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Thread: How do I collect an Asteroid? Not mining, an actual chunk!!
Howdy
Wow I think I can answer this question!
The asteroid chunk is actually one of the um....
(looks at cheat sheets)
5 types of chunks that randomly come out when you are mining. While you are tractor beamins, (shooting?) your roids, you will get a message saying you find an odd chunk and is placed in your storage (it appears to not to effect your cargo hold space)
These chunks are:
Mishapen, Colorful, Strange, Glowing, and Ancient
I am assuming that ancient is the hardest to get cause I have yet to see one after 75k of space mining (only one glowy) and a total of about 8 chunks all together. For me the most to least is Strange, Misshapen, Colorful, Glowing, and then Ancient (cause I have none LOL)
These chunks are used for ship chassis texture kits for shipwrights to make. Each chunk is used for a different type of chassis.
if they are for any other crafting, I have not read it yet.
Hope that answers it!
Please correct if in err. Thanks!
Seriously? lol
Do you think it has anything to do with the smaller chunks that can't be blown up? For some reason every so often I get a small chunk that normally would blow up on 3 or 4 shots and go into my cargo hold...but instead these particular chunks (I have had them on different asteroids as well) I can plug away at with my laser, 20, 30 shots, and nothing...... I was thinking maybe I had to grab those with a tractor beam and "pull them in"........lol
Ahhhh well, I will keep playing with this for some nice diversion.
Thanks a bunch for your help/input. If anyone else has anything to add just fire away.
Jewish_Avenger wrote:
Howdy
Wow I think I can answer this question!
The asteroid chunk is actually one of the um....
(looks at cheat sheets)
5 types of chunks that randomly come out when you are mining. While you are tractor beamins, (shooting?) your roids, you will get a message saying you find an odd chunk and is placed in your storage (it appears to not to effect your cargo hold space)
These chunks are:
Mishapen, Colorful, Strange, Glowing, and Ancient
I am assuming that ancient is the hardest to get cause I have yet to see one after 75k of space mining (only one glowy) and a total of about 8 chunks all together. For me the most to least is Strange, Misshapen, Colorful, Glowing, and then Ancient (cause I have none LOL)
These chunks are used for ship chassis texture kits for shipwrights to make. Each chunk is used for a different type of chassis.
if they are for any other crafting, I have not read it yet.
Hope that answers it!
Please correct if in err. Thanks!
Ahhhh, very kewl. This gives me something to shoot for then. Great, thanks.
This is a shot in the dark
But check your location on the ones that you cannot shoot.
I ran into that too only to find that they were "fly papered" to the 8000 area (-8000 as well)
once they reach that, you can shoot at them all day and yes they will still move, but only along the "wall" and cannot be collected, destroyed.
At least for me...
Jewish_Avenger wrote:
This is a shot in the dark
But check your location on the ones that you cannot shoot.
I ran into that too only to find that they were "fly papered" to the 8000 area (-8000 as well)
once they reach that, you can shoot at them all day and yes they will still move, but only along the "wall" and cannot be collected, destroyed.
At least for me...
Yup that's a known issue.. they become invincible once they hit a zoneline