Engineers Need help finding Arsenic

CrestaMan

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Hi CMDRs

I have just started to engineer my FSD but I'm having trouble finding arsenic. I am on Deciat 6 D and have been driving around for over a hour but haven't found a single bit. Do I need to buy equipment for the SRV? The youtube vids just assume you will land on a planet and find it straight away...
 

PauloG01

PauloG01
Take a Ship with a SRV and search a pristine System, Delkar is close to you location, them scan the bodies and choose the one that indicates >1% or <2% of Arsenic, above 2% are rare to find, land and take out your SRV search for the diferent kinds o meteorites.
 

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
Yoursenic?
Nyet comrade, it is OURSENIC

SAIYOUUUUZ NERUSHIMYYYYY


Ahem, sorry communism was leaking a bit. In all seriousness, theres 2.7% Arsenic on Timbalderis AB 1 D A

its near Shinrarta
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
Use https://eddb.io/body and search for bodies that have more than 2%. Also be patient, they can drop slowly sometimes but if they don't drop regularly then jump into super cruise to re-start the instance. Shoot everything as any rock can drop anything anymore.
 

Rampant

Rampant
If it were me and I was solely targeting a bunch of Arsenic, it get myself back to the barnacle at Pleiades LN-S B4-3 C3 - 13.165/-54.358. Pretty much guaranteed Arsenic drops without the random searches, then re-log for another circuit around the spikes as much as is necessary. It's still RNG, with other materials dropping all the time, but it's there and you won't have to SRV around anywhere looking for metallic meteorites or mesosiderites...

Yours Aye

Mark H
 

SMcA

SMcA
CrestaMan said:
Hi CMDRs

I have just started to engineer my FSD but I'm having trouble finding arsenic. I am on Deciat 6 D and have been driving around for over a hour but haven't found a single bit. Do I need to buy equipment for the SRV? The youtube vids just assume you will land on a planet and find it straight away...
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Balmung is a good system for me for Mats.
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
CrestaMan said:
Hi CMDRs

I have just started to engineer my FSD but I'm having trouble finding arsenic. I am on Deciat 6 D and have been driving around for over a hour but haven't found a single bit. Do I need to buy equipment for the SRV? The youtube vids just assume you will land on a planet and find it straight away...
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[hotas] Sometimes RNGebus craps on your head and you find little to nothing, even on high percentage worlds. When that happens just log out for a few hours or days then log back in to see if anything has changed. Also sometimes it is best not to try the highest percentage worlds. Have you tried Deciat 4? Deciat 4 is "only" 2.1% Arsenic but lots of Iron (23.1%), Nickel (17.5%), Sulphur (16.2%), Carbon (13.6%), Manganese (9.5%), Phosphorus (8.7%), Germanium (4.8%), Niobium (1.6%), Tin (1.5%) and Yttrium (1.4%). All useful and it is surprising how often the material you are looking for drops in large amounts when you are picking up other stuff.
 
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Mugur

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So many people are still using the "traditional" SRV rock shooting?

Sorry, I was just just puzzled. There are a few correct answers in this thread (trading down or barnacles/brain trees/etc.), but the easiest way to obtain Arsenic is by going on one of the crashed Anacondas (the one with the Thargoid at HIP 16613 is by far the best IMHO, but many swear by the Koli Discii one) and collect the grade 4-5 mats there (Antimony, Tellurium or Rhutenium), then trade back any of them for Arsenic. Since As is on a 2 position out of 4, the trade won't be as poor as when you trade vertically on the same column (1:6). For any column 4 material the rate is 3:2 (3 Arsenic for 2 Antimony).

In fact the fastest approach for ANY element is to fill up with Antimony, Tellurium and Ruthenium and trade them, since they are so easy to obtain from one of the crashed Anacondas. Of course, unless you really like the wave scanner...

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/430906-The-Other-Crashed-Anacondas
 

Starman 1966

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BradHann said:
Go to Boston's Wreck in Exioce. Land at the two tourist beacons. Collect the Polonium. Trade it for arsenic.
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I've been there. This place isn't worth it (Any longer? May have been nerfed or whatever.). The spawn rate of these crystal needles yielding the G5 materials is beyond dismal.
 
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