How NOT to farm raw materials (and also how to actually farm them) | Elite Dangerous

Brain Trees are pure, unadulterated evil, but they do contain raw materials for engineering your ship. Come along and laugh at my first attempts to extract these materials, and also find out the easiest and quickest method for doing so.
References:
- Locations for farming raw materials (Reddit): / updated_raw_material_f...
- CMDR E.android’s guide, which saved me from throwing my PC through the wall: • Efficient Raw Material...
Short clip from Goodfellas used under fair-use law.

[@Doubleelforbes]

Epic, only one usage of the Ray Liotta scene would've made it for me and then the Valkyries the only thing might've been missing IMO is Barber's Adagio For Strings when you Napalmed that jungle of braintrees with the flak! What a scene that was! And what a solution!
This was a good format and I enjoyed catching some of your stream the other night too, the crowd demands more!
I definitely stick with the 1-4-1 power config and make use of the vertical thrust more. When in SRV if you always make sure to target the scooped item, even if stuck in a tree you can cargo scoop from your canopy or roof so it would seem. I like to try and catch my mats on Low-G worlds, or see if I can frontflip and catch it for extra show off, the idea that the whole "face" of the vehicle is the scoop is the only thing making it work.
For your stuck scenario, I'd be full reverse (also where the full ENG pips will serve you), then "stir the pot" with your stick, it's basically like traction control but switching power between corners of the vehicle rather than wheels. If this fails, I do the same trick with full vertical thrust on and/or "pumping" the thrust can help too. If all of this fails, the disembark trick or worst case a re-log should spawn it one Meter back from stuck position.
And yes ...... Braintrees ARE evil and they DO speak to me when I'm scanning their bio signs!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks for the tips! And thanks for being on the livestream! I'm going to do much more of them, and will have a better setup next time! :)

[@Tepnox]

Thx for showing us all the broken game mechanics in this game. Pretty sure FDev is still unaware of this to this date. Or they possibly don't care anymore. Thank god my mat inventory is full at the moment. I won't touch this evil engineering shit until we got a revamp / improvements this year. Happy collecting y'all.

[@funkyburns6381]

goated. thank you!

[@jasperlit1345]

The SRV collecting was really the only option until about a year ago, that is when the collector limpets were modified to help Thargoid war.
The Mats vanishing is kind of a glitch, it happens when you run them over with SRV, and sometimes when you step on them on foot. Materials are pretty fragile and have timed lifespan, so them being destroyed by an SRV running over them seems plausible, on foot less so.
There is a couple things you experienced that aren't glitches in my opinion:
@1:47 The 2 materials that are "stuck" in this situation all you have to do is target them and drive next to them and the will be collected.
@3:25 you cant shoot through the Brain Tree to hit the material on the other side just like you cant shoot an NPC on the other side of an asteroid, sure you can target him, but the projectiles wont pass through solid objects.
@3:52 That material did not "levitate", its perspective, you jumped, and as you started descending from your jump the material was also descending, making it appear to "levitate"
Great Vid! Thanks for that tip making the trees de-spawn (11k hours and I didnt know that lol)
o7

[@srgtcolon1493]

flak&limpet is the winner, but actually, if you just drive up to the tree, like touching the trunk, with scoop open, shot-off resources are picked off even from pretty high above the SRV.

[@SixStringflyboy]

No need to move on to the next patch. Just fly up high enough that the patch actually DOES despawn, then fly back down, rinse, and repeat.

[@naidr0x]

The flak farming is really the only sensible option out there. I still prefer to do it at the crystal shards, even though they are further away from the bubble. I just finde them more consistent.

[@CMDRElfener]

Also do note that great bug where the brain trees only spawn polyporous growths (low grade mats and selenium but no other high grade mats). I don't know if it has been fully fixed, it is so random.

[@Mile13Gaming]

So I'm not crazy...

[@SixStringflyboy]

I have hit this as well.

[@srgtcolon1493]

_Might_ not be a bug. At least not a spawning error. Seems to be a permanent property of the planets whether they spawn Poly-only or Phloem-included.
I recently toured the Guardian sites and was tracking this (as it is annoying as hell indeed).
For example if you visit Synuefe CN-H d11-63, per planet spawns are consistent as:
Poly-only bodies: A2c, A2ea, A3b, A3c
Phloem bodies: A1a, A2d, A3da
It was the same for ~50 other systems with brain trees, a Poly-only planet will not change it's stripes, but same goes for the Phloemies.

[@kimejohnsen87]

Other grade 5 material then Selenium is not at this location, that Is a completely different place * YTTRIUM - OUTOTZ LS-K D8-3 B 5 A, * ANTIMOTY - OUTOTZ LS-K D8-3 B 5 C, * POLONIUM - HIP 36601 C 1 A, * TELLURIUM - HIP 36601 C 3 B, * TECHNETIUM HIP 36601 C 5 A

[@Meanderthal17]

You can always fly your srv into the tree to grab stuff

[@blogtwot]

I luv FYZIKS in ED universe

[@svendtang5432]

Just select the harvest and then just drive rather close without hitting it and boost and yell scoop it

[@svendtang5432]

But 😂 it’s frustrating until y get it