Hello games has nerfed this method and it is slower. So whatever you'd make normally you now need to do it on many locations to create the same amount as you may have made before. sorry!

This is still perhaps the most effective method known to date, but its slower still.

To get started, you will need a few things.
this can be crafted using emeril. there are a few ways to acquire it

• emeril drive
  (make it using cadmium from the cadmium drive) (need to buy from anomaly)
  
• from space anomaly missions that take you to a system with emeril
  
• from cheating and asking for it in the anomaly :)

this is needed to find hotpots.
you need

• Sodium Diode x3
  
• Cobalt Mirror x1
  
• Wiring Loom x2

buy the wiring loom from the space station, and raid factory's to get diode and cobalt blueprints

you might also be able to get the diode and cobalt mirror from the tech vendor at minor settlements
you can get these from the anomaly using salvage. try to get all of them. it will make your life better
AT THE VERY LEAST GET

• electromagnetic generator
  
• electrical wiring
  
• mineral extractor
  
• supply depot
  
• supply pipe

YOU WILL PROBABLY ALSO WANT

• Solar panels
  
• battery
  
• landing pad
  
• some prefab shelter
  
• trade terminal

• metal plating
  
• ferrite dust
  
• Carbon
  
• Gold

use your indium drive to go to a BLUE system. once you are there, go to the space station, and buy all the metal plating and ferrite dust you can. Trust me.

once you do that, scan the planets for one with ACTIVATED INDIUM!!! then fly to that

once you are on the planet, first use your analysis visor to find a depot of activated indium, walk to that, use your manipulator to get it, and then put it in a Refiner to make mass quantity's of chronic material.
fire up your new servay device, and tune it to the mineral mode by pressing one. hopefully one bar will light up. turn in the direction of the bar until both bars are light, then walk in that direction. if nothing happens, walk in one direction for 1 minute, and check it again. keep doing this until it becomes lit. once you are at the source of the commoshin, check if it is activated indium, if it is, continue to step two. if it is not, wander further.
There are a number of indium classes. each one can churn out millions of u's a hour, but the higher it is the rarer it is, and the higher the indium a hour will be. the higher the rating, the better the bang for the buck. the ranks are as follows (with c being the worst, and s being the best)
C, B, A, S
it is up to you what class you need to be happy, but I recommend setting up camp at a B or higher, then continuing to search for that sweet S class. if you are not satisfied, move on. after about 300u's your scanner will forget about the old thing it found, and continue searching.
place down a base computer, register your base, and continue onwards!

There are a few key things in your indium farm

1. A power source
   you need this to power your extractors
   
2. Extractors... duh
   
3. Storage, so you can get rich overnight (does not need power :))

you can go about this in any order, as long as you have everything
there are two ways we can get power. electromagnetic genorators are the best and most powerful, but harder to find
for this, you will need to find a power hotspot. to do this, activate your survayer again, and switch to power mode. then do the steps outlined in the earlyer section. for this, a C class is fine, as long as it is within range of your base. you can extend your base up to about 1k units, buy continuesly placing a wall right at the edge of the perimiter.

one extractor uses 50kz of power, and one generator at a C class depot generates 150kz without stop. plan ahead how much extractors you want to have, and place the according number of generators. NOTE: YOU CAN ALWAYS EXPAND IF YOU NEED TO.

if, you are too lazy to find a hotspot, or if there is none within a thousand U's (there almost definetly is in one direction, lazy pants), instead use solar panels
when it is day time, a solar panel will generate 50kz, just enouph to power one extractor. it will not, however, provide energy in the night. there are also middle times, when the panels produce 25kz. assuming that you need to provide 75zk/s to make up for the dark losses, you will need
2.5(rounding up) solar panels per extractor.

make sure to have enouph batteries so that is gets filled right before the panels enter 25kz time.
with eather of these methods, you should also budget in about 150kz to not be used. this is for a base, trade terminal, lights, ect. even if you have no plans for that, make sure to route the electromagnetic generators and solar panels through a battery, just so you can save the extra juice.
the amount of extractors you place is up to you and your reasorces.

for me, one extractor on a B class depot produces about 350 activated indium a hour. the selling price is 950u's per item, so after a hour, I got 332500u's. 300k u's passive is not bad, but keep in mind, with only 3 extractors, you can get 1m a hour, and with 30, make that 10m a hour, and 240m a day.

keep in mind, you also need to store it.

first, however lets link it up. connect the power source (batteries) to one extractor, and from then, connect one extractor to the other, until all of them are running. do the same thing with the pipes in the industrial section.
the amount of storage you need depends on how long you go with out playing. it is really the most important thing. it aint matter how much you mine if it aint go nowhere! I reccomend thinking about it and placing accordingly. one storage depot can hold 1000 indium, so you may need a lot of it.

YIPPY!!! you came back to your farm after a few hours off and you have thousands of indium? great! just don't, under any circumstances, sell it.

I know what you are thinking, scaledish, thats insane! but hear me out.

have you ever noticed indicators below products saying -2.8 demand or something along those lines? those are afected by YOU! and you guessed it, the lower the demand, the lower the prices. the more you sell, the lower the demand. that is not gonna work. so what should you do? go to the freighter!

if you don't have the freighter upgrades, set up a teleporter in your base, and have a base on a system your freighter can go to, and teleport between them. go to the freighter, and sell to the people who land on the landing pads in your freighter.

DO NOT SELL AT

• Trade terminals
  
• Space stations
  
• base landing pads

here are a few things you can do to scale up
While your B class is working away, go seaching for better depots. the higher the class the better bang for your buck
Call each one a genaric name

i.e. B CLASS ACTIVATED INDIUM FARM #1

Switch to electromagnet generators
Upgrade your storage
Upgrade your miners

the more... the better

Wait for the money to come pouring in!

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(Just kidding. you do you :))


if you have any comments or sugestions, leave em below! I will be sure to read them!

Enjoy the riches!

oh and thanks for the clever and all the other awards to whoever gave them. just saw it now and it means a ton.