Does the cultivator do f*ck all?

[Sagara]

Unless I am missing something it won't grow anything other then grass aside from specific mission placement

[Psikraut]

You have to collect plant samples then you can switch what is being cultivated.

[Saphirro]

open it and select plant. if you don't have other plants than you have to scan them to get them as plant

[Rider of Retarded Lion Prince]

Cultivator is the bomb!
With open space and ALOT of water you can easy grow all minerals in the game.
Scan EVERYTHING, select the Cultivator and in the middle you have a "leaf" buttom, press that and select what you want to grow and click on "Equip".

It will start growing that, so if you find a nice outpost map with alot of water and open space you can easy set it up for a good income of every mineral in the game OR a more focus one if you are low on some.
I use to make sure i start producing the more rare ones, even if it small numbers like 2-3/s its something, not to mention it can easy give alot of leafs to burn on new maps when you want a fast and high power pruduction without placing wind turbine everywhere.

Edit: Dont forget to place 1-2 Harvester close, like 1 on each side since you dont want to harvest what you grow by youself! You got more stuff to do than play Farming simulator, you got Aliens to kill!

[Gruff]

Nice didn't know it could do that. I just had drones next to it collecting grass for plant matter for plant/gas power.

[NzFox]

even on its base mode its extremely useful, unlimited bio-mass= unlimited easy to place 200 power outposts.

As something I JUST found out and I wish I know known 40 hours ago, hold down alt and it builds the highest tier of that building you can make, so you can set up tier 3 extractors with bio-fuel power where ever you want in seconds, if its one a map that isn't the main one you don't even need to worry about defense as just jump out and they will strip mine without being attacked in the background

[Sagara]

Originally posted by NzFox:

even on its base mode its extremely useful, unlimited bio-mass= unlimited easy to place 200 power outposts.

As something I JUST found out and I wish I know known 40 hours ago, hold down alt and it builds the highest tier of that building you can make, so you can set up tier 3 extractors with bio-fuel power where ever you want in seconds, if its one a map that isn't the main one you don't even need to worry about defense as just jump out and they will strip mine without being attacked in the background

Yeah that is also something I found out not long after I posted this trying to make use of the cultivator. You get plants more faster then you can spend em

[Operation40]

dumb question: where are the harvesters in the build menu? it seems I've unlocked them but all I see is the cultivator building

[Tracey]

Originally posted by Operation40:

dumb question: where are the harvesters in the build menu? it seems I've unlocked them but all I see is the cultivator building

It should say Page 1/2, which is hard to see, same for the arrows.

And is it me or are the Cultivators usless in survival mode? I can scan things, but the Database not updates, so I can't select plants to grow, besides the basic.

[Nev]

there's an arrow on the right where you can switch to the next set of buildings
also took me a while to see that

[Edifier]

Most of my rare resources comes from Cultivators in the SP and I could put out a ton of power plants that uses that bio fuel.

Originally posted by Operation40:

dumb question: where are the harvesters in the build menu? it seems I've unlocked them but all I see is the cultivator building

They are right after the cultivator for me.

[Operation40]

ahh of course.. the menu has a 2nd page.. wish they had just made a 2nd row instead.

thanks guys

[Sagara]

Originally posted by Operation40:

ahh of course.. the menu has a 2nd page.. wish they had just made a 2nd row instead.

thanks guys

or least made a hotkey to move left or right
second row while better would also take up more space and make it harder to build stuff particularly on the bottom of the screen

[Ill Behaviour]

Originally posted by Tracey:

Originally posted by Operation40:

dumb question: where are the harvesters in the build menu? it seems I've unlocked them but all I see is the cultivator building

It should say Page 1/2, which is hard to see, same for the arrows.

And is it me or are the Cultivators usless in survival mode? I can scan things, but the Database not updates, so I can't select plants to grow, besides the basic.

You can use them to make biomass for generators or later on gas for the gas power plant.

[Sagara]

Well... apparently they do do f*ck all... soon as you leave campaign and only that single campaign run at that ALL the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupidly tedious way to long to get scanned research goes away so then every cultivator turns into complete worthless garbage not worth using unless you want to waste like 30 minutes just constantly scanning ♥♥♥♥ stupidly. IF IF you even have enough or any at all of the plant you want/need.... :/ The only thing they good for is power which is flat out dumb as hell

[Cyrus]

They are borderline broken OP on the right maps. You can farm up nearly every material, in infinite amounts, for the cost of some water and energy, completley passivley and 'safe' once you warp out.

One of the first maps the game takes you too has a ton of mud and open area that is just ripe for large patches of farms.

As for scanning to unlock, it only takes about 20 or so of the plant type to unlock growing it. I've rarley had to go out of my way to unlock a specific plant type, I just tend to scan as i play and have plants that can grow.. just about everything.