Upon arriving at the planet Falgora—a lifeless celestial body featuring the remnants of a civilization, unstable weather, heaps of scrap metal, and an ocean of fuel oil—some players encounter an issue with unlocking the recycler.
To access it, you need to find the specific ruins shown in the screenshot above; the others won't work. These scrap metal caches appear as gray rectangles on the minimap.
On Falgor, everything hinges on a reverse-production loop: scrap metal is fed into a recycler, yielding about a dozen useful components—such as chips, wiring, concrete, copper wire, ice, and steel beams—which can then be fed back into the recycler to produce even more basic components, like green chips and metal or copper plates.
The same applies to fuel oil: it is processed at chemical or oil-refining plants into the required liquid or gas.
Energy is both a problem and an advantage on Falgor. The problem is that solar panels are half as efficient there as they are on Novis. The advantage, however, is that the base can generate virtually limitless energy by harnessing the constantly raging electromagnetic storms and lightning using lightning rods and a large array of batteries.
Electromagnetic science package
As for the pink cubes, the most useful items I see are: mech armor, T2 batteries, T2 shields, and a T2 drone station. On average, completing the electromagnetic research branch requires shipping about 10,000–20,000 pink cubes from Fulgora to your base—not counting the electromagnetic factories themselves. Of course, you could also do what is done on Vulcan: ship electromagnetic plates and—theoretically—produce the capacitor cubes right there on-site.
Minimal base configuration
Since the fuel oil on Falgor acts as a substitute for water and is infinite, everything comes down to two main factors: the size of the island (scaling and batteries) and the scrap metal deposits available for processing.
From 200,000 to 400,000 units of scrap metal, you can produce several thousand Electromagnetic Science Packs. You can essentially set up a minimal base, fly off to another planet, and the science will slowly accumulate.
Or we’ll have to scale up... After all, it feels like—just to keep a base of this size running—you’d want to plug in two or three times as many processors, or upgrade the processing technology, but that means pink science packs again