Talk to me about gathering raw mat's in EDO.

[Stealthie]

I'll admit that I'm not keen on the changes to mat' gathering for EDO but I guess the writing's on the wall and I'm not going to be able to switch back to EDH to collect raw mat's forever.

Can somebody point me at a good guide to gathering raw mats in EDO on Youtube?

What can I expect to find while gathering raw mat's in EDO?
Am I, basically, just looking at driving around a planet and finding random bits of flora in the same way that we used to find mesoanderites and meteorites in EDH?

Also, kind of rhetorically, is there any reason why EDO couldn't just have kept the various "fields" of stuff that we had in EDH... or are there similar sites in EDO?

 

[Codger]

I was out at the crystalline shards site in EDO not long ago. I had no problem finding them. They are spread out a bit more, but there’s more of them. I filled up no problem.

 

[He$$eeTant]

Yeah it’s pretty much the same stuff, Shard sites, Jameson crash site and Davs Hope. Of course then after or before head to the various Material Traders to trade up and down.

 

[Vardaugas]

I use planets with volcanic activity and the three top elements from a material trader line to gather raw materials. Then I go there with a Sidewinder, use a beam laser to break off the crystals and pick them up through the cargo scoop. Fitting some shields is advised. It may not the most efficient but if you find a planet with particularly dense coverage of vents you can fill your inventory with good amounts of materials. And it's more fun, imho, to hop around the planet like a bee, checking vent after vent for crystals.

 

[Kimosabe_X]

But Dav's Hope has lost all of its charme, the new EDO scenery is horrible compared to EDH...


Edit: here's a thread about exact EDO coordinates for the crystal shard sites

 

[He$$eeTant]

But Dav's Hope has lost all of its charme, the new EDO scenery is horrible compared to EDH...


Edit: here's a thread about exact EDO coordinates for the crystal shard sites

It’s a race track relog site - who cares what it looks like?

 

[Willyum-71]

I was also just at the Crystal shards fields in Odyssey about 2 weeks ago... only 1 of the 6 planets gave me any trouble with finding fields. fields are a little more spread out... Gotta check by the edges of meteor crater impact sites. I guess it's a bit more science based... similar to how 'Meteor Creator' in Arizona has all that Limestone around the edges in real life. I haven't checked yet, but if they did it for that reason at the crystal shards sites, then maybe local planets have mineral concentrations around impact sites too. I haven't done any local farming since switching to Odyssey... just got used to flying out to the shard farms.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Something else I've noticed in Odyssey is that plain metallic meteorites seem more common than before, at least on rocky/HMC worlds. I don't get through huge amounts of raw materials in the first place - shards, etc. will definitely be more effective if you need a lot of materials in a hurry - but just diverting to the high-end meteorites while doing exobiology has let me fill up quite a lot.

 

[photomankc]

I actually kinda like the way volcanism can be hunted and you run into large fields of the various types. All I’d really ask for is to change the drop rates a bit. Almost everything you ever find is just the lowest type for that planet. It changes to not much fun when you spend an hour driving around and can’t find really anything from the 2,3,4 catagories unless you happen upon the right stone. At the old POI you could be reasonably certain to get a bit of it all, but now you can drive for a very long time finding only G1s.

Same thing with the crash site cargo racks. My ”not an explorer“ dude could probably do okay on just those except it’s almost always the same 3 or 4 mats and trading is perfectly horrible cross lines so you need a full bin just to scrape out 10 or so of something else.

 

[Kimosabe_X]

I was also just at the Crystal shards fields in Odyssey about 2 weeks ago... only 1 of the 6 planets gave me any trouble with finding fields. fields are a little more spread out... Gotta check by the edges of meteor crater impact sites. I guess it's a bit more science based... similar to how 'Meteor Creator' in Arizona has all that Limestone around the edges in real life. I haven't checked yet, but if they did it for that reason at the crystal shards sites, then maybe local planets have mineral concentrations around impact sites too. I haven't done any local farming since switching to Odyssey... just got used to flying out to the shard farms.

Edit: here's a thread about exact EDO coordinates for the crystal shard sites

 

[Stealthie]

I actually kinda like the way volcanism can be hunted and you run into large fields of the various types. All I’d really ask for is to change the drop rates a bit. Almost everything you ever find is just the lowest type for that planet. It changes to not much fun when you spend an hour driving around and can’t find really anything from the 2,3,4 catagories unless you happen upon the right stone. At the old POI you could be reasonably certain to get a bit of it all, but now you can drive for a very long time finding only G1s.

Same thing with the crash site cargo racks. My ”not an explorer“ dude could probably do okay on just those except it’s almost always the same 3 or 4 mats and trading is perfectly horrible cross lines so you need a full bin just to scrape out 10 or so of something else.

See, this is what worries me.

I currently have half a dozen planets bookmarked, which have reliable supplies of Antimony, Polonium, Ruthenium, Selenium, Technetium and Tellurium.
If I need a handful of G2/G3 mat's I can go to one of those planets, head straight for the first Geo' site, do a quick lap of it in my SRV - like, literally, a 2-minute job - and locate a couple of those spikey-hedgehog things which are always the top-tier mat' the planet provides.
Back into my ship, off to Geo site #2.
Rinse and repeat.
I'm getting either 6 or 9 mat's from each site and I can visit half a dozen of those sites in half an hour for a total of around 50 top-tier mat's.
I can then hit up a trader and get half of that stuff swapped into (smallish) heaps of lower-tier mat's.

Point being, in EDH the game is saying to you "here's a cluster of stuff and you're guaranteed that about a third of it is good and there's also 2 or 3 bits of very good stuff in there".

With EDO, it seems like that assurance is no longer there.
The drop-rates might be statistically similar but you no longer have that assurance that the good stuff IS somewhere within a specific area.

 

[Florenus]

I'll admit that I'm not keen on the changes to mat' gathering for EDO but I guess the writing's on the wall and I'm not going to be able to switch back to EDH to collect raw mat's forever.

Can somebody point me at a good guide to gathering raw mats in EDO on Youtube?

What can I expect to find while gathering raw mat's in EDO?
Am I, basically, just looking at driving around a planet and finding random bits of flora in the same way that we used to find mesoanderites and meteorites in EDH?

Also, kind of rhetorically, is there any reason why EDO couldn't just have kept the various "fields" of stuff that we had in EDH... or are there similar sites in EDO?

I didn't like those blobs of stuff in EDH, so I really prefer EDO way here.

Nevertheless, it looks like 3.8 is going to stay with us, as an option, until the end of Elite, since it's the version consoles are left with, so I think you might as well keep switching if you like.

 

[Codger]

I currently have half a dozen planets bookmarked, which have reliable supplies of Antimony, Polonium, Ruthenium, Selenium, Technetium and Tellurium.

Well, for what it's worth, you can always use something like E.D.I.S.O.N. to make a list of coordinates on a planet once you've found the stuff once.

Then you can always go back and fill up in a couple of minutes like you do now.

Plants and Geological stuffs are still in fixed locations, so keeping the coordinates should work.

 

[Darrack]

RAW in EDO

Farming Crystalline Shards

Mine for all the low level stuff and trade out all your Grade 5s if you have any.

Fly out to the following places, you will need a minimum of 2 SRVs for a full run.
There may be fleet carriers in the system that will let you rearm/repair but don’t count on it (you can of course Synth your SRV but kind defeats the objective of farming)

Scan each planet (you will need a DSS fitted) and look for Crystalline Shard patches, they are normally on hilly, mountain areas if you’re not familiar with the way the new EDO filter works.
Search for a large group of Shards (easier to see with Night Vision on) this will get all you need with only maybe 1 relog.

HIP 36601 - C 1 a - Polonium

HIP 36601 - C 1 d - Ruthenium

HIP 36601 - C 3 b - Tellurium

HIP 36601 - C 5 a - Technetium

HIP 36601 - C 4 A - Selenium - (Not crystal shards)

Actually, better using LHS 417 9 E A in the bubble - look for Crystalline Fragments

Outotz LS-K d8-3 - B 7 b - Ruthenium

Outotz LS-K d8-3 - B 5 a - Yttrium

Outotz LS-K d8-3 - B 5 c - Antimony

Once your full of Grade 5s go back (yes a long trek) and trade out again.
In future when you’re all stocked up you can trade everything so that you only need to farm maybe 2 G5s in which case HIP 36601 - C 1 a – Polonium and HIP 36601 - C 3 b – Tellurium are by far the easiest.


Pro’s
Will take only a couple of hours to fill all G5’s

Con’s
1600LY from Sol
Most planets are 150K Ls from jump in
Closest material trader – HAHAHA

Advice from someone who does this a lot
Take a fleet carrier!!

O7

 

[He$$eeTant]

This ^^^^* just as guaranteed as your previous bookmarks

 

[Val Sylvana]

I find the crystalline shards have a few advantages in Odyssey. The terrain is generally easier, you can work on the daylight side of the planet, and you can get out and shoot troublesome shards on foot.

 

[Northpin]

Search for a large group of Shards (easier to see with Night Vision on) this will get all you need with only maybe 1 relog.

Crystalline Shards in Odyssey DO respawn at relog?

Really?

if so...

 

[Lugh]

You seem to be confused, the "fields" aren't gone in EDO planet generation got changed so they just aren't located where they used to be in edh

 

[Kimosabe_X]

Here are some coordinates from Cmdr @aXeL 's thread

Hi Folks,

I don't know if this is useful or not but it would've been to me if I'd found it before. After much trawling of the the forum, reddit and YT, looking for actual coordinates of decent crystal shard sites for Odyssey in HIP 36601, I gave up and did the grind to find sites myself. So, here are my coordinates for sites where I was able to completely fill certain rare raws from empty without driving all over the place:

HIP36601 C 1 a Polonium: -57.4599, 126.9543

HIP36601 C 1 d Ruthenium: -51.2639, 14.7291

HIP36601 C 3 b Telluruim: -17.6769, -55.1800

HIP36601 C 5 a Technetium: 3.5500, 111.5415

Edit: And.... >400 LY further away:

Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 a Yttrium: -1.9216 -145.7013

Outotz LS-K d8-3, B 5 c Antimony: -62.4905 80.2426

Is there any reason why peeps don't post the coords? Will they be different the next time I come back? Are they different for different people? Will FDev look at the list and think ( Oh no, someone found a way to reduce grind - we can't have that ). As mentioned, I did a lot of searches on this and plenty of people talk about planets and coords but don't actually post the latter. Even as I created this post I searched all the suggestions and nothing.

Doubtless this is where someone highlights a well known URL that has all this information and more anyway.

Might ease the search for shard sites a bit...

 

[Darrack]

Crystalline Shards in Odyssey DO respawn at relog?

Really?

if so...

Yes mate they do, normally just on a select screen relog, admittedly sometimes ive had to full relog.
But most of the time there is so much of the stuff you can do it all in one run.

O7