Indium is the last of the Chromatic Metal types that you’ll most likely come across in No Man’s Sky, with Copper, Cadmium, and Emeril each required to build the subsequent upgrade for your ship’s Hyperdrive. So, if you’re on the hunt for Indium, you’ll need to have added the Cadmium and Emeril Drives already.
As with its Chromatic siblings, Indium can be a valuable resource in its own right, partly as a crafting resource but also just for its pure retail value, with an average deposit likely to be worth more than 100,000 Units. It can also be refined into its Chromatic Metal state, a key building block of many of the game’s main structures and upgrades, and you usually get the best returns in your refiner from Indium.
How to build the Indium Drive and farm Indium in No Man’s SkyAs with the other two drives, you can pick up the blueprints for the Indium Drive from the Starship Research merchant on the Space Anomaly, at a cost of 200 Nanites. You’ll then need to use 250x Emeril and 5x Wiring Looms to build it ― if you’re short on the latter you can usually find them for sale at your nearest trading terminal.
With the new drive in place, you’re ready to warp to an Indium-rich star system, which will appear as a blue orb on your Galaxy Map ― although they can look more like a bright white until you zoom in a little closer. Every planet within the system should have a steady supply of Indium, but there may be a few exceptions so use your ship’s planetary scanner to check.
Indium deposits aren’t quite as easy to spot from afar, as the metallic blue coloring doesn’t stand out as much as the others, but a quick scouting session with the Analysis Visor should find your nearest supply. Then you just need to fire up the Terrain
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