Thorned_Rose

My spouse and I had a lot of trouble getting this one. No matter what we did, we couldn't get any of the Alluring Specimens to count (or even find them easily). After a lot of searching the internet and finding a lot of other people having the same problem, I thought I would share what we ended up doing in case it helps anyone else.

First, go to the same system as Dropzone 4/Phase 4. (We found that it wouldn't work at all for us until we were in this system).

Do Dropzone 4 (and Infestation Delta if you want). The planet (Azuzuma F38) that Dropzone 4 is on has an ocean. Go somewhere that has a decent amount of deep water, as far out into the ocean as you can manage (the place I was had a LOT of small islands so I just chose an open spot in the middle of them).

Dive down and look at your scanner. You want to find the red Alluring Specimen pin. You might need to hunt around a bit to find your first or maybe you'll get lucky like me and your first is right where you land.

Head to it and you'll see a cup-shaped rock type thing. If it looks like this... Note that it has several 'Anglerfish style lures' coming out of it (green ball things on the end of the curved line). You need to get close to it (don't worry nothing happens until you 'pick it') until it turns to E interact and then pick it a bit like you would oxygen out of hazardous flora. They gave me Hadal Cores.

The NMS style nightmare Anglerfish that comes out will appear on any of the glowing green ball interacts. It could appear on the first one you pick or the last. Be prepared.

We didn't find it particularly troublesome to kill. But it does get all up in your grill making it hard to shoot. You can use any weapon you want but I personally found the scatterblaster the fastest.

One you've taken down your first, you move onto the next red Alluring Specimen pin. The first one I did, didn't count but the second did. The only difference was that my spouse and I tried to take the first one out together.

The second one worked fine if we were more than about 150-200u apart. So this is something you should do either single player or at least separately if in a group.

The way we found the next Alluring Specimen was to go exactly North or South away from the one we found. I do not know if Alluring Specimens adhere to the NMS planetary ley lines but it's what I do anyway to find the same of something.

It took me about one oxygen refill (using Candle Kelp so I didn't have to surface) and/or a full jetpack boost before I could scan and see another red Alluring Specimen pin. Given that YMMV depending on modules, this may be different for you. The only modules I had were ones I picked up from milestones and along the way so nothing special.

At any rate, rinse and repeat twice after the first pin/specimen and you should have all three for the milestone to pop for you :)

Safe journey travellers!

Aside: Does anyone know if using the holiday/fireworks flak launchers (e.g. Winking Cat) works with the raw materials brain tree method?

This is not for me but for family and friends who are mostly oblivious to privacy issues. I can generally steer them towards more privacy orientated software but not for anti-virus/malware. I know prevention is better than cure and altering behaviour to avoid them to start with is the best defence but I cannot for the life of me understand how some family end up with so damn much malware on their PCs. They're not going to change their behaviour any time soon, if ever. So antivirus it is.

Apart from ClamAV, is there any anti-malware software that respects privacy? Paid is fine (since most are already paying anyway).

Note: This is NOT the rewards eggs. These three eggs are from critters that I found out in the wild, fed, petted and looked after until they were ready to drop an egg. Only it's not letting me transfer any companion eggs, regardless of the source.

Usually on expeditions, if I come across an interesting or cute critter that I want on my main save, I'll get an egg from it and, after the expedition has ended, pass the egg(s) to my spouse (we always play expeditions multiplayer together), reload into my main save and have him transfer back to me.

With this expedition and the new transfer mechanics, we were celebrating not having to do the giving each other stuff and reloading to transfer. Only, I can't transfer eggs that I got from creatures along the way. We started the expedition from our main saves (to see what that was like) rather than starting a new save like we used to.

We also tried the method of me passing the eggs to spouse, swapping to the main save and then spouse giving them back but that doesn't work because as soon as he tries to join my game, it starts the expedition for him again.

Is there any way I can transfer these? Or is my only recourse to back track through a heaps of systems to the planets I got these critters from and get the portal glyphs to then travel there after I've swapped back to my main save? :/

EDIT; I also just noticed I can't transfer the Memories either - I usually like to keep these sorts of things in storage containers as 'souvenirs' of expeditions :(

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A MOUNTAIN OF STAIRS! 150 flights and one thousand, eight hundred WHOLE STAIRS that go 625u high!

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Decided that for the Voyagers Expedition, rather than climbing a 625u high mountain, I would stair climb my way to 625u. It took a long arse time to build all these platforms and stairs as I climbed them as I was building them! Rendezvous 2 planet - Leyc X42 in the Sivikmiyn I system, coords +25.85, +146.50 (so long as the base loads lol). My fastest time is 3:01.04