How do I get collector limpet?

[† CRUMLY †]

Coming back to the game, I can see when I do bounty hunting the enemies are dropping materials after I kill them. It is a bit of work to use the cargo hatch to collect them all. I read that people use collector limpets to speed the process up. I never have used this module before. I killed something, switched over fire groups to use the collector limpet, I have no ammo.

I've went back to station and restocked and refilled ammo, but it didn't give me any collector limpet ammo.

Does anyone know how to get them? I see you can synthesize limpets, but I don't have enough materials and am would like to know how you can just buy them, if possible.

[SillyWalk]

You have to go to advanced maintenance, on the tab where you buy ammo and such you will also be able to buy the limpets.

PS: they take cargo space and can be used with any limpet module, be it a collector, prospector or whatever.

Also, collector limpets autodestroy after recovering a thing if you have that thing selected. If you want to recover everything, it's usually better to not select anything and let them recover everything however they want.

[† CRUMLY †]

Oh I didn't realize they were consumable. Hmm that doesn't seem like all that great of an option

[Wolf]

Originally posted by ♣ Crumly †:

Oh I didn't realize they were consumable. Hmm that doesn't seem like all that great of an option

it saves alot of time when gathering large numbers of items :)
note: some pirates see limpets as a reason to fire on you :)

[Wolf]

another thing you should know, 1 limpet can retrieve many items or just a single item before terminating.

if you want 1 unique item, target the item then launch a limpet. it will get the item, put it in your hold, then self destruct.

if you want to collect all items near by, DONT target anything and launch a limpet. it will fetch items for a specified time (depending on your controler grade) then expire/die