Locating Runaway Mould

[Yxklyx]

I know that many people have posted planet coordinates for Runaway Mould spawns but I'd like to find my own. Is the wiki correct? Gek 3-star 6 planet system? How can you tell which systems have 3 stars? Just by looking carefully in the Galactic Map?

[Lindy Bomber]

You can see the systems economic level by installing a economy scanner.

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Economy_Scanner

The validity of the claim that it's best to look there i can not verify. I have found curious deposit on many different planets.

[poppetshadow]

I know it's easier to see flying low and slow, in an exocraft, or on foot on an empty planet. Once you find it, there will be more on that same planet if you go straight North or South. The deposits vary in size from just a few to a dozen or more per site.

edit: I checked my farm - it's in a Gek 1-star 4 planet/2 moon system.

edit 2: I see a note I made for finding it on another planet, that one is in a Vy'keen 2-star 2 planet/1 moon system, so it looks like it can spawn anywhere.

[Yxklyx]

Yeah I think so too. Same goes for Living Ship upgrades.

[Grimmslayer73]

The economy and race has nothing to do with it. Either the planet has them or it doesn't. If it does, keep searching around and you will find more. I use the exocraft and keep spamming the scanner. They will show as a yellow icon with 3 stars on it.

[Merik Fyndhorn]

Does it have to be from a planet?

Take any junk slime and put it in a refiner.

Residual Goop -> Viscous Fluids -> Living Slime -> Runaway Mould -> Nanite Cluster

Alternate

Hypnotic Eye -> Living Slime -> Runaway Mould

Much easier to find than an actual Runaway Mould deposit.

[Yxklyx]

Yeah, that works too. Did they nerf stations selling Runaway Mould? I saw some discussion about buying it. The Survival Freighter missions seem to always have the infestation with lots of Slime to collect.

[Lindy Bomber]

I have a mold farm that yields about 1500 mold per reload. Yep as soon as you save and reload they respawn. Once you have it set up it's the fastest nanites.

[Yxklyx]

What about using a personal teleporter - won't they respawn then too?

[Daedrius]

Originally posted by Yxklyx:

What about using a personal teleporter - won't they respawn then too?

Yep, I have 2 runaway mold sites I warp between and they respawn as soon as you leave the area. You don't need to exit the game or anything and you can collect mold all day. Even if you leave the area and get, I'm going to guess 600+u they'll respawn.

[Lednard]

I have a 26 RMF posted, your welcome to use it. It's so hit and miss finding them.

[Chansu Ragedashi]

Originally posted by Merik Fyndhorn:

Does it have to be from a planet?

Take any junk slime and put it in a refiner.

Residual Goop -> Viscous Fluids -> Living Slime -> Runaway Mould -> Nanite Cluster

Alternate

Hypnotic Eye -> Living Slime -> Runaway Mould

Much easier to find than an actual Runaway Mould deposit.

the reason for using runaway mould is that if you move sufficiently far enough away they'll respawn, leading to a functionally infinite supply of easy nanites so long as you don't have someone hack a base on top of yours and ruin the mould farm

[Filthy Cur]

Originally posted by Yxklyx:

The Survival Freighter missions seem to always have the infestation with lots of Slime to collect.

Infested derelict freighters tend to have a good amount of living slime, just pop all those pimples you find in there. I may be wrong, but I think killing the critters that spawn from the nests will provide some slime as well.

[Tower Dove]

the best nanite farm I know is buying ships and dismantling them to sell augs. You'll need infinite credit first but you should have that a point anyway. Farming moulds is just sadge.

[ConghaileQuoss]

Originally posted by Yxklyx:

What about using a personal teleporter - won't they respawn then too?

I just use the base teleporter and teleport back to the same base.

[Happy Monkey]

Short-range teleporter is much faster, but you might have to chain them or glitch them to get far enough away to trigger the reset. If you happen to find another set of mould a few hundred units north or south, you can make teleporters between them, and there will be some to collect at both ends, every time you go through.