Astroneer - The Tapper - A Helpful Guide | OneLastMidnight

[@Whatwasexpected]

If you were wondering the times for the plants giving you organic, i figured it out. Sylvia plants takes 40 seconds, Atrox plants take 10 and the rest take 20 to make an organic

[@OneLastMidnight]

Very nice! Thank you for your comment and info!

[@benaiahhendrickson9850]

thanks

[@horacioacosta6232]

Simple solution.. use 4 to 6 trees from Silva to power the small generators with the auto arm... or add smelter to get carbon. 1 organic/carbon every 10(4)/8.33(6) secs... lots of power and no traveling to other planets.

[@matthewtanner7206]

​​​@@horacioacosta6232wish I had known this...I am a respurcer/Automator, so I need every source of instant resource/power...organic has been my Achilles heel, as it's not extractable, I DID NOT KNOW WHAT THIS TINY THING DOESSS.... pain😢 Organic/carbon is used for practically every chemical in some way too, so plastic, tungsten carbide...it gets heavy to create massive storage systems for my resources!!

[@chidoalex0742]

@@horacioacosta6232 yea i have this exact system with at least 4 small furnaces and like 5 medium generators, 7-6 trees with a lot of tappers each

[@troxonal4473]

I think this is really good for building a base on Atrox. Now instead of having to haul up RTGs, craft a ton of wind/solar power, or manually smelt carbon; you can set up an automated large generator unit for "unlimited" power.

[@OneLastMidnight]

Yes, it changes Atrox completely. No more having to worry about power, but is that a good thing. Atrox was supposed to be a hard planet, and they kind of nerfed it.

[@Daeon108]

@@OneLastMidnight Thats been a ongoing problem with astroneer. They keep making additions that dramatically reduce the difficulty of the game, which in turn kills the feeling of progression. The automation patch reduced difficulty but was sufficently up the tech tree to make sense. The rail update was so OP i've basically stopped using rovers. And now the tapper... Why bother with wind and solar if i can just craft a million free trees and have endless consistent power? The rails & rail car should have required at least t2 resouces and the rail engine t3. The tapper should also be required to use at least T2 resources to be built given how OP it is...

[@h2rv]

@@Daeon108 Hey, could you explain a bit more about the train? I''m new to the game and I decided to get a large rover instead, should I focus on rail and trains?

[@SuperDestroyerFox]

@@h2rvrovers are good for when you will only be going to a place once but you don’t even need to steer trains once you get them set up. The rails also come in bundles like tethers.

[@kevjp5987]

The RTG is dead, long live the medium generator

[@JapaAppa]

good riddance

[@Blueberry45854]

Rtg pretty much useless now

[@kevjp5987]

It's a real shame, power was somewhat balanced when I got the game, wind and solar had great output but would stop at times, generators required constant mining, batteries needed recharging and RTGs were extremely expensive for little output. QT RTG hadn't been invented yet and even when it was it was quest reward only.

[@NuclearFissionDotCore]

im too lazy to automate give me the rtg materials

[@Drefar]

Large Platform B and auto arm reaching 4 medium storage and 4 trees with 6 tappers (2 of those tappers produce organic at half but then you won't run out of power) and 4 small gens you are basically never gonna use more power if you are a casual player. Automatic research is the best; just get a lot of trees and a lot of auto arms and make it auto research while eating or something else like sleeping.

[@OneLastMidnight]

Right!

[@Cloudz_Wt]

i watched my first ever tutorial vid for astroneer 2 years ago on this channel and upto today i still love this guy

[@barsozuguler4300]

Bytes shouldn't be a issue once you can craft large rover and storage silo B. Go to glacio and harvest much research object and boxes many as possible. They give 2k or 3k per item form special boxes. They can be opened by energy by the rover and often ammonium item

[@crasymuse]

I think the point is to get as much as you can in early game 🤔

[@OneLastMidnight]

Yes @crasymuse. You win the cookie!

[@BrianRutherford-o7i]

Yes as always i find your videos very helpful.thanks for letting me now about the Tapper update.right now i do not have internet so you are my astroneer news outlet.

[@OneLastMidnight]

Thanks for watching!

[@Thoriumplatypus5263]

“You might not want to do something like this.” I’m totally going to do something like this.

[@TheKnightArgent]

Very comprehensive! I would suggest adding chapter markers in the future.

[@OneLastMidnight]

Heard, and thanks for watching!

[@hankith3490]

I just started a new save today and i was wondering what it did now i have a power solution and i got to watch ypur great video

[@OneLastMidnight]

Glad it helped!

[@copi4766]

This might seem like a RTG Kill but Remeber You got Tapper + 2 Arms + 1 Furnace + X amount of generator working And at a small scale this might not seem a lot but when more amount of these exist the more the lag Which is why RTG is better cause its just 1 object

[@lorenzogiuliani3724]

If I'm not mistaken you can craft dynamite automatically now, so you can scrap that. Edit: no sadly you can't, it explodes immediately (same with fireworks)

[@OneLastMidnight]

LOL, right. Tested that when they added dynamite to the game. The result is rather explosive. :P

[@benaiahhendrickson9850]

Power configurations will be crazy

[@OneLastMidnight]

Right!

[@bunker1213]

I love to use the tapper when I'm setting up a new auto extractor. Apart from the auto extractor, an auto arm and the (3-4) tappers I dont need to bring anything because I can produce the rest (platforms, medium storage small generators and even a small printer) with resin and compound on the spot. On Sylva, I just use 3-4 plumefirs to sustain the power for an auto extractor and auto arm for the power. The plumefirs also give 2 seeds around half the time, so I could start with just 1 seed in a pinch or if Im underground and harvest a few cycles. It has made power production and distribution so much easier when all auto extractors are self-sufficient islands from a power perspective.

[@OneLastMidnight]

It really changed the power game.

[@SusannaSaunders]

Btw, just 4 of the the Atrox honeypot plants is sufficientlyfast to run 3 x 12 medium generators on a platform...

[@FADGhost70]

For bytes just go to Atrox set up Power with the tapper. Then just research gases. It is Fully automated and works off planet too.

[@OneLastMidnight]

Yup, that is a good way to get bites. A little mid-game though.

[@FADGhost70]

@ Nah you literally can do it in the first 30 minutes of game time.

[@thovenach]

This gave me so many ideas to automate my base. Thank you.

[@OneLastMidnight]

You are welcome!

[@SusannaSaunders]

Thanks Midnight. Great walk through on the tapper.

[@barsozuguler4300]

I am able to generate power on atrox reliable other than rtg generators but i will implant this system with smelters and medium generator as soon as I'm back in the game

[@OneLastMidnight]

Yeah, the organics plants really changed the game.

[@Harry_Crypt]

this is very interesting how to do stuff with the tapper... im a little bit dump wit the storage sensor and all the other button things :/

[@OneLastMidnight]

I hope the video helped.

[@D.L2011]

The thing that interest me the most is that you can have infinite power

[@OneLastMidnight]

Well... You get infinite power with the RTG, but this is free power early!

[@Astrobotl84]

​@@OneLastMidnightthe rtg takes resources harder to make, and now we have an infinite organic generator, with our setup it's a generator without the problem of getting tons of nanocarbon alloy.

[@Daeon108]

@@Astrobotl84 Its dumb how they are removing the need to have or want RTGs. The balance of the game is way off 😞. I mean you can always make the choice not to use something or to use something base on prefrence.. but still this seems OP and not very rewarding to use.

[@Astrobotl84]

​@@Daeon108RTG can still be important. The RTG takes up less space and work to set up, aside from nano carbon alloy. If you gather enough resources at a time, you can get lots of nano carbon alloy for the late game without the need for twenty lines of power generation, it's much simpler.

[@christopher3471]

i like to use a large shredder and small canisters as a good source of scrap i get around 35 scrap per 15 min

[@OneLastMidnight]

NicEEEEE!

[@puhstigger]

thanks for all this infos - have great eastern

[@OneLastMidnight]

Thanks, and thank you for watching!

[@killmouseky4740]

Thanks Midnight…I have 3 medium generators running being feed my 4 Tappers.

[@OneLastMidnight]

Excellent!

[@backupsdfdf]

Im playing this and the other updates just now. Now I think I can beat the unbeatable mode

[@OneLastMidnight]

Right!

[@dam_ly]

I just got back to playing after years away, might have been before 1.0! I came up with the tree farm early on and have 2 trees, burnt to carbon, feeding 2 generators and 4 labs easily, could probably double the buildings and still be fine with 2 trees less if I use faster producing ones(which I didn't know were a thing!). Probably needs to be nerfed 😄Researching carbon is the way to go since you never have to spend time on second resource runs!

[@ratheonhudson3311]

I really hope we get to harvest resin front some trees. Rubber trees in real life would be the equivalent. Wait... That means rubber trees! Hmm

[@OneLastMidnight]

Or something different.

[@000phoenix00092000]

i hope they introduce one sort of plant pot. First of all i'm terrible with plant in the terrain , secondary with a "normal" item it will be possible to make full automatic farm and even mobile farm. Basically with this update we have infinite power ... we can build an infinite power vehicle. i Hope for more time of "infinite" item like this, i really enjoy the hallowee pumpkin special seeds but they don't have so much sense. At the time i make an automated factory with a loot of sensor but only for rewards

[@OneLastMidnight]

Pots that make a mini version of the plant would be very cool.

[@OneLastMidnight]

I sent the idea of planters to System Era for you and gave you credit for the idea. Cheers!

[@000phoenix00092000]

@@OneLastMidnight Woo thank a lot !

[@000phoenix00092000]

@@OneLastMidnight bonsai plants xD

[@novabell6482]

Theoretically, if we turned the organic into glowsticks and scrapped them, couldnt we get unlimited scrap and thus unlimited resources?

[@OneLastMidnight]

Sadly, no. Glowsticks can only be created on the backpack. System Era would need to move glowsticks to the small printer for early game unlimited scrap. I highly doubt they will because it is to OP.

[@juicebaux]

Could also be plucking research bytes from a stem and slow trickling research on atrox. Self powered. Slow but maintenance free.

[@OneLastMidnight]

For sure, and I have covered those methods in my research methods videos. This was to find something to do with the tapper besides power.

[@chidoalex0742]

ooooooooh, i thought the rates changed because of the planet not because of the plant, ive installed a lot of trees of sylva to do this while i have an atrox plant just sitting there, i feel kinda stupid for never using that one

[@OneLastMidnight]

Thanks for watching!

[@pieplay]

The tool description needs a change on this tool. I didn't know what tapping meant, but they use it as a noun, adjective and verb.

[@OneLastMidnight]

Yeah, some of there stuff isn't worded very well.

[@youbetterdoit971]

One last Midnight quick question Do you think system era is going to release a sequel to astroneer?

[@OneLastMidnight]

I would hope, but no idea.

[@rolandvdvorst2431]

why does anyone want to use organic if you can early use a Q RTG for power in the quest line? imo this is uselles :/ but still great video, love it :D

[@OneLastMidnight]

If you don't do the missions I'm not sure when you get your first QRTG. There are so many different ways to play Astroneer. One of the great things about it.

[@Thoriumplatypus5263]

This was quite useful for automating the new event. If only there was a way to automate loading. I’m practically drowning in .

[@OneLastMidnight]

I need to get started on this event!

[@Thoriumplatypus5263]

@@OneLastMidnight I already had an automated scrap set up in my save file, so it was easy for me to set up the rest.

[@LEROYCHAT]

So how so you craft it?

[@Rak0705]

in backpack printer with aluminium, but u need research it first with 1000 points

[@robofalke9492]

how do i move the tree ?

[@OneLastMidnight]

Harvest it and replant it.

[@robofalke9492]

@@OneLastMidnight so they changed it... (the last timei played i was not able to harvest a tree (2years ago))

[@North-Korea]

thank you!

[@NikolozParulava-j9y]

2:14

[@jackdowning6804]

Organic to glowsticks to scrap!!! Renewable scrap

[@OneLastMidnight]

Not automated though. :(

[@000phoenix00092000]

@@OneLastMidnight i dont play for a long, glowstick is one organic right ? automatic arm doesn't move it for scrap ? what's the problem

[@OneLastMidnight]

@@000phoenix00092000 Glowsticks can only be printed on the backpack, and backpack printing can not be automated. Already talked to the devs about adding it to the small printer. We will have to wait and see it they change it.

[@000phoenix00092000]

@@OneLastMidnight as i say i don't play for long time , now i got the problem Thanks for explaination 😅

[@DanielKuligowski-y4o]

I think the tapper should extract tree sap, a.k.a. resin

[@OneLastMidnight]

Agreed!

[@DanielKuligowski-y4o]

@@OneLastMidnight though it might be too op since you could automate scrap like that

[@saulnunez7592]

Mi putisimo padre, le debo la vida

[@gabrielgiovanni69]

This new update doesnt interest me at all. Its been like this since we finally got a true end game. I miss reasons to play and this definitely isnt one of them.

[@Samisgood478]

Plenty of new missions being added as well as constant events including a really important one happening rn

[@OneLastMidnight]

The updates for Spring and Summer will be small with a large update happening at the end of the year. It will be interesting to see what the expansion will include.

[@Blueberry45854]

@@OneLastMidnightdo we need to pay for expansion?

[@OneLastMidnight]

@@Blueberry45854 Not sure, but this is the first time they called an update an "expansion". Since they were sold and need to make money, IMHO, I think it will be a paid update. Hope I'm wrong.

[@robertrobitaille3174]

First :D

[@OneLastMidnight]

Cookie for you!

[@MarijnRoorda]

Wow,... A whole update, and we got some flowers and a tapper? And some miscellaneous junk? Meh!

[@OneLastMidnight]

They said at the beginning of the year Spring and Summer are going to be small, and the expansion will be the big drop.

[@Serenjyn]

@@OneLastMidnight I bought Astroneer in May of 2019. The devs have continued to release free updates, big and small, since then. I don’t know how they do it but I appreciate their work.