BEST Power Source in Astroneer!

[@DrZuppermann]

Its power output actually varies from planet to planet. Ones on Calidor double the value. And with railroads introduced it's even affordable to place and connect 2 of these on the opposite points of a planet for 24/7 power flow.

[@greywolf9783]

Just 3-5 Rail containers(10 rails each) worth

[@jackattack5351]

I made 400 rtgs in my world so i have the best power source

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Correct.

[@themidgetmenace-3758]

💀

[@migm8370]

But it costs the most important resource Your time

[@YourAverageBoneLabEnjoyer]

@@migm8370what is that profile

[@migm8370]

@@YourAverageBoneLabEnjoyer THE ALL MIGHTY LOAF

[@ThisGuy30867]

"How can I be as cool as you?" "You can't" Can't argue with that

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

I like to think of myself as a logical genius.

[@sir_charles_iii5154]

VTOL makes it a bit easier to move around. If you find it shifting when it is placed you can lock it in place with winch on a platform.

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

How are the physics? Better than the rover I hope.

[@sir_charles_iii5154]

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer It doesn't do an orbiting swing while flying like most winched items but you have to ascend to a higher altitude to prevent tree snags.

[@greywolf9783]

Also makes it easier to find

[@KangarBoaten]

In the new update you can probably use the Eva pet to fly up while holding the winch

[@T1A4437]

​@@worldclassjerk-epicgamerit flies 3m off the ground maybe higher

[@danyelavila6826]

Well, now tappers and portable smelters broke the game.

[@albratgaming2348]

Better renewable power source.. 2 Tappers - 2 plants - 1 Smelter - 4 Medium Generators - 2 Autoarms - 2 Large B platforms. Gather the organic from the plants. Autoarm into smelter and make carbon. Burn Carbon in Medium Generator. Expand as needed. Takes 7 power to run and outputs 36 power in total. Meaning it has a net gain of 29U power. If you add a storage in the middle it produces more carbon that it uses so you could (with the right plants and a second smelter.) run multiple banks of generators off 2 plants. All automated and once started will always run enough to smelt carbon.. as 1 gen = +9 U power and the smelter runs on -5U. Also a bonus is that 4 medium gens on a Large Platform B... Is enough to start every Gateway.36 power / sec and 1 carbon each = enough to start 2 gateways on all planets

[@Sunburst_YT]

As someone who spend around 30 minutes creating a farm of 32 batteries paired with 5 extra large wind turbines and much more. I can say 32 units of power a second output is fine to me as the power stays in the batteries for a while and holds in total over 1000 units. I think the input is around 85 units a second from the 5 big turbines alone so imo it’s pretty op, since the solar panels only work at daytime no matter where you are. Thus needed the 2 solar panels or one at the littlest light deficit on the planet, which can be way more hassle than just batteries. I may be just tapping and grieving that I have a smaller output, or that I just found a simpler way to do it.

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

Solar panels in astroneer : I require increasingly more and complex ingredients the larger I get Solar panels in space engineers : I'm made of silicone, nickel and iron, I am dirt cheap and easy to spam

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

The Astroneer situation is even worse since you can spam small ones to overcome their being worse and it’s ultimately easier than making the larger ones.

[@LydieCakes]

Wow. I had no idea these darn things worked. Schooled today. Thanks

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

:D

[@komando620]

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer Saw em once, even used one to charge my car but i never got the idea to actually take it to my base and use it for power.

[@HuslWusl]

I like spamming 24 small wind turbines on 12 medium storage silos connected to 4 large storage silos B for around 1728u/s. Sure takes some time to set up, but it's easy to transport and ceramic is literally dirt and cheap

[@robotthom1otherwiseduck628]

One minute in, i love this guy. Subscribed with notifs.

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

This fact is very fun.

[@FireGaming-gs4ze]

I found two of them at the same spot near my base

[@potatous4594]

My base is at one of the poles of sylva so i made lots of solar arrays put them upside down and now it produces constant power

[@skelebungus]

Never seen your content before but I love your personality. Your channel is videos, entertaining, engaging and informative.

[@anonymos.videos]

I always build a tower with those elevation blocks. They place soil for you in a cubic shape and if you press it over and over again you create tower. Just build this tower right above the south pole and place on every of the 4 sides the xl solar panels. Then you have all the time as much energy as you want. Just extend the tower and place more solars if you're short on power. And if you reach the build limit but want more solars then just make the tower wider. Instead of 1x1 make it 3x3 or 6x6. Then you can place much more solars per side per height level. Easy

[@DjCronics]

I have these panels and they are actually the best. It's a pity that it can't be packed.

[@kyleshaffer9846]

Another idea place train rails across whole planet then put energy producers across whole world

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Double whammy.

[@JamesCoffey-hk2tw]

The winch technique by hand is actually really easy

[@greywolf9783]

Sadly this is the single rarest of the structures I have found

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

It’s sorta rare but I would guess that every world has a couple at least.

[@coganaj]

4:55 Looks like the Nintendo Switch version of Astroneer because of the floating gateway chamber well above ground level. PC version of Astroneer has gateway chambers on ground, and on some planets, even partly covered by terrain.

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Idk how I got a world with them in the air, but it's so convenient for true flat building. I wish I could replicate it, but for now I just copy that save and use it for others when I want to build on true flat.

[@DistracticusPrime]

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer I'm just on my first play through, so please correct me if I'm wrong. I put my third base up on the roof of a gateway, and used the Alignment mod to put a flat, level floor up there. They don't match up! One side is flush, the other side is up or down a few inches. Either the Alignment mod is not very accurate (which would explain some of my other problems), or else the Gateway Alien Architect Legendary Builders need to invent the bubble level.

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

@@DistracticusPrime You are basically correct that the alignment mod isn't totally accurate, but if you'd like to know more, I have written a ridiculously long but hopefully easy to understand explanation below. The way the alignment mod works doesn't allow you to cleanly make a large area level. Even though the alignment mod is always lined up with the planet's curvature, when you try to flatten out a large area with it, it ends up doing so at slightly varying elevations, making the terrain somewhat inconsistent and lumpy. Also, even if the alignment mod was perfectly accurate with regards to making large areas aligned with the planet's curvature, the area you create would still not be flush with the gateway because the gateway is flat, meaning the curvature alignment of the alignment mod would eventually curve down, whereas the gateway would just go straight. This wouldn't be noticeable on huge planets, but it is in Astroneer because the planets are small enough to see curvature even across short distances.

[@DistracticusPrime]

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer Good stuff, thank you! I suspected the gateways aren't level, or even aligned to themselves, because I tried to make a nice floor up there in several ways. Each method ended up with height errors. Even if I turned off the alignment mod and used the regular flat surface mode, starting from the gateway rooftop itself, I still ended up with a step at the other side. At one corner, I could actually see the blue gateway piece not even lined up with the adjoining piece. Later on, I learned about true flat, and how to use the leveling block near gateways to make a good reference point. It is a game, after all, and I shouldn't expect them to perfect every little seam when there are more interesting things to get done.

[@jonathanamerica2559]

So you can find a abandoned platform and just run connections to the cores sense it's enough

[@thatpiguy314]

I never thought I'd find a space cowboy. Thought wrongggg

[@fruitsalad5036]

it would be cool if we could send satellites into space

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Yeah. I wonder how that could be useful though.

[@fruitsalad5036]

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer could be a quest that unlocks something

[@ThisGuy30867]

Maybe if we bully the devs enough it will work

[@fruitsalad5036]

@@ThisGuy30867 perhaps...

[@chipproductions1510]

NO DYSON SPHERES IN THE HALLS

[@lunar.1-y1i]

Sorry that im missing all your videos :( school is giving lots of homework

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

It’s all good. School has slowed my uploading too lol.

[@RoRvzzz]

Me with one QT-RTG😭

[@robertnett9793]

I operate the whole Vesnia base - including a railway to that stupid MAT on 1 QT-RTG, 2 small generators and a wind turbine I happen to found on site. Can tell you, traveling half the distance from one monolith to the next (that's where the MAT is located) is a real treat, as you have a whole lot of time taking in the landscape when crawling at snails pace...

[@komando620]

@@robertnett9793 just get the hoverboard, portable oxygenator and 2 QT-RTG's then just land close to the MAT and keep giving the stuff to it

[@cvjlmaker9890]

Ah a nice video thank you WCJ

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

🦾🍺👍 (idk what I mean by this)

[@Sans12787]

I have 60 medium batteries that equal 30720 power units

[@zekebrunt]

ha, I get 80 u/s from my 120 field shelters...

[@collinkaufman2316]

The only time i used this was when it only made 4,27 power but at the time that wasn't that bad

[@koi3824]

idk why nobody talks about this, easily the best way to move huge objects is just with a hoverboard sometimes paired with a hydrazine jetpack if the terrain requires it

[@komando620]

Amen brother

[@rdb2120]

I found Two Wrecked Solar Arrays on Calidor and they're very close to each other so I'm moving my main base to Calidor im gonna be getting 112.0 u/s x2 (Update) I found a third one

[@MagicZ_YT]

My Rtg,s killed my pc so uh maby i whent too extreme whit 1000 of them

[@DoughnutBS]

So uhh I found one on Desolo that outputted 92 ish units of power

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Different planets have different rates of solar/wind output.

[@retri1116]

WCJ friend avatar is space core in game portal 2

[@megamango3216]

You could also use a vtol much easier

[@jacobosborn8435]

I have subscribed

[@HTMN-1]

I have over 1000 power at my base on Calidor with 6 of these and a bunch of batteries

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Sounds epic.

[@Frontier_Rifleman]

My most recent save spawned me next to one so my power isses were solved before they even began

[@gavin5410]

Had anyone ever had problems with this wrecked solar panel shifting around, or even unloading, or glitching through terrain?

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

I've had rovers do this a bit when I leave the planet and come back. Probably just an issue with the game in general.

[@komando620]

Yeah the game gets a skill issue when you leave the planet and tends to send your stuff to brazil

[@rekkylaws6679]

Nah this alternatives are very cheap, it just costs soil to make it with the smallest solars

[@ThorStone214]

Your channel is growing to fast

[@oliviermorin2708]

No the best power source is a big stockage full of tiny solar panels and girouette and small battery😂😂😂 it is 3 time more powerful than the big solar panel😂😂😂 12 girouette 6 tiny solar panel 6 small battery

[@drizzy-zf3zx]

why cant you just use buildable ones at the area of infinite power

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

You can

[@abcdefghijk9499]

did they patch it to find that big solar panel ?? i can ´t find it anywhere ??

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

It should still exist. You might have less in your world by means of crap luck. You should have a few at least. Perhaps they're hidden well.

[@austind1311]

How can I find it I've been looking forever

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

I’m not sure. I think I’ve seen more on mountains and in forests than anywhere else, but I don’t know if that’s always how it works.

[@davidcostin2434]

You look diffrent

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

I expanded my wardrobe.

[@GoopySoupy-r5x]

How can you find it?

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

I find it mostly on mountains and in forests.

[@Flounder_V3]

Can I find this on calidor????

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Not sure.

[@toyotox10]

i still havent found one of these things all i find are the ones not compatible :(

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Might be a bad save. They can be hard to find too though.

[@toyotox10]

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer how long have these been implemented in the game since the beginning or recent? My save is quite old otherwise id be looking for nothing lol

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

I believe it’s a few years old. I remember it from quite a bit back.

[@alexbruh6940]

Where do i can found theme

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Huh?

[@alexbruh6940]

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer sorry for bad english 😂 Where does i can found them Because i was turning around sylva for 1 hour and i didn't found one

[@lectrolytus228]

that's false. the true best power source is a crap ton of small wind turbines on glacio. the planet is constantly windy and the turbines can be easily mass produced with a soil centrifuge

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Definitely better with regard to overall output. The metric is used for this video, however, was output as a singular device, as opposed to a collection of smalls (hence the section about making an array of small solars to put out the same amount of power in a smaller area).

[@retri1116]

That awesome but... RTG.

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Hard to say. Probably RTG late game, but these solars are so powerful for how easy they are to get.

[@matthewtanner7206]

This is just sad...why fight with that thing when you could just build a solar ring at the pole in the same amount of time and tears it took to that that thing in place...auto extractors and auto research is NOT that hard...i agree that arrays and large solar are useless when you can fit more solar on a silo, but just put those silos in a ring around that same spot you put the stupid wreck piece...so much easier Amd on planets with high wind, medium turbines on same silo are even better!

[@mr_no0bthereal239]

werent these removed?

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

I don't think so.

[@CabbageRoyale]

But how do you find one?

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

They’re just on the ground. I found mine in forests and on mountains.

[@thegamingboy-hn8vm]

I have 1500000 u/s

[@joaovittorislands7044]

😂😂😂😂

[@derekmoll1498]

Imagine insulting everyone right at the end of the video. At least he didn't ask for a sub too.

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Silver lining.

[@InservioLetum]

A full minute of waffle before the actual topic of the video, even begins. It's like an unskippable ad in many ways.

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

By the 1 minute mark, I already revealed multiple properties of the wrecked solar and explained how the video will be structured. I simply disagree with your analysis. This video is, in fact, probably too short, imo, to do this thing justice. Since making this video, I’ve found that videos do better when I take more time to explain things thoroughly.

[@InservioLetum]

@@worldclassjerk-epicgamer Fair enough, if you considered it and disagree, I can respect that and do value your feedback. To me this felt like a situation I think we've both been in, a meeting that should have been an email. For me personally this whole video boils down to a picture of a crashed solar array next to a small medium and large player-built ones, with yield numbers for each. I'm by nature a reader and wiki enthusiast, so the mistake as mine in selecting the wrong medium to ask. Thank you for taking the time mate, very nice to see. Have a wonderful rest of your day.

[@worldclassjerk-epicgamer]

Thank you as well. Always good to have civilized disagreements. :D

[@Frontier_Rifleman]

My most recent save spawned me next to one so my power isses were solved before they even began

[@Nikolaus-m6m]

where can i find it ?

[@Frontier_Rifleman]

My most recent save spawned me next to one so my power isses were solved before they even began