Desperately Seeking Slots

[Goldie]

I'm on my second Expedition Omega play though and I have just reacquired the Staff Multi tool reward. My problem is I just didn't have enough tech slots on my previous play through and I was hoping that it was because I had tragically died and had lost all of my Phase 4 rewards not really having noted what I'd acquired. I'm not sure if I'd been given something to increase the slots or not. For this play through, if I'm not awarded more tech slots, is there another way to get them without having enough frigates to send off and hope that they bring some back with them?

[Estranged180]

Originally posted by Goldie:

Unfortunately, I need the tech slots for my multi tool. I think the only way to open up those tech slots is with something you can only get from frigate missions. The problem is that I only have just a newly acquired freighter and haven't gotten any frigates for it yet since I'm running the Expedition again. If anyone knows of any other method it would be super helpful.

I got you. There are a couple different ways to get more slots in your multitool. The first, and most grind-y one is going to a Dissonant planet, and shooting ALL the Atlanditium you can find. Throw it all into a refiner to make Pugneum at a 1:2 ratio, then throw that back into the refiner. It'll make nanites at a 25:1 ratio. While you're there, find any crashed ship, whether it's a Sentinel ship, or just a simple crashed ship. Scrap it, and sell the "upgrades" to the nearest upgrade vendor.
The other, more dangerous method is finding every Manufacturing Facility you can, and solve their puzzles. When you do, you get 3 options of what you want; nanites, learn a new recipe, or create a multitool slot. The problem is that you have to fight the sentinels as soon as you start to break in, or disable the sentinels with one of their sites first. The good news is that if you find one of these, you'll get a broken multitool out of it, which you can scrap, and get things to sell for nanites. But nanites isn't the problem, Slots are the issue, and those are the two best methods known to get multitool slot upgrades.

[CrazyMom]

With guarded manufacturing facilities I always save before the locked door.

You do not need to fight the sentinels at that point.

As soon as you break open the door, run in and try out an answer, if it it not the right one, reload your Restore Point which will bring you back in front outside, try again.
This way you can choose, as Estranged said, between Nanites, Recipe, or MT Augmentation.

You can purchase maps for secured sites at Space Stations.

The re-loading does not work if you are on a Nexus Mission though. Reloading then will put you back at the anomaly and the mission you were on was automatically cancelled (same as warping or teleporting during a Nexus Mission).

[Goldie]

Thanks Estranged180 and CrazyMom, I'll try your suggestions. Thanks very much for the detailed replies. =-)

[Felis_Exploria]

MT slots are common on crashed freighter cargo. You might want to invest in several distress signal planetary charts. They can lead you to crashed freighters.

[CrazyMom]

Always welcome Goldie. Makes me happy when I can help out :D

[Idaho]

The echo camps where autophage hang out have 7 or 8 wheelbarrows with random junk in them.

They often contain multitool slot upgrades.

[Ook]

Save Game Editor by Goat Fungus: https://github.com/goatfungus/NMSSaveEditor
The first thing I do no a new game is use this to open up some extra slots. You can cheat a bunch of additional stuff into the game if you want, but I only open slots with it.

[Fitzy]

You can upgrade multitools space and class on any space station, costs a bit though, you can also break down multi tools on the anomaly up near the teleport, there is a machine there gives some scraps, possibly some upgrrades and sometimes multi tool inventory upgrades when you break them down, just make sure you're not holding the ones you want to keep when you do it. As for using an editor to "only give slots" ok then, you can turn on free purchase in the game options if that's your thing.

[VYRUS]

Originally posted by Zak:

Originally posted by Goldie:

Unfortunately, I need the tech slots for my multi tool. I think the only way to open up those tech slots is with something you can only get from frigate missions. The problem is that I only have just a newly acquired freighter and haven't gotten any frigates for it yet since I'm running the Expedition again. If anyone knows of any other method it would be super helpful.

The solution to shortage of multitool slots is easy: to have several multitools. I have an "Explorer Tool" for mining, a Boltcaster, a Neutron Canon, I even have a separate Terrain Manipulator. As an additional bonus, you can assign numbers to them in the Quick Menu so you can quickly select them with a single key press rather than toggling between them.

This is a really underrated comment.

[Tirandys]

I have fair luck in using the anomaly to dispose of excess multi tools. I now always take the multi tool from a sentinel pillar or from the weapon master, then repair all the slots before I break it down at the anomaly station. I have gotten a lot of multi tool expansion slots there.

I always save first to make sure I don't break down the wrong multi tool.


I have not tried buying the multi tools at the anomaly and then breaking them down. Not sure how that works, but I think I am going to try it. The anomaly multi tools are always c class.

[CrazyMom]

Good tip Tirandys!

[Ciaphis Kain]

you can buy and recycle multi-tools for slots now on the anomaly.

[Felis_Exploria]

Originally posted by Tirandys:

I have not tried buying the multi tools at the anomaly and then breaking them down. Not sure how that works, but I think I am going to try it. The anomaly multi tools are always c class.

They only give you upgrades, not slots.

[Felis_Exploria]

Originally posted by Idaho:

The echo camps where autophage hang out have 7 or 8 wheelbarrows with random junk in them.

They often contain multitool slot upgrades.

Good call. I forgot about those. And they are easier / less work to find than crashed freighters.

[Graknorke]

Originally posted by Zak:

As an additional bonus, you can assign numbers to them in the Quick Menu so you can quickly select them with a single key press rather than toggling between them.

Oh that's huge I didn't know that! That opens up some possibilities, before know obviously I wouldn't have because navigating the x menu is not exactly fast or convenient to be doing all the time.