assistance needed: about to run out of pulse engine charge

[peppergomez]

I've been flying around looking for the raw materials I need to charge my pulse engines, and not finding it on either the planets, asteroids, or space station in my system. I keep getting silver from asternoids, not pyriate or thaumium.

Can anyone advise on how to find the materials I need? I have a bunch of other substances, if the refinery is any help in this.

Thanks.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

I always get titanium from asteroid fields. Silver is usually the most common. Just keep shootin

[High Density Hamster]

Originally posted by peppergomez:

I've been flying around looking for the raw materials I need to charge my pulse engines, and not finding it on either the planets, asteroids, or space station in my system. I keep getting silver from asternoids, not pyriate or thaumium.

Can anyone advise on how to find the materials I need? I have a bunch of other substances, if the refinery is any help in this.

Thanks.

You need Tritium from asteroids. I've run into the situation of only getting Silver. When this happens, I just fly a bit into another section of the asteroids and start firing around there.

Could also buy the Tritium from a merchant.

[Miral]

Thaumium isn't a thing any more. I forget exactly what it's called, but you need the H3 from shooting asteroids to charge your pulse engine. Both it and silver appear in roughly equal amounts in asteroid fields, so just keep shooting them up.

[Arcturus Asriv]

I'm quite crude about it, myself.
I take my shuttle, fly towards my destination, hold shift for boost, and ram through asteroids.
When I get something I can use, I hit tab and refuel, then launch my pulse engine.
The fuel won't last too long, but once the pulse drive wears off and I drop back to regular flight, the boosters are on automatically and I no longer have to hold shift.

Then I just wait for more fuel to get collected by ramming asteroids and repeat until I get where I'm going.

I'd probably mine the asteroids, but like you, I only ever get Gold or Silver, and the scanner doesn't seem to work on them.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by peppergomez:

I've been flying around looking for the raw materials I need to charge my pulse engines, and not finding it on either the planets, asteroids, or space station in my system. I keep getting silver from asternoids, not pyriate or thaumium.

Can anyone advise on how to find the materials I need? I have a bunch of other substances, if the refinery is any help in this.

Thanks.

I wonder if it's the mod's again?

[SniperWolfMGS]

Originally posted by Arcturus Asriv:

I'm quite crude about it, myself.
I take my shuttle, fly towards my destination, hold shift for boost, and ram through asteroids.
When I get something I can use, I hit tab and refuel, then launch my pulse engine.
The fuel won't last too long, but once the pulse drive wears off and I drop back to regular flight, the boosters are on automatically and I no longer have to hold shift.

Then I just wait for more fuel to get collected by ramming asteroids and repeat until I get where I'm going.

I'd probably mine the asteroids, but like you, I only ever get Gold or Silver, and the scanner doesn't seem to work on them.

I just pictured my self out the shooting asteroids only to see someone speed past me slamming into roid after roid yelling "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!"

[Arcturus Asriv]

Originally posted by SniperWolfMGS:

Originally posted by Arcturus Asriv:

I'm quite crude about it, myself.
I take my shuttle, fly towards my destination, hold shift for boost, and ram through asteroids.
When I get something I can use, I hit tab and refuel, then launch my pulse engine.
The fuel won't last too long, but once the pulse drive wears off and I drop back to regular flight, the boosters are on automatically and I no longer have to hold shift.

Then I just wait for more fuel to get collected by ramming asteroids and repeat until I get where I'm going.

I'd probably mine the asteroids, but like you, I only ever get Gold or Silver, and the scanner doesn't seem to work on them.

I just pictured my self out the shooting asteroids only to see someone speed past me slamming into roid after roid yelling "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!"

Lol.
And you'd see me reclined back in the cockpit, toasting you with a margarita as I zoomed by.
:-)

[peppergomez]

OK will keep shooting up asteroid

TK, I really doubt it. Mods are more surgical than that, changing one or just several specific things. They don't spill over into other portions of the game, and the mods I've got installed are mostly cosmetic.

[peppergomez]

Thanks folks, eventually those other minerals showed up when I was shooting. Just took a little bit longer.

[Scyris]

Btw, the BIG roids, that don't entirely blow up after a few shots, won't have Tritium or at least I've never gotten any out of them, Stick to the smaller ones, When you get Tritium it usually comes in packs of 30-40 per roid. If you want an easy source, go up to Gek pilots in space stations, they almost always seem to have 100-200 Tritium for sale each, and its dirt cheap, think its 7 Units per for me? So yeah just hit up a gek space station and talk to the ships that come in and buy their stuff.

[Zeno]

I'm working to outfit a shuttle specifically for mining asteroids: upgraded photon cannon, lots of shields, maybe a boost to the pulse engine for quick escapes from pirates.

You'll need tritium for other things later on, too, so get used to shooting rocks in space.

(Incidentally, any old-timers here notice a lot of things that went away with versions 1.1 and 1.2 are suddenly back? Shooting rocks in space is just one of them.)

(Those odd plant-things with the waving tentacles that yield gravitino balls are another. Glad to see those weird little dudes, again!)