Easy way to get nanites?

[Crimson]

Is there a way to them it by exploring? I tried googling, but everyone wants me to farm them and such on Youtube. I just want a simple way of getting them? Is there a way to do it by exploring a planet or something?

[DarkEternal]

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Nanite_Cluster#Acquisition_Tips

[Geldric™]

For me:
1 Find a planet with agro sentinels & gravatino balls.
2 Empty your exosuit & run around & fill up.
3 Sell at space station or trade outpost. (6 mil easy)
4 Buy class A 19 slot ships for less than 1.8 mil & scrap
5 Sell upgrade mods to vendor (400 to 900 nanites per ship)

Wow, writing this out seems like a PITA but it really does go quick. Just did this on my Expedition runs & in a couple hours I had more than 10mil & 6000+ nanites. Bought a nice A class explorer & dropped in 3 hyperdrive mods too.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Derelict freighters are worth a couple thousand each. Slower than scrapping ships but more engaging.

The lowest effort method is probably to build automatic silver and gold mines. Refine silver and gold into platinum and platinum into nanites. One stack of silver and one stack of gold makes 285 nanites (and an hour of refiner time, but that's why you use multiple refiners)

[Eye Aye]

How many nanites are you looking for ?
In the normal course of play exploring buildings and opening crates boxes and machinery you will accrue nanites if you scan the flora and fauna and upload the data you will get small amounts of nanites also when you visit the anomaly you will receive nanites for milestones you have passed. after interacting with NPCs.
So yes you CAN get nanites by exploring but it takes quite some time and it is much faster to scrap ships and its fun too.
As an aside if you concentrate on scrapping fighters they drop way more upgrades than other ships so more nanites for your money.

[HastyPBudha]

Refining

Tainted Metal is used as an ingredient for refining the following products using a Refiner:

Tainted Metal x1 → Nanite Cluster x2

you get 700+ tainted metal for the crew and captains log from the derelict freighter plus what you find on the freighter (maybe a 100-200 more). if just refining what you received for the logs would give you 1400 for 15-25 min run exploring the derelict freighter.

also have you checked the wiki?

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

[hbrosmoe]

Fastest way I have found is scrapping ships. Some 3 star Systems are better than others. Find one with a lot of traffic and buy/scrap ships till you get bored. Only buy A Class ships for the BEST return on investment. You need to be sitting on a good supply of cash as you loose money on each ship, but you gain nanites.

[knighttemplar1960]

For exploring? Refine goop from damaged machinery and abandoned buildings that you find. Shoot the whispering eggs that you find around abandoned buildings and harvest and refine the larval cores. Dig up buried technology modules and refine them. If you buy a refiner module blue print for your suit and install it you can use it to refine while you explore.

The other way that is exploration friendly is to get a good multitool with high scan values and put a bunch of "S" class scanner modules in so that you get lots of cash from scanning things. Then when you hit a space station that sells goop, pugneum, and/or platinum you can buy huge stacks of those with the cash you made scanning and refine them in your suit on the go while you explore and scan some more.

[Barmy Nimrod]

In addition to the methods above I have also talked to all the NPCs on SS platforms and bought all the Pugneum, Platinum and Goop I can. Then refine the heck out of the stuff. I also had an S class Gold and Silver mine extracting about 300,000 a day each.

I built a low orbit space station, with 54 refiners, and would refine Gold+Silver, Platinum, Pugneum, Goop and Tainted Metal all while logged off. Log back on ever 20 minutes or so and restart the refiners again.

The Goop takes the longest because it has to be refined 4 times, but it does yield a fare amount of Nanites. I was making about 50,000 nanites a day back when I wanted to upgrade ships.

Note: Some players complain that the materials in their refiners goes missing if they leave the vicinity of the base where they are. I have only experienced this when visiting the Anomaly in multiplayer mode. I have done all kinds of exploring while my refiners are running and never lost any of the materials. But be mindful of that possibility when refining stuff you really don't want to lose.

[Barmy Nimrod]

Another method I used for a while was refining Larval cores. When you find abandon facilities with the whispering egg nests, do the following

1) set down a base computer
2) build walls around the nests
3) leave one wall off one nest to start the swarm
4) Jump up onto the roof of the building and shoot one egg to start the swarm
5) jump into the boxes and collect the cores
6) add the last wall and collect those cores
7) wait for the swarm to subside and delete the base computer.

With 50 nanites per core, the large facilities can yield about 3,000 nanites.

[Chadwbacca]

There are many ways to get nanites exploring:
1) Refine Larva Cores (50 nanites each)
2) Refine Hadal Core (50 nanites each)
3) Refine 15 Salvaged Data (220 nanites in total, I think)
4) Refine 250 Runaway Mould (50 nanites), which you can get refining Residual Goop > Viscious Fluids > Living Slime > Runaway Mould, or Hypnotic Eye > Living Slime >, and sometimes you can find Runaway Mould to extract from a planet.
5) Refine Tainted Metal (2 nanites per unit), you get them from derelict freighters.
6) Refine pugneum, and break the ammo crates that sentinels drop.
7) Explore derelict freighters, they give you many things to sell for nanites, and also nanites directly.
8) You can get nanites from Damaged Machinery, or modules to sell for nanites.
9) Scanning fauna, creatures and rocks, and uploading them, if you find all creatures you also get an extra uploading feature that gives you extra nanites. And on the Anomaly you can also sell your discoveries for even more extra nanites.
10) Explore buildings, sometimes they have interactable items which gives you nanites. And save on the anntenas, that also gives you nanites.
11) If you find A and S class ships with low inventory space, buy them and scrap them. Both are worth the price to get nanites.
12) Everytime you go into a new system, pick up every easy quest that you would complete without noticing, and claim the free gift from one of the NPCs, sometimes it is nanites.