Once you have researched them, Steel is generally never an issue again. However - this requires Deep Drills, Ground Penetrating Scanners, and Transport Pods to work, so: GET DEEP DRILLING, MAN!!! Seriously, though.Deep Drilling is what opens up the intentional Steel bottleneck that everyone hits in the mid-game. Uranium, Plasteel, and Chemfuel are also possibilities. You'll also always find other precious resources on those squares - jade, gold and silver are most common, I've found. Aside from mining all the surface steel, these remote camps can easily send back upward net yields of 5-6000 steel within those 10 days, if you get efficient at it. This way is enormously effective in getting impressive amounts of resources back to your main camp. Plan your caravan so you can set up a temporary camp quickly when you arrive, immediately setting up a temporary barracks, power for the drills and the Ground Penetrating Scanner, and build a few Transport Pods. These also give you 10 days before you're forced to clear off the map.Ĭaravan Based with Deep Drilling and Transport Pods (Most Effective)ĥ) Use the Long Range Mineral Scanner to find resources (again, you have 10 days before you have to clear off the map). In Incapacitated Refugee scenarios, you have 10 days before you have to clear off the map.which is more than enough time.Ĥ) Build a Long Range Mineral Scanner, and send caravans to mine those tiles. If you do the quest reward scenarios, you'll have 3 days to mine before you have to vacate the map and re-form your caravan, which is enough time to set up a temporary camp, mine all the surface resources on the map, and head home again.

Just about every settlement on the world map will sell you some.ģ) Send out caravans to the Quest Rewards (Incapacitated Refugees, Vanometric Power Cells, Raid the Pirate Outposts quests, etc.) each one of these will have a new map, and there's almost always a good deal of minable resources there. Orbital Traders usually have more, but you have to passively wait for them to show up in your Console range.you can't request them.Ģ) Initiate trades by sending out caravans to the nearest friendly settlement. Pawns with a crafting skill level of 8 or higher can make components (even advanced components) at the fabrication bench for 12 steel and 5,000 ticks of in-game. Bulk Goods Traders almost always have steel, but in low amounts. Once they're friendly, you can ask them to send caravans to you (for a price), which arrive 3 days or so after you've requested them. This is also the easiest way to turn non-Pirate hostile factions to friendlies: you essentially bribe them for 13 Goodwill at 300 Silver a pop. This will allow you to trade with Orbital Ships, and request trade caravans from your neighboring Friendly Factions to come to you.

There are a couple of ways to get yourself swimming in Steel:īuild yourself a Communications Console and an Orbital Trading Beacon.

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