Where to find platinum?

[Kikinaak]

I have a quest that requires me to trade a platinum bar for a plot coupon. I am in no way geared for combat, but I cant seem to find any platinum deposits. an NPC suggested it might be traded for at bars but I cant find any bartenders selling it.

[Sparrowhawk65]

I don't think platinum is a deposit yet. Maybe I'm wrong though. Might have to trade for it?

[Kikinaak]

As I said I cannot find any merchants selling it. Any advice on finding those?

[ravien_ff]

Rarely you can find Platin Asteroids.

[Priest]

Originally posted by Kikinaak:

As I said I cannot find any merchants selling it. Any advice on finding those?

Polaris trading station 1st story

[djinnxy]

Zirax sometimes have platinum bars as drops for me.

[Priest]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2154418057
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2154417981

[Lerch Addams]

Zirax Commanders carry platinum.

Guys wearing gold uniforms, use a minigun and shoot through walls sometimes.

[RedDaggar]

Yep, Zirax commanders will drop them. Try raiding a Zirax shrine, there are several commanders therein.

[1Z Rison]

It can depend on the station, but as has been said traders sell them.
More specifically, the "Pax Purgartory" trader. They have the same inventory (at possibly slightly different prices) as the Totally Overpowered trader (the same guy who gives you the first quest for that chapter, the polaris dude in the trade station) except they also have platinum bars.

Check Priests screenshot to see how the Pax Purgartory trader usually looks like.


Much easier than fighting the pirate station.

[MrDadelus]

If you're on the quest I think you are the guy at the bottom of the pirate base recommends "SkyGuys" or "Pax Purgatory" alternately you could buy ingots (found some at the Polaris Trading post station, 2nd floor 'Mineral Supply') but I don't have a furnace to smelt them yet so I'm thinking about going in guns blazing or getting to the guy with the recipe, taking the recipe forcefully and mining my way out.

Cheers

[kaher44 [UN]]

The guy who starts the quest at the trading post has some for sale check bottom of his inventory.

[Dragonmede]

You can try the Sanctuary station on the starter world. There is a vendor that sells Platinum Ingots, which can be made into 9 platinum bars with a small or mobile constructor.

[japp_02]

You all confuse the bars with the ore. The platinum bar(s) needed by the story can be bought in the Polaris space station unless you salvage them from another wreckage or POI, platinum ores in a deposit are not needed for the story, and these are found outside of the starter system only.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by japp_02:

You all confuse the bars with the ore. The platinum bar(s) needed by the story can be bought in the Polaris space station unless you salvage them from another wreckage or POI, platinum ores in a deposit are not needed for the story, and these are found outside of the starter system only.

This.

Personally, I have only seen platinum ore on asteroids now. Not sure how it worked way back when this topic was first posted, though.

[Sparrowhawk65]

Originally posted by MrDadelus:

If you're on the quest I think you are the guy at the bottom of the pirate base recommends "SkyGuys" or "Pax Purgatory" alternately you could buy ingots (found some at the Polaris Trading post station, 2nd floor 'Mineral Supply') but I don't have a furnace to smelt them yet so I'm thinking about going in guns blazing or getting to the guy with the recipe, taking the recipe forcefully and mining my way out.

Cheers

Dude that was a question from last year.

You resurrected a dead thread to fix a game that no longer exists.