hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous
today we're going to talk about meta alloys old professor palin is at it again asking for
meta alloys to be delivered to james sneddon station in the morton mart system and for that
you will then be given if you qualify either a four or five a or six a corrosive resistant
cargo rack which they say will be of much use in the following community goals to come
with that though i thought we'd have a little look at meta alloys and what they're all about
meta alloys are a key component in thyroid ships and technologies such as the interceptors and the
scouts the thyroid structure extracts resources from a planet i.e the barnacle and then converts
them into metal alloys that are then seen growing like fruit would grow off a tree now metal alloys
are capable of counteracting the corrosive effects of fargoid technology thyroid sensors we've all
seen it you've picked up something your health starts to corrode your systems go on and offline
now meta alloys have been in game since 3302 when they were first encountered at a barnacle site
in the merope system on planet 5c this led then to more barnacle sites in surrounding areas
to be documented by such groups as canon research it wasn't long though specifically around 3305
that some scientists in elite dangerous law came out to express concern about the over-harvesting
of better alloys at the barnacle sites and they theorized that this would soon leave
to these barrical sites not being able to produce better alloys if they were over harvested
and true enough in july the 4th 3305 it emerged that harvesting meta alloys were in steep decline
and many known thurgoid barnacle sites were bereft and barren have become exhausted of meta alloys
now this caused a bit of a problem because these were used in the cargo resistant cargo racks
and meta alloy hull enforcement
now this over harvesting and exploitation you could say the barnacle sites led to pilots
searching far and wide even down to the california and witch head where more sites were being found
now meta alloys can be used to unlock engineers or one particular engineer and
various technology broker items now these items are going to be much sought after especially
in regards to unlocking such engineers as felicity farseer you'll need 16 units to
unlock the cargo resistant cargo rack class 4 16 units to unlock the meta alloy hull reinforcement
and 10 units to unlock the thyroid bubble head because we all like a good bubble head
now this is all well and good i hear you say and it's great to have a little bit along
what's going on with the thyroids but how do you find these elusive barnacle sites well a
lot of the work has been done for you as i've mentioned organizations just canon research
have already done this and i've got a website with a lovely page on there
that will show you where the ripe barnacle sites are now what do you mean
ripe ripe offer better alloys ready for collection you'll need an srv some cargo space
has not got to be corrosive resistant cargo space and you can go and pick up these meta alloys how
do you do it couldn't be easier so here are the steps you need to farm barnacles equip your ship
need cargo space a scarab srv just got four tons of cargo space an optional wake scanner cannot
find where your planet is you're looking for canon dot science slash codex slash ripe barnacles
once you get close to that planet it should reveal in the navigation pane
bargoid barnacles now thyroid barnacles are what you need then you should be like you know
a good couple there here i've got five sometimes you'll have a different varying of number
depends on the planet if you can't see any of that you're either not close enough or you can go and
alternatively scan the planet that will reveal all the other ground-based options you can go
and visit there'll be distress beacons and what not flapping around drop into cruise go into your
surface scanner scan the planet up and once that's been done it'll reveal
the thyroid options and everything else on that planet so that's step two
step three get yourself on the surface approach get yourself a nice angle find the barnacle of
choice you're gonna go and harvest keep an eye on what's going on around you as well i would say you
know our flowery fan friends our space daisies may well come and give you a bit of aggravation
if you're in flight that will cut all power to your ship and you'll hit the ground like a sack
of bricks so approach with caution keeping an eye on what goes around that's step three
step four right you found your barnacle great next up find somewhere to land not too far away
as to maximize how many better alloys and other materials you can harvest
before having to return to your ship and empty the srv cargo
step four get the old srv out of the ship garage
try not to hit too many rocks as you make your way across the landscape and approach your barnacle
step four here's the fun bit get the lasers out your srv will be equipped with a cannon
and as of a recent update and the release of the scorpion srv the scarab comes with four
tons of cargo space be aware there are loads of materials that you can use for engineering
on this site in some of the other spires that have not developed into meta alloys
iron arsenic chromium phosphorus amongst others even tungsten which i find is quite sought after
locate the organic structure that's got the mining fragment or meta alloy on it get the lasers out
give it a good zapping and then collect it now from that point on you can either return
to your ship or reset the game completely up to you or you can carry on mining now
be warned the thyroids sometimes do show up like they have done on this occasion
i was there happily picking up all my materials and then the thyroids turned up however if you've
only got a couple of spires there and you want to mine even more meta alloys pop out to the
main menu go back into your instance whether it's open private solo let the game reload and
if you're lucky it'll respawn the meta alloys yet again one thing i do as well sometimes i scan
aspires just to see if there's any additional bonus or information you can get especially
off the main barnacle structure it then leaves you free to go and pick up that mining fragment
don't forget to lower your cargo scoop before you pick it up and once you've done that
you can then bond with your life when i say move on with your life
you can get on with doing something else like mining it all over again
if you are lucky or unlucky depending on how you look at it you may get a
frame shift anomaly detected this means the thyroids have turned up and it's well long
been speculated that they're actually refueling or harvesting or seeding these barnacle sites
but during the paling community goal this has been you know quite a regular occurrence a huge old
thyroid turns up shuts all the power down on your srv and your ship that way that way you know if
you're flying or taking off got to be careful make sure you get a couple of boosts in before you can
during your ship or they shut you down or you're going to hit that ground like a sack of potatoes
if you're too close as well the gravitational field of the thyroid
will lift your srv up into the air it does that then prepare yourself for a bit of a ride
you'll be able to get some spectacular shots whilst being sucked up towards that alien orifice
along with any other materials that are floating around if you've shot any spires and they've
released materials then the thyroid will suck all that up and you may well lose the lot
there i am i've been sucked up and they've attempted to give me a good probing
but it'll soon release you and go on its merry way that in short is how you mine better alloys
hope you've enjoyed the video a little bit of law a little bit what they're all about a little bit
how you find them and step-by-step guide on how to complete this community goal and no doubt other
community goals in the future i've been ricardo thanks very much for watching i'll see you soon
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