Easy and Fast Selenium Farming in Elite Dangerous
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As the CMDR who discovered this farm, I am just glad to see that it has spread throughout the community. When I found this location only 24 CMDR's had been to the system according to EDSM, now fleet carriers are always present.
I discover candidate planets by cross referencing the Cannon biology database with EDSM queries. Then I use an easily identifiable landmark to do mapped farming, here I get 150 Selenium in 20 minutes.
Landmark: Black "Z" shaped mark by large crater
Location: 52.6000 | -165.8786
Original Video: th-cam.com/video/2CSP-OclgoE/w-d-xo.html
thank you commander o7
There's a way of collecting them from the air now isn't there?
Its not as fast as 150 in 20mins buts its still a great farm. I got about 50 in 30-45mins the spawn rates for manganese are just way higher but thats fine and makes sense since its a less rare material.
Mapped farming is how you reduce it to 20 mins.@@ryanmaris1917
its nerved I think. mostly Manganese now, only about 1 of 10 Selenium
These still work as of 1/15/24, just reposting for those who dont want to dig. All but Selenium can be harvested using the flak cannon / limpet method. For some reason the limpets dont recognize the Selenium shards when blasted off so you still have to use the SRV.
Polonium : HIP 36601 C1A , Sight doesn't really matter its almost everywhere on the planet as long as you land at a Crystalline shard sight ( use detailed surface scanner then filter for Crystaline shards)
Ruthenium : HIP 36601 C1D , -24.6, 105.35 in between the mountains its a bit hard to see so fly low when arriving !
Tellurium : HIP 36601 C3B , 67.00, 131.75
Technitium : HIP 36601 C5A , 3.746, 78.68
Yttrium : Outotz LS-K D8-3 B5A , -1.9216, -145.7013
Antimony : Outotz LS-K D8-3 B5C , -62.4905, 80.2426
Selenium : HR 3230 3 A A, 45.66, -30.49 (really find any brain Tree forest to get, pretty much everywhere but you will probly have to relog a few times to fill up.)
i can confirm that i gathered successfuly selenium with limpet method
@@DarkVenthos cool..mist have been a bug
Every time I need help with something, I end up on this channel. Thanks for all your help.
D2EA, you are the best. Pops Ravendish here, and this was a perfect spot. One jump for my FC from Dav's Hope. A couple of easy hours and full selenium. Thanks for all you do.
Please add a note that this only works in Odyssey at or near the beginning so that other folks like me who don't have Odyssey don't waste our time flying out to find out that it doesn't work for us.
I really like your "how to" videos and have made use of MANY of them to make my play time more effective and enjoyable!
buy odyssey
@@Nico-ul5bo no
@@ECiriachiok
Yikes, I wish I read this comment before I got here and now searching for why I cant shoot them down
thanks for this, i already suspected i wouldnt be able wo odyssey but i came here to make sure. surprised the channel op didnt bother to mention it, not even in the description
Attention commanders!
Urchinow here, I found an incredibly good location to maximize your grind for selenium. The following braintreecluster contains ONLY "Polyporous Growth" which causes a drop probability from 20% to 25% of Selenium. In addition to that it is also way less annoying if you dont have to filter the "polyporous growth" out of the other types that are useless (there are 5 different types)
The coordinates for this cluster are:
(45.665 / -30.497)
I needed for the first 60 units of Selenium around 1 hour in mixed clusters with other kinds of growth till I found this cluster. There I could gather 90 in 20 minutes, that was incredible fast! I hope I could help you guys and enjoy your selenium!
This is great! We should add the coordinates in the video or in the description if possible.
I was exploring this planet and I found another spot similar to yours. Huge forest of brain trees, only Polyporous Growths.
Found it at (30.57 / 96.45)
Confirmed and tested
Thumbs up from me
@@colorfulsouls4050
I wasn't lucky with D2EA tip on Selenium. Found some other materials including grade 4 Technetium but no Selenium.
You saved my day (and more) thank you for sharing. o7
Excellent! Not only is this a great way to grind materials, but also . . . I now know where to find brain trees! I've never seen them in person.
You really make the game look great, which it is. very good cutting too!
AWESOME!!!! Thank you SO MUCH! Filled up 150 Selenium in about an hour!!!
th-cam.com/video/2CSP-OclgoE/w-d-xo.html
same
Finally got around to try this with a prox mine launcher. I definitely recommend dive bombing runs in a high speed ship. It's highly entertaining. I hauled my engineered imp courier out of mothballs and really enjoyed buzzing over the landscape at 600 m/s in vr. I also tried an unengineered Dolphin and Clipper, which also worked well.
A single prox mine's blast radius can destroy a lot of growths, and it's definitely easier than shooting them out of a tree, one a time. Hovering just over the treetops is close enough for the ship scanner to see if enough good materials spawned. If not, just keep looking for the next grove. If so, land, scoop up the good stuff quickly and move on.
I haven't really figured out the spawn patterns, but it seemed like Selenium was more likely found in equatorial flat lowland regions, and Technetium and others seemed to spawn in the higher latitudes and slightly hilly higher altitudes.
Dude! I love you. I love Cmdr's toolbox. You are an outstanding resource of needed info for Elite.
i actually enjoy this stuff. i like to just come into planet with fa off and coast around a little to scout out the area a little then i land and actually thoroughly enjoy putting around on srv collecting matts
Great advice! And just in time... Just spent my last reserve of the stuff
Farming brains for research, just in time for halloween. 😁 _Braaaaaains!_
Zac Cocken, Junior Product Manager, Frontier, Jul 22, 2022, on their forums: ""Hey all, blue areas basically mean the organics can be found in those areas as they meet the conditions. It doesn't mean that every part of that blue area will contain the organics though. The slight shading is just the planet topography underneath." So, dark blue and light blue have the same chances.
Correctly. However, the light blue shades indicate uneven terrain and thus it might be difficult to land and especially drive there. So I would still Highly recommend DTAs suggestion and head straight for the dark areas.
Im not sure if this is significant but i found a site with 100% Polyporous Growths at -0.45 159.08 i was also getting an abnormal amount of selenium maybe 40-50% of the time at a guess
This was a very good spot for Selenium. Filled up in less than an hour. Thank you for posting that
@@MrStelmacki glad it was useful, o7
This spot is awesome. Good looking out.
May 25 -- outstanding! worked like a charm!
I just did DTEA guide on farming Obelisk Data and needed some Selenium so was going to do this when I noticed that the same site (VELA DARK REGION KR-W C1-24, 7 A, Ancient Ruins (2)) also has brain forests right next to it!
Loved this! well timed as was just trying to find a good way of materials capture. Thanks!
For viewers who wasted lot of their time doing this. Please NOTE: This is ONLY for ODYSSEY. You cannot do this on horizons.
I wasted 2 hours figuring this out. Dont waste your time.
Really good video and great place to go for selenium. Oddly enough certain clusters of brain trees had barely any selenium and then I flew off to another area and filled up in no time!! Top tip- trade all you manganese before you go as you can fill up on this no problem.
How far away did you fly?
@@prahas777 not a long way as I recall. I just took off off, flew for a couple of minutes and landed again at another site.
Pro tip - if they get caught in the tree (and many do), just boop the tree with your SRV. You'll collect the mat.
I was there for about 30 minutes and the brain trees gave nothing but manganese and zirconium. I did get a couple of nobium and a technitium from a single metallic meteorite i stumbled across.
Just note its like a 6:1 selenium to manganese and you'll find zirconium every once in awhile too but rarer so it does take awhile to get but stick too it.
there are 2 varieties of brain trees you can scan for exobiology if you want also, im there right now and found that out, one looks more cyan and the other is red
If you know how to read the percentage bar on a planet scan, you can find Selenium inside then bubble, especially lava planets. The third list will have the rares on it, IF its over 5% then you''l have a good chance to find a higher drop of rares. The engineers also have many moons near them with high rate rares on it too. Selenium usage is high for Thermal protection in shields and shield booster and thermal vent. Its a very useful rare.
For those in EDO - Kappa-1 Volantis - B3 F A - Selenium (Lat 44.691 Long -61.515)
Yea! Finally a decent way to farm selenium!! Thank you, Sir!!
Okay, I guess I have bad luck. About 90% of the growths I shoot are yielding maganese and most of that gets stuck in the branches so I can't collect it.
Holy shit thank you! This is the best thing since sliced bread. The only way to farm. You are a god my friend! 🤘👊
And by all means if you’ve got any more planets that are also amazing… happy to
Learn more 😂
Great tip as always! Thank you.
Shot bro!! Saves my bacon yet again, I didn’t know to go for the darker areas now I do 🎉❤ winning 🥂
Drop rate is very low, some sites give none.
May 25th - I shot 80-90 Poly Growth things -- got exactly zero selenium. Three different locations -- but all within the same darker blue area. F.
i cant find no one selenium in this planet, only manganese, iron, zirconium and tin
You can collect a load of other "raws" too besides selenium, I have been shooting the red trees for zinc, lead, nobium, selenium, carbon etc, this place is THE raw farm.
Didn’t find any in the area at your co-ordinates… good location here at -44.3578/-123.2649….
Great video though, thanks for doing this 👍🏻
How do you toggle the filters in the DSS and what control for that?
Drop rate seems to depend of the "forest" you take a look. First I only found
manganese. Then I tried in another area and I found selenium. Not much, but I found it, in a rate of 1/10 Selenium Manganese /Circonium aprox
Just checked this place out today 19/12/2022 and it's still worth visiting if you have ODYSSEY. With so many Braintreeclusters around it's easy enough to grab some Selenium along with other mats. The big issue I have is that a high percentage of falling mats gets stuck in the trees, there for you will need to drive up to the tree's gently, your srv can get stuck in the tree itself. Overall, this is a frustrating grind tho.
skill issue
Thank you.
how can i switch the filter in the scanne like he did ?
Selenium was always the one you can't just grind. Cool it's a doable thing now. So horizons for the other raws and Odyssey for selenium.
I use a system not to far from shinrata. It has around 5% drop and the geological site also that spawn it. But it's not only these trees that drop it, it happens all over.
are you list the site and see how they compare?
@@vagabondquerier9375 I would have to check. Let me know if you want me to.
@@technoviking2415 yes pls ... for science and all that
@@vagabondquerier9375 ok sure, I'll sort it tomorrow and let you know m8.
@@technoviking2415 8 months later...
I know I'm probably doing this wrong, but I can't seem to find the braintree clusters. :( I've just discovered this now, and I've been randomly going to blue highlighted locations as indicated by the filter, but I can't seem to find the trees. Any tips? Thanks in advance!
Thank you
Nice tip !! Thanks Cmdrs !
any idea where can i find Tellurium close to the location from this movie?
Thanks!
Sorry but I'm only a west and fast miner :(
I'm a south fast miner :(
Don't forget to visit Material Traders 1st!! I don't really need it but I'm bored of 'Goid pew-pew so why not take a little side trip?
great
vid
ok David I have been out of the game for some time and most of the RAW time for materials have been it Horizons so the is some what new to me how and or where do i get the filters to find the brain trees????please help thanks you for your time .////11
Thanks DTEA, but didn't work that well for me. Playing in Horizons - could that make a difference? There are many places in the bubble to get Se from crystalline fragments. Use edtools to search near a reference system. Being in the bubble suits me more. Although the drop rate is not that brilliant I can just go get some Se quickly if I need it rather than make a long trip and then feel I should grind until full.
Tangs, Astro
EDIT: there's a massive crater at 28' 164'
Picous, Crystelline and Brains
Selenium drop is still shite though but lots of other raws.
You need to find the polypourus trees, those drop Selenium, Manganese and Zirconium. I filled up here in about an hour. The other trees do drop other grade 5 raw mats as well. This is a great farming site and IMO way easier to drive SRV that crystalline shard sites.
@@MrDiMaggio5 Yes correct, the crater I mentioned has Polypourus Trees (brain trees), picous and crystelline shards.
In that crater at 23.4168, 163.7574 every Brain tree had selenium for me and I filled up in about 30 min.
@@Yasvar Thanks, a huge Selenium drop rate increase. Terrain is a bit uneven but worth it.
I think I just aquire it while mining for platinum, I've never actively looked for selenium.
Shouldve noted that this is for Odyssey.. Temporarily went to play the unoptimized bugfest that is Odyssey and suffered 40 to 20fps with minor stutters just to farm the Selenium I need before going back to Horizons.
There's an easier way than that, just use EDDB, locate a system/planet in the bubble with high % of Selenium and volcanicity. That also has Geysers and look for Crystaline clusters (think that's what they were called), everyone I have been too has had Selenium on them and there easy to spot as you can see the Geyser plumes from quite a distance. Just time your shooting of the cluster so the geyser is at its lowest point otherwise the Selenium will shoot into space.
The most you'll find is about 5% Selenium on a planet. With this method, you can find 1 cluster of trees that will give 150 selenium as well as other G5 raw mats in about an hour of farming in SRV.
So my son and I have spent at least 10 hours total on this planet and shooting everything. Neither of us have retrieved 1 selenium. Is this still valid 2023-07-03?
hi there you have to use a detailed surface scanner and go to the boilogical signal now number (10) is the best one ive seen
Thank you!!
Does relogginf through main menu replenish trees? Or you have to find another one?
To be honest I didn't test that. There were so many of them around that I think it's faster to find another cluster.
But my guess is that it will respawn
You just drive to the next "grove." They're everywhere, not like crystal shards where groves far apart so you have to fly. I went through one grove plus 7 SE from next grove, to totally fill selenium, zirconium, and manganese.
So I have had a hard time finding tellerinium so I could get shock cannons. Being said, people seem to hate shock cannons, but I love them. I just wish I could engineer them, and hold more ammo. Other than that, I love their power.
Travel to HIP 36601 C 3 b site 5 Tellurium - you'll have 150 of them in an hour. This guide is very helpful for all raw mats, and this video D2EA posted you'll have all your raw mats maxed in about 4 hours. So worth the trip as you can then trade down for all other raw mats. Just remember the shard sites take a couple weeks to refresh so plan accordingly!
LOL forgot link to guide - forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/how-to-fill-all-of-your-raw-materials-bins-using-crystalline-shards.481235/
Thanks for that, getting tired of trading other grade 5's.
(offtopic) Did you know, that you can deploy SRV while docked to surface city ?
How? Is it only while dokced at odyssey settlement?
@@ikosanweee8203 No, that works even in Horizons 3.8 (I captured video, what does it look like).
I spotted that in crater city ("Volk Installation") yet. But I saw similar hangars (to transfer SRV to/from) at least in one regular settlement.
@@ikosanweee8203 Just choose Deploy SRV as usual after docking, and SRV would be transferred to hangar.
For boarding, you need to request "docking" from SVR, go to any hangar and choose Board, then "Ready to board" indicator lit.
@@ikosanweee8203 It seems to was there from Horizons day one, as it is explained in Frontier SRV presentation video.
about time!
So, do i want teh fark blue areas, or the light blue??
Dang, I went to HIP 3230 - Nothing there, :(
Thanks!!! :D
Are there brain tree locations for the other high grade raw mats near the bubble (for those not keen to make the trek to the Crystal Shards)
Crystal Shards is one of the best and esiest treks
The other trees besides Polypourus also drop some grade 5 mats like Technetium and Rutherium. I've done Crystalline shards a few times and it is a bit faster, however I like this site a lot especially for Selenium.
Has anyone tried the flechette launcher from the air + collectors?
Drop rate for selenium is very low.. I only got 3 out of over 50. Filled out all my zirconium and manganese and so far only 9 selenium.. I guess will try again later on another site
How can i swap the filters? i dont find it in the controls, Help.
Is this only for Oddessey and Horizons 4.0 ?
Astro how did you those plant gets Pregnant with Raw materials
How do u setup your scanner like that
Is this site after the Update 14 alway usable? all other Sites doesnt work anymore.....
still working TODAY :)
I have been doing this next to a guardian site for oblesque data for a while now. massive forests in 2 or 3 clusters within 1.5km from site.
Max out selenium in an hour.
You can fly to this site, fill selenium, zirconium, and manganese from empty, and fly back to the bubble in less than an hour easy. Nothing like it that I've ever seen.
Im curious, I was able to buy the Scorpion SRV for my PVH in my anaconda but I can’t deploy it when I land. I am on Xbox one X. Why put it in the game if we can’t drive it
It's a bug I think. Scorpion SRV requires Odyessy, and consoles don't have that.
For what do you need selenium?
All materials that don't take up cargo space, are for engineering. Grade 4 of the Dirty Drive, Grade 4 of the Efficient Weapon, Grade 3 of the Thermal Resistant Shield, Grade 3 of the Weapon Power Focused Power Distributer modifications, as well as a some premium and standard ammo synthesis. There are a few other modifications that require it, but the ones I listed are the most useful of them.
How do you filter the signals in detailed surface scanner? Not seeing an option for this on ps5
You said it. Console.
His video is for Odyssey. In Horizons, DSS and then head to geological site locations that show up in your nav panel.
the near moon view fantastic like a scifi film but soory this worst place to farm...with no reason you get stuck under the trees...😂
Roughly 1 out of 10-15 does actually do fall for me... they detach from the tree but just stuck on the branch. I need to get out on foot and jump, push it down with my body. (UPDATE: if it is stuck on the tree, the SRV stilll can collect it if the material is targeted, needs to go close to the tree to get it from the tree) It is very annoying, sometimes Devs see these videos then decide to destroy that farming method. Do they still believe that it should be a week of grinding for one level of engineering for one unit? Well I also hate that I need to farm these, but the other methods are very long.
This game has so much potential yet they cannot balance it and things go sideways. Ody mats are collected by robbing the same few anarchy settlements, yet they should be mission rewards and salvage from fallen shipwrecks, smugglers/thieves storage, that would disperse players. Horizons materials come from Davs Hope, Jameson Site, and those raw farm planets, yet those also should be mission rewards and signatures, salvaging from wrecks. Salvaging could be a real thing... like salvage laser could extract material from ship wrecks, raw and manufactured depending on ship type. Passenger missions when I last tried were either to 10-20K ly targets for ridiculously low price or the thug smuggling between Robigo and Sothis. There could be passenger missions between tourist settlements and other stations so those passenger ships would actually make sense, and a new cast of space truckers could arise: the space bussers. We have 400 billion systems yet most of the carriers are like insect swarms, wiping trade/mine possibilities from other players, yet those should not be allowed in the bubble or at least they should not have cargo capacity.
What were we doing with Selenium? I have already everything and i forgot what we are using it for.
There are a number of ship module blueprints that need it, e.g. Dirty Thrusters and Overcharged Power Plant, just to name two (the Wiki is your friend)
@@HeinerS Thank you commander
does this still work ?
Anyone else get their SRV stuck in a tree, and have to walk back to your ship? No? Just me? Sigh….
😂😂😂 it’s not the elite experience if you haven’t been stuck in a tree at least ONCE 😂😩
Is this odyssey only or does it work in Horizons too? From a poor console player...
Brain trees were already available in Horizons and are found on planets without atmosphere, so that should work on consoles (without having it tested myself apart from scanning them at the time about 2 years ago).
no luck her in 2 hours i got 5 selimium )
so are they a biological thing then? what would i be looking for to find them out by say LOS or Colonia?
No they're not biological or geological sites like crystalline shards site. It must be an Odyssey thing as I didn't know you can filter in the system map. Just follow D2EA video, its the darker blue areas. Once you get close to surface, they're everywhere. You can also just drive SRV to new locations by watching scanner. This is a great find by D2EA!
they all drop Mn... I've shot 30 of these things and gotten only Mn
Me is gets stuuuuuuck.
Must have odyssey I assume?
Honestly, Odyssey sucks in terms of raw mats. Just boot up Horizons and head down to a Geological Signal and you can top off at basically any system in the Bubble.
This still works in feb 2023 ? I mean in horizons? I just tested it, and i do not get the Geological Signal sites from the past anymore.
Same here. Horizon 4.0 seems to be the same as Odyssey.
doesn't work for horizons
But can i use ship limpets to colect it or have to do it with SRV?
Have to use the SRV.
you only found 1 selenium by luck in this no hve nothing of selenium
Is this method only available on Odyssey? I went all the way there, only to not be able to find any Brain Trees. I am on PS5, so still on Horizons.
This wouldn't work on console, as the planet topography and POIs are different between versions.
501st 😉 😆 🤣
What would this be on console pleqse
This wouldn't work on console, as the planet topography and POIs are different between versions.
LHS 417
Found a hotspot may be worth your while... 16.1558 -174.4418