how do i get activated copper

[hankberube]

i need it to repair a ship i found. i want to completely repair before i scrap it

[maestro]

Activated Copper is found in Yellow (beginner) systems on planets that have intense weather conditions. Scan planets until you see "Activated Copper" as one of the resources said planet has. Just like regular copper, you will need the terrain manipulation tech to gather it, and it will look just like regular copper.

Also, while you're down there getting this Activated Copper, keep an eye out for brightly glowing rocks during storms, those are Storm Crystals. You can only harvest them while it's storming and they are worth a boatload of units (150k each, thereabouts) and are great early-game for building up enough to get a better multi-tool!

Just watch the storms. They hurt, a lot. Might want to make sure you got ample di-hydrogen to make launch fuel; you're going to be using your ship a lot as walking around on such planets is quite dangerous (or you could use an exocraft, if you have one).

If you get caught on the surface while it's storming, burrow underground until it passes if you can't get to your ship in time.

[Kitiana Foxtail]

Originally posted by raincloud40:

I've restarted the game several times, and for some reason I never get an extreme planet in my starter system. I guess I'm going to have to progress to warping to other yellow stars to get some activated copper.

I've done a few ship salvages and got a large amount of activated cadnium one time. Another time I got a small amount of activated indium. I wonder if you can salvage activated copper from a ship?

Yes, Yes you can? You can get all the activated as well as some other High Value mats.

Originally posted by hankberube:

i need it to repair a ship i found. i want to completely repair before i scrap it

I don't think fully repairing it changes how much you get buy much. At least I don't think the what you will get in scrap will be equal to the amount of activated copper you have to use. You probably would get more value scrapping the ship as is and selling the Activated Copper that was needed.

Unless the ship you found was S rank or a hauler with lots of storage space. Just fix the cheap slots for that little bit of a boost.

[Talos]

I found activated copper on a hot and humid planet with a yellow sun after 4 tries. :(

[maestro]

Just have to keep warping around the systems. You don't *Have* to fix every single broken part on a ship. Just fix the technologies and clear up what damage you can for storage space and the ship is perfectly flyable even with some damaged parts until you do find it.

Heck, you SHOULD be wanting to warp to new systems anyways, because once you unlock the Anomaly, each system is 2 exosuit expansions (one from space station, one from anomaly).