Also once you get a station up and running, you'll be able to do some manufacturing, and make your own ship components to make more ships. Finding a stack of 1000 L5 Ore is a good way to make money quickly. Let's Play StarMade on Starmada and explain everything in this tutorial and 'how to' series.This time we design and produce a mining drone for future use-En. L5 Ores and some other types of blocks are extremely valuable, and can make you billions. Farming Pirates If you can kill a pirate (shoot their core) they will drop a large amount of resources. Grassy Planets These, also like the Desert planets have resources on the surface, including small plants, and trees, both good for your factory starting and selling for credits. The cacti growing on the surface can be easily harvested by hand and sell for 1000cr a cactus making this one of the better operations to do by hand. Desert Planets These can have valuable resources such as small cactus and regular cacti. The Ice rock is what around 70% of what the planet is made of and sell for 100Cr each. They are a quick way to gain Credits fast. Ice crystals sell for 500Cr each and come in large veins ranging from 10 to 200. They provide high quantities of valuable resources such as Ice Crystals, and Ice Rock. Ice Planets These are personal favorites of many a space miner. remember that each planet has its own biome, because of this, it can and will be important to remember the color scheme of the planets from a distance, we wont go over that right now though. He did some extensive research and asked the hard questions to make this pretty Definitive Drone video. By using a lightweight salvage ship, you can efficiently rack up tons of credits. JackBeFlippen Explains all about Mining Drones. Mining Mining can be a quick way to get into the game right of the start. There is no wrong or right way, as long as your credits are going up. Be it through looting pirates, or cracking planets in half for the juicy goodness. Obtaining Credits In order to obtain money you will be using shops a lot.
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There are several ways of obtaining credits, some easier than others, some not so easy, some faster, some slower, each has its drawbacks. Currency The currency in StarMade is named credits, they make up the basic structure of the economy in the game.