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| == Container Collection == | | == Container Collection == |
| Once you’ve successfully hacked the system, the loot is yours! Unfortunately, there’s a catch: for whatever reason, everything kept inside the container is simply jettisoned into space at this point, and you’ll have to act fast to tractor it into your cargo hold before it disappears. | | Once you’ve successfully hacked the system, the loot is yours! Prior to the Kronos update, explorers had to quickly collect the loot components from cans that spewed from the exploration structure into space, before they disappeared. Thankfully, Kronos changed this so that hacked structures turn into simple, stationary containers that you can loot at will. Data and Relic structures contain different types of loot: |
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| [[File:Hacking_minicont.jpg|300px|thumb|left|“Mini” loot containers being ejected after a successful hack]]
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| After completing the hack, zoom out from your ship a bit and you should see a handful of green cross icons radiating out from the now-hacked container. These are small loot packages, and single-clicking any one of them will automatically zip it into your cargo hold over the course of a second or two. '''You can only grab one container of loot at a time, and only if they are within 3000 m''', so be sure to stay close to the cloud of packages as it travels outward from the container. You can maneuver around while tractoring loot in: double-clicking on one of the packages will automatically have your ship approach it.
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| These loot containers come in several types: '''Materials Containers, Parts Containers, Equipment Containers, Data Containers and Scraps Containers'''. Each contains a different assortment of loot, so how do you know which ones to grab? That’s where the Cargo Scanner that you’ve fitted to your ship comes in! '''Before starting a hack on a container, use your Cargo Scanner on it.''' This will bring up a list of items that you can receive as loot from the container. Each type of loot will be ejected into space in a particular type of container, so once you know what is inside the soon-to-be hacked receptacle, you’ll know what types of containers you should grab for once they are ejected into space!
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| Note that, occasionally, the cargo scanner will come up empty. This means that the object you're trying to hack contains no valuable loot whatsoever, and is probably not worth your time to hack.
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| '''EXAMPLE:''' You are in a Data Site and are approaching a Guristas Info Shard. You use your Cargo Scanner on it reports back that there is 1 Esoteric Symmetry inside, which is a valuable Decryptor. Exciting! Checking the guide below, you’ll see that Decryptors are ejected in Parts Containers, so once you successfully hack this Info Shard, you’ll know to grab as many Parts Containers as you can!
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| The cargo hold icon at the bottom middle of your ship HUD will display what was inside each container as you tractor it in, so you can watch on the fly which pieces of valuable loot you’ve managed to find.
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| === Container Legend ===
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| Each type of “mini” loot container will contain a default loot item if it does not contain an item from your Cargo Scan in it. These are essentially “booby prizes”. Note that failing a single hack attempt will cause more mini loot containers to show up ''without changing the amount of loot found inside the hackable container''. What this means is that failing a hack will make it harder to tractor in the valuable loot out of a container, and make it much more likely that you’ll get the booby prizes listed below.
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| * Data Containers
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| ** Data Sheets
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| * Equipment Containers
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| ** Hydrogen Batteries
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| * Material Containers
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| ** Carbon
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| * Parts Containers
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| ** Electronic Parts
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| * Scraps Containers
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| ** Metal Scraps
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| If a mini loot container does not contain a default loot item, however, it’ll have an appropriate item from the hackable container’s Cargo Scan, which is more often than not an item of value! [http://cache.preserve.io/4oxyc8h9/index.html This website] (''since [http://neural-boost.com/minicontainer-loot-distribution the original site] is down I took the liberty of linking to a cached version of it, however I have no idea how long it's going to be up'') has done a great job in the early post-Odyssey days of tracking which type of container contain what sorts of loot, and the author can personally confirm a lot of its findings. For the purposes of keeping everything in one place, though, its site listing will be duplicated below.
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| Note that Spatial Attunement Units may show up in any mini container. They are more frequently found in Relic sites. | | Note that Spatial Attunement Units may show up in any mini container. They are more frequently found in Relic sites. |
