FYI it does appear that Fdev attempted to nerf the render distance it takes to make the brain trees despawn. The easy work around to still farm the brain trees with limpets is to set your model draw distance to low. This will then counteract the recent nerf to draw distance allowing you to continue to use limpets to farm the brain trees. Many commanders report that this method works great!

@Pizzaguy2

Ай бұрын

change to low quality worked for me

@CentaurUnivers

27 күн бұрын

It work very well for me o7

@stevenheckel5033

11 күн бұрын

Unfortunately reducing the model draw wasn't enough for me, I had to also reduce my *terrain quality from ultra to low (just noticed @Pizzaguy says that below lol). Glad we were able to find these workarounds, I love this method! You're the best Hawkes o7

@stevenheckel5033

10 күн бұрын

Also, if there's any chance you have coordinates for all the patches, that would be epic! Not too hard to find the ones where you drop in as we can see them in your HUD, however I've had crazy unlucky timing and mostly wind up there when it's dark, so finding the other 2 Polonium patches for instance has been difficult. If not, all good man, this has been so helpful already!!

@liquidgroove75

9 күн бұрын

You would think that a company that has got itself in such a poor financial state with many bad decisions would find a better way to spend developer time than making an already ridiculously time consuming activity just a little more annoying. Trying to make material gathering harder is not the best choice for player retention.

This is now the goto video for engineering materials. It's awesome to know we can get these raw mats around the bubble and the info for HGE's is priceless. Thank you so much!

Who ever did this work sheet needs more recognition. This video is great. This worksheet shows this game is not dying. It is growing. Glory to mankind and glory to the cmdr that created this

I was litterly just sitting here wishing he made an updated one and here it is, mind blown! Keep up the hard work lmao

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

timing hehe

After 4 yrs out of the game, this was SO helpful. Used to do farming with an SRV, this method is much better! Thank you!

I've been at this for 3 days doing it the old way, trying inara, doing whatever I could to get tellurium. No dice. Endless planets with nothing. This guide saved my sanity and I'm sharing it with my discord. Thanks a million! o7

Damn Hawke, it's about time you put out an updated vid for this :D Thanks mate, no matter how many years go by, I always forget some of the details and reference your old vid. Bookmarked for personal use and for sharing.

Been about 2 years since I last needed to material gather for ship building but with the new FSD on the market, I figured it was time to restock. Thanks again for coming v in clutch with the best information video for this task.

I can't tell you how much your guides have helped me with grinding and improved my enjoyment of the game. From ship mats, credit farming, how to start out, ground mats, you name it. you are the man! Thank you for the work you do

Great up date! Your old guide has been my go to for so long everytime I need to go farming for mats! So glad you are back mate!

Good to see you back producing content for ED, I hope you continue. Just like you helped me a few years ago when I started playing the game, I'm sure you will help many players who are just starting out. See you soon, o7!

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

The best start from sidewinder to fleet carrier and beyond is coming soon!

Awesome thank you bud The community for this game is the most helpful I've seen in a game

Love the video as always! I've just recently got into farming for engineering, it's been relaxing. But man do I love being efficient. This guide helps me squeeze out more per hour. Thanks my dude.

Talk about a gold mine, thanks for putting this together, and an updated list, this is great. Sure the old ways were fun but im glad there are good odyssey equivalents alot closer then before. Especially for the raw materials

A SORELY needed update for this info. Thank god for you sir. Now I want to play again.

Nailed it again brother.... clear, crisp and very easy to follow..! LYW.

This is great! I had to learn a lot of this the hard way as most guides tend to skip over the small bits. This is going to be excellent to those just starting who see engineering as a daunting task.

He's back at it!

Thanks CMDR, keep flying dangerously.

Great guide! Good to see the new ways. Got some new ships to engineer soon. :-)

GREAT video, and I always get a laugh out of your guides. The Beavis and Butthead reference had me haha. I'll make sure to try the brain tree method out soon, looks like it beats the crap out of doing it in a rover.

This is a huge time saver , thanks for putting this together , now to start grinding

Ah hell yeah! Just what I needed!

Superb as always. With the exception of Selenium all those other Raw Mat locations are new to me. The Trees/Crystal Shards are dead! I always cross traded for Pharmaceutical Isolators and did Robigo Runs for the other two Mech Mats and some Firmware and Data Encoded Mats. Thank you Commander o7

Thankx hawkes, this helps me really get along, great vlog, love your channel.👌 👍

For some manufactured materials there are some systems worth checking: Core Dynamics Composites: Check LTT 3010 and LP 413-18. These systems spawn an endless amount of high grade emissions with this material and the grade 4 of this same type. Imperial Shielding: Check Laguz and 21 Eridani. I was told that these systems behave like the 2 systems above but for Imperial Shielding. When using these systems you don't even have to relog, you can just fly to all the HGE's that are available and fill up in no time.

@Daniel-hf8qg

Ай бұрын

Thank you for this tip.

@mrcnorth7149

Ай бұрын

I use these systems and then use a mat trader to cross trade if I want something else

Brilliant as usual, will be doing this soon.

I already knew about the encoded farm, but this is great for me for the other farms as up to this point i always just did it the intended way with the SRV and this is miles faster so thanx for that

Great video, super informative and fairly straight forward. Thank you!

Glad to know i have been grinding Materials the right way :D

Awesome, thank you! I am engineering four ships at once and I NEED mats!! I NEEDS THEM!!!

I must be one of the weird few that enjoys material collecting - put some tunes on and chill with the repetition. It's nice when I want to destress my brain and just have something repetitive to do that doesn't require much thinking. Almost becomes meditative. Nice to know I can now increase my 'meditation' efficiency even more with your video lol! o7

I liked the video cant wait for more!!

Thanks a lot Hawkes!

Awesome, thanks for the new farming video man! Chuckled at the Beavis and Butt-Head reference miss that show.

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

3:46 for you!

Hacking the large floating bases, i don't remember the specific name but they have 2 hacking terminals and with recon limpets and cold running you can avoid bounties and hack relog and get encoded stuff pretty fast too. They are these giant orbiting bases, usually only show up on the menu panel when you get closer to the planet they orbit around

Again. Amazing. Just an amazing job.

I just subscribed. MY GOD DUDE what a video.

2000 hrs in, this video could have save me half of that. Thanks good job

It's crazy how your videos have good viewership. In your videos we barely see any fleet carriers in the system view, but right now all those systems are crowded!

You sir, are a legend. Thank you! o7

The new SCO FSD should make getting to the high grade emissions a lot easier.

@AlphaJulietBravo1

Ай бұрын

There's a station that stocks up to class 7A (except 6, but 6B) about two jumps from the selenium system

Great video ty!

Thanks Hawkes!

The Beavis and Butthead part got me lol 🤣😂😆

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

3:46 just leaving this here. lol!

Excellent guide thank you

ED is more fun when you don't need to waste hours and hours farming materials! TYVM for this video, Cmdr! o7

Hey Hawkes! Long time no see! Glad to see you're back into Elite as well. I recently came back and your guides are as awesome as ever! Can we expect a guide for collecting the materials needed for suit and weapon upgrades and engineering as well? :)

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

Yes after the new best start lands.

@MSPlaceholdername

Ай бұрын

@@HawkesGaming Nice! Can't wait for them to drop! Thanks for all your hard work! :)

@Afrafasti

Ай бұрын

@@MSPlaceholdername If you go to CD-51 2650, you have an anarchy minor faction called the Purple Gang that own several settlements. There's even an anarchy space station in system to sell items: Walker Platform. Ground Settlement with full service outfitting is Clough Base. Evidently it is a system that players intentionally manipulate to keep it so. Happy hunting. Noguchi's Castings - Industrial Hawkin's Bastion - Military Delgado Analysis Enterprise - Research Chandola's Bridge - Tourist

The Man, The Hero The Legend. Hawkes is like the Postman. He doesn't always bring pleasant news, but he always delivers! o7 CMDR

I left ED (2018) after it turned into a second job, farming to get bad rolls on parts. Ugh

Great video, however I have some recommendations: 1. Try to have all critical information at the start of each section. There were a few times we were already fairly into a section of the guide only to get an "oh yeah, don't forget this lol" and someone might be playing/pausing the video to be in sync and then they too get to that point and don't have the thing because they weren't told initially. 2. Similar to the above, but I would have really appreciated a heads up on the two missing manufacturing materials and maybe a recommendation to farm the Imperial Shields first and trade them vertically to those two first initially just so they're out of the way. I ended up trading every tier 4 and 5 material I had collected up until that point, but now I'm wondering if I should have just grinded the Imperial Shields...honestly probably the later, but then again I just did a run of Imperial Shields trading to Biotech Conductors and I'm kind of glad I don't have to do this for as long as I would have. Hopefully we all get lucky and benefit from the engineering changes even after all this grinding.

The Ruthenium crater is where I decided to drive my SRV out of the crater. I was really close to the edge but the wheels were losing grip, so my dumb ass decided to thrust up, but i failed miserably, died, lost my only SRV and a few million of exo-bio data from the trees. 😅 Great vid! I really like your content

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

I cant count the times I died trying to farm the raws the old way in my srv lol.

What a legend !! o7 CMDR

I hit the Ribigo run for Mats and Money. It helps out a lot.

Thank you very mush mister 🎉🎉🎉

This is the video i will recommend to newbs from now on.

Hawke I love your videos to death for the help they give! But I wanna address 1 thing. John Jameson did not fly a Sidewinder. It was a Cobra Mk3. o7 tho and thank you so much for this new guide!!!!

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

Im the dumb I made another voice over mistake with military supercapacitors too.

Mr. Hawkes, superb as always. But eould you mind to update odyssey materials guide as well? Anyway, thanks for the video!

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

The on foot will be updated right after the best start comes out.

Great video , found all the sites except the polonium site couldn’t see the three craters , maybes it was on dark side when I was there , will try again tomorrow. Otherwise very easy directions.

Without your guides we'd be living in the dark ages. How anyone is able to find these locations in the first place is beyond me!

hi, thanks for this awesome, comprehensive guide. one thing i noticed while farming selenium/technetium: it seems that the technetium is dropped by a different species of brain trees, which only spawns in the darker blue areas. maybe it was just coincidense though, but i got zero technetium in the teal areas on both planets.

I've found that farming all HGEs with 20+ minutes on them and then using the traders to trade for what i need. Starting from Jameson Memorial i can usually max out a grade 5 within 8 nearby populated systems . 45 minutes per loop to max out 1 grade 5 trade and repeat.

Several newer better methods here, ty!

I highly suggest using min-ed-launcher, and disabling the intro video when you need to do the hge loops.

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

That is actually exceptionally big brained Commander!

@azog23

Ай бұрын

how do you disable the intro?

@TheLukemcdaniel

Ай бұрын

@@HawkesGaming min-ed-launcher for those that haven't seen it yet, has a function to auto-restart the game on your set delay. It also bypasses the frontier launcher and puts you right in the game. Shaves a few seconds here and there on game startup.

@TheLukemcdaniel

Ай бұрын

@@azog23 You find the movie file in the game install directory, (optinoally)rename it, then make a new empty file of the same name(to not cause a file not found error). It'll then try to play the empty file and carry on no problem. If you don't rename it, and just replace it with an empty file, you can always get it back by validating the game files in steam or the frontier launcher.

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

@@TheLukemcdaniel That adds up over time just like the supercruise assist trick.

Great vid i really struggled with military super capacitors spent 4h searching only found 40 gave up and cross traded em

Hey Hawkes, I really appreciate your videos, thank you. Also I watched the video where you got into your past and what made you do those vids- much love from germany, stay strong brother. Also, I just went to HIP 34958 and tried to find AB 1 a again (been there before)...and it's gone? Or am I just...? What...?

Damn, I didn't even know you could relog during the manufactured grind. I spent days going from HGE to HGE and didn't even fill up everything. I've been playing since launch too ffs. 😂

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

I know those exact feels. Once I found out it was life transforming!

Amazing video but i got to Antimony and I cannot for the life of me find any brain trees in snowman crater for Antimony. I have approached and re-approched several times to make certain that I am in the correct spot. Any advice?

Only getting Chromium and Germanium from the Antimony and Ruthenium locations, landed in the same exact craters and everything. The selenium location worked fine. Were the resources changed recently, or are they only in very specific patches of trees?

First, thanks for the guide. I used your last guide 2 months ago when I came back to this game after years.! This time with the flaking ! that is a big time saver ! But, is it me or everyone should have problem getting Pharmaceutical Isolator? The Pharmaceutical Isolator is killing me. I went to HGE with outbreaks and I got other stuffs. I spent a whole night trying different systems, eventually gave up using the 6:1 ratio change...

This is a great guide! The only trouble I have is Technetium - Wregoe SB-Z b41-2 - A 1 a. All I get is Chromium and Zinc. Im not sure if Im doing something wrong.

@RicZA001

7 күн бұрын

I was having the same issue, I did however find, that once chrome and zinc filled up the tech started rolling in. I wondered if limpets prioritized g3 and the g4s started despawning. Just a theory

I don't know how did you do all that in a afternoon but finding HGE signals alone took me a whole day and I have found few. This guide is practically pointing me to nowhere.

Important to note when collecting raw materials: When trying to use limpet collector drones you need to be out of render distance of the brain trees, however the 3A collector limpets the author is using only have a range of 1.35km and you need to be about 1.15km away from the trees in order to unrender them, which sometimes results in limpets not being able to find materials if you're a little bit too far, but they get destroyed if you're too close. What I did is using 2x Collector Limpet Controller (5B), instead of 3x Collector Limpet Controller (3A), 5B have a range of 1.8km, which is so much better, the only downside is that their life time dropped from 720seconds to 420seconds, which is still PLENTY of time as you'll have to relog and lose all of your limpets either way. I got the extra 5 slot on my Krait Phantom by installing a fuel scoop of size 3, instead of 5, this increases wait time between refuels, but I'd rather wait a bit longer and make the process easier than be able to refuel in mere seconds but have to deal with constantly managing the distance for my limpets. Hope this will help someone

@HawkesGaming

23 күн бұрын

The pinned comment helps. Fdev did a nerf to render distance about a month ago. The pinned comment fixes that no matter the limpet grade used.

@werd3426

22 күн бұрын

@@HawkesGaming I just found that when you're dealing with a larger brain tree "location" the drones sometimes can't find the material or simply get destroyed due to not having enough distance, class B limpets helped with that. Great video nonetheless, copied your Krait Phantom build almost entirely and the new raw material farming method is amazing, thank you! o7

As soon as I'm back in the Bubble, I'll do all of this

Amazing video, but how did you reredner the trees at 564metres (4:19). Is this a graphical setting?

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

Yeah turning down the graphics allows them to derender sooner. I forgot to mention that in the video.

First thing you do: trade down all G5 mats horizontally at the traders before you start collecting more. This will max out your efficiency.

hello, what is that ship that you are using ? and how did you able to reach jump range over 50+ LY ? . Thanks

Hey Hawkes... thanks for this awesome guide... but can you now *please* do the same, but for all us Commanders who prefer life out at Colonia, rather than in the bubble? Also, according to posts on Reddit, though I haven't tried it myself, it seems that an SCO FSD totally revolutionises farming of HGEs. As in, more fun, and no relogging necessary. I'm not quite sure how this is done, but it's something you might want to look into.

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

There are a small handful of systems that perma spawn hges near the bubble. You can just fly from one to the other non stop till you get low on gas go fill up and just keep farming. It takes the relogging out of the equation but sadly it's only for two different types of grade 5 HGEs.

@Garryck-1

Ай бұрын

@@HawkesGaming - Thanks.. I very much appreciate the clarification and extra details. (Please do consider a mats farming special for Colonia.. it's a very different world out here. I'm currently out here doing the grind for Odyssey suit & weapon upgrades. It's much more challenging than in the bubble.)

Blimey hawk can't believe how the game has changed ,haven't played for ages

Great video...now I can really play around with shit like engineering Canons for test purposes to get an idea the fuck I'm actually doing in this game. I went for cannons specifically because NPCs in Conflict Zones are so sturdy they more likely die from module failures than getting their hull reduced to nothing. On a side note - don't use Gimballed weapons with Rail Guns - if a NPC decides to spam chaff you can hardly see your aiming reticled dot thingie anymore which makes, well aiming, a major hassle. Next test coming up: Fixed Grade 5 Long Range Cannons with ~1900 m/s Shot Speed 😂

more like this and players might get back again... thanks cmdr o7

If you do another grind (*cough* robigo mines *cough), you can get so many exquisite focus crystals, you can almost do the tradeup in reverse ...

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

I chose the faster way that didn't line my pockets with money. It's really okay cause 4 days later I went from a few hundred million to making over 8 billion. I just wanted to finish the mat grind faster is all. You can also get biotech conductors from those Robigo missions rewards as well. I just didn't want to have to buy a new ship go outfit it to 30 ly jump range, fly there then start that grind when it's just fast to do the up-trade then trading down.

Any reason why some of these materials don't seem to exist in my game? When I go to mine technetium all I get is zink. And technetium doesn't even show up as an option in my inventory. Same for antimony

love it only problem im having is my render distance is 1.1 km so it takes my limpets some time to get there and back

@comfortsnail6342

Ай бұрын

reduce the draw distance in graphics to lower settings on planet surfaces

I'm not sure if it was from FDEV or one of the many PARTNERED You Tube content provider's, But prior to the release of the new update. In addition to there being new ship's, and supposed changes to Power Play, I heard that enginerring was going to need less material's, and that material's were going to be easier to accumulate. Thus far, though it's only been a couple of day's, and everyone seem's to be only discussing the MKII which is available in two different variation's, one being an "E" graded as any normal ship bought from the ship store, and one already "A" graded and enginerred, along with a paint job and various attachment's. Both being available for early access but have different cost in regard's to the number of arc's, three month's sooner, then those not partaking in the early access. It would seem that regardless of which one is being utilized, there both being referred to as the same, meaning simply the new MKII. When in reality, there are two simular ship's, but two different loadout's available. One need's to be upgraded and engineered the other come's upgraded and engineered. Thus there a vast difference between them, that is not taking into consideratiion, when discussing them. Having the number of hour's I have utiizinga Python now known as the MKI. In various endevor's requiring different loadout's and engineering. I've zero interest in what FEDV is referring to as "STARTER SHIP'S". But I am interested in the new grade 5, class "A" SCO, once obtained via the ship store, and enginerred for jump range, and mass manager. Along with the SCO. The MKI will be so much more better, having bigger cores, more optional slot's that the extra large weapon and two additonal utilities the MKII has, will not be a factor. It is to the N-th degree a noob ship. Not for any pilot with more than several thousand hour's piloting a MKI.

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

I asked FDEV through my contact if there would be any changes to how we farm them. They were not aloud to answer that yet. So I decided to just push the video out expecting to have to update it later. I asked them point blank along with us needing less materials to engineer that it would be nice to farm them in such a way we don't need to log out of the game and back in again to be efficient. Anyway that involves similar results without needing to play a relogging simulator would be greatly received by other commanders.

@kingplayze914

Ай бұрын

Nail head. Lots of games do this. Throw out a stock and a buffed pay to play good vehicle. Maybe it draws in new players or keeps players that might otherwise quit due to grind. World of Tanks has done this since it came out 15yrs ago or so. The tanks are always better than stock but can be easily beaten by a ground out researched tank. In a world where you can't keep everyone happy, I think it's a decent attempt to keep the edge on the side of vets whilst giving noobs a chance to jump into something sexy early. Python all the way for me. Using Conda on this grind because I left Python in Colonia. I miss u Python. I'll be back soon with stores bursting for the Engineers.

Hey guys, the antimony sp9t doesn't seem to work on horizons, i keep getting germainum and vanatium instead of antimony

I think FD found out this was way too easy and not grindy enough. The only thing I find on the technetium planet is chromium, and only that 😞 But great video 🙂

@antonk.653

Ай бұрын

I second this. On the technetium site there was alot of chromium, manganese but no Technetium. On both brain tree sites actually, close nearby (one at -50,93 ; -165.1, and the other at -51.08 and -164.83).

Question please - when you relog while over a planet, is there a possibility of crashing into it? Or do you just spawn back at the same altitude?

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

Zero out speed then log out. You'll appear there hovering in the same location.

Yo Hawkes can Cmdrs do the Manufacturing Grind in Colonia or is it only in the Bubble ?

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

I can't verify without hunting around for the raw but I am sure there has to be brain tree farms around the 500 ly distance from Colonia. As for the encoded Jameson is very unique. There are mega ships out there that can be scanned for encoded you just need to be a ninja so you don't get into trouble. HGE is tied to system state mostly with a few exceptions that can't be found in colonia. All I can say is if living in colonia is a choice it comes with slower material grind as a side effect.

3:46 Probings cool..

@ravenragnar

Ай бұрын

Bro yes!

@Jacko_486

Ай бұрын

Like the Beavis and But-Head reference

@lightninggamereviews

Ай бұрын

Do you have a link to your fit?

@gameonsilver

Ай бұрын

I tried my best using limpets but for me it doesn't work. Getting constant limpet drone expired. And for me, the distance required to de-render the brain trees is beyond the range of my collector limpets. And they keep smashing themselves into the ground.

@gameonsilver

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the mat grind vid. I had to ultimately use my SRV. Took longer but I also managed to fill up on other lower grade mats which is a plus side

I went to the snowman's crater but there was barely any antimony to be found. Nice video though!

Loving this but trying to find the exact spot on these moons where the goodies are is an absolute nightmare

I'm having real issues with the Technetium. I've got loads of Chromium and Zync, but zero Technetium. Tried a few locations on the planet, but still nada. Am I missing something?

Ahhh beavis n butthead.. blast from the past

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

3:46 uhuhuhu!

Sir, I'm NOT finding Proto radiolic alloys in Alliance-, High Tech-, High Pop-, Boom-States, but Proto Heat Radiators again and again...

The man, the myth, love to see a new Hawkes Gaming Video7.

Tungsten has been my nemesis

@HawkesGaming

Ай бұрын

mmmmm hhhmmmm.

can the flak launcher raw materials be done without odyssey??

the Polonium at Synuefe BY-F D12-39 - A 2 seems to have been deleted i hound only one or to bits at most.

@Deadtrigger777

Ай бұрын

The whole planet disappeared for me

Type-10 AFK farming Pirate Massacre missions is the best way to get Biotechs and Exquisites