Whats the best way to fuel my Sentinel Ship?

[Nahui Ollin]

Sentinels require special fuel and objects. My launch rechargers dont apply to this ship. Is there is a quick and easy way to automate sentinel upkeep?

[The Cog (O.T.H.G.)]

The auto launch charger does work with the sentinel ships actually.

The basic item for recharging sentinel tech is radiant shards. The actual launch fuel for sentinel ships is pugnium.

[Tirandys]

I use 3 S class launch upgrades, the buildable recharger, and the buildable b class upgrade. I have not had to refuel the launcher since I put everything in.

Did not use any super charge slots.

[Voodoojedizin]

IIf you get the right launch upgrades you'll never have to mess with it again probably. As far as fuel you can get shards by the bucket loads anywhere there's a dissident planet.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by OTH.Incognito:

The auto launch charger does work with the sentinel ships actually.

Originally posted by Tirandys:

I use 3 S class launch upgrades, the buildable recharger, and the buildable b class upgrade. I have not had to refuel the launcher since I put everything in.

I'll agree with both of these, and I'll even go so far as to point out that I'm using only the buildable thruster upgrades on my new sentinel ship... and I feel like the efficiency booster maybe isn't even necessary.

To be honest, I didn't know there were any other upgrades for the launch thrusters until yesterday, when I saw them in a chart somewhere... and I'm sitting on 700 hours played. I have 2 sentinels, one for fighting and one for "wandering around". That ability to stop and "hover" is a game-changer.

All of that aside, you can definitely put the regular ole' launch thruster autocharger on a sentinel ship. If you couldn't, I wouldn't have a sentinel ship... I'm not about to tie my ability to leave a planet to my ability to find a resource that isn't absolutely guaranteed to be on every single planet in the game.

[Lilli]

Aside from the auto recharger, i keep stacks of radiant shards around, they are easy to farm and fuel everything if needed.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by Mooncake:

Aside from the auto recharger, i keep stacks of radiant shards around, they are easy to farm and fuel everything if needed.

A fair point, but doesn't your freighter's "core" storage get crowded?

You do keep tritium, warp fuel, antimatter, antimatter housings, and other "always necessary" items in there so they're accessible no matter what ship you're flying, right?

I mean, I guess you could just clutter up your exosuit inventory with them... but you keep it all in one place so you don't have to have stacks and stacks of the enormous number of "should definitely be carrying some of that" in each and every ship you own?

[Ferox_Stormdragon]

For the warp engines and pulse drive use radiant shards, shields use sodium nitrate and pugneum for the launch thrusters combined with the launcher recharger (easily synthesised from Atlantideum 1:2 ratio)

Radiant shards and Atlantideum can be easily farmed on dissonant planets.

[The Cog (O.T.H.G.)]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Originally posted by Mooncake:

Aside from the auto recharger, i keep stacks of radiant shards around, they are easy to farm and fuel everything if needed.

A fair point, but doesn't your freighter's "core" storage get crowded?

You do keep tritium, warp fuel, antimatter, antimatter housings, and other "always necessary" items in there so they're accessible no matter what ship you're flying, right?

I mean, I guess you could just clutter up your exosuit inventory with them... but you keep it all in one place so you don't have to have stacks and stacks of the enormous number of "should definitely be carrying some of that" in each and every ship you own?

Ever since the first time I moved to the next galaxy in a sentinel ship (and no, having no tech damage in settings does not save you from a galaxy hop) I keep a stack of every sentinel material in every sentinel ship I use. On my freighter, I have a storage area assigned to sentinel materials as well. This works for "me" just fine, as I do not actively engage in farming outlaw system freighters I have nothing else to do with the inventory of my ships. The freighter storage, is a just in case thing, because after experiencing a galaxy hop in a sentinel ship, I will never again not have access to sentinel materials.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by OTH.Incognito:

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

A fair point, but doesn't your freighter's "core" storage get crowded?

You do keep tritium, warp fuel, antimatter, antimatter housings, and other "always necessary" items in there so they're accessible no matter what ship you're flying, right?

I mean, I guess you could just clutter up your exosuit inventory with them... but you keep it all in one place so you don't have to have stacks and stacks of the enormous number of "should definitely be carrying some of that" in each and every ship you own?

Ever since the first time I moved to the next galaxy in a sentinel ship (and no, having no tech damage in settings does not save you from a galaxy hop) I keep a stack of every sentinel material in every sentinel ship I use. On my freighter, I have a storage area assigned to sentinel materials as well. This works for "me" just fine, as I do not actively engage in farming outlaw system freighters I have nothing else to do with the inventory of my ships. The freighter storage, is a just in case thing, because after experiencing a galaxy hop in a sentinel ship, I will never again not have access to sentinel materials.

You do know that you can summon your freighter just like any other ship, right? And that adding a teleporter to it allows you to access the stuff inside it even if it's not in-system? You can even summon the freighter into orbit while standing on the ground, which means you can access the stuff in the containers, as well. I routinely summon my freighter when I start building a new base; I have a container full of Carbon, Ferrite Dust, and Pure Ferrite so i don't have to stop in the middle and hunt up a few thousand more of some basic building material just to finish putting the last 3 rooms on some structure.

That being said, you do make a valid point with "keeping repair materials to hand"... but carrying a single stack of glass in the freighter's core storage still sounds like less clutter to me than putting a stack in each Sentinel ship I own.

Also, you really should do your "center of the galaxy" warps in your freighter... it bypasses all that "broken tech" nonsense, reducing the odds you'll even need that salvaged glass you're hoarding... which allows you to feel more comfortable lugging less of it around.