Remember when you're out exploring and landing on planets, check the gravity before you land cmdrs. You dont wanna be nosediving a high gravity planet 5k ly away from civilisation while having 1bn worth of creds on you.
Yep. I was too late learning THAT lesson. Bounced twice, thought I might survive. No such luck. I don't even know where it happened, just some unknown planet out in the Formadine Rift.
What I always do is open the cargo scoop as soon as I enter Glide. That will work as a huge brake the moment you leave Glide, and enables you to easily and without problems reach the surface. Personally I prefer the scoop over the landing gear, because I want to fly slowly close to the surface looking for a good spot to put down my ship without it trying every time to auto land
Frontier announced a few weeks ago that the galaxy is explored by 0.06% after 10 Years the game exists. So there is so much left. You can literaly point out a random system on the map and just go for it. You will always find amazing things. Just take your time and appreciate the way to your goal. I did two runs in the last 3 months. First was into the Horsehead Nebula and the Orion Nebula which brought me 700mio Credits and the second one to Soul Nebula which i finished two days ago brought me 800mio Credits. But its not about making credits which is a nice benefit by the way. It is about having fun and explore things and go where no man has gone before. I fell in love with a Type6 Transporter. I painted it in bright light orange and gave her the name "Jumpin' Jack Flash". She is such a cool flying Box. She is not totally overengeeniered but she has a decent jump range of 53+ly, clean thrusters with 335 / 525m/s and is able to carry a tier 5 fuel scoop. She is also fast enough to easily run away intercepting Thargoids, when i stumbled over one.
You should consider swapping to dirty drives once you make it past grade 3. Grade 4 and 5 clean run hotter than dirty simply based on their power draw. If you're under grade 3 clean is fine, but if you ever plan to upgrade it, just start with dirty.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM This is interesting. I never thought about this. You're right. It runs cooler and faster with dirty drives. Funny. Thank you for this advice! Meanwhile i installed an SCO Frame shift drive and made some more engeneering and got her at 58+ly jump range. I can max her out up to 60.10ly unladen.But this is a big effort which will take a big chunk of time. greetings!
From the bubble, to beagle point and back in my krait phantom. Exploring and scanning plants netted me almost 10b credits. Lots to see but space madness was a scary thing
Quite satisfying while exploring on the side. Coming from advanced AX combat the credits for exobiology are ok but not that spectacular in comparison. Still a good starting point for new players I reckon. Especially for learning the game mechanics (scanning, flying, landing).
Bacterium on dark, rust coloured planets is a nightmare at first. Every smudge and shadow looks like it. The trick for me was to find the smoothest terrain possible to avoid the confusing shapes and colours. Land on the sunlit side of the planet too and put the star to your left or right, because flat textures are the one aspect that night vision doesn't help with. When you have a difficult bacterium to find, use the turret view as you cruise the plains in your SRV to sweep across the landscape. Your HUD will briefly flash to indicate something is there. Mostly though, once you initially spot the local colour of bacterium, it becomes much easier to find the next few similarly coloured smudges on the ground 😛
I flew out to the "lost" green gas giant, 1000Ly below the galactic plane, & am returning 1000Ly above. Every system is undiscovered, every planet a first footfall. Still about 200 jumps out from Colonia. Can't wait to turn in my data & see my haul.
From what little i know about exobiolagy its worth bringing the arv cause sometimes the plants have raw materials you can gather if you want to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Ive done this myself just to keep topped off
It's worth it to bring an SRV alone for driving on Metal Rich/High Metal Content Bodies and collect materials from there as these aren't just used for Engineering your equipment but also to Synthesize Things like FSD Injections, Repair Materials for AFMU's and basically all Ammo Types from Standard to Premium for pretty much every weapon type. It's also worth noting that, if you keep travelling a distance of about 5'000 Light years away from your starting point you can unlock Engineers for your Ship's Thrusters.
You can't synth torpedoes, though, which is why I brought 12 lightweight ones on my explorer ship, because I really want to go explore new frontiers and annihilate something there
I did sell my sample data from my first voyage. But then i got bored of all the numping between systems and thought I’d do combat for a bit with my imperial eagle. Fcked around and found out. Yes, i died losing all my cartographic datas. I forgot about them. They don’t really matter in terms of creds but for the rep grind ohh man
You should do a video on gettings the Sol permit. Every video I see is about 6-7 years old and isn't up to date since they did change the process. It's also really confusing to me and other people don't seem to be able to explain it very well.
I feel like I'm doing this wrong. There are a slew of exo plants I struggle to find but in general I find it difficult to effectively locate samples quickly.
I think if you try to scan a different species to your current one it’ll warn you in the scanning UI. If you’re looking for ‘species scanned on the planet’ you can find it in system map 🫡
@@DiturisElite Did a post on Steam. So far there is no way to overlook the Data sampled so far. But i found out that, if you ping a lifeform with your scanner it illuminates in either blue or green. Blue means it's to close for DNA diversity or you allready took 3 samples of that lifeform on that specific planet. If it illuminates in GREEN, your good to go. Cheers
i recommend 2G planets. now your SRV wont unpredictably randomly accelate after flying off the surface, spin out, after becoming incontrollable fly into a rock, flip, bounce off a thing and fly for 200 meters... SRVs need a handling rework. and heres why you should use a SRV. stuff counts as diverse enough if it is 2km away from other scanned stuff. annoying and one way to eventually either deplete the SRV fuel or get the hull to 30% because of the horrible handling model.
I've seen the advised ships aren't the same ones used for exploration, but can one do exobiology as a side job while exploring away from the bubble? I'm jumping back into ED after a 4 years hiatus
Absolutely, you can do exobiology in anything, including whatever ship you’re exploring in. It just happens to be a little easier in a small ship, but again anything works 🫡
Thanks for the info on the FSD. Pro tip,no matter how tired you are,cash in your exo and codex discoveries. One brush with an annoying bot( I should have realised when he turned up) and he crucified me. 60million credits lost,20 hours of play time. Now doing doing a 1000 jump explore with 18ly range to a squadron mark. Rock snot is a pain to find See you in a few months. CMDR Keepitsimplestupid checking in.
Cool! Exo really is a good moneymaker. I use(d) the heatmaps of EDastro to find the places outside the Bubble which are (relatively) unexplored to have the highest chance of getting First Footfall bonuses. In about a week I earned enough to buy a FC with repair, refuel, re-arm and Vista services, and about 1 1/2 years of upkeep. Now I take the FC into the deep black and use it as my base to explore further and turn in my finds at my onboard Vista when I return from exploring the surrounding stars
The hardest thing is flying and searching the damn things on the surface. I've spent 1 hour flying and didn't found a thing despite being in the darkest blue region.
Some are a pain to find, but they do have very specific types of areas they grow on. Edges of craters, high up mountains, sides of hills, etc. I prefer to use a very small ship when using a FC, or you can use a SLF to zoom around and spot shit. Record the nav coordinates and then land as near as possible. Mountains are a pain. Flats I just fly to, get out and scan and repeat. No srv. Try to make 3rd sample be near another species to start. Set a time limit too. Unless you are super completion guy, I'm not spending too long searching the hills for some 3mil species. Not worth the time.
@cmdrandreyuenari4150 I was under the impression that the color differences did not mean population density differences but instead indicated where different biome type borders exist. The plant could be in that general colored area, but they prefer a particular biome. Rocky, flat area, top of hills, side of hills, craters, crevices, etc. Knowing that helps speed the process up immensely.
Spansh's 'Expressway to Exomastery' is also great if you want to guarantee that you will find something and don't want to travel too far. You can also use the camera mode to look for the next patch of bio. I figure it is my 'space drone'.
A note about First Footfall Bonus, is it's not exhausted to the person who actually gets it. If someone lands on a planet with 6 biologies, only scans 3 and leaves, someone else can get the First Footfall Bonus of the remaining 3 if they scan them, they just won't get their name on the planet. If you're just in it for a few extra credits, a lot of the time people don't scan bacterium (as shown in this video itself) so you might as well, some, like Informium, are worth nearly 50m with the first scan bonus.
Must admit: I love exobiology. Periodically I leave the bubble for a while and just explore and getting first fall always is satisfying. And then discovering new forms that I haven’t found before is always great fun.
Bacterium is relatively easy. It depends on the difference between the species colour and the hue of the planet surface. Mostly it stands out like a sore thumb, especially the most lucrative bacterium Informem found on Nitrogen worlds. It’s Osseus that can really be hard to find. You find two, easily but the third? Nah! Not every time but often enough.
First time trying exobiology yesterday and I had the unfortunate "luck" to find an Osseus first. After 20 minutes I found another one but another 30 minutes I still couldn't find the last one and I was getting physically sick from watching the surface move up close from the ship. I'm considering ditching the two samples because in the meantime I've seen all 4 other species that live on the planet in high numbers.
@@SharnLugonn I always ditch em. Find the other species, then go back into orbit come back in and try a different spot for the Osseus. Then I mutter “fukkit” and give up.
@@SharnLugonn just consider it as a Roleplay, stay there for week until you find one .... Mostly the hard ones are found in the mountains that is hard to land
ooooh - I don't know, looking for a light grey bacteria on an ice planet can make your eyes bleed. I've given up on ice planets, I'm in my mid 60's and life's too short to semi blind yourself for hours looking for 5 million's worth of space cheddar. Osseus can be a long haul but I stay in the ship and cruise about looking for it, at least it (usually) stands out from it's surroundings. The one I find really frustrating is Fungoida setisis, it can be easy to spot but can you get a landing spot anywhere near it - can you buggery!.
Already planning my next Tour outside the bubble to unlock Thruster Engineering, I just gotta finish unlocking the guardian FSD Module and checking if I want to use the DBX I already got or an Asp Explorer for it's more practical canopy view, the DBX has 5 ly more range but some life forms are harder to spot xD My Frame Shift Drive is now Grade 5, I'll definitely gonna enjoy the 63 to 68 ly jump range on the return trip 😂
Good guide. I remember when they first released the hand scanner, it WAS a mini game at the time, had to click at the right time... now it's just a press and hold -- I find that more boring, even though I'm not keep on the QTE original way, but understand why they changed it. Sampling -- One tip - DON'T switch to a different plant type before you get all 3 samples of the current plant, if you do, you'll loose the current plant. so do all 3 samples, then switch to a different plant and do 3 of that. And WHY so much money -- it's insane how much you can make!
Hello! I'm so glad to see new youtube channels on Elite Dangerous! Makes things fresh and exciting! Thanks a bunch for this guide and the one on passenger missions. I've been away from the game for a long time and recently came back to a LOT of changes. Needless to say, your channel is one of the ones I'm using to get back into things. I hope you keep at it and thanks for all your hard work! Subscribed, of course. :)
I quite enjoy a bit of exobiology, I use a DBX with Pre-engineerd FSD and guardian FSD booster thanks to your videos, an SRV and AFMU for FSD repairs from riding the neutron highway. A friend used to mock me for "mincing about scanning flowers and plants" until I showed him my credit balance XD. Made my first Billion doing it.
I used a fleet carrier with a Vista genomics on board and a sidewinder, The sidewinder is the fastest way to drop down, scan and move on. It can land virtually anywhere. After I arrived in a system with my carrier, I would take my sidewinder out to nearby surrounding systems, The biggest exobiology count I found was 12 on one planet. Water atmospheric worlds were my favorite.
Thanks CMDR o7. I got elite exploration many years ago and dip my foot in every now and again to try different gameplay loops but nothing hooked me like travelling the galaxy. recently logged back in and figured out these many new features with a new ship build, then I saw this little thing called exobiologist rank and it's given me the urge to head back out the bubble. This tutorial will come in handy.
One tip to make the experience more fun is to choose a ship you really enjoy flying. I've got an Imperial Courier decked out for exploration, and half the fun is weaving through canyons looking for the next lifeform to scan.
Different types of life will be found in different terrain. Some likes valleys where it's easy to land, some like mountain bases right next to good landing places, some like the tops of mountains where it's harder to land, and some like being half way down a steep rock face where you're only option is lots of jumping and luck to get to them after landing somewhere hopefully nearby.
Exactly. Bacteria = flat terrain. Osseus = hilly terrain. Cactoids, tubuses = canyons/mesas. Fungoids, frutexa, aleoids = mountains. Tussock = flat and hilly terrain. Fonticulua = icy terrain only (so if a rocky-ice planet has Fonticulua, look for it on ice caps - it will not spawn on a dry rocky terrain), usually on flat ice. And so on, those are just quickly taken from my head because they are the most common.
Is exobiology really that fuuun? I was expect to see video of the occasional unfortunate SRV that's been driven onto a pretty carpet of hull eating alien "sundew". Or at least a CMDRs corpse in an alien "venus fly trap". How can a game named "Elite Dangerous" harbor a community of flower children?
I got very rich from exobiology and also very bored seeing the same flora over and over only with different names and colors. It's time we get thicker atmospheric landings with weather Even high pressure planets that require especially engineered Shields to endure, but with new minerals elements to acquire that can only exist under those extreme conditions.
Right now (but this is as of today) also avoid going through the Thargoid war (even if a good jump range means you will probably be able to jump right throught it).
It’s great, but not what I’d recommend for a purely exobiology build - A little too large for fitting in the small areas. For general exploration it’s awesome though, and most of the time it’ll work for exobiology too 🫡
I'm taking the opportunity to do exo while liberating the "mileage" for Palin. Just picked a straight line away from the bubble, 5kLy and away I'm going...
first footfall does not give you the bonus. First to turn in the sample (first to log) is what gives you the bonus. Having elite observatory with the bio insights plugin running will save you loads of time on crappy low paying planets. Gives you the predicted bio samples the planet may contain with the payouts. And also tracks your distances so you don't have to guess if you have moved far enough away. Many plants do not like to spawn until your basically next to them. Night vision makes them show up from much further away. Night vision is your best friend.
Haven't really tried exobiology much but I recently got to Vice Admiral with the Federation so I need to raise funds for a Corvette. Thanks for posting this and the useful links
with the dbx how do you feel about the fuel scoop on it? i want to love the dbx but the scoop feels just feels bad. i've considered putting a size 4/3 fuel tank on it to reduce how long it takes to get to max (like you did with the krait phantom you shared a build for on a previous video) but not sure if the reduced range in the dbx would be an issue, if you have any thoughts?
Great video again, just adding 2 things, Observatory + bioinsights plugin save you so much time by telling you the base value of the bios you may find. Second thing Dolphin dont need heatsink launcher, that thing just never heat
A good note is that First Footfall is different from the First Discovery Bonus. If you get first footfall, but your buddy sells the data first, your buddy will get the 5x payout instead of you.
Hey Dituri, could we interview you for the Loose Screws Podcast? We would love to highlight you to our listeners and think it would be a lot of fun. Let us know if you are interested.
This activity pairs well with meeting the requirements to get an invite to meet Professor Palin. I made nearly 1 billion credits from first find xenobiology on that round trip (I was too cheap and stupid to self destruct)
I only do exobiology exploration. The only thing that annoys me is the need to find three samples for each plant and not being able to collect more than one type at a time. It wouldn't hurt them just to allow you to take samples as you find them until you get the three samples.
First, great use of the word pontificate, respect. Second, I have 5 years experience of the game in general, it’s just I started this bit recently. Third, I did my research - some pretty experienced folks watch my stuff and none of them corrected anything I said (they offered more in-depth advice, but I asked them to). Fourth, you think my accent is fancy? Thanks so much! 🫡
@@Tamburello_1994 I like ED because of that "do what you want whenever you want" attitude. Sometimes I like to bounty sometimes minning or other stuff and it is all on you, so if you find yourself in that gameplay (chill and easy) it is great. Personally not into onfoot PVE I like more ship combat, cargo, and exploration, and thats make me happy. o7
Remember when you're out exploring and landing on planets, check the gravity before you land cmdrs. You dont wanna be nosediving a high gravity planet 5k ly away from civilisation while having 1bn worth of creds on you.
Yep. I was too late learning THAT lesson. Bounced twice, thought I might survive. No such luck. I don't even know where it happened, just some unknown planet out in the Formadine Rift.
What I always do is open the cargo scoop as soon as I enter Glide. That will work as a huge brake the moment you leave Glide, and enables you to easily and without problems reach the surface. Personally I prefer the scoop over the landing gear, because I want to fly slowly close to the surface looking for a good spot to put down my ship without it trying every time to auto land
I just came back to Elite about a week ago.
Great to see some new video guides including up-to-date information.
ITS HERE
Thanks Dituri! I can't wait to hop back in to Elite
Finally got there, wouldn’t have made it without you 😉🫡
Frontier announced a few weeks ago that the galaxy is explored by 0.06% after 10 Years the game exists. So there is so much left. You can literaly point out a random system on the map and just go for it. You will always find amazing things. Just take your time and appreciate the way to your goal.
I did two runs in the last 3 months. First was into the Horsehead Nebula and the Orion Nebula which brought me 700mio Credits and the second one to Soul Nebula which i finished two days ago brought me 800mio Credits. But its not about making credits which is a nice benefit by the way. It is about having fun and explore things and go where no man has gone before.
I fell in love with a Type6 Transporter. I painted it in bright light orange and gave her the name "Jumpin' Jack Flash". She is such a cool flying Box. She is not totally overengeeniered but she has a decent jump range of 53+ly, clean thrusters with 335 / 525m/s and is able to carry a tier 5 fuel scoop. She is also fast enough to easily run away intercepting Thargoids, when i stumbled over one.
You should consider swapping to dirty drives once you make it past grade 3. Grade 4 and 5 clean run hotter than dirty simply based on their power draw.
If you're under grade 3 clean is fine, but if you ever plan to upgrade it, just start with dirty.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM This is interesting. I never thought about this. You're right. It runs cooler and faster with dirty drives. Funny. Thank you for this advice! Meanwhile i installed an SCO Frame shift drive and made some more engeneering and got her at 58+ly jump range. I can max her out up to 60.10ly unladen.But this is a big effort which will take a big chunk of time. greetings!
It's wild how, to this day, when I go exploring, or even run to Sag A from the bubble, I find planets that have been undiscovered..
Once again you have the best way to get info across quickly and efficiently
From the bubble, to beagle point and back in my krait phantom. Exploring and scanning plants netted me almost 10b credits. Lots to see but space madness was a scary thing
Quite satisfying while exploring on the side. Coming from advanced AX combat the credits for exobiology are ok but not that spectacular in comparison. Still a good starting point for new players I reckon. Especially for learning the game mechanics (scanning, flying, landing).
Bacterium on dark, rust coloured planets is a nightmare at first. Every smudge and shadow looks like it.
The trick for me was to find the smoothest terrain possible to avoid the confusing shapes and colours. Land on the sunlit side of the planet too and put the star to your left or right, because flat textures are the one aspect that night vision doesn't help with. When you have a difficult bacterium to find, use the turret view as you cruise the plains in your SRV to sweep across the landscape. Your HUD will briefly flash to indicate something is there. Mostly though, once you initially spot the local colour of bacterium, it becomes much easier to find the next few similarly coloured smudges on the ground 😛
I flew out to the "lost" green gas giant, 1000Ly below the galactic plane, & am returning 1000Ly above. Every system is undiscovered, every planet a first footfall. Still about 200 jumps out from Colonia. Can't wait to turn in my data & see my haul.
From what little i know about exobiolagy its worth bringing the arv cause sometimes the plants have raw materials you can gather if you want to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Ive done this myself just to keep topped off
It's worth it to bring an SRV alone for driving on Metal Rich/High Metal Content Bodies and collect materials from there as these aren't just used for Engineering your equipment but also to Synthesize Things like FSD Injections, Repair Materials for AFMU's and basically all Ammo Types from Standard to Premium for pretty much every weapon type.
It's also worth noting that, if you keep travelling a distance of about 5'000 Light years away from your starting point you can unlock Engineers for your Ship's Thrusters.
All great points both 🫡
@@DiturisElite Guess who's been reloading his Rail guns with an angry NPC behind him xD
Boy was I glad I didn't sleep on collecting raw materials 😹
Agree. Half the fun for me is also racing across the planet at full speed in the SRV to find the next patch of bio.
You can't synth torpedoes, though, which is why I brought 12 lightweight ones on my explorer ship, because I really want to go explore new frontiers and annihilate something there
That was really good ! =] Thanks so much for the informative and entertaining video =D
I did sell my sample data from my first voyage. But then i got bored of all the numping between systems and thought I’d do combat for a bit with my imperial eagle. Fcked around and found out. Yes, i died losing all my cartographic datas. I forgot about them. They don’t really matter in terms of creds but for the rep grind ohh man
You should do a video on gettings the Sol permit. Every video I see is about 6-7 years old and isn't up to date since they did change the process. It's also really confusing to me and other people don't seem to be able to explain it very well.
Great idea! Thanks 🫡
@@DiturisElite No problem.
I feel like I'm doing this wrong. There are a slew of exo plants I struggle to find but in general I find it difficult to effectively locate samples quickly.
Is there a way to see wich species are allready sampled in my inventory ? Can't find a way to get an overview of the data i collected.
Cheers
I think if you try to scan a different species to your current one it’ll warn you in the scanning UI. If you’re looking for ‘species scanned on the planet’ you can find it in system map 🫡
@@DiturisElite Did a post on Steam. So far there is no way to overlook the Data sampled so far. But i found out that, if you ping a lifeform with your scanner it illuminates in either blue or green. Blue means it's to close for DNA diversity or you allready took 3 samples of that lifeform on that specific planet. If it illuminates in GREEN, your good to go.
Cheers
i recommend 2G planets.
now your SRV wont unpredictably randomly accelate after flying off the surface, spin out, after becoming incontrollable fly into a rock, flip, bounce off a thing and fly for 200 meters... SRVs need a handling rework.
and heres why you should use a SRV. stuff counts as diverse enough if it is 2km away from other scanned stuff. annoying and one way to eventually either deplete the SRV fuel or get the hull to 30% because of the horrible handling model.
How do you tell if it an unexplored system? Im still lost.
I've seen the advised ships aren't the same ones used for exploration, but can one do exobiology as a side job while exploring away from the bubble?
I'm jumping back into ED after a 4 years hiatus
Absolutely, you can do exobiology in anything, including whatever ship you’re exploring in. It just happens to be a little easier in a small ship, but again anything works 🫡
@@DiturisElite thanks brah
Can you all this on the ps5 version of the game?
Thanks for the info on the FSD.
Pro tip,no matter how tired you are,cash in your exo and codex discoveries. One brush with an annoying bot( I should have realised when he turned up) and he crucified me. 60million credits lost,20 hours of play time.
Now doing doing a 1000 jump explore with 18ly range to a squadron mark.
Rock snot is a pain to find
See you in a few months.
CMDR Keepitsimplestupid checking in.
I got 1 bilion from my exobiology exploration
Cool! Exo really is a good moneymaker. I use(d) the heatmaps of EDastro to find the places outside the Bubble which are (relatively) unexplored to have the highest chance of getting First Footfall bonuses. In about a week I earned enough to buy a FC with repair, refuel, re-arm and Vista services, and about 1 1/2 years of upkeep. Now I take the FC into the deep black and use it as my base to explore further and turn in my finds at my onboard Vista when I return from exploring the surrounding stars
The hardest thing is flying and searching the damn things on the surface. I've spent 1 hour flying and didn't found a thing despite being in the darkest blue region.
Some are a pain to find, but they do have very specific types of areas they grow on. Edges of craters, high up mountains, sides of hills, etc. I prefer to use a very small ship when using a FC, or you can use a SLF to zoom around and spot shit. Record the nav coordinates and then land as near as possible. Mountains are a pain. Flats I just fly to, get out and scan and repeat. No srv. Try to make 3rd sample be near another species to start. Set a time limit too. Unless you are super completion guy, I'm not spending too long searching the hills for some 3mil species. Not worth the time.
Dark blue has the least probability to contain something. you have to go to the teal or light blue areas.
@cmdrandreyuenari4150 I was under the impression that the color differences did not mean population density differences but instead indicated where different biome type borders exist. The plant could be in that general colored area, but they prefer a particular biome. Rocky, flat area, top of hills, side of hills, craters, crevices, etc. Knowing that helps speed the process up immensely.
@@CMDR_Shokwave I believe it is a mix of both.
Spansh's 'Expressway to Exomastery' is also great if you want to guarantee that you will find something and don't want to travel too far. You can also use the camera mode to look for the next patch of bio. I figure it is my 'space drone'.
A note about First Footfall Bonus, is it's not exhausted to the person who actually gets it. If someone lands on a planet with 6 biologies, only scans 3 and leaves, someone else can get the First Footfall Bonus of the remaining 3 if they scan them, they just won't get their name on the planet. If you're just in it for a few extra credits, a lot of the time people don't scan bacterium (as shown in this video itself) so you might as well, some, like Informium, are worth nearly 50m with the first scan bonus.
Must admit: I love exobiology. Periodically I leave the bubble for a while and just explore and getting first fall always is satisfying. And then discovering new forms that I haven’t found before is always great fun.
Bacterium is relatively easy. It depends on the difference between the species colour and the hue of the planet surface. Mostly it stands out like a sore thumb, especially the most lucrative bacterium Informem found on Nitrogen worlds.
It’s Osseus that can really be hard to find. You find two, easily but the third? Nah!
Not every time but often enough.
First time trying exobiology yesterday and I had the unfortunate "luck" to find an Osseus first. After 20 minutes I found another one but another 30 minutes I still couldn't find the last one and I was getting physically sick from watching the surface move up close from the ship. I'm considering ditching the two samples because in the meantime I've seen all 4 other species that live on the planet in high numbers.
@@SharnLugonn I always ditch em. Find the other species, then go back into orbit come back in and try a different spot for the Osseus.
Then I mutter “fukkit” and give up.
@@SharnLugonn just consider it as a Roleplay, stay there for week until you find one .... Mostly the hard ones are found in the mountains that is hard to land
ooooh - I don't know, looking for a light grey bacteria on an ice planet can make your eyes bleed. I've given up on ice planets, I'm in my mid 60's and life's too short to semi blind yourself for hours looking for 5 million's worth of space cheddar.
Osseus can be a long haul but I stay in the ship and cruise about looking for it, at least it (usually) stands out from it's surroundings.
The one I find really frustrating is Fungoida setisis, it can be easy to spot but can you get a landing spot anywhere near it - can you buggery!.
@@ronhall9394 I’ve given up on 5mil payout bios altogether.
Just be careful. Crashing the ship means losing the exobiology data. Never return to inhabited space in open while loaded with the unsold data.
Already planning my next Tour outside the bubble to unlock Thruster Engineering, I just gotta finish unlocking the guardian FSD Module and checking if I want to use the DBX I already got or an Asp Explorer for it's more practical canopy view, the DBX has 5 ly more range but some life forms are harder to spot xD
My Frame Shift Drive is now Grade 5, I'll definitely gonna enjoy the 63 to 68 ly jump range on the return trip 😂
Good guide. I remember when they first released the hand scanner, it WAS a mini game at the time, had to click at the right time... now it's just a press and hold -- I find that more boring, even though I'm not keep on the QTE original way, but understand why they changed it.
Sampling -- One tip - DON'T switch to a different plant type before you get all 3 samples of the current plant, if you do, you'll loose the current plant. so do all 3 samples, then switch to a different plant and do 3 of that.
And WHY so much money -- it's insane how much you can make!
Hello! I'm so glad to see new youtube channels on Elite Dangerous! Makes things fresh and exciting! Thanks a bunch for this guide and the one on passenger missions. I've been away from the game for a long time and recently came back to a LOT of changes. Needless to say, your channel is one of the ones I'm using to get back into things. I hope you keep at it and thanks for all your hard work!
Subscribed, of course. :)
I quite enjoy a bit of exobiology, I use a DBX with Pre-engineerd FSD and guardian FSD booster thanks to your videos, an SRV and AFMU for FSD repairs from riding the neutron highway. A friend used to mock me for "mincing about scanning flowers and plants" until I showed him my credit balance XD. Made my first Billion doing it.
I used a fleet carrier with a Vista genomics on board and a sidewinder, The sidewinder is the fastest way to drop down, scan and move on. It can land virtually anywhere. After I arrived in a system with my carrier, I would take my sidewinder out to nearby surrounding systems, The biggest exobiology count I found was 12 on one planet. Water atmospheric worlds were my favorite.
@@lanceobe6801 I might try that when I get a carrier.
Thanks CMDR o7. I got elite exploration many years ago and dip my foot in every now and again to try different gameplay loops but nothing hooked me like travelling the galaxy. recently logged back in and figured out these many new features with a new ship build, then I saw this little thing called exobiologist rank and it's given me the urge to head back out the bubble. This tutorial will come in handy.
One tip to make the experience more fun is to choose a ship you really enjoy flying. I've got an Imperial Courier decked out for exploration, and half the fun is weaving through canyons looking for the next lifeform to scan.
Different types of life will be found in different terrain.
Some likes valleys where it's easy to land, some like mountain bases right next to good landing places, some like the tops of mountains where it's harder to land, and some like being half way down a steep rock face where you're only option is lots of jumping and luck to get to them after landing somewhere hopefully nearby.
Exactly.
Bacteria = flat terrain.
Osseus = hilly terrain.
Cactoids, tubuses = canyons/mesas.
Fungoids, frutexa, aleoids = mountains.
Tussock = flat and hilly terrain.
Fonticulua = icy terrain only (so if a rocky-ice planet has Fonticulua, look for it on ice caps - it will not spawn on a dry rocky terrain), usually on flat ice.
And so on, those are just quickly taken from my head because they are the most common.
Very good informational video mate. Well done.
Is exobiology really that fuuun?
I was expect to see video of the occasional unfortunate SRV that's been driven onto a pretty carpet of hull eating alien "sundew". Or at least a CMDRs corpse in an alien "venus fly trap".
How can a game named "Elite Dangerous" harbor a community of flower children?
I am here becaus i only finding bacterium. Its pretty sucks
I got very rich from exobiology and also very bored seeing the same flora over and over only with different names and colors. It's time we get thicker atmospheric landings with weather Even high pressure planets that require especially engineered Shields to endure, but with new minerals elements to acquire that can only exist under those extreme conditions.
Right click if its blue then less genetic diversity still if its green then u sample, so go far right click if not green go far again
Exobio is freekn fun. I do it here and there as I am doing other things. Love your videos Dituri, glad to see a new one!
Right now (but this is as of today) also avoid going through the Thargoid war (even if a good jump range means you will probably be able to jump right throught it).
250 Million WHAT
I want to do this it looks fun but I'm too stupid to figure it out how do I do that
Is the screen shots actually neccessary or was he joking?
Great video, helps a lot
Great video! Keep them coming! o7 CMDR
May I also recommend the ASP EXPLORER it’s a great ship
It’s great, but not what I’d recommend for a purely exobiology build - A little too large for fitting in the small areas. For general exploration it’s awesome though, and most of the time it’ll work for exobiology too 🫡
Heck yeah. 50 million in an hour.
We gonna get rich baby! 😂
I'm taking the opportunity to do exo while liberating the "mileage" for Palin. Just picked a straight line away from the bubble, 5kLy and away I'm going...
first footfall does not give you the bonus. First to turn in the sample (first to log) is what gives you the bonus. Having elite observatory with the bio insights plugin running will save you loads of time on crappy low paying planets. Gives you the predicted bio samples the planet may contain with the payouts. And also tracks your distances so you don't have to guess if you have moved far enough away. Many plants do not like to spawn until your basically next to them. Night vision makes them show up from much further away. Night vision is your best friend.
Haven't really tried exobiology much but I recently got to Vice Admiral with the Federation so I need to raise funds for a Corvette. Thanks for posting this and the useful links
with the dbx how do you feel about the fuel scoop on it? i want to love the dbx but the scoop feels just feels bad. i've considered putting a size 4/3 fuel tank on it to reduce how long it takes to get to max (like you did with the krait phantom you shared a build for on a previous video) but not sure if the reduced range in the dbx would be an issue, if you have any thoughts?
Great video again, just adding 2 things, Observatory + bioinsights plugin save you so much time by telling you the base value of the bios you may find. Second thing Dolphin dont need heatsink launcher, that thing just never heat
A good note is that First Footfall is different from the First Discovery Bonus. If you get first footfall, but your buddy sells the data first, your buddy will get the 5x payout instead of you.
Love the vids...You have another "like" from me :) How about a smuggling guide next?
Hey Dituri, could we interview you for the Loose Screws Podcast? We would love to highlight you to our listeners and think it would be a lot of fun. Let us know if you are interested.
This activity pairs well with meeting the requirements to get an invite to meet Professor Palin. I made nearly 1 billion credits from first find xenobiology on that round trip (I was too cheap and stupid to self destruct)
You can find old "horizons" non-atmo life too, it can be sampled too. I think pumpkins have 1.8 mil price tag.
I only do exobiology exploration. The only thing that annoys me is the need to find three samples for each plant and not being able to collect more than one type at a time. It wouldn't hurt them just to allow you to take samples as you find them until you get the three samples.
I think unlimited would dumb it down too much. Maybe a suit upgrade per extra slot, even one would be a game changer.
Just came here from your federal corvette video, took a break from this game when oddesey release. But im back bb and i need that Corvette o7
Sooo...you thought a month's experience and a fancy accent were all you needed to pontificate on Elite Dangerous...?
First, great use of the word pontificate, respect.
Second, I have 5 years experience of the game in general, it’s just I started this bit recently.
Third, I did my research - some pretty experienced folks watch my stuff and none of them corrected anything I said (they offered more in-depth advice, but I asked them to).
Fourth, you think my accent is fancy? Thanks so much! 🫡
massive fun? really? atleast dont lie man
for a hard core ED player it can be fun...why not? flying around killing other players and bounty hunting or cargo routes are not only fun in ED
Not for the lazy-minded cmdrs
@@Tamburello_1994 I like ED because of that "do what you want whenever you want" attitude. Sometimes I like to bounty sometimes minning or other stuff and it is all on you, so if you find yourself in that gameplay (chill and easy) it is great. Personally not into onfoot PVE I like more ship combat, cargo, and exploration, and thats make me happy. o7
I wouldn't install Odyssey if they gave it away free.