FARMING ENGINEERING MATERIALS, A COMPILED GUIDE.
24 Oct 2021Billy Butcher
2021 Farming engineering materials, a compiled guide.Outfit a ship with big cargo, and a collector limpet or two. You only need the cargo space to fill with limpets, nothing else.
Trading down – means to use the T4 and T5 mats you acquire to get lots of the lower rarity materials you need without having to farm them. If a material isn’t listed here, you’re to trade down for it using materials listed here from one of the same 3 types, manufactured, encoded or raw. You do this by going to https://inara.cz/galaxy-nearest/25/578/ and looking for the nearest Material Trader of the type you are currently farming.
Manufactured
Fly to each system type you’re farming.
Goto nav beacon, drop out of supercruise
Scan nav beacon
Re enter supercruise, head to the high grade emission signal source. You want at least 25 minutes remaining on the source.
Exit supercruise at the source. There will be between 3-6 targets, each providing 3 of a particular material.
Open cargo bay.
Release collector limpets.
When complete, EXIT game completely, not log off to main menu.
Re-enter game, and back into same mode you just left (open, private, solo).
Enter supercruise and stop immediately (speed 0 as soon as you see the countdown to enter supercruise, do not exit supercruise)
Open nav panel, there will be an undiscovered signal source right behind you.
Head to signal source, it’s the same one you left, but restocked with targets to collect.
Rinse and repeat until the timer runs out on the signal source, or you have hit the limit of the amount you can carry.
To find the system type:
https://eddb.io/system
Core Dynamics Composites and Proprietary Composites – Federation, high population, state none.
Military Grade Alloys – Any system, high population, state war/civil war.
Imperial Shielding - Empire, high pop, state none/election.
Proto Heat Radiators – Independant, high pop, state boom.
Pharmaceutical Isolators – Any system, any population, state outbreak.
Improvised Components - Independant, any population, state civil unrest.
Proto Light Alloys and Proto Radiolic Alloys – Independant or Alliance, high population, state boom.
Encoded
You will need a SRV hangar and a SRV for this.
Trade down the following first!!!: Modified consumer firmware, cracked industrial firmware, atypical encryption archives, adaptive encryptors capture (as you will get lots during this)
HIP 12099 – 1B
Surface scan using DSS.
Goto Jameson Crash site.
Put SRV between all 4 comms beacons.
Scan all 4, begin log farming by logging off to main menu then back on, scanning again, log off, back on etc.
If you take a small ship, you can land at the trading station nearby first, then blow yourself up when full of the T4 and T5 mats to end up back at the station to trade down quickly.
Modified Embedded Firmware – passenger mission reward
Raw
Method 1:
Koli Discii – C6A
DSS the planet.
Goto Crashed Ship.
Farm mats at the crashed anaconda, Antimony, Ruthenium, Tellurium, Tungsten, Zirconium. Shoot the cargo racks to get up to 2 different items.
Relog farm.
Method 2:
Goto HIP 36601 (1500ly from the bubble)
Planet C1A
DSS, land at biological site 5.
All crystalline clusters will be Polonium.
Planet C1D
DSS, land at biological site 3.
All crystalline clusters will be Ruthenium.
Planet C3B
DSS, land at biological site 5.
All crystalline clusters will be Tellurium.
Planet C5A
DSS, land at biological site 10.
All crystalline clusters will be Technetium.
Goto Outotz LS-K D8-3
Planet B5A
DSS, land at biological site 15.
All crystalline clusters will be Yttrium.
Planet B5C
DSS, land at biological site 3.
All crystalline clusters will be Antimony.
Goto LHS 417
Planet 9EA
DSS, land at geological site
All clusters will be Selenium.