Chemical Superbase

[BradHann]

Best settlement type (and building) for finding these?

I've never seen them as a mission reward. Any chance they might show up in a random POI?

 

[SteveWW57]

They are found in lockers and lying around. Best places are mainly IND/EXT/STO. Other chemicals can be traded for it.

Steve.

 

[Vardaugas]

Best settlement type for most things is the large science facility with a big command building that has the power plant attached, a big habitat and two two story science buildings at a lower level, small and large landing pad. Offers a great variety of components and has five or so data ports of varying types.

But you could also just farm large tourism settlements for all the graphene and then trade at the barkeep for the superbases you need.

 

[Ydiss]

Two answers above nail it. Just to clarify, you do not get any chemicals, tech or circuits as mission rewards, just goods and data.

 

[Frop]

Like Vardaugas said, you just want the graphene (the big black rolls). Out of all the top tier (most expensive at the bartender) components, graphene is easily the most common.

 

[Commander Kheane]

I know this has been answered but I just want to suggest INARA's "components" tab for anyone who's unsure of what materials can be found where... I love that it even tells you what the things are used for because you get a better sense of the world you're in.

 

[Screemonster]

It shows up fairly commonly in science labs, industrial and extraction buildings, but I've seen it in agri buildings too.

Or just swipe all the chemicals you see regardless and trade them.

 

[metatheurgist]

With graphene being so common I can't imagine ever having trouble with that one.

 

[Ydiss]

If ever there was evidence that the designers just punched random keys when deciding numbers for engineers, the value gained for trading graphene is it

 

[Elpapo]

Like Vardaugas said, you just want the graphene (the big black rolls). Out of all the top tier (most expensive at the bartender) components, graphene is easily the most common.

This is what I would recommend as well. Tons of these on every settlement, most at tourism ones, and then trade at bar for anything else from chemicals.

 

[Screemonster]

If ever there was evidence that the designers just punched random keys when deciding numbers for engineers, the value gained for trading graphene is it

Yeah. To be fair, I think they wanted it to be expensive to buy but still obtainable in decent quantities the regular way since it's used for, like, every suit in huge quantities. You need a ton of graphene to fully upgrade one of each suit.

Once you've got one of each suit at G5 though...

 

[BradHann]

I've never noticed graphene to be much more common than anything else. Where are you all going to get it in such quantities?

 

[St0rmFury]

I've never noticed graphene to be much more common than anything else. Where are you all going to get it in such quantities?

I farmed them at extraction settlements

 

[Vardaugas]

I've never noticed graphene to be much more common than anything else. Where are you all going to get it in such quantities?

You can find a lot of it in large habitats. I farmed a tourism settlement with two wings of three story habitats for a lot of microchips and optical lenses to trade in for technology components like weapon parts and the same lockers that have those also regularly have graphene in them. It's that settlement with landing pads in the middle, the power building on one side and the hotel on the far other side. It has lots and lots of lockers. So many you will want a Maverick with increased backpack capacity to haul it all out.

 

[metatheurgist]

I've never noticed graphene to be much more common than anything else. Where are you all going to get it in such quantities?

Literally anywhere, but for some reason I find a lot of it at military settlements.

 

[Ydiss]

I've never noticed graphene to be much more common than anything else. Where are you all going to get it in such quantities?

Anywhere. Every settlement type has it. Oddly, tons of the stuff can be found in hab lockers.