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Newcomer / Intro How to farm manufactured mats legit?
- Thread starter CMDR VURUCU5858
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Scan the nav beacon in a system then go to supercruise and they are listed in your nav panel (if there are any) - you can also find them by using the FSS.
Like any Signal Source - you approach them in supercruise then disengage into normal space. High-Grade ones contain grade 4 and 5 manufactured materials.
Here's a good resource for finding mats:
Engineering Material Finder: Elite Dangerous — CMDRs ToolBox
A easy to use list that shows you where you can find any engineering material in Elite Dangerous. There is also guides for each material to help you get started.
cmdrs-toolbox.com
Is there a way to speed up the HGE process, like it's possible for Encoded and all other mats?
I did see the video about relogging after harvesting and HGE, but either I'm doing it wrong or FD "fixed" that exploit.
So rn all I can do is jump between systems and SC to HGEs to harvest them once, but that's not fast and certainly nowhere near the 100 mats in 15 minutes mentioned in this thread. I suppose it's probably more like 30 mats and half of them will only be R4.
I did see the video about relogging after harvesting and HGE, but either I'm doing it wrong or FD "fixed" that exploit.
So rn all I can do is jump between systems and SC to HGEs to harvest them once, but that's not fast and certainly nowhere near the 100 mats in 15 minutes mentioned in this thread. I suppose it's probably more like 30 mats and half of them will only be R4.
Yes they fixed that, you can no longer just relog to farm a HGE instance. There is a way to do it but it is an exploit and I don't know how to do it.
Well mb I have accidentally found it -- once my game crashed while I was collecting the stuff. When I relogged, there was a USS nearby and sure enough, fresh HGE.
So either the trick is not to collect all mats, or to kill your game process and relaunch. Not exactly time efficient tho.
Yes, you have to exit to desktop and restart the game for this method. But it has been like this for all the time I know this method.
I personally can't be bothered as this method completely kills my immersion. Maybe I am just getting lucky, but my home system always spawns some HGE, sometimes 4 or 5 of them simultaneously, so I just fill up on those and cross trade.
I just took on some massacre pirate missions. I took 5T of cargo to save me from having to scan all the pirates. I went to the nearby system to get the pirates, but I hadn't been there before, so I thought I'd FSS scan the system. While scanning, I got interdicted 4 times by elite Anacondas that all donated their materials to me (MGAs Pharmaceutical isolators and loads of grade 4 stuff). On the way back, I got interdicted by an elite T10 that also donated grade 4 and 5 materials. While I was farming the pirates in a low RES, my 5 limpets were continuously hoovering up materials up to grade 4. I forced a small ship spawn because I wanted to complete the missions quickly, which is why the grades were lower. A large ship spawn gives all grades. Not a bad 2 hour session. 6 kill pirate missions completed and I was nearly maxed out on three rows of materials, plus all the bounty money.
I haven't heard that one before. Do the tourist boats expell high grade mats though? If not visiting HGEs might be better from a time perspective, less fun though.Find a Tourist hotspot near a station in an Anarchy system and 'mine' the tourists...I know of at least one system this works at, just have to not hit the station or it takes offence... (Which i'll admit has happened a few times to me!)