Avanglion 3 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Currently doing the "Automated Mass Production Protocol" event. Loading aluminium on the Exo Request platform tells me that 1 bar is worth 1 point towards the total of 240 points for the corresponding stage of the event. This can't be correct, right? 240 bars of aluminium is devastating to collect on a 1.0-era save file. I shudder at the idea that the third stage of the event (aluminium alloy, 240 points required) will be the same. The only thing worse than having to produce 240 stacks of aluminium alloy would be having to produce 240 stacks of nanocarbon alloy. Oh yes, and slow painful death too. But at least the latter occurs only once in a lifetime. These bars just have to yield more points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avanglion 3 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 20 views and not a single reply after a week?! Either I'm the only one doing this event or the interest in Astroneer has dropped more than I thought :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyZerg 28 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Patience, ingenuity and more patience. Use the tools you have at your disposal: You can upload resources into the canister in order to send them 32 at a time. Use Self-Extractors to collect lots of resources. If a resource is scarce, look to other planets. Ultimately go to calidor and extract all the wolframite and malachite you find. You can automate the conversion and exchange of these assets with others. Use creativity to use sensors. Finally it creates an automated system for the nanocarbon alloy. If you like, you can take a cue from the guide I wrote, it could help you. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2131038908 The only thing I'm not happy with is that you can't automate the rocket launch of the exo platform. This thing makes me mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avanglion 3 Author Share Posted July 12, 2021 (edited) 19 hours ago, JohnnyZerg said: ...upload resources into the canister in order to send them 32 at a time... Well yeah but the platform does not accept the medium canister after the first stage ends. Nor the medium storage silo or the medium storage (folded or expanded). It only allows me to put 8 bars on the sides. But that's not the problem. I could send 8 pieces at a time if I wanted to. But I don't want to. Not if they are worth 8 out of 240 points. This is laterite not compound. It should be worth 5, 10 or 20 points per bar not 1. Last but not least, I am playing on a save file that was created with version 1.0.3.0 of the game. I mined a lot of the laterite way before extractors were a thing. Even if there are still good veins on the other side of Sylva or on another planet where I could put an extractor, it is a tedious task to collect and process the necessary resources for 240 aluminium bars and , more importantly, 240 stacks of aluminium alloy which requires an additional 240 bars of copper. I have mined malachite extensively in the last two years too. Long story short, I am NOT willing to use the full 50+ days left until the end of the event to grind in Astroneer and do nothing else with my life. Just the thought alone of how boring the whole process will be turns me away. Edited July 12, 2021 by Avanglion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyZerg 28 Share Posted July 12, 2021 I understand, storages and silos cannot be inserted, however medium canisters do. As I told you you can use these to send 32 resources at a time, so I did. Plus this is an automation-based event for automation lovers. Doing this without automation would be a very time-consuming and laborious task. Yesterday I used 6 auto-extractors stacked on top of each other to extract copper. Thanks to this through, transformations, I made aluminum and alloy from aluminum and I completed this mission that I started the day before yesterday. I repeat this is an event based on automation, those who have no intention or desire to use it would do better to let it go. If you like and you are on a pc, I can help you very happy, add me as a steam friend 161642524 (my steam code) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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