Once you unlock the portal generator, you can use quartz crystals to open a portal to procedurally generated spaceship wrecks and a random biome environment. Inside the portal you can find chests scattered around the map and inside the wrecks. You can find different types of quartz needed to unlock portal maps and there are also many new items that are only available from the wrecks. Portal maps can also be a good source of rare resources including Terra Tokens (around 10,000-20,000 per map), Fuses and Super-alloy Rods etc., but do not have common resources like iron or titanium.
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| Active Portal and Wreck Scanning Station | |
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| Wreck Scanner UI |
Wrecks have a list of quartz needed to open the portal, a rarity and a difficulty. The rarity refers to the quality of the loot obtainable (higher rarity portals also often require more quartz to access) and the difficulty indicates how many safes can be found in the wreck's main vault. More safes mean more access keys needed to open the vault, which means a larger wreck.
All procedural wrecks have a nuclear reactor which generally requires 1 fusion energy cell to unlock more rooms with safes. There may also be passages that are blocked and require explosives to open.
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| Random Portal Map |
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| Underwater Procedural Wreck |
Portal maps can be huge and may have more than one wreck! Wrecks can also be underwater so you may need oxygen capsules. The most wrecks I have seen in one map is 3. You can leave the map (to empty your bags or get more food/water etc.) and come back until you manually close the portal at the wreck scanner.
You can find flares in portal maps that are useful for marking where you have been. Once placed, you can change the colour of the flare. For example, I use green flares to show an area is completed, a red flare to show that I discovered a wreck or chest but haven't finished looting it (maybe bags were full), so need to come back, and a purple flare to show the way towards the exit. You can't build anything inside portal maps, not even storage chests.
Useful Items to Bring on a Portal Expedition:
- Food
- Water
- Oxygen
- Explosives
- Fusion Energy Cell
- Flares
Some of the rare items you can find in procedural wrecks:
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| Fireplace blueprint |
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| Lightbox blueprint |
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| Solar quartz blueprint |
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| Tree Pot blueprint |
As well as:
- Flower seeds (Orema plant, Volnus plant)
- Tree seeds (Tree Iterra, Tree Lillia, Tree Prunea)
- Frog eggs (Jumi frog eggs, Leglus frog eggs)
- Spacesuits (Spacesuit Tureo, Spacesuit Rorao)
- Rare Genetic Traits (species variants, skin patterns, skin pattern colours, bioluminescence, size)
There are a variety of different possible biomes in the portal maps. Here are some of the portal maps I have visited:
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