Cadmium

[ChanceGateau]

Just curious. I am working on that Polestar community mission.

To upgrade the hyperdrive of the freighter, you need cadmium... but to GET the cadmium, you need to upgrade your drive.

Is there somewhere you can buy the cadmium, or get it with a reward or something because I am at a loss as to how to complete the upgrade if I cannot travel to red stars to get cadmium without first upgrading the drive.

I have x125 already, as a reward, and I checked some of the other missions, and it doesn't seem like any give cadmium as a reward.

[DeadOrAlive]

you could recycle some exo- or ship-upgrades.
i just dont remember which1 you need. maybe they are blue or the purple.

if you like to recycle something you will see the sources you get from into the description, before you recycel them... just look for cadmium.

ofc you need some nanites to buy the upgrades before.

just a sugestion ;)

[Captain.Jartyk]

It is actually very easy to produce large amounts of Cadmium.
What you need to do is to dismantle a ship's technology mod, such as photon cannon, or pulse drive. then you get some Cadmium.

Then you put it in a refiner, along with chrome metal, and it doubles, repeat the last step until you have enough.

If you don't have any tech in the ship, or you don't want to dismantle any of what you have, you buy a cheap C-mod from the nearest space station, install and then dismantle it at once.

edit.
Seems a clarification is needed here, some don't seem to understand.
The Cadmium you can get from ships is only from some of the technology modules you can dismantle, you never get Cadmium from scrapping the ship itself.

some more info here
https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Cadmium#Source

[Musashi]

Iirc.. you dont need to travel to a red star system... just warp to a system before that red .. and warp from there to the next RD Point

[ChanceGateau]

Originally posted by DeadOrAlive:

you could recycle some exo- or ship-upgrades.
i just dont remember which1 you need. maybe they are blue or the purple.

if you like to recycle something you will see the sources you get from into the description, before you recycel them... just look for cadmium.

ofc you need some nanites to buy the upgrades before.

just a sugestion ;)

I tried this... I had money, so I bought a couple ships... scrapped them. Didn't get any Cadmium for either of them. Got most of the money I'd spent back, but it seems a stupid, tedious way of getting Cadmium.

[taniwhat]

Read the words. It's ship weapon tech UPGRADES that yield cadmium when dismantled.

So, buy one from the starship upgrade dealer at the station, install it, dismantle that - NOT the entire ship. Tada, cadmium.

Which- you don't need anyway.

[Tirandys]

You can get cadmium from recycling c class photon cannon modules or c class pulse engine modules. Just buy (with nanites should be 55 to 60 each) install the tech then dismantle the tech. Then double the cadmium in the refiner with chromatic metal until you have all you need.