Astrometica: Essential Guide to Summon Vehicle and Deposit Miner Parts

This guide contains spoilers. You probably are looking at this because you’re missing a fragment, so here they are. This is my first guide.

Problems! Be warned!

Due to the way the game is currently constructed and how the files are saved, there’s a serious issue.

Item scans AND/OR item pickups can be saved retroactively. So if you scan fragments or collect certain items (notably keycards), and then reload an old save the item might be flagged as scanned or collected and NOT SHOW UP in the reloaded save.

So DO NOT go exploring with the intent to reload an older save if something bad happens.

It’s important to note that this is NOT FOR THE DEMO OR PROLOGUE VERSIONS. There are substantial differences, fragments are placed differently.

So there are three parts in total. Used to be four, one was removed in the last update. This will list them off in the order most people are likely to encounter them, based on the distances from your starting shuttle.

First part. This is located outside the ‘Red Cave’. It’s a door in the side of an asteroid with a green glow at the door. It has a signal marker that lists it as the Vehicle Manufacturer Cave.

The part in question is slightly up and to the left of this signal, there’s a large rusted wreck fragment on a ledge. You can see the part to the right side of the fragment in this image (sorry about quality).

Second Part. After you enter the cave, you’ll fight several Nicron (starfish looking aliens). Hit them with the laser tool while backing up, or the scrapper if they grab you. Continue forward past a red mist cloud, the cave will open up into a larger section, you will be up near the roof of the cave at this point. Look down. There’s a container you can open, and behind that (toward the cave entrance direction-wise) is a nook. There is an explosive drone in there that will rush you, and half-buried in the red nodules on the bottom is the second fragment.

These two images show the nook at a distance

And the fragment.

Last part. From the second fragment, continue along the left side of the cave. It leads to an abandoned outpost and the fragment is in plain sight on a metal platform on the right side of this path, as this image shows.

That’s it. If you cannot find any of these parts. refer to the problems section in the intro.

Four parts to this, two are pretty easily missed.

First part is near the Theta-9 signal location. Go straight past the station, there’s a large amount of scrap pieces, containers and attack drones. Near the end of this section is an asteroid shield bubble and what looks like a broken warp gate. The fragment is to the left of the shield bubble, near a large quartz deposit.

The next two are at the yellow shield bubble location, directly in front of it and guarded by several drones again. Note that if you see these fragments and DO NOT scan them, they might not be there on subsequent game reloads. They vanished for me at least.

The last one is tucked away near the warp gate to Theta-12, at a two-dome asteroid location. It’s tucked away on the back of the asteroid between the two domes….generally on the left side the way most people will approach this location. You can see the large copper deposit next to it.