Test on live barnacle results.
Harvested x1 ripe seed spike
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Spike renewed with ripe seed pod containing meta alloy
Observations and thoughts;
Renewable source of meta alloy, taking only the ripe pods at a time.
Meta alloy when harvested is labeled as "mining fragment" so was wondering if collector limpets have been used to put meta alloy straight into refinery. If scooped by SRV into cargo hold becomes a regular canister as far as I can tell.
Further tests required, specifically Unknown Artifact possible interactions. Will continue to observe for now.
I put up a video for the meta alloys CGs how to farm them with limpets. It's on reddit.