Tungsten is a uncommon however extraordinarily necessary useful resource in Starfield. You’ll want it for a ton of various machines whenever you’re constructing out your outposts, so it’s necessary to get a tungsten mine up and working as quickly as attainable. The issue is that tungsten generally is a bit exhausting to come back by out within the huge universe of Starfield — at no cost, no less than.
On this Starfield information, we’ll stroll you thru the place yow will discover tungsten and make as a lot of it as you need (so long as you’re on PC).
The place to search out Tungsten in Starfield
Tungsten is a little bit of a ache to trace down in Starfield — no less than within the early sport. You could find it resting on many various planets within the universe, however a lot of them have excessive environments, which suggests you gained’t have the ability to construct an outpost on them till you unlock the Planetary Habitation ability (which requires you to succeed in the Grasp tier of the Science ability tree) and improve it to no less than rank one to take care of excessive temperatures.
The choice is to discover a celestial physique with loads of tungsten on it and and excessive atmosphere. Enter Voss, a moon of Olivas, a gasoline large within the Alpha Centauri system.
Voss is full of assets, together with water, lead, nickel, and even uranium. However tungsten is its most dear useful resource of all — and there’s loads of it available. Head over to Voss, open your scanner, and choose one of many huge grey spots to the touch down in. The one dangerous factor about Voss is that it doesn’t have a helium-3 provide, which suggests you’ll want to make use of photo voltaic panels for energy. Nonetheless, as soon as you agree this planet, you’ll have a limiteless provide of tungsten. Even higher, you will get this farm going pretty early within the sport, which can make your life a lot simpler as you attempt to develop out into the galaxy.
There are a few different tungsten-rich planets in each the Alpha Centauri and Sol programs that we wish to name out. Every of those have excessive environments, however when you improve your Planetary Habitation ability, you may make a second, third, and even fourth tungsten farm on one or all of those:
Bondar, planet within the Alpha Centauri system
Titan, moon of Jupiter within the Sol system
Pluto, planet within the Sol system
The place to purchase Tungsten
You may (and will) purchase tungsten from all the same old useful resource outlets in Starfield: Jemison Mercantile in New Atlantis, the UC Change in Cydonia, and the Mining League in Neon. You may additionally get fortunate together with your native Commerce Authority, so it’s price popping in to see.
Day by day of in-game time you need to have the ability to discover fairly a little bit of tungsten at Jemison Mercantile. And after they run out, you may all the time go wait on a close-by chair or head again to your ship and sleep for twenty-four hours. If you return, you need to have the ability to purchase extra. If not, go relaxation for one more 24 and are available again.
Tungsten merchandise ID
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Starfield has console instructions — on PC no less than — that you need to use to do a wide range of issues, like give your self limitless storage or, on this case, give your self particular gadgets.
To provide your self tungsten, you’ll want to make use of its merchandise ID code, which is: 0000556B.
Hit the ` key any time throughout your Starfield playthrough and also you’ll pull up the console command. Right here is the total console command to provide your self 20 tungsten in Starfield:
participant.additem 0000556B 20
You may copy/paste the code above straight into your console command, sans bullet level.
If you wish to get extra tungsten in a single command, change the 20 on the tip of the code supplied above to 50, 100, even 1,000. When you hit enter, you’ll have the ability to discover the useful resource sitting in your stock.
It’s price mentioning that utilizing console instructions can disable achievements in Starfield, so watch out in the event you’re an achievement hunter.
What’s tungsten used for in Starfield?
You’ll primarily want tungsten for constructing heavy mining machines in Starfield, most notably stable useful resource extractors on your outposts.
As a way to construct a self-sustaining tungsten farm — with a generator fed from helium-3 and no less than two stable extractors — you’ll want no less than eight tungsten (in addition to different supplies). If you wish to throw in a Switch Container, so you may seize mentioned tungsten whereas nonetheless in your ship, you’ll want one other 5.
We propose you buy 20 or so tungsten earlier than making an attempt to construct your self a tungsten mine — or another useful resource like iron or aluminum.
