Unable to make the portable miner

[Ham Sandwich]

I think it may be a bug, but I am unable to make the portable miner. Meaning, it isn't in either of my crafting menus. I thought maybe just pushing ahead until I can make the miner MK1 but that requires a portable miner. A soft reset hasn't done anything to help either. Anything I can do to salvage this?

[Vegas Doc]

I hear that you can do that at the equipment workshop if you have the correct resources, you'll have to make one (workshop under productivity) though, because it's not included in the HUB.

[Suzaku]

It's made in the equipment workshop. Make sure you didn't collapse any crafting categories, and that you're far enough in the game to make the item.

[DrNewcenstein]

A cautionary tale about not paying attention when someone is speaking to you. ADA walks you through this. But then if you skip the onboarding and go straight to Tier 0, and it's your first time, then you really can't complain about missing out on important information.

[Suzaku]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

A cautionary tale about not paying attention when someone is speaking to you. ADA walks you through this. But then if you skip the onboarding and go straight to Tier 0, and it's your first time, then you really can't complain about missing out on important information.

[Not directed at anyone]

New player: I don't need to do the tutorial. I'm a smart cookie!

Tutorial: .............

Dumb cookie: What am I supposed to do?! This game is bad!

[Ham Sandwich]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

A cautionary tale about not paying attention when someone is speaking to you. ADA walks you through this. But then if you skip the onboarding and go straight to Tier 0, and it's your first time, then you really can't complain about missing out on important information.

[Not directed at anyone]

New player: I don't need to do the tutorial. I'm a smart cookie!

Tutorial: .............

Dumb cookie: What am I supposed to do?! This game is bad!

XD I followed the tutorial but it had asked me to create a portable miner but it isn't in my crafting menu at the workstation. I am just chalking it up as a bug and/or loss and resetting. Thank you guys for the help anyway though!

[matke587]

You need to build the equipment workshop, not a crafting station. Open up your production menu and look at the bottom selection!

When built it looks like half a room with a wall cut away.

[phillip_lynx]

Originally posted by matke587:

You need to build the equipment workshop, not a crafting station. Open up your production menu and look at the bottom selection!

When built it looks like half a room with a wall cut away.

And Ava tells you to build a equipment workshop ;)

[Vegas Doc]

I think it's ADA not Ava...something (A) something(D) Assistant...and I'd like to point out that if you have a bad memory, or didn't hear her because you were too busy trying out stuff, that you could always press X, use the inbox and tutorial for the written version of those messages from her and the messages from the Pod, just like she says...

The first time I played, I disassembled the Pod with F, but didn't know was to toggle it, press it again to get to the next steps, but I figured it out, so some good to know info. The tutorial pauses until you actually do the steps, then toggle them off, 1- F 2-X 3- Tab (zapper) etc.

I may be wrong but the aggressive wildlife seems to be easier to kill when you first land, so after a few playthroughs, I wait until my pockets get full and walk around to the "spot" that I plan on building my first base, before making the HUD and starting the game; it's all the same map, so you know where those spots are from previous plays.

[phillip_lynx]

OK, ADA, ... my Tutorial days are long ago :). But at this time, I listen to her ;)

[Soondead]

Absolute beginner here, just found this thread because I too missed the bit about building the "Equipment Workshop" as opposed to the "Crafting Station" I literally just built.

[Lost in Space]

Same here. Missed that equiopment workshop. But, now that it is built, where do the finished portable miners show up? I built one but cannot seem to build any more. Lots of materials but nothing gets bilt. tsk, tsk....the trials of newbies

[Suzaku]

Originally posted by Lost in Space:

Same here. Missed that equiopment workshop. But, now that it is built, where do the finished portable miners show up? I built one but cannot seem to build any more. Lots of materials but nothing gets bilt. tsk, tsk....the trials of newbies

It's in your inventory. Equip it and place it on a resource node so it will begin drilling.

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by Soondead:

Absolute beginner here, just found this thread because I too missed the bit about building the "Equipment Workshop" as opposed to the "Crafting Station" I literally just built.

Yeah that early in the game the specialist terminology doesn't really stick.

[xXViRaL_ReMiXx]

Since there are a lot of presumptuous ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on this thread - I can support that I have unlocked Tier 0 base improvement and I have built both a constructor and obviously checked the crafting bench. I have also made sure that none of the menus are minimized. If I could share a screenshot I would but I can tell you it does not physically show the recipe to create the portable miner in either of these. This is definitely a glitch.

[Suzaku]

Originally posted by xXViRaL_ReMiXx:

Since there are a lot of presumptuous ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on this thread - I can support that I have unlocked Tier 0 base improvement and I have built both a constructor and obviously checked the crafting bench. I have also made sure that none of the menus are minimized. If I could share a screenshot I would but I can tell you it does not physically show the recipe to create the portable miner in either of these. This is definitely a glitch.

So you skipped the answer which is stated in the first two posts in the thread just so you could be upset instead of informed.