Best way to gather warp fuel?

[Joseph Sneed]

Not going to try spelling it as I know I will screw it up but I have reached the point where laser guns are now a viable go to but I have no clue how to gather enough to feed them. The rifle goes through ammo like crazy and no method I am aware of will get me say 200 raw inside an hour. The best place I found was on a lava planet but thats constant in and out of a HV to gather it and is frankly a pain. Is there a better way?

[Shame on you]

asteroids

[Joseph Sneed]

Originally posted by 77nameless:

asteroids

Those dont replenish do they? Theres only one orbit that has Pentaxid on my map so it will be one and done. (looked up the spelling) There really should be a way to make or grow it...

[Shame on you]

Not on singleplayer, except you wipe the save of the asteroid

[Joseph Sneed]

Originally posted by 77nameless:

Not on singleplayer, except you wipe the save of the asteroid

Then its not a long term solution for me unless theres a way to spawn in new ones

[Fenris]

Do you have auto miners set to never deplete resources? You could set a few up on a planet or moon that has pentaxid.

[Joseph Sneed]

Originally posted by Fenris:

Do you have auto miners set to never deplete resources? You could set a few up on a planet or moon that has pentaxid.

No but I can ajust that setting as I dont really make much use of autominers otherwise

[immodium]

Wipe them out on a moon and farm the meterites. They contain 400+ of raw pentaxid.

[Hexatron]

Yeah usually the moon around the starter planet is a good source if you need a lot. If you only need a little bit to get you started, you can search the big radiated zones on your starter planet. They tend to have those blue chrystals (now that all the warpy stuff is purple, shouldn't those also be purple? The chrystals and pentaxid symbols on the map?). I once collected 32 raw pentaxid within short time in a big radiation zone.
Sometimes on the moons are also big fields of those blue chrystals. I know that this is more effort than just digging large chunks up. But sometimes you are lucky and there are very dense fields of those... and they grow back.

[MaddogDino]

I've noticed that the pentaxid crystal fields on the moons are usually located in large craters. knowing this makes things easier to plan a route on the map.
Edit:
Fog of War on the map doesn't hide terrain detail if you look closely.

[CyPunk]

I've found cold mountain tops on a couple types of radioactive worlds have large clusters.
I harvest them with a smallish SV with a stable place to stand on top.
Because they are mountains, thus have slopes, you fly right up until the crystal stops your ship, exit and hit f to harvest, and imeddiately can re-enter without landing or getting off craft. Goes quite quick in those little clusters.

[Dragorin]

Best way... autominer hands down. I have 3 stacks of 999 raw pentax in a storage chest and I only have 3 autominers on the starting moon collecting it.

Yes there are tons of places to collect it by hand.. but OP asked for the "Best way".

[Shinzor]

idk if they changed it but I just went diving for it in the lakes and went to moons for it as I traveled(been a while since I played)

[Joseph Sneed]

What would solve the issue of colection being such a pain is if the HV harvester could gather it. I have been to the lava planet and it is EVERYWHERE in certan biomes like 20 of them right next to eachother. If it wasnt for the constant in and out it would be the best place to gather them as I could have like a 1000 inside an hour easy.

[Boomer155mm]

You can also buy refined pentaxid from the mining trader at the admin stations. It is expensive, but I sell off armor, guns and loot and always come out ahead each visit. He generally has 50-90 refined pentaxid, so you can use your gathered crystals for ammo instead of fuel. I also buy all the laser ammo and plasma cannon ammo that the tech trader has as well, which eases the crunch. Sell off a couple of T2 rocket launchers or sniper rifles that you've made, and you can clean him out of the stuff you need.

[MozoTyce]

Originally posted by Boomer155mm:

You can also buy refined pentaxid from the mining trader at the admin stations. It is expensive, but I sell off armor, guns and loot and always come out ahead each visit. He generally has 50-90 refined pentaxid, so you can use your gathered crystals for ammo instead of fuel. I also buy all the laser ammo and plasma cannon ammo that the tech trader has as well, which eases the crunch. Sell off a couple of T2 rocket launchers or sniper rifles that you've made, and you can clean him out of the stuff you need.

^ this :)