If you want to reach the stars, then you’ll have to find a variety of items, including Pure Ferrite, a Hermetic Seal, Di-hydrogen Jelly and Metal Plating. Here we’ll explain how to find all these items, so that you can properly repair your ship and venture into the stars. We’ll also tell you have to recharge your Hazard Protection, so that your cosmic journey doesn’t end up being rather short. On this page: Ferrite Dust can be easily found by destroying by rocks, big and small, using your Multi-Tool’s mining beam. Once you have 75 Ferrite Dust, open your Multi-Tool inventory and select the Scanner to repair it. Use your Scanner to find the 10 Sodium you need to recharge your exosuit’s Hazard Protection. Once you’ve collected enough Sodium, open your exosuit inventory and select Hazard Protection. Remember to recharge your Hazard Protection regularly, as the levels will slowly decrease as you explore the planet. To repair the Pulse Engine you need:
1 - Hermetic Seal 1 - Metal Plating
To repair the Launch Thruster you need:
50 - Pure Ferrite 1 - Di-hydrogen Jelly
Crafting the Metal Plating Creating the Metal Plating for the Pulse Engine is easy. All you have to do is collect 50 Ferrite Dust from the rocks you can find surrounding your ship. When you have enough you can craft the Metal Plating in your inventory and add it to your ship. Finding the Hermetic Seal Finding the Hermetic Seal, however, is a little more difficult. Once you’ve replaced the Metal Plating, jump into your ship’s cockpit and you’ll be prompted to open the nearby Distress Beacon. Inside this Distress Beacon, you’ll find a Planetary Chart. Open your inventory and use the Planetary Chart to plot a route to the location of the Hermetic Seal. During your journey to this location, you may experience some dangerous weather related to the world’s environmental hazard, such as a firestorm. If this happens you can either shetler in a nearby cave or building, or recharge your Hazard Protection. You will eventually reach an abandoned outpost. Head to the building that has been highlighted by the Planetary Chart and activate the Holo-Archive you find inside to receive the Hermetic Seal. Leaving the outpost, you’ll need to use your Analysis Visor to locate your ship. Open your inventory, select an empty slot on your Multi-tool and then the Analysis Visor to begin the installation. Next you need to gather 50 Carbon by using your Multi-tool on nearby trees and plants. You can then craft the Carbon Nanotubes you need for the visor, just like how you gathered the Metal Plating. Return to the Multi-tool in your inventory and install the Analysis Visor, which you can use to analyse objects (what a surprise) and track a route back to your ship. When you reach your ship, you can add the Hermetic Seal to the Pulse Engine to finish repairing it. Crafting Di-hydrogen Jelly You’re going to need 40 Di-hydrogen to craft a Di-hydrogen Jelly. Use your scanner to find the nearest source of Di-hydrogen and get that mining beam working. Once you’ve collected 40 Di-hydrogen, you can craft the Di-hydrogen Jelly in your inventory. Return to your ship to add it to the Launch Thruster. Creating Pure Ferrite Creating Pure Ferrite sees you collecting Ferrite Dust again. While you’ll be prompted to only collect 50 Ferrite Dust, you’ll save time later on if you collect 100 Ferrite Dust. Once you’ve gathered all the dust, it’s time to build a Portable Refinier. Step one in Portable Refinery construction is to craft another piece of Metal Plating. Step two is gathering 30 Oxygen from the surrounding plants or animals. Open the Build Menu and the Portable Refiner should be the first option available to you. Place the Portable Refiner nearby and then collect Carbon from nearby plants to fuel it. You should already have the 50 Ferrite Dust you need - if not, it’s Ferrite Dust collection time again. Place the Ferrite Dust into the Input section of the Portable Refiner, then sit back and watch it become Pure Ferrite. Take your new stash of Pure Ferrite out of your Portable Refiner and head back to your ship to finish repairing the Launch Thrusters. Finally pick up your Portable Refiner and jump into your ship, so you can start exploring the galaxy.
Make sure you stock up on supplies before heading to the next planet. Since every planet in No Man’s sky is unique, there’s never a guarantee that where you land will have the resources you need to survive. For this reason, you should always make sure you have gathered some supplies before heading off world. Don’t forget about oxygen! You need to oxygen to fuel your Life Support and without that your space adventure may never get off the ground. Oxygen can be found by destroying plants or by killing the local wildlife.
Keep an eye on your mining beams charge. Your mining beam runs on carbon and will stop working if you don’t refuel it. Carbon can be easily found by destroying trees and plants, so you can easily replenish your stock. You do have a melee attack that you can use to destroy plants, if you do run out of carbon. Don’t leave your machines behind. If you haven’t built yourself a base yet, then always make sure you pick up any machine, like a Portable Refiner, after you use it. You don’t want to fly to the next planet, only to realise that you’ve left an important tool behind.
