Where do I find activated copper?

[Zapp Brannigan]

I need it to repair my ship. Everything indicates it is found in deposits like normal copper in yellow -star systems, but I cannot seem to find any.

[DarkEternal]

Bad luck. It shows up on scans from space as a deposit on a planet.

[tkwoods]

I don't remember ever have to use activated copper to repair any ship technology. Unless this is later in game and you have some higher tech installed.

Activated copper is reasonably found. Any planet that has extreme weather usually has it.

Also, you can do Nexus missions as many of them send you to planet systems that have these other activated metals.

[Zapp Brannigan]

I'm in a low tier ship. Got damaged going through a black hole. I'll try the nexus. Never done that.

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

I don't remember ever have to use activated copper to repair any ship technology. Unless this is later in game and you have some higher tech installed.

Activated copper is reasonably found. Any planet that has extreme weather usually has it.

Also, you can do Nexus missions as many of them send you to planet systems that have these other activated metals.

It's not really useful except for refining. You can refine 1 ferrite and 1 act copper to 2 magnetised ferrite. Or, 1 pure ferrite and 1 act copper for 2 chromatic metal.

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by Zapp Brannigan:

I'm in a low tier ship. Got damaged going through a black hole. I'll try the nexus. Never done that.

You win again, gravity!

[Gumsk]

Originally posted by Zapp Brannigan:

I need it to repair my ship. Everything indicates it is found in deposits like normal copper in yellow -star systems, but I cannot seem to find any.

Is it 350 Activated Copper and nothing else? If so, that's the variable I was trying to figure out in the technology table. Thanks! That's the only place it shows up in the entire tech table.

[LoboFH]

All activated metals are in extreme planets, for copper is yellow systems.

[Auriga_Nexus]

Originally posted by LoboFH:

All activated metals are in extreme planets, for copper is yellow systems.

What he said. I'd recommend finding a hotspot and setting up a passive mining base just so you can have some for later.

If you scan a planet in orbit it should tell you if activated copper exists. Then land and look for deep metal deposits using the survey scanner. If you find one for active copper, look for a power hotspot within 1000 u. Once you find both set up a base between the two, with a teleporter and silos, then run power cables to an emag generator and power/supply to a miner. If it's outside your base build boundaries drop flags every 25-50 u to extend your base boundary until you can reach it.

Unlike the standard stellar metals which you can replicate with Chromatic metal, activated metals can't be made, only harvested. I keep a passive mining base for both activated copper and activated indium. The copper is for restoring salvaged ships, and the indium gets either sold for cash or processed into Chromatic metal. I keep a sample of all 4 stellar metals in my freighter base, and use the chromatic metal from activated indium to double that sample and make more as needed.

[fancyfudge]

I get it all the time from sending my frigates on fleet missions

[SalientGreen]

Originally posted by Zapp Brannigan:

I need it to repair my ship. Everything indicates it is found in deposits like normal copper in yellow -star systems, but I cannot seem to find any.

If you pin an element's 'recipe' from the component repair screen, your galaxy map will show you the closet path to that element.

[MinenSpecht]

Search yellow systems for planets with extreme weather.

I also had that problem and just browsed my explored yellow systems and checked every planet separately (not the system. The system can just say copper but extreme planets show activated copper )in the database until I found a planet.