Bessel IIIb outpost

[Knightmage Bael]

I've found this planet has cobalt, platinum, iron, nickel, and aluminum. I can only find like two of those at the same time. I was hoping for Aluminum, Nickel, and Iron mostly, but I just stumbled upon cobalt, nickel, and platinum, so I was wondering how much value that might have compared to the others. Especially with the resources building the outpost would take.

[ZombieHunter]

It might make a nice hub. There is one planet, and only one planet, that has an extremely valuable resource to mine. However, due to the vendors having so little credits, it is very hard to sell and quite annoying and time consuming to do so. But you can make millions upon millions in a short time.

[Doombringer]

Nickel + Cobalt = Isocentered Magnet (167 planets have these together) = 1xp each.
(not good sell value)
Both are used for wind power, nickel is used for some other things (like liquid storage).
Platinum isn't really used for anything (maybe some energy weapon mod?)

Resources spawn in groups, each group spawn in a different biome on a planet.
You can get 2 groups together if you get a split biome map at the border of 2 biomes.

Resource Groups:
Iron/Alkanes/Tantalum/Ytterbium (Helium-3 can spawn with this in crater biomes)
Aluminum/Beryllium/Neodymium/Europium (Helium-3 can spawn with this in crater biomes)
Lead/Tungsten/Titanium/Dysprosium
Lead/Silver/Mercury
Copper/Fluorine/Gold/Antimony
Copper/Fluorine/Tetrafluorides/Ionic Liquids
Nickel/Cobalt/Platinum/Palladium
Uranium/Iridium/Vanadium/Plutonium
Argon/Benzene/Carboxylic Acids/Neon
Chlorine/Chlorosilanes/Lithium/Caesium
Chlorine/Chlorosilanes/Lithium/Xenon

[Knightmage Bael]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

It might make a nice hub. There is one planet, and only one planet, that has an extremely valuable resource to mine. However, due to the vendors having so little credits, it is very hard to sell and quite annoying and time consuming to do so. But you can make millions upon millions in a short time.

Well, after another hour of searching I managed to find a region that had Aluminum, Nick, Iron, and Cobalt together. So that's a plus. I'm interested in that other planet, but once I get the resources generated for more base building.

The stuff I don't use to build I'd like to sell.

[Riitoken]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

I've found this planet has cobalt, platinum, iron, nickel, and aluminum. I can only find like two of those at the same time. I was hoping for Aluminum, Nickel, and Iron mostly, but I just stumbled upon cobalt, nickel, and platinum, so I was wondering how much value that might have compared to the others. Especially with the resources building the outpost would take.

You can definitely find a spot with 4: aluminum, iron, cobalt, nickel.

From space, before you land, operate the SCAN to get the color map.

Then use the mouse pointer and hover over a place with multiple colors of pixels in proximity.

Then click to see the zone type: mountains, hills, rocky desert, etc.

Then unclick and move the mouse just 1 pixel (yes hold your breath and make it happen).

Then click again. If the biome type changes then you found a cusp.

Now do that again, one pixel in another direction. And note the biome again.

You're looking for a landing where you have 3 different biomes within 1-2 mouse pixels.

When you land, open your scanner and also start to build an outpost beacon, but don't plant it yet. Note the resource types it shows based on where you're pointing/placing the object cursor. Walk around until you find the goldilocks point.

Look around you at the terrain and notice how it changes across the biome cusp. Walk toward the cusp(s).

I found my site on the 2nd attempt.
Good luck.

[Berserk Belta]

Personally, I wouldn't tend to worry about clustering the resources/purposes together in one outpost if you can afford at all to build multiple ones. Even though it seems intuitive to make them multi-purpose, you will have more spare cargo link capacity per resource+outpost (and as you scale up more space/power) if you start with small specialized outposts.

Good luck indeed. I started out not liking the outpost system much, but now I just want them to fix and expand upon it. Who doesn't love factories and supply chains - not this guy.

[EchoPlexy]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

I've found this planet has cobalt, platinum, iron, nickel, and aluminum. I can only find like two of those at the same time. I was hoping for Aluminum, Nickel, and Iron mostly, but I just stumbled upon cobalt, nickel, and platinum, so I was wondering how much value that might have compared to the others. Especially with the resources building the outpost would take.

Here's a link to the video pinpointing the exact spot to plant your beacon. It's so well explained and shown that I found it first try yesterday.:

https://youtu.be/DKTjyx-1ES4?si=jo-9Lvfb759LIATQ

Aluminum, nickel, cobalt, iron and water. Fair warning though, while setting up my farm I had constant Ecliptic attacks until I put down 5 sentry dogs.

[Knightmage Bael]

Thanks, I managed to find a good spot after a while. I have two outposts now, one dedicated to platinum and cobalt, the other dedicated to Iron, Nickel, and Aluminum - the latter allows me to just sleep and build up the outpost for more XP, its a very good grind.

The video tutorials are nice, though. Thanks.

I'd like to find the best method for credit farming/grinding, etc. I don't have access to the rarest materials yet, but hopefully I can find a place where platinum is rare and sell that for a lot? Platinum is used for a lot IRL, high tech stuff, some medical stuff (I think), so it does have a use for more than just a luxury metal.

But on the note of luxury - too bad I can't sell directly to a luxury ship company. Would be nice finding metals they covet, and selling it to them for high prices. Or maybe that's possible and I just haven't found that out yet.

[EchoPlexy]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

Thanks, I managed to find a good spot after a while. I have two outposts now.

Well, that may end up working out better for you anyway, as my beacon is on all 5, but it's making intersystem linking a bit of a nightmare, haha. I'm reading a lot about having too much linking/wiring resulting in the links bugging out and that may be why it's not working for me.

I've got main planet, Bessel, and a third for helium and cannot get interlinking to work and I'm usually pretty good with this sort of thing. All in all, they really overthought the outpost system.

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

I'd like to find the best method for credit farming/grinding, etc. I don't have access to the rarest materials yet, but hopefully I can find a place where platinum is rare and sell that for a lot? Platinum is used for a lot IRL, high tech stuff, some medical stuff (I think), so it does have a use for more than just a luxury metal.

But on the note of luxury - too bad I can't sell directly to a luxury ship company. Would be nice finding metals they covet, and selling it to them for high prices. Or maybe that's possible and I just haven't found that out yet.

I think the best farm is probably in manufacturing, not raw mats, but yes, It makes sense to have been able to farm and sell fine ores. That runs into the other problem of vendors never having more than 11-12k. I hope the devs streamline and simplify all of this, because right now it's close to being good but not yet.

[EchoPlexy]

Originally posted by Benny the Spaceman:

Personally, I wouldn't tend to worry about clustering the resources/purposes together in one outpost if you can afford at all to build multiple ones. Even though it seems intuitive to make them multi-purpose, you will have more spare cargo link capacity per resource+outpost (and as you scale up more space/power) if you start with small specialized outposts.

Good luck indeed. I started out not liking the outpost system much, but now I just want them to fix and expand upon it. Who doesn't love factories and supply chains - not this guy.

I'm feeling you. The more advanced you try to make it the more unwieldy it becomes, rather than the most streamlined. "Keep it simple stupid" seems to be the only way right now :D

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Riitoken:

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

I've found this planet has cobalt, platinum, iron, nickel, and aluminum. I can only find like two of those at the same time. I was hoping for Aluminum, Nickel, and Iron mostly, but I just stumbled upon cobalt, nickel, and platinum, so I was wondering how much value that might have compared to the others. Especially with the resources building the outpost would take.

You can definitely find a spot with 4: aluminum, iron, cobalt, nickel.

From space, before you land, operate the SCAN to get the color map.

Then use the mouse pointer and hover over a place with multiple colors of pixels in proximity.

Then click to see the zone type: mountains, hills, rocky desert, etc.

Then unclick and move the mouse just 1 pixel (yes hold your breath and make it happen).

Then click again. If the biome type changes then you found a cusp.

Now do that again, one pixel in another direction. And note the biome again.

You're looking for a landing where you have 3 different biomes within 1-2 mouse pixels.

When you land, open your scanner and also start to build an outpost beacon, but don't plant it yet. Note the resource types it shows based on where you're pointing/placing the object cursor. Walk around until you find the goldilocks point.

Look around you at the terrain and notice how it changes across the biome cusp. Walk toward the cusp(s).

I found my site on the 2nd attempt.
Good luck.

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Excellent advice.