Tritium farm

[Leylin Farlier]

anyone got any tips on farming/buying tritium on large quantity?

[Azure Fang]

1. Equip a Positron Ejector on your ship.
   
2. Find an asteroid field.
   
3. Swap to third person camera.
   
4. Corkscrew forward.
   
5. Hold down left-click.

I wish I was kidding.

[Langkard]

I don't know if it would be considered farming, but every time I come out of warp or pulse I take a few moments to shoot solo tritium asteroids. It adds up quickly if you stick to it as a habit.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Pirate systems offer it for sale. At least in my experience, the NPC pilots that land at your settlement offer it. While it appears to be system specific, NPCs landing in a station will often carry a good supply for sale. A few stations carry it in the vending machines.

It is harder to come by since the challenge increased. If you really desire to farm it, I would use the Save Game Editor to make it a resource output for your settlement. Avoid taking the next step and having the settlement produce the frigate fuel....you will be swimming in the stuff.

[Jaggid Edje]

I mostly just buy it whenever I see it for sale at stations. Over time, that is always more than enough, even on Survival+ difficulty (which has reduced trade goods volumes).

[SkiRich]

I swap to my big bad boy ball hauler ship with Infra Knife tech thats been way overpowered by the supercharger slots.
Thats the ship I go strafe dead planets with to harvest ferrite, and spend 10 minutes with it in an asteroid field.
I have an uncharted system that has a dead planet in it and its surrounded by dense asteroid fields.
10 minutes on planet and 10 minutes in space and I have 3 full stacks of ferrite, two stacks of Di-H and three full stacks of tritium. Bonus, some gold, silver and platinum and anamoly beacons come out of that.
I keep all of that in that one ship parked in my frieghter.
Thats the farm.

[Krash Megiddo]

All great suggestions so far. The farm on my "todo" list is the settlement that produces Tritium. I know its not needed, but I just want to have a useful settlement one of these days

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[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

All great suggestions so far. The farm on my "todo" list is the settlement that produces Tritium. I know its not needed, but I just want to have a useful settlement one of these days

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Just my advice, if you do that, make it the secondary not primary resource of the settlement. Otherwise you get so much it starts to feel like cheating. . .
I changed the settlement where I just recently finished that S-class test that I posted about to Dirt as its primary and Tritium as its secondary production, and it is almost perfect.  
(I'm not crazy, I use Azure Fang's mod that adds a dirt to silicate powder recipe).

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Just my advice, if you do that, make it the secondary not primary resource of the settlement. Otherwise you get so much it starts to feel like cheating. . .
I changed the settlement where I just recently finished that S-class test that I posted about to Dirt as its primary and Tritium as its secondary production, and it is almost perfect.  
(I'm not crazy, I use Azure Fang's mod that adds a dirt to silicate powder recipe).

I will definitely do that, thanks JE! I need AF's dirt mod as well because I refuse to build stone bases with the current method of farming silicate powder

[chipmonk]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Pirate systems offer it for sale. At least in my experience, the NPC pilots that land at your settlement offer it. While it appears to be system specific, NPCs landing in a station will often carry a good supply for sale. A few stations carry it in the vending machines.

I've also found that often mining economies will also have tritium for sale and or di-hydrogen jelly. The same applies to the pilots who land there.

[taniwhat]

As others have mentioned. "Never let a chance go by" is enough, oh, and X class engine modules which have 'fuel savings' as a bonus help a lot as well.

It's really not an annoyance once you get into the swing of things and have 'enough' - just taking the chances that are there makes it a non-issue fairly quickly and breaks up other grinds some anyway.

Frigate fuel, just drop into a pirate system now and then, strafe a few freighters ....

[LazerRay]

I keep a list of normal star systems that sell Tritium in the trade terminals and buy a bunch when I'm in outlaw systems from the black market dealer (also a good nanite source by reselling the X Class modules you get from opening the suspicious packs)

[NZ.Zero]

I have a 'loop' of systems that sell tritium - I drop a base at a trade centre in each system and just warp round the loop every so often on a tritium buying run.