No Crystal Shards at HIP 36601

Happy Daze · Jan 3, 2023

I have not been able to find Crystal Shards on HIP 36601 (any planet) since the last update. Just hours before the update I was collecting shards, easily found.
Now no matter where I land there are no shard "trees".
I jumped all the way out here to gather raw mats. Now I can't find anything.

edit: I search the blue areas of the a planet in Horizons.
The update I'm thinking of is around the middle of December.

Val Sylvana · Jan 3, 2023

I've spent the last few days trying to top up raw materials using the alternative method of Phloem Excretions on Braintrees. But just about everywhere I went, only Polyporous Growths would show up, which were just low-grade stuff. Even specific coordinates normally used on the famous selenium moon were like this.

I've had more luck with crystalline fragments on fumaroles, but it's very slow going.

Cmdr Esteban · Jan 3, 2023

Happy Daze said:
I have not been able to find Crystal Shards on HIP 36601 (any planet) since the last update. Just hours before the update I was collecting shards, easily found.
Now no matter where I land there are no shard "trees".
I jumped all the way out here to gather raw mats. Now I can't find anything.

As always, the developers fail us.

Since which ‘last update’? I was there on 30th December and there were loads of the bloomin‘ things. Has there been a point update to the game since then?

tolm · Jan 3, 2023

You may already know this … but just in case: Horizons (Live) mode is now 4.0 so has the “Odyssey“ planet tech.

So there are no longer Biological Sites in either Horizons or Odyssey. You have to instead look for “blue” areas (visible from space in analysis mode assuming you’ve previously mapped the planet) and then spot the “trees” manually,

Assuming you’re aware and doing that, I have no idea whats going on. I collected a metric-ton of raw mats post Update 14 as part of engineering multiple AX ships.

Happy Daze · Jan 4, 2023

First, I think there was an update in the middle of December? That's when I went out to gather Shards. One day, plenty, the next, none to be found. So not the Dec. 30th update.

I am searching the blue areas on the sunny side of the planets so I can see the "trees" from a distance. Still nothing as of last night.

I'm going to try another planet.

RabbiBob · Jan 4, 2023

I just completed a visit to the below places, collected from here and various sites, with an entry in the Notes column and I was able to do a full mat run in Odyssey. I put the heading wheel together to assist with getting Lat\Long changes in relation to heading when you're in the upper atmosphere.

System	Raw Material	Lat	Long	Notes
HIP36601 C 1 a	Polonium	-57.4599	126.9543
HIP36601 C 1 a	Polonium	-31.034637	14.85098	VERY GOOD
HIP36601 C 1 d	Ruthenium	-51.2639	14.7291	12/31
HIP36601 C 3 b	Tellurium	-17.6769	-55.18	VERY GOOD
HIP36601 C 3 b	Tellurium	0.3339	-105.0335
HIP36601 C 3 b	Tellurium	0.2632	-104.5832
HIP36601 C 5 a	Technetium	3.55	111.5415	VERY GOOD
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 a	Yttrium	-1.9216	-145.7013	Spread Out 1/2
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 a	Yttrium	16.7966	-40.1293
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c	Antimony	-62.4905	80.2426	Not bad
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c	Antimony	-66.1513	85.6553
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c	Antimony	-66.0147	83.6553
HR 3230 3 A a	Selenium	30.57	96.45	Look around - there 2 groves here

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Happy Daze · Jan 4, 2023

Cmdr Esteban said:
Since which ‘last update’? I was there on 30th December and there were loads of the bloomin‘ things. Has there been a point update to the game since then?

I was on planet C 1 D. What planets were you on when you found lots?

Happy Daze · Jan 4, 2023

RabbiBob said:
I just completed a visit to the below places, collected from here and various sites, with an entry in the Notes column and I was able to do a full mat run in Odyssey. I put the heading wheel together to assist with getting Lat\Long changes in relation to heading when you're in the upper atmosphere.

System Raw Material Lat Long Notes
HIP36601 C 1 a Polonium -57.4599 126.9543
HIP36601 C 1 a Polonium -31.034637 14.85098 BEST
HIP36601 C 1 d Ruthenium -51.2639 14.7291 12/31
HIP36601 C 3 b Tellurium -17.6769 -55.18 BEST
HIP36601 C 3 b Tellurium 0.3339 -105.0335
HIP36601 C 3 b Tellurium 0.2632 -104.5832
HIP36601 C 5 a Technetium 3.55 111.5415 12/31
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 a Yttrium -1.9216 -145.7013 Spread Out 1/2
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 a Yttrium 16.7966 -40.1293
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c Antimony -62.4905 80.2426 Not bad
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c Antimony -66.1513 85.6553
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c Antimony -66.0147 83.6553

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Thanks RabbiBob!

Cmdr Esteban · Jan 4, 2023

Happy Daze said:
I was on planet C 1 D. What planets were you on when you found lots?

C 1 A – Polonium

C 1 D – Ruthenium

C 3 B – Tellurium

C 5 A – Technetium

RabbiBob · Jan 8, 2023

Added Selenium to Post #6 - the key is to scout around those landing coordinates - there are two large groves and a lot of scatter trees. I entered with 6 selenium in the hold and maxed out after reaching the 2nd grove. High qty of Manganese and Zirconium as well.

Mrc_NorthEast · Jan 8, 2023

Nice info in this thread. Thanks for posting it everyone!

The only mats I am not 100% on are encoded (I am about half on all the g5's) and manufactured, with PI's and Mil Super's... both in the teens, all the rest topped off.

Brain trees, Jamesons, HGE's, and one last fill up at the shard sites prior to U14 in Horizons 3.8. I am taking a break from engineering for now. If feels good to be mostly topped off. It has been a long time since I previously did that.

deanom59 · Jan 10, 2023

Thanks for this. Found the thread after getting nothing but Iron instead of Polonium. Travelled to the coordinates that you shared and it worked as intended.

Viajero · Jan 15, 2023

Happy Daze said:
I have not been able to find Crystal Shards on HIP 36601 (any planet) since the last update. Just hours before the update I was collecting shards, easily found.
Now no matter where I land there are no shard "trees".
I jumped all the way out here to gather raw mats. Now I can't find anything.

edit: I search the blue areas of the a planet in Horizons.
The update I'm thinking of is around the middle of December.

Chrystals are still indeed there. I was in HIP 36601 myself a couple weeks ago and found them in abundance. It has not changed. If you need exact coordinates expand the first pinned response to this video.

Source: https://youtu.be/DkWN_iV5xnQ

Glock_N_Load · Feb 18, 2023

RabbiBob said:
I just completed a visit to the below places, collected from here and various sites, with an entry in the Notes column and I was able to do a full mat run in Odyssey. I put the heading wheel together to assist with getting Lat\Long changes in relation to heading when you're in the upper atmosphere.

System Raw Material Lat Long Notes
HIP36601 C 1 a Polonium -57.4599 126.9543
HIP36601 C 1 a Polonium -31.034637 14.85098 VERY GOOD
HIP36601 C 1 d Ruthenium -51.2639 14.7291 12/31
HIP36601 C 3 b Tellurium -17.6769 -55.18 VERY GOOD
HIP36601 C 3 b Tellurium 0.3339 -105.0335
HIP36601 C 3 b Tellurium 0.2632 -104.5832
HIP36601 C 5 a Technetium 3.55 111.5415 VERY GOOD
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 a Yttrium -1.9216 -145.7013 Spread Out 1/2
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 a Yttrium 16.7966 -40.1293
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c Antimony -62.4905 80.2426 Not bad
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c Antimony -66.1513 85.6553
Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c Antimony -66.0147 83.6553
HR 3230 3 A a Selenium 30.57 96.45 Look around - there 2 groves here

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This still works. Just topped off all the above. I still have to use EDISON for the job. lol

Cmdr Sharky · Mar 3, 2023

Can confirm!

What I don't get is, how the hell did people find these without the scanner showing them up as biological sites? And is there an easy way to home in on specific numerical coordinates and land there? I always over-fly the location.

Ned Flandalorian · Mar 3, 2023

CMDR Sharky said:
What I don't get is, how the hell did people find these without the scanner showing them up as biological sites? And is there an easy way to home in on specific numerical coordinates and land there? I always over-fly the location.

Shards are old style biologicals that show up on your wave scanner, have a look at yours - it's practically a solid bar...

Cmdr Sharky · Mar 4, 2023

Ah, I've got the hang of the DSS map overlay thing now and I'm finding them without coords. I had thought that the crystal spires were kinda rare, like a handful of locations on the entire planet. I didn't realize that they were literally everywhere!

varonica · Mar 5, 2023

CMDR Sharky said:
Ah, I've got the hang of the DSS map overlay thing now and I'm finding them without coords. I had thought that the crystal spires were kinda rare, like a handful of locations on the entire planet. I didn't realize that they were literally everywhere!

That was indeed the old system, the new system is much better because you can fill up by driving around in the SRV without relocating to another site.

Cmdr Sharky · Mar 5, 2023

varonica said:
That was indeed the old system, the new system is much better because you can fill up by driving around in the SRV without relocating to another site.

Well, you can always re-stock the site with your QTD.
(Quit To Desktop)

varonica · Mar 6, 2023

CMDR Sharky said:
Well, you can always re-stock the site with your QTD.
(Quit To Desktop)

In the old system with POI's the sites didn't regenerate mats for around two weeks once you had harvested the mats, it's only since the new planetrary tech that old Horizon bio's regenerate with re-log, so no, that didn't work.