you could take the stuff for a platform and rocket with you(and power supply), learn the recycler and then return to prime

Originally posted by Meewec:

you could take the stuff for a platform and rocket with you(and power supply), learn the recycler and then return to prime

Didn't know I could return to Prime once I left. Thought it was a one way trip. Have you tried that?

You can do it, but you have to bring enough materials for your return rocket trip with you, and also you will need enough materials to get the moon's eco-systems kick-started so you can get the recycler.... it's a bit of a balancing act.

You can basically travel back and forth as much as you like, but it will cost you the materials for 1 travel rocket each time. Eventually it won't be much of a big deal, because you will gain the ability to create or easily buy all the fuses and quartz you could wish - with the current exception of magnetar quartz, which possibly might occur in the new toxic planet for the upcoming-sometime-this-year second DLC... or so the current theorizing has run...

And for those into trade rockets, I am surprised nobody has mentioned the incredible amount of terra tokens you can get for a load of energy fuses, once you can make them - at 6,000 terra tokens each, that's 150,000 terra tokens per load... whew!

Originally posted by Robirda:

You can do it, but you have to bring enough materials for your return rocket trip with you, and also you will need enough materials to get the moon's eco-systems kick-started so you can get the recycler.... it's a bit of a balancing act.

You can basically travel back and forth as much as you like, but it will cost you the materials for 1 travel rocket each time. Eventually it won't be much of a big deal, because you will gain the ability to create or easily buy all the fuses and quartz you could wish - with the current exception of magnetar quartz, which possibly might occur in the new toxic planet for the upcoming-sometime-this-year second DLC... or so the current theorizing has run...

And for those into trade rockets, I am surprised nobody has mentioned the incredible amount of terra tokens you can get for a load of energy fuses, once you can make them - at 6,000 terra tokens each, that's 150,000 terra tokens per load... whew!

Thanks for the info. Materials and terra tokens are not a problem... Got 1,600,000+ in tokens, and 14 rows by 33 lockers full of materials that I have accumulated on 30+ salvaging missions (maybe 40+ missions, lost count). My base is built entirely on the lake and really didn't want to leave it yet. And yes, got most of the tokens by salvaging and selling fuses. :)

ADDITION:
If I have to I'll back up my savegame, find out what it takes to get the blueprint and come back, and then do it again if needed. I would really like to have the T2 recycler, as putting in one item at a time and hitting the button is way too tedious for all the stuff I have to work on.

Be on Selenea and terraform it part way, the t2 recycler will unlock at that point.

just get enough to build an excavation rocket, fill it full of materials needed for specific things you need to build, including an evcavation platform and a rocket as well as a fusion reactor and some T5 machines to kick start the terraforming process. it should be far enough in on short order to unlock.

if in doubt on when, build the blueprint screen on selenea and take a look at when it will unlock.

There is no need to take materials for the extraction platform with you. The most important thing you need to take is resources for the interplanetary shuttle. With its help, you will be able to order all the resources left there from already colonized planets.

I always take the extraction platform and materials for a travel rocket when I go to a new planet or moon. Not because I have to, but because I like to travel back and forth.

I leave Prime fairly early, go to another planet or moon, get it going, then either go back to Prime for awhile or on to another moon or planet, in a wash, rinse, repeat sort of pattern - each time leaving the current world to 'cook' on it's own for awhile as I'm working on another one, then going back to it later. Kinda wonky maybe, but it works for me!

Originally posted by lolic_lol:

There is no need to take materials for the extraction platform with you. The most important thing you need to take is resources for the interplanetary shuttle. With its help, you will be able to order all the resources left there from already colonized planets.

The IP shuttle unlocks on a system terraformation index a bit after the excavation shuttle and of course that IP shuttle schematic isn't going to unlock itself. Besides as mentioned:

Originally posted by Robirda:

I always take the extraction platform and materials for a travel rocket when I go to a new planet or moon. Not because I have to, but because I like to travel back and forth.

You can't trade yourself back and forth on the IP shuttle. so you do need those resources to build that rocket regardless (be it right then and there or later on by way of IP shuttle), even if you got a planet you don't need to go back to, there are two more ahead you need to head for after you finished on the one you landed on.

Originally posted by Xautos:

Originally posted by lolic_lol:

There is no need to take materials for the extraction platform with you. The most important thing you need to take is resources for the interplanetary shuttle. With its help, you will be able to order all the resources left there from already colonized planets.

The IP shuttle unlocks on a system terraformation index a bit after the excavation shuttle and of course that IP shuttle schematic isn't going to unlock itself. Besides as mentioned:

Originally posted by Robirda:

I always take the extraction platform and materials for a travel rocket when I go to a new planet or moon. Not because I have to, but because I like to travel back and forth.

You can't trade yourself back and forth on the IP shuttle. so you do need those resources to build that rocket regardless (be it right then and there or later on by way of IP shuttle), even if you got a planet you don't need to go back to, there are two more ahead you need to head for after you finished on the one you landed on.

It doesn't matter. The resource shuttle is one of the first things to unlock on the second planet, almost immediately after the basic terraforming begins.
After that, you will be able to bring ANY resources to the new planet. Including those needed for the evacuation rocket and the extraction platform. Everything that was available on the previous planets will be available on the new one.
So I repeat - when flying to a new planet, you DO NOT NEED to take with you resources for an evacuation rocket and an extraction platform. You need to take the resources for one fusion reactor and one shuttle. After that, EVERYTHING else will be freely available to you. You can build as many rockets as you want (if you have accumulated enough resources on previous planets).

Thanks for all the info guys, but apparently I'm too stupid or too old, or both, to finish this story. I've read several explanations from google searches about "it's in a cave system that starts on the slope of a rock". I've been all over every sloped rock around the warden symbol on the map and I haven't found any cave entrance to the "mushroom river biome". One explanation said: "look for a large rock formation near a waterfall". There are MANY large rock formations near several waterfalls in that area. Look's like I'm not going anywhere.

UPDATE:
Nevermind. Found it. It is NOT on a "slope of a rock up and to the right". It is in a hole in the ground very camouflaged and hidden.

Okay, now I'm confused. I got an email from Riley telling me to not trust Sentinel Corp, but bring 250,000 tokens and 5 Solar quartz and go with smugglers. I loaded the quartz and got in the extraction rocket. It only gave me 1 choice: to place myself in the hands of the corp. I hit go, watched as I launched to the waiting armada in space, and then it told me I was to be placed in detention while they determine my fate. Then the game ended.

So where are the alternate game endings? And what happened to the smugglers being a choice? The only choice I seem to have is to run the extraction again and get the same results. ??

Originally posted by HeTiCu7:

Okay, now I'm confused. I got an email from Riley telling me to not trust Sentinel Corp, but bring 250,000 tokens and 5 Solar quartz and go with smugglers. I loaded the quartz and got in the extraction rocket. It only gave me 1 choice: to place myself in the hands of the corp. I hit go, watched as I launched to the waiting armada in space, and then it told me I was to be placed in detention while they determine my fate. Then the game ended.

So where are the alternate game endings? And what happened to the smugglers being a choice? The only choice I seem to have is to run the extraction again and get the same results. ??

You missed something, there should be an option. But to be honest, the smugglers ending is also pretty vague.
As for me - if you have the DLC - it's better to fly to Humble and do the Starform Robotics ending, it's clearly the best ending in terms of certainty.

Originally posted by lolic_lol:

Originally posted by HeTiCu7:

Okay, now I'm confused. I got an email from Riley telling me to not trust Sentinel Corp, but bring 250,000 tokens and 5 Solar quartz and go with smugglers. I loaded the quartz and got in the extraction rocket. It only gave me 1 choice: to place myself in the hands of the corp. I hit go, watched as I launched to the waiting armada in space, and then it told me I was to be placed in detention while they determine my fate. Then the game ended.

So where are the alternate game endings? And what happened to the smugglers being a choice? The only choice I seem to have is to run the extraction again and get the same results. ??

You missed something, there should be an option. But to be honest, the smugglers ending is also pretty vague.
As for me - if you have the DLC - it's better to fly to Humble and do the Starform Robotics ending, it's clearly the best ending in terms of certainty.

Thanks. Actually, I JUST figured out I needed to put the solar quartz in the cargo box on the rocket. Then I got the second choice. And it had no choice to go to a moon either. So I was about to load the 10 Wardens keys into the rocket and see how that turns out. All I'm trying to do is go to Selena, but haven't been given the choice in either ending #1 or #2.

As far as I know I have the DLC, but it's not coming up in the endings. I have been assuming that steam automatically updated my game with it at some point. Is that not true? Or is there something I have to build before given the option?

Originally posted by HeTiCu7:

Thanks. Actually, I JUST figured out I needed to put the solar quartz in the cargo box on the rocket. Then I got the second choice. And it had no choice to go to a moon either. So I was about to load the 10 Wardens keys into the rocket and see how that turns out. All I'm trying to do is go to Selena, but haven't been given the choice in either ending #1 or #2.

As far as I know I have the DLC, but it's not coming up in the endings. I have been assuming that steam automatically updated my game with it at some point. Is that not true? Or is there something I have to build before given the option?

I think you are a little confused. The rocket for extraction (for the ending) and the rocket for flying between planets and moons are two different rockets.
https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Rockets#Extraction_Rocket
https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Rockets#Interplanetary_Travel_Rocket
Flying to Selenea (or any other planet) is NOT the end of the game, you can always go back.
But some endings are specific to a particular planet. For example, to get the ending for Starform Robotics, you will need to build a rocket for extraction on Humble.
So if you're on Prime, you first need to fly to Humble, complete the story there (collect 15 logs), and build a rocket for extraction there.

Originally posted by lolic_lol:

Originally posted by HeTiCu7:

Thanks. Actually, I JUST figured out I needed to put the solar quartz in the cargo box on the rocket. Then I got the second choice. And it had no choice to go to a moon either. So I was about to load the 10 Wardens keys into the rocket and see how that turns out. All I'm trying to do is go to Selena, but haven't been given the choice in either ending #1 or #2.

As far as I know I have the DLC, but it's not coming up in the endings. I have been assuming that steam automatically updated my game with it at some point. Is that not true? Or is there something I have to build before given the option?

I think you are a little confused. The rocket for extraction (for the ending) and the rocket for flying between planets and moons are two different rockets.
https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Rockets#Extraction_Rocket
https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Rockets#Interplanetary_Travel_Rocket
Flying to Selenea (or any other planet) is NOT the end of the game, you can always go back.
But some endings are specific to a particular planet. For example, to get the ending for Starform Robotics, you will need to build a rocket for extraction on Humble.
So if you're on Prime, you first need to fly to Humble, complete the story there (collect 15 logs), and build a rocket for extraction there.

Thanks, you're right. I just noticed there are 2 rocket choices at the platform. :)

So, just so I understand things, I don't want to end the game at all. I want to go terraform another planet/moon so I have a use for all of the materials I have accumulated on salvaging missions. Given that's my goal, then all I have to do is build the travel rocket and it will give me the option of where I want to go?