Quickies: Collecting Meta Alloys at the Barnacle Forest

In this quickie with Exigeous we look at the most efficient way to collect Meta-Alloys from the Thargoid Barnacle Forest.

Thargoid Barnacle Forest
System: Hyades Sector AQ-Y d81
Body: C 2
Coordinates: 9.2924, -153.9815

Cannon Thargoid Barnacle Forest

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Album: The Explorer
Track: Alien Planet

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[johnathanfoote]

Very helpful video! I just used this to help me get Meta Alloy for Farseer. The date is 1/31/2021 so yes, site 3 works for sure even today. First time that far out, normally I hang within 100ly of Guuguyni, and I have to say the trip and gathering the resource did not disappoint. First time in an SRV and that was wild. Honestly exciting stuff. Got a little freaked out at the scavengers that were gathering up and following me though. Thank you for detailing how to use the Surface Scanner as well and recommending site 3 as that whole section of the video was very helpful. Great work.

[BadgerAmongMen]

I love it when you give me a quickie at 2am in the morning 😍

[TheXfoxUK]

Oh my word, thank you so much for this video! I could have bought meta-alloys at Darnielle’s Progress but I figured I paid for Horizons and flew all the darn way out here, I might as well have an adventure and mine some myself. Four or five hours later, following some online spreadsheet that swears there are ‘ripe’ barnacles at whatever location they specify, my cargo hold was still empty and I was almost ready to take the easy way out and buy them. Then I find this video today and finally find some ripe barnacles after a mere 20-30 minutes. Thanks so much, this saved me so much more wasted time.

[quantistrap]

The Barnacle Forest is at Barnacle Site 3. Go there for the scavenger experience. Then go to Barnacle Site 2 for the convenience. It's not like you can pick up more than two meta alloys at a time so a forest is only interesting if you don't want to relog.

[thomasluke-wpor]

Most useful piece of info on this matter to date. Just one question, if a thargoid interceptor shows up, will it behave passively?

[anoraashman]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I haven't ventured out that way yet, but this tutorial is by far the best and most current. Instantly subscribing.

[BradleyMountford]

This was timely as I finally decided to do all of the tech unlocks and so needed 32 of these. I found the highest concentration of the ones with the very large glowing flowers that contain the meta alloys right around the central barnacle and found that they respawn in the same place after every flop so what started out as super grindy went very very quickly after I figured that out. There are two around the central barnacle itself and another 3 around barnacles close by...probably more but once I found those, I didn't bother looking any further. Maybe I'll make a map if I'm feeling particularly ambitious one of these days.

[paprika]

thanks for updated guide <3 buying no more works. i've been looking for this exactly.

[backbone]

Mere hours after I had to gather Meta Alloys for myself and others 😂 Another great guide

[acerba]

The first time I went hunting for meta-alloys, I had gone hard into exploration and at the time hadn't realized I needed to install shelf space in the cargo hold to actually carry anything.
My disappointed when I got back to the ship with the thing was immeasurable. Why couldn't I just leave it in the SRV hold?? Why didn't it go to the same hammer space as all the other materials I had picked up previously??

[agharthaotsol]

On my way there... praying there's something left.

[attilabagdany]

Thank you for the video! Pretty helpful! Sadly the Barnacle forest no more avaiable beacuse when dropping out of supercruise on approach to the planet, the game freezes, in both Horizons and Odyssey. They tried to fix the bug during the update 14.02, unfortunately unsuccessfully. 01-02 still landable btw.

[tamponbluter]

thanks a lot mate
it's 2021 and i can confirm, that barnacle forest is still there.

[Roblstar]

Hi there,

I imagine that it is due to an update?
But the Reciepe in the video does not match the one on Inara & the Elite Wiki pages.
Which lists 16 Meta Alloys, 22 Radiation Baffles, etc.

Just pointing this out, as I am currently sat in the Barnicle forest trying to work out how much I need?
I'm gonna go with Inara, & 16...


I seem to be getting a drop rate of around 4/5 Meta alloys, per flop myself.
Cheers, been enjoying the Tutorials ;)

[matiascorrales]

Why there are no palnets anymore on the system??? do u know were i can mine meta alloys in 2021?

[Mister_H.]

I’m in that sector at the moment. Stupidly decided to take a look at a ‘non human signal’ (threat level 5) as I had never encountered one before and was curious.

Lasted about 10 seconds before I got blown up by Thargoids 😂

Should’ve listened my gut saying ‘I got a bad feeling about this’...

[xenowreborn]

thank you, unlike the other planets I went to in solo
This one actually has mineable resources at it!

[kessilrun]

Is this site still active? I like that it’s flat. The ones in typically end up at are rocky and hard to get around. I believe this was the first one I used, back 3-4 years ago, but could never find it again lol. Side effect of the, roughly, yearly bookmark cleanup.

[averagejoe]

thanks for this and all of your video's they have shown me much

[Jadriam]

Another useful quick guide! Time to go make some tech breakthroughs. [Possessing lots of meta-alloys or Thargoid bits are rumored to attract space flowers hyperdictions, this isn't true is it?]