what is the easiest way to gather frigate fuel?

[Derpykat5]

for reference:
500 trintium (aka a "cargo stack") turns into 80 tonnes of fuel, with roughly 40 di-hidrodgen left over.

I have tried multiple methods for gathering fuel, but all of them are too tedious for me.

I have tried using exocraft to gather large amounts of Di-hydrogen, but sentinels and low yield make this method slow and annoying.

I have tried exxessive trintium mining, but the result (after refining trintium into di-hydrogen) is a very small amount of fuel for an incredibly long time (10-15 minutes for filling the inventory with trintium, then another 10-15 minutes of refining most of it down into di-hydrogen).

I found a system where the ships were all selling vast amounts of trintium, but silly me I thought that was a common occurence, and now no longer know my way back to the system, nor do I know if such a place exists anywhere near me.

really, the problem is di-hydrogen. I can get plenty of trintium rather quickly, but the di-hydrogen is just so grindy any way I do it.

what is the quickest way to gather di-hydrogen?

[tkwoods]

Are you playing survival?

I get Tritium easily from asteroids and as far as I can rememebr it's 200 makes 200 tons.
DiHydrogen... I never gather it anymore. All you need is 40. Make a gel and refine it to get 50 back. I make a couple hundred every time I visit the freighter.
A couple minutes in front of your refiner and your set for a while.

[Ukko]

Buy di-hydrogen jelly from space stations (rare on trader ships).... refine. Buy Tritium from space station. Easiest >.>

[mrjvoorhees]

The easiest way by far is to buy everything you need. You can buy tritium at some stations, but the most likely source is other starships - they always seem to have loads.

Di-hydrogen you can't buy, BUT a lot of stations do sell the di-hydrogen jelly, which can be broken down into 50 di-hydrogen (so a max stack of 5 jellies gives you 250 di-hydrogen).

You can craft a couple of thousand fuel within a few minutes this way.

[Ukko]

Originally posted by mrjvoorhees:

The easiest way by far is to buy everything you need. You can buy tritium at some stations, but the most likely source is other starships - they always seem to have loads.

Di-hydrogen you can't buy, BUT a lot of stations do sell the di-hydrogen jelly, which can be broken down into 50 di-hydrogen (so a max stack of 5 jellies gives you 250 di-hydrogen).

You can craft a couple of thousand fuel within a few minutes this way.

Exactly =D

[japp_02]

Buy the needed stuff at space stations in big quantites, then store it on your freighter. All you need to do then is refine the Jellys into De-Hydrogen.

[TheBMT]

Originally posted by Ukko:

Buy di-hydrogen jelly from space stations (rare on trader ships).... refine. Buy Tritium from space station. Easiest >.>

Facts. Once you get this going you can really pump out missions. As long as you are sending out support ships too, it'll last longer too.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Try to keep two stacks of Di-Hydrogen in your high cpaciity exosuit at all times. Similarly Tritium too, perhaps in two slots on your space ship. Then go play!
As you do missions, mine a few bits at every opportunity you see the blue cyrstals. Try to have the best mining laser set up you can,. That will make mining painless and quick and you always will have some to use when needed to make fuel.

Collect frigates which use the least fuel. Also frigate missions ideally should always have a support class frigate with them, which reduces the cumulative cost of fuel. This saves a lot on the amount of fuel you must craft each time you send off a frigate fleet off on their travels. Particularly if it is a longer mission that travels further.

[Derpykat5]

thanks for the tips! got myself 2k tonnes of fuel from one station.
it pays to pay I guess.