is quite limited so best way to mine it is to use Auto Extractors)

Alternatively you use hostile plants that shoot explosives to open the Exo crates for you but it's risky and requires traveling to different planets than your starting one.

I have Astronium but I can't trade it cause in order to build trade platform I also need exo chip :/

[Alucard †]

Well nothing really is stoping you from traveling to different planets and gather what you need to make what you need.

Astroneer is after all all about traveling to different planets and gathering / managing resources there.

Small and Medium Shuttles are cheap to build so is the Solid Thruster and it can take you to other planet and back.

So if you refuse to make explosives then you will have to deal with total RNG if you want your first Exo chip.

[silwi80]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Well nothing really is stoping you from traveling to different planets and gather what you need to make what you need.

Astroneer is after all all about traveling to different planets and gathering / managing resources there.

Small and Medium Shuttles are cheap to build so is the Solid Thruster and it can take you to other planet and back.

So if you refuse to make explosives then you will have to deal with total RNG if you want your first Exo chip.

I can't travel to other planets cause I need Hydrazine Thruster and I can't create it without exo chip

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by silwi80:

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Well nothing really is stoping you from traveling to different planets and gather what you need to make what you need.

Astroneer is after all all about traveling to different planets and gathering / managing resources there.

Small and Medium Shuttles are cheap to build so is the Solid Thruster and it can take you to other planet and back.

So if you refuse to make explosives then you will have to deal with total RNG if you want your first Exo chip.

I can't travel to other planets cause I need Hydrazine Thruster and I can't create it without exo chip

No you don't need a Hydrazine Thruster please read carefully what i wrote.
Here i've bolded the part of interest to make it easier for you.

[silwi80]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Originally posted by silwi80:

I can't travel to other planets cause I need Hydrazine Thruster and I can't create it without exo chip

No you don't need a Hydrazine Thruster please read carefully what i wrote.
Here i've bolded the part of interest to make it easier for you.

You are right. Thx for help Dracula

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by silwi80:

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

No you don't need a Hydrazine Thruster please read carefully what i wrote.
Here i've bolded the part of interest to make it easier for you.

You are right. Thx for help Dracula

No problem

[JohnnyZerg]

You can create a simple explosive system by using hydrogen in a smelting furnace powered by any power source. Then place the EXO Cache on top of the melting furnace before lighting it, the explosion will happen instantaneously, but it will be effective. Alternatively you can do the mission on desolo to get exo chips

[CubicBerserker]

Originally posted by JohnnyZerg:

You can create a simple explosive system by using hydrogen in a smelting furnace powered by any power source. Then place the EXO Cache on top of the melting furnace before lighting it, the explosion will happen instantaneously, but it will be effective. Alternatively you can do the mission on desolo to get exo chips

Getting hydrogen requires an atmospheric condenser, you can't do this before leaving Sylva. At that point you might as well take advantage of hostile plants on Glacio or Atrox to blow up an EXO cache, which is much simpler and costs nothing.

Finding dynamite in wreckage on Sylva has not been an issue for me though, I have more than I know what to do with.

[RemingtonRyder]

Keep in mind that if you drag several EXO caches together and plant a dynamite in the middle you can get the most bang for your buck. :)