Arsenic!

Masaq

Masaq
Don't worry I'm not going to ask where to find Arsenic.

This 2.1 update has completely revitalised my interest in ED. I am now scanning every ship I can, scanning wakes and actually using the rover (I hated it before), But after about 25 hours of     -numbing game-play I can't find any Arsenic.

To get a Level 1 boost job from an engineer shouldn't mean giving up my real life, should it?

This is the bit where I ask; WHERE THE      DO YOU GET ARSENIC?

Ta

Masaq
 

CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
Check out the list of barnacles and the materials they yield reading to what's o their planet. Avoid the barnies with the big gun turrets if I were you :)

Click the tabs at the top for more details on each barnie on each planet.

Don't let the shepherd catch you shearing his sheep though.. Someone is probably watching :)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...9GHQ/htmlview#
 
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Masaq

Masaq
I've been on planet, after planet and moon, and haven't had a sniff of the stuff. It hasn't come up as a reward for missions...
I don't expect life in the ED galaxy to be easy, but shelling out to Google, and still not finding an answer isn't great.
 

CMDR Vincent Cable

CMDR Vincent Cable
Planets:

ETA DRACONIS A4 and A7 - Got some every 3rd outcropp/meringue/meteorite

Caicius A2 A (might be called caicus - just search for Caic in the map - it finds it)
 

CMDR Corlas

CMDR Corlas
I've been looking into this recently. Apparently each planet has 3 common materials, 2 rare, and 1 very rare. Arsenic is "common", so if you're looking on a planet, and you find three other types of commons, that planet will never spawn arsenic. Move on. The spawns, the types of common, rares, and the very rare, are static for each planet and the same for everyone.

I read that Deciat 7B has Arsenic, and I found one, but I guess had terrible luck, as I found only one after hours of looking.

It seems the Bronzite nodes will never spawn Arsenic, so I'm just going to start skipping those.

Apparently you can also find Arsenic sometimes when mining asteroid belts, Metallic and High Metal Content. Not sure how frequent this is though.

If you poke around, you find people who compile all this info, and you can find much better data from them. Look up stuff on the Rock Rats; they're the experts here.
 
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Gortron

Gortron
Masaq said:
Don't worry I'm not going to ask where to find Arsenic.

This 2.1 update has completely revitalised my interest in ED. I am now scanning every ship I can, scanning wakes and actually using the rover (I hated it before), But after about 25 hours of     -numbing game-play I can't find any Arsenic.

To get a Level 1 boost job from an engineer shouldn't mean giving up my real life, should it?

This is the bit where I ask; WHERE THE      DO YOU GET ARSENIC?

Ta

Masaq
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I had two Arsenic (I used one doing what you are doing) and they do seem to be pretty rare. Two is all I have found driving around in my SRV since Horizons came out, but I found them before engineers came out. I needed other stuff and I had to resort to Google for a pointer for some of it; other items I got where I needed to look from the description.

Most stuff in the game isn't particularly easy to find even if you know where to look; knowing where to look could use some improvement me thinks!
 

CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
CMDR Tington Taul said:
+rep - thanks for the doc! Can you repeatedly farm the Barnacles?

Cheers!
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The live ones, yes. Bear in mind that the consequences of farming them isn't known. We don't know if our farming of them for MAs and minerals and MAs has led to their exhaustion and destruction or if whoever owns them is culling some off and guarding the others to keep us off them. The fact some have skimmers and turrets (and some have BIG turrets, not good when you're far from home) seems to imply that somebody doesn't want us farming them.
 
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CMDR Tington Taul

CMDR Tington Taul
CHOPP3R said:
The live ones, yes. Bear in mind that the consequences of farming them isn't known. We don't know if our farming of them for MAs and minerals and MAs has led to their exhaustion and destruction or if whoever owns them is culling some off and guarding the others to keep us off them. The fact some have skimmers and turrets (and some have BIG turrets, not good when you're far from home) seems to imply that somebody doesn't want us farming them.
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Neat! Thanks for the info.
 
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