How to Farm Corvette Parts (for Beginner to Veteran Players)

Notice

For this method to work, all you will need is a basic Corvette already built and ready to go. You can purchase the base necessary parts at the Corvette Workshop on any space station. They are fairly pricy though, so you will need a decent cumber of units to obtain them. The Workshop is located in front of the starship landing area towards the opening of the docking bay. You can also teleport to it by walking through the teleporters on the first floor on the left-hand side of the space station merchant area.

To build a basic functioning Corvette, you will need at least one cockpit, one habitation module, one reactor, one engine, one weapon array, one landing gear, and one landing bay. The workshop will tell you if you are missing any of these during the building process. Shield modules, windows, external plating, hull attachments, and flight stabilisers are optional.

Once you've got your basic Corvette ready to go, the next step is to find a planet with Salvageable Scrap. This may take a bit of searching.

Scan planets from space in your starship until you find "Salvageable Scrap" listed in the resources found on that planet. The most ideal planets for this method are airless/dead planets as there will be no plants to get in your way of digging up the scrap.

Once you've arrived on the planet, fly close to the surface of the planet but don't land. Instead, turn on Corvette autopilot and leave your seat. You can use your Analysis Visor from inside of the Corvette to locate Salvageable Scrap. It will be indicated by a yellow upside-down triangle icon, similar to the Buried Technology Module symbol.

Tag the Salvageable Scrap and then climb back into the cockpit to fly towards it. Once you're just above it, you can shoot the ground above where the Scrap is and the splash damage of your Corvette's weapon systems will destroy the Salvageable Scrap capsules without having to dig them up with your Terrain Manipulator. Keep shooting the ground until the icon disappears and then rinse and repeat this process to your liking. The parts will automatically transfer into your Corvette's inventory.

However, if you plan on farming parts for an extended period of time, make sure you empty the parts you acquire from your Corvette's inventory into your Exosuit inventory once in a while. If your Corvette's inventory is full, any parts you dig up will be lost forever.

Once you've got all the parts you can carry, you can take them back to the space station and store them in the Corvette Workshop Cache, which can hold up to 150 slots. You can then exchange these for better parts/parts you don't have by bartering.

Bartering

NOTE: A very important thing to remember is that any parts that you buy cannot be used for bartering. The game will not let you select them in the menu, so unfortunately, you cannot just throw units at it to get the best parts. Only parts that you dig up from Salvageable Scrap or ones you bartered for already are usable for bartering. (I found this out when I bought 21 antenna attachments and was distraught to discover they did not show up in the bartering menu.)

When you barter for a certain part, you can offer up to three different parts you have for that particular part. Depending on the overall value of these items, your chance of acquiring that part increases or decreases. For example, three hull attachments will have less of a chance of winning over a landing bay or other functional part.

However, it is still possible for these barter offers to win even on low chances - you just have to get lucky. I have gotten Ambassador-class habitation modules with a 12% chance using hull attachment parts. You just have to keep trying different combinations of parts to offer.

If you want the most bang for your buck with the parts you found, I recommend starting with low value parts and working your way up from those until the offer is accepted. But you're most likely to find success with 50% chances and higher if you're impatient like me.

And that's all you need to know about Corvette parts! I hope this guide was helpful and if you have any questions, leave a comment and I'll be happy to answer them :)

Happy hunting, Travellers!