BEST Power Source in Astroneer! 

Just 3-5 Rail containers(10 rails each) worth

Correct.

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But it costs the most important resource Your time

@@migm8370what is that profile

@@YourAverageBoneLabEnjoyer THE ALL MIGHTY LOAF

I like to think of myself as a logical genius.

How are the physics? Better than the rover I hope.

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer It doesn't do an orbiting swing while flying like most winched items but you have to ascend to a higher altitude to prevent tree snags.

Also makes it easier to find

In the new update you can probably use the Eva pet to fly up while holding the winch

​@@worldclassjerk-epicgamerit flies 3m off the ground maybe higher

This fact is very fun.

:D

The Astroneer situation is even worse since you can spam small ones to overcome their being worse and it’s ultimately easier than making the larger ones.

Double whammy.

Idk how I got a world with them in the air, but it's so convenient for true flat building. I wish I could replicate it, but for now I just copy that save and use it for others when I want to build on true flat.

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer I'm just on my first play through, so please correct me if I'm wrong. I put my third base up on the roof of a gateway, and used the Alignment mod to put a flat, level floor up there. They don't match up! One side is flush, the other side is up or down a few inches. Either the Alignment mod is not very accurate (which would explain some of my other problems), or else the Gateway Alien Architect Legendary Builders need to invent the bubble level.

@@DistracticusPrime You are basically correct that the alignment mod isn't totally accurate, but if you'd like to know more, I have written a ridiculously long but hopefully easy to understand explanation below. The way the alignment mod works doesn't allow you to cleanly make a large area level. Even though the alignment mod is always lined up with the planet's curvature, when you try to flatten out a large area with it, it ends up doing so at slightly varying elevations, making the terrain somewhat inconsistent and lumpy. Also, even if the alignment mod was perfectly accurate with regards to making large areas aligned with the planet's curvature, the area you create would still not be flush with the gateway because the gateway is flat, meaning the curvature alignment of the alignment mod would eventually curve down, whereas the gateway would just go straight. This wouldn't be noticeable on huge planets, but it is in Astroneer because the planets are small enough to see curvature even across short distances.

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer Good stuff, thank you! I suspected the gateways aren't level, or even aligned to themselves, because I tried to make a nice floor up there in several ways. Each method ended up with height errors. Even if I turned off the alignment mod and used the regular flat surface mode, starting from the gateway rooftop itself, I still ended up with a step at the other side. At one corner, I could actually see the blue gateway piece not even lined up with the adjoining piece. Later on, I learned about true flat, and how to use the leveling block near gateways to make a good reference point. It is a game, after all, and I shouldn't expect them to perfect every little seam when there are more interesting things to get done.

It’s sorta rare but I would guess that every world has a couple at least.

Yeah. I wonder how that could be useful though.

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer could be a quest that unlocks something

Maybe if we bully the devs enough it will work

@@matthewmusgrave2327 perhaps...

NO DYSON SPHERES IN THE HALLS

🦾🍺👍 (idk what I mean by this)

It’s all good. School has slowed my uploading too lol.

I operate the whole Vesnia base - including a railway to that stupid MAT on 1 QT-RTG, 2 small generators and a wind turbine I happen to found on site. Can tell you, traveling half the distance from one monolith to the next (that's where the MAT is located) is a real treat, as you have a whole lot of time taking in the landscape when crawling at snails pace...

I've had rovers do this a bit when I leave the planet and come back. Probably just an issue with the game in general.

It should still exist. You might have less in your world by means of crap luck. You should have a few at least. Perhaps they're hidden well.

Sounds epic.

I’m not sure. I think I’ve seen more on mountains and in forests than anywhere else, but I don’t know if that’s always how it works.

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Not sure.

I find it mostly on mountains and in forests.

Might be a bad save. They can be hard to find too though.

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer how long have these been implemented in the game since the beginning or recent? My save is quite old otherwise id be looking for nothing lol

I believe it’s a few years old. I remember it from quite a bit back.

Huh?

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer sorry for bad english 😂 Where does i can found them Because i was turning around sylva for 1 hour and i didn't found one

They’re just on the ground. I found mine in forests and on mountains.

By the 1 minute mark, I already revealed multiple properties of the wrecked solar and explained how the video will be structured. I simply disagree with your analysis. This video is, in fact, probably too short, imo, to do this thing justice. Since making this video, I’ve found that videos do better when I take more time to explain things thoroughly.

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer Fair enough, if you considered it and disagree, I can respect that and do value your feedback. To me this felt like a situation I think we've both been in, a meeting that should have been an email. For me personally this whole video boils down to a picture of a crashed solar array next to a small medium and large player-built ones, with yield numbers for each. I'm by nature a reader and wiki enthusiast, so the mistake as mine in selecting the wrong medium to ask. Thank you for taking the time mate, very nice to see. Have a wonderful rest of your day.

Thank you as well. Always good to have civilized disagreements. :D

I expanded my wardrobe.

Definitely better with regard to overall output. The metric is used for this video, however, was output as a singular device, as opposed to a collection of smalls (hence the section about making an array of small solars to put out the same amount of power in a smaller area).

Hard to say. Probably RTG late game, but these solars are so powerful for how easy they are to get.

Silver lining.