Newcomer / Intro Crystalline Shards- how to farm?

[MadiraNofo]

Never really farmed mats before. I went out to HIP 36601 C1A, and found me some Crystalline Clusters. Hopped into my SRV....and now what. Can't seem to shoot them to produce anything, and nothing else appears on the scanner. All the tutorials I have read/ watched seem to take for granted you know how to do this and thus don't spell it out.

I feel like I'm missing something super obvious! How do I farm mats from the Clusters?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Dougie]

You can see the spiky things jutting-out from the shard body - use the turret, target that spiky thing, shoot it - make sure it is not obscured by the main shard structure. Off comes the raw material - go scoop it up.

If you can't see the cluster (the spiky thing) or the raw material on your display check your contacts screen in the left-hand panel to make sure you have not set them to "ignore".

 

[MadiraNofo]

Thankyou so much! I can see the issue, there is a bug (?) with some of the 'spiky things', they don't seem to fall off when shot a lot. I think I tried a couple of these and got unlucky, and took to the forum.

Really appreciate it

 

[Ashnak]

If you look at the scanner (or the contacts menu), once you successfully shoot the spiky thing, its name should change from "spiky thing" to "material name" (like, with the brain trees, once you shoot a "ployphorous growth", it changes into "Tellurium" - or a "metallic asteroid" changes into "Arsenic").

 

[Dougie]

..., there is a bug (?) with some of the 'spiky things', they don't seem to fall off when shot a lot. .

You will find that where that happens the base of the "spiky thing" is obscured by part of the shard - you just have to make sure that you can see it face-on so to speak. The same thing happens at brain trees and at guardian sites where you shoot panels off to produce materials.

 

[aRJay]

The target point, where the shots hit, is the junction between the spiky thing and the shard if you can’t see that from the SRV then you have the wrong angle and the shots will be wasted on the shard.
If that is the case you need to move round until you can see the junction or deselect the target and try to hit the exposed bit of the spiky thing by eye.

Edit: Ninja’d again I must type faster.
The problem also affects the things stuck to geysers etc.

 

[the100thmonkey]

Get out the SRV and shoot the shards with a personal weapon. You can shoot ten or so, then get back in the SRV to collect. You don't need to waste materials rearming - you have magic ammo that is replenished each time you get back in.

 

[MadiraNofo]

Get out the SRV and shoot the shards with a personal weapon. You can shoot ten or so, then get back in the SRV to collect. You don't need to waste materials rearming - you have magic ammo that is replenished each time you get back in.

Good tip, thanks, I'll do that. I find using the SRV a massive PiTA