Frankenstein fetch quest (Automaton parts)

Victor Frankenstein's quest to acquire (Automaton) parts is supposed to have a peaceful route and a combat route. The combat route is obvious. The peaceful route is no longer seems to be valid.

Collecting Automaton Bishop or knight parts doesn't count for the quest, only the Rooks, but only bishop/knight parts are found in the wild unless you very luckily stumble across a half-buried automaton that you can mine; those mineable automatons seem to no longer be in the game, or else they have been made to be very rare. I ran around the POIs, small pseudo-POIs (small tents, stone pillars, etc) and open desert in all of the desert biomes (Antiquarian, Astrolabe, Provisioner, Herbarium, Gloom, Hunt) for quite some time and never found one.

It made the most sense that there would be some in Gloom because of all of the wrecks and battles that supposedly take place between them and bound, but there was nothing there besides the standard bishop/knight pieces.

Options for the peaceful route need to be re-implemented, or if they are there increased such that they can be found in a reasonable amount of time with active searching, or commonly enough throughout the progression (coincidentally) that at least some would be found by most players with only "average" exploration.