Finding Zinc on a dead moon - without a spaceship
Okey. I admit, various mistakes I made are present in the following story.
So, I found a crashed spaceship on the moon of Slipchant-8 Hainay, named Ouchimano. She is a hell of beauty, and I fell in love at the first glance. Her pulse engine is seriously damaged: nothing but 20 zinc could save her. I don't have any, hadn't ever since I landed on this moon. Love is blind, however, and I took the challenge of finding it - I thought there must be some trading post nearby where I can obtain. I couldn't have been more wrong. (I took this a bit as a role-playing and a challenge, and I ignored I could go back to my previous ship. Mistake...)
On my journey searching for the desired material, I made a huge mistake. I called Ouchimano to an outpost. I still can't believe she made it there, with all her deep wounds, but there she was; and while I was glad to see her, I had to realize I have lost my only indicator to my previous ship's location. My ex is gone forever. There is no way back now, Ouchimano's and my fate is connected irreversibly. I shall leave the moon with her, or I shall never leave.
The moon we are on now is dead. No flora or fauna present, only some carbon-yielding mushrooms can stay alive here. Sentinels presence is minimal. I have spent the past two days (like 12 hours of pure playing time) walking on that no-man's land, barely finding any trading point, not to mention any zinc. I wish she could help me in my journey, and so does she, but she is forced to ground until I succeed in the hunting. Sometimes the scaring thought that I will never again leave this moon flashes in my head.
I need your advice. I had enough pain of walking without a path. What would be the fastest way to find that 20 zinc without a ship on this barren land?
Best Answer
Three ideas come to my mind:
If you found a location with a landing pad that is not occupied by your precious Ouchimano, you could wait there for other traders to arrive and check their inventory. Occasionally space ships will land and if you're lucky one will have your Zinc.
If your Ouchimano has any additional tech installed (I never found a ship without tech installed) you can dismantle it (R3 on PS4) to get back some of the resources that were required to craft it. When inspecting the tech it should show you which resources you will get.
If you could manage to find your old ship - or any other crashed ship - you could dismantle the tech from there. Of course, this sounds hard without a ship to search with, in the first place. You should start by looking for a beacon. They are easy to spot since they emit that red light beam which can be seen from long distance. Use the beacon to search for transmissions. The results vary and you will find different transmissions. Repeat the search until you find a Transmission Tower. At the Transmission Tower use the interface inside and solve the puzzle. It will show you a close by crash site. There even is a chance it will show you the crash site you have already been to. Your old ship should still be sitting there.
I just had a closer look on my latest found crash site. 4 installed components here gave 25 Zinc each:
- Photonix Core
- Pulse Jet Sigma
- Cannon Damage Tau
- Cannon Damage Theta
For a Reflect Enhancement Theta I even got 150 Zinc.
So there should be a high chance you get the required Zinc right from the Ouchimano itself.
Good luck!
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Answer 2
Just use your exosuit's scanner and look for the yellow Oxide icon. Even a "dead" planet or moon still has a lot of rocks, and a smattering of those flowers that look the same on every planet, but have different names. The yellow flower has Zinc (there's also a blue one with Platinum, a red one with Thamium9, and ones that refill your health, shield, or hazard protection). Most of the rocky things in caverns give an oxide, too, but that's usually Iron.
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