I cannot find ANY salvaged frigate modules.. what gives?

[vybaust]

I have played 200+ hours on consoles and haven't struggled.. but my first save on MacOS and I cannot find any salvaged frigate modules which means I am unable to upgrade my freighter.

Anyone else had this issue with the latest update?

[Typha]

I've found a single one with 57 hours.

[Spamwad]

I think you have to send out certain vessel types in your fleet to find them. Send science, vessels, etc.

[SirProsik]

Just did several crashed freighters today and did not get a single module, I did get one bulkhead though.

[Maviba]

- Find and search lost freighters
- Send your vessels on expeditions. Both battle and mining expeditions have a good chance of dropping some.
- Check both the anomaly and space stations for missions that have one as a reward.

[Crimsomrider]

There are numerous ways to get them from either doing derelict freighters, crashed freighters, quests for different factions, sending out frigates on missions or simply by destroying cargo pods of freighters in the system which contain the modules.

Search and destroy of freighter cargo pods is the fastest and easiest way I found. Just scan each cargo pod in the system, if there ain't any module then pulse and scan another fleet.

Sometimes they have 2-3, sometimes none. Find a system with freighters which are easy and fast to scan, such as freighters which have 10 cargo pod balls on each side because it's very fast with those to search their cargo and easy to aim at them.

And attack them in a system you have the most reputation with another race. For example I exclusively only play in Vy'keen systems so attacking them has no effect on my reputation since I have so much of it.

[smurfy]

I still get plenty from Mission agents. This was yesterday:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040970420
I've already maxed my freighter though, so don't want them now.

[Tirandys]

I play on pc, so that might be dfferent.

I started a new save about 1 week after the last expedition started. I have gotten 8 from crashed freighters, and 6 from the anomaly. I have also gotten several from space station missions but I have not kept track of how many of those as I just stack creature kills and sentinel kill missions until I feel like doing them.

I got a salvaged frigate module, multi tool expansion slot, and cargo bulkhead from the first crashed freighter that I did. I was motivated to do them every time I saw one after that. And this is on pc, normal start no changes. Your platform might be different.

This is all I have gotten, I have not gone after any freighters for the pods or gotten any from frigate missions yet.

[Ferox_Stormdragon]

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

[Froot Loop Lux]

I don't even have a frigate and I keep finding salvaged modules lmao. I've gotten like 6 just from derelict freighters and missions alone. I also do A LOT of system hopping so I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not.

I think I got one as a reward for rescuing a freighter from pirates when I asked for a reward instead? It's been a while though.

Oh, should mention they have a 2% drop rate from crates in derelict freighters. That's not a big number, but since derelicts have like a bajillion lootables in them it's worth checking them all.

[Typha]

I did a crashed freighter just now and got my second one ever in 59 hours.

[笛野めのん]

It is unlikely to be a mac-specific glitch.
It is one of the end content, so it takes time to collect enough.
Well, it is now more available and much easier to collect than before.

[Bobucles]

Frigate modules are rare drops in a large loot list in a small piece of game content.
Search space hulks (pay 5mil per day), search planetary freighter crashes, do industrial frigate missions. I think that's it.

Some inventory things can be grinded out very consistently. Exosuit upgrades can be done over and over with the charts. Starship upgrades can be done on space stations by buying and shredding tons of space ships. Multitools are a bit slow, finding and shredding them is a slow process.

[Rexxer]

I found 1 module in the first derelict freighter I explored. In the expedition you get a free derelict locator beacon (the green thing you activate). If you want S-Class modules as well, there are listings in Eissentam for where they are online. You get the portal glyph set as a reward for digging a long tunnel, just do that at the start.

Getting *ENOUGH* freighter upgrade modules is another thing. If you are pressed for time and want to fully upgrade your freighter, you will have to explore dozens of derelict freighters or dig dozens of crashed freighters. ...Or you can cheat: the duplication glitches still work.

[Foxglovez]

Freighters are the last thing you need to worry about and at this point in the game one of the few things you don't get without much work. And rngesus is truly a fickle god. It isn't until your freighter is fully tricked out that they start to come in on a regular basis. Murphy's Law is alive and well in NMS but as noted in above posts, you have to be willing to go the extra mile to get them when you actually need them.

[umop-apisdn]

You can max out your ship storage, your multitool, and your freighter in just a couple hours... once you know how.

Buy a stack or two of "emergency" maps from the cartographer with the ridiculous number of navigation data you find (and if you don't have a few stacks by the point that you're starving for freighter storage, you're doing something wrong). Use several at once to "cap out" the spawns; there can only be one of each type (do note that the crashed ship comes in two types: with and without pilot). Once you have an observatory, a crashed ship with a pilot, and an egg farm abandoned building (ignoring all of those, of course, because we're after those shiny slot-increasing widgets), every time you use a map you'll either get a crashed freighter to loot or a crashed ship to salvage.

Make sure to use the maps while outside of your ship, so you get pointed at the markers for easy tagging, and be aware that when it tells you it can't give you one because one of the same type already exists, you can just keep trying until it lets you do it anyway... sometimes it takes a dozen tries, but it will eventually relent and give you another beacon to chase.