How to get chromatic metal

One of the most important resources in No man's heavenEspecially in the early game, is chromatic metal. It is used for many different purposes — including creating new techniques and building terminals on your base. Chromatic metal is not a natural resource, so here is how to create lots of it to carry with it for any purpose can occur.

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Refine metals

The main way you can get chromatic metal No man's heaven are at Refining of star metals. Each planet has at least one star metal that you can refine into chromatic metal. Use the analysis visor to find resource deposits nearby and mine them using an upgrade of terrain manipulator for the multi-tool. Add resources to all refiners together with coal for fuel and start refining. The rarer stellar metal is, the more chromatic metal you get.

Here is All metals can you refine to chromatic metal:

Copper
Cadmium
Activated cadmium
Eliminated
Activated emeril
Indium
Activated Indium
Quartzite
Activated quartzid

Prioritize using activated resources to refine chromatic metal. Activated copper, activated Indium and others serve no purpose outside being refined to chromatic metal, while regular versions are required to create technology modules, structures, settlement buildings and more.

In medium and large refineries, you can add pure ferrite to another entrance site to increase the total chromatic metal output.

Purchase on a galactic trading terminal

Many things can be purchased with units in No man's heavenAnd chromatic metal is no exception. Go to the nearest space station And look for chromatic metal at its galactic trading terminal. A chromatic metal costs about 120 units but can vary from station to station. If the Galactic trading terminal does not have chromatic metal, try the happiness with passing pilots who dock at the station before jumping into another system.

Plunder and shoot

If chromatic metal is not your main priority, you can do other things and get it passively. To hunt pirates, save freighters and more can net you chromatic metal, among other resources. If you encounter crashed vessels, you can also disassemble all modules installed for chromatic metal, wiring chairs, antimatter and other resources.

There is a way to get endless chromatic metal Using Indium or quartzite and a medium -high refines. Refine part of the stellar metal in chromatic metal, then add chromatic metal to the other entrance site to duplicate the original resource. Rinse and repeat for infinite indium or quartzite that you can refine to chromatic metal.

The reason why this works well with Indium and quartzite is because of their chromatic metal production conditions. Technically, you can do the same with Emeril, but the results are so negligible that it is not worth the effort. Doing this with other metals results in you losing resources rather than winning.