Any simple ways to getting multi-tool slots?

[Crimson]

I just want to upgrade my multitool but it costs about a million units each time haha, any cheaper way?

[Zigamus Wizard]

Making money fast is very easy in this game, too many way to list here, check a few YT vids and you can buy all the upgrades you want

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Depending on where your tool is and what class it is, upgrading to a slightly better tool of the same class or better is the way to go. You do need slots in your suit to hold the upgrades from your current tool so you can re-apply them to the new tool.

If you are well past that early phase...just work on ways to get the credits/nanites you need for the next upgrade. Some of the guilds and station missions will hand out tool slot upgrades if you have gotten that far.

Cheap way is to just use the save game editor to give yourself the slots (and anything else) you think you need. Tends to ruin your game play...so think carefully before taking the plunge.

There is no time limit or reason to rush. Just relax and take it slow is my advice. This game is really not designed well if you want a frantic pace. It is more Hawaii style- hang lose, relax and enjoy the ride.

[Other]

If your rep is high enough with the right guild (Mercenary I think is the one that can have multitool expansion slots), you can get 20 or so per day in half an hour. That does take a couple hours of setup on the first day, and maybe a couple days to get your guild rep high enough if you are starting from zero.

Every guild rep in a system has exactly the same offerings, so once you find a system where the rep at the station offers the thing you want for free, use commercial maps from the cartographer to find 20 colossal archives in that system, and put a base computer directly in front of the guild rep at each one. When you want some of the free item, teleport to each base in turn from the anomaly, then use the X menu to teleport back (which is why you start from the anomaly - that is what puts the "return teleport" in the menu). Elapsed time per base is maybe 50 seconds, and they restock at least once a day (and maybe in as few as 4-6 hours).

This works for any of the items the guild reps give away for free at high rep levels - lots of people complain about salvaged frigate modules being "hard" to find, and running derelict freighters for cargo bulkheads certainly costs more, and probably takes longer, even with a perfect map (it does have other benefits, though, like tainted metal, and the chance of a useful freighter upgrade module instead of the bulkhead). Buying & scrapping ships for storage augmentations might be faster than this, but is certainly more expensive.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

There are all sorts of ways to gathering multi-tool expansion items for increasing the number of tech slots. Some have been mentioned above.

Another great way is to do expeditions. They often reward many expansion items for multi-tools and starships. The expansion items can be claimed but not used on the expedition so that they can be transferred back to your inventories and used on any multi-tool or ship of your choice.

Using maps or a signal booster to find inhabited minor outposts or buildings that have multi-tools is also useful. You may need units for this method but simply purchase the multi-tools and scrap them immediately for salvage. The higher tiers like S-class and A-class multi-tools and sometimes other classes with large slot capacity, when salvaged will return one or two multi-tool expansion items. In a shirt amount of time many tools can be found and even a reload and return can make previous multi-tools respawn.

Many space station and pirate missions will send you indirectly to locations (like missing person missions) where multi-tools are available. Answering NPC questions correctly at Minor Outposts and even random NPC questions will sometimes give you multitools for free, which can then be scrapped. Vy'keen warring race will often have NPCs at minor outposts that drop weapons on answering their questions correctly. There are many reasons to do the space station missions, collect a bunch and hand them in all together for fast progress in the game and expand inventories.

Save editors have the potential to corrupt a save,

If you really are not concerned about spoilers for the game then read on to learn how to gain more inventory, ship or multi-tool slots very quickly, without using a save editor.

The following spoiler is more fun for a veteran of the game as it takes out the tedium or chore of collecting many multi-tools, ships and expanding them over a long period of time.
The game is procedural and there are almost infinite tools and weapons to always discover in the game.

The most fun really is to be had without using the spoiler.

Even making use of the spoiler, there is so much to do and endlessly discover in the game using the spoiler is more a quality of life saver for players who have played the game for a long while and done everything. Overall infrequent use of the spoiler does not impact the enjoyment of playing the game and if anything adds to the fun especially if you are a casual player with nit much time to play the game. Then you can concentrate on playing the parts of the game you like best.

SPOILER FOLLOWS - No save editor needed to expand inventories and tech slots.

Using difficulty settings to make a mode function very much like the Creative Mode.
This is useful for players short om time or like just building or many other time saving reasons or quality of life issues, especially for long established players.

Simply change the game difficulty settings to make purchases or crafting entirely free and click away for free inventory and tech expansion. Return settings to default when done and continue having fun. : D

[J4N]

You could just duplicate glitch some Multi-Tool Expansion Slots. I started using it after some playthroughs because I was sick of grinding but did not want to go the full creative route.

[Kobs]

Any simple ways to getting multi-tool slots?

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