Elite Dangerous Materials

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1	Materials note: This spreadsheet is meant for the FASTEST ways to obtain high grade materials, and then trading for the rest. Not every high grade will be listed here, because some things just take too long. Just trade for that stuff. https://inara.cz/elite/components/ is a great resource if you're looking for other ways too.
2	NOTICE: AS OF ED 18.08, missions can provide a tremendous amount of high end materials enclouding encodings. If you mission run, pay attention for those!
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5	System	Planet	Distance from star (Ls)	Site Name	Module Requirements	Type (Rarity)	Notes
6	HIP 12099	1B	~1100	Jamerson Crash Site	Planetary Vehicle Hangar	Atypical Encryption Archives (4)	There are 9 points, plus the ship scan if you want the log entry. You need to exit out to main menu and rejoin a session to refresh
7	^	^	^	^	^	Adaptive Encryptors Capture (5)
8	^	^	^	^	^	Cracked Industrial Firmware (3)
9	^	^	^	^	^	Modified Consumer Firmware (2)
10	high traffic areas such as stations				Frame Shift Wake Scanner	Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories (4)	When anyone jumps in or out of the area, scan the marker that is left behind. Unfortunately, this is a pain no matter how you cut that cake.
11	^				^	Datamined Wake Exceptions (5)	^
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13	Data can most easily be gained by just farming the Jamerson Crash until full on the data there, then trading for what you need. It is recommended that before you visit, trade all of your Adaptive Encryptors Capture and Atypical Encryption Archives (these drop often). However, Cracked Industrial Firmware, and Modified Consumer Firmware RARELY drop, and it's recommended to farm with around 3/4 full so that you have room to obtain some.
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15	Raw Materials
16	NOTE: It was discovered that you can harvest resources using flak or mines, and limpets and SRVs are not required. See this video as a how to. Efficient Raw Material Farming in Elite Dangerous
17	RAW MATERIALS image from https://imgur.com/gallery/gH4CzuQ
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20	Manufactured Materials
21	HERE IS A SITE OF CURRENT SYSTEMS WITH HGES: High Grade Emissions Finder
22	Faction Allegience *	Planet	State *	Site Name	Module Requirements	Material (Rarity)	Notes
23	Federal	-	None	High Grade Emissions	Collector Limpet Controller	Core Dynamics Composites (5)	Very common
24	^	-	^	^	^	Proprietary Composites (4)	Very common
25	Imperial	-	None	High Grade Emissions	Collector Limpet Controller	Imperial Shielding (5)	This is the easiest grade 5 manufactured material to get. It's everywhere in imperial space!
26	Independent	-	Civil Unrest	High Grade Emissions	Collector Limpet Controller	Improvised Components (5)	You will probably have to go to the edge of the bubble to find enough independent factions in this state, and even then it is rare. Or just trade for it.
27	Any	-	War / Civil War	High Grade Emissions	Collector Limpet Controller	Military Grade Alloys (5)
28	^	-	War / Civil War	^	^	Military Supercapacitors (5)	This one sometimes likes to be rare for some reason.
29	Any (Alliance or Independent for highest chance)	-	Outbreak	High Grade Emissions	Collector Limpet Controller	Pharmaceutical Isolators (5)	Rare as hen's teeth. The outbreak state is quite rare, and other types of G5 like to take priority. Try to find outbreak in an independent system. As of 18.08, if you find a site you can fill your hold easy, but even finding one is still difficult. You may have to resort to trading.
30	Any	-	Boom	High Grade Emissions	Collector Limpet Controller	Proto Heat Radiators (5)	One of the easiest to get g5 materials, very widespread and indiscriminate of allegience.
31	Alliance or Independent	-	Boom	^	^	Proto Light Alloys (4)	Very common because boom is a very common state.
32	^	-	Boom	^	^	Proto Radiolic Alloys (5)	Very common because boom is a very common state.
33	HIP 17403	A4A	~1250	Crashed Thargoid Ship	Planetary Vehicle Hangar	Sensor Fragment (5)	Sensor fragments can't be traded for anything. Used to unlock prof palin (engineer). 1-3 Thargoid sensors will roll down the hill. shoot them to collect the fragments. main menu instance refresh to get more to roll down
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35	* HGE sites have a state and allegience! You need to check them before you fly to them! The info panel will display the faction and state the site is for. Cross-check the faction allegience in the internals panel (right side), status tab, system factions infogroup. To the right is an example of a site which is aligned to the FEDERATION, but also is in a BOOM state. So, you will have a chance at the drops!
36	To respawn the site, you have to completely restart the game and go to supercruise. The site will be behind you. High Grade Emission spawn rates are NOT tied to population since the exploration update in Elite Dangerous 3.3 (Beyond Chap 4)
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40	Guardian Sites
41	Canonn Science has a page on (Guardian Structure \| Canonn Research Group) guardian locations, some of which will be clower than those listed below. These below are being kept as they have been verified by authors and come with helpful advice for running them.
42	System	Planet	Distance from star (Ls)	Site Name	Type	Obelisk Count	Notes
43	Synuefe NL-N C23-4	B3	2,452	Guardian Structure	Guardian Module Blueprints	4	For instructions, see Walkthrough: Guardian Module Blueprints \| Frontier Forums
44	^	^	^	Ancient Relic @ 48.1808, -48.3718	Pattern Epsilon Obelisk Data	2	Pattern epsilon is a very very rare material, and is a complete dice roll when you scan any obelisk to obtain. 2 obelisks are here, adjacent to each other, making it easier for relog scanning. For instructions, see Quick farming of Pattern Epsilon for Guardian Module/Vessel Blueprints : r/EliteDangerous
45	Synuefe EU-Q C21-10	A3	312	Guardian Structure	Guardian Weapon Blueprints	4	You get the Guardian Weapon Blueprints from this site. For instructions, see Walkthrough: Guardian Weapon Blueprints \| Frontier Forums
46	Synuefe KU-F B44-4	1	8	Guardian Beacon	Ancient Keys for Vessel Segments	0	Guardian Vessel Blueprints, part 1 of 2. You need keys first. One key for each vessel, as each vessel requires one blueprint (total of three). For instructions, see Walkthrough: Guardian Vessel Blueprints \| Frontier Forums
47	Synuefe EU-Q C21-15	A1	114	Guardian Site (?)	Guardian Vessel Blueprint Segments	4	Guardian Vessel Blueprints, part 2 of 2. You must bring anchient keys from the Guardian Beacon above. For instructions, see Walkthrough: Guardian Vessel Blueprints \| Frontier Forums
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52	https://inara.cz/elite/techbroker/#tab_techbrokerslot2 is a resource for seeing how much guardian stuff you need to unlock the modules you are looking for.
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