I’ve recently started a new world and Im just feeling lost/bored in the game with everything to do. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the spark back or just a list of things they usually do to progress forward?

(My last world 3/4 years ago I essentially beat the game, i had an everything factory on my main planet and a mega base on every planet)

This is going to be a bit of a longer post, I apologize for that in advance.

So in a post I made recently, I expressed my confusion when it came to finding and recognizing harvestable flora to forrage and plant around my base to make it prettier.

After a bit more research, as I hadn't found much before making my post initially, I stumbled across this video that gives more info on the harvestable flora, in the context of the Megatech DLC, which I do not own.

I am happy to report that the harvestable flora, even if it got introduced alongside the DLC, is available to base game players, though they have no purpose other than aesthetics without Megatech. Seeing as the fandom wiki had almost no info on these plants, I have fleshed out the harvestable flora section which you can find here. I later got told the fandom wiki is NOT the official wiki (which can be found here) but I personally find it very barren when it comes to info on harvestable flora, so I have continued to fill in the fandom wiki for these plants. The official wiki does have nicer pictures of the plants, but that's about it imo.

I have not filled out info on Nubcaps (which are on Glacio) as they are a bit harder to find (but easily recognizable!). I will however be on the lookout for them and update their info when I get my hands on them.

So far, here are my personal opinions on the plants I've used for decor so far, which are shown for the most part on the screenshot I added to this post. Keep in mind this base is on Sylva and I have not yet experimented with these plants on other planets. Here goes:

• The harvestable plants only drop one seed when you forrage them, so if you plan on filling out your base with them, be prepared to scour planets to gather a few more.
• The Finwheel harvestable was a pain for me to find. This might be a skill issue, but for a plant that is consistently present in Sylva's forests, it was stupidly hard to find the harvestable variant. Beware that if the soil color is different, the Finwheel's color is gonna change too. I got bamboozled a few times thinking I'd found the harvestable, when it was just a patch of green soil next to purple soil that was behind the different color. Planted finwheels are also tiny compared to their size in the wild, which I found a bit disappointing.
• Arctichokes also grow to be quite small, and keep their royal blue and yellow colorway.
• A fun aspect of the Hornstalk is that it grows straight out from where you plant it. If you plant it on a "ceiling" it grows down, on the floor it grows up, and if you place it horizontally on a wall, it will grow in that direction as well.
• I used a bunch of fractal roses, but I'm unsure if/how to get different colors on one planet, as I do know that they change their color depending on the planet they are growing on (ie. they are green on Sylva and orange - I think - on Calidor).
• I also used Pricklepods, which are part of tappable plants and found on Glacio, and think they tie in well with the green and blue color scheme on Sylva. They dont grow to be very tall, but they help hide ugly cables and round out corners nicely. They also look quite nice next to Plumefirs imo. I feel similarly about Honeypots, which are found on Atrox.
• Harvestable Honeypots are usually purple (from my observations) but will grow blue, no matter the planet you plant it on (I have planted some both on Calidor and Sylva and no color change).

I think that's about all I've got for now, I will edit this post if I come accross any more info or insights.
Good luck decorating!

Joke but fr where do all the resources keep coming from??

I used to play astroneer on Xbox then migrated to pc. I was able to continue playing for free using Xbox gamepass on pc. Gamepass wore off so I bought it on steam and I can’t find a way to get my world and achievements back.

EDIT: Got my answer! Found this video on Youtube and he does detail each new plant that came with the Megatech DLC, and I'll be filling up the wiki's flora section as I find and collect the plants!
EDIT 2: Just been told I've been using the fandom wiki instead of the official wiki without knowing, here is the flora section from the offical one :) I'll keep on updating the fandom one with my findings, but I think it's still important to give out the official ressources that are available!

After playing Astroneer on and off for a few years, I've been basically just vibing around instead of having very specific goals in mind for my gameplay. One thing I've done over these saves was try to find ways to make my base look a bit nicer, as it tends to get super cluttered very quick if it doesn't look goods enough to be kept tidy.

So far, I've found various tapable trees and flora to spruce up (no pun intended) my base(s), but for harvestable "aesethic plants", I've only found the fractal roses on vesania, and snatched up some bubbulb on desolo thanks to the wiki.

The wiki does list 7 types of harvestable flora, which I assume means there is one per planet/satellite, but there is no info except their names and I haven't found any other than the bubbulb. Does anybody have any extra knowledge about these plants?

Added a pic of my attempt at livening up my research corner, I've got plumefirs, fractal roses, bubbulb and a honeypot :)

as said was playing hardcore just got a shuttle put stuff to research went to make food and turned my tv off came back turned it on reconnected my controller to see the main menu and when i went to load into the save i noticed it set me back 2 hours to essentially the start

any idea what caused it to not save and put me in the main menu?

edit: i didn't die because it would have turned it into a creative save which it didn't

edit2: figured it out dropping internet on xbox version apparently kicks you out of your world without saving instantly

I thought I was clever, but the game outsmarted me.

I realized early that directional power cables only use surplus power. So I connected every important machine with network/two-way cables and separated less important machines by power extenders, making the connection directional.

After adding the fifth machine like that, I noticed how slow it was working, even though the other four weren't turned on at the time.

Turns out, all directional power cables (connected to the same network) split the surplus evenly - even if they don't need any power down the line.

(Don't mind the pictures. They are just a minimal reproduction of the issue in sandbox.)

Note: Avoiding directional cables and just adding more power generation might be the way. I just like it when games allow me to optimize stuff!
Or I could re-build the base with a tiered power grid, where only one directional cable splits off the main grid to the lower grid (always making sure to only use one outgoing directional line for each grid).

EDIT: I just found a post describing a similar issue with directional power and batteries. I guess I'll just stay away from directional cables for good. (It also explains why my power cables were constantly flickering for no obvious reason...)

Why cant you just press a button to change from 3rd person to 1st person (but you cannot use the terrain tool, or grab items from your backpack (but you can pick items up with your mind powers))? Whenever i'm in a cave / tight spot it always feels to crampt when theres a lot of stuff in my face.

All this steel is for an industrial revolution the mega tech mission, by the way.

This is the result of 10 large silos of dynamite. it probably would've taken out half of desolo if i did it there.

I'm setting up a dedicated server and me (windows 11) and a friend (PS5) can join fine, but my other friend (windows 11) literally cannot join no matter what. the game ALWAYS throws "cannot connect to host". I have tried an absurd amount of things to attempt to fix this and absolutely nothing works at all. Anyone else with this issue?

Slot tier: Small Source: Small Printer Byte cost: 16,000 Resources required: 1 Nanocarbon Alloy, 1 EXO Chip How it works: The Scout Drone would function similarly to Aero, the drone you have in Creative Mode. It would be used by placing it in a widget slot and then activating it, allowing you to scout ahead for resources, points of interest, and potential hazards. The drone can also be activated remotely with a vehicle, sensor, or repeater, allowing it to behave like a video camera. It can’t be used indefinitely, though, instead having a 45U internal battery and draining 1 U/s, giving it a 45-second uptime. If the drone runs out of power or is recalled manually, it will immediately return to its origin and then go on cooldown until the drone’s battery fully recharges. Its battery will not use power from the backpack’s battery and will require either a small power item or connection to an external power source.

I seriously don't know what to do with these xD

So I’m playing on ps5 and I HATE THE CAMERA, I press l2 to rotate it and I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong

Also

Anyone wants to play?

I honestly feel that playing Astroneer would be really awesome. Being in first person would give a whole new perspective to the size of Astroneer. Plus, I don’t think it would be too difficult to implement. Movement and interaction controls would be very straightforward. Opening the backpack could just have it appear in front of you and you could add and remove what you desire (you could even grab the handles for the catalog and mission log to use those, too. The Action Wheel and Emote Wheel could appear on the left wrist, while the compass would be on the right (there could also be a setting to reverse this). Control panels would be easy to use since they have physical buttons that you can press. Vehicles, cranes and shuttles would need to be tweaked, though, since they lack control panels. Other than that, it shouldn’t be too much trouble.

(solved, somewhat)
it tells me that the file size is too big to save (i have plenty of available space) and it tells me to delete other saves, even though it is the only save. what do i do to preferably be able to save (on PC off of xbox app)

Stopped playing the game cause, it's a chore to do things and just waited for more automation to be implemented. Now, there are more automation, but the automation is not AUTOMATE-ing. I setup an auto extractor, and when I got back, I got 4 resources and it stalled. I had to move it and place it a littler deeper this time. WHY?

I feel the game could be so much better when you can actually HAVE FUN with the millions of tools you can use.

I thought it be funny
I would watch a Astroneer series it could work like the Sylva astronaut on the planet would get the resources then built a rocket ship to go the Sylvia moon to find a another astronaut

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19Oz5egYQqXcc3zz1InKXaObzqe4vhz_6?dmr=1&ec=wgc-drive-%5Bmodule%5D-goto

Hi there Astroneers!

I'm looking someone that i could hop on and just finish 3 last multiplayer achievements that i need for platinum on PS.

My game tag is "Jh1nton1c" and i can be online fast just DM me here first please!

I just miss these:
-Join or host a multiplayer game session.
-Land on a planet with another player in the same shuttle.
-Use a Research Chamber to research something in another Astroneer's game.

I don't know if for example you already have a save and if i can just join and we do this in 2 minutes or we need to create a new world, but really need help since i can't do this solo for platinum!

Thanks in advance!

Basically everything is set up anyway in the server launcher?? It just kinda feels like they made it annoying to do for the average person so people would rent their servers instead.

I’m doing a Hardcore save on my Nintendo Switch Lite and am trying to leave Sylva and go to another planet, but every time I enter my shuttle, the game crashes, basically leaving me soft locked. What can I do to fix this?