What is the Botany Bay in STFC?
The Botany Bay is an Augment faction mining and survey ship, essential for gathering corrupted and decoded data in Augment space. It plays a crucial role in converting data into Augment Credits and Plutonium, which are used to upgrade the ship and acquire Augment officer shards and other resources.
What is the primary function of the Botany Bay?
Its main purpose is data mining, specifically corrupted and decoded data, and it provides access to Augment progression systems.
What mining advantages does the Botany Bay provide?
It has a significant mining bonus of about 26,500% for Augment data, making it far more efficient than any other ship for this task.
How is the Botany Bay integrated with the Augment faction?
Owning the ship unlocks access to Augment space, new missions, and the Augment Faction Store, which is required for progression and acquiring valuable resources and officers.
How is the Botany Bay acquired?
The Botany Bay requires 60 blueprints to build. Blueprints can be gathered in several ways:
Completing specific missions including Reunions, Buyer’s Remorse, Broken Chains, Equal Share, and Quid Pro Quo, which can be picked up in Amador or Midnight.
Players who have not yet built the ship can purchase a small pack in the Augment Store containing 12 additional blueprints to ensure they can collect all 60 required.
Watching for ongoing Offers, where Botany Bay blueprints may be available in the Store.
If some missions were completed before July 2020 and you were not able to collect all 60 blueprints, you can contact the Support team for assistance.
How can the Botany Bay be upgraded?
The ship uses Common, Uncommon, and Rare Plutonium to upgrade stats such as cargo capacity and cargo protection.
Why is the Botany Bay relevant?
It remains an important ship throughout much of the game, especially with the introduction of the Independent Archives, keeping it useful beyond the early and mid-game stages.
You can find more information about the Borany Bay on our STFC Database