It's already the third planet I land on that says it got Polonium (0.5%) but every rock I destroy I can't find any. Is it in some special type of rock or can I recognize it from the orbit with some color of the surface?
How do I find Polonium?
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Bob Lighthouse
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Get a body that doesn't have competing g4/5 mats, like arsenic etc.
Fly the SRV to cover more ground.
Metallic meteorites and mesosiderites tend to have the better mats ime.
Fly the SRV to cover more ground.
Metallic meteorites and mesosiderites tend to have the better mats ime.
You don't. Polonium finds you. At least in Soviet Russia that's how it works.
You are much more likely to find Polonium in Metallic Meteorites but there's also a chance in Outcrops of the metallic variety and Mesosiderites. You can do much better than 0.5%, though - look for metal-rich planets with Polonium, which can reach 1.0%+. There are also some sites mentioned here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ection-Farm-Locations-for-Engineers-Jumponium
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ection-Farm-Locations-for-Engineers-Jumponium
Thank you all! Are there special locations where I can find more Meteorites and Mesosideritis? Canyons, craters, mountains, planes....
I'm on a metal rich planet that also has a metal rich moon. Unfortunately both at 0.5%. I couldn't find higher percentages before...
Bob Lighthouse
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Try here: https://eddb.io/body/5883729
Not in my experience, but oddly, whenever I recall my ship when I've had my fill of fly-bouncing my SRV around... a metallic seems to appear.
Bob Lighthouse
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Find someplace fairly flat and with good lighting, that way you can go faster.
I tend look for something near a large crater, where you can see a blast radius, but I can't say if it actually helps.
Being able to cover ground quickly and easily certainly does.
1. Use this site to find planets with the materials you want: https://eddb.io/body
2. Use this site to distinguish the various wave scanner sounds. You'll want "metallic meteorite", and visually it looks like railroad tracks at the very bottom of the scanner: http://wavescanner.net/
3. Higher G planets are best, because the materials won't roll around as much. Easier to scoop them up in one sitting.
Don't find Polonium - just collect lots of whatever is handy - carbon, iron etc - then take it to a trader.
https://inara.cz/galaxy-nearest/25/
https://inara.cz/galaxy-nearest/25/
You obviously haven't done the math on converting carbon/iron into polonium, have you?
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
Personally I'd go to Xi Ursae Majoris B1, which has arsenic, mercury and polonium, which are all on the same line at the material trader. It's a metal rich body, has good quantities of the materials and the 1.2g make collecting easier. I usually look for a location with a rare off color on the surface to land, though I am not sure if that helps. Avoiding rough ground definitely always helps. There, I follow up on almost every material node signal I find, preferring the distorted noises over the popping ones as those are the higher quality nodes. Golden outcrops seem to be more common than metallic meteorites and still have a good chance for the high end materials to drop. The rest is perseverance and luck.
I just checked and I have it bookmarked! Haven't been there in a while though.
I've done better and actualy done it - indeed do it for all materials types regardless. You can collect ridiculously large amounts of stuff quite quickly - unless of course you need large amounts of Polonium or whatever.
Even then you'll be collecting other stuff as you go - generally I always try to keep a few of everything in stock and use the traders to make sure of that.
So.... I've even found a crashed fighter (Condor) with canisters (does it have a cargo bay???)... but not Polonium.... Holy sh... 
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
Crater edges & mountain slopes, best when combined. Just make sure the crater is big enough to have a central mound, and having a cluster of craters won't be bad either.
Bob Lighthouse
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So.... I've even found a crashed fighter (Condor) with canisters (does it have a cargo bay???)... but not Polonium.... Holy sh...
If you see crashed ships, look for cargo racks on your contacts tab.
Shoot those if you find any.
Also scan any ship data points.