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If you've been playing No Man's Heaven - either for the first time or returning from a while past - you lot may accept seen mention of a resource called Tainted Metallic. You lot may recall this is simply another blazon of metal that can exist gathered in the game, merely Tainted Metal is slightly different from Copper and Gold.

Tainted Metal is i of the many additional resources and currencies added into No Human's Sky, offer new missions and rewards to be obtained. Hither'due south everything you demand to know about the fabric and what exactly y'all need it for.

No Man's Sky_dark corridor with red light

Added into the game along with the Desolation Update, Tainted Metal is a bit material that tin be salvaged and traded for rewards and cosmetics. The flake dealer on whatsoever space station will show you the things y'all can obtain with the metal and will provide you with opportunities to gather more.

There are a few ways to become about finding Tainted Metal - namely the methods in which to locate the wreckages that business firm it. At that place volition exist enough to find, just the beginning task is to locate the desolate freighters themselves. This can be washed by a chance see, but there are ways to seek them out specifically.

No Man's Sky_scrap dealer dialog

You can buy coordinates from the flake dealers on space stations, who will then give yous an Emergency Broadcast Receiver to locate the wreckages. Use them in your inventory to begin the scan, and then utilise the Pulse Bulldoze until it finds a source.

The desolate freighters can too exist found by encountering an Anomaly whilst using the Pulse Drive in space, though you have a hazard to encounter much more than merely these freighters.

No Man's Sky ship flying towards desolate freighter

Alternatively, you tin become an Anomaly Detector from breaking asteroids in space, though this method is much less frequent. You'll get plenty of Tritium and Gold or Silver, but occasionally y'all can detect these Anomaly Detectors.

Just like the Emergency Broadcast Receivers, these tin be used from within the inventory, followed by awaiting the location while Pulse Driving in your send.

No Man's Sky_cockpit signal received inside ship

With this, you will be able to locate a desolate freighter while in infinite. These old and ruined freighters will offer No Homo's Sky'southward equivalent of dungeons, allowing you and a few friends to roam the abandoned corridors and quarters to discover what happened.

No Man's Sky_loot containter

Logs will tell you about each freighter'south incident, and sometimes you may confront danger, only there will ever exist a certainty - Tainted Metal. You'll find it by looting the many containers aboard these vessels and will accrue quite a bit fairly quickly.

No Man's Sky_scanned room highlighting lootable containers

While in a room aboard the freighter, use your scanner to highlight all of the containers that can be looted. Once looted, they will no longer remain highlighted, so it's the perfect mode to brand certain you accept gotten everything you tin can out of the rooms earlier moving on. These can contain Tainted Metallic, materials, or fifty-fifty blueprints for new edifice parts for your base.

No Man's Sky_datapad with crew log

You tin also collect upward as many coiffure logs as possible while exploring, and then sell them to the flake dealer later on. He will offer Tainted Metal as a reward for learning well-nigh what happened to the crew and what they were working on.

No Man's Sky_scrap dealer offering to buy data

Repeat these missions and loot everything y'all can in order to build upwards the amount of Tainted Metal yous accept, especially if you want to unlock every reward available. Simply bear in heed - these missions tin can exist quite expensive, so make sure you have plenty of units.

No Man's Sky_scrap dealer in station

Purchasable Rewards

The main apply of Tainted Metal is equally a currency with the scrap dealer. They will offer rewards such equally banners, decorations, and even a creepy-looking cosmetic for your graphic symbol. If you lot're looking to go everything you can from this shop, so you'll be needing to explore quite a few of these abased vessels.

The total list of rewards can be found below:

Particular Type Toll
Suspicious Packet (Goods) Contraband Approx. 180 Tainted Metal
Suspicious Packet (Technology) Contraband Approx. 245 Tainted Metal
Suspicious Packet (Weaponry) Contraband Approx. 430 Tainted Metal
Repair Kit Contraband Approx. 800 Tainted Metal
Orange Pustule Ornament 500 Tainted Metal
Detoxified Slime Ornament 500 Tainted Metal
Bloodcurdling Banner Ornamentation 220 Tainted Metal
Tentacled Banner Ornamentation 220 Tainted Metal
Wriggling Companion Decoration 800 Tainted Metal
Horrific Flesh-Helmet Helmet three,200 Tainted Metal
Warning Decal Decal 400 Tainted Metal
Horrific Decal Decal 400 Tainted Metal
Tentacled Decal Decal 400 Tainted Metal
Risk Decal Decal 400 Tainted Metallic
Suspicious Module Upgrade Module Approx. 330 Tainted Metal

Refinement

No Man's Sky_refiner outputting nanite clusters

Another use for Tainted Metallic, if y'all take all of the rewards yous want already, is refinement. By placing the fabric in a refiner, it will convert into Nanite Clusters, which can exist claimed every bit standard Nanites - an incredibly useful currency needed for many other types of upgrades and unlockable rewards.

This can be a fantastic late-game way to obtain Nanites in bulk, though the cost of obtaining these missions volition add upwardly - the scrap dealer will exist charging millions of units for data, and units are scarcely the return for these endeavors. Plus, later purchasing the coordinates from the dealer, his prices will increase. This will reset later a solar day, so information technology'due south not something that you can do over and over.

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