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How to get lots of ferrite dust easily.
By gametram
in this guide you will learn how to get lots of ferrite dust without much effort.
   
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Category: Crafting, Loot, Trading
Languages: English
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28 Jan, 2023 @ 2:58am
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Before you start 
Step 1. 
Step 2. 
Step 3. 
Results. 
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Before you start
before you start this, it is recommended you have around roughly 10,000 to 100,000 units before starting. we will get to that in a second.
Step 1.
first of all, get into your ship and fly to the nearest space station. Teleporters will also work.
note, do NOT enter the anomaly, but we'll get to that in a moment.
Step 2.
once you have entered the station, wait until roughly 3-4 npc ships arrive also.
DO NOT USE THE TRADE TERMINAL.
Step 3.
Here's the easy part. interact with the ships you have waited for, and select the option to trade with them. Once you've done that, you now have an unlimited supply of ferrite! You can buy the ferrite from all the ships, without running out of stock. (as long as you wait for more ships to arrive to buy more.)
Results.
normally i would upload a screenshot of me with 1374 ferrite but steam really hates me uploading images, so your gonna have to trust me.
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caseyas435943 11 Apr @ 5:19pm 
Shoot a rock that's on every planet you land on. The whole surface of 99.9% of the planets are nothing but free ferrite dust.
kissakias 1 Feb, 2023 @ 7:03am 
3 materials are way to plenty in ALL planets, Carbon, Ferrite Dust and Silicate powder.
Delta-5 29 Jan, 2023 @ 1:29pm 
If you want to get tons of ferrite without really having to put in any effort, just hoard junk metal whenever you find it and refine it down into ferrite
gametram  [author] 29 Jan, 2023 @ 5:10am 
Ok, so after posting this i found out there are a bunch of other ways to do this but i dont care because it works for begginers unlike duplicating it with the refiner
RipinPieces 28 Jan, 2023 @ 8:52am 
Sorry, but this is not easy and not effective, also it depends on the difficulty settings.

Just search for an airless or lifeless Planet, enter the atmosphere, fly slowly over the ground and shoot the surface/rocks from your Ship with the Photon Cannon.
Even available at your very first ship.

It acts like the mining beam.

You get a thousand times more Ferrite than this method and waaaay faster.
Also you will collect tons of Geodes, which can be transformed to Ferrite dust or sold at any space station/trading post.
This helps if you're low on money in the early game.

You can do this on any planet, but airless only have rocks, so it's the most effective way.
Don't do it on high sentinal planets, but most airless planets don't have sentinels.

If you're later in the game you can refine Ferrite from almost every material you mine.