

Sadly, gold coins are still being eavesdropped on offline players. Note: You will get Exotics in Icarus even if you complete the mission in offline mode. It will automatically be added depending on how many you brought with you before leaving the planet. Unlike gold coins, you don’t have to check in-game mail to receive it. Speaking of Orbital Workshops, don’t forget to check it out for your Exotic currency total.

If you discover more, let me know.Įxotic/purple currency in Orbital Workshop Note: I’m not sure if there are other Strange button locations in the Deep Vein Mining quest in Icarus. Anyway, you can rerun this quest multiple times to get Exotic currency for Orbital Workshop. Remember, you need to put Exotics in your dropship’s inventory slots before you leave, or they will disappear. Down a pit where you can find some Oxides (northeast part of O14).Īfter I mine these, I go back to dropship.At the bottom of a rift (southeast part of O13).You can see them (and the map icons) in the images below: So far, I have only found two Exotic deposits. There is a large glowing circle indicating the search area. Optional: Search the region for more Exotic deposits.Īdditional Exotic deposit locations in Icarus.Offer Exotics to the dropship repository.Smash everything with your pickaxe and you’ll see a few new targets: Likewise, you can chill for a while (pun intended) if it’s nighttime, since it’s harder for you to see in the dark even if you’re outdoors.Īfter killing the worms in the cave, you can mine your first Exotic button in Icarus. You can also use this cave as a temporary shelter in case of a blizzard (however, if you’re agile, you won’t get stuck in the middle of the cave). Use wooden walls to block their poisonous projectiles and snipe them when you can. There’s a cave here and naturally, it’s filled with wormhole. Next, head northeast through the ravine and glacier until you reach the target marker (O13/P13). It is important that you have a stone pickaxe, a wooden bow/arrow, and maybe a few wooden walls. You can check out our guide on The existence of biomes in the Arctic, Icestorm Expedition, and Scanning spotlights If you need quick replenishment.įrom the lander, head southeast until you reach the frozen ravine. This takes place in the Southern Glacier, so make sure you’re familiar with the area. In any case, start the Deep Vein Mining quest when you’re ready. The target area now has a cave (which I will discuss later).įind your first Exotic node in the Deep Vein Mining quest in Icarus.I can’t really find anything related to that. Extractor’s tooltip simply says “requires talent,” but it doesn’t tell you what talent is needed.Then, after downloading the hotfix and restarting the mission, I noticed the following: Worse yet, when I reached the target, there was nothing around. However, I cannot craft it through the Builder. Based on the tooltip, it is supposed to be a device that you can use to mine Exotics. To clarify, I got the Extractor blueprint in the Level 4 panel of the crafting tree. Also, before you actually start Deep Vein Mining, make sure you already have latest patch. To gain access to the Deep Vein Mining quest in Icarus, you will need to complete a prerequisite: Scanning spotlights. Some tidbits regarding Extractor’s quest and blueprints
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Icarus Exotics Guide: How to farm Orbital Workshop’s purple currency in the Deep Vein Mining quest Note: For more information, see Icarus guide and central feature. This is ours Icarus The guide helps you farm Exotics, the purple currency for Orbital Workshop, during the Deep Vein Extraction quest. We still need to talk about another type of reward you can get. However, that is only for the gold “R” currency. Not sure we're coming back to it after that.In ours Icarus currency guide, I mentioned how completing quests will give you rewards if you check your in-game mail. That mission single handedly ruined the game for my friend and I. With tons of wolves spawning in constantly and a 10+ minute run to any other biome. So with 1 extractor that means babysitting it for over 3 in game hours.
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So solo players need to run back for the extractor.īut then the good part! You have to mine about 200 exotics which is not only 6 cans of biofuel (so you need to bring the composter and tons of wood) but it also takes about a full minute to mine each exotic. Then when you find it you yet to put down the extractor, but only if you are playing coop because the radar and extractor are both backpack type items so you can only have one at a time. Then you need to locate the vien using the radar which is of course in the snow. First you need to tech up to tier 4 which is something like 600+ copper ore and 300+ gold. I can tell you the absolute worst mission for it is Payday Extraction.
