I wish there were more ways to get quicksilver instead of just gatekeeping it behind Nexus missions. I wouldn't mind if it was a bit of a challenge, it would be something to do.
The "fastest" or more efficient way would be making N games and doing the weekend mission N times. It's "lot of work" when you're new, but can always take a post-expedition game in order to get better starts. Right now i'm doing 4 weekend missions and buying lots of stuff with the Quicksilver. Kinda fine with It.
Gatekeeping? lol the nexus is the multiplayer hub and quicksilver is the reward for those missions if it was easier to get you would be complaining there is no reward for multiplayer
Im new player I found a planet with low gravity and full of gravitino balls in my second system, I just go with empty inventory and stack up, every trip I make 13-15M,I made a base too if anyone needs it, there are a lot of sentinels but with low gravity it is easy to run way from them and keep collecting
My favourite way to make money may not be the most efficient but it makes me feel like a galactic drug lord, i have a basement filled with nipnip bud farming and those line lights and i just fill a storage container with them making me around 45-50 million when filled
New player myself. Ive found trade be worthwhile as well. Made my first millions. You need an economy scanner on your ship and scan for oppurtinities. Fly to a system buy their stock. Fly to the target system where the goods are needed. You can make up millions in profits. Howevwr you need to fly back and forth and find systems where there are plenty of goods. I now need to learn how to reliably setup trade between different systems.
I LOVE trade routes. I did a video on it as well, they're actually really fun and an awesome way to travel around and explore. What people do to setup reliable routes that can be reused is drop portals at each trading post you want to use, and then only sell to the pilots so you don't mess up the economy. The terminals refill every two hours or so, so you can make a couple of loops and hit them as you play.
@@DreadCaptainJames great idea my brain didnt come out with that yet. Iight just put up a base since my trade outpost is also an extreme weather planet 😁
If you are constantly going for the Tier 3 rich systems, i suggest filling a ship with the same components from the same economy type from different systems so you can sell them in one go where they are desirable, making much more units per sell. For example collecting from three manufacturing systems before selling them in high tech, and subsequently doing it as the loop goes. I found way more efficient as i was starting selling for 15~20 Million about 5 stacks of the same item and exploring a lot farther into the galaxy. I did about 90 million tripping about 10 systems, besides it's pretty fun.
Since everything was nerfed my activated indium base is only worth around 50m now. but, 50m/day for something that only takes a couple of minutes isn't bad. It takes quite a bit of setup but, stasis devices and fusion ignitors are still worth a lot. You also should have a good oxygen base you can use to expand other resources. Mine has around 85k units of storage. The Interceptor is a really good way. I got over 200m from one location and almost all of the ships was C class. I've been starting a lot of saves lately. I'll play them for a few hours and delete them. My focus is getting the economy scanner at the first crashed ship I find. I also like to scrap at least one crashed ship before I get invited to the space station. I also like to get emeril and if I take the time I'll get indium also. Emeril so when I warp the first time I can install the indium drive. Indium so when I can get the large refiner I can refine all the chromatic metal I need at 30X. I also get buried technology to buy thing s like wiring loom so I can install the advanced mining laser.
@@surr3ald3sign No not speed running. I just wanted to start new saves. Originally I was going to delete the save when I repaired the ship. Then it seemed a waste to not do anything. I usually play until I get bored with the save or decide to stop playing.
Just a reminder of the bio horrors qnd those whispering eggs. 10 of those can be refined for 500 nanites. Just evade the buggers and collect eggs. They also sell for a lot but the nanites are fantastic
I found it profitable to harvest eggs of the Biological horrors. Find abandoned outpost, shoot and collect eggs. Sells for millions. Also can shoot the monsters as well to get their flesh and livers.
Funny story but I first found the whispering eggs on a creative save so I didn’t know about the biological horrors. I found out the hard way during an expedition!
Put couple of S-tier upgrades to your scanner. Get thousands of percents increase in rewards for scanning minerals, fauna and flora and you can stack and combine those bonuses. If you do it properly, you can be getting hundreds of thousands of units for each rare scan and tens of thousands for a normal scan. Visit a new planet, perform couple of scans and you can buy a freighter. Doing science is insanely OP in this game.
I've been experimenting with stasis devices, I made about 300 million from one batch, it takes quite a while but once you've got a good source of materials it's not too bad. The plants are the worst.
I agree with the second one I might actually try to do that one I've been getting a distress signal charts and going and and a lot of times I'll find down ships and then I'll repair them and then what I'll do is I'll scrap them when I got up to over 60 million pretty quickly doing that I was able to do a lot with that and it was pretty cool also kind of interesting when you have five or six ships to drop in and repair plus it gives you a whole lot to do a lot to work on you're not really bored I haven't managed to have 12 at a time yet but that's okay also I got over 60 million within like one day and I was scrapping c classes
I just started playing so im not that advanced and what i have been doing is using multiple refiners to refine Di-hydrogen into Di-hydrogen Jelly back and forth and then using the excess Di-hydrogen (you get a little more than you put in) to create Salt which then gets turned into Chlorine. It feels a bit slow but its self sustainable and really relaxing, i like building my base and sip my coffee watching the refiners go. This game is really chill.
Great tips! However, I wish you would've told us that there isn't necessarily a downed interceptor in a dissonant system. I just found out. Still searching for a dissonant system with a downed interceptor...
That's a very fair point that slipped my mind, sorry about that. Yeah, the planet that's dissonant needs LIFE on it for there to be a downed interceptor, and I believe systems that are uninhabited also won't have them. Sorry again, totally goofed on that!
So I'm a new player, my third system I found a planet loaded with natural burial sites, gravitino balls, and whispering eggs... I've bought a multi tool, a ship, and have 41 million credits left to spare ;D
Another viable option of you are online often. Activated Indium Farm. activated indium can be refined into Chromatic Metal at a 1:4. Chromatic Metal is sold default at 88 per unit
Ooooh, can I suggest another option? Gold, silver, and Indium refined together make chromatic metal at a 1:30 ratio...that might be a brilliant way to work, but would require much more setup.
@@deadpancakelinus it's great for making tons of chromatic metal for next to nothing being used. Never thought of selling it though, so that's a super cool idea!
None of you guys have farms to build quantum computers? I got 3 floors of farms on my frigate and two bases with like 30 bio domes Its a grind though - I wish frigates had a collect more than 4 button like the bio domes. But I am able to make around 300-400 million in one run
Awesome video! I watched your mine video however that was on uranium. How do I find oxygen to set up my mine? Do I just look for an oxygen hotspot and make my mine over that? Thanks
Do cargo runs in a freigher - it can yield several millions per jump if you find generously supplied system and a starving one. Then, from time to time, do a detour to a Disonant system, catch a Pokemo... I mean Sentinel ship, pop it in your freighter and go to the next system. After a while you both make yourself a nice retirement fund (as funny as this sounds, these crappy ships become your twisted equivalent of savings account) and boatload of credits
or find a gravity ball planet and grab lots and lots of gravity balls... I did storm crystals for a while, but found a gravity ball planet with no life, just sentinals and gravity balls... its very... strange looking.
I agree, it's a cool new way to shop hunt, and they're awesome money. I'd love to see the interiors redone so we don't have the loose and frayed wires, but they're awesome
If you're fine with duplicating items I know a method that will give you billions in a few minutes. This method will duplicate almost anything in the game but these are worth the most. Item: Compressed Indium Scraps (CIS for short) Step 1: Place the CIS in a portable refiner Step 2: Place a second portable refiner where the first one still is and line it up as close as you can Step 3: When you pick up the hoppers, what was in only one is now in all of them. *Repeat as desired* Step 4: Sell the items and remember that the value is about to drop significantly, so you will need to find a new system each time. Do that and you will have unlimited money with minimal effort.
Lol I have an emote for chat that says "All I need is 1", because I've taught SO MANY people to use the duplicate glitch 😂. Love it, and thanks for the list, that's a lot of work, and it's appreciated!
Best money making hack for 2024: stand around in the Anomaly until a generous stranger sends you 300M lol. On a more realistic note, I was very sad to learn that the activated indium farms were heavily nerfed, but fortunately I hadn't invested in them yet other than the time to watch the videos. I like fighting things, but I also really enjoy being able to buy upgrade modules for less than I can resell them for, though I suppose I only need 1 faction for that.
I'll never understand that nerf, seemed unnecessary to me. I'll always say that something like Nip Nip is a good investment, and it's an every 4 hours kinda return. Sac venom sells slightly better and I think it comes up every 3 hours 20 as well...
I've honestly never tried. That would be cool, you'd be a squadron! If you try it and find out, could you post here whether or not you get the same loot or share it?
Probably interceptors would be the best, or using the scanner on the Nautilon to locate underwater crashed ships. You can get them up and running and back up to the station really quickly where you can scrap them.
You need to install a survey device on your multi tool, and use it to find an oxygen hotspot. Most planets, except airless, will have oxygen hotspots I've linked how this works here ua-cam.com/video/3XfYrIcIH98/v-deo.htmlsi=5gy7SvHbbS_ItkjW
Spending them for upgrade slots, but most people don't do it and just find several other ways to open up their gear/ships. Having about 300mil on you is always good in case you need to buy something big like a freighter, but honestly, the real currency in game is nanites
I have a gold and silver farm so I make Platinum to sell. Platinum can also be refined into nanites if i need those instead of money.
I wish there were more ways to get quicksilver instead of just gatekeeping it behind Nexus missions. I wouldn't mind if it was a bit of a challenge, it would be something to do.
And, yes, I know about the stellar ice thing. Too much reloading for me.
💯 agree with this!
@@SoundAuthor same here.
The "fastest" or more efficient way would be making N games and doing the weekend mission N times.
It's "lot of work" when you're new, but can always take a post-expedition game in order to get better starts.
Right now i'm doing 4 weekend missions and buying lots of stuff with the Quicksilver. Kinda fine with It.
Gatekeeping? lol the nexus is the multiplayer hub and quicksilver is the reward for those missions if it was easier to get you would be complaining there is no reward for multiplayer
Im new player I found a planet with low gravity and full of gravitino balls in my second system, I just go with empty inventory and stack up, every trip I make 13-15M,I made a base too if anyone needs it, there are a lot of sentinels but with low gravity it is easy to run way from them and keep collecting
This is awesome, great plan! Love hearing things like this!
thats one of the slowest ways to make units. Gravitino balls aren't worth much
@@Whooooooaaamaaan you right now i make way more unit farming sentinels ships but for the start was a nice push
I didn't know about avoiding sentinels in pirate systems! ❤🎉🎉
It helps SO MUCH
My favourite way to make money may not be the most efficient but it makes me feel like a galactic drug lord, i have a basement filled with nipnip bud farming and those line lights and i just fill a storage container with them making me around 45-50 million when filled
New player myself.
Ive found trade be worthwhile as well. Made my first millions.
You need an economy scanner on your ship and scan for oppurtinities.
Fly to a system buy their stock. Fly to the target system where the goods are needed. You can make up millions in profits.
Howevwr you need to fly back and forth and find systems where there are plenty of goods.
I now need to learn how to reliably setup trade between different systems.
I LOVE trade routes. I did a video on it as well, they're actually really fun and an awesome way to travel around and explore. What people do to setup reliable routes that can be reused is drop portals at each trading post you want to use, and then only sell to the pilots so you don't mess up the economy. The terminals refill every two hours or so, so you can make a couple of loops and hit them as you play.
@@DreadCaptainJames great idea my brain didnt come out with that yet. Iight just put up a base since my trade outpost is also an extreme weather planet 😁
Trade routes are one of my favorite ways to make money in space games lol, i love roleplaying as a rich merchant selling my wares 😃
If you are constantly going for the Tier 3 rich systems, i suggest filling a ship with the same components from the same economy type from different systems so you can sell them in one go where they are desirable, making much more units per sell.
For example collecting from three manufacturing systems before selling them in high tech, and subsequently doing it as the loop goes.
I found way more efficient as i was starting selling for 15~20 Million about 5 stacks of the same item and exploring a lot farther into the galaxy. I did about 90 million tripping about 10 systems, besides it's pretty fun.
Since everything was nerfed my activated indium base is only worth around 50m now. but, 50m/day for something that only takes a couple of minutes isn't bad. It takes quite a bit of setup but, stasis devices and fusion ignitors are still worth a lot. You also should have a good oxygen base you can use to expand other resources. Mine has around 85k units of storage. The Interceptor is a really good way. I got over 200m from one location and almost all of the ships was C class. I've been starting a lot of saves lately. I'll play them for a few hours and delete them. My focus is getting the economy scanner at the first crashed ship I find. I also like to scrap at least one crashed ship before I get invited to the space station. I also like to get emeril and if I take the time I'll get indium also. Emeril so when I warp the first time I can install the indium drive. Indium so when I can get the large refiner I can refine all the chromatic metal I need at 30X. I also get buried technology to buy thing s like wiring loom so I can install the advanced mining laser.
Im confused, you do all that in each new save just to delete it later? Are you just like speed running or something?
@@surr3ald3sign No not speed running. I just wanted to start new saves. Originally I was going to delete the save when I repaired the ship. Then it seemed a waste to not do anything. I usually play until I get bored with the save or decide to stop playing.
Just a reminder of the bio horrors qnd those whispering eggs. 10 of those can be refined for 500 nanites. Just evade the buggers and collect eggs. They also sell for a lot but the nanites are fantastic
I found it profitable to harvest eggs of the Biological horrors. Find abandoned outpost, shoot and collect eggs. Sells for millions. Also can shoot the monsters as well to get their flesh and livers.
This is always a good time as well as profitable! Excellent plan!
Funny story but I first found the whispering eggs on a creative save so I didn’t know about the biological horrors. I found out the hard way during an expedition!
You can refine the larval cores into 50 nanites a piece too.
Put couple of S-tier upgrades to your scanner. Get thousands of percents increase in rewards for scanning minerals, fauna and flora and you can stack and combine those bonuses. If you do it properly, you can be getting hundreds of thousands of units for each rare scan and tens of thousands for a normal scan. Visit a new planet, perform couple of scans and you can buy a freighter. Doing science is insanely OP in this game.
It's a good side hustle and fun to do while exploring anyway, but it doesn't really compare to the methods in the video.
I've been experimenting with stasis devices, I made about 300 million from one batch, it takes quite a while but once you've got a good source of materials it's not too bad. The plants are the worst.
I agree with the second one I might actually try to do that one I've been getting a distress signal charts and going and and a lot of times I'll find down ships and then I'll repair them and then what I'll do is I'll scrap them when I got up to over 60 million pretty quickly doing that I was able to do a lot with that and it was pretty cool also kind of interesting when you have five or six ships to drop in and repair plus it gives you a whole lot to do a lot to work on you're not really bored I haven't managed to have 12 at a time yet but that's okay also I got over 60 million within like one day and I was scrapping c classes
I just started playing so im not that advanced and what i have been doing is using multiple refiners to refine Di-hydrogen into Di-hydrogen Jelly back and forth and then using the excess Di-hydrogen (you get a little more than you put in) to create Salt which then gets turned into Chlorine. It feels a bit slow but its self sustainable and really relaxing, i like building my base and sip my coffee watching the refiners go. This game is really chill.
Never stop! That's awesome, and it is totally sustainable! Game is 100% your playground!
Great tips! However, I wish you would've told us that there isn't necessarily a downed interceptor in a dissonant system. I just found out. Still searching for a dissonant system with a downed interceptor...
That's a very fair point that slipped my mind, sorry about that. Yeah, the planet that's dissonant needs LIFE on it for there to be a downed interceptor, and I believe systems that are uninhabited also won't have them. Sorry again, totally goofed on that!
@@DreadCaptainJamesno problem, the video is still helpful :)
So I'm a new player, my third system I found a planet loaded with natural burial sites, gravitino balls, and whispering eggs...
I've bought a multi tool, a ship, and have 41 million credits left to spare ;D
Easiest way for me is still to setup a gravitino ball farm .
Thanks for giving me the easy guide to the unit mark in the initiation challenge lol
It was good timing right?
@@DreadCaptainJames definitely
Another viable option of you are online often. Activated Indium Farm. activated indium can be refined into Chromatic Metal at a 1:4. Chromatic Metal is sold default at 88 per unit
Ooooh, can I suggest another option? Gold, silver, and Indium refined together make chromatic metal at a 1:30 ratio...that might be a brilliant way to work, but would require much more setup.
@@DreadCaptainJames Wow, that actually sounds much more efficient. I'll have to set that up soon.
@@deadpancakelinus it's great for making tons of chromatic metal for next to nothing being used. Never thought of selling it though, so that's a super cool idea!
As someone who is coming over after Destiny...I see a lot of hunters in NMS videos 🤣
The hood and mask are called the Shroud of Freedom, and it's my personal favorite customization. It TOTALLY looks like a hunter, 100% lol
None of you guys have farms to build quantum computers?
I got 3 floors of farms on my frigate and two bases with like 30 bio domes
Its a grind though - I wish frigates had a collect more than 4 button like the bio domes.
But I am able to make around 300-400 million in one run
Awesome video! I watched your mine video however that was on uranium. How do I find oxygen to set up my mine? Do I just look for an oxygen hotspot and make my mine over that? Thanks
Yep, that's exactly what you do! The extractors are different, gas extractor is the one you use.
Do cargo runs in a freigher - it can yield several millions per jump if you find generously supplied system and a starving one. Then, from time to time, do a detour to a Disonant system, catch a Pokemo... I mean Sentinel ship, pop it in your freighter and go to the next system.
After a while you both make yourself a nice retirement fund (as funny as this sounds, these crappy ships become your twisted equivalent of savings account) and boatload of credits
Yes! I actually did a video about trade routes. I love them!
or find a gravity ball planet and grab lots and lots of gravity balls... I did storm crystals for a while, but found a gravity ball planet with no life, just sentinals and gravity balls... its very... strange looking.
For me interceptor is the most fun and less boring.
I agree, it's a cool new way to shop hunt, and they're awesome money. I'd love to see the interiors redone so we don't have the loose and frayed wires, but they're awesome
I like haveing a storm crystal farm lol every storm go out in my romer and grab resorses while im at it hahaha
OMG I never thought of doing that! Brilliant!
@@DreadCaptainJames I mean it's decent but time consuming
If you're fine with duplicating items I know a method that will give you billions in a few minutes. This method will duplicate almost anything in the game but these are worth the most.
Item:
Compressed Indium Scraps (CIS for short)
Step 1:
Place the CIS in a portable refiner
Step 2:
Place a second portable refiner where the first one still is and line it up as close as you can
Step 3:
When you pick up the hoppers, what was in only one is now in all of them.
*Repeat as desired*
Step 4:
Sell the items and remember that the value is about to drop significantly, so you will need to find a new system each time.
Do that and you will have unlimited money with minimal effort.
Lol I have an emote for chat that says "All I need is 1", because I've taught SO MANY people to use the duplicate glitch 😂. Love it, and thanks for the list, that's a lot of work, and it's appreciated!
@@DreadCaptainJamesis "hopper" NMS slang for "refiner"?
@@MrStensnask it could be, in this instance, OP was referencing the portable refiners so yeah
Best money making hack for 2024: stand around in the Anomaly until a generous stranger sends you 300M lol. On a more realistic note, I was very sad to learn that the activated indium farms were heavily nerfed, but fortunately I hadn't invested in them yet other than the time to watch the videos. I like fighting things, but I also really enjoy being able to buy upgrade modules for less than I can resell them for, though I suppose I only need 1 faction for that.
I'll never understand that nerf, seemed unnecessary to me. I'll always say that something like Nip Nip is a good investment, and it's an every 4 hours kinda return. Sac venom sells slightly better and I think it comes up every 3 hours 20 as well...
I only get inverted mirrors i got 12 so far and no echos ??
RNG is a beast, they're there, but few in number. I did it on stream the other day, took a hot second, but I eventually got one.
@@DreadCaptainJames I fly to the other side of the planet and found one straight away 🤣👌
@@danboi9731 that's awesome!!! Gratz!
I just make Fusion Igniters and Stasis Devices. 15 million units a piece.
Can I do the pirating method with my friends? Will we both get the loot from it? We think it'd be really fun and cool to do space battles together.
I've honestly never tried. That would be cool, you'd be a squadron! If you try it and find out, could you post here whether or not you get the same loot or share it?
@@DreadCaptainJames I’ll let you know!
Ill stick with storm crystal farming, its simple, fast, and fun.
*nods head in agreement*
Air valves seem to be worth alot. Is there a good ship scrapping method?
Probably interceptors would be the best, or using the scanner on the Nautilon to locate underwater crashed ships. You can get them up and running and back up to the station really quickly where you can scrap them.
If you bought X in No Man's Sky, wouldn't that make it Space X?
Defeat a pirate ship.. easy 6.7 mil
And you can warp in/out of that system and keep doing it.
100% absolutely!!!
Uuhh....6.7 million....?? What kind of pirate ships are you hunting...?? 😂😂🤔🤔
When you defeat the pirate dreadnaught and request payment, they give you 6.7million credits...
@@DreadCaptainJames ah. Well, then he needed to specify. Normal pirate ships give close to you jack shit and that's what I thought of.
He did say defeat it, and that tracks perfectly. Not sure how he could have phrased that better honestly
So how do i know that my extractor will Farm Oxygen?
You need to install a survey device on your multi tool, and use it to find an oxygen hotspot. Most planets, except airless, will have oxygen hotspots
I've linked how this works here
ua-cam.com/video/3XfYrIcIH98/v-deo.htmlsi=5gy7SvHbbS_ItkjW
I went to a dissonance planet. No drills. Don't know why.
If it's a dead (airless) planet, there won't be any. If it's an uninhabited system that could also affect it.
Best unit generating method in the game, two words, Glitch Duping unless you "want" to work hard for your units.
Facts, 100% but this was to show how to work hard if you want to.
there is no point in making units in this game. I have hundreds of millions of units and nothing to do with them.
Spending them for upgrade slots, but most people don't do it and just find several other ways to open up their gear/ships. Having about 300mil on you is always good in case you need to buy something big like a freighter, but honestly, the real currency in game is nanites
Set to "Everything for Free" and skip the ridiculous grind to get to the things you really want to do in the game... 💥
Weird comment man, this is literally playing the game, a survival game nonetheless. I think you might have missed that part, but I'mma let you cook.
Method 4: Use Cheat Engine (yes it works with EVERY currancy)