Elite Dangerous: A Guide on How to Gather On Foot Materials in Odyssey

There is a post on ed forums that gives some figures for different states dropping certain data types. I can confirm that anarchy state drops shed loads of smear campaigns from habs in anarchy! 27 from 3 runs is umm a lot. Maybe worth further investigation. Kind of makes sense too that BGS state affects drop rates of certain types of data.

Wow, man, what a software! And what tips! Thanks CMDR!

I just can't fathom this barter trade system forced upon us again by fdev. As if at 3309 money hasn't been invented yet.

I've noticed that since update 14, locked lockers in SEC and CMD no longer have anything useful. Like other locked lockers, they only have illegal drugs and 'personal documents' type items. They used to have things like schematics, but sadly no longer.

Essential viewing, several times. Thank you.

When looking for materials in missions you don't need to select "show materials".. just look for engineering icon.. I find it helps to still see what missions offer engineering materials as well as what other rewards are available for each mission.. using the filter hides them...

I miss my cobra mkiv

I've been using a sidewinder 🤣 with a scorpion

This made my life a lot easier, Thank you sir o7!

Most players look at Elite Dangerous and only see the pew pew. When I look at ED :19 I see the pew pew support infrastructure. I see the empire I could build if I the game allowed players to take ownership of those industrial complexes. Allowing players to take control and construct and customize their own unique agriculture facility, mining settlement or Surface Fixed-Base Waypoint Outpost is "tycoon" gameplay that fits perfectly in FDev's wheelhouse.

Your advice on ships is very helpful especially the dumbfire missiles. I'm currently operating a resource-grinding Vulture and the L3 dumbs make short work of those pesky ground protection troops :-)

Due to the "game mechanics" preventing you to stockpile, I usually trade up for the most expensive materials (e.g. low value to Graphene), since later I can trade it down when needed since 1 graphene will give you at least 2 of low value mat, thus saving inventory space...

Burr, I really like your videos, but this process just does not seem fun. The game design should organically reward the player with reasonable material progression, and mandatory 3rd party tool optimization for gathering to achieve semi-reasonable progression is awful. Think about your guide: specialize location, specialize ship and srv, use this app, make a list of goals, use the trader, pick only these missions then you can have fun??? Tragic game design. EDH is quite a bit easier to engage with.

I'll break my runs down to raiding certain buildings. Raiding IND buildings for example. I'll break it down further into material or data runs, depending on what I need. It's also fun to run missions while mat/data gathering. Oh, and I also turn off the damn settlement alarms.

I tend to pick up most materials, then trade them at the barkeeper for the most expensive item in each category. When I am ready to do an upgrade, I then trade these items for the materials I need to do the upgrade. Although this will mean a loss in due to trading gathered, this loss can be made up quickly by gathering and trading again.

Jeeez, foot engineering really does need a overhaul. Never touching it. So exploitative and brain dead. Lulz

Awesome footage, as always! The 1st thing to say about Ody engineering is to make sure to fish for G3 suits/weapons before starting to upgrade them. And, until on-foot Thargoids are added into the game (fingers crossed), grade 3 is sufficient for any in-game activity. Higher grades do help, but are not strictly necessary, so they can be worked towards at an enjoyable pace.

And stealthly-with-occational-snafu clearing out anarchy settlements is VERY enjoyable, even without missions.

The keelback is my go to for mat gathering!!

If you like to sneak around and take stuff without getting caught, get used to your free camera in your camera suite, it is your personal spy drone for making sure the coast is clear

Yeah went insane hunting manufacturing instructions one night, had to log in for a long time to get the notoriety back down after murder hoboing a star system.

Nice guide cmdr Burr, but can we please stop hammering the anarchies?

Good suggestion of ship for Odyssey mission running, especially if you want to bring a friend. For solo, I've had a lot of good use out of my Courier and Imperial Eagle, both also loaded with dumbfires! Advanced Thrusters make for a speedy landing and getaway (especially if the settlement is firing at you on the way in!)

My dedicated on-foot ship is a Vulture with dual SRV bay (Scarab and Scorpion) and 2 dumb fire missiles, engineered FSD, 3 shield boosters and 1 heat sink launcher for survivability. A supercruise assist and advanced docking computer for QoL improvements. A DSS helps to also find organics to scan for some variaty.

How do you feel about relogging as somehaveadvised. This seems like an intended game play?

Sold useless stuff the other day - a few millions richer now 😊

Would be great the ingame UI would tell us what has an engineering purpose.

@The Buur Pit
your tips are extremely helpful.
They took my gaming to another level. :-)
Thank you very much! Sorry for my bad English as a translator.
Greetings from Brazil

I have found a good method - go to a system with "problem" state such as outbreak. Then do support missions to power on settlements. Power on the settlement then raid the place. You get loads of data + materials.

Good advice well presented. I have two ground operations ships, courier + chieftain used for different scenarios.
Completing missions with specific material rewards is key I've found.

No anarchy in Colonia region :( - have to twiddle thumbs in a random uninhabited system while the notoriety clears. Have had some small luck finding FCs that trade what you need, although most are in the Bubble for obvious reasons. Material Helper is amazing - the dev is definitely been bought a beer!

Just a point, I don't think you mentioned to make sure the settlement faction you are raiding in Anarchy systems is an Anarchy one as not all settlements are and therefore you will become wanted for murder.

If you find a system with missions sending you to massacre a faction bear in mind that kills can only contribute to a maximum of 3 missions. Also, you can only take one mission that targets a specific settlement. If you take say an assassination mission at X settlement all other missions that target that settlement will disappear off the board. This doesnt apply to missions that send you to massacre a faction as you can do those at any settlement that faction owns. I try and get 2 "Massacre Faction" and 1 specific settlement mission together. As for Data, always try and get Opinion Polls (usually from data terminals in Habitats) and Smear Campaigns (I dont know where to get this one, something to do with systems in election state I read). Two of the ground equipment engineers require those items to unlock.

You still need Scarab SRV for exploring and material farming. Scorpion has not waveform scanner for finding material signals and POIs.

I had problems with taking loot from a settlement in that I was constantly being scanned by NPCs. Then going into combat I died. then I found myself in prison and after 30 minutes and a lot of fines and fees I'm back where I started with no mats. I need a no combat routine or lots of help as I can't seem to kill NPCs before they kill me.

I have also found if you have an excess of mats and running out of space trade low value mats into the higher ones, that way you have a high value mat like graphene to trade down to lowers when you need them, amazing video as always Mr Buur o7

I Focus on non Trading Materials through Mission reward the Same way. But for the tradeable Mats, I collect all Up to 15 pieces. Except for the expensived one in each categorie. I trade all above into that Up to 50. All above 50 will be transferred into my Carrier Up to 250. If i collected all non tradeable Mats, i only have to Go to my FC and trade down. No big excell calculation needed in my brain.

"Cuz I'm livin' in a material world" Thanks for the tips!!

When it doubt...pick it up! :) Great guide for when I start my 3rd account!

I think it's good to note that you want to, when in settlements, use a suit with as many inventory slots as possible so that you can optimize your trips to the SRV to empty your inventory. Nothing can be as cumbersome as needing to navigate to a room 3 times because of small inventory space.

o7 Commanders, and good luck!

Dawn to Earth Astronomy said in a video the most important thing: focus on the data gathering, because that is the rarest of all, everything else will just come by while you hunt data.