@@GamernetsLP I'm busy doing the raw material grind part of this, and it doesn't seem any different from what is shown in the video. It is also the least painful part of the grind though, and is going quite quickly, it's taking me about an hour to fill up on each of the high end commodities.
I can't tell if the farm still works or not. I've tried shooting brain trees with flak with multiple game and computer restarts and I'm still getting a "No valid collection targets" message.
Im on Xbox and the flax cannons dont dislodge resources and when u farm them with SRV and leave mats on ground they disappear in ship so i can't test limpets nothing on radar
This is now the goto video for engineering materials. It's awesome to know we can get these raw mats around the bubble and the info for HGE's is priceless. Thank you so much!
Who ever did this work sheet needs more recognition. This video is great. This worksheet shows this game is not dying. It is growing. Glory to mankind and glory to the cmdr that created this
The player numbers are the lowest they've ever been lol. I'm all for appreciating the game, but let's not delude ourselves. People Playground has a higher player count.
I've been at this for 3 days doing it the old way, trying inara, doing whatever I could to get tellurium. No dice. Endless planets with nothing. This guide saved my sanity and I'm sharing it with my discord. Thanks a million! o7
FYI it does appear that Fdev attempted to nerf the render distance it takes to make the brain trees despawn. The easy work around to still farm the brain trees with limpets is to set your model draw distance to low. This will then counteract the recent nerf to draw distance allowing you to continue to use limpets to farm the brain trees. Many commanders report that this method works great!
Unfortunately reducing the model draw wasn't enough for me, I had to also reduce my *terrain quality from ultra to low (just noticed @Pizzaguy says that below lol). Glad we were able to find these workarounds, I love this method! You're the best Hawkes o7
Also, if there's any chance you have coordinates for all the patches, that would be epic! Not too hard to find the ones where you drop in as we can see them in your HUD, however I've had crazy unlucky timing and mostly wind up there when it's dark, so finding the other 2 Polonium patches for instance has been difficult. If not, all good man, this has been so helpful already!!
You would think that a company that has got itself in such a poor financial state with many bad decisions would find a better way to spend developer time than making an already ridiculously time consuming activity just a little more annoying. Trying to make material gathering harder is not the best choice for player retention.
Being able to farm Raw materials like this is such a QOL W, since one of the reasons I kinda gave up on elite was because of how much I absolutely despised the old method of farming raw materials with the SRV. It was actually maddening. Singlehandedly saved my love for the game because now I can go out and engineer all of those cool ship builds I've always wanted to try
Good to see you back producing content for ED, I hope you continue. Just like you helped me a few years ago when I started playing the game, I'm sure you will help many players who are just starting out. See you soon, o7!
I can't tell you how much your guides have helped me with grinding and improved my enjoyment of the game. From ship mats, credit farming, how to start out, ground mats, you name it. you are the man! Thank you for the work you do
I recently started again with Elite and found your guide... thank you so much. This guide is to the point and helped so much. No blah blah, just useful information. 🙂
Damn Hawke, it's about time you put out an updated vid for this :D Thanks mate, no matter how many years go by, I always forget some of the details and reference your old vid. Bookmarked for personal use and for sharing.
Talk about a gold mine, thanks for putting this together, and an updated list, this is great. Sure the old ways were fun but im glad there are good odyssey equivalents alot closer then before. Especially for the raw materials
Love the video as always! I've just recently got into farming for engineering, it's been relaxing. But man do I love being efficient. This guide helps me squeeze out more per hour. Thanks my dude.
Been about 2 years since I last needed to material gather for ship building but with the new FSD on the market, I figured it was time to restock. Thanks again for coming v in clutch with the best information video for this task.
Thank you so much for making these in depth videos. Can't tell you how incredibly helpful they are. Whenever I need to know the best way to get it done I come to you. This updated video is even more helpful than your last one like this which seems impossible. Thank you for taking the time to do this for us.
This is great! I had to learn a lot of this the hard way as most guides tend to skip over the small bits. This is going to be excellent to those just starting who see engineering as a daunting task.
Superb as always. With the exception of Selenium all those other Raw Mat locations are new to me. The Trees/Crystal Shards are dead! I always cross traded for Pharmaceutical Isolators and did Robigo Runs for the other two Mech Mats and some Firmware and Data Encoded Mats. Thank you Commander o7
For some manufactured materials there are some systems worth checking: Core Dynamics Composites: Check LTT 3010 and LP 413-18. These systems spawn an endless amount of high grade emissions with this material and the grade 4 of this same type. Imperial Shielding: Check Laguz and 21 Eridani. I was told that these systems behave like the 2 systems above but for Imperial Shielding. When using these systems you don't even have to relog, you can just fly to all the HGE's that are available and fill up in no time.
I must be one of the weird few that enjoys material collecting - put some tunes on and chill with the repetition. It's nice when I want to destress my brain and just have something repetitive to do that doesn't require much thinking. Almost becomes meditative. Nice to know I can now increase my 'meditation' efficiency even more with your video lol! o7
GREAT video, and I always get a laugh out of your guides. The Beavis and Butthead reference had me haha. I'll make sure to try the brain tree method out soon, looks like it beats the crap out of doing it in a rover.
It's crazy how your videos have good viewership. In your videos we barely see any fleet carriers in the system view, but right now all those systems are crowded!
The Ruthenium crater is where I decided to drive my SRV out of the crater. I was really close to the edge but the wheels were losing grip, so my dumb ass decided to thrust up, but i failed miserably, died, lost my only SRV and a few million of exo-bio data from the trees. 😅 Great vid! I really like your content
I think the antimony spot might have been removed or something. 2 weeks ago, I went to all of these location and found every raw material mentioned (except polonium for some reason). But antimony was definitely exactly where you said it would be. But today (Aug 28, 2024), I went back, exact same spot, exact same 4 patches shown by the 4 red dots in the picture, and nothing but low grade materials. Not sure if its just me. But the rest of the material locations seem to still be viable. Super helpful video! Was able to fill up everything with a little trading.
I found Antimony, but no luck with Ruthenium. I scoured the whole planet and found several Amazon Forests of brains, but all of them, and I mean all of them just gave me Polyporous Growth: Material "Common" - Grade 2 - Germanium and Chromium like. I think it might be bugged.
I already knew about the encoded farm, but this is great for me for the other farms as up to this point i always just did it the intended way with the SRV and this is miles faster so thanx for that
Thankyou so much for this video. I'm new to elite although I had the game in my library years. I finally started my journey and this video was massively informative. Priceless info. Thanks
You know what? I like the video, but then tried, and it didn't work for me personally. Limpets aren't my thing, it seems. Yet, I had a blast with a couple of friends, driving around on some moons, that you recommended. We took nice pictures, had a fun time, totally disobeyed your advice, but we stacked up on mats anyways. Thank you, Commander! You're running a top tier channel here, that I do keep recommending to other commanders any chance that I get!
Hey Hawkes! Long time no see! Glad to see you're back into Elite as well. I recently came back and your guides are as awesome as ever! Can we expect a guide for collecting the materials needed for suit and weapon upgrades and engineering as well? :)
@@MSPlaceholdername If you go to CD-51 2650, you have an anarchy minor faction called the Purple Gang that own several settlements. There's even an anarchy space station in system to sell items: Walker Platform. Ground Settlement with full service outfitting is Clough Base. Evidently it is a system that players intentionally manipulate to keep it so. Happy hunting. Noguchi's Castings - Industrial Hawkin's Bastion - Military Delgado Analysis Enterprise - Research Chandola's Bridge - Tourist
Hawke I love your videos to death for the help they give! But I wanna address 1 thing. John Jameson did not fly a Sidewinder. It was a Cobra Mk3. o7 tho and thank you so much for this new guide!!!!
very nice that this is updated now!! i outfitted my asp explorer for this stuff but i’ll keep it outfitted for exploring and fsd range, and get a krait phantom for this stuff!’
hi, thanks for this awesome, comprehensive guide. one thing i noticed while farming selenium/technetium: it seems that the technetium is dropped by a different species of brain trees, which only spawns in the darker blue areas. maybe it was just coincidense though, but i got zero technetium in the teal areas on both planets.
Hacking the large floating bases, i don't remember the specific name but they have 2 hacking terminals and with recon limpets and cold running you can avoid bounties and hack relog and get encoded stuff pretty fast too. They are these giant orbiting bases, usually only show up on the menu panel when you get closer to the planet they orbit around
oh god! the Manufactured Materials grind was loooooong. I did find a system that has both Military, the Protos, and even the Pharms. It cycles about every 45 minutes to an hour. This ended up saving me so much time. And a Raw trader was in the system/ Timbalderis/ Right now Slink's Eye has the Proro Light,Rad, and Heat Encoded wasn't that bad though. And I need a couple of more trips to top off on RAW. I also learned the Limpits tend to die when first deployed in space. So I just do one, wait for it come back, and then activate all i can
Did the selenium part yesterday it work wonders thanks Hawkes! you saved me from stopping to play this crazy grind :Dmy only issue was relogging worked only 2twice on the patches of brain trees. First time upon discovering, then first relog to private group session, then second relog to single session again. after that further relogs and explsions on brain trees yield nothing and I am looking for further patches of the trees.
Great video, however I have some recommendations: 1. Try to have all critical information at the start of each section. There were a few times we were already fairly into a section of the guide only to get an "oh yeah, don't forget this lol" and someone might be playing/pausing the video to be in sync and then they too get to that point and don't have the thing because they weren't told initially. 2. Similar to the above, but I would have really appreciated a heads up on the two missing manufacturing materials and maybe a recommendation to farm the Imperial Shields first and trade them vertically to those two first initially just so they're out of the way. I ended up trading every tier 4 and 5 material I had collected up until that point, but now I'm wondering if I should have just grinded the Imperial Shields...honestly probably the later, but then again I just did a run of Imperial Shields trading to Biotech Conductors and I'm kind of glad I don't have to do this for as long as I would have. Hopefully we all get lucky and benefit from the engineering changes even after all this grinding.
I engineered a dolphin for this used missile racks while not quite as effective as flak cannons, still works well and the small ship is highly maneuverable compared to larger ships, so makes finding patches quick. I am limited to 1 limpet out at a time but I did equip a 5E cargo rack, with carriers in the system for restocking it is actually quite a great little ship for this and low budget for new players
I don't know if someone at frontier noticed this video, but a lot of these locations the brain trees are now just dropping common materials rather than the rarer ones shown in the video.
@@HawkesGaming min-ed-launcher for those that haven't seen it yet, has a function to auto-restart the game on your set delay. It also bypasses the frontier launcher and puts you right in the game. Shaves a few seconds here and there on game startup.
@@azog23 You find the movie file in the game install directory, (optinoally)rename it, then make a new empty file of the same name(to not cause a file not found error). It'll then try to play the empty file and carry on no problem. If you don't rename it, and just replace it with an empty file, you can always get it back by validating the game files in steam or the frontier launcher.
Travelled HR 3230 - 3 a a and used up four flack launchers - large Brain Tree groups, 3 pieces of Selenium... I won't be buying a lottery ticket today. Tried hitting a big patch with my SRV after I ran out of limpets, and nothing but Zinc, Niobium and Manganese. Enjoyed your video though. o7
Here's another hint. CMDRs. Don't worry about running out of ammunition or limpets. In all of these systems, there usually are enough fleet carriers where you can restock without any lengthy round trip of wasting materials on synth!
This is a great guide! The only trouble I have is Technetium - Wregoe SB-Z b41-2 - A 1 a. All I get is Chromium and Zinc. Im not sure if Im doing something wrong.
I was having the same issue, I did however find, that once chrome and zinc filled up the tech started rolling in. I wondered if limpets prioritized g3 and the g4s started despawning. Just a theory
Same issue, not just you. Have got two lots of tech in hours, so 6 in total from this planet. All I get is Chronium/Zinc and some basic grade 1 stuff. Haven't seen any tech in an hour of solid grinding. This planet is just not it for tech anymore it seems, something changed. I got more tech from the Selenium planet lol
@@Fudgemaker17 Go to the same coordinates as he did in the video. That's what I ended up doing and got tons of tech from the same brain trees he was farming.
Damn, I didn't even know you could relog during the manufactured grind. I spent days going from HGE to HGE and didn't even fill up everything. I've been playing since launch too ffs. 😂
For anyone material grinding after the Engineer fix, here are some takeaways from my experience. I started with barely any G3/G4/G5 (didn't need or get them much as an explorer) and finished with full Manufactured and Raw, full Encoded up to G4, ~20 in each G5. Manufactured is by far the easiest part of the farm. One HGE is enough to fill up one G5, or at least half of that if you get a mix of G4/G5. Just drop in, release collector limpets and you're done. The only problem I've encountered is targeting a specific material, e.g. you can get Core Dynamics/Proto Heat/Proto Radiolic in one Federal Boom system, but sometimes it's just one of those in a row. Pharmaceutical Isolators is the most painful one, but if you don't have any luck with them - trading shouldn't be a big issue. Raw was a bit annoying, I've seen the comments about remote farming not working reliably and went with an SRV. Finding the landing spot and then the trees themselves is painful, especially if the spot happens to be on the dark side. And obviously SRVs control as badly as they were 10 years ago. Other than that it's decently fast, took me 2 trips (with visits to all planets) to fill up all my materials. Only had to soft relog on 2 planets. Encoded is the worst. It took FDev almost a decade to fix Engineers and they've still forgotten about one of the main issues with material grinding - trading. On paper Encoded should be pretty easy. Scan the 9 beacons, soft relog and scan again, that's enough to fill up G4 and G5. Except, after trading, that's just enough to get 20 G5 materials in another category. One trip to Jameson's Cobra and back to the Trader took me ~18 minutes on a good day; assuming I need to fill up G5 for all 5 other materials - I'll need 25 trips (500/20); that totals to 7.5 hours of going back and forth without any engaging gameplay. Due to that I recommend doing Encoded either first or last, and probably don't fill up your G5 too much.
I am doing Encoded at the moment and I started really empty. This is a real grind. I can get between the planet and the trader in about 5 minutes but it is still depressingly slow! The 6-1 and 36-1 ratios are very mean!
Hey Hawkes... thanks for this awesome guide... but can you now *please* do the same, but for all us Commanders who prefer life out at Colonia, rather than in the bubble? Also, according to posts on Reddit, though I haven't tried it myself, it seems that an SCO FSD totally revolutionises farming of HGEs. As in, more fun, and no relogging necessary. I'm not quite sure how this is done, but it's something you might want to look into.
There are a small handful of systems that perma spawn hges near the bubble. You can just fly from one to the other non stop till you get low on gas go fill up and just keep farming. It takes the relogging out of the equation but sadly it's only for two different types of grade 5 HGEs.
@@HawkesGaming - Thanks.. I very much appreciate the clarification and extra details. (Please do consider a mats farming special for Colonia.. it's a very different world out here. I'm currently out here doing the grind for Odyssey suit & weapon upgrades. It's much more challenging than in the bubble.)
Very useful. As to raw mats, I'd leave the Selenium moon til last because it's where you can most easily find chunky T4 drops to trade down and fill out the rest of the collection. And when flaking for ram mats even when the surface is light it's worth engaging night vision. Makes it easier to catch the point at which the trees derender. I do have a gripe with FDev though. Some of us (or at least me) bought this game because we want to fly spaceships and if we'd wanted a low gravity badly designed golf buggy simulator we'd have bought one. Of course it does add to the general sense of the "universe" and I'm sure some people enjoy it. But my point is that there is no efficient way of grabbing emissions without SRVing. For the ship version there's just really tedious wake sniffing. Okay, 3 for 1 now, but still. Oh and I have done the irritating golf buggy dodgems for a lot of stuff (including Guardian kit) but there should be a shipbound alternative.
I've found that farming all HGEs with 20+ minutes on them and then using the traders to trade for what i need. Starting from Jameson Memorial i can usually max out a grade 5 within 8 nearby populated systems . 45 minutes per loop to max out 1 grade 5 trade and repeat.
Hello @Hawkes Gaming ,found your channel for tips and tricks to get the materials you need for the engineering mats etc, i tried out the flak cannon method , tbh i could not get on with it ,so i use the dumbfire missiles engineered for extra ammo capacity, works great although my drones Kamikaze into the planets surface sometimes :} but i find if you back up a bit until the trees de spawn then drones survive and bring you your mats , thanks for this all the best from Old England :} new sub btw
I cant thank you enough man! Btw if you now drop in to a high grade emission there are so many materials that you cant even collect them all. I had 100 Isolators in 2 minutes....
Hi new to all this ED stuff, out of all the YT vids I find yours to be the most informative and enjoyable! can I ask what is the best ship to do this in, what would be the build to do it ? I am literally a complete noob to this and whilst I want to get into the game I find it very daunting! so any help would be massively appreciated!!
This is a great video and very efficient. Tank you. Question: I've been searching for a while. Based on the video, I have not found a single ruthenium. Ruthenium positions can not be found. Even on a other planet it is the same, no ruthenium found. Can someone please show me the exact positions. Thank you.
What is the remote flak canon? i have never seen this weapon before Followup question. Are there any other weapons that work to remotely harvest brain trees? Say for example, dummy missiles or regular canons?
Since yesterday (2024.08.07 this grinds became much more easier. :)))
The method is the same, but the quantities are much-much higher...
Does that include raw materials as well?
@@GamernetsLP If my informations are correct, then unfrtunatelly no...
But maybe the material reward missios may give extra RAW material rewards too.
@@GamernetsLP I'm busy doing the raw material grind part of this, and it doesn't seem any different from what is shown in the video. It is also the least painful part of the grind though, and is going quite quickly, it's taking me about an hour to fill up on each of the high end commodities.
I can't tell if the farm still works or not. I've tried shooting brain trees with flak with multiple game and computer restarts and I'm still getting a "No valid collection targets" message.
Im on Xbox and the flax cannons dont dislodge resources and when u farm them with SRV and leave mats on ground they disappear in ship so i can't test limpets nothing on radar
This is now the goto video for engineering materials. It's awesome to know we can get these raw mats around the bubble and the info for HGE's is priceless. Thank you so much!
Best tutorial video EVER❤
Who ever did this work sheet needs more recognition. This video is great. This worksheet shows this game is not dying. It is growing. Glory to mankind and glory to the cmdr that created this
The player numbers are the lowest they've ever been lol. I'm all for appreciating the game, but let's not delude ourselves. People Playground has a higher player count.
I've been at this for 3 days doing it the old way, trying inara, doing whatever I could to get tellurium. No dice. Endless planets with nothing. This guide saved my sanity and I'm sharing it with my discord. Thanks a million! o7
FYI it does appear that Fdev attempted to nerf the render distance it takes to make the brain trees despawn. The easy work around to still farm the brain trees with limpets is to set your model draw distance to low. This will then counteract the recent nerf to draw distance allowing you to continue to use limpets to farm the brain trees. Many commanders report that this method works great!
change to low quality worked for me
It work very well for me o7
Unfortunately reducing the model draw wasn't enough for me, I had to also reduce my *terrain quality from ultra to low (just noticed @Pizzaguy says that below lol). Glad we were able to find these workarounds, I love this method! You're the best Hawkes o7
Also, if there's any chance you have coordinates for all the patches, that would be epic! Not too hard to find the ones where you drop in as we can see them in your HUD, however I've had crazy unlucky timing and mostly wind up there when it's dark, so finding the other 2 Polonium patches for instance has been difficult. If not, all good man, this has been so helpful already!!
You would think that a company that has got itself in such a poor financial state with many bad decisions would find a better way to spend developer time than making an already ridiculously time consuming activity just a little more annoying. Trying to make material gathering harder is not the best choice for player retention.
Being able to farm Raw materials like this is such a QOL W, since one of the reasons I kinda gave up on elite was because of how much I absolutely despised the old method of farming raw materials with the SRV. It was actually maddening.
Singlehandedly saved my love for the game because now I can go out and engineer all of those cool ship builds I've always wanted to try
Good to see you back producing content for ED, I hope you continue.
Just like you helped me a few years ago when I started playing the game, I'm sure you will help many players who are just starting out.
See you soon, o7!
The best start from sidewinder to fleet carrier and beyond is coming soon!
After 4 yrs out of the game, this was SO helpful. Used to do farming with an SRV, this method is much better! Thank you!
I can't tell you how much your guides have helped me with grinding and improved my enjoyment of the game. From ship mats, credit farming, how to start out, ground mats, you name it. you are the man! Thank you for the work you do
I recently started again with Elite and found your guide... thank you so much. This guide is to the point and helped so much. No blah blah, just useful information. 🙂
Damn Hawke, it's about time you put out an updated vid for this :D Thanks mate, no matter how many years go by, I always forget some of the details and reference your old vid. Bookmarked for personal use and for sharing.
Thanks Hawkes, always great vids. Please keep us spoiled with good vids for Elite’s new content.
It's been a loooong journey. I'm finally at the end of it. This is absolutely invaluable info. Thank you so much commander o7🖖
Talk about a gold mine, thanks for putting this together, and an updated list, this is great. Sure the old ways were fun but im glad there are good odyssey equivalents alot closer then before. Especially for the raw materials
Love the video as always!
I've just recently got into farming for engineering, it's been relaxing. But man do I love being efficient. This guide helps me squeeze out more per hour. Thanks my dude.
Great up date! Your old guide has been my go to for so long everytime I need to go farming for mats! So glad you are back mate!
I was litterly just sitting here wishing he made an updated one and here it is, mind blown! Keep up the hard work lmao
timing hehe
Been about 2 years since I last needed to material gather for ship building but with the new FSD on the market, I figured it was time to restock. Thanks again for coming v in clutch with the best information video for this task.
when ever i get back into ED i always, ALWAYS look to your channel first! Thank you for being a creator!
Thank you so much for making these in depth videos. Can't tell you how incredibly helpful they are. Whenever I need to know the best way to get it done I come to you. This updated video is even more helpful than your last one like this which seems impossible. Thank you for taking the time to do this for us.
Awesome thank you bud
The community for this game is the most helpful I've seen in a game
This is great! I had to learn a lot of this the hard way as most guides tend to skip over the small bits. This is going to be excellent to those just starting who see engineering as a daunting task.
The best, most comprehensive and complete grind guide on the web. Good Job!!
Superb as always. With the exception of Selenium all those other Raw Mat locations are new to me. The Trees/Crystal Shards are dead! I always cross traded for Pharmaceutical Isolators and did Robigo Runs for the other two Mech Mats and some Firmware and Data Encoded Mats. Thank you Commander o7
For some manufactured materials there are some systems worth checking:
Core Dynamics Composites: Check LTT 3010 and LP 413-18. These systems spawn an endless amount of high grade emissions with this material and the grade 4 of this same type.
Imperial Shielding: Check Laguz and 21 Eridani. I was told that these systems behave like the 2 systems above but for Imperial Shielding.
When using these systems you don't even have to relog, you can just fly to all the HGE's that are available and fill up in no time.
Thank you for this tip.
I use these systems and then use a mat trader to cross trade if I want something else
These systems work like a charm. There is a manufactured material trader just a short
Nailed it again brother.... clear, crisp and very easy to follow..! LYW.
I must be one of the weird few that enjoys material collecting - put some tunes on and chill with the repetition. It's nice when I want to destress my brain and just have something repetitive to do that doesn't require much thinking. Almost becomes meditative. Nice to know I can now increase my 'meditation' efficiency even more with your video lol! o7
GREAT video, and I always get a laugh out of your guides. The Beavis and Butthead reference had me haha. I'll make sure to try the brain tree method out soon, looks like it beats the crap out of doing it in a rover.
I just want to say me and my son really appreciate your videos thanks for the guides!
This right here is a gold mine. Thank you for putting this together.
He's back at it!
It's crazy how your videos have good viewership. In your videos we barely see any fleet carriers in the system view, but right now all those systems are crowded!
The Ruthenium crater is where I decided to drive my SRV out of the crater. I was really close to the edge but the wheels were losing grip, so my dumb ass decided to thrust up, but i failed miserably, died, lost my only SRV and a few million of exo-bio data from the trees. 😅
Great vid! I really like your content
I cant count the times I died trying to farm the raws the old way in my srv lol.
A SORELY needed update for this info. Thank god for you sir. Now I want to play again.
I think the antimony spot might have been removed or something. 2 weeks ago, I went to all of these location and found every raw material mentioned (except polonium for some reason). But antimony was definitely exactly where you said it would be. But today (Aug 28, 2024), I went back, exact same spot, exact same 4 patches shown by the 4 red dots in the picture, and nothing but low grade materials. Not sure if its just me. But the rest of the material locations seem to still be viable. Super helpful video! Was able to fill up everything with a little trading.
i went to a diff smaller crater and was able to farm it, but the one shown same thing.
Having the same issue with polonium. Getting nothing but vanadium there.
I found Antimony, but no luck with Ruthenium. I scoured the whole planet and found several Amazon Forests of brains, but all of them, and I mean all of them just gave me Polyporous Growth: Material "Common" - Grade 2 - Germanium and Chromium like. I think it might be bugged.
FDev consider engineering the crown jewel of Elite Dangerous, and are extremely proud of it. They don't want people skipping the grind.
I already knew about the encoded farm, but this is great for me for the other farms as up to this point i always just did it the intended way with the SRV and this is miles faster so thanx for that
Thankyou so much for this video. I'm new to elite although I had the game in my library years. I finally started my journey and this video was massively informative. Priceless info. Thanks
This is a huge time saver , thanks for putting this together , now to start grinding
You know what? I like the video, but then tried, and it didn't work for me personally. Limpets aren't my thing, it seems. Yet, I had a blast with a couple of friends, driving around on some moons, that you recommended. We took nice pictures, had a fun time, totally disobeyed your advice, but we stacked up on mats anyways. Thank you, Commander! You're running a top tier channel here, that I do keep recommending to other commanders any chance that I get!
Great vid...thank you. But, OMG what an effing grind! Totally worth it and satisfying to see it all filled, but whooo!
Hey Hawkes! Long time no see! Glad to see you're back into Elite as well. I recently came back and your guides are as awesome as ever!
Can we expect a guide for collecting the materials needed for suit and weapon upgrades and engineering as well? :)
Yes after the new best start lands.
@@HawkesGaming Nice! Can't wait for them to drop! Thanks for all your hard work! :)
@@MSPlaceholdername If you go to CD-51 2650, you have an anarchy minor faction called the Purple Gang that own several settlements. There's even an anarchy space station in system to sell items: Walker Platform. Ground Settlement with full service outfitting is Clough Base. Evidently it is a system that players intentionally manipulate to keep it so. Happy hunting.
Noguchi's Castings - Industrial
Hawkin's Bastion - Military
Delgado Analysis Enterprise - Research
Chandola's Bridge - Tourist
Great guide! Good to see the new ways. Got some new ships to engineer soon. :-)
Thanks a ton for this video, Hawkes! This is just what I was looking for!
Awesome, thanks for the new farming video man! Chuckled at the Beavis and Butt-Head reference miss that show.
3:46 for you!
Awesome, thank you! I am engineering four ships at once and I NEED mats!! I NEEDS THEM!!!
Glad to know i have been grinding Materials the right way :D
Ah hell yeah! Just what I needed!
Hawke I love your videos to death for the help they give! But I wanna address 1 thing. John Jameson did not fly a Sidewinder. It was a Cobra Mk3. o7 tho and thank you so much for this new guide!!!!
Im the dumb I made another voice over mistake with military supercapacitors too.
very nice that this is updated now!! i outfitted my asp explorer for this stuff but i’ll keep it outfitted for exploring and fsd range, and get a krait phantom for this stuff!’
hi, thanks for this awesome, comprehensive guide. one thing i noticed while farming selenium/technetium: it seems that the technetium is dropped by a different species of brain trees, which only spawns in the darker blue areas. maybe it was just coincidense though, but i got zero technetium in the teal areas on both planets.
Thanks CMDR, keep flying dangerously.
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o7 CMDR
Thankx hawkes, this helps me really get along, great vlog, love your channel.👌 👍
The Beavis and Butthead part got me lol 🤣😂😆
3:46 just leaving this here. lol!
Holy moly! Thanks for the nice guide!
Hacking the large floating bases, i don't remember the specific name but they have 2 hacking terminals and with recon limpets and cold running you can avoid bounties and hack relog and get encoded stuff pretty fast too.
They are these giant orbiting bases, usually only show up on the menu panel when you get closer to the planet they orbit around
oh god! the Manufactured Materials grind was loooooong. I did find a system that has both Military, the Protos, and even the Pharms. It cycles about every 45 minutes to an hour. This ended up saving me so much time. And a Raw trader was in the system/ Timbalderis/ Right now Slink's Eye has the Proro Light,Rad, and Heat
Encoded wasn't that bad though. And I need a couple of more trips to top off on RAW.
I also learned the Limpits tend to die when first deployed in space. So I just do one, wait for it come back, and then activate all i can
Did the selenium part yesterday it work wonders thanks Hawkes! you saved me from stopping to play this crazy grind :Dmy only issue was relogging worked only 2twice on the patches of brain trees. First time upon discovering, then first relog to private group session, then second relog to single session again. after that further relogs and explsions on brain trees yield nothing and I am looking for further patches of the trees.
Great video, however I have some recommendations:
1. Try to have all critical information at the start of each section. There were a few times we were already fairly into a section of the guide only to get an "oh yeah, don't forget this lol" and someone might be playing/pausing the video to be in sync and then they too get to that point and don't have the thing because they weren't told initially.
2. Similar to the above, but I would have really appreciated a heads up on the two missing manufacturing materials and maybe a recommendation to farm the Imperial Shields first and trade them vertically to those two first initially just so they're out of the way. I ended up trading every tier 4 and 5 material I had collected up until that point, but now I'm wondering if I should have just grinded the Imperial Shields...honestly probably the later, but then again I just did a run of Imperial Shields trading to Biotech Conductors and I'm kind of glad I don't have to do this for as long as I would have.
Hopefully we all get lucky and benefit from the engineering changes even after all this grinding.
Great video, super informative and fairly straight forward. Thank you!
I engineered a dolphin for this used missile racks while not quite as effective as flak cannons, still works well and the small ship is highly maneuverable compared to larger ships, so makes finding patches quick. I am limited to 1 limpet out at a time but I did equip a 5E cargo rack, with carriers in the system for restocking it is actually quite a great little ship for this and low budget for new players
Brilliant as usual, will be doing this soon.
I don't know if someone at frontier noticed this video, but a lot of these locations the brain trees are now just dropping common materials rather than the rarer ones shown in the video.
yeah
I highly suggest using min-ed-launcher, and disabling the intro video when you need to do the hge loops.
That is actually exceptionally big brained Commander!
how do you disable the intro?
@@HawkesGaming min-ed-launcher for those that haven't seen it yet, has a function to auto-restart the game on your set delay. It also bypasses the frontier launcher and puts you right in the game. Shaves a few seconds here and there on game startup.
@@azog23 You find the movie file in the game install directory, (optinoally)rename it, then make a new empty file of the same name(to not cause a file not found error). It'll then try to play the empty file and carry on no problem.
If you don't rename it, and just replace it with an empty file, you can always get it back by validating the game files in steam or the frontier launcher.
@@TheLukemcdaniel That adds up over time just like the supercruise assist trick.
Travelled HR 3230 - 3 a a and used up four flack launchers - large Brain Tree groups, 3 pieces of Selenium... I won't be buying a lottery ticket today.
Tried hitting a big patch with my SRV after I ran out of limpets, and nothing but Zinc, Niobium and Manganese. Enjoyed your video though. o7
i think they changed waht they spawn. because mim at the 3rd planet exactly where he goes and im not getting any of the grade 4
Here's another hint. CMDRs. Don't worry about running out of ammunition or limpets. In all of these systems, there usually are enough fleet carriers where you can restock without any lengthy round trip of wasting materials on synth!
ED is more fun when you don't need to waste hours and hours farming materials! TYVM for this video, Cmdr! o7
you still waste many hours
@@kahtyman7293 yeah, but imagine without a guide like this? It would be unfeasible for a sane person
This is garbage content. Horizons was a terrible update. Back at launch none of us had to do this.
This is a great guide! The only trouble I have is Technetium - Wregoe SB-Z b41-2 - A 1 a. All I get is Chromium and Zinc. Im not sure if Im doing something wrong.
I was having the same issue, I did however find, that once chrome and zinc filled up the tech started rolling in. I wondered if limpets prioritized g3 and the g4s started despawning. Just a theory
Same here. I guess I will try filling up on zinc and chromium and see what happens. Will update if the same thing happens to me
Same issue, not just you. Have got two lots of tech in hours, so 6 in total from this planet. All I get is Chronium/Zinc and some basic grade 1 stuff. Haven't seen any tech in an hour of solid grinding. This planet is just not it for tech anymore it seems, something changed.
I got more tech from the Selenium planet lol
I spent an hour farming the planet as well and didn't find any tech.
@@Fudgemaker17 Go to the same coordinates as he did in the video. That's what I ended up doing and got tons of tech from the same brain trees he was farming.
The new SCO FSD should make getting to the high grade emissions a lot easier.
There's a station that stocks up to class 7A (except 6, but 6B) about two jumps from the selenium system
@@AlphaJulietBravo1 you can just use Inara to find everything you need anyway.
Again. Amazing. Just an amazing job.
hello, what is that ship that you are using ? and how did you able to reach jump range over 50+ LY ? . Thanks
Without your guides we'd be living in the dark ages. How anyone is able to find these locations in the first place is beyond me!
I liked the video cant wait for more!!
You sir, are a legend. Thank you! o7
I just subscribed. MY GOD DUDE what a video.
Awesome head shaking in this video! :D
Damn, I didn't even know you could relog during the manufactured grind. I spent days going from HGE to HGE and didn't even fill up everything.
I've been playing since launch too ffs. 😂
I know those exact feels. Once I found out it was life transforming!
Great overview! However I do have a question: How do you get the elements in your contacts? I only see my limpets but never elements.
Mr. Hawkes, superb as always. But eould you mind to update odyssey materials guide as well? Anyway, thanks for the video!
The on foot will be updated right after the best start comes out.
This needs to be updated already. Some of the locations don't spawn the materials like technetium area. Only gives Chromium and the occasional Zinc.
but he shared the reddit thread on desc, thats updated.
Fantastic guide, thank you.
Great video! Will be watching this one many times. Is that a Python you are using for the raw material farming?
This is the video i will recommend to newbs from now on.
Crazy idea here but imagine if they actually made farming engineering materials fun and rewarding 😮
We can always hope that eventually that will be the case and we wont need to play the reload simulator to farm efficiently.
@@HawkesGaming Agreed! Until then, thanks again for this guide, commander o7
Your wish has just come true
Very nice guide buddy. I keep going to most planets at night though, it's super annoying!
For anyone material grinding after the Engineer fix, here are some takeaways from my experience.
I started with barely any G3/G4/G5 (didn't need or get them much as an explorer) and finished with full Manufactured and Raw, full Encoded up to G4, ~20 in each G5.
Manufactured is by far the easiest part of the farm.
One HGE is enough to fill up one G5, or at least half of that if you get a mix of G4/G5. Just drop in, release collector limpets and you're done.
The only problem I've encountered is targeting a specific material, e.g. you can get Core Dynamics/Proto Heat/Proto Radiolic in one Federal Boom system, but sometimes it's just one of those in a row. Pharmaceutical Isolators is the most painful one, but if you don't have any luck with them - trading shouldn't be a big issue.
Raw was a bit annoying, I've seen the comments about remote farming not working reliably and went with an SRV.
Finding the landing spot and then the trees themselves is painful, especially if the spot happens to be on the dark side. And obviously SRVs control as badly as they were 10 years ago.
Other than that it's decently fast, took me 2 trips (with visits to all planets) to fill up all my materials. Only had to soft relog on 2 planets.
Encoded is the worst.
It took FDev almost a decade to fix Engineers and they've still forgotten about one of the main issues with material grinding - trading.
On paper Encoded should be pretty easy. Scan the 9 beacons, soft relog and scan again, that's enough to fill up G4 and G5. Except, after trading, that's just enough to get 20 G5 materials in another category. One trip to Jameson's Cobra and back to the Trader took me ~18 minutes on a good day; assuming I need to fill up G5 for all 5 other materials - I'll need 25 trips (500/20); that totals to 7.5 hours of going back and forth without any engaging gameplay.
Due to that I recommend doing Encoded either first or last, and probably don't fill up your G5 too much.
I am doing Encoded at the moment and I started really empty. This is a real grind. I can get between the planet and the trader in about 5 minutes but it is still depressingly slow! The 6-1 and 36-1 ratios are very mean!
Hey Hawkes... thanks for this awesome guide... but can you now *please* do the same, but for all us Commanders who prefer life out at Colonia, rather than in the bubble?
Also, according to posts on Reddit, though I haven't tried it myself, it seems that an SCO FSD totally revolutionises farming of HGEs. As in, more fun, and no relogging necessary. I'm not quite sure how this is done, but it's something you might want to look into.
There are a small handful of systems that perma spawn hges near the bubble. You can just fly from one to the other non stop till you get low on gas go fill up and just keep farming. It takes the relogging out of the equation but sadly it's only for two different types of grade 5 HGEs.
@@HawkesGaming - Thanks.. I very much appreciate the clarification and extra details.
(Please do consider a mats farming special for Colonia.. it's a very different world out here. I'm currently out here doing the grind for Odyssey suit & weapon upgrades. It's much more challenging than in the bubble.)
Thanks a lot Hawkes!
I havent been able to get Technetium from the second moon, but did stock up on selenium already :)
Very useful. As to raw mats, I'd leave the Selenium moon til last because it's where you can most easily find chunky T4 drops to trade down and fill out the rest of the collection. And when flaking for ram mats even when the surface is light it's worth engaging night vision. Makes it easier to catch the point at which the trees derender.
I do have a gripe with FDev though. Some of us (or at least me) bought this game because we want to fly spaceships and if we'd wanted a low gravity badly designed golf buggy simulator we'd have bought one. Of course it does add to the general sense of the "universe" and I'm sure some people enjoy it. But my point is that there is no efficient way of grabbing emissions without SRVing. For the ship version there's just really tedious wake sniffing. Okay, 3 for 1 now, but still.
Oh and I have done the irritating golf buggy dodgems for a lot of stuff (including Guardian kit) but there should be a shipbound alternative.
Great tutorial but minus a million points for calling Jameson's Cobra mk3 a Sidewinder
I've found that farming all HGEs with 20+ minutes on them and then using the traders to trade for what i need. Starting from Jameson Memorial i can usually max out a grade 5 within 8 nearby populated systems . 45 minutes per loop to max out 1 grade 5 trade and repeat.
I hit the Ribigo run for Mats and Money. It helps out a lot.
Hello @Hawkes Gaming ,found your channel for tips and tricks to get the materials you need for the engineering mats etc, i tried out the flak cannon method , tbh i could not get on with it ,so i use the dumbfire missiles engineered for extra ammo capacity, works great although my drones Kamikaze into the planets surface sometimes :}
but i find if you back up a bit until the trees de spawn then drones survive and bring you your mats , thanks for this all the best from Old England :} new sub btw
I cant thank you enough man! Btw if you now drop in to a high grade emission there are so many materials that you cant even collect them all. I had 100 Isolators in 2 minutes....
Hi new to all this ED stuff, out of all the YT vids I find yours to be the most informative and enjoyable! can I ask what is the best ship to do this in, what would be the build to do it ? I am literally a complete noob to this and whilst I want to get into the game I find it very daunting! so any help would be massively appreciated!!
This is a great video and very efficient. Tank you.
Question:
I've been searching for a while. Based on the video, I have not found a single ruthenium. Ruthenium positions can not be found.
Even on a other planet it is the same, no ruthenium found.
Can someone please show me the exact positions.
Thank you.
Anyway I can get a build for the ship used for Raw Material Farming?
Thanks Hawkes!
What is the remote flak canon? i have never seen this weapon before
Followup question. Are there any other weapons that work to remotely harvest brain trees? Say for example, dummy missiles or regular canons?