Thanks for watching, everyone! If you want to get to Colonia, it's quicker than you think! Here's a quick tutorial that walks you through everything you need: th-cam.com/video/KBAPzjYpHb0/w-d-xo.html Are there any other tips you have for exobiology in ED? What videos would you like to see next?
These videos have been a huge help! one suggestion I haven't seen anyone make a new play guide akin to other games. for example the guides I have seen give overviews of how to do things like this but they don't walk you through what you should do right from the start leaving the tutorial with your starter ship and 250,000 credits. apology's if you already have a video like this.
You know, what's hilarious is this is EXACTLY how I play doing exobio, even down to how I fire the probes, how I prefer the ship to the SRV.... It was like watching myself playing. What's cool is that I never, ever watched a video on how to do it until after I already taught myself how first. What you're showing here is what I learned all on my own. I love this game.
Yep. That's kind of one of my favorite things about Elite - it doesn't give you kid gloves for every little thing. You're challenged to figure out how to accomplish your own goals, and then refine your processes to get more efficient. Good life training. 🙂
This is really well done video, I find it super handy! Just finished engineering my Diamondback Explorer to 65ly, so I'm going to hit the unexplored regions and discover new planets and life. Thanks for this tutorial, have a great day :)
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching, and I'm glad you found it useful! My AspX has been my go to explorer, but I'm really thinking of trying out a DBX for a change.
*First-logged is FIVE TIMES the payout.* (Yes, it's 5X. 4X is the BONUS, so it's 5X total.) Why bother with anything else? Besides, who wants to spend all that time landing on some rock with someone else's name on it? Also, did I mention, it's FIVE TIMES the payout if you get there first? And this might be controversial, but...SRV IS FASTER. SRV is faster than getting back in the ship (loading screen), waiting for the engines to fire up, taking off, flying around until you spot something (while possibly passing up closer valid specimens because you're going too fast to land), finding a spot where you _can_ land, finding out you can't _actually_ land there, trying again a few times before giving up and trying somewhere else, eventually landing again, and then getting back out (another loading screen), and finally running _on foot_ to the next specimen. _Nah, fam._ With the SRV, you can pull _right up next to your target._ I mean, RIGHT NEXT TO IT--like, it's scratching the window with its alien fronds, next to it. You don't even have to take a step when you get out--just hit 5 and scan: you barely even have to aim (just make sure you park the SRV with your target on your RIGHT--otherwise you'll have to walk around!). Sit back down and zip off to the next one. Terrain restraints? Forget about it. You can go _anywhere._ No landing required. And, what's even better...it's FUN. No, don't laugh. It is. It's a blast. It's like zooming around in an overpowered go cart...except it's a go cart with a _jet pack,_ a roll cage, and six big bouncy wheels. Of course, you have to know how to drive it properly. I turn *drive assist off by default and set it to toggle.* Do that. It's important. Changes everything. Gives you much more control--and toggling drive assist on makes for a very effective brake. I'm not kidding about that. It's like it was designed for that purpose. Try it! It's super efficient this way...especially if you are grabbing multiple samples in the same vicinity. I can't imagine getting back in the ship nine times for three genera that grow right next to each other (or what's shown here: running around _on foot_ between the specimens--and those Osseus don't like to bunch up close, either; I think they're a 900m range critter...and in rocky terrain...you really got your steps in there, cmdr!). I only use the ship to fly between bacteria specimens (but I almost never do those anyway--only very rare ones are worth anything) because they are harder to see from ground level. I also use something called *SRV Survey* that is really helpful in keeping track of specimens. It even gives you an overlay displaying your location and the clonal range radius of the genus you're currently sampling. You know...something that should be in the game already.
Dude, just measure.. Being in a small ship like DBE you land right on top of a target. You exit out and can scan immediately. With SRV you need to recall a ship, and you probably know how slow an auto landing routine could be. Once I embarked at 0% of a suite charge just because a stpd ship landed behind hills. Next, about 20% of planets has a terrain difficult for SRV with small patches just enough to land on. Plus, you waste a time jumping to a target system carrying a useless SRV with a smaller jump.
@@sc0or Why would you need to recall your ship or use "an auto landing routine"? Read my comment again all the way through. You missed some important information. The way I do it, I never have to recall my ship and I have all my samples collected within a few short minutes of landing. People who don't use the SRV in my opinion simply don't know how to drive it. It's actually really fun (and efficient) when you do it right. By the way, you're not going to find much of any value in terrain "difficult" for an SRV. And if you think it's too rough for an SRV, you're going to have a tough time finding a landing spot even for a DBX--though I used to land my Anaconda in hills (not recommended) before I started using DBX instead. I don't bother with hills and mountains anymore except for a little "off-roading" and/or photography. Everything worth the time it takes to land and collect samples is on the flat plains (mostly just stratum tectonicas, really, and a few other genera depending on sector). And even with an SRV on board, I still get a 50+ ly range, which is plenty for exobiology (and that's with only some engineering).
@@SolusVir Mostly you are right about a flat land and valuable discoveries. Tectonicus lives in plains. But just measure. Embarking takes a same time as to entering an SRV, starting an engine is only 4 secs, in 10 secs I'm at a next plants patch, because we cannot compare driving speeds of a ship and SRV. A visibility and a spotability are also cannot be compared. Driving SRV in most cases you just go straight hoping to find a plant on your way because hills are an obstacle. In a ship I see it from a max render distance. In many cases I can start scanning without making a single footstep. A vehicle is good for an immersive gameplay, but it's not necessary - that was my message.
You should see some of the exo videos around here and see how much faster it is to just use a ship... unless you're still using a jumpaconda or something.
Really informative and professionally edited videos. Would love to see something like an absolute beginner's guide from you. Keep up the great content, liked and subscribed 👍
Found two earthlikes in the _same system_ once. I should have gotten a major bonus for that one, but I guess Universal Cartographics doesn't consider that very interesting. "Oh, wow, another earthlike, ho hum." At least my name's on it, although I doubt anyone will ever go there anyway.
I usually don't land on a planet for exobiology if its less the 5 plants. Also some plants (specially Osseus) can be hard to find, cos they sometimes blend into the surroundings. In that case i use night vision mode to see them more clearly through the contour of the night vision environment. If you know what your looking for, then the night vision can be a really great help for hard to find plants.
I used to try that too. Then realized that it actually takes me (at least) more time to find everything with that golden 6 or more bios planet than to land and slam two or three bios. That completionist thing gets me every time. Just hard to find some of the items due to the non-differentiated bio scan. FDev could help with that.
This is excellent. Going to go out of the bubble now and do this, been doing D2EA's billionaire boulevard but doing all of it will only get you approx. 3 billion credits, and that won't cut it for a fleet carrier! Also going to unlock Professor Palin engineer in the process!
My sincerest apologies for the sound issues during supercruise and at the end of the video. I had some licensing trouble for a track that I had licensed, and then had to replace after the fact.
With regard to your Spansh search, 0.27g is the limit for most of the interesting bios. Above that, you'll only find bacterium and stratum. That said, stratum tectonicas is one of the most valuable species, if not the most exciting to look at.
Thanks! That's a good tip! I did notice that when I bumped it up a bit, I started getting more results as expected, but also more planets that didn't have exobiology as well. And yes, the stratum is always fantastic to find. Almost 100k for a new Footfall planet. Thanks for watching!
I've got $15 million in the bank and about $32 million worth of ships Mostly from early game bounty hunting in a little bit of power play. I guess I should go exploring!
Put everything you have into a passenger ship and help Sol if you see this in the next two days!! I went from like 47m total assets to 170m in like 2 days. Just be sure to kit an ECM and AT LEAST 2 point defenses- and make sure your ship can boost to over 400 to be able to escape the goids
Nice video with clear instruction. I’m not sure about the music though. Is the Asp ok for landing in the hills? I struggled with the Krait Phantom and had to use the SRV or abandon some plants altogether.
Thanks for watching! I haven't had many problems landing the AspX on hills, as long as the slope hasn't been too steep. The auto-landing can be a little finicky though, but that's pretty much any ship.
Asp can be ok, however the slightly slimmer DBX is almost like doing helicopter operations. This statement from a multi-thousand hour combat helo pilot. Up, over, and down. It is cathartic. A small ship will of course be best a the actual landing in the hills, but the DBX has been great. Ensure you turn off that autoland 'feature'. You can often give the landing struts a good bit of a slam on deck... affirmative landing... with no damage. Can also lateral drift a less than a meter altitude to find the sweet spot in those hills.
I play Elite very casually on and off and I'm glad I've been finding some many great channels for Elite since i came back again a week ago. I remember when I first started playing, I often got guides for new players by this one guy who keeps moaning about the devs and elite in very of his guides.
If you fire the first probe to the back of the planet, then the edges, and lastly the front, it will be a lot quicker. Planets requiring 2 to 4 probes can be done only using edge probes.
With the pre-engineered surface scanner, you can map planets with a target of 4 probes or fewer with a single probe, and planets with a target of 6 probes with 2 probes fired on two opposite horizons. It’s definitely worth getting for your exploration ship.
Dolphin is one of the best ships for exobiology, cause time to time you'll have to land in a difficult terrain. It took me 4 weeks from starting new cmdr to buy a fleet carrier, and all was done on Dolphin.
Doesn't Spanch use EDSM data? As in already explored? I mean many systems in the black were "jonked", but its not going to a "completely" unexplored system.
Exobiology coupled with exploration has been the best part of this game pulling it heads and shoulders above the field. Thank you for sharing it well in clear language with some fun music and video mixing. First Foot Fall is so key. As has been said, "Billions and Billions" of credits. You've made it so easy with the spansh search. But it can be fun just to find it through the illusion of serendipity. You know, going from here to there with some zigzags in between. Won't spansh only show those systems previously visited (not footfall) through ED market connect or Inara? That is fine though as long as you get the first footfall as you stated. I do wish the biological system 'heat map' was significantly better. For the limited # of bios, it seems that wouldn't be too much to ask in 3310. Great share on the 'dirty' approach to 'air brake' with dropping the gear. Another thing that makes this a fun game/sim. Great vid, calm and smooth!
I don’t think it shows only systems that are previously visited. I was on a run today, and one of the systems on the list turned out to be never visited before
I just started playing this game yesterday. It is really daunting for me to go anywhere too far because I am scared to death I am gonna do something wrong or catch a fine for something dumb or run out of fuel. I want to learn how to play this game so bad but I am so damn scared that I am gonna mess up or something. That and if I do mess up something I can't take it back so I haven't went too far from where you first start out. I have done a few delivery missions but I want to try this exobiology thing out really bad. Just freaks me out to go too far away. Were any of you guys like that when you first started playing?
Hey, I was kinda like that as well. You don't have to start off journeying out too far. Check out my laser mining video that I just released yesterday. It's how I started in Elite, and it's a great way to learn the ropes and make some really nice cash at the same time. From there, you'll make enough to get bigger better ships and be able to more confidently journey out. And don't be afraid of screwing up. Everyone gets a fine here and there, it's no big deal. Worse case, you rebuy and get back into it. Give it a try - you'll love it!
I've been like that as well. Only travelled between the same two systems doing some commodity market trading. Today I got that nice Triple Elite decal and 40 billion Cr in the wallet.
What annoys me about this mechanic... stations can scan my ship and read the DNA of passengers to know they are fugitives, but I have to walk up to three different samples of a plant to get any information from it.
@@jackh4781 What does him having records have to do with scanning? They can read his DNA to identify him from 1k away. But I can't read the DNA of a plant from more than 10ft away.
So im starting out in exploration and exobiology in a stock diamondback explorer. When i use spansh my tagged systems are like 600lys apart and for me thats like 21 jumps to get to the next system on spansh. thats a crazy amount of wasted time travelling.
And you scan those systems too because many will have planets where you can also scan. The program doesn't know every system with every planet. Not even close
So, I found planets that didn't have the first footfall display on them, landed, got out, walked around, but I wasn't told I was the first to walk on it. Any ideas?
I dont get it. I found 4 planets with 3 bios each. I searched for all plants and bacteria. After 2 hours i head back to a station and got just 4.5 Mio credits in total... and i was the first who discovered the planets....
I was only able to get two samples, one of stratum and one tussock, if I tried to collect a third variety it was asking to burn the current sample. As if I didn't have enough of the little storage things to go on the sampler. Any ideas?
You need to get 3 samples of 3 different colonies of the same species for it to count. Sounds like you haven't finished the previous one. Check out my video on using ED Copilot - it'll show what samples you have already. Very useful.
So on my first journey of exploration and was 14 jumps from turning in my discoveries and my ship tapped the side of a mountain and blew up. was going slow. is that normal? Thanks for all the info though
@@Mile13Gaming Im a newbie so i did the Mandalay upgrade the fast way. I love exploring and i figured the smashing into asteroids and a planet would similar. Not at all the case. combat seems to be allot more forgiving than exploring. To be fair combat is in local space so when you explode (which i've done allot) you dont lose hrs worth of work lol. I've enjoyed your videos they've helped me out allot!
Is there a reason to aquiring riches in Odyssey beyond a certain point?, what i mean is, do i need to get rich beyond a couple of million to enjoy exploration and aquire the tech needed to persue my adventure, or is it a ''Grind for Greed'' mentality, where you waste time accumulating piles of wealth, that i'll never need. Just asking, not trying to be awkward, as im excited to get started?
Credits come down more or less to ship-buying power. The biggest ships start to get pretty expensive, plus upgrading modules tacks on quite a bit as well. Then of course there's the fleet carrier at $5B, plus upkeep. I love mine! But of course, that's all up to you, and how you want to enjoy the game. Exploration with a diamond back explorer can be done for just a few million.
Great question. You don't have to be in Colonia. I've made Exo trips from the Bubble, you just have to go a little further out. Pick a random direction (not in the direction of Colonia or Sag*, because those are more heavily traveled), and head about 2000LY out, and you'll find planets that don't have first footfall. Keep in mind, too, first footfall isn't a requirement, it just gets you a big monetary bonus. So you can also scan close to home for millions, just without the 4x bonus.
First of all, did you make sure to use all of the filter categories in your Spansh search? And if so, it's not guaranteed that you'll have biological signals on every one. The vast majority seem to, but I suppose it's not always always the case.
The chance of others visiting such system are slim so all this grind may not even result in anyone noticing (have 600 hours of grind in this mile-wide and 1-inch-deep game).
You can use “Last updated at” filter, and reduce a chance that someone landed onto a planet to zero. Guess what is a max date could be entered into the filter field? ;)
Nice. not played since very early odyssey release, I remember the mini game of the bio scanner they had. seems much more boring just click and hold now. Oh well. The payout seems a lot too.
@@Mile13Gaming Because I compulsively need to gather everything I come across. Icy worlds tend to be gray and bacterium patches are same color. Much easier to see them on tan and sandy landscapes. Don't get me started on distant moons that are constantly in the dark.
Im still not mentaly recovered from my exploration💀, After almost a month outside the bubble exploring discovering and mapping planet, i lost everything, My pc decided to freeze for a minute right after i complete re-entry glide, make me slam to the ground💀, loosing 930mil worth of data i literaly rage quit after that lol.
Oh man, that's rough. Yeah, I start getting squirrely after a day or two and have to zoom back to hand in my data, or I'll be a nervous wreck. Also helps to bring a fleet carrier with you, if you have the means.
Which part of the blue is highlighted? THe teal, the ultramarine or the inbetween? Aslo on youtube it tools all the same color due to the compression. Thanks.
@@Mile13Gaming Well... my game name, Abulion (some systems and worlds have my name on it :P ) it's my first D&D character when I was young... and had stick to me since then... :) (for the record I was a mage) :)
This will work till a next big update. They added core mining before fleet carriers were introduced. They added Stratum before personal orbital stations are introduced. Then they’ll add something else before will allow you to build a surface station. And so on. Until 100bln account will be considered as a normal one because your settlement will require 1bln/week handling fee.
Nice guide, if a little on the basic side. One thing though. As you mentioned, the Detailed Surface Scanner produces biome maps, not heat maps. However, at least for Stratum, there is a way to use them as heat maps too. (I wouldn't know about the rest, I only hunt for Stratum.) But it's not easy to see, and you really need to know what you're looking at. Once you know the trick, you can drop your ship right in the middle of a bunch of nicely-spread-out patches of Stratum, every single time. Just think, no more flying around at random, hoping to spot some. As a bonus. this will also encourage you to develop some SRV skills, as it's faster than flying from patch to patch! Using it, I was able to pull in 2 Billion credits in a single very long (12+ hour) session. So what is this amazing secret "heat map" technique? Well, it's a lot harder to describe than it is to see for yourself, so you'll need to watch this video. th-cam.com/video/IpZIcbSXkfU/w-d-xo.html
That method works for everything, more or less. I learned how to read whatever we're calling that thing ("biome map" seems suitable) before I became more discerning of what plants I juiced. So, I know that the bright blue-green patches are where you want to go for anything you're after. That said, some genera are more cooperative than others. Osseus is a bitch, for example. You might only find one sample in a seemingly large expanse of appropriate biome, because the bastards like to hide out in a very particular type of rough terrain and apparently don't get along with each other very well. Not worth the trouble, usually.
@@SolusVir - Yep.. that's why I *ONLY* bother with Stratum Tectonicas on 'first footfall' planets. 95 million credits a pop soon adds up. Which is why the video I linked to is so helpful. It's the best way to locate Tectonicas that I've seen.
@@Garryck-1 For sure. I've watched your video. It's right on the money. That and a couple other sources convinced me to stop scanning everything. I go for a few of the other high end genera that are easy to find too, but mostly focus on good old strat tec.
Great question, honking gives you the orbital plane, but it will only find planets within a certain distance from you (it's small -like 50LS or so). You need to use the FSS to discover everything else outside of that range.
Honking only scans the stars in a system and tells you how many bodies are in a system. It doesn't scan any planets and also the planets in undiscovered systems won't show up in the system map before you FSS them one by one.
what is the point of having the name on systems? Nothing. It is totally irrelevant... you don't even care, because you will never see the places again...
Just curious, what name is on Tira Flirble in the Eurybia system as" first mapped by " played this game three to 4 years ago before it was ended on consoles. And probably have a few hundred first finds. Not many first mapped since that was added right before they quit supporting console.
Thanks for watching, everyone! If you want to get to Colonia, it's quicker than you think! Here's a quick tutorial that walks you through everything you need: th-cam.com/video/KBAPzjYpHb0/w-d-xo.html
Are there any other tips you have for exobiology in ED? What videos would you like to see next?
These videos have been a huge help! one suggestion I haven't seen anyone make a new play guide akin to other games. for example the guides I have seen give overviews of how to do things like this but they don't walk you through what you should do right from the start leaving the tutorial with your starter ship and 250,000 credits. apology's if you already have a video like this.
You know, what's hilarious is this is EXACTLY how I play doing exobio, even down to how I fire the probes, how I prefer the ship to the SRV.... It was like watching myself playing. What's cool is that I never, ever watched a video on how to do it until after I already taught myself how first. What you're showing here is what I learned all on my own. I love this game.
Yep. That's kind of one of my favorite things about Elite - it doesn't give you kid gloves for every little thing. You're challenged to figure out how to accomplish your own goals, and then refine your processes to get more efficient. Good life training. 🙂
Weird flex
no one cares
That 4x bonus is all I needed to hear.
Yeah it's pretty massive. One good stratum, and that's 100M right there.
Really excellent and comprehensive explanations, great video, keep it up!
Thanks so much! I'll have another one out shortly!
This is really well done video, I find it super handy! Just finished engineering my Diamondback Explorer to 65ly, so I'm going to hit the unexplored regions and discover new planets and life. Thanks for this tutorial, have a great day :)
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching, and I'm glad you found it useful!
My AspX has been my go to explorer, but I'm really thinking of trying out a DBX for a change.
*First-logged is FIVE TIMES the payout.* (Yes, it's 5X. 4X is the BONUS, so it's 5X total.) Why bother with anything else? Besides, who wants to spend all that time landing on some rock with someone else's name on it? Also, did I mention, it's FIVE TIMES the payout if you get there first?
And this might be controversial, but...SRV IS FASTER.
SRV is faster than getting back in the ship (loading screen), waiting for the engines to fire up, taking off, flying around until you spot something (while possibly passing up closer valid specimens because you're going too fast to land), finding a spot where you _can_ land, finding out you can't _actually_ land there, trying again a few times before giving up and trying somewhere else, eventually landing again, and then getting back out (another loading screen), and finally running _on foot_ to the next specimen. _Nah, fam._
With the SRV, you can pull _right up next to your target._ I mean, RIGHT NEXT TO IT--like, it's scratching the window with its alien fronds, next to it. You don't even have to take a step when you get out--just hit 5 and scan: you barely even have to aim (just make sure you park the SRV with your target on your RIGHT--otherwise you'll have to walk around!). Sit back down and zip off to the next one. Terrain restraints? Forget about it. You can go _anywhere._ No landing required. And, what's even better...it's FUN. No, don't laugh. It is. It's a blast. It's like zooming around in an overpowered go cart...except it's a go cart with a _jet pack,_ a roll cage, and six big bouncy wheels.
Of course, you have to know how to drive it properly. I turn *drive assist off by default and set it to toggle.* Do that. It's important. Changes everything. Gives you much more control--and toggling drive assist on makes for a very effective brake. I'm not kidding about that. It's like it was designed for that purpose. Try it! It's super efficient this way...especially if you are grabbing multiple samples in the same vicinity. I can't imagine getting back in the ship nine times for three genera that grow right next to each other (or what's shown here: running around _on foot_ between the specimens--and those Osseus don't like to bunch up close, either; I think they're a 900m range critter...and in rocky terrain...you really got your steps in there, cmdr!). I only use the ship to fly between bacteria specimens (but I almost never do those anyway--only very rare ones are worth anything) because they are harder to see from ground level. I also use something called *SRV Survey* that is really helpful in keeping track of specimens. It even gives you an overlay displaying your location and the clonal range radius of the genus you're currently sampling. You know...something that should be in the game already.
Nah my Viper disagrees
Dude, just measure.. Being in a small ship like DBE you land right on top of a target. You exit out and can scan immediately. With SRV you need to recall a ship, and you probably know how slow an auto landing routine could be. Once I embarked at 0% of a suite charge just because a stpd ship landed behind hills. Next, about 20% of planets has a terrain difficult for SRV with small patches just enough to land on. Plus, you waste a time jumping to a target system carrying a useless SRV with a smaller jump.
@@sc0or Why would you need to recall your ship or use "an auto landing routine"? Read my comment again all the way through. You missed some important information. The way I do it, I never have to recall my ship and I have all my samples collected within a few short minutes of landing. People who don't use the SRV in my opinion simply don't know how to drive it. It's actually really fun (and efficient) when you do it right.
By the way, you're not going to find much of any value in terrain "difficult" for an SRV. And if you think it's too rough for an SRV, you're going to have a tough time finding a landing spot even for a DBX--though I used to land my Anaconda in hills (not recommended) before I started using DBX instead. I don't bother with hills and mountains anymore except for a little "off-roading" and/or photography. Everything worth the time it takes to land and collect samples is on the flat plains (mostly just stratum tectonicas, really, and a few other genera depending on sector). And even with an SRV on board, I still get a 50+ ly range, which is plenty for exobiology (and that's with only some engineering).
@@SolusVir Mostly you are right about a flat land and valuable discoveries. Tectonicus lives in plains. But just measure. Embarking takes a same time as to entering an SRV, starting an engine is only 4 secs, in 10 secs I'm at a next plants patch, because we cannot compare driving speeds of a ship and SRV. A visibility and a spotability are also cannot be compared. Driving SRV in most cases you just go straight hoping to find a plant on your way because hills are an obstacle. In a ship I see it from a max render distance. In many cases I can start scanning without making a single footstep. A vehicle is good for an immersive gameplay, but it's not necessary - that was my message.
You should see some of the exo videos around here and see how much faster it is to just use a ship... unless you're still using a jumpaconda or something.
Finally the guide I was looking for!
No more unsuccessful exo landings.
Well, I hope. Fingers crossed.
Really informative and professionally edited videos. Would love to see something like an absolute beginner's guide from you. Keep up the great content, liked and subscribed 👍
i made one journey to colonia and sagitarius A* back in the day. I've got a few systems out there with my name on em including some earth-likes.
Found two earthlikes in the _same system_ once. I should have gotten a major bonus for that one, but I guess Universal Cartographics doesn't consider that very interesting. "Oh, wow, another earthlike, ho hum." At least my name's on it, although I doubt anyone will ever go there anyway.
Thank you sir for the clarity on the video I have subbed and liked
Another great guide! Thanks 13!!
I usually don't land on a planet for exobiology if its less the 5 plants. Also some plants (specially Osseus) can be hard to find, cos they sometimes blend into the surroundings. In that case i use night vision mode to see them more clearly through the contour of the night vision environment. If you know what your looking for, then the night vision can be a really great help for hard to find plants.
I used to try that too. Then realized that it actually takes me (at least) more time to find everything with that golden 6 or more bios planet than to land and slam two or three bios. That completionist thing gets me every time. Just hard to find some of the items due to the non-differentiated bio scan. FDev could help with that.
After some time you gain experience and learn what you have to look for and where. Then it will be much easier to find everything @@gthomason9869
This is excellent. Going to go out of the bubble now and do this, been doing D2EA's billionaire boulevard but doing all of it will only get you approx. 3 billion credits, and that won't cut it for a fleet carrier! Also going to unlock Professor Palin engineer in the process!
Great job mate!
Thanks! I hope it was helpful! Let me know if you have anything else you'd like to see!
My sincerest apologies for the sound issues during supercruise and at the end of the video. I had some licensing trouble for a track that I had licensed, and then had to replace after the fact.
With regard to your Spansh search, 0.27g is the limit for most of the interesting bios. Above that, you'll only find bacterium and stratum. That said, stratum tectonicas is one of the most valuable species, if not the most exciting to look at.
Thanks! That's a good tip! I did notice that when I bumped it up a bit, I started getting more results as expected, but also more planets that didn't have exobiology as well.
And yes, the stratum is always fantastic to find. Almost 100k for a new Footfall planet.
Thanks for watching!
I've got $15 million in the bank and about $32 million worth of ships Mostly from early game bounty hunting in a little bit of power play. I guess I should go exploring!
Yup, a single Stratum Tectonicus with a First Footfall bonus is just shy of $100M alone. :)
Put everything you have into a passenger ship and help Sol if you see this in the next two days!! I went from like 47m total assets to 170m in like 2 days. Just be sure to kit an ECM and AT LEAST 2 point defenses- and make sure your ship can boost to over 400 to be able to escape the goids
@@ianhogan1306 that's a great idea. I was thinking of fitting out a dolphin just to say say I did the event. Then off to explore!
One word: Works!
Nice video with clear instruction. I’m not sure about the music though. Is the Asp ok for landing in the hills? I struggled with the Krait Phantom and had to use the SRV or abandon some plants altogether.
Thanks for watching! I haven't had many problems landing the AspX on hills, as long as the slope hasn't been too steep. The auto-landing can be a little finicky though, but that's pretty much any ship.
Asp can be ok, however the slightly slimmer DBX is almost like doing helicopter operations. This statement from a multi-thousand hour combat helo pilot. Up, over, and down. It is cathartic. A small ship will of course be best a the actual landing in the hills, but the DBX has been great. Ensure you turn off that autoland 'feature'. You can often give the landing struts a good bit of a slam on deck... affirmative landing... with no damage. Can also lateral drift a less than a meter altitude to find the sweet spot in those hills.
I play Elite very casually on and off and I'm glad I've been finding some many great channels for Elite since i came back again a week ago. I remember when I first started playing, I often got guides for new players by this one guy who keeps moaning about the devs and elite in very of his guides.
If you fire the first probe to the back of the planet, then the edges, and lastly the front, it will be a lot quicker. Planets requiring 2 to 4 probes can be done only using edge probes.
Nice! Thanks for the tip! I'll give that a shot on my next mapping.
With the pre-engineered surface scanner, you can map planets with a target of 4 probes or fewer with a single probe, and planets with a target of 6 probes with 2 probes fired on two opposite horizons. It’s definitely worth getting for your exploration ship.
Enjoyed every second of it, THX! :)
The reviews for the DLC has kept me from buying it but after this video I think I’m going to buy it!
Have you tried ED in VR?
wow this video is insanely useful, i just watched the hawks g aming exo "guide" and it made no sense to me this explained everything
Quick tip, turn off auto-landing as it can take too long to land sometimes, especially in tough terrain.
Yup, I usually have it off.
Dolphin is one of the best ships for exobiology, cause time to time you'll have to land in a difficult terrain. It took me 4 weeks from starting new cmdr to buy a fleet carrier, and all was done on Dolphin.
Concur. Dolphin is great for this. and a DBX.
Dbx!
"get your name in the system map for all to see" you mean the same system map where 99.94% of the stuff has never been seen by anyone? 😂
Doesn't Spanch use EDSM data? As in already explored? I mean many systems in the black were "jonked", but its not going to a "completely" unexplored system.
You are correct.
Exobiology coupled with exploration has been the best part of this game pulling it heads and shoulders above the field. Thank you for sharing it well in clear language with some fun music and video mixing. First Foot Fall is so key. As has been said, "Billions and Billions" of credits. You've made it so easy with the spansh search. But it can be fun just to find it through the illusion of serendipity. You know, going from here to there with some zigzags in between. Won't spansh only show those systems previously visited (not footfall) through ED market connect or Inara? That is fine though as long as you get the first footfall as you stated. I do wish the biological system 'heat map' was significantly better. For the limited # of bios, it seems that wouldn't be too much to ask in 3310. Great share on the 'dirty' approach to 'air brake' with dropping the gear. Another thing that makes this a fun game/sim. Great vid, calm and smooth!
I don’t think it shows only systems that are previously visited. I was on a run today, and one of the systems on the list turned out to be never visited before
@@ericzaat1560 Good to hear. I will need to pay more attention to that in the future. My hours of gameplay have been hard to come by lately.
@@ericzaat1560 How did they get data on a system that was not discovered?
I just started playing this game yesterday. It is really daunting for me to go anywhere too far because I am scared to death I am gonna do something wrong or catch a fine for something dumb or run out of fuel. I want to learn how to play this game so bad but I am so damn scared that I am gonna mess up or something. That and if I do mess up something I can't take it back so I haven't went too far from where you first start out. I have done a few delivery missions but I want to try this exobiology thing out really bad. Just freaks me out to go too far away. Were any of you guys like that when you first started playing?
Hey, I was kinda like that as well. You don't have to start off journeying out too far. Check out my laser mining video that I just released yesterday. It's how I started in Elite, and it's a great way to learn the ropes and make some really nice cash at the same time. From there, you'll make enough to get bigger better ships and be able to more confidently journey out.
And don't be afraid of screwing up. Everyone gets a fine here and there, it's no big deal. Worse case, you rebuy and get back into it. Give it a try - you'll love it!
I've been like that as well. Only travelled between the same two systems doing some commodity market trading. Today I got that nice Triple Elite decal and 40 billion Cr in the wallet.
What annoys me about this mechanic... stations can scan my ship and read the DNA of passengers to know they are fugitives, but I have to walk up to three different samples of a plant to get any information from it.
Sample size VS DNA profiling.
A plant that nobody has ever seen before vs a wanted fugitive with records hmmmm
@@jackh4781 What does him having records have to do with scanning? They can read his DNA to identify him from 1k away. But I can't read the DNA of a plant from more than 10ft away.
So im starting out in exploration and exobiology in a stock diamondback explorer.
When i use spansh my tagged systems are like 600lys apart and for me thats like 21 jumps to get to the next system on spansh.
thats a crazy amount of wasted time travelling.
And you scan those systems too because many will have planets where you can also scan.
The program doesn't know every system with every planet. Not even close
Excellent guide thank you
Glad it was helpful!
So, I found planets that didn't have the first footfall display on them, landed, got out, walked around, but I wasn't told I was the first to walk on it. Any ideas?
I do know that First Footfall credit can only be claimed on planets in systems with 0 population. Maybe that's it?
@@Mile13Gaming Alright. Thanks.
I dont get it. I found 4 planets with 3 bios each. I searched for all plants and bacteria. After 2 hours i head back to a station and got just 4.5 Mio credits in total... and i was the first who discovered the planets....
Thank you! Great Tuto. I thought only when you sell the data, your name would be added to the planet.
It is. First discover. First step on is instant
I was only able to get two samples, one of stratum and one tussock, if I tried to collect a third variety it was asking to burn the current sample. As if I didn't have enough of the little storage things to go on the sampler. Any ideas?
You need to get 3 samples of 3 different colonies of the same species for it to count. Sounds like you haven't finished the previous one.
Check out my video on using ED Copilot - it'll show what samples you have already. Very useful.
I've spent more time looking for that last stupid Osseus then I have looking for just about anything else. It's part of the science though, eh?
If i were there, could i scan those bacteria as well so i would get more of the planet?
Sure! Just make sure you complete all three scans of one type before doing another one.
So on my first journey of exploration and was 14 jumps from turning in my discoveries and my ship tapped the side of a mountain and blew up. was going slow. is that normal? Thanks for all the info though
It all depends on how strong your shield and hull are. And how big of a "tap" it is. :)
@@Mile13Gaming Im a newbie so i did the Mandalay upgrade the fast way. I love exploring and i figured the smashing into asteroids and a planet would similar. Not at all the case. combat seems to be allot more forgiving than exploring. To be fair combat is in local space so when you explode (which i've done allot) you dont lose hrs worth of work lol. I've enjoyed your videos they've helped me out allot!
Are you still out in colonia and how long have you been there
Oh, I've come back for all the doings in the Bubble lately. But I'm hankering for another trip out there...
Is there a reason to aquiring riches in Odyssey beyond a certain point?, what i mean is, do i need to get rich beyond a couple of million to enjoy exploration and aquire the tech needed to persue my adventure, or is it a ''Grind for Greed'' mentality, where you waste time accumulating piles of wealth, that i'll never need. Just asking, not trying to be awkward, as im excited to get started?
Credits come down more or less to ship-buying power. The biggest ships start to get pretty expensive, plus upgrading modules tacks on quite a bit as well. Then of course there's the fleet carrier at $5B, plus upkeep. I love mine!
But of course, that's all up to you, and how you want to enjoy the game. Exploration with a diamond back explorer can be done for just a few million.
Do you have to start in Colonia, or is any system outside the bubble an option to try and use?
Great question. You don't have to be in Colonia. I've made Exo trips from the Bubble, you just have to go a little further out. Pick a random direction (not in the direction of Colonia or Sag*, because those are more heavily traveled), and head about 2000LY out, and you'll find planets that don't have first footfall. Keep in mind, too, first footfall isn't a requirement, it just gets you a big monetary bonus. So you can also scan close to home for millions, just without the 4x bonus.
i keep getting insufficient exo biology readings on my scanner
I must have blinked when 100M's were being earned in minutes.
First footfall and a Stratum Tectonica is instant 100M. It's crazy.
Isn't the darkest blue areas on the planet has more spawn chance?
More spawn "chance", yes. But not necessarily an indication of population density.
It didn’t work after 100% scan I got zero biological
First of all, did you make sure to use all of the filter categories in your Spansh search? And if so, it's not guaranteed that you'll have biological signals on every one. The vast majority seem to, but I suppose it's not always always the case.
The chance of others visiting such system are slim so all this grind may not even result in anyone noticing (have 600 hours of grind in this mile-wide and 1-inch-deep game).
You can use “Last updated at” filter, and reduce a chance that someone landed onto a planet to zero. Guess what is a max date could be entered into the filter field? ;)
Nice. not played since very early odyssey release, I remember the mini game of the bio scanner they had. seems much more boring just click and hold now. Oh well. The payout seems a lot too.
If you can find first footfalls, it's the most profitable activity in the game. Literally a single stratum tectonicus with FF is 100M.
What I need tips for is how to spot bacteriums on icy worlds.
Interesting. I would think they'd be easier to spot on ice. Out of curiosity, why bacterium? They tend to be some of the lower-paying exo.
@@Mile13Gaming Because I compulsively need to gather everything I come across. Icy worlds tend to be gray and bacterium patches are same color. Much easier to see them on tan and sandy landscapes. Don't get me started on distant moons that are constantly in the dark.
Im still not mentaly recovered from my exploration💀,
After almost a month outside the bubble exploring discovering and mapping planet, i lost everything,
My pc decided to freeze for a minute right after i complete re-entry glide, make me slam to the ground💀, loosing 930mil worth of data i literaly rage quit after that lol.
Oh man, that's rough. Yeah, I start getting squirrely after a day or two and have to zoom back to hand in my data, or I'll be a nervous wreck. Also helps to bring a fleet carrier with you, if you have the means.
My system is not on spansh
That's a good thing! That means it's likely to not have been discovered yet. So if there's Exobiology there, you should get the first footfall bonus.
cool beans
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
26 million in an hour is pretty good lol, that was my first run
Nice! If you can get that First Footfall bonus, that value skyrockets!
My game name is on about 2 dozen systems now.
Nice! Feels cool, doesn't it?
tnx 4 info
Which part of the blue is highlighted? THe teal, the ultramarine or the inbetween? Aslo on youtube it tools all the same color due to the compression. Thanks.
Furor Dei? 👀
LOL, yeah, it was a name I picked long ago back in the Diablo 1 days. I thought it sounded cool at the time, and just stuck with it.
@@Mile13Gaming
Well then...
Væ Victis, CMDR O7
@@Mile13Gaming Well... my game name, Abulion (some systems and worlds have my name on it :P ) it's my first D&D character when I was young... and had stick to me since then... :) (for the record I was a mage) :)
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This still works?
Yep! Just did an Exo run earlier this week!
This will work till a next big update. They added core mining before fleet carriers were introduced. They added Stratum before personal orbital stations are introduced. Then they’ll add something else before will allow you to build a surface station. And so on. Until 100bln account will be considered as a normal one because your settlement will require 1bln/week handling fee.
Nice guide, if a little on the basic side. One thing though.
As you mentioned, the Detailed Surface Scanner produces biome maps, not heat maps. However, at least for Stratum, there is a way to use them as heat maps too. (I wouldn't know about the rest, I only hunt for Stratum.) But it's not easy to see, and you really need to know what you're looking at. Once you know the trick, you can drop your ship right in the middle of a bunch of nicely-spread-out patches of Stratum, every single time. Just think, no more flying around at random, hoping to spot some. As a bonus. this will also encourage you to develop some SRV skills, as it's faster than flying from patch to patch!
Using it, I was able to pull in 2 Billion credits in a single very long (12+ hour) session.
So what is this amazing secret "heat map" technique? Well, it's a lot harder to describe than it is to see for yourself, so you'll need to watch this video. th-cam.com/video/IpZIcbSXkfU/w-d-xo.html
That is some serious endurance. The biomemap needs some love from FDEV. It is, let's say, functional, but not very discreet.
That method works for everything, more or less. I learned how to read whatever we're calling that thing ("biome map" seems suitable) before I became more discerning of what plants I juiced. So, I know that the bright blue-green patches are where you want to go for anything you're after. That said, some genera are more cooperative than others. Osseus is a bitch, for example. You might only find one sample in a seemingly large expanse of appropriate biome, because the bastards like to hide out in a very particular type of rough terrain and apparently don't get along with each other very well. Not worth the trouble, usually.
@@SolusVir - Yep.. that's why I *ONLY* bother with Stratum Tectonicas on 'first footfall' planets. 95 million credits a pop soon adds up. Which is why the video I linked to is so helpful. It's the best way to locate Tectonicas that I've seen.
@@Garryck-1 For sure. I've watched your video. It's right on the money. That and a couple other sources convinced me to stop scanning everything. I go for a few of the other high end genera that are easy to find too, but mostly focus on good old strat tec.
amazing what people can consider fun xD
why not just honk the system instead of scan one by one
Great question, honking gives you the orbital plane, but it will only find planets within a certain distance from you (it's small -like 50LS or so). You need to use the FSS to discover everything else outside of that range.
Honking only scans the stars in a system and tells you how many bodies are in a system. It doesn't scan any planets and also the planets in undiscovered systems won't show up in the system map before you FSS them one by one.
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... WHAT?
what is the point of having the name on systems? Nothing. It is totally irrelevant... you don't even care, because you will never see the places again...
Just a point of pride, and it's a fun accomplishment.
Just curious, what name is on Tira Flirble in the Eurybia system as" first mapped by " played this game three to 4 years ago before it was ended on consoles. And probably have a few hundred first finds. Not many first mapped since that was added right before they quit supporting console.