The best way to make money early game.

[Claus]

So i have been trying the different methods of making money early game, many suggest farming salt and cobalt on the right planet.

I don't find this method to be effective early game because it takes for too long to make a million, it could take you more than a hour and that's not good profit.

So while flying between planets i always get nagged by pirates with bounties on their head, usually its 100-200k in the beginning, if you have goods on your ship worth a bit they constantly nag you every 5-10 minutes, then i thought to myself why not make money on it in the beginning, and that's exactly what i did.

They also tend to always drop either herox, memmium or metals, so it didn't take me more than 15-20 min to make the first million, the problem with this method is that you sometimes get 4 ships to fight, it can be a bit risky if you have no nanites invested in ship offense or defense.

Always have pure ferrite on you for crashed machinery, they can give you s modules like s scanner, and if you get that then you're off to a very good start, i managed to get a s module for my bolt caster.

Skip the ones that ask you to do several things like wiring looms as its not worth it.

If anyone else knows of ways to make money early game, i just know that farming raw materials is rarely worth the trouble until you get modules.

[Zarinthal]

first time i played I started on a mushroom world, mined salt (not sodium) for an hour. super easy early game

once you are out in the universe, you want to find planets with fossils and tech modules to dig up.

[Escopetarra]

Publicado originalmente por Claus:

Publicado originalmente por Jesus Juice:

activated iridium farm is the best farm 100k and have 100m

True but you need the iridium drives for that first, i think scaner modules are the best until you get better drives.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1846667625

yes you are right, but it's not that hard. Keep that in mind

[SevSaint]

early game you can make tons of money underground. mining and refining cobalt at same time finding humming sacs. easy way to make a million early on. next shot rocks in space for gold and silver take about 30 min and there is a few million there.

[MeDaDaddy]

Publicado originalmente por SevSaint:

early game you can make tons of money underground. mining and refining cobalt at same time finding humming sacs. easy way to make a million early on. next shot rocks in space for gold and silver take about 30 min and there is a few million there.

IMO:

Travel and Scan* early-game ...with 3 scanner upgrades you can make a shed load of units whilst unlocking tech stuffs.

*EDIT: As others above have mentioned.

**EDIT2: It's a self-filling loop (as it were).
The game sends you here and there to do the starter quests to unlock basic recipes, so you may as well be getting Unit boosts from scanning stuffs on your initial few Planets.
IMO.

[Rexxer]

Publicado originalmente por Claus:

So i have been trying the different methods of making money early game, many suggest farming salt and cobalt on the right planet.
If anyone else knows of ways to make money early game, i just know that farming raw materials is rarely worth the trouble until you get modules.

Whenever I started a NMS game, I always start by loading up on larval cores as it's easy to find them and you don't need special environmental shields (as you do with storm crystals). You can easily get 250K per site, and they are really easy to find. You just have to do a couple things to do it safely:
(1) have a save point placed down on the top of the abandoned building. Save after retrieving each larval core. Fastest early way to make $$ early on
(2) learn the trick of flying down fast to grab the core before it disappears, then flying back up to the top of the building so the monstrosities don't kill you.
You can easily do this first thing you start a game.

Once you can afford to build extractors and depots, mining easily is the fastest. One 20000 unit load of Activated Indium can easily net 50 million in one transaction.

Since construction tech and mining tech requires power blueprints, you need to load up on salvaged tech first to get the blueprints. I'd max out those tech trees first...put all your salvaged tech modules to buying those blueprints so you can start industrial scale mining.

[OldTotalWarrior]

Publicado originalmente por BrumBrumBrum:

Ancient bones seems good for me, Got a rare one for over 600.000 units. Got a planet with them in my first system.

I found a 2300 year old complete skeleton for 1.4 million yesterday.

[luZk]

I sold a chest i got from frigatte missions for 2,3 million yesterday.

[luZk]

Publicado originalmente por Rexxer:

Publicado originalmente por Claus:

So i have been trying the different methods of making money early game, many suggest farming salt and cobalt on the right planet.
If anyone else knows of ways to make money early game, i just know that farming raw materials is rarely worth the trouble until you get modules.

Whenever I started a NMS game, I always start by loading up on larval cores as it's easy to find them and you don't need special environmental shields (as you do with storm crystals). You can easily get 250K per site, and they are really easy to find. You just have to do a couple things to do it safely:
(1) have a save point placed down on the top of the abandoned building. Save after retrieving each larval core. Fastest early way to make $$ early on
(2) learn the trick of flying down fast to grab the core before it disappears, then flying back up to the top of the building so the monstrosities don't kill you.
You can easily do this first thing you start a game.

Once you can afford to build extractors and depots, mining easily is the fastest. One 20000 unit load of Activated Indium can easily net 50 million in one transaction.

Since construction tech and mining tech requires power blueprints, you need to load up on salvaged tech first to get the blueprints. I'd max out those tech trees first...put all your salvaged tech modules to buying those blueprints so you can start industrial scale mining.

This simply isnt a great earner compared to earning an average of 70k pr. plant and 180 per animal. Sometimes you can even make 400k on one single animal scan.

Also doing larva cores as a new player is kinda dangerous.

[Good Old Gamer]

best way to make money regardless is sell surplus salvage data ;)

[MeDaDaddy]

Publicado originalmente por luZk:

I sold a chest i got from frigatte missions for 2,3 million yesterday.

I started a new game yesterday and have 3 ships (no freighter), have explored 3 systems and have 3.xx million units after 6 hours just by getting a 9-slot Multi-tool with scanner upgrades (no weapons).

Have also expanded the exo-suit by over 12 slots.

By scanning stuffs with scanner upgrades as I did the tutorial stuffs.

Depends on playstyle and what you want out of the game and where you start I suppose ...the ancient relic stuffs are time consuming to get the keys and you COULD end up with some broken bones worth 90k units ...or you could scan one animal in 5 seconds and get 90k units....

EDITED:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1847094622

[jbbuzz]

I've found storm crystals and ancient bones then the chlorine loop later to work well.

[Refurbished Hamster]

I'm glad I looked at this thread. I didn't even know there were scanner upgrades that increased the number of credits received when discovering stuff.

On the subject of larva cores, I noticed an interesting effect. It might even be a bug. If you jump in your ship and then back out when the horrors are out, they'll sometimes ignore you while you harvest the rest of the cores. They're still running around but don't seem to notice you. Sometimes it takes a few times of getting in and out of the ship but it's better than standing on the building and waiting.

My primary way of getting money has been tunneling to humming sacs and then grabbing all of the nearby cobalt before going to the next humming sac. I do have to use the terrain tool under the sacs, though, or they'll keep showing up on the map even after they've been looted.

[FuturistDreamer]

Carbon, Sodium, Oxygen, Ferrite

Fill everything else up with cobalt. Both your ship and your suit. Don't forget to move as much as you can to the tech slots also. Should end up with ~2-3 million after an hour in a couple of caves on your first planet.

Also, if you get Tetra Cobalt, put them in a small converter, so it can turn them into ionized cobalt (200k/stack of 500).

[Doktor Kaputt]

Storm crystals. Period.
Find a planet that has storms and has the crystals bunched together in 3 to 6 groups. Wait for a storm, go in your ship, search for them, collect them. But only land at groups of at least 3. If youre really desperate, maybe 2. Single ones just arent worth it. On some planets (differs from region too) you can find up to 6 on one spot, and not that rarely too.
They should be easy to see, since they glow bright when theres a storm. Just need to stock up on Uranium for the launch booster, since you will need to land your ship close to each group every time.
I didnt do the math properly, as in what you can earn in an hour doing this, but even with low available space in my inventory, I make around 8 million a pop, which is about 4 or 5 storms. One stack of 5 sells for 650k. If I had to guess, you can probably make 16 millon at least an hour like that. Probably more.
In between, when theres no storm you can just explore normally.

But you dont need to do that a lot anyway. I quickly paid my first good ship from this for 40 million, then its easy coasting and you make money otherwise. Right now I am sitting on 70 million again and I didnt farm much for it. Just scanning (with scanner upgrades) and selling the stuff I find and dont need.
Nanites are a much bigger problem than money.

Other things that work well too, if you dont want to get bored:
Subterranean Relics - Refine the TetraCobalt you get with them into Ionized Cobalt. You can just destroy the Vortex Cubes, since they dont nearly sell as well as a stack of 5 TetraCobalt refined into Ionized Cobalt. Lots of money.
Bones
Salvage sites

[Coin]

Publicado originalmente por SevSaint:

early game you can make tons of money underground. mining and refining cobalt at same time finding humming sacs. easy way to make a million early on. next shot rocks in space for gold and silver take about 30 min and there is a few million there.

Waste of time, it's better to look for subterranean relics and get cobalt that way. Storms crystals are the best though.