as said, progress is stuck on this, dont know how i can synthesis +4 quantity but story progress is stuck on this quest for alchemy clay

I am at the volcano. This feels to me like a late game area. I still do not have the recipe!!! I even looked it up online. Gather nitro water, and do major gathering with base bomb hammer. I've tried both. No recipe updates at all! I've gone further down in the recipe trees to see if that opens any more slots, but nothing so far. Internet is not helpful at all. HELP!...

Hi, i'm planning to buy base game, is there anything worthwhile in deluxe or the ultimate edition and can i buy the content of those packs later on or certain items are impossible to buy later? Is there and exclusive content to DELUXE or ULTIMATE versions that i won't be able to get?...

Seriously, I'm trying to get my gathering tools as high level as I can to improve the ingredients I can gather. I want a seven by seven grid on my Growlia catalyst, as well as the ability to invert components, but the only way to get those effects is to use a restricted grid, and I can't figure out how to fit the components together for maximum benefit. I feel like the effect increases would be more significant with better ingredients, but maxing my gathering tools is proving a challenge as well....

My system is i5-8400 / 1070 Ti / 16GB DDR4, better than the recommended requirements. Getting framerate drops all the way down to 40's while in town, turning down the settings doesn't seem to help much, if at all. Didn't have any issues in Ryza games. Yes, I have a controller plugged in, so it's not the micro-stutter you get when the game is constantly scanning for one. Is anyone else experiencing performance issues? Should I just refund?...