Need Chemical manipulator

[Astro the Cat]

Been looking into getting some for upgrading my FSD (level 4, oh yea!!!!) Been reading up on it, and so far, no clear cut direction on where to go. Been to Dav's hope, ran through it several times, got what I could. Any other places??

[Sir Crashalot]

If you have tier 5 materials from collecting high emissions, you can visit a materials trader on a station to exchange for chemical manipulators. Have a look on inara for the closest material trader (manufactured). You probably wont need more than 8 of them to finish your upgrade.

High emissions are a good source of manufacturing components and, even if the exchange rate is bad for the ones you need to exchange for, it isn't too hard to go out and restock at another high emission.

Good luck Commander! 07

https://inara.cz/elite/nearest-stations/?pi17=1&pi18=3&pi19=5000&pa1[]=25&formbrief=1

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Look for Aftermath USSes in supercruise. They should have these kinds of manufactured materials.

[fullarmor2]

You could go to a nav beacon . Scan ships and destroy any that are wanted. It shouldn't take too long for the materials you want, to be found in the ship wreckage. If those materials are not found, take the materials you did find or have already, to a manufactured trader, and get what you want.
Find high intensity zones, for getting g4 or g5 materials, which can be traded down for g3, g2, and g1 materials.

[Astro the Cat]

Ive already traded down the materials hoping to get what I need, no luck :( not good at combat at all. Exploration yes, combat, no so much

[Sir Crashalot]

Hi Astro

High emissions can net you 100 odd g5 manufactured components in one visit. Make sure you have collector limpets on your ship when you go looking for them.

https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/High_Grade_Emissions

So, for example, if you go to a well populated Imperial system and use your FSS, there is a decent chance of finding a High Grade Emission. Fly there, then when you enter, open your cargo bay scoop and launch a couple of limpets to collect the components. It will take a few minutes for them to fill your hold and, as it is an Imperial system, you will be getting Imperial shielding which you can use to trade down to get what you want. If you trade them all away, you can just find another imperial HGE and restock.

The wiki shows which components you can get from HGEs per system type. This is probably the easiest way to get high tier components as HGEs drop such a large amount of them now.

[Kobs]

I got all my mats (or traded for them) for my level 4 FSD doing LOOOONG tourist missions visiting points all over the galaxy. It's tedious but you get your mats
Lookk for missions that give you mats in the category you need and pick the level 5 or 4's then you can trade for what you need

[Agony_Aunt]

High Grade emissions are now the way to go. I got almost 100 units from one.

[Astro the Cat]

This is still a work in progress :) Went back to Dav's did a few more rounds there, traded things, then discovered I had to do more upgrades before I could do the level 4 FSD upgrade, lol. Finally got ALL of that done, now I have an FSD sitting at 52.9 range. Can't wait to see what the level 5 will bring me :)

[Astro the Cat]

Originally posted by Astro the Cat:

This is still a work in progress :) Went back to Dav's did a few more rounds there, traded things, then discovered I had to do more upgrades before I could do the level 4 FSD upgrade, lol. Finally got ALL of that done, now I have an FSD sitting at 52.9 range. Can't wait to see what the level 5 will bring me :)

I am honestly confused, I know that I had a 52.9 jump range when I logged off in a station, logged back in, now it's at 40 LY and all of the engineering that was done to increase FSD range are gone. Got it back up to a lvl 3, 47 LY range, but I am not sure what happened.

[Kobs]

Originally posted by Astro the Cat:

Originally posted by Astro the Cat:

This is still a work in progress :) Went back to Dav's did a few more rounds there, traded things, then discovered I had to do more upgrades before I could do the level 4 FSD upgrade, lol. Finally got ALL of that done, now I have an FSD sitting at 52.9 range. Can't wait to see what the level 5 will bring me :)

I am honestly confused, I know that I had a 52.9 jump range when I logged off in a station, logged back in, now it's at 40 LY and all of the engineering that was done to increase FSD range are gone. Got it back up to a lvl 3, 47 LY range, but I am not sure what happened.

Normally the stuff you do is saved in your account, engineering, ships, paint jobs etc. it's almost impossible to lose stuff from one session to the other... it never happened to me anyways

Edit: 52 to 40 Ly could be the weight of your cargo or something you added to the ship, but it doesn't excuse the engineering gone... you're positive about that? have you checked your blueprint in engineering ?

[Astro the Cat]

There was some additional engineering going on which did increase the mass, but the loss of the upgrade to the FSD was puzzling. Yes, I am positive :)

Oh well, went back out, got it redone, now I am at 55.9