Satisfactory Mercer Sphere Location Unknown?

[Kiritosblade]

The satisfactory calculator with caves enabled shows this one sphere at location 167,448 / 86,817 with Altitude: 61m and i've looked all around this one area and found nothing yet, no visual showing it's in a cave either. But there are these undergroundish things and i'm not seeing any way toward this sphere' location... Any ideas?

[Arkan]

If you're using satisfactory calculator, you can teleport to the object directly, just right-click on the sphere on the map, choose teleport player, then download the save file and load the game.
There are some cave entrances that are often blocked by a boulder that you can destroy, but it's not easy to spot them either. I've had the same experience several times, so good luck!

[Kiritosblade]

Would rather avoid doing that, but just to locate the entrance i'm going to be doing that and loading my save prior lol, thank you

[dcy665]

There are destructible rocks at the entrances
They have a slightly, but notably different texture with fracture lines between sections

Also map has a least two layers with one never showing up in the maps, I put a cave entrance sticker at the entrance/exits

[Kiritosblade]

I've already found a hundreds of different rocks that I take care of using explosive rebar now. I have 900+ hours in the game, just cannot for the life of me find this one mercer lmao

[dj8472]

The interactive map doesn't show all caves. the cave in question has 2 entrances. one north-east behind a quartz rock on a ledge with 3 gas pillars in front of it the other is in a canyon south of it
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3345124006

[Kiritosblade]

"doesn't show all caves", i've noticed this bc technically some of these "caves" are exposed to outside and not considered caves, so they don't seem to throw the cave flag on calc and thus don't show up. Bit annoying when you can't toggle something to show where entrances for locations 'cave or not' are located ya'know.

[Kiritosblade]

Omg that south entrance is behind this quartz node?? lmao no wonder i didn't see it

[Sasheria]

Originally posted by Kiritosblade:

Omg that south entrance is behind this quartz node?? lmao no wonder i didn't see it

some of the cave entrance is a bit away. You would have to find it. There was one in the grassland that there was a hole that I TOTALLY MISSED which I did climb out of when I found a mercer sphere there.

This is where the detector comes in handy when I wander around to see if I can go "lower" while facing the sphere.

[Kiritosblade]

Ah fair, i don't use the object scanner ever. I just use the satisfactory calculator to find things then mark on my map in game. 99% of them are easy enough to find.