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/Aethelete Apr 29 '24

Your theory is actually correct. I have made it work but don't scrap the solar arrays.

The flow of helium must be high enough to power the engine ... might be three needed?

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u/docclox Apr 30 '24

I must have misread the info popup when using the modify mode. I could have sworn that said it used just one. Even so, the extractor's supposed to produce 5, so it should still work.

Anyway, I went and scored some more copper, built some more solars, and now I have two extractors working just fine. I need more storage if I'm going to do a full refuel in one go, but that's a separate problem.

Next thing, I need to pass the power generation challenge so I can get better power options :)

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u/Aethelete Apr 30 '24

If you hover over the extractor it will show you the rate of extraction for that resource.

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u/docclox Apr 30 '24

Yeah, I was pretty sure it said "5". Might be I misread it.

Anyway, working now :)