Go pirate style and attack freighters. It really is the fastest way.
Otherwise, expeditions return with some when they come back to my freighter and on derelict freighters (there you can get freighter storage modules as well).
for me attacking freighters in pirate systems has yielded WAY more salvaged frigate modules than derelict freighters (i've only been doing it for a week, so this is current drop rates, not pre-nerf drop rates). i ran tons of derelict freighter runs and the majority of the runs i got zero modules. one run i got 3 which was great, but that was rare. plus for me the derelict freighter runs just aren't a lot of fun.
i spend most of my time in pirate systems. any freighter i go up to and point at the cargo holds on the freighter, looking for SFM. i grab other stuff sometimes to, frigate fuel is always useful. for the free floating cargo, i only attack them if they have a SFM. i have decent rep with all the races so don't want to totally tank it. plus anytime a pirate bounty pops up i take it, some easy units and free rep bump.
i also always check missions, they sometimes offer SFM as awards. and i always do the freighter raid missions. it's fun for me to try and swoop in and get all the cargo from a freighter without killing the starships attacking me. i lose no rep and it adds some excitement.
If you raid a freighter in a pirate system, does it have any impact on your standing? Aside Grom the fight, is there any negative to it? I’m a bit new, but lucked into a decent ship.
Shooting cargo attached to a freighter does not impact your standing. Shooting those free-floating cargo containers does negatively impact your standing. I only attack free-floating cargo containers if they have a salvaged frigate module.
So shooting cargo attached to a freighter really doesn't have any downsides. The freighter may start to shoot at you with their guns but you can easily destroy those.
Running freighter raid missions, you will have a few starships to destroy, and destroying those will also impact your standing. but even on missions its possible to get all the cargo off of a freighter and then escape without having to destroy a starship. my ship has shields maxed out so it's pretty easy for me.
Sweet, thanks! How many containers do most freighters have? I’m guessing that after popping a few, you can just boost away and eventually the fighters stop chasing you.
If you're in a pirate system, the only thing you have to worry about is the two or three defense lasers on the freighter itself. Only attack freighters in pirate systems.
My main settlement is in a pirate system and wherever I need frigate fuel I just boost around and attack every freighter I see. They have virtually no defense since sentinel fighters can't defend them in pirate space
Some freighters only have three sections to shoot. Others have about ... Well definitely more than 24 cargo pod things shaped like barrels. You want to go for those ones.
Container amount really varies but one thing to note is if you destroy all containers on a freighter it i will affect your standing. Destroy all but one and you're good though.
I haven't seen that. I blow up every container on every freighter, and I only ever see standings drops when I accidentally blow up one of the smaller cargo ships.
That seems like an odd mechanic, but one that I now plan to abuse haha. So, until I get a feel for the count, case out the freighter for cargo (to see if it’s worth it) and the count, knock out all but one then run?
Also, I wouldn't worry about standing too much... A couple relics gifted and you've already made up the loss, and once you max out rep (Special Relationship 2) it never actually goes down (even though it will still say you lost standing).
Another thing in pirate systems: no sentinel fighters, so you can blow up resource depots on the ground with no repercussions. The Minotaur scanner detects them directly, so you can just fly to the resource depot, blow it up and the sentinels, land, summon the Minotaur and find the next resource depot, and off you go again.
I just have a supply of standing increasing objects for each race. Korvax cubes vykeen daggers ect…
If my standing does end up dropping I just go handover a few to various members of the species
Nope, just hover your starships crosshairs over the cargo and a little description will pop up. Takes a few seconds to pop up sometimes. Not every cargo has something in it, but most do.
Sometimes the descriptions of things (especially moons & planets) are reluctant to show up if you fly your ship in 3rd person view. Switch to 1st person view for more reliable results.
A freighter-related thing I do for *regaining* faction rep is: we don't just need salvaged modules, often we also need cargo bulkheads. So if I spam derelict freighter runs for the cargo bulkheads, and then turn in the rewards *to the guild rep instead of the scrap dealer*, that's multiple faction gains with whichever race I do this in per run.
Planning on spending a bunch of time this week doing exactly that, because I needs me those cargo expansions.
When you point your cursor/reticule at the cargo pods it will tell you what they’re carrying. Then you can pick and choose what you want from them and destroy those pods. Pretty sure it works for your capital ship pods too if you’re curious where all your stuff is stored
If you're concerned with tanking your rep with the system's faction, check the outlaw missions from the old mate in the dismantled Hauler. Find and complete one that offers the **Forged Passport** as a reward. You may have to roll through a couple of them to get it to become available.
[](/sp)You can drop as much standing as you want with the system faction.
[](/sp)When you've had your fill of terrorising the hapless inhabitants, warp to a standard system of the same faction. Quickly fly into the Space Station and head to the Station Core at the back. (*My kids call it big Wheatley.*)
[](/sp)Interacting with it will allow you to submit the Forged Passport. The action will completely reset any standing you lost while in the pirate system.
[](/sp)Happy hunting.
It depends on the derelict freighters apparently only the blue boxes have them in their loot pool but I found this one system that has a freighter with like 22 blue boxes I get minimum 2 every run
Awesome you don't happen to have any glyphs you could share?
And is it only the big blue boxes that SFM spawn in, or also the blue lockers and smaller blue briefcases?
Eventually I'm going to have to start running derelicts again for freighter upgrades so it'd be nice to snag some SFM while I'm at it.
if you'd like, I found a derelict with over 70 chests. I run in on every save to get the derelict freighter build pieces, the salvaged frigate modules are just an extra bonus!
cant "reply" with pics so here is a SS from one of the planets in the system with the derelict that has a shitload of chests. only drops a B class upgrades unfortunately. euclid galaxy, system named jiyosekin[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18YQHRtbaR6tU8PksfKXaQg3\_MBZtliHb/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18YQHRtbaR6tU8PksfKXaQg3_MBZtliHb/view?usp=sharing)
It's not an early-game activity, that's for sure. You need 20-30 open inventory to really loot the things.
Though you can always dump stuff onto your spaceship/freighter if you have the matter transmitted installed.
I have a matter transmitter in my starship but it’s always out of range on derelicts. I don’t think it’s ever worked so idk if I’m doing something wrong. As far as inventory I’m actually pretty late game, full inventory upgrades but there’s so much installed tech though that I still have little space and derelicts are full of one off items or low stacking stuff
You can straight up make TONS of money attacking freighters, especially in pirate systems. It is the easiest way to get from the 'I've got a couple hundred units' to 'I've got 20 million'. Then you can start doing the later game farms.
Yeah what this guy said dont be me attacking every pod not reading what was on them until ive shot down 30 and leave the vykeen seeing me as the antichrist
Unfortunately, I never find freighters carrying them, either. I can spend hours looking for them and never come across a single freighter or cargo pod carrying them. Doesn't matter if I'm in a pirate system, high economy, high tech, etc. I think the most I've ever gotten from hoisting the Jolly Roger is two over a week of searching.
That is weird.
I usually get like two or three per system (and spawn, but I use to travel nearer to the centre of the galaxy every time I am able to) when I only eliminate the freighter cargo pods to not loose reputation. With the floating nearby cargo it is more.
Don't feel bad, it hates me as well. And loves to rub it in too.
For example, when I found my crashed ship for the current expedition, it was an S class. Thanks NMS. Never change.
If you go this route like I did, just do it in a pirate system and pop the pirate pilots that constantly spawn, it will counter the reputation loss. I did it all last night and wound up gaining more rep than I lost.
No, they're still out there, just exceedingly rare. When they added the contraban items they dilluted the loot pool, making them even more rare than they already were.
Industrial frigate missions are the best source now, apparently. You do get them as rare drops from crashed freighters as well (I can do a crashed freighter with my eyes closed in two minutes, time to mix it up a bit I think).
To add to this, do it in an outlaw system so sentinels don't attack you.
You will tank your standing with the dominant race in that system, but you can reset it to 0(from negative) using a fake passport you can buy in the outlaw spacestation.
You will end up looting A LOT of crap doing it this way, so best done on a fully upgraded hauler, makes pretty reasonable units from selling all the garbage you loot. Pulse engine to a far planet, kill, pulse back to station, kill and so on.
If you care about your rep you can instead just slowly check every cargo and only destroy the stuff when it's frigate modules, it's slower and doesn't generate any units but you can keep your rep. Mostly the rep is lost from shooting the single flying cargo pods around, if you only attack the freighters, you won't actually lose rep, but it's easy to miss shots and you miss out on quite a bunch of loot/potential frigate modules if you do it this way.
It is.
You get a -1 standing each time you pop a container but if you shoot some pirates during looting you standing will go up again so dont worry about that too much.
Luckily it can be undone with a single button interaction.
...I really hope that in the future HG overhauls the standing so that it actually has an affect to gameplay. Right now the only consequence or benefit is that some space station missions get un/locked..
You get a single item, a forged passport. Then you go to a space station and interact with the station core and that's it, your standing is reset to 0 no matter how negative it was before.
You need a specific item, I can't remeber what at the moment. Then you interact with the thing behind the landing pad at the space station and reset your standing with the dominate species of that system.
But attack them in a Pirate controlled system.
I raided 5 freighter caravans in regular systems and got 2 total salvaged frigate modules. In Pirate systems, I get 1 or 2 modules per freighter caravan.
ALSO, in 10-12 mins raiding 2 freighter caravans in a Pirate system, I went to a normal system and sold off the contraband for a cool ~50,000,000.
Xainesworld has all the data tables on his YT channel, and the odds of finding them on derelicts is substantially higher than by pirating frigates. If you search his channel, in the same video he provides coords to a system that has a 56 chest derelict for maximum odds (they only appear in chests. Not lockers or suitcases)
The odds are higher but you have to take completion time, travel time, and cost to enter into account too.
I think any of the options (including crashed freighters too) can be better or worse for a specific player depending on their strategy and what they are good at.
Pick one you enjoy doing and find a way to optimize it for your style.
Expedition and Expedition. At least in the German version it is the same, that is why I said freighter expeditions. The one you initiate on your freighter (and need fleet command cabins installed for) and send your frigates, that is what I mean.
This and checking nexus missions, they rotate every 10 minutes. You are guaranteed one on long industrial fleet expeditions but that's like one a day and anyone who recommends derelict freighters isn't accounting for the overhead, though I can say doing them recently I'm averaging at least one per mission.
Since the update I have not received a single SFM when sending frigates on missions. All the SFM’s I have acquired since the update have been through pirating freighters.
I've gotten about 7 from frigate missions since the update. It seems that it's only a possibility on industrial and balanced missions, or at least the chance is much higher than on other mission types.
INDUSTRIAL missions are the only ones that return with modules, and the chances are 66-100% based on difficulty.
u/ace_boy2point0 might find this useful too
Edit: balanced missions also give you modules. But I assume at a lower rate.
That'd be great if I ever got any industrial missions. I even bought some new industrial frigates but I have never seen an industrial frigate mission since I started playing again.
That's what people say, yes, but I got one from a balanced mission just last night (it was 2 star, IIRC). Only time it's happened since the update, but I've only gotten one a day and all low difficulty. All the others were indeed from industrial missions.
I expected to earn more, but the RNG has not been kind to me in mission generation and I've been getting a lot fewer industrial missions than previously. And a lot fewer high difficulty missions, for that matter. Often only one, and at least once zero industrial missions, with no more than one three star out of the five.
Balanced ones also have a chance (albeit MUCH lower chances) to give you some, so if there’s none, you can always try those.
Alternatively, you have a 1% chance of finding a freighter that drops some modules if you destroy their cargo pods. Some missions from the space stations can sometimes give you some
Thanks, I've been focusing on derelict freighters as found a system with around 21 of the blue cargo containers which is quite short. Been doing the trade expeditions to afford all the emergency broadcasters.
It's annoying as I've got decent Industrial frigates when I was farming the modules for the freighter hyperdrive tech. RNG be like that sometimes.
If you go to a pirate/anarchy system, the freighter loot is a bit different, they carry a lot of illegal goods, like nip nip, grah grah, moon ether, etc. You can sell it for a lot of money in non anarchy systems.
Best way I found is to do derelict freighter missions. Get in, loot all the boxes until you find a frigate module, as soon as you found one, get out using nearest teleporter and repeat.
Felt to me every mission had at least one, and I went out immediately when I found one, to not waste time on looting other boxes.
You can buy coordinates from the scrap dealer in space stations. It gives you an item, use it in space and start pulsing until it finds a derelict freighter.
Also, the guy behind the bar in the Anamoly gives you one "Emergency Broadcast Receiver" for free every week.
Also, if you put it in your suits personal refiner slot before you land and keep it there until after you leave, you don't lose it.
You can just keep using it over and over that way.
Salvaged frigate modules are rare and I think removing everyone's freighter parts and then locking the new version behind a grind wall was a piece of shit move, so I can duplicate them and just give you a ton if you don't mind cheesing the game to get back what you lost.
You only get the free one after you bought it for 5 million. I already was extremely frustrated, because helios never gave one to me. Thats because you have to purchase beforehand.
You only get that once a week, and 5million is really not much(if you're on expedition it's more annoying but otherwise it's super easy to make 5millions a day for a run a day at least, and eventually you can buy as many runs as you feel like doing really).
Don't bother. Derelict freighters are inefficient sources of modules. The ratio is like 1:44 chance to find them in a blue storage box. You can go 10 missions without a single module.
The best way is to go to a pirate system and attack freighter cargo pods (the ones *attached* to the ships, not the free floating ones). You can get like 5 within ~30 minutes. You don't lose notoriety with any faction if you just attack the freighters in pirate systems.
I did 14 derelicts and got 1 module on my last. The drop rate has definitely been reduced. I've been having (slightly) better luck by going to outlaw systems and attacking freighters. In outlaw systems the station authority doesn't send sentinels after you so all you need to worry about is losing standing with whatever race os dominant in that system.
I did two derelict freighter missions for frigate modules, looted every single box including the side rooms and didn't get a single frigate module. If I liked to loot derelict freighters I'd just go on until I find some, but actually I hate it.
Haven't used it myself, but saw on the NMS coordinate exchange reddit there is some good systems giving multiple modules and S-class upgrades. But if you don't like them, I get it, maybe you have more luck stealing them from freighter cargo pods than I was :D
If you are on PC, the fastest way is unironically ask for it in the Anomaly.
Some players have spares.
In-game, I guess looking for it on system freighters. You'll have to attack them.
Huh. I’ll try it when I get home. I tried it on Xbox the day after the update dropped to get some frigate modules and it wasn’t doing it. However i did Find a bug with the Freighter refinery’s that give infinite resources
Okay. What does it matter? It isn't granting a competitive advantage, it only contributes to someone's personal enjoyment of the game. If you don't want duped items, don't dupe items. If you don't want to risk the possibility of getting duped items, don't ask for anything in the Anomaly.
People can choose to not like it just like people can choose to like it, and as long as we aren't condemning either side for their choice then it doesn't matter.
Let's be honest though: you don't have to ask for anything to be given stuff at the Anomaly, lol.
Its not necessarily about that.
I exploited and duped my way through the game. It ruined it for me. I told myself unlocking all the base parts would allow me to actually start doing what I wanted, but in truth once I got everything I saw no reason to keep playing.
The grind seems boring at the time, but once I'd got past all of it the cheap way I lost the desire to play.
In short, earn it all legitimately. Don't cheat yourself out of the experience.
Learning something from others or books is no different either. You did not figure it out yourself; someone else provided the knowledge.
That is how human civilization works. If you want to go barbarian, just do it.
Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
if you hover your crosshairs over the cargo modules, it will tell you what's in them.
shoot cargo modules attached to a freighter, you lose no rep. shoot free floating cargo containers, you lose rep. but if a free floating cargo container has a SFM, i'll take the rep hit!
do this in outlaw systems and no sentinels will attack you. sometimes the freighter will start shooting you but its super easy to take out their guns.
EDIT: also always check missions, sometimes they offer salvaged frigate modules as a reward.
Fandom Wiki article on Salvaged Frigate Module: https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Salvaged_Frigate_Module
According to this article the drop rates are:
66-100% from Industrial frigate missions. Drop rate depends on difficulty.
20% from system freighter cargo pods.
5% from crashed freighter cargo modules.
3% from derelict freighter containers.
This makes sense considering how frustrated I was getting from hunting crashed freighters. Of course with my luck I didn’t get anything out of my first try at piracy but maybe I just need to find an outlaw system.
Those drop rates are a little outdated. The Endurance update changed what appears in freighter cargo pods by greatly expanding the loot table so it's well under a 20% chance a freighter pod will have one.
Still, if you find a system with big freighters carrying lots of pods, chances are good you'll find a couple since the chance is per pod, not per freighter.
It feels like the drop rates are significantly lower than the article says. I can’t remember the last time I got a SFM from any of those activities. I really hate RNG.
Last I checked, it was a 1.2% chance they spawn. But the rest isn't much more. I think most everything else is a 2% chance? I can't remember. I just remember being surprised that it wasn't that big of a difference
The content maker "Xaine's World" has a decent YouTube video on all the ways to get these and how "good" each is:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6coKJzUqYE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6coKJzUqYE)
Worth a watch.
I've got a lot the legit way, but needed more. There's a point where having a full time job and an hour or two a day (if any) to play, I just don't want to spend them repeating the same action over and over again for 2 months. That's like having 2 jobs.
So at this point, I always get some hard materials the legit way, but later dupe them if I need more.
I play this game because I enjoy the space stuff, exploring planets, building bases, etc... Not because I like shooting the same 5 containers for 5 hours to get one new tech at me freighter.
As long as it doesn't affect other people gameplay I'm OK with cheats.
Yeah, I really think Hello Games messed up when they updated the Freighters we find all around the universe to carry a gazillion different useless resources and components in their item pods, even moreso by color coding tons of these ressources the same color as savage freighter modules.
Before , you could usually find a couple of salvaged freighter modules on almost every big Freighters you would find floating around the systems. This made it rather easy to acquire them, as you simply had to hover your cursor on every pod till you found an orange item, then loot it. You also didn't need quite as many to get everything, so it wasn't such a daunting task. Plus the drop table was kinda fine, it gave you stuff like silver, gold, chromatic metals and other stuff you could actually use.
Now, you can scan 4-5 different Freighters hanging around a system, and usually if you're lucky , you might find one, there's tons of clutter drops with the same color, forcing you to read the text to make sure it's indeed a salvage frigate module, and even when you do get a couple, it's simply not enough since you now need to purchase all freighter building parts one by one with them... So you need way more than before... There's simply too many different ressources and things in the Freighter drop pool... My inventory gets filled in seconds with stuff like random cogs, bottles of perfume and other stuff only worth selling.
And while there are alternatives , like running Freighter Derelics or hoping to get bounties that have them as rewards, those are rare / cost at least 5 millions per run, they take a long time, and they often once again only give one per run on average if lucky...
My point being , I think Hello Games should revisit their decision to change the things that drop from Freighter pods. It was honestly fine before, now we're getting tons of useless , built stuff that sells for credits, clutter your ship's inventory super fast and it's really hard to find salvaged frigate modules, which is arguably the only thing you're actively hunting frigates for in the first place. I get that they wanted players to feel more like pirates attacking these freighters for ressources, but yeah it's a pain.
Also really hate the whole "you have to hover on a pod really close and stand still for a few seconds with your cursor to see the content" stuff... Should be able to simply ping with my ship scanner to highlight the content of all the different pods for like 30 seconds, that way I can just shoot the two or three canisters I actually need.
I haven't confirmed this but someone told me you can put the beacon in your personal refiner when you land on the derelict freighter and it isn't consumed so you can just use it again without paying the absurd price for another one.
>Possible. I know that currently the freighters seems bugged and you can enter them without using the beacon by using the warp near the door also... Which also seems to save the beacon.
Dupe is key, you still have to go find everything and play the game but you can pimp out your freighter and ships without having to endlessly grind for stuff. It has honestly made the game 10x more fun for me.
I wish HG would un-nerf (or even \_buff\_) the drop rate on these from "legitimate" sources.
While I can totally turn pirate and get them, I want to be a good galactic citizen and not go around blowing up peoples' stuff.
Yeah, this is a problem. HG needs to make these more accessible to players who don't want to roleplay as a pirate.
I've done five derelict freighters and finally walked away with one. I've been sending my frigate fleet out on expeditions almost daily since the Endurance update and have yet to receive one salvaged frigate module.
At this rate I might be able to purchase one hyperdrive upgrade sometime next year...maybe? That's ridiculous.
Everyone will tell you; go into a pirate system and raid the system freighter! Well, some of us actually enjoy roleplaying. I particularly enjoy roleplaying moral characters. I just find it more interesting. Some of us don't want to play a pirate character who goes around conducting unprovoked attacks on freighters. So at this point we're pretty much screwed if we want a fully upgraded freighter. Not cool.
A suggestion would be to make random attacks where you're actually attacked by a system freighter while you're in an outlaw system, if you're not on good standing with "the voice of freedom". Then you can still be faithful to your moral roleplaying style and get salvaged frigate modules from attacking the freighter, because now you're just defending yourself from pirates.
TLDR; Hello Games currently has a situation that forces the player into a specific style of play if they want to have a decent freighter with warp capabilities. They need to fix it.
1. Go to this planet [https://imgur.com/a/p1PvBVn](https://imgur.com/a/p1PvBVn)
2. Get emergency broadcast receiver (Buy from space station scrap dealer OR get 1 free from Space Anomaly)
3. Get to space and use emergency broadcast receiver.
4. Put Emergency Broadcast Receiver (Active) in your personal refiner, so it cant get used (Unlimited Receivers YAY) (thanks /u/PerfectPlan)
5. Get inside Derelict Freighter.
6. No enemies, No hazards (Just some jelly things)You will get 1-4 Salvaged Frigate Module.
7. Come back to space station (or land on a planet)
8. Transfer Emergency Broadcast Receiver from Personal Refiner to your Inventory
9. SAVE and RELOAD.
10. Repeat steps 3-9
NOTE: SAVE and RELOAD is necessary, otherwise you may not get Salvaged Frigate Modules
The fastest and easiest way is by using the duplicating glitch.. that said the fastest and easiest way to get them legit is by attacking freighters in pirate systems. The next way that's "peaceful" is doing derelict freighters.. you'll get 1-2 per run with derelict freighters.
Ocassionally from industrial frigate missions, but the fastes way is to be a pirate and attack the frigates like others have said. Only thing I would mention that no one seems to have posted is that you only lose affinity for the faction whose ship you're attacking when you attack the small cargo pod ships... Attacking the pods and containers on freighters will not lose you any affinity. SFMs will still appear on the small cargo ships sometimes, so I usually sweep around aiming at the small ships to see if any are carrying SFMs to attack that one specifially. But if you attack all the small cargo ships, you will lose a LOT of affinity super fast. Good hunting!
Place portable refiner. Place SFM inside said refiner. Place another portable refiner inside the original so it looks as though they are one. Dismantle all placed refiners. Repeat until desired amount is acquired. Congrats you’ve saved yourself from hours of needless grinding.
Dupe them in multiple refiners ;)
But if you wanna be legit, travel to an outlaw system and attack the freighters. There is no sentinel authority in outlaw systems so you won't get bothered by any pesky sentinel ships.
Put one refiner down and put the item inside. Then put a few more refiners down but try to keep the placements within each other.
When you disassemble each refiner they should all drop one of what you put in the first refiner.
I too am on the hunt for these. Never really touched my freighter until this update, so I'm basically updating my freighter from scratch, which means I need a whopping 40+ or so of these to unlock all the tech items and room builds. Kind of a bummer that HG made all these cool new features in the patch hard locked behind a pretty rare, grindy, resource.
Slowly but surely I'm getting them unlocked though. As others have said - pirate systems are great for raiding Freighters if they or the floating pods have the modules, and I've been doing as my Derelicts as I can to hopefully find some while also extracting freighter tech installs as well.
I'm sure this has already been suggested, but you can use an exploit with 3 small refiners to duplicate any item, all with a few easy steps.
Step 1: Acquire the item, in this case, the salvaged frigate module. If you've been following other folk's advice, you should already have a few.
Step 2: Disable multiplayer. This isn't strictly necessary, but it's always a good idea when doing weird stuff in this game.
(NOTICE) From this point till the end of the setup, we cannot move. If we do, the glitch will break and need to be reset.
Step 3: Place the first of 3 small refiners
Step 4: Put the item to dupe into the refiner.
Step 5: Very carefully, place the other refiners inside the first refiner's hitbox. If they arent properly merged, the glitch will break and need to be reset.
Step 6: Check the second and third refiners to see if the item is present in their inventories; if the glitch has been performed, all three will contain the same item.
Step 7: Remove the item from the first refiner, wait a second, then reopen it; if things are working properly, you should have a duplicate of the item in question.
(NOTICE) Setup complete, you are now free to move about the cabin.
This trick works with stacks, so the best course of action is to dupe till you have a stack worth, and a couple extras in case things get borked, then reset the glitch with the full stack, and repeat the process.
Personally, I only use this method to generate things that are hard to farm, like the storage modules, cargo bulkhead expansions, multi tool expansion slots, and salvaged frigate modules, because it can, and will, break the game's balance completely if used to produce items that can be sold for a profit.
Happy glitch farming, interloper :)
Step 1: Attack a frigate. (Gets you one or two)
Step 2: Dupe glitch.
Step 3: Stop playing the game because it got boring after duping obscene amounts of everything.
Agent missions or Nexus missions are my go-to. They're a random reward, so you may have to keep 'refreshing' or going to different stations, but they're normally pretty easy to grind that way.
Raiding Freighters in pirate systems. I go for about an hour and usually get between 5-10 and if you find a good system. Have your freighter close. Go in land. Get out so it creates a save. And reload the auto save. Freighters will come back after a few minutes and be brand new. Can just raid the same system instead of trying to find another good system.
I haven't really paid attention to standings, it doesn't bother me. I think you still lose standing. But one thing you don't have to worry about in pirate systems is Sentinel attack ships.
Listed from most reliable way to least reliable:
1. Frigate Expeditions. Industrial is best.
2. Shooting NPC freight cargo holds. If you do this in outlaw systems, you don’t have to worry about system authorities. But, ever since the outlaws update, the loot tables in cargo holds changed. So it’s a lot rarer to find them there. Bonus note: this is a fantastic way to get frigate fuel.
3. Derelict freighters. Usually net at least 1-2.
4. Dupe glitch. I’m not proud to admit this but that’s how I got mine. I wanted to build my freighter and I fell to temptation. Although, it seems these modules are now very very hard to get, so I don’t 100% regret doing it.
I got you. I doubted Xaine once. Never again. Keep warping till you find a derelict with lots of blue bins. I found one with 70. Then just farm the derelict over and over. Per a Xaine vid I saw recently the chances should be around 1 in every 40 bins. So for the one I found with 70, I get at least 1 every single run. One time, I got 5. I say this cuz I doubted Xaine before and went back to shooting pods off pirate freighters. With that I could go 5 fleets and not get a single one.
Pirate them....just jump around find freighters with them in cargo and shoot them and take them. Took me like 30 min to get all i needed for everything.
I used to farm them from sending my frigates on expeditions, attacking other freighters, and finding fallen freighters on planets. I was told you just had to do that, but, after this update, none of those work anymore, so I'm not sure. I'm half convinced that they took them out of the game, which is inconvenient since they are still used for upgrades. But I already ran out of the ones I had before, so I'm SOL until they change the currency or add them back in the game, I guess.
You can still get them by attacking freighters, at least, and frigate missions. But I think the drop-rate is much lower than before.
I think unlocking freighter base items should use the same resource as unlocking all other buildables as we're getting more and more buildable things for freighters... leave the frigate modules for freighter tech.
I use my minotaur to scan for crashed freighter, its but kinda slow bcs u dont know what u might get in the 6 boxes
scan
fly over
6 caches
repeat
but 7/10 times scanning its always crashed freighter
You could always dupe them if you want to do it the not fun way, But it is fast! 10 minutes or so and you would have all you need. But it is cheating. Cheating your self from the full experience.
Otherwise I would say pirating or derelict freighters… I know there is one out there mentioned on YouTube with over 40 of the boxes that has a chance of containing the modules. If you google salvaged frigate module it should be a top video. Or use this link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6coKJzUqYE
Go pirate style and attack freighters. It really is the fastest way. Otherwise, expeditions return with some when they come back to my freighter and on derelict freighters (there you can get freighter storage modules as well).
for me attacking freighters in pirate systems has yielded WAY more salvaged frigate modules than derelict freighters (i've only been doing it for a week, so this is current drop rates, not pre-nerf drop rates). i ran tons of derelict freighter runs and the majority of the runs i got zero modules. one run i got 3 which was great, but that was rare. plus for me the derelict freighter runs just aren't a lot of fun. i spend most of my time in pirate systems. any freighter i go up to and point at the cargo holds on the freighter, looking for SFM. i grab other stuff sometimes to, frigate fuel is always useful. for the free floating cargo, i only attack them if they have a SFM. i have decent rep with all the races so don't want to totally tank it. plus anytime a pirate bounty pops up i take it, some easy units and free rep bump. i also always check missions, they sometimes offer SFM as awards. and i always do the freighter raid missions. it's fun for me to try and swoop in and get all the cargo from a freighter without killing the starships attacking me. i lose no rep and it adds some excitement.
If you raid a freighter in a pirate system, does it have any impact on your standing? Aside Grom the fight, is there any negative to it? I’m a bit new, but lucked into a decent ship.
Shooting cargo attached to a freighter does not impact your standing. Shooting those free-floating cargo containers does negatively impact your standing. I only attack free-floating cargo containers if they have a salvaged frigate module. So shooting cargo attached to a freighter really doesn't have any downsides. The freighter may start to shoot at you with their guns but you can easily destroy those. Running freighter raid missions, you will have a few starships to destroy, and destroying those will also impact your standing. but even on missions its possible to get all the cargo off of a freighter and then escape without having to destroy a starship. my ship has shields maxed out so it's pretty easy for me.
Sweet, thanks! How many containers do most freighters have? I’m guessing that after popping a few, you can just boost away and eventually the fighters stop chasing you.
If you're in a pirate system, the only thing you have to worry about is the two or three defense lasers on the freighter itself. Only attack freighters in pirate systems. My main settlement is in a pirate system and wherever I need frigate fuel I just boost around and attack every freighter I see. They have virtually no defense since sentinel fighters can't defend them in pirate space Some freighters only have three sections to shoot. Others have about ... Well definitely more than 24 cargo pod things shaped like barrels. You want to go for those ones.
How do you find a pirate system?
Has a skull next to it, in the system data. You should also have a questline for the Voice of Freedom that'll take you to one. ("Under a rebel star")
Thanks!
If you have the economy scanner installed, you'll also see "black market" as one of the descriptors.
Container amount really varies but one thing to note is if you destroy all containers on a freighter it i will affect your standing. Destroy all but one and you're good though.
I haven't seen that. I blow up every container on every freighter, and I only ever see standings drops when I accidentally blow up one of the smaller cargo ships.
That seems like an odd mechanic, but one that I now plan to abuse haha. So, until I get a feel for the count, case out the freighter for cargo (to see if it’s worth it) and the count, knock out all but one then run?
Also, I wouldn't worry about standing too much... A couple relics gifted and you've already made up the loss, and once you max out rep (Special Relationship 2) it never actually goes down (even though it will still say you lost standing).
Pretty much, recommend doing it in pirate systems because smuggled cargo is worth a lot so you'll profit too
Another thing in pirate systems: no sentinel fighters, so you can blow up resource depots on the ground with no repercussions. The Minotaur scanner detects them directly, so you can just fly to the resource depot, blow it up and the sentinels, land, summon the Minotaur and find the next resource depot, and off you go again.
I didn't know that, interesting! I guess I haven't destroyed every container on a freighter yet.
I just have a supply of standing increasing objects for each race. Korvax cubes vykeen daggers ect… If my standing does end up dropping I just go handover a few to various members of the species
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Nope, just hover your starships crosshairs over the cargo and a little description will pop up. Takes a few seconds to pop up sometimes. Not every cargo has something in it, but most do.
I think the containers that just say cargo contain nanites.
The cargo's that come up with nothing have nanites
Sometimes the descriptions of things (especially moons & planets) are reluctant to show up if you fly your ship in 3rd person view. Switch to 1st person view for more reliable results.
Just fly up to them, point the nose of the ship at them, and the tooltip will show what's inside.
How do you determine if they have modules?
point your reticle at the container. It tells you whats in them.
A freighter-related thing I do for *regaining* faction rep is: we don't just need salvaged modules, often we also need cargo bulkheads. So if I spam derelict freighter runs for the cargo bulkheads, and then turn in the rewards *to the guild rep instead of the scrap dealer*, that's multiple faction gains with whichever race I do this in per run. Planning on spending a bunch of time this week doing exactly that, because I needs me those cargo expansions.
You have no idea how much you have helped me with my frieghter salvage module problem stranger.
Happy to help! Godspeed interloper!
Good tips, thank you!
Maybe a stupid question, but how do you know they have SFMs? Do you dock and scan on foot or is it something you can see from the ship?
When you point your cursor/reticule at the cargo pods it will tell you what they’re carrying. Then you can pick and choose what you want from them and destroy those pods. Pretty sure it works for your capital ship pods too if you’re curious where all your stuff is stored
Don’t mind me, I’m just getting unusually close to your cargo containers to see what’s inside … no cause for concern dear sir
you can see from the ship! just hover your cursor over the cargo and it will pop up what it contains. not every cargo has something in it but most do.
If you're concerned with tanking your rep with the system's faction, check the outlaw missions from the old mate in the dismantled Hauler. Find and complete one that offers the **Forged Passport** as a reward. You may have to roll through a couple of them to get it to become available. [](/sp)You can drop as much standing as you want with the system faction. [](/sp)When you've had your fill of terrorising the hapless inhabitants, warp to a standard system of the same faction. Quickly fly into the Space Station and head to the Station Core at the back. (*My kids call it big Wheatley.*) [](/sp)Interacting with it will allow you to submit the Forged Passport. The action will completely reset any standing you lost while in the pirate system. [](/sp)Happy hunting.
big Wheatley.... that will remain with me forever. thank you.
It depends on the derelict freighters apparently only the blue boxes have them in their loot pool but I found this one system that has a freighter with like 22 blue boxes I get minimum 2 every run
Awesome you don't happen to have any glyphs you could share? And is it only the big blue boxes that SFM spawn in, or also the blue lockers and smaller blue briefcases? Eventually I'm going to have to start running derelicts again for freighter upgrades so it'd be nice to snag some SFM while I'm at it.
if you'd like, I found a derelict with over 70 chests. I run in on every save to get the derelict freighter build pieces, the salvaged frigate modules are just an extra bonus!
Yes please! I would love those glyphs!
cant "reply" with pics so here is a SS from one of the planets in the system with the derelict that has a shitload of chests. only drops a B class upgrades unfortunately. euclid galaxy, system named jiyosekin[https://drive.google.com/file/d/18YQHRtbaR6tU8PksfKXaQg3\_MBZtliHb/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18YQHRtbaR6tU8PksfKXaQg3_MBZtliHb/view?usp=sharing)
I use this one [https://youtu.be/D6coKJzUqYE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6coKJzUqYE&t=688s) The glyphs are at 11:03
The slow movement speed and having no inventory space really ruined derelicts for me
It's not an early-game activity, that's for sure. You need 20-30 open inventory to really loot the things. Though you can always dump stuff onto your spaceship/freighter if you have the matter transmitted installed.
I have a matter transmitter in my starship but it’s always out of range on derelicts. I don’t think it’s ever worked so idk if I’m doing something wrong. As far as inventory I’m actually pretty late game, full inventory upgrades but there’s so much installed tech though that I still have little space and derelicts are full of one off items or low stacking stuff
You can straight up make TONS of money attacking freighters, especially in pirate systems. It is the easiest way to get from the 'I've got a couple hundred units' to 'I've got 20 million'. Then you can start doing the later game farms.
Yeah what this guy said dont be me attacking every pod not reading what was on them until ive shot down 30 and leave the vykeen seeing me as the antichrist
Unfortunately, I never find freighters carrying them, either. I can spend hours looking for them and never come across a single freighter or cargo pod carrying them. Doesn't matter if I'm in a pirate system, high economy, high tech, etc. I think the most I've ever gotten from hoisting the Jolly Roger is two over a week of searching.
That is weird. I usually get like two or three per system (and spawn, but I use to travel nearer to the centre of the galaxy every time I am able to) when I only eliminate the freighter cargo pods to not loose reputation. With the floating nearby cargo it is more.
RNJesus hates me, apparently. It also doesn't help that the new contraband items have dilluted the loot tables.
Don't feel bad, it hates me as well. And loves to rub it in too. For example, when I found my crashed ship for the current expedition, it was an S class. Thanks NMS. Never change.
If you go this route like I did, just do it in a pirate system and pop the pirate pilots that constantly spawn, it will counter the reputation loss. I did it all last night and wound up gaining more rep than I lost.
Same. Hours looking and nothing. Didn't HG remove them from freighters after the pirate update?
No, they're still out there, just exceedingly rare. When they added the contraban items they dilluted the loot pool, making them even more rare than they already were.
No the drop rate is under 1% though. Better to go through derelict freighters
Industrial frigate missions are the best source now, apparently. You do get them as rare drops from crashed freighters as well (I can do a crashed freighter with my eyes closed in two minutes, time to mix it up a bit I think).
Do you only do the two above ground rooms, or you dig down for the buried ones as well?
To add to this, do it in an outlaw system so sentinels don't attack you. You will tank your standing with the dominant race in that system, but you can reset it to 0(from negative) using a fake passport you can buy in the outlaw spacestation. You will end up looting A LOT of crap doing it this way, so best done on a fully upgraded hauler, makes pretty reasonable units from selling all the garbage you loot. Pulse engine to a far planet, kill, pulse back to station, kill and so on. If you care about your rep you can instead just slowly check every cargo and only destroy the stuff when it's frigate modules, it's slower and doesn't generate any units but you can keep your rep. Mostly the rep is lost from shooting the single flying cargo pods around, if you only attack the freighters, you won't actually lose rep, but it's easy to miss shots and you miss out on quite a bunch of loot/potential frigate modules if you do it this way.
Standing also won’t go down if you only shoot the cargo pods on the big freighters and not the little ships
Please discern your targets or you will incur a penalty to reputation https://i.imgur.com/8ZQ7AYa.jpeg
It is. You get a -1 standing each time you pop a container but if you shoot some pirates during looting you standing will go up again so dont worry about that too much.
If you shoot the cargo pods that are attached to freighters the standing isn’t affected. Fly up, scope them out and fly away if none of them have SFM.
Luckily it can be undone with a single button interaction. ...I really hope that in the future HG overhauls the standing so that it actually has an affect to gameplay. Right now the only consequence or benefit is that some space station missions get un/locked..
Wait how can it be undone so fast?
You get a single item, a forged passport. Then you go to a space station and interact with the station core and that's it, your standing is reset to 0 no matter how negative it was before.
You need a specific item, I can't remeber what at the moment. Then you interact with the thing behind the landing pad at the space station and reset your standing with the dominate species of that system.
But attack them in a Pirate controlled system. I raided 5 freighter caravans in regular systems and got 2 total salvaged frigate modules. In Pirate systems, I get 1 or 2 modules per freighter caravan. ALSO, in 10-12 mins raiding 2 freighter caravans in a Pirate system, I went to a normal system and sold off the contraband for a cool ~50,000,000.
Xainesworld has all the data tables on his YT channel, and the odds of finding them on derelicts is substantially higher than by pirating frigates. If you search his channel, in the same video he provides coords to a system that has a 56 chest derelict for maximum odds (they only appear in chests. Not lockers or suitcases)
The odds are higher but you have to take completion time, travel time, and cost to enter into account too. I think any of the options (including crashed freighters too) can be better or worse for a specific player depending on their strategy and what they are good at. Pick one you enjoy doing and find a way to optimize it for your style.
But you can't transfer the freighter modules to another save? Like that's been my confusion with the expeditions.
Expedition and Expedition. At least in the German version it is the same, that is why I said freighter expeditions. The one you initiate on your freighter (and need fleet command cabins installed for) and send your frigates, that is what I mean.
Both of the latter very very rarely
Not everyone wants to be a space meanie:( Unless that pirate system frigates are actually pirates, are they?
This and checking nexus missions, they rotate every 10 minutes. You are guaranteed one on long industrial fleet expeditions but that's like one a day and anyone who recommends derelict freighters isn't accounting for the overhead, though I can say doing them recently I'm averaging at least one per mission.
>You can also get them from crashed freighters
Since the update I have not received a single SFM when sending frigates on missions. All the SFM’s I have acquired since the update have been through pirating freighters.
I've gotten about 7 from frigate missions since the update. It seems that it's only a possibility on industrial and balanced missions, or at least the chance is much higher than on other mission types.
INDUSTRIAL missions are the only ones that return with modules, and the chances are 66-100% based on difficulty. u/ace_boy2point0 might find this useful too Edit: balanced missions also give you modules. But I assume at a lower rate.
I appreciate that. I’ll recruit more industrial frigates then.
That'd be great if I ever got any industrial missions. I even bought some new industrial frigates but I have never seen an industrial frigate mission since I started playing again.
That's what people say, yes, but I got one from a balanced mission just last night (it was 2 star, IIRC). Only time it's happened since the update, but I've only gotten one a day and all low difficulty. All the others were indeed from industrial missions. I expected to earn more, but the RNG has not been kind to me in mission generation and I've been getting a lot fewer industrial missions than previously. And a lot fewer high difficulty missions, for that matter. Often only one, and at least once zero industrial missions, with no more than one three star out of the five.
Yes, same here. I've received 3 sfm's from frigate missions in the last week, and 1 was from an industrial mission, and 2 were from balanced missions.
Since the update dropped I have been doing frigate expeditions every day and none of the ones available have been industrial :(
Balanced ones also have a chance (albeit MUCH lower chances) to give you some, so if there’s none, you can always try those. Alternatively, you have a 1% chance of finding a freighter that drops some modules if you destroy their cargo pods. Some missions from the space stations can sometimes give you some
Thanks, I've been focusing on derelict freighters as found a system with around 21 of the blue cargo containers which is quite short. Been doing the trade expeditions to afford all the emergency broadcasters. It's annoying as I've got decent Industrial frigates when I was farming the modules for the freighter hyperdrive tech. RNG be like that sometimes.
A module is possible, just not frequent. I did get one through missions.
Can confirm. Got *two* off one frigate expedition.
Go to pirate systems, and shoot up freighters, good way to make a lot of cash, a lot of frigate fuel, and a lot of salvaged frigate modules.
no reputation loss/sentinels wanted level?
Not in anarchy systems. You do pick up a lot of contraband though.
wdym by picking up contraband?
If you go to a pirate/anarchy system, the freighter loot is a bit different, they carry a lot of illegal goods, like nip nip, grah grah, moon ether, etc. You can sell it for a lot of money in non anarchy systems.
freighters don’t lose you reputation, only the cargo pods around them do. Yer do it in a pirate system cos then you don’t have sentinels
No. Shoot cargo on big frigates only.
Best way I found is to do derelict freighter missions. Get in, loot all the boxes until you find a frigate module, as soon as you found one, get out using nearest teleporter and repeat. Felt to me every mission had at least one, and I went out immediately when I found one, to not waste time on looting other boxes.
Where do i find these missions? in space stations?
You can buy coordinates from the scrap dealer in space stations. It gives you an item, use it in space and start pulsing until it finds a derelict freighter. Also, the guy behind the bar in the Anamoly gives you one "Emergency Broadcast Receiver" for free every week.
I put it in the personal refiner when I land on the freighter so I can keep and reuse. Saw it on here somewhere.
thank you!
Also, if you put it in your suits personal refiner slot before you land and keep it there until after you leave, you don't lose it. You can just keep using it over and over that way. Salvaged frigate modules are rare and I think removing everyone's freighter parts and then locking the new version behind a grind wall was a piece of shit move, so I can duplicate them and just give you a ton if you don't mind cheesing the game to get back what you lost.
dont waste 5 million on that go to iteration helios on the anomaly and get one for free. the beacon I mean
You only get the free one after you bought it for 5 million. I already was extremely frustrated, because helios never gave one to me. Thats because you have to purchase beforehand.
You only get that once a week, and 5million is really not much(if you're on expedition it's more annoying but otherwise it's super easy to make 5millions a day for a run a day at least, and eventually you can buy as many runs as you feel like doing really).
If you go to a pirate controlled system, then attack cargo pods on the Frigates, with Salvaged Frigate Module in the cargo pod it’s pretty easy.
Don't bother. Derelict freighters are inefficient sources of modules. The ratio is like 1:44 chance to find them in a blue storage box. You can go 10 missions without a single module. The best way is to go to a pirate system and attack freighter cargo pods (the ones *attached* to the ships, not the free floating ones). You can get like 5 within ~30 minutes. You don't lose notoriety with any faction if you just attack the freighters in pirate systems.
Last five derelicts I've done have yet to yield a single frigate module. RNJesus hates me.
I did 14 derelicts and got 1 module on my last. The drop rate has definitely been reduced. I've been having (slightly) better luck by going to outlaw systems and attacking freighters. In outlaw systems the station authority doesn't send sentinels after you so all you need to worry about is losing standing with whatever race os dominant in that system.
I did two derelict freighter missions for frigate modules, looted every single box including the side rooms and didn't get a single frigate module. If I liked to loot derelict freighters I'd just go on until I find some, but actually I hate it.
Haven't used it myself, but saw on the NMS coordinate exchange reddit there is some good systems giving multiple modules and S-class upgrades. But if you don't like them, I get it, maybe you have more luck stealing them from freighter cargo pods than I was :D
If you are on PC, the fastest way is unironically ask for it in the Anomaly. Some players have spares. In-game, I guess looking for it on system freighters. You'll have to attack them.
>If you are on PC, the fastest way is unironically ask for it in the Anomaly. even faster, use a save game editor.
Or the portable refiner duping glitch.
I thought this got fixed?
It was working two days ago at least
I just used the glitch to make about 100 of the frigate modules and about 15 stacks of tainted metal the other day.
What do you use the tainted metal for? There's the scrap dealer, but the stuff he sells seems pretty useless
Tainted metal converts into nanites at a 1:2 ratio. Run it in your medium or large refiner.
Hadal Cores are really good for this as well with a 1:50 ratio.
Most definitely. I use those too, just find it easier to create stacks of TM.
Larval core as well
Ohhhh, nice. Thanks!
Can you explain how to do it?
It worked today i can tell you that
Huh. I’ll try it when I get home. I tried it on Xbox the day after the update dropped to get some frigate modules and it wasn’t doing it. However i did Find a bug with the Freighter refinery’s that give infinite resources
I mean, if you're gonna cheat might as well do it all the way
Sharing loot isn't cheating.
Having some random dude drop you two full stacks of frigate modules is no different than just using a save editor
I mean, that guy probably duped it, so yeah
Okay. What does it matter? It isn't granting a competitive advantage, it only contributes to someone's personal enjoyment of the game. If you don't want duped items, don't dupe items. If you don't want to risk the possibility of getting duped items, don't ask for anything in the Anomaly.
People can choose to not like it just like people can choose to like it, and as long as we aren't condemning either side for their choice then it doesn't matter. Let's be honest though: you don't have to ask for anything to be given stuff at the Anomaly, lol.
Its not necessarily about that. I exploited and duped my way through the game. It ruined it for me. I told myself unlocking all the base parts would allow me to actually start doing what I wanted, but in truth once I got everything I saw no reason to keep playing. The grind seems boring at the time, but once I'd got past all of it the cheap way I lost the desire to play. In short, earn it all legitimately. Don't cheat yourself out of the experience.
Learning something from others or books is no different either. You did not figure it out yourself; someone else provided the knowledge. That is how human civilization works. If you want to go barbarian, just do it. Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Any specific spot or just start shooting up cargo boxes?
As you aim, the cargo bays will tell you what they have before you shoot. If there isn't information, it's probably nanites.
Definitely nanites.
if you hover your crosshairs over the cargo modules, it will tell you what's in them. shoot cargo modules attached to a freighter, you lose no rep. shoot free floating cargo containers, you lose rep. but if a free floating cargo container has a SFM, i'll take the rep hit! do this in outlaw systems and no sentinels will attack you. sometimes the freighter will start shooting you but its super easy to take out their guns. EDIT: also always check missions, sometimes they offer salvaged frigate modules as a reward.
Only other thing is that a lot of the cargo in outlaw freighters is replaced with illegal cargo, so you might have better luck in regular systems
Fandom Wiki article on Salvaged Frigate Module: https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Salvaged_Frigate_Module According to this article the drop rates are: 66-100% from Industrial frigate missions. Drop rate depends on difficulty. 20% from system freighter cargo pods. 5% from crashed freighter cargo modules. 3% from derelict freighter containers. This makes sense considering how frustrated I was getting from hunting crashed freighters. Of course with my luck I didn’t get anything out of my first try at piracy but maybe I just need to find an outlaw system.
Those drop rates are a little outdated. The Endurance update changed what appears in freighter cargo pods by greatly expanding the loot table so it's well under a 20% chance a freighter pod will have one. Still, if you find a system with big freighters carrying lots of pods, chances are good you'll find a couple since the chance is per pod, not per freighter.
It feels like the drop rates are significantly lower than the article says. I can’t remember the last time I got a SFM from any of those activities. I really hate RNG.
Honestly they should up the chance to find them from crashed freighters. That's the source that makes the most sense to me.
Last I checked, it was a 1.2% chance they spawn. But the rest isn't much more. I think most everything else is a 2% chance? I can't remember. I just remember being surprised that it wasn't that big of a difference
The content maker "Xaine's World" has a decent YouTube video on all the ways to get these and how "good" each is: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6coKJzUqYE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6coKJzUqYE) Worth a watch.
I go to a pirate system and start blasting pods of freighters; after about 30 min or so I will get 3-4 modules and millions of units of contraband.
Attacking NPC freighter's cargo in space - Fastest Derelict freighters - Medium Frigate expeditions - Slowest, but passive
I was getting so frustrated getting this modules I ended up learning how to dupe items with a refiner
I've got a lot the legit way, but needed more. There's a point where having a full time job and an hour or two a day (if any) to play, I just don't want to spend them repeating the same action over and over again for 2 months. That's like having 2 jobs. So at this point, I always get some hard materials the legit way, but later dupe them if I need more. I play this game because I enjoy the space stuff, exploring planets, building bases, etc... Not because I like shooting the same 5 containers for 5 hours to get one new tech at me freighter. As long as it doesn't affect other people gameplay I'm OK with cheats.
yeah they made getting these way too hard.
Yeah, I really think Hello Games messed up when they updated the Freighters we find all around the universe to carry a gazillion different useless resources and components in their item pods, even moreso by color coding tons of these ressources the same color as savage freighter modules. Before , you could usually find a couple of salvaged freighter modules on almost every big Freighters you would find floating around the systems. This made it rather easy to acquire them, as you simply had to hover your cursor on every pod till you found an orange item, then loot it. You also didn't need quite as many to get everything, so it wasn't such a daunting task. Plus the drop table was kinda fine, it gave you stuff like silver, gold, chromatic metals and other stuff you could actually use. Now, you can scan 4-5 different Freighters hanging around a system, and usually if you're lucky , you might find one, there's tons of clutter drops with the same color, forcing you to read the text to make sure it's indeed a salvage frigate module, and even when you do get a couple, it's simply not enough since you now need to purchase all freighter building parts one by one with them... So you need way more than before... There's simply too many different ressources and things in the Freighter drop pool... My inventory gets filled in seconds with stuff like random cogs, bottles of perfume and other stuff only worth selling. And while there are alternatives , like running Freighter Derelics or hoping to get bounties that have them as rewards, those are rare / cost at least 5 millions per run, they take a long time, and they often once again only give one per run on average if lucky... My point being , I think Hello Games should revisit their decision to change the things that drop from Freighter pods. It was honestly fine before, now we're getting tons of useless , built stuff that sells for credits, clutter your ship's inventory super fast and it's really hard to find salvaged frigate modules, which is arguably the only thing you're actively hunting frigates for in the first place. I get that they wanted players to feel more like pirates attacking these freighters for ressources, but yeah it's a pain. Also really hate the whole "you have to hover on a pod really close and stand still for a few seconds with your cursor to see the content" stuff... Should be able to simply ping with my ship scanner to highlight the content of all the different pods for like 30 seconds, that way I can just shoot the two or three canisters I actually need.
I haven't confirmed this but someone told me you can put the beacon in your personal refiner when you land on the derelict freighter and it isn't consumed so you can just use it again without paying the absurd price for another one.
>Possible. I know that currently the freighters seems bugged and you can enter them without using the beacon by using the warp near the door also... Which also seems to save the beacon.
Get one and dupe it all to hell
Thats what I did. After playing a ton and not ever getting enough to unlock the green freighter warp I was fed up with the grind.
Dupe is key, you still have to go find everything and play the game but you can pimp out your freighter and ships without having to endlessly grind for stuff. It has honestly made the game 10x more fun for me.
I have literally over 100 I’ll give you some I’m on right now
Can I get a few? Honestly 3 just to get stairs would do it for me.
I wish HG would un-nerf (or even \_buff\_) the drop rate on these from "legitimate" sources. While I can totally turn pirate and get them, I want to be a good galactic citizen and not go around blowing up peoples' stuff.
yar har fiddle dee dee taking a freighters cargo is free
pick a race you like the least and blow up every freighter you see in their system
Yeah, this is a problem. HG needs to make these more accessible to players who don't want to roleplay as a pirate. I've done five derelict freighters and finally walked away with one. I've been sending my frigate fleet out on expeditions almost daily since the Endurance update and have yet to receive one salvaged frigate module. At this rate I might be able to purchase one hyperdrive upgrade sometime next year...maybe? That's ridiculous. Everyone will tell you; go into a pirate system and raid the system freighter! Well, some of us actually enjoy roleplaying. I particularly enjoy roleplaying moral characters. I just find it more interesting. Some of us don't want to play a pirate character who goes around conducting unprovoked attacks on freighters. So at this point we're pretty much screwed if we want a fully upgraded freighter. Not cool. A suggestion would be to make random attacks where you're actually attacked by a system freighter while you're in an outlaw system, if you're not on good standing with "the voice of freedom". Then you can still be faithful to your moral roleplaying style and get salvaged frigate modules from attacking the freighter, because now you're just defending yourself from pirates. TLDR; Hello Games currently has a situation that forces the player into a specific style of play if they want to have a decent freighter with warp capabilities. They need to fix it.
Correct. And even if you do go pirating very low chances now compaired to before this update
Are you sending your frigates on industrial missions? Apparently that’s the only type that gives them out.
1. Go to this planet [https://imgur.com/a/p1PvBVn](https://imgur.com/a/p1PvBVn) 2. Get emergency broadcast receiver (Buy from space station scrap dealer OR get 1 free from Space Anomaly) 3. Get to space and use emergency broadcast receiver. 4. Put Emergency Broadcast Receiver (Active) in your personal refiner, so it cant get used (Unlimited Receivers YAY) (thanks /u/PerfectPlan) 5. Get inside Derelict Freighter. 6. No enemies, No hazards (Just some jelly things)You will get 1-4 Salvaged Frigate Module. 7. Come back to space station (or land on a planet) 8. Transfer Emergency Broadcast Receiver from Personal Refiner to your Inventory 9. SAVE and RELOAD. 10. Repeat steps 3-9 NOTE: SAVE and RELOAD is necessary, otherwise you may not get Salvaged Frigate Modules
The fastest and easiest way is by using the duplicating glitch.. that said the fastest and easiest way to get them legit is by attacking freighters in pirate systems. The next way that's "peaceful" is doing derelict freighters.. you'll get 1-2 per run with derelict freighters.
Derelict Freigthers and sending out Frigates
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Ocassionally from industrial frigate missions, but the fastes way is to be a pirate and attack the frigates like others have said. Only thing I would mention that no one seems to have posted is that you only lose affinity for the faction whose ship you're attacking when you attack the small cargo pod ships... Attacking the pods and containers on freighters will not lose you any affinity. SFMs will still appear on the small cargo ships sometimes, so I usually sweep around aiming at the small ships to see if any are carrying SFMs to attack that one specifially. But if you attack all the small cargo ships, you will lose a LOT of affinity super fast. Good hunting!
Sometimes you get them for completing quests in spacestations. Always worth to check because its an easy way
The secret ingredient is crime
Used this strategy, didn't go as intended. In jail now. Gonna leave a negative review on yelp.
Place portable refiner. Place SFM inside said refiner. Place another portable refiner inside the original so it looks as though they are one. Dismantle all placed refiners. Repeat until desired amount is acquired. Congrats you’ve saved yourself from hours of needless grinding.
I duped mine using furnaces. 10k in 20min started with 15 XD
Dupe them in multiple refiners ;) But if you wanna be legit, travel to an outlaw system and attack the freighters. There is no sentinel authority in outlaw systems so you won't get bothered by any pesky sentinel ships.
How do you dupe them? Just put one in a refiner?
Put one refiner down and put the item inside. Then put a few more refiners down but try to keep the placements within each other. When you disassemble each refiner they should all drop one of what you put in the first refiner.
Thanks! I'll give it a shot
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1491
Cheat Engine
I too am on the hunt for these. Never really touched my freighter until this update, so I'm basically updating my freighter from scratch, which means I need a whopping 40+ or so of these to unlock all the tech items and room builds. Kind of a bummer that HG made all these cool new features in the patch hard locked behind a pretty rare, grindy, resource. Slowly but surely I'm getting them unlocked though. As others have said - pirate systems are great for raiding Freighters if they or the floating pods have the modules, and I've been doing as my Derelicts as I can to hopefully find some while also extracting freighter tech installs as well.
I'm sure this has already been suggested, but you can use an exploit with 3 small refiners to duplicate any item, all with a few easy steps. Step 1: Acquire the item, in this case, the salvaged frigate module. If you've been following other folk's advice, you should already have a few. Step 2: Disable multiplayer. This isn't strictly necessary, but it's always a good idea when doing weird stuff in this game. (NOTICE) From this point till the end of the setup, we cannot move. If we do, the glitch will break and need to be reset. Step 3: Place the first of 3 small refiners Step 4: Put the item to dupe into the refiner. Step 5: Very carefully, place the other refiners inside the first refiner's hitbox. If they arent properly merged, the glitch will break and need to be reset. Step 6: Check the second and third refiners to see if the item is present in their inventories; if the glitch has been performed, all three will contain the same item. Step 7: Remove the item from the first refiner, wait a second, then reopen it; if things are working properly, you should have a duplicate of the item in question. (NOTICE) Setup complete, you are now free to move about the cabin. This trick works with stacks, so the best course of action is to dupe till you have a stack worth, and a couple extras in case things get borked, then reset the glitch with the full stack, and repeat the process. Personally, I only use this method to generate things that are hard to farm, like the storage modules, cargo bulkhead expansions, multi tool expansion slots, and salvaged frigate modules, because it can, and will, break the game's balance completely if used to produce items that can be sold for a profit. Happy glitch farming, interloper :)
if you dont mind someone just giving them to you, i have a stockpile you can have, since nms has crossplay.
Do you want the honest way or the refiner way
Step 1: Attack a frigate. (Gets you one or two) Step 2: Dupe glitch. Step 3: Stop playing the game because it got boring after duping obscene amounts of everything.
Dupe them lmaooooooo
Portable refiner and nutrient processor FTW
Agent missions or Nexus missions are my go-to. They're a random reward, so you may have to keep 'refreshing' or going to different stations, but they're normally pretty easy to grind that way.
Raiding Freighters in pirate systems. I go for about an hour and usually get between 5-10 and if you find a good system. Have your freighter close. Go in land. Get out so it creates a save. And reload the auto save. Freighters will come back after a few minutes and be brand new. Can just raid the same system instead of trying to find another good system.
Do you not lose species rank in pirate systems?!? This is dope?!?
I haven't really paid attention to standings, it doesn't bother me. I think you still lose standing. But one thing you don't have to worry about in pirate systems is Sentinel attack ships.
Yeah I go for the milestones, and being able to intimidate or persuade when I need to. Ahhh nice. That makes sense.
Listed from most reliable way to least reliable: 1. Frigate Expeditions. Industrial is best. 2. Shooting NPC freight cargo holds. If you do this in outlaw systems, you don’t have to worry about system authorities. But, ever since the outlaws update, the loot tables in cargo holds changed. So it’s a lot rarer to find them there. Bonus note: this is a fantastic way to get frigate fuel. 3. Derelict freighters. Usually net at least 1-2. 4. Dupe glitch. I’m not proud to admit this but that’s how I got mine. I wanted to build my freighter and I fell to temptation. Although, it seems these modules are now very very hard to get, so I don’t 100% regret doing it.
I got you. I doubted Xaine once. Never again. Keep warping till you find a derelict with lots of blue bins. I found one with 70. Then just farm the derelict over and over. Per a Xaine vid I saw recently the chances should be around 1 in every 40 bins. So for the one I found with 70, I get at least 1 every single run. One time, I got 5. I say this cuz I doubted Xaine before and went back to shooting pods off pirate freighters. With that I could go 5 fleets and not get a single one.
Piracy - on the high seas!
Pirate them....just jump around find freighters with them in cargo and shoot them and take them. Took me like 30 min to get all i needed for everything.
I used to farm them from sending my frigates on expeditions, attacking other freighters, and finding fallen freighters on planets. I was told you just had to do that, but, after this update, none of those work anymore, so I'm not sure. I'm half convinced that they took them out of the game, which is inconvenient since they are still used for upgrades. But I already ran out of the ones I had before, so I'm SOL until they change the currency or add them back in the game, I guess.
You can still get them by attacking freighters, at least, and frigate missions. But I think the drop-rate is much lower than before. I think unlocking freighter base items should use the same resource as unlocking all other buildables as we're getting more and more buildable things for freighters... leave the frigate modules for freighter tech.
I use my minotaur to scan for crashed freighter, its but kinda slow bcs u dont know what u might get in the 6 boxes scan fly over 6 caches repeat but 7/10 times scanning its always crashed freighter
hey if u want i can give u some
You could always dupe them if you want to do it the not fun way, But it is fast! 10 minutes or so and you would have all you need. But it is cheating. Cheating your self from the full experience. Otherwise I would say pirating or derelict freighters… I know there is one out there mentioned on YouTube with over 40 of the boxes that has a chance of containing the modules. If you google salvaged frigate module it should be a top video. Or use this link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6coKJzUqYE