refined metal

[Lelouch]

where do u find the refined metal to upgrade the hull, does anyone know?

[RCMidas]

Look around places to Dredge. The majority of your ship upgrade resources will come from those - lumber, metal, and cloth.

[Lelouch]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

Look around places to Dredge. The majority of your ship upgrade resources will come from those - lumber, metal, and cloth.

i managed to get it from the wondering traveller

[Frozenmeyer]

Additionally, every place (5 locations I know of) has at least one piece of refined metal locked behind some barriers you can blow up. If you need to you can also purchase refined metal for 500 $ from the 'travelling merchant'

[RCMidas]

Oh I am so sorry, I misread you. Refined metal, yes. FrozenMeyer has the right of it - only a very very few Dredge locations hidden behind destructible barriers. I think, actually, you do not actually need to purchase any from the merchant. There are exactly as many as are needed for a full upgrade.

[Shadowgirl00]

RCMidas is right, you can find it around the world, once you get to Gale Cliffs and unlock explosives doing the brothers' story quest you can find them. That being said, if you want the hull upgrades faster because you're uncertain about the large monsters or just want it easier than looking, the travelling merchant on the floating platoon that shows up at Gale Cliffs and the other locations that is not the Marrows will also sell it for a hefy price.

It's like an in-game way of adjusting the difficulty of the game. If you want to make it harder to upgrade your ship (stretching out the pacing of the game) then try just looking for the refine metal, but if you'd like to make it easier or would feel more at ease having those upgrades, grind fishing and buying the refine metal works instead.

[winterborn]

Once you find one, you can buy it from travelling merchants.

[ojwillibobs]

You can either buy them from the shipwright in the cliffs for $500 or find it within a blow-able area in the cliffs. You can also find them everywhere but mostly in the cliffs for me.

[YukoValis]

I have never found them outside a barricaded area. Finish the Gale island quests, stock on on the boom, and you can find them past a lot of barricades. You can buy them, but you will probably waste a bit of money. I say don't bother buying more than 2-3

[Aquillion]

Originally posted by YukoValis:

I have never found them outside a barricaded area. Finish the Gale island quests, stock on on the boom, and you can find them past a lot of barricades. You can buy them, but you will probably waste a bit of money. I say don't bother buying more than 2-3

There's nothing else to spend your money on late-game anyway, and money is easy to earn. I'd recommend buying it as soon as you need it.

[Moodyman90]

Off the top of my head:
-there's a free one at Gale Cliffs behind the waterfall in a chest.
-pretty sure there's at least one in the floating chest the map pieces you can find in shipwrecks around Stellar Basin points you too
-there's two in one of the shrines in the Devil's Spine, which you have to do for the main quest anyways,
-I want to say there's a dredging spot for one at Devil's Spine that's out in the open but surrounded by the smaller fish, so unless you have Banish you will be attacked by the Eyeless Mother
-and all the other ones are dredge spots behind walls you can blow up around all the islands.
And of course you can just buy them from the Traveling Merchant. That said, there's more then enough to fully upgrade your ship without buying any if you know where to look.

[YukoValis]

Originally posted by Aquillion:

There's nothing else to spend your money on late-game anyway, and money is easy to earn. I'd recommend buying it as soon as you need it.

Buying it kind of ruins the experience. Especially since now you blow up rocks and find something you don't need anymore. If it was up to me I'd even remove it from the shop. Sure late game money is no issue, but in the early-mid stages you aren't so flush. Better just get the bombs.