<:AtlasNmscord:1269532093076078658> **Using a Portal**
After finding a Portal, how do I use it?
On one of its sides, there's a terminal - it will pop out of the ground once you approach it. Interacting with it for the first time should prompt you to charge the portal up, and that's done by individually charging up all glyphs in the glyph wheel to 100%.
» Organic: 20 Carbon, 7 Condensed Carbon, or 10 Oxygen per glyph.
» Catalytic: 10 Sodium or 4 Sodium Nitrate per glyph.
» Earth: 20 Cobalt, 20 Deuterium, 20 Di-hydrogen, 5 Ionised Cobalt, or 50 Salt per glyph.
» Stellar: 20 Copper, 10 Cadmium, 7 Emeril, 5 Indium or 10 Activated Copper per glyph.

I charged up the portal, but nothing is happening?
Double check all glyphs charge bars. Are one or more not 100% charged? - see example.

I fully charged up the portal; now, which option do I choose?
Activate Portal will display the address input screen - Each portal address is made up of 12 glyphs. A Portal can only lead to locations in the same galaxy.
Request Planet Address will provide the current planet's glyph address, though this option is barely used today, due to the glyph address also showing up in photo mode.

After selecting Activate Portal, I don't have any glyphs available to input.
You need to learn the 16 glyphs to fully use the portal network -- although, after having learned 1 - 2 glyphs you could go places, just very limited choices.


📖 Did you know? The portal you charged up should still be good for a few more trips, even to different destinations. Bookmarking it with a base computer is probably a wise choice.

Run [!Faq-PortalGlyphs](#nms-questions message) and [!Faq-Portal](#nms-questions message) in #bot-spam to learn more about glyphs and finding portals.