Exocraft Technician
What does the quest Exocraft Technician give? The blueprints of the land exocraft's equipment: the Exocraft Radar with its Radar Amplifier and Radar Power Resonator, the Mounted Cannon, the Exocraft Boosters, and both mining lasers, with the Geobays of the Roamer, the Nomad, and the Colossus, across its 13 parts.
How it starts
The quest opens at your base once you have finished Expanding the Base, the overseer's quest: build an Exocraft Terminal there and hire an Exocraft Technician.
The steps
Each part is one entry of the log, and the next opens when it ends. Almost every part sends you back to the technician, who hands over the next blueprint. The table gives every step as the log names it, with the hint the game shows under it, and on a part's last step everything that part gives along the way.
| Part | Step | Hint | Gives |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Build an Exocraft Terminal | Use to access the Build Menu. Structural components can be built only within the bounds of a base. General technology parts maybe be constructed further afield. | |
| 1 | Hire an Exocraft Technician | The Exocraft Technician will help you research planetary vehicles. | |
| 1 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 2 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 2 | Construct a Roamer Geobay | Exocraft geobays can be built anywhere on a planet. | Roamer Geobay, Exocraft Radar |
| 3 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 3 | Construct an Exocraft Radar | Install the upgrade in an Exocraft. | Mounted Cannon |
| 4 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 4 | Gather advanced materials from Depots | Destroy Depots with Multi-Tool weapons. | Exocraft Boosters |
| 5 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 5 | Reach the Terminal | If the timer expires before you complete the operation, return to the Technician for another attempt. | Exocraft Mining Laser |
| 6 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 6 | Construct an Exocraft Mining Laser | Install the upgrade in an Exocraft. | Nomad Geobay |
| 7 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 7 | Gather Magnetised Ferrite | Refine Magnetised Ferrite using a Refiner | Radar Amplifier |
| 8 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 8 | Construct an Exocraft Radar Upgrade | Install the upgrade in an Exocraft. | |
| 9 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 9 | Gather Nanite Clusters | Nanites can be found in abandoned buildings and other damaged structures. | |
| 10 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 10 | Reach the Monolith | If the timer expires before you complete the operation, return to the Technician for another attempt. | Colossus Geobay |
| 11 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 11 | Construct a Colossus Geobay | Exocraft geobays can be built anywhere on a planet. | Advanced Exocraft Laser |
| 12 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 12 | Gather Nanite Clusters | Nanites can be found in abandoned buildings and other damaged structures. | Radar Power Resonator |
| 13 | Return to the Technician | The Technician awaits at their terminal | |
| 13 | Construct a Nomad Geobay | Exocraft geobays can be built anywhere on a planet. |
What the items do
Everything the quest hands over, with the description the game gives it.
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
Roamer Geobay | A secure parking, summoning and customisation facility for the Roamer medium Exocraft. |
Exocraft Radar | A large and complex field-based subspace radar. |
Mounted Cannon | Due to the energy requirements of this powerful weapon, they can only be fired from an Exocraft mount. |
Exocraft Boosters | An efficient plasma injector coupled to the engine that allows short bursts of speed. |
Exocraft Mining Laser | A powerful mining laser, too cumbersome for handheld operation. Allows the Exocraft to extract naturally-occuring substances from organic or geological objects. |
Nomad Geobay | A secure parking, summoning and customisation facility for the Nomad light Exocraft. |
Radar Amplifier | Allows for additional building types to be acquired by the Exocraft Radar, including planetary Drop Pods, Abandoned Structures, and Waste Heaps. |
Colossus Geobay | A secure parking, summoning and customisation facility for the Colossus large Exocraft. |
Advanced Exocraft Laser | Increases power of the Exocraft Mining Laser. |
Radar Power Resonator | Allows for additional building types to be acquired by the Exocraft Radar, including Trade Outposts, Ruins, and Alien Structures. |
What each module adds to a vehicle is in the Roamer modules, Nomad modules, Pilgrim modules, and Colossus modules guides. The Minotaur's Hardframe parts come from another quest, A Trace of Metal.