No Stardust Source

[Irradiated Warrior]

After several days of running around killing enemies, I never return to base with any stardust source. I'm down to 167 Stardust Source and no matter what I do, I never return from clearing an area with any Stardust Source. Anyone else encountering this?

[Kondziu]

Do some refinery permits, it's pretty good for expensive materials including stardust source.

[Irradiated Warrior]

I get that. Been collecting for weeks. Had a pretty good stash. Now getting into the last few weeks of the season, that Stardust Source is more important. Been running Silos, monoliths, etc and whatever was collected is vacant from my inventory.

[Irradiated Warrior]

Originally posted by Kondziu:

Do some refinery permits, it's pretty good for expensive materials including stardust source.

My concern is burning resources for resources and not getting the Stardust Source at the end. Been gun shy to pull the trigger on permits and such since I'm not getting any Stardust Source from it.

[Millie Sec]

If you have memetic skill to burn the starduct ore, it can be easy to mine around 3.5-4k in half year with oil fish can food and treasure hunter drill.

[Syrous_PL]

Any weapon calibration past 2 will require stardust, not to mention some ammo. I only use steel non-ap ammo for that reason, until the end game. Also until i'm crafting level 5 gear i only calibrate 1 or 2 steps, which don't require stardust.

[SteelAceBae]

well u get some stardust source off weapon/gear crates and off elites as well, or if you are desperate run a normal rift and use a controller

[Big Boom Boom]

Which scenario? Manibus phase 3 has High Risk Public Events and this is by far the easiest. You get 200 SS per event every hours, you can get 3-4 different event in an hour. Do the normal public event too if you are desperate, they give you SS too just lower between 50-125.

What resource consumed by doing refinery? You don't need to spend any resources, just kill all the enemies that spawn before they can touch the workshop machine.

Spamming controllers on Pro mode is also easy SS. Treants or Hound Pro can be speed run in 1 min each and yield around 200 SS. The limit is how many controllers you got.

[DarkEternal]

Roll for Oil Processing specialization.
Set up pumps for crude oil. Find someone who can build Super Refineries (.5 hours per cycle instead of 1 hour with regular refineries). Toss the oil in the refineries. Wait.
Farm Startrace Ore from polluted zones. There's a few good spots on Manibus and WoW. Use Canned Seafood in Oil and a drill with Treasure Hunter perk. You'll get 10k easy in just a while.
Take the Portable Mixed Fuel from the refineries, combine it in a furnace with Startrace Ore to make Stardust Source. 15 mixed fuel and 50 ore = 50 source.
Make 20k+ Source. Never worry about Source again. Sell the excess for some sweet Energy Links.
If you can't do any of that, then find someone who can. Join a Hive. Join a Warband. Ask in Global chat.
There's a ton of ways to get Source, as others have pointed out. This is a very good way to get source, too.
It's my loop this season and it's made things a lot easier.

[Irradiated Warrior]

I think everyone is missing what I'm saying. I'm doing everything in which to earn Stardust and SHOULD have a good stock of it in my inventory, but after events, silos, and everything else you do in game to earn and collect Stardust, my inventory stopped increasing. I had been moving my Stardust to storage for a while and am now carrying it on my person. After clearing a Silo or completing and event, I check to see if my inventory increased and it no longer does. I'm 200 hours into the game and had huge stockpile. With end game considerations, my Stardust is key. If I can no longer accumulate stardust, my character is stuck until moving servers in a few weeks.

[Neotropic]

Originally posted by Irradiated Warrior:

I think everyone is missing what I'm saying. I'm doing everything in which to earn Stardust and SHOULD have a good stock of it in my inventory, but after events, silos, and everything else you do in game to earn and collect Stardust, my inventory stopped increasing. I had been moving my Stardust to storage for a while and am now carrying it on my person. After clearing a Silo or completing and event, I check to see if my inventory increased and it no longer does. I'm 200 hours into the game and had huge stockpile. With end game considerations, my Stardust is key. If I can no longer accumulate stardust, my character is stuck until moving servers in a few weeks.

That's just how it is though. Further along we go, more costly it is to upgrade gear and weapons. In this case, this is when people start producing it themselves. And, you buy it from them that are mass producing. Or, get the Memetic Specialization "Oil Processing". Then you can create your own with Oil and Stardust Ore.

I know where you stand. I have been there. Was there my first season. Scrambling for source. 5 seasons later, that is FAR from a problem. 110K and I just started giving it away, literally.

[Kondziu]

Originally posted by Irradiated Warrior:

Originally posted by Kondziu:

Do some refinery permits, it's pretty good for expensive materials including stardust source.

My concern is burning resources for resources and not getting the Stardust Source at the end. Been gun shy to pull the trigger on permits and such since I'm not getting any Stardust Source from it.

All you need is gunpowder and copper or steel to make bullets. Or find someone who wants to do it too and it will be easier. Run takes 5 minutes and you get 200-400 stardust from it. There are so many ways to farm stardust. Refinery permits need the least preparation in my opinion. But if you want to go big, you need oil processing memetic perk, some oil pumps, super refineries, stardust mining platforms and some digbys to make the process automatic. Last season I had over 100k stardust source at the end of the season, and I had been running ap ammo only since late phase 4 on manibus.


Is there a chance someone who has permission to access your chests borrowed some?

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by Irradiated Warrior:

I think everyone is missing what I'm saying. I'm doing everything in which to earn Stardust and SHOULD have a good stock of it in my inventory, but after events, silos, and everything else you do in game to earn and collect Stardust, my inventory stopped increasing. I had been moving my Stardust to storage for a while and am now carrying it on my person. After clearing a Silo or completing and event, I check to see if my inventory increased and it no longer does. I'm 200 hours into the game and had huge stockpile. With end game considerations, my Stardust is key. If I can no longer accumulate stardust, my character is stuck until moving servers in a few weeks.

No, you're missing what we're saying. Source is used for all of the good stuff.
Mutated fertilizer to grow crops for food/drink buffs? Need source to make it.
Calibrating your weapons? Source.
Crafting gold equipment? Source.
Doing just about any of the mid to end game stuff? Source.
So, you need a reliable method of obtaining it. Like the Oil Processing I outlined in my earlier reply.
Or, just save up your EL and buy it from people. It can be expensive at first, but the price usually drops to around 50 EL per 1 Source by the middle of the season. Since you probably can't do math in your head, that comes out to 50,000 EL per 1,000 Source. That's pretty darned cheap.
And don't even say "But I don't have any EL!" cuz that's just plain sad. You should be rolling in EL and Source by this point.

[Irradiated Warrior]

I'm not sure how to say this any other way. I think I am encountering a bug. My actions are producing Stardust but my inventory is not showing that I'm am collecting anything. It has nothing to do with amounts. For a week now, completing multiple events, running Silos, killing bosses....a week ago I had 169 stardust and a week later after completing multiple events, running Silos and killing bosses, I still have 169 Stardust. I haven't done anything to spend Stardust because a week ago I burnt through a bunch so I've running around working to build up my inventory of Stardust. Again....starting a week ago I had 169 Stardust and after a week of completing multiple events, running Silos and killing bosses, I still have 169 Stardust. Something is bugged.

[tunckle]

yeah i do

[ChoeChoeTrain]

Y'all need to learn how to read. Dudes been saying that hes been checking his inventory AFTER running silos and monoliths and doesn't see any stardust. What he needs to confirm is has he been crafting anything requires stardust but from the looks of it I don't think he has been.

Falllout boy run another silo and check. Take a screenshot of before you run it and then after.