Platinum, where are you!!?

[Woldren]

Finding this material between all those little rocks in the space is a pain. I was looking for a scan that tells me the material of every rock before hitting it. Is it a thing?

[smurfy]

Platinum[nomanssky.fandom.com]
Short answer: Refine it up from Silver + Gold or better yet, down from Iridesite or Geodesite (which can be obtained from multiple sources, including from Frigate expeditions).

And no, there is no way of knowing what material an asteroid will yield, however Platinum is more likely from the asteroids with a crystalline appearance.

[Raven]

No scanner. You can look for the 'sticky-out' crystal things on an asteroid.

Or use a refiner.
1 Gold + 1 Silver = 1 Platinum
1 Ferrite dust + 1 Oxygen + 250 Chromatic Metal = 10 Platinum
1 Geodesite = 250 Platinum
1 Iridesite = 250Platinum

[cogvos]

Hopefully this screenshot will help.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3252740701

You can find Platinum in off-white asteroids, but these also contain gold. Long thin asteroids generally contain gold or silver. Spiky asteroids, like the one in the screenshot inset, almost always contain Platinum.

You may need to warp to a couple of systems to find it as it appears to be based on the general procedural generation, which is to say not all systems have it.

Or as suggested above, just refine it.

[Woldren]

Originally posted by cogvos:

Hopefully this screenshot will help.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3252740701

You can find Platinum in off-white asteroids, but these also contain gold. Long thin asteroids generally contain gold or silver. Spiky asteroids, like the one in the screenshot inset, almost always contain Platinum.

You may need to warp to a couple of systems to find it as it appears to be based on the general procedural generation, which is to say not all systems have it.

Or as suggested above, just refine it.

thank you both!

Originally posted by Russel:

No scanner. You can look for the 'sticky-out' crystal things on an asteroid.

Or use a refiner.
1 Gold + 1 Silver = 1 Platinum
1 Ferrite dust + 1 Oxygen + 250 Chromatic Metal = 10 Platinum
1 Geodesite = 250 Platinum
1 Iridesite = 250Platinum

[Masque]

The spikey asteroids are not as easy to find as they used to be, for me.

So hard to find any more that I switched to making it in the refiner on my last playthrough.

[Woldren]

Originally posted by Masque:

The spikey asteroids are not as easy to find as they used to be, for me.

So hard to find any more that I switched to making it in the refiner on my last playthrough.

I found them around the planets, use a white planet as contrast so you can spot them easily

[ignition]

Wait, aren't people buying Platinum from space stations or the pilots that land there?

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

In the refiners....