I don't know whats going on with the High grade emissions but you now get like 150-200 grade 4-5 materials per. But now it doesn't work to re-log. However you generally only need 1-2 of them anyway so who cares. I think you need to revisit doing these methods again. because the Jameson crash site maxed out my inventory in 3 re-logs. Also with SCO Frame Shift drives you can get to the crashed anaconda super fast. They have also added a boat load of Crates at the crashed Anaconda site. The crash sites still allow re-log re-fresh
I've been sitting on this footage for almost 2 months! I finally had the time needed to dedicate to editing this project! I hope you like it Commanders it was a lot of work!
Fellow Odyssey players it is September 2022 and this guide is still amazing and it works gloriously. I just grinded out all these mats using his methods. I just wanted to give a PSA for the Raw Mats. In the Odyssey client you will no longer see Biological Markers. Instead what you do is activate your surface scanner on the planet, once it is scanned and you are close enough you will find a filter in the middle of the surface scanner screen. Press Q or E (by default) and you will filter through different options on the heat map. Cycle through until you find Crystalline markers, they will pop up as bright blue, land in any blue area and get close to the ground. Once you are close to the ground you will see tiny spikes jutting from the surface, find a patch and land near them. Once you are in your SRV those spikes are actually huge and you will find the resources that Hawkes has depicted. Alternatively, you could launch the game in the Horizon's client and it should look identical to what you see Hawke's do. Lastly, when I first "discovered" the raw materials it tells me I have a max capacity of 100 instead of 150. Exiting to main menu and relogging corrected this for me. But don't be like me and leave the planet with only 100 (max capacity toast and everything) to log in later and realize you have to go back and get the other third. 07 Commanders!
Quality comment :) Just a heads up, the second planet (C-1-D) doesn't appear to have proper crystalline clusters in odyssey so i recommend doing it in horizons
Oh man, I thought I'd wasted all that journey (and all that time exploring the system before landing..) - thanks!!! Also, a better trick is to just use the coordinates from the SRV at each site in the video. This way you get the specific high volume zone. Edit: Nevermind! These don't work anymore. However TheRealSuzuki6 gave some new coords: 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
DUDE WTF... your speaking loud and clearly. Not too fast. The information is clearly posted on the screen, the quality of the video is awesome AND you checked with frontier to make sure none of this information is an exploit??? This is the best Elite Dangerous mat farm video ive ever seen... I... think i love you
Hawkes has helped me so much by just watching this video! I've been avoiding the stupid ass engineering stuff because it was just annoying and poorly explained. Thank you for explaining it Hawkes!
Hello Commanders, Read this if you have issues or if you are going to do this for the first time ever!!!!!!!!!! If you play on Odyssey there is a few things different then in this video due to the planettary textures being adjusted.I recently did this run for the first time in Odyssey but have done it many times before in Horizons a long time ago and I noticed the changes. First of all the RAW material planets that Hawkes shows are still good but the sights/signals just will not show up on NAV panel anymore. If you want to farm materials you can now fly to any point on the planet and be lucky to find a spot with shards but this can take a very long time so I will put some coordinates down below with spots where you can fill up at 1 spot in less then 20 Minutes ( even for Selenium) 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 ( you can fill up at 1 sight here) Also the first time you ever get RAW materials your inventory is capped at 100 for some reason... To fix this just collect each material and when it says inventory full go to the main menu and then go back in game and now your inventory will have space for 150 instead of 100. Do this for every RAW material you collect Also if you don't wanna fly all the way out to the Crystalline shards for Raw materials there is Discord servers and Reddit pages that offer free fleet carrier rides there and back! Also for Encoded Data blowing up your ship will not respawn you at the last station you were docked anymore , it will spawn you on the most nearby Fleet carrier or station to where you do so don't blow yourself up. You gonna have to actually fly back to a station with trader now unfortantly. I recommend System: Diaguadri , station: Ray Gateway its really close. Also last tip ,If you can't find 'Military Supercapacitors" then go to a High Grade Emissions site wich has not much time left on it ( 12 mins or less) for some reason I find them way more often here. Yes you will only have a few minutes to farm them once you get there but it is for sure a lot better then trading for them and looking for sites with a lot of time left ! I hope this helps if you have any questions just ask me down below ! o7
I used this video today to actually get a TON of everything. I know you dont play anymore! But im glad you made a video like this. Well you made many but this one really helped me alot. I got like 6 engineer's unlocked just never had MATS to do a damn thing really.
@@fuzztsimmers3415 th-cam.com/video/5ZPM8DosLq4/w-d-xo.html This, it's an amazing build if you have the ENG. data to fit it out and make it work. Hit's 60LY without fully done and no Guardian FSD yet.
@@fuzztsimmers3415 Nothing too fancy. An SRV, have enough cargo space for collector limpets and tune everything else to make the jump range as large as possible, plus a fuel scoop of course. I also like to carry a wake scanner just to pick up those materials when I'm going in and out of stations. Really any bubble bus will do, you can use a dedicated explorer for the raw mats.
All the steps here for copy paste. Notes: Remember to keep stocking up on collection limpets Core dynamics composites & Proprietary Composites Allegiance: Federation Population: High population State: None 1. Scan nav beacon 2. Supercruise to High Grade Emission (at least 25mins left) 3. Collect 3-6 drops of 3 mats (max) 4. Exit to desktop 5. Join the same game mode. 6. Engage FSD and find unidentified signal source. It's the same HGES Military Grade Alloys and Supercapcitors Allegiance: Any Population: High population State: War/Civil War Same instructions as above. Supercapacitor not common. Trade afterwards. Imperial Shielding Allegiance: Empire Population: High population State: None / Election Same instructions as above. Drops a lot. Great for trades. 100 trades for 16 of any tier 5 other Proto heat radiators Allegiance: Independent Population: High population State: Boom Same instructions as above. Drops a lot as well. Pharmaceutical Isolators Allegiance: Any Population: Any State: Outbreak Difficult to find. Check a couple systems and if not found use trader. Improvised Components Allegiance: Independent Population: Any State: Civil unrest Same instructions as above. Easy to find. Proto light alloys & Proto radiolic alloys Allegiance: Independent or alliance Population: High population State: Boom Same instructions as above. Easy to find but it'll take longer to stock up tier 5 since it also provides tier 4 mixed in. Use them to trade. Improvised Components Allegiance: Independent Population: Any State: Civil unrest Same instructions as above. Easy to find. Encoded Loop Note: Remember to trade these 4 materials before heading out - Modified consumer firmware - Cracked industrial firmware - Atypical Encryption archives - Adaptive Encryptors capture Location: HIP 12099 Planet 1 B Best location. T5 most common 1. Surface scan the planet 2. Land to Jameson Crash Site 3. Set SRV in the middle of the 4 scanning locations. 4. Scan also the comms control from ship. 5. Logout to main menu and repeat 6. Head to trader and prep for another run. Save time by blowing up your ship after docking Raw materials Method 1 Farm crashed Anaconda Location: Koli Discii C 6 A 1. Surface scan the planet 2. Head to Crashed Ship and land 3. Blow up crates 4. Refresh site by editing to main menu and logging back in. Method 2 Farm Biological sites. Make sure the last place you dock before heading out is the Raw materials trader Location: HIP 36601. 1500 LY away from bubble. Planet C 1 A - Polonium 1. Surface scan the planet 2. Look for biological sites to land (number 5 is best) 3. Blow up and collect crystalline clusters for Polonium Planet C 1 D - Ruthenium - Same method. Site 3 Planet C 3 V - Tellurium - Same method. Site 5 Moon C 5 A - Technetium - Same method. Site 6 Location: Outotz LS-K D8-3 Planet B 5 A - Yttrium - Same method. Site 15 Planet B 5 C - Antimony - Same method. Site 3 Blow yourself up instead of flying back. Trade down. Selenium Location: LHS 417 Planet 9 E A Go to geological sites. Farm 2-3 of those sites.
I used this on the PC version. Now I'm gonna use it again... lost my PC and picked up an Xbox. Yes, I know the game is pretty much dead on consoles BUT, the only way I can play anymore is on Xbox. Trust me when I say I'm not looking forward to doing all this again to be able to engineer any of my ship. Plus all the money making options are needed now so I'm pretty screwed as far as getting back to where I was. Good news, I already have my FC and I've only been playing for 2 weeks so far. All thanks to these xcellent videos you put out Hawkes. THANK YOU.
Okay, I just have to say that I'm still fairly new to ED. I just got my first anaconda and outfitted it with (what I could find) the best stuff before engineering. Being newer, engineering has been something I've dreaded simply because of the grind (I'm taking a break from BDO so... you know... I really don't feel like grinding much of anything) after some research and discouraging information in terms of effort, I came across this video. This is, by far, THE single best guide I've found in the last 5 - 7 years of gaming, for any game that I've played. Seriously, it's not too long, everything is linked in the description and the way you've laid it all out is so simple I feel like I can get a couple of things done here-and-there and come back to this when I need to. Hawkes, you really did an incredible job with this. So thank you for making ED a little easier on us noobs :). Great video, 10/10.
Ok, for all of you newbies out there. This is it. This all you need for the engineering parts. Trust when I say that i watch this video and did not understand why do this method but after actually doing it I can guarantee this method is the best by far. Trust I am new to ED and this has helped a lot.
This is one of my favourite go-to videos in ED! Thank you for your hard work. Still works in 2021, however it is humanly impossible to go from 0-150 of Raw Materiral gathering in 15 minutes. I believe FDev decided that there can't be too much grind and slightly nerfed it. You can see that even that the shot down mats even look different in your vdeo than in the current version of ED. Your look like fancy alien pinecones while the ones we get now are boring little gray sticks. A bit of math: 15 minutes is equal to 900 seconds. We need to collect 50 shards from the needles (each one gives us 3). That gives us 18 seconds per mat collection. This includes: finding the crystalline cluster, aligning to the correct angle so we shoot at the hitbox (even with the turret deployed it takes a bit of driving and cornering), shooting the mat down, waiting for it to fall (5-30 seconds, avg. 12sec), finally collecting it. Not to mention that 5-10% of the materials get stuck in the needles and some of the hitboxes are only possible to shoot only when jumping. I have tried different methods and I'm not the worst SRV driver out there but was never able to get anything done faster than 29 minutes. I assumed that the best approach would be to shoot a bunch of the shards down and then scoop them up all in one go but thanks to FDev they disappear after a short while. So yeah...
Your service will not go unappreciated. There is like absolutely nothing to complain about in this video, its quick and efficient, to the point concice, clear and i think thats enough adjectives. Well done.
These were valid for me: 0:55 - Core Dynamic Composites & Proprietary Composites, 2:30 - Military Grade Alloys, and 2:51 - Imperial Shielding. I couldn't verify these and tried a few different systems: 2:37 - Military Supercapacitors and 3:59 - Pharmaceutical Isolators. I found "Proto Light Alloys & Proto Radiolic Alloys" when I followed this: 3:21 - Proto Heat Radiators and this: 4:56 - Proto Light Alloys & Proto Radiolic Alloys. Slowly making my way down the rest of the list. All in all, a very helpful vid!
Dude, you never disappoint! Note to new CMDRs; between this cheddar hound, Astro (D2EA) for the deep dive, and CMDR Exegious for the shortest (focused) videos, don't waste your time learning the ins and outs of this game at any other channels to get up to speed ASAP. I mean, LOOK AT THOSE TIME STAMPS! Best of all worlds! o7
Awesome Guide! Thanks for all the work. I found Bio Site 1 on HIP 36601 C 5 A for Technetium to be great (a good replacement for site 10). Note that the other stars you're aiming for are a ways from where you pop into the system, so, if you need a 20 min break save it for the supercruise. The route out there may be a bit wonky depending on where you leave from. There's some restricted space between it and the bubble.... and as others have said, if you're new like me and can't drive the SRV around from turret mode well, then expect it to take 5x the time it takes CMDR Hawke. Finally, I lucked out and had mats to both repair my SRV and synthesize ammo. I would highly suggest making sure you have a bit on hand before running out when you're out there.
Hey Hawkes, I am new and I have been using your Guide farming for materials and i was at HIP 12099. I found a place called stack on a -1. it is an abandoned settlement. if you land next to it and get in your SRV you can do a circuit around the settlement and pick up 7 materials. the ones that have been showing up are, Crystal Shards Heat Conduction Wiring Mechanical Scrap Salvaged Alloys Chemical Processors Heat Dispersion Plate Shield Emitters Tagged Encryption Codes i have been using your trick to back out to the main menu then log back in and the 7 material points respawn. I do another circuit in the SRV then repeat. thanks for your help in finding this. love your videos.
This engineering "quest line" is insane. I watched your other video on the order of unlocking the engineers and I stopped it a few times like..."wtf how many are there.... "
I keep going back to this video after the recent engineering update and it still works like a charm. I no longer need to reload my game so it's nice to visit the systems I need and fill up my cargo in one trip
Manufactured Materials. If you are like me and need a lot of everything, try this. Go to Galaxy map, sort by economy, mark them all, plot route to trader and use Economical route, and follow video instructions at each stop. When you get to trader you should have what you need or can trade for what you need or just reload limpets and go again. Thanks for the guides Hawkes, you are the only one who does not waste my time and gets right to the point with your videos.
When using the SRV at Jameson Memorial you can scan the data from the turret's seat, that way you don't have to drive around to aim at the different Comms Controls (it's set to 'U' key at my game). Conversely when shooting the raw material boxes you can just lock target (it's set to 'T' key at my game) while driving and the turret will auto aim at them if it has the angle for it. Just a newbye tip, took me a bit to figure it out. lol P.S: thanks for the awesome guides as always!
I've been needing to get the manufactured materials, i have the science down for encoded and raw already. This video was extremely helpful, thanks so much!
I just started playing ED a week ago and your videos have helped me a ton. This one is another great guide on a complicated aspect of the game. Thank you for sharing this valuable info!!
Whoever found these sites are a god send. I love this game but to search for these things without a community (granted it's years old) is nearly improbable.
Well I would bet at first it was on accident, someone scanned a planet found some weird signals, went to examine and found motherload of materials. I am almost hundred percent sure FDev would not hint that that is where they spawn.
I do like the how-to vids. Totally awesome work. I can not get near the times you say. But that's cool. Life in the slow lane rocks :) Keep up the great work.
I had the hardest time finding proto alloys using this guide. After reading around the best I could figure out is that they seem to tend to drop in high tech economies. That made it work for me still in accordance with this guide, just with that additional aspect. Still can’t manage to find military supercapacitors, but maybe it’s got something weird like that too.
I love how he explains the long travel distance to Koli Discii C 6 A but then doesn't even mention @12:04 that Outotz LS-K D8-3 B 5 A is 3 times as far at 309k Ls
Thanks man for making this pretty good game more manageable for us new guys. I believe Einstein said if you can't explain it to a kid you don't really get it or something to that effect. Your descriptions are super simple and easy to understand while you're actually telling us how to win at a difficult game. So... Props
When mining raw mats 1500ly out, do not dock on the fleet carriers or you won't be able to self destruct back to the bubble. so bring materials to make ammo for your srv.
When I start playing ED to gather materials I open 4 tabs on my browser: Coriolis, Inara, EDDB and THIS VIDEO! Congrats @Hawkes! And thank you for the awsome video!
Man so much information packed into this video. I'm on day 2 of just figuring out what I'm doing with horizons stuff and I'm nowhere near done with the information in this and your other video. Hopefully my days off from work will give me enough time to figure it out.
Well I've been going at it for a little while now and using EDDB to find the places. After farming materials in one area I realized they weren't the right ones, then I realized EDDB wasn't up to date on that system, so now I know to double check with the system I'm farming in since it seems to change. I've also learned to use the filter for signal sources and that helped find the high grade emissions a lot. Still no idea what all I'll need this stuff for with engineering, but I figure if I go into it with a full inventory of stuff it should be a lot easier. I think I'm gonna be looking at this same video for a very long time.
Hey mate, thanks for this great vid! Farming the mats was much easier (and fun!) with your guide. Now, for HIP 36601 C 5 A = Technetium, I strongly recommend Bio site #4. It is flat terrain, smooth, crystal formations well spaced so you can maneuver in speed the SRV or even jump-catch the falling crystals, plus a lot of other materials (at least 20 pieceous cobbles with phosphorus, Sulphur, iron etc.)
@Thomas Radon I'm pretty sure they think that's exactly what makes good game play. There isn't anything in the game that doesn't take days of farming to achieve. Seriously, the game should just be called "Elite Grind"
I was looking for a video that gave me a straight forward answer to material harvesting, this is awesome. Thanks for the hard work. I'm in quarantine now, so I have time to grind away. Great job!
For anyone reading this in 2023, self-destructing my ship after farming the Jameson Crash site in the middle of the video, spawned me at a random nearby carrier, not back at the last station I visited with a material trader in it. So don't waste your money.
Farming Selenium was no joke. Took me about 5 hours, with breaks, and visited 9 sites to go from 0 to 150. Won't be doing that for a long time, I hope.
Dude you're a life saver! I would have taken forever to farm these if I didn't know you could log out and respawn in minutes. Thank you very well made tutorial.
Hey mate, thanks for the content, and as a way of saying thank you, for Technetium, try biological site 1 for better terrain. Biological site 10 seemed to be a troll to me, it was not just hilly, it was mountainous lol, couldn't get traction and nearly destroyed my SRV. Don't get me started on the parking!
If you want to gather the other cannisters at the Anaconda site don't forget to empty your ship's hold first. This "dummy" forgot and had to jettisoned instead. Not tried the HGE's yet but I'm sure they'll save me loads of grind. Thanks for yet another informative and easily understandable video. Good work CMDR.
HIP 36601 C 5 A = Technetium: Go for Site 3! Absolutely the best, more or less completely flat and you can land right next to it, be careful not to get too close so you can activate your turret :D
If you're like me and cant find High grade Emissions, i found this on Reddit: To scan the nav beacon you need to drop out of supercruise at it, and then target the actual beacon, not the supercruise marker. Get close and wait a few seconds. In your lower left screen it will say “scanning” and then you’ll get a message that the scan is complete. Credit: DanG351
To add to this, after jumping to the beacon, go to your Contacts tab and select the Nav Beacon in there. Then find it on your ship's radar. (The marker on your screen is bugged and not accurate, I think this is due to people bumping the nav beacons?)
This is still working as of 21st June 2020 on Xbox. Ensure you exit the game using the Xbox Guide Button, pressing Start on ED and Quit the game before reloading again and selecting the mode you left. It won't work if you just go to the Main Menu.
Speaking about Supercapacitors. Everything applies here as you mentioned. However instead to focus on HGEs with around 20~40 minutes, try those with 15 minutes remaining. Only then you will find these materials. Also this will only apply once you enter Star System. So jump to a Star, Discover with Scanner and locate HGEs with less then 15 minutes.
Thanks for your videos and very clear no fuss presentations. Love it! I started with Elite Dangerous in Beta and got back into it after a few years hiatus ;) Things have changed! It's good to get some very nice tips for the new stuff. Again great job and please keep going. See you maybe around some station bar when Odissey finally happens... My treat!
It's so sad that we actually need these kinds of videos to actually bother with engineering. FDEV made this too much of a grind. I mean even these workarounds are too much time spent doing boring stuff. Still, without this video, I would've just stopped playing.
The intended collection methods are so poorly designed, just like the whole engineering system. I would be so much happier if they scrapped the whole thing, or at least did a complete rework. It's not like the concept is bad, it's just how poorly FD designed and implemented it.
The main issue isn't even collectings mats, but the sheer amount you need for the last tier upgrades. I don't care enough to know who is designing this shit, but it's like they don't want people to play their game. I stopped playing many times for very long periods of time because of their decisions (and the game being quite shallow). The first iteration of engineers was so bad it made me quit playing until they changed it. One thing they could do to "fix" it is to remove RNG completely from engineers while keeping the costs as is. But the whole thing needs a rework and some serious balancing.
@@Rainbow_Dash_of_Cloudsdale I haven't played it for weeks. Every time I consider doing so, I remember the grind and then play something else. This might be the end of me playing ED.
Yes. Although it is extremely efficient for this game, it still takes too much time. After watching this video I might quit farming for materials anyway.
First of all, awesome and helpful info! Your entire body of work is extremely helpful and fun. Your videos have convinced me to go outside the bubble (bad pun) of what I normally do. I ran into an issue on Xbox one where, when farming these materials, I get the 'full' message for a material when i hit 100. So I moved on, then logged out for the night. Started game again, checked inventory, and then max storage was up to 150 for that material. Learning that lesson cost some time so wanted to share with others. Thank you for all you do!
Best guide out there by far but still be prepared for a grind! From my personal experience, keep ALL manufactured mats, only trade the imperial shielding as everything else can be a nightmare to find! I traded out a few thinking it would be as easy to find again and it really hasn’t
Awesome work! Thanks. I spent half the day trying to find High Grade Emissions until I realized that I had to scan in super cruise. Then I found some right away.
Can you please clarify this: so you believe that passenger missions are more efficient than Jamerson crash site method for the specific purpose of gathering modified embedded software (G5 encoded material)? (while Jamerson crash site remains the best for the rest of the encoded materials). If so, which kind of passenger missions and where? Do you do Robigo passenger missions for that? I'm just curious. This is very high quality content with nice time stamps in the description, so I liked and subscribed.
If you want boat tons of those 3 mats I show try your hand at hausers reach in a large ship. HGE wont drop exquisite focus crystals so thats the main reason why I wrap up with passenger missions to snag my embedded firmware at the same time.
Pharmaceutical isolators and Military Supercapacitors are both notoriously hard to find so you will need to trade other grade 5 materials to get them maxed out. 1 per 6 traded = 16 per 100 g5 materials farmed. You will need to cross-trade 1200ish g5's just to max both. After that, you will need to farm all the other grade 5's to max that you used up to cross-trade. How the F**** is this even considered good gameplay.
@@seanowens3153 Even the Thargoid war can't bring this game back for me. I just had a ton of fun defending Wakata station last night and thought "hey, maybe I'll build a better AX ship and fight some interceptors!" Then I remembered the BS grind to get materials and decided to play something else. Good luck defending the bubble, I'm out... again.
Awesome guide, CMDR, and the backing music is kickin'. For Technetium, I would recommend going to Bio Signal Site #1, not #10 - Site 1 is well illuminated, crystal spawns are close together and most importantly, the terran is very flat and a joy to navigate (no cliffs, hills, ledges, etc. to get stuck on).
@@spectre4130 just checked, still there. Did you scanned the planet? Also when you are really close to the planet, it should show up on the navigation display
For Technetium I'd rather advise using site 6 instead of 10. It's also full of Technetium, but it's a flat area, not a valley. At site 10 I ran out of Crystalline in the flat area less than halfway my inventory space and was supposed to farm from the side of the valley, which is an easy area to get into a stuck position and have to relog in normal ED to get recovered to Orbit, which is 100k Ls away from C 5 A.
Dude.... Thank you. This is amazing for someone coming back 4 years later because engineering overwhelmed them when released. It was such a $@#$ show back then. I mean seriously... I BETA tested the hell out of horizons and FD ignored all of our concerns and released it as is. Soured the experience. Coming back I've made a years worth of credits (2016 ED with all smuggling & mission stacking exploits included) in 1 week because of your vids. Now I'm jumping 50 ly and my combat ships are casually cruising beyond boost speeds. I totally forgot what an addictive game this is. Thanks for being the guy that cuts all this convoluted crap into tiny pieces for the lesser minded pew pew pew folks
Farming materials wound't be so bad for me if it weren't for the fact that trading materials is a disgrace, I mean when you trade G5 for other G5 the trader takes a 86% commission lmao. You give 100 you get 14... It's ridiculous, what are they, loan sharks? lol
Dude, you rock! Thank you for this vid! After not playing this game for years and years, I am about to start engineering and I hated farming mats way back when. I'm stuck playing on PS4 right now, so the HGE respawn trick doesn't work. I've had to hunt over several systems, so it increases farm-time dramatically. o7, Commander. Thanks again!
Also, make sure this is the first place where you go to farm Raw materials as each site has tones of the other rank 2 and 3 materials as well. Specially, do this before trading down raw materials.
Can confirm all still works. Thanks for the guide, this is the best engineering mats guide out there by miles. You're a legend Hawkes Gaming, thank you :)
it's horrible we even have to resort to this, such a pathetic game mechanic... But thankfully you exist to at least make it slightly less painful, Much appreciated video!
Thank thank thank you so so so much. I've hated the idea of buckling down for engineering because of mat farming being so hard to figure out in game where and how. This is live saver
Thanks for the vid, commander. I got all but 3 of the ships I want and maxed them out with off the shelf gear and now it is the engineering phase of my play through do this will help a lot.
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Screen Rant Producer: So, is it going to be hard to hook audiences on such a technical video? Writer: No, sir, not at all! It will be super easy, barely an inconvenience! We just show them how to ALMOST but not quite technically cheat on one of the most tedious and boring parts of the game so they can do it quickly and be on their way.
I might repeat someone comments again but for 11:26 technetium Biological signal no 6 is pretty flat spot to land and farm, and thank you for the guides Hawkes! Edit update for Selenium: since i use Bhritzameno as my center point i found another planet with 5% Selenium, tried to give it a shot. this Geological sites i mention below is a flat and a lil hilly sites and landable by huge ships : Geo site 7 - 10 -16 -14 // total collected 93 Selenium | // is a go but 14 doest give much while the other sites is either gonna frustate your self to go into or a nice challenge for mountain goat people(smallships only), from those 4 spots run i manage to collect 93 Selenium and give it a bail now since i have been farming for half day and need to get this nasty core dynamic composite. I hope this help someone and good luck for the drop, again thanks Hawk for the guides is really help for my 1st actual mats grind adventure!! * T-9 Explorer gank rejoice :D *
Dude, after 6 years and over 2000 hrs, all your videos have improved my wnjoyment of this game. All I wanna do is play and pvp not work 3 times as hard to appease rngesus
New updated engineering materials farming guide for 2024! It's even faster now!
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I don't know whats going on with the High grade emissions but you now get like 150-200 grade 4-5 materials per. But now it doesn't work to re-log. However you generally only need 1-2 of them anyway so who cares. I think you need to revisit doing these methods again. because the Jameson crash site maxed out my inventory in 3 re-logs. Also with SCO Frame Shift drives you can get to the crashed anaconda super fast. They have also added a boat load of Crates at the crashed Anaconda site. The crash sites still allow re-log re-fresh
I've been sitting on this footage for almost 2 months! I finally had the time needed to dedicate to editing this project! I hope you like it Commanders it was a lot of work!
Well done commander, the grind SHALL BE enjoyable!
@@KM-rh1eb I hope it goes well Commander!
Epic video timestamps are epic by the way, appreciate you taking time to write that out!
@@Droo343 You're most welcome Zeddicus!
And your hard work has not gone unnoticed! Excellent production, Commander. o7
Stay safe CMDR's.
Fellow Odyssey players it is September 2022 and this guide is still amazing and it works gloriously. I just grinded out all these mats using his methods. I just wanted to give a PSA for the Raw Mats. In the Odyssey client you will no longer see Biological Markers. Instead what you do is activate your surface scanner on the planet, once it is scanned and you are close enough you will find a filter in the middle of the surface scanner screen. Press Q or E (by default) and you will filter through different options on the heat map. Cycle through until you find Crystalline markers, they will pop up as bright blue, land in any blue area and get close to the ground. Once you are close to the ground you will see tiny spikes jutting from the surface, find a patch and land near them. Once you are in your SRV those spikes are actually huge and you will find the resources that Hawkes has depicted. Alternatively, you could launch the game in the Horizon's client and it should look identical to what you see Hawke's do. Lastly, when I first "discovered" the raw materials it tells me I have a max capacity of 100 instead of 150. Exiting to main menu and relogging corrected this for me. But don't be like me and leave the planet with only 100 (max capacity toast and everything) to log in later and realize you have to go back and get the other third. 07 Commanders!
Thanks!
Also the same for the Pc folks who installed that 4.0 update for Horizons
Thanks for this very useful information.
Quality comment :)
Just a heads up, the second planet (C-1-D) doesn't appear to have proper crystalline clusters in odyssey so i recommend doing it in horizons
Oh man, I thought I'd wasted all that journey (and all that time exploring the system before landing..) - thanks!!!
Also, a better trick is to just use the coordinates from the SRV at each site in the video. This way you get the specific high volume zone.
Edit: Nevermind! These don't work anymore. However TheRealSuzuki6 gave some new coords:
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
DUDE WTF... your speaking loud and clearly. Not too fast. The information is clearly posted on the screen, the quality of the video is awesome AND you checked with frontier to make sure none of this information is an exploit??? This is the best Elite Dangerous mat farm video ive ever seen... I... think i love you
This man is my senpai!
Damn him....
Same here very helpful video cheers mate
Agreed....best mat farm video
Hawkes has helped me so much by just watching this video! I've been avoiding the stupid ass engineering stuff because it was just annoying and poorly explained. Thank you for explaining it Hawkes!
Thanks for all the incredible content and how-to guides over the years! I keep coming back to your stuff and it's helped me a ton.
Hello Commanders,
Read this if you have issues or if you are going to do this for the first time ever!!!!!!!!!!
If you play on Odyssey there is a few things different then in this video due to the planettary textures being adjusted.I recently did this run for the first time in Odyssey but have done it many times before in Horizons a long time ago and I noticed the changes.
First of all the RAW material planets that Hawkes shows are still good but the sights/signals just will not show up on NAV panel anymore. If you want to farm materials you can now fly to any point on the planet and be lucky to find a spot with shards but this can take a very long time so I will put some coordinates down below with spots where you can fill up at 1 spot in less then 20 Minutes ( even for Selenium)
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 ( you can fill up at 1 sight here)
Also the first time you ever get RAW materials your inventory is capped at 100 for some reason... To fix this just collect each material and when it says inventory full go to the main menu and then go back in game and now your inventory will have space for 150 instead of 100. Do this for every RAW material you collect
Also if you don't wanna fly all the way out to the Crystalline shards for Raw materials there is Discord servers and Reddit pages that offer free fleet carrier rides there and back!
Also for Encoded Data blowing up your ship will not respawn you at the last station you were docked anymore , it will spawn you on the most nearby Fleet carrier or station to where you do so don't blow yourself up. You gonna have to actually fly back to a station with trader now unfortantly. I recommend System: Diaguadri , station: Ray Gateway its really close.
Also last tip ,If you can't find 'Military Supercapacitors" then go to a High Grade Emissions site wich has not much time left on it ( 12 mins or less) for some reason I find them way more often here. Yes you will only have a few minutes to farm them once you get there but it is for sure a lot better then trading for them and looking for sites with a lot of time left !
I hope this helps if you have any questions just ask me down below !
o7
Thanks a lot Cmdr!! Can I ask, does everything else works fine? I am dreading my first engineering run in 4.0 launcher :(
o7
@@RabbyBabu Yes all works fine
What planet at HR 3230?
@@kumquatmonkeyfun1940 3 A A
Thanks so much for this! Such a time saver!!! o7
I used this video today to actually get a TON of everything. I know you dont play anymore! But im glad you made a video like this. Well you made many but this one really helped me alot. I got like 6 engineer's unlocked just never had MATS to do a damn thing really.
This is by far the best material farming guide I've watched. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make it.
Thank you very much for the compliment!
@@HawkesGaming just curious how would you fit an asp for farming.
@@fuzztsimmers3415 th-cam.com/video/5ZPM8DosLq4/w-d-xo.html
This, it's an amazing build if you have the ENG. data to fit it out and make it work. Hit's 60LY without fully done and no Guardian FSD yet.
@@fuzztsimmers3415 Nothing too fancy. An SRV, have enough cargo space for collector limpets and tune everything else to make the jump range as large as possible, plus a fuel scoop of course. I also like to carry a wake scanner just to pick up those materials when I'm going in and out of stations. Really any bubble bus will do, you can use a dedicated explorer for the raw mats.
@@Maraudmania 7 Months old I know, but how does he hold Collector Limpets without a cargo bay on the above build ?
All the steps here for copy paste.
Notes: Remember to keep stocking up on collection limpets
Core dynamics composites & Proprietary Composites
Allegiance: Federation
Population: High population
State: None
1. Scan nav beacon
2. Supercruise to High Grade Emission (at least 25mins left)
3. Collect 3-6 drops of 3 mats (max)
4. Exit to desktop
5. Join the same game mode.
6. Engage FSD and find unidentified signal source. It's the same HGES
Military Grade Alloys and Supercapcitors
Allegiance: Any
Population: High population
State: War/Civil War
Same instructions as above. Supercapacitor not common. Trade afterwards.
Imperial Shielding
Allegiance: Empire
Population: High population
State: None / Election
Same instructions as above. Drops a lot. Great for trades. 100 trades for 16 of any tier 5 other
Proto heat radiators
Allegiance: Independent
Population: High population
State: Boom
Same instructions as above. Drops a lot as well.
Pharmaceutical Isolators
Allegiance: Any
Population: Any
State: Outbreak
Difficult to find. Check a couple systems and if not found use trader.
Improvised Components
Allegiance: Independent
Population: Any
State: Civil unrest
Same instructions as above. Easy to find.
Proto light alloys & Proto radiolic alloys
Allegiance: Independent or alliance
Population: High population
State: Boom
Same instructions as above. Easy to find but it'll take longer to stock up tier 5 since it also provides tier 4 mixed in. Use them to trade.
Improvised Components
Allegiance: Independent
Population: Any
State: Civil unrest
Same instructions as above. Easy to find.
Encoded Loop
Note: Remember to trade these 4 materials before heading out
- Modified consumer firmware
- Cracked industrial firmware
- Atypical Encryption archives
- Adaptive Encryptors capture
Location: HIP 12099
Planet 1 B
Best location. T5 most common
1. Surface scan the planet
2. Land to Jameson Crash Site
3. Set SRV in the middle of the 4 scanning locations.
4. Scan also the comms control from ship.
5. Logout to main menu and repeat
6. Head to trader and prep for another run. Save time by blowing up your ship after docking
Raw materials
Method 1
Farm crashed Anaconda
Location: Koli Discii C 6 A
1. Surface scan the planet
2. Head to Crashed Ship and land
3. Blow up crates
4. Refresh site by editing to main menu and logging back in.
Method 2
Farm Biological sites. Make sure the last place you dock before heading out is the Raw materials trader
Location: HIP 36601. 1500 LY away from bubble.
Planet C 1 A - Polonium
1. Surface scan the planet
2. Look for biological sites to land (number 5 is best)
3. Blow up and collect crystalline clusters for Polonium
Planet C 1 D - Ruthenium
- Same method. Site 3
Planet C 3 V - Tellurium
- Same method. Site 5
Moon C 5 A - Technetium
- Same method. Site 6
Location: Outotz LS-K D8-3
Planet B 5 A - Yttrium
- Same method. Site 15
Planet B 5 C - Antimony
- Same method. Site 3
Blow yourself up instead of flying back. Trade down.
Selenium
Location: LHS 417
Planet 9 E A
Go to geological sites.
Farm 2-3 of those sites.
For Exquisite Focus Crystals, your best bet are Passenger Mission rewards. EFC's do not drop in HGE's.
Hell yes! It just won’t let me copy paste… may need to check this comment on my pc idk why Mobile YT isn’t letting me copy paste like usual.
I used this on the PC version. Now I'm gonna use it again... lost my PC and picked up an Xbox. Yes, I know the game is pretty much dead on consoles BUT, the only way I can play anymore is on Xbox. Trust me when I say I'm not looking forward to doing all this again to be able to engineer any of my ship. Plus all the money making options are needed now so I'm pretty screwed as far as getting back to where I was. Good news, I already have my FC and I've only been playing for 2 weeks so far. All thanks to these xcellent videos you put out Hawkes. THANK YOU.
I have never heard of you. That is the format that the world needs. You have my thumbs and my subscription. Greetings from Germany
Very glad you enjoyed it!
Yes I did. Not a single Word wasted
Er ist ein richtiger Ehrenmann! :D
Timestamps for different materials and methods
Manufactured materials:
0:55 - Core Dynamics Composites & Proprietary Composites (and how to refresh High Grade Emissions)
2:30 - Military Grade Alloys
2:50 - Imperial Shielding
3:20 - Proto Heat Radiators
4:00 - Pharmaceutical Isolators
4:34 - Improvised Components
4:55 - Proto Light Alloys & Proto Radiolic Alloys
5:30 - Biotech Conductors, Exquisite Focus Crystals, Modified Embedded Firmware
5:38 - Trading for other materials
Encoded Materials
6:28 - Trading before farming and Jameson crash site details
Raw Materials
8:42 - Method 1 (Crashed anaconda) Antimony, Tellurium, Tungsten, Zirconium
9:55 - Method 2 (HIP 36601)
10:12 - Polonium
10:30 - Ruthenium
10:58 - Telluriium
11:26 - Technetium
11:59 - Yttrium
12:35 - Antimony
13:31 - Trading for other materials
13:49 - Selenium
To be fair Hawkes put informative time stamps in the video description.
Have to say, the best guide about this for a newbie by far. Was boring but 1000 times faster than any other way. Thx Hawkes
Okay, I just have to say that I'm still fairly new to ED. I just got my first anaconda and outfitted it with (what I could find) the best stuff before engineering. Being newer, engineering has been something I've dreaded simply because of the grind (I'm taking a break from BDO so... you know... I really don't feel like grinding much of anything) after some research and discouraging information in terms of effort, I came across this video. This is, by far, THE single best guide I've found in the last 5 - 7 years of gaming, for any game that I've played. Seriously, it's not too long, everything is linked in the description and the way you've laid it all out is so simple I feel like I can get a couple of things done here-and-there and come back to this when I need to. Hawkes, you really did an incredible job with this. So thank you for making ED a little easier on us noobs :). Great video, 10/10.
Ok, for all of you newbies out there. This is it. This all you need for the engineering parts. Trust when I say that i watch this video and did not understand why do this method but after actually doing it I can guarantee this method is the best by far.
Trust I am new to ED and this has helped a lot.
This is one of my favourite go-to videos in ED! Thank you for your hard work. Still works in 2021, however it is humanly impossible to go from 0-150 of Raw Materiral gathering in 15 minutes. I believe FDev decided that there can't be too much grind and slightly nerfed it. You can see that even that the shot down mats even look different in your vdeo than in the current version of ED. Your look like fancy alien pinecones while the ones we get now are boring little gray sticks.
A bit of math:
15 minutes is equal to 900 seconds. We need to collect 50 shards from the needles (each one gives us 3). That gives us 18 seconds per mat collection. This includes: finding the crystalline cluster, aligning to the correct angle so we shoot at the hitbox (even with the turret deployed it takes a bit of driving and cornering), shooting the mat down, waiting for it to fall (5-30 seconds, avg. 12sec), finally collecting it. Not to mention that 5-10% of the materials get stuck in the needles and some of the hitboxes are only possible to shoot only when jumping.
I have tried different methods and I'm not the worst SRV driver out there but was never able to get anything done faster than 29 minutes. I assumed that the best approach would be to shoot a bunch of the shards down and then scoop them up all in one go but thanks to FDev they disappear after a short while. So yeah...
100% percent no one is doing this in under half hour
@@callumsmith9781 I did the whole video start to finish in two days, def not a half hour but I tend to dose off and watch youtube whilst im grinding
Your service will not go unappreciated. There is like absolutely nothing to complain about in this video, its quick and efficient, to the point concice, clear and i think thats enough adjectives. Well done.
I can only imagine how much time this took for all the ED pioneers to figure these things out. Oh god. Thank you for the great video!
These were valid for me: 0:55 - Core Dynamic Composites & Proprietary Composites, 2:30 - Military Grade Alloys, and 2:51 - Imperial Shielding. I couldn't verify these and tried a few different systems: 2:37 - Military Supercapacitors and 3:59 - Pharmaceutical Isolators. I found "Proto Light Alloys & Proto Radiolic Alloys" when I followed this: 3:21 - Proto Heat Radiators and this: 4:56 - Proto Light Alloys & Proto Radiolic Alloys. Slowly making my way down the rest of the list. All in all, a very helpful vid!
New to the game with about 50hrs under my belt. Loads I'm still learning this game is massive and with out your videos I'd be completely lost
Hope you do well!
Dude, you never disappoint! Note to new CMDRs; between this cheddar hound, Astro (D2EA) for the deep dive, and CMDR Exegious for the shortest (focused) videos, don't waste your time learning the ins and outs of this game at any other channels to get up to speed ASAP. I mean, LOOK AT THOSE TIME STAMPS! Best of all worlds! o7
Thx man, im in my first month of playing ED and this will help. Now im off to watch this a few dozen more times.
Hey hawks I just wanted to say thank you for making my elite dangerous grind that much easier. Your a good man thanks again.
Awesome Guide! Thanks for all the work. I found Bio Site 1 on HIP 36601 C 5 A for Technetium to be great (a good replacement for site 10). Note that the other stars you're aiming for are a ways from where you pop into the system, so, if you need a 20 min break save it for the supercruise. The route out there may be a bit wonky depending on where you leave from. There's some restricted space between it and the bubble.... and as others have said, if you're new like me and can't drive the SRV around from turret mode well, then expect it to take 5x the time it takes CMDR Hawke. Finally, I lucked out and had mats to both repair my SRV and synthesize ammo. I would highly suggest making sure you have a bit on hand before running out when you're out there.
Hey Hawkes,
I am new and I have been using your Guide farming for materials and i was at HIP 12099. I found a place called stack on a -1. it is an abandoned settlement. if you land next to it and get in your SRV you can do a circuit around the settlement and pick up 7 materials. the ones that have been showing up are,
Crystal Shards
Heat Conduction Wiring
Mechanical Scrap
Salvaged Alloys
Chemical Processors
Heat Dispersion Plate
Shield Emitters
Tagged Encryption Codes
i have been using your trick to back out to the main menu then log back in and the 7 material points respawn. I do another circuit in the SRV then repeat. thanks for your help in finding this. love your videos.
This engineering "quest line" is insane. I watched your other video on the order of unlocking the engineers and I stopped it a few times like..."wtf how many are there.... "
I started unlocking engineers a month ago and am barely halfway through his video.
I keep going back to this video after the recent engineering update and it still works like a charm. I no longer need to reload my game so it's nice to visit the systems I need and fill up my cargo in one trip
For Selenium geological sites, 23 was pretty good for me. Fairly flat layout, good concentration of crystalline clusters.
Thank you
Thank you very much for that information. :)
Thank you
I was looking for this. Cheers, mate.
Manufactured Materials. If you are like me and need a lot of everything, try this. Go to Galaxy map, sort by economy, mark them all, plot route to trader and use Economical route, and follow video instructions at each stop. When you get to trader you should have what you need or can trade for what you need or just reload limpets and go again.
Thanks for the guides Hawkes, you are the only one who does not waste my time and gets right to the point with your videos.
I think this is the 20th time I’ve watched this video. It’s like the Elite Bible
@@Invisibilitylock does this farm method still avaible?
@@vladizarth6926 yes
I just took copious notes to reference in transit, I think I ended up transcribing the entire video lol
@@phoenixsixxrising LMAO - I did the same thing. Created Cliff notes so I could easily jump from place to place. :-)
Holy crap! Thank you so much for this! No BS, no mystery, just down and dirty how to.
When using the SRV at Jameson Memorial you can scan the data from the turret's seat, that way you don't have to drive around to aim at the different Comms Controls (it's set to 'U' key at my game). Conversely when shooting the raw material boxes you can just lock target (it's set to 'T' key at my game) while driving and the turret will auto aim at them if it has the angle for it.
Just a newbye tip, took me a bit to figure it out. lol
P.S: thanks for the awesome guides as always!
I have suggested this amazing video to about 40 people over the last 7 months. You rock sir.
I've been needing to get the manufactured materials, i have the science down for encoded and raw already. This video was extremely helpful, thanks so much!
@@ThePhoenixKingz He LITERALLY tells you in the video, wtf.....
I just started playing ED a week ago and your videos have helped me a ton. This one is another great guide on a complicated aspect of the game. Thank you for sharing this valuable info!!
Whoever found these sites are a god send. I love this game but to search for these things without a community (granted it's years old) is nearly improbable.
Well I would bet at first it was on accident, someone scanned a planet found some weird signals, went to examine and found motherload of materials. I am almost hundred percent sure FDev would not hint that that is where they spawn.
I do like the how-to vids. Totally awesome work. I can not get near the times you say. But that's cool. Life in the slow lane rocks :) Keep up the great work.
A massive thank you for making this video, helped me out a hell of a lot
I had the hardest time finding proto alloys using this guide. After reading around the best I could figure out is that they seem to tend to drop in high tech economies. That made it work for me still in accordance with this guide, just with that additional aspect. Still can’t manage to find military supercapacitors, but maybe it’s got something weird like that too.
I love how he explains the long travel distance to Koli Discii C 6 A but then doesn't even mention @12:04 that Outotz LS-K D8-3 B 5 A is 3 times as far at 309k Ls
Why ruin all the fun and adventure bro?
@@HawkesGaming True! Love your vids man, they are basically my bible for Elite right now since I'm new to the game ❤
Is the to Koli Discii C 6 A crash site in EDO also?
@@wolfang4212 A bit late to respond, but yes, I believe it is. I was there recently in Odyssey.
My asp can make that in 10 seconds flat
Thanks man for making this pretty good game more manageable for us new guys. I believe Einstein said if you can't explain it to a kid you don't really get it or something to that effect. Your descriptions are super simple and easy to understand while you're actually telling us how to win at a difficult game. So... Props
When mining raw mats 1500ly out, do not dock on the fleet carriers or you won't be able to self destruct back to the bubble. so bring materials to make ammo for your srv.
Super helpful and really appreciate the timestamps for everything too! All the raw material sites were bang on. Thank you for this!
Thank you very much my good sir! You made my day. Top tutorial! By the way at 11:26 take the site Nr 6. Easy flat terrain.
Magyar! Benne vagy a diszkordjában?
Thank you for this comment!
When I start playing ED to gather materials I open 4 tabs on my browser: Coriolis, Inara, EDDB and THIS VIDEO! Congrats @Hawkes! And thank you for the awsome video!
The work that you put into these guides is worth a big chunk of cheese (if I had any) it is the best , Thank's
Man so much information packed into this video. I'm on day 2 of just figuring out what I'm doing with horizons stuff and I'm nowhere near done with the information in this and your other video. Hopefully my days off from work will give me enough time to figure it out.
Well I've been going at it for a little while now and using EDDB to find the places. After farming materials in one area I realized they weren't the right ones, then I realized EDDB wasn't up to date on that system, so now I know to double check with the system I'm farming in since it seems to change. I've also learned to use the filter for signal sources and that helped find the high grade emissions a lot. Still no idea what all I'll need this stuff for with engineering, but I figure if I go into it with a full inventory of stuff it should be a lot easier. I think I'm gonna be looking at this same video for a very long time.
Hey mate, thanks for this great vid! Farming the mats was much easier (and fun!) with your guide.
Now, for HIP 36601 C 5 A = Technetium, I strongly recommend Bio site #4. It is flat terrain, smooth, crystal formations well spaced so you can maneuver in speed the SRV or even jump-catch the falling crystals, plus a lot of other materials (at least 20 pieceous cobbles with phosphorus, Sulphur, iron etc.)
Thanks, gonna use your site on a revisit now :)
Bio number 1 is also good. Flat surface, tons of crystals.
This is so much better than 10... Those annoying hills frustrated me so much xD Thank you for this
Site 6 at c5a is better as well.
6 is awsome, my go to! I'll try 4 next time.
Hawkes, subscription added, probably the best engineering mats guide out there. Many thanks, saved me days grinding Davs hope, all the best.
The fact that this is the prefered method of collecting engi mats really shows just how sad of a state engineering is atm. :/
@Thomas Radon I'm pretty sure they think that's exactly what makes good game play. There isn't anything in the game that doesn't take days of farming to achieve.
Seriously, the game should just be called "Elite Grind"
@@scottr397 in their defense. The game would run out of content quickly without the grind
@@deejnutz2068 make more content
@@akooma3694 buy more skins
unfortunately at FDev grind=gameplay
Still working as of July 26th 2020. Great videos fella keep up the good work.This guy knows his stuff and gives credit where credits due.
This guy is a total legend. Real shame he doesn't play anymore!
I have new ED videos coming very soon. Before the end of the week!
I was looking for a video that gave me a straight forward answer to material harvesting, this is awesome. Thanks for the hard work. I'm in quarantine now, so I have time to grind away. Great job!
Tip: the first time you do the farm for raw mats. please dont blow up. sell your exploration data so you don't have to scan the planets again
Best ED video guide I've seen yet.
Great job! I help a lot of new pilots so I'll definitely be referring them to your videos.
Nice thank you commander!
For anyone reading this in 2023, self-destructing my ship after farming the Jameson Crash site in the middle of the video, spawned me at a random nearby carrier, not back at the last station I visited with a material trader in it. So don't waste your money.
Farming Selenium was no joke. Took me about 5 hours, with breaks, and visited 9 sites to go from 0 to 150. Won't be doing that for a long time, I hope.
I found a few pieces of Selenium on C5A site 4 or 5 don't quite remember. Do you remember what site you got most?
Imperial/War for Military Supercapacitors; the HGE has to be “War,” state as well, if none you get shielding. great vid'.
I dont know man, that crashed anaconda isnt showing for me
@@aleschytil8506 What's the Anaconda got to do with what I'm talking about?
Dude you're a life saver! I would have taken forever to farm these if I didn't know you could log out and respawn in minutes. Thank you very well made tutorial.
Hey mate, thanks for the content, and as a way of saying thank you, for Technetium, try biological site 1 for better terrain. Biological site 10 seemed to be a troll to me, it was not just hilly, it was mountainous lol, couldn't get traction and nearly destroyed my SRV. Don't get me started on the parking!
I can confirm that Biological Site 1 on HIP 36601 C 5 A is a pretty solid Technetium location. Danke!
If you want to gather the other cannisters at the Anaconda site don't forget to empty your ship's hold first. This "dummy" forgot and had to jettisoned instead. Not tried the HGE's yet but I'm sure they'll save me loads of grind. Thanks for yet another informative and easily understandable video. Good work CMDR.
HIP 36601 C 5 A = Technetium: Go for Site 3! Absolutely the best, more or less completely flat and you can land right next to it, be careful not to get too close so you can activate your turret :D
confirmed. 3 was ample
also Bio 11 is fairly flat with ample landing next to it :)
Bio site 6 is also a good choice; nice and flat terrain, crystalline structures are decently spaced apart
If you're like me and cant find High grade Emissions, i found this on Reddit: To scan the nav beacon you need to drop out of supercruise at it, and then target the actual beacon, not the supercruise marker. Get close and wait a few seconds. In your lower left screen it will say “scanning” and then you’ll get a message that the scan is complete. Credit: DanG351
To add to this, after jumping to the beacon, go to your Contacts tab and select the Nav Beacon in there. Then find it on your ship's radar. (The marker on your screen is bugged and not accurate, I think this is due to people bumping the nav beacons?)
@@togiegaming8003
Bumping is only to stop fast😅😂😂
They don't seem to be respawning anymore though.
DUDE YOU ARE AMAZING! I’ve been wanting specific systems for Manufactured Materials forever. THANK YOU!!!!
This is still working as of 21st June 2020 on Xbox.
Ensure you exit the game using the Xbox Guide Button, pressing Start on ED and Quit the game before reloading again and selecting the mode you left. It won't work if you just go to the Main Menu.
Im looking at 1B now and cant see thr site on planet after scanning
@@PDCB3rserker the timestamps say 1A and 1D, pal.
Thanks for checking on our behalf!
Looks like the crashed ship on Koli Discii C 6 A is no longer there
Disregard. I'm apparently blind. It's still here
Speaking about Supercapacitors. Everything applies here as you mentioned. However instead to focus on HGEs with around 20~40 minutes, try those with 15 minutes remaining. Only then you will find these materials. Also this will only apply once you enter Star System. So jump to a Star, Discover with Scanner and locate HGEs with less then 15 minutes.
Thank you for this! Legend! :)
You're most welcome Daz!
Thanks for your videos and very clear no fuss presentations. Love it!
I started with Elite Dangerous in Beta and got back into it after a few years hiatus ;) Things have changed! It's good to get some very nice tips for the new stuff. Again great job and please keep going. See you maybe around some station bar when Odissey finally happens... My treat!
It's so sad that we actually need these kinds of videos to actually bother with engineering. FDEV made this too much of a grind. I mean even these workarounds are too much time spent doing boring stuff. Still, without this video, I would've just stopped playing.
The intended collection methods are so poorly designed, just like the whole engineering system. I would be so much happier if they scrapped the whole thing, or at least did a complete rework. It's not like the concept is bad, it's just how poorly FD designed and implemented it.
the grind is pretty much the reason i stopped playing for 2 years. then i found core mining videos...
The main issue isn't even collectings mats, but the sheer amount you need for the last tier upgrades. I don't care enough to know who is designing this shit, but it's like they don't want people to play their game. I stopped playing many times for very long periods of time because of their decisions (and the game being quite shallow). The first iteration of engineers was so bad it made me quit playing until they changed it.
One thing they could do to "fix" it is to remove RNG completely from engineers while keeping the costs as is. But the whole thing needs a rework and some serious balancing.
@@Rainbow_Dash_of_Cloudsdale I haven't played it for weeks. Every time I consider doing so, I remember the grind and then play something else. This might be the end of me playing ED.
Yes. Although it is extremely efficient for this game, it still takes too much time.
After watching this video I might quit farming for materials anyway.
14 min packed full of informations. very well made. and enjoy your videos. you come straight to the point. keep up the good work mate
Alright, CMDRs. Time to finish fully engineering my Vette because I grew bored of grinding the materials
First of all, awesome and helpful info! Your entire body of work is extremely helpful and fun. Your videos have convinced me to go outside the bubble (bad pun) of what I normally do. I ran into an issue on Xbox one where, when farming these materials, I get the 'full' message for a material when i hit 100. So I moved on, then logged out for the night. Started game again, checked inventory, and then max storage was up to 150 for that material. Learning that lesson cost some time so wanted to share with others. Thank you for all you do!
Glad to help =)
Been at Jefferson crash site for nearly 3 hours. This reminds me why I stopped playing the game.
jameson site I think you mean, and yeah i am 4 hours in at jameson and losing steam and will power.
Best guide out there by far but still be prepared for a grind! From my personal experience, keep ALL manufactured mats, only trade the imperial shielding as everything else can be a nightmare to find! I traded out a few thinking it would be as easy to find again and it really hasn’t
you did this vid on my b-day that's awesome
Love the video man
Awesome work! Thanks. I spent half the day trying to find High Grade Emissions until I realized that I had to scan in super cruise. Then I found some right away.
Can you please clarify this: so you believe that passenger missions are more efficient than Jamerson crash site method for the specific purpose of gathering modified embedded software (G5 encoded material)? (while Jamerson crash site remains the best for the rest of the encoded materials). If so, which kind of passenger missions and where? Do you do Robigo passenger missions for that? I'm just curious.
This is very high quality content with nice time stamps in the description, so I liked and subscribed.
If you want boat tons of those 3 mats I show try your hand at hausers reach in a large ship. HGE wont drop exquisite focus crystals so thats the main reason why I wrap up with passenger missions to snag my embedded firmware at the same time.
wow, you really brought back my fun to the game. I hated farming those mats but you keep the pain to a minimum! Thank you so much, you're the best!
Glad to help Commander!
I'm convinced you're actually Elaine Benes with all those exclamation points.
Probably the best video on farming materials on Elite Dangerous.
Pharmaceutical isolators and Military Supercapacitors are both notoriously hard to find so you will need to trade other grade 5 materials to get them maxed out. 1 per 6 traded = 16 per 100 g5 materials farmed. You will need to cross-trade 1200ish g5's just to max both. After that, you will need to farm all the other grade 5's to max that you used up to cross-trade. How the F**** is this even considered good gameplay.
no one, I repeate no one ever said this is good game play, everyone hates it and fdev said they were going to do something about it but never did
@@seanowens3153 Even the Thargoid war can't bring this game back for me. I just had a ton of fun defending Wakata station last night and thought "hey, maybe I'll build a better AX ship and fight some interceptors!" Then I remembered the BS grind to get materials and decided to play something else. Good luck defending the bubble, I'm out... again.
Awesome guide, CMDR, and the backing music is kickin'. For Technetium, I would recommend going to Bio Signal Site #1, not #10 - Site 1 is well illuminated, crystal spawns are close together and most importantly, the terran is very flat and a joy to navigate (no cliffs, hills, ledges, etc. to get stuck on).
I can confirm that this guide still works as of December 2020!
thanks :)
Unlike many things
The Jamison crash sight isn't showing for me.
@@spectre4130 you need to scan the planet with the surface scanner
@@spectre4130 just checked, still there. Did you scanned the planet? Also when you are really close to the planet, it should show up on the navigation display
Holy wow, I will forever be in debt to you for this absolute gem of info. You are a Legend!!
For Technetium I'd rather advise using site 6 instead of 10. It's also full of Technetium, but it's a flat area, not a valley. At site 10 I ran out of Crystalline in the flat area less than halfway my inventory space and was supposed to farm from the side of the valley, which is an easy area to get into a stuck position and have to relog in normal ED to get recovered to Orbit, which is 100k Ls away from C 5 A.
Great advise !
Dude.... Thank you. This is amazing for someone coming back 4 years later because engineering overwhelmed them when released. It was such a $@#$ show back then. I mean seriously... I BETA tested the hell out of horizons and FD ignored all of our concerns and released it as is. Soured the experience. Coming back I've made a years worth of credits (2016 ED with all smuggling & mission stacking exploits included) in 1 week because of your vids. Now I'm jumping 50 ly and my combat ships are casually cruising beyond boost speeds. I totally forgot what an addictive game this is. Thanks for being the guy that cuts all this convoluted crap into tiny pieces for the lesser minded pew pew pew folks
Farming materials wound't be so bad for me if it weren't for the fact that trading materials is a disgrace, I mean when you trade G5 for other G5 the trader takes a 86% commission lmao. You give 100 you get 14... It's ridiculous, what are they, loan sharks? lol
Dude, you rock! Thank you for this vid! After not playing this game for years and years, I am about to start engineering and I hated farming mats way back when.
I'm stuck playing on PS4 right now, so the HGE respawn trick doesn't work. I've had to hunt over several systems, so it increases farm-time dramatically.
o7, Commander. Thanks again!
in LHS 417 9 E A here are the good and bad spots I've been to
Good
19, 23, 24, 25 and 26
Bad
20, 16, 12, 17 and 15
Also, make sure this is the first place where you go to farm Raw materials as each site has tones of the other rank 2 and 3 materials as well. Specially, do this before trading down raw materials.
Can confirm all still works. Thanks for the guide, this is the best engineering mats guide out there by miles. You're a legend Hawkes Gaming, thank you :)
it's horrible we even have to resort to this, such a pathetic game mechanic... But thankfully you exist to at least make it slightly less painful, Much appreciated video!
just quit the game and save yourself to misery. We're all good here. :)
stuff being confusing and difficult is what I like about this game, but maybe that's just me... its big universe out there
cha-ching... cha-ching... cha-ching... Love it! Great vid, thanks for sharing. Love all of your ED tutorials by the way.
I want to see a 20 minute video of you starting at 0 and getting to 100 Imp Shield.
It would be 50 min....
I did it in under 20
Thank thank thank you so so so much. I've hated the idea of buckling down for engineering because of mat farming being so hard to figure out in game where and how. This is live saver
Best mat guide ever, even during a Pandemic in may, 2021.
Thanks for the vid, commander. I got all but 3 of the ships I want and maxed them out with off the shelf gear and now it is the engineering phase of my play through do this will help a lot.
Screen Rant producer: Soo... You have a new movie script for me?
Writer: Yes sir I do! It's about a lone pilot who takes on the ambitious task of revealing the best secrets to farming the best high grade materials!
producer: WOW Wow Wow.... wow!
Thanks! This video was a lot of work.
Screen Rant Producer: So, is it going to be hard to hook audiences on such a technical video?
Writer: No, sir, not at all! It will be super easy, barely an inconvenience! We just show them how to ALMOST but not quite technically cheat on one of the most tedious and boring parts of the game so they can do it quickly and be on their way.
I might repeat someone comments again but for 11:26 technetium Biological signal no 6 is pretty flat spot to land and farm, and thank you for the guides Hawkes!
Edit update for Selenium:
since i use Bhritzameno as my center point i found another planet with 5% Selenium, tried to give it a shot. this Geological sites i mention below is a flat and a lil hilly sites and landable by huge ships :
Geo site 7 - 10 -16 -14 // total collected 93 Selenium |
// is a go but 14 doest give much while the other sites is either gonna frustate your self to go into or a nice challenge for mountain goat people(smallships only), from those 4 spots run i manage to collect 93 Selenium and give it a bail now since i have been farming for half day and need to get this nasty core dynamic composite.
I hope this help someone and good luck for the drop, again thanks Hawk for the guides is really help for my 1st actual mats grind adventure!!
* T-9 Explorer gank rejoice :D *
Hey, amazing info! one question though. have they changed any of this? i stopped getting signal sources all together am i doing something wrong?
Are you scanning the Nav Beacon or using the FSS?
Also, check your Navigation Panel filters to make sure you didn't "ignore" them.
Dude, after 6 years and over 2000 hrs, all your videos have improved my wnjoyment of this game. All I wanna do is play and pvp not work 3 times as hard to appease rngesus
Your characters facial expression is a mood in itself, which I feel a sort of kinship with, lol.