How do I make Fancy Food?

Question

I researched a Processing Plant to make Fancy Food, and a type of Processed Item that uses Fancy Food (Chocolate Cakes) but I can't set the Processing Plant to actually make the Chocolate Cakes.

What am I missing? How do I make Fancy Food?

Asked by Derpy Hooves

Answer

According to the comments and the production chain as laid out in this french wiki post, you're on the right track.

You need 3 different things to produce something in this game:

1. Materials
2. Something able to produce something with those materials
3. Somewhere to use/sell what you produce

In your case, you've probably got 1. Food which is the material that the processing plant needs to make the fancy food. and 2. A processing plant requiring processing level 1 or above to make fancy food. What you're missing is something to do with the fancy food as fancy food is yet another material and not a finished product.

So you want to have chocolate cake be the thing to use your fancy food, then you need something to produce chocolate cake, which as per the comments/french wiki page is a factory and Food Level 3. Chocolate cake is a finished product and will go to your exporter for sale.

Answered by skovacs1

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How do I get more planets to explore?

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I have explored both Octopi and R-Type fully, and brought back almost all of the settlers from both planets.

How do I get even more planets to explore? I could definitely use more settlers on my planet!

Asked by Derpy Hooves

Answer

In order to unlock more planets to explore, you first need to discover their location on your planet as you did for the R-Type. After you find them, they will ask you for help in ridding their world of space pirates. After you take care of the pirates, you are free to explore their world in addition to receive tourists from them.

Answered by John

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How can I have a bigger Away Team?

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I know that Away Teams are super important for exploration. I also know that to have a bigger away team to explore planets, I need to upgrade my rocket.

However, my away team that explores caves and chasms on my planet is still quite small (6 members), so they get defeated quite a bit.

Short of just giving them more weapons and armor (which I need RP to research) I need a way to make them less squishy. I figured adding more people to the team would work, but I have looked and looked for a way to do that and I can't see one.

How do I get a larger on-planet cave exploring away team?

Asked by Derpy Hooves

Answer

The on-planet away team is location-specific. There is no way to increase it.

In order to make your guys less squishy, you'll need to level them up. That, plus weapons and armor, are your main methods to extend exploration length. The only problem is, leveling up your away team increases exploration cost.

When exploring an area and you can't defeat the monsters at the end, there are a few ways to increase your chances. I've ordered them from most effective to least, in my opinion.

1. Put ranged members behind the front line. Ranged weapons have a range of two, so they can attack while the melee guys keep them safe. Make sure they have support abilities, like power shot, or heal.
2. Change around your team composition - some of your colonists have higher health/attack than others. Use this to your advantage. Put those with higher health and skills like Rage/Power Strike in the front.
3. Level up your team
4. Upgrade weapons. This has a much better impact than armor. Applying damage directly means you go through monsters much quicker, thereby taking less damage.
5. Upgrade armor. In the last extreme, upgrading armor will keep your team alive longer.

Answered by fbueckert

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