Crashed Freighter

Crashed Freighter is a Point of Interest.

Summary

Crashed Freighter

Crashed Freighter is a Shelter type of planetary Point of Interest.

Crashed freighters can be located after solving a puzzle at a Transmission Tower, upon activating a Planetary Chart (Emergency Cartographic Data), or by normal exploration. Through the use of tools such as the Terrain Manipulator, Plasma Launcher, or Geology Cannon, you can uncover storage units that contain Nanite Clusters, units, or valuable products, with the exact possible contents varying based on whether abandoned mode is active for the current save. Each crashed freighter has a Distress Beacon that will grant a blueprint and start the secondary mission. Note that the containers can emit deadly radiation that goes past any protection measures, although it can be cut off by entering a Minotaur power suit or retreating to a safe distance.

Also, Minotaur Distress signal scans with the Minotaur Radar Array can some times locate a crashed Freighter.

They can often be spotted on the surface without any hints due to their giant silhouette and appear in average frequency.

They can also be found underwater, with slightly different cargo pod locations, by utilising a Nautilon's High-Power Sonar.

Repair

The cargo pod has a set of randomly chosen junk resources which will need to be removed to open the pod (formerly a randomly chosen Damaged Component which would need to be repaired to open the pod). All cargo pods located at the same Crashed Freighter will have the same set of junk resources (formerly the same Damaged Component).

See: Damaged Component#Points of Interest

Additional Information

• Sometimes a secondary mission will appear in your log to search for six containers at a crash site. It can be removed from the log by opening all six containers or manually abandoning the mission.
• Different from a Crashed Ship; you can't recover a crashed freighter.
• One or more of the storage containers may be inaccessible without excavation. As well, some containers may be inaccessible without breaking through weakened walls of Reinforced Steel with melee or weaponry.
• The first sighting of a crashed freighter was on the planet Quidar II, feature in one of the Pre-release videos.
• In a tutorial-enabled save, the player learns the Hyperdrive blueprint from a Crashed Freighter's distress beacon during the Awakenings mission.

Bugs

• Sometimes the marker for a Crashed Freighter that is found through a Transmission Tower or with the Signal Booster will not be cleared when you access the distress beacon. Using the Signal Booster to find a Drop Pod will clear the marker. However, this may take you back to a Drop Pod you've already found.
• Sometimes you can not access all the cargo-pods the freighter contains because the one at the far end of the freighter gets stuck in indestructable terrain.

Release history

• Atlas Rises - Added as a game component.
• Atlas Rises 1.35 - Completed freighter salvage missions will no longer be incorrectly re-added to the mission log.
• Atlas Rises 1.37 - Acid, Carbon, Circuit Board, Coprite, Fungal Mould, Gamma Root, Heat Capacitor, Heridium, Lubricant, Plutonium, Thamium9 and Zinc added for repairing, formerly Iron was required.
• NEXT
  • Fixed crashed freighters having underground treasure too low to mine down to.
  • Hidden changes: A Damaged Component needs to be repaired, formerly various resources and products were required. Multiple models added for the crashed freighter, previously there was only one.
• Visions - Crashed freighters are now procedurally generated, with dozens of possible configurations. Allowed the torch to be used when exploring them.
• Relics - In abandoned mode, crashed freighter containers can now contain additional valuable upgrades.

Gallery

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  Cargo Pod after NEXT (repair system changed)
• 
  Crashed Venator on Tryol, Beta Polaris (Visions)
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  Repair panel for the cargo pod
  (NEXT)
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  Crashed Freighter storage container excavated by using the Terrain Manipulator.
  (Atlas Rises)
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  A Crashed Freighter on a lush planet
  (Atlas Rises)

Video

Transmission Towers & Crashed Freighters