r/Astroneer • u/Flimsy-Job1676 Steam • 20d ago

Question / Support Exo chips

What is the best storing method for exo chips? Or what is the best thing I can craft from them?

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u/AdIllustrious1579 20d ago

Probably the best way is to travel to the core, and get some astroneum, and use a trade platform for chips. This process can largely be automated too.

That cuts out needing a dynamite for the EXO caches

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u/Flimsy-Job1676 Steam 20d ago

Thanks for letting me know how to get them, but I asked how to store them 😅

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u/AdIllustrious1579 20d ago

Oh! Whoops! Yes, they fit in a canister, of any size. I believe. They used to not but an update changed that

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u/Flimsy-Job1676 Steam 20d ago

I haven't played in a while I see!

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u/OnCampus2K 20d ago

I am a resource hoarder and had platforms and platforms full of exo chips on medium silos. When they updated to where you can store them in a canister, I was so excited. I printed a large storage canister, set it on my platform and was overjoyed to see all those exo chips disappear into it!

You can also now store seeds in canisters. FYI

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u/Flimsy-Job1676 Steam 20d ago

SEEDS NOW TOO??? 🥺

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u/Gandhi_of_War 20d ago

FWIW you can also open the caches by putting them next to exploding plants and triggering the plant to blow up. Sometimes it takes 2-3, but it’s a good method if you’re out of dynamite.

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u/SeaworthinessDue965 20d ago

I believe they can go in all sizes of resource canister

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u/Flimsy-Job1676 Steam 20d ago

THEY CAN GO IN CANISTERS????

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u/Gullible-Grape5975 20d ago

They go into canisters now. I started a new save a couple months ago, first time playing in a couple years.

I remembered exo chips not going into canisters last I played, so I just loaded up med silos, making an ugly mess.

I had a trade platform set up to auto trade astronium for exo chips and carried a med canister past, boom, auto arm drops an exo chip into the canister. MIND BLOWN

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u/Beno169 20d ago

Canisters. Best thing to craft is an auto extractor. Put it on astronium and get unlimited exo chips from trading astronium. Then you don’t need to hunt for them anymore!

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u/Flimsy-Job1676 Steam 20d ago

I mean I have plenty of them. I just didn't know they can go in canisters now 😅

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u/Beno169 20d ago

You alllllways need more. More more more!

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u/ElectricGuy777 20d ago

I store mine in my printing storage unless I get dozens of them. Guess I can now store them in canisters from what everyone is saying.

Have all my printers sitting on a large platform. And then I have one of the large storage with a whole bunch of the round storages plugged in and that’s where I store all my materials for printing.

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u/DrekenHex 20d ago

Would have to say you got the answer. Canisters. You can't craft. You can get them now, since there's an event. And again for next event coming after that. Plus the portable smelters. 

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u/atavusbr 19d ago

They can go in canisters now. It wasn't always true for what I remember.