Scan one barnacle, get the rest free!?

subhouse07

subhouse07
I just headed out to California Nebula to check up on the Alliance folks. (They have a neat new planetary outposts in CS HR-W D1-28 and it's kinda dark and scary). I went over to CS BA-A E6 4 to check on the barnacles there and was surprised when only one was showing up on my nav panel, as I had scanned all the ones with recorded locations. So I scanned the first one, looked up the next one and flew to it and scanned it, then popped back into supercruise and looked at my nav panel to head to Mic Turner Base and my nav panel was full of Thargoid Barnacles! There are 14 barnacle sites on this planet!

I can't confirm if this is like 100 percent guaranteed every time, as this is the only planet I've visited so far. Can anyone else confirm this?
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
That was my other thought on what's going on.

I'll try to verify this for you in a bit... just doing some things in the bubble atm.
 

subhouse07

subhouse07
Ok here's a slightly more informed update on this: When you scan a barnacle (or possibly any scannable Thargoid-related object?), you get a temporary peak at the location of every barnacle in the system. All the barnacles you scan, you get to keep. If you log out, you lose all the ones you haven't scanned but keep the ones that you did. I was going to test if just jumping out and then back into a system resets them, but I got too caught up in scanning and now I'm too sleepy to go on.

Anyways if you've always wanted to discover your own barnacle now is a good time to do it! And if there are any data junkies out there looking for something to do, there are a TON of barnacles to catalog.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
subhouse07 said:
Ok here's a slightly more informed update on this: When you scan a barnacle (or possibly any scannable Thargoid-related object?), you get a temporary peak at the location of every barnacle in the system. All the barnacles you scan, you get to keep. If you log out, you lose all the ones you haven't scanned but keep the ones that you did. I was going to test if just jumping out and then back into a system resets them, but I got too caught up in scanning and now I'm too sleepy to go on.

Anyways if you've always wanted to discover your own barnacle now is a good time to do it! And if there are any data junkies out there looking for something to do, there are a TON of barnacles to catalog.
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It *sounds* like a bug... but barnacles are crazy hard to find in the first place so whatever :)
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Pretty sure this is the case - also when you scan the Data Uplink in a US (Thargoid Base) it reveals barnacles in the system. Also barnacles show up across the system when you point your ship at them (normally within 1000 Ls) - same as Guardian Ruins do:

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Jmanis

Jmanis
Factabulous said:
Pretty sure this is the case - also when you scan the Data Uplink in a US (Thargoid Base) it reveals barnacles in the system. Also barnacles show up across the system when you point your ship at them (normally within 1000 Ls) - same as Guardian Ruins do:

https://i.imgur.com/nVr2UQo.png
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See, I (and subhouse, I believe) did exactly that, scan the US Thargoid Uplink. It didn't reveal the barnacles in that system for either of us. ( I flew to the barnacle forest straight away; it wasn't on my nav panel til i scanned one of the barnacles at the forest)
 
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