Questions for experienced Salvagers.

Galactic Travel Guides are the item used for the "CGs" getting factions to colonia. if they are still buyable at Bluford, you can only get 10t (without tricks).

Ancient Artefact are a guardian commodity, you get them at any guardian site or ruin (those thingies coming out of the groud, and can be shot down).

Large Survey data caches used to spawn in degraded USS in deep space.

as for Gene Banks, Fossile Remnants and Space Pioneer Relicts - i haven't found any till now at private courier/military courier vessels, maybe there is a knack of how to find them.
In fact for Ancient Artefact taken from here: EDDB Commodities you have both "Ancient Artefact (USS)" and "Guardian Relic". Are you sure it is the same thing or is it just a mistake from eddb?
And thx for LSDC, i'll take a look at these.
 
In fact for Ancient Artefact taken from here: EDDB Commodities you have both "Ancient Artefact (USS)" and "Guardian Relic". Are you sure it is the same thing or is it just a mistake from eddb?
And thx for LSDC, i'll take a look at these.
ah, interesting, i somehow identified the one with the other, but those are different items, you are right!
 
You could always do salvage missions for factions you dislike, and keep the mission cargo, then clean it with your carrier?

Please expand a bit on how the carrier takes illegal cargo and unflags that illegal status?
I'm buying a FC just for that if true
 
Please expand a bit on how the carrier takes illegal cargo and unflags that illegal status?
I'm buying a FC just for that if true

No there is no way. Neither with an FC

Hey all! I know this may not be related to the main search, but I didn’t find evidence anywhere else of this so I wanted to alert you. I found the Data Core commodity in Cargo Bay 1 at the Gridge Military Installation. So it exists!

Too bad looting is still broken. I would have hundreds of rares by now.
 
So big news for us salvagers! Military Installations, atleast Gridge Military Installation, contain all the same commodities found in Military Courier Vessles on Civil War systems! https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ap-8-core-container-and-other-goodies.552362/
Thx for sharing (y).
I was wondering where to find Data Core and Instable Data Core and now i know where to find one of those :) .
Just when i got bored to play you make me like it (at least for a short period :p ).
 
Thx for sharing (y).
I was wondering where to find Data Core and Instable Data Core and now i know where to find one of those :) .
Just when i got bored to play you make me like it (at least for a short period :p ).
The Unstable Data Core is found in Hayford’s Crash Surface POI in the Colonia System. It’s found through three listening posts, 2 in the Bubble, 1 in Colonia leading there. It’s the only thing there, and seems related to Black Flight but no one knows what to do with it if anything. I have one myself!
 
So big news for us salvagers! Military Installations, atleast Gridge Military Installation, contain all the same commodities found in Military Courier Vessles on Civil War systems! https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ap-8-core-container-and-other-goodies.552362/
So i did some testing with this installation and it contains all commodities BUT 2 that we can find in military courier vessels:
  • thargoid sensors.
  • thargoid probes.

I thought we could have 3 ways to find thargoid probes :NHSS, megaship hacking and installation hacking but we only have 1 way actually thanks to fdev who broke both megaship and installations hacking.
In the same system (Gridge) there is an installation called "Primary Immigration" that is a governement installation (no fine nor wanted if we hack something).
In the cargo bay 0 there are some rare goods including a strange one: Ophiuch Exino Artefact.
Here is it's description:
"These strange sculptures are believed by some to have been created by a now extinct ancient sentient race. Others have theorised that the sculptures are a natural formation caused by local weather patterns. Most economists agree that there are massive profits made from the gullible and wealthy collectors."
No info on this commodity can be found, like most of what we're looking for.
So i have a hypothesis: maybe in some specific installations we can find the 3 remaining salvages:
  • space pioneer relics (Civilian or Tourist installation?)
  • fossile remnant (Civilian installation?)
  • Gene Bank (Medical or Civilian or Scientific installation?)
The types of installation that we can find is :
  • Agricultural
  • Civilian
  • Comms
  • Government
  • Industrial
  • Medical
  • Military
  • Scientific
  • Security
  • Tourist
  • Unauthorised
Source: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Installation
 
In the cargo bay 0 there are some rare goods including a strange one: Ophiuch Exino Artefact.

i don't think that is related to any of the salvageables - the rares in megaships and installations are somehow "random" (with a pattern sometimes, for exampel prison ships have honesty pills, another rare).

still i guess it's a good chance to get some of the salvageables there -once looting installations or megaships isn't broken any longer.
 
It’s worth a search, considering the Data Core, commodity is only found at a military installation afaik. Doing a once-over if each type of installation would be worth it, atleast to check them off the list.
 
you don't have to restrict your private carrier hunting to medium sec systems. when you inderdict the target hit them once to get them to chase you, then keep a distance of around 3km flying in a single direction without firing back. wait for the cops to jump in and keep flying straight. they usually drop in some distance away and will keep flying away from you. wait for them to jump them finish with the mark. they will only show back up if you kill the target.

this method negates security in any system.
 
So it been a months and the missing stuffs are:

  • Fossile Remnants
  • Gene Bank
  • Space Pioneer Relics
  • Time Capsule
  • Experimental Chemicals (cannot find any trace of it on google, some guy found them and sell them in his FC so it exists for sure)

The installations even if they have interesting names have EXACTLY the same patterns for the salvages they can drop. Data Core can be found on military installations but the rest have only some rare goods that you can buy easily.

Do you have some news to share guys?
 
Taaffeite and others... Salvage from crashed ships?

I think there are more missing. Did you manage to get most or you know the missing ones?
 
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I have seen quite a few of the weird rares in cargo bays after the pirate attack starts on installations.
Its important to check after the mission has started as the cargo in cargo holds changes after the pirates attack.
 
This is a great thread !
I've always loved rares and I'm learning so much stuff
thanks everyone

Edit the Original Post to contain what we know so far and sticky it ?
 
@GroG79 : What do you want me to do with taafeite? :ROFLMAO:
It's ridiculously cheap for the number you can find at a time. I just don't know understand why it exists in game.

@BL1P
In fact the items i listed above are the ones i can't find.
The pb with pirate attack is that when it starts, i don't pick a side, don't have ANY cargo and get attacked by npc 😩 (bug i assume, anyway i'm not surprised).
And if i pick a side, i'll be attacked by one or the other. I will give it a try with my heavy corvette.

@Gully_Foyle:

time capsules: unknown location
gene bank: unknown location
fossil remnants: unknown location
space pioneer relics: unknown location
experimental chemicals: unknown location

In boom economic system state, chase t6 or t7 ships named "private courier service" (DONT CHASE T9, THEY ARE BUGGED!!!):
  • AI relics
  • antique jewellery
  • antiquities
  • precious gems

In War/Civil war system state, chase cutter/corvette/conda ships named "military courier vessel" (BECAREFUL: they are in wing generally):
  • SAP8Core
  • anti matter containment units,
  • prohibited research materials
  • hafnium 178
  • meta-alloys
  • thargoid sensors
  • thargoid probes


- trinkets of hidden fortune: i found mines on a conda who wnated to enter peter's holm (Ququve sytem) or you can try this:

- Earth relics: Algol system in the permanent USS

- Mysterious Idol: System Epsilon Indie, Planet Mitterand Hollow, Coordinates: 1.185, -169.057

- Data Core: Found in ANY military installation (currently bugged since January, thx Fdevs!). You can find also the same commodities as in military courier vessels.

- Unstable Data Core: Hayford's crash POI in Colonia.
 
  • Experimental Chemicals (cannot find any trace of it on google, some guy found them and sell them in his FC so it exists for sure)

Do you have some news to share guys?
  • regular degraded emissions T3
  • hostage missions
  • wanted traders in boom.


the rest i'm missing as you do :)
 
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