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What should i know about the harvestors now? I'm not a newbie, i just haven't used them for a month now and i'd like to know what is new about the harvestors.

Can i leave it running even when it is out of power and maintenance and will it shut off automaticly?

How much do i need in the harvestor to redeed? i read in patch notes you now need nothing in the harvestor to reclaim your deed?

do i reclaim the extra maintenance fees and/or power deposited yet?

thanks!

I think I'm up to date on this. If you harvester runs out of power it will stop. If your harvester runs out of maintenance it will start decaying and collect resources more slowly until it gets so bad it stops. To redeed a personal harvester you have to have 1500 maintenance paid up in it and I believe according to the new patch the hopper must be empty. Once you put money or energy into a harvester you can't get it back. The 1500 you had in it to redeed will be gone when you set it down again. Most people choose to just destroy personal harvesters because you can generally find them for less than the 1500 you need in it to redeed. To destroy a harvester maintenance must be at 0 or higher and you don't get the deed back.

If the harvester runs out of power, or drops below 100% maintenance it will stop.

Personal Harvesters - 720 cred, 600 power per day, 1500 to re-deed.

Medium Harvesters - 1440 cred, 1200 power per day, 3000 to re-deed.

Heavy Harvesters - 2160 cred, 1800 power per day, 4500 to re-deed.

Factories, 2500 to re-deed, (never left it running for a day .. so not sure about costs - like a medium harvester I think).

Bush'wa

About the patch notes, they mean that the output hopper has to be empty to re-deed - so you don't accidentally delete all your materials.

I wish they'd do that for Factories, I lost a run of 25 factory walls when I re-deeded it ... hehe :-)

Bush'wa

I am a complete noob and was wondering about harvesters. Do you have to use a certain type of energy for different ones? I have liquid petrochem fuel, energy according to the bazaar, and the harvester says I don't have any energy in my backpack. The harvester is a personal mineral extractor. Thanks for your time.

great thanks guys - so basicly it's the same as before.

Unless they changed it you can also Sample some of the radioactives and use them for fuel. It's too much of a hassle to do that to run stuff everyday, but it could give you enough to get started.

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Pythagoras wrote:
Unless they changed it you can also Sample some of the radioactives and use them for fuel. It's too much of a hassle to do that to run stuff everyday, but it could give you enough to get started.

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You can use radioactives as fuel. I keep a personal harvesters set on radioactive in case my solar spot shifts on me I have a backup power source.

really!? wow so i sold all that radioactive stuff - *hits self* D'Oh!

There are some chemicals like the Petro chem stuff that say they are types of liquid engergy, but the only type that works in harvesters is the types that come out of Wind Generators, Solar Generators or Fusion Generators.

Bushwa

Hi all, I'm new to the artisan profession and I'm in the process of buying Harvestorsto aquirematerial for grinding.

1. What can I use to powera Harvestor? Someone told me I could use any Radioactive Ore - is this true?

2. Can I remove power/maintenace from a Harvestor before I redeed it?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Hi, Welcome to Artisan.

1. You use energy. There are 3 types of energy harvester. Each harvests a different type of energy. the types arewind, solar, and radioactive. The price goes up in that order. no, I don't think you can use the ore for energy in harvesters but I haven't tried. I think radioactive ore is used by radioactive harvesters which harvest andconvert the ore into energy.

2. No, you can't remove power and maint from harvesters, but the power and maint will stay in the harvester when you redeed it so you don't lose the money and energy.

Just to tell you. Everytime you redeed a harvester it takes a specific amount of money from maint.

Good luck.

Hello,

I'm starting a new Artisan character on Intrepid and I have a couple of questions that I can't find answers for by searching. Perhaps one of you can help me out?

My strategy was that I was going to start surveying heavily and reach survey 4 quickly while selling the resources along the way (unless I stumble across something really rare). I'm about to buy my first harvestor when a couple of question crossed my mind.

1) DO I get survey XP for the yeild the harvestor pulls?
2) Can anyone place and / or use a harvestor? I.e. If I'm a marksman with a waypoint to a rich steel deposit, do I also have to be an artisan to place the harvestor and collect the yeild?
3) What is a good yield rate for a personal harvestor? I'm a little shakey on how to calculate a good yield rate...

thanks
Chris