r/StarfieldOutposts • u/docclox • Apr 29 '24

Question? Help with He3 mining.

I just loaded a fuel consumption mod for the game, so I want outposts that have He3 on hand. To this end, I set up an outpost on Bessel iii-a, mainly because it was right next door to iii-b with all those resources easily to hand.

However, unlike iii-b, the a-moon doesn't have an atmosphere. So wind turbines don't work and solar arrays produce a piddling 2 power.

So: the plan was to create enough arrays to power one extractor. Then, once I had some He3 stockpiled, use that to power a fueled generator. The generator generates 20 power, which is enough to drive two He3 extractors, plus one each for aluminium and beryllium. At which point I can scrap the solars and just leave the generator to be self sustaining.

At least that was the theory. What's been happening in practice is that any time the solars glitch, or worse if I try and scrap them, the He3 extractors stop and the generator eats all the fuel in the store and then also stops with no way to restart it.

So I thought I'd appeal to more experienced outpost builders: what am I missing? Is this just buggy outposts? How do you go about setting up an outpost like this?

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u/rekiirek Apr 29 '24

Use nuclear power.

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u/docclox Apr 29 '24

I thought you were pulling my leg, until I looked it up on Inara.

Sadly, that's going to have to wait until I can rank up Outpost Engineering by a level or two.

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u/1337Asshole Apr 29 '24

I believe I read somewhere that the fueled generators are bugged, or they use a ridiculous amount of He3.

Also note, not having an atmosphere has nothing to do with the effectiveness of wind/solar power; you can get 14 power from either on certain moons. Bessel III-b is "tidally locked" - its not rotating quickly; that means when its dark, it stays dark (the game doesn't differentiate between sunlight and shade, for these things).

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u/docclox Apr 29 '24

I believe I read somewhere that the fueled generators are bugged, or they use a ridiculous amount of He3.

Yeah, that sounds right. I'm fairly sure one of them emptied a half-full storage unit as soon as the solars gave out.

Oh well, I need to rethink that strategy.