OS Transport handbook

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In this guide I will try to cover the basics about transport farming. There are 60+ sectors currently in the game and each has a transport or two flying around space with somewhat unique items.

Basics about transports:

-any transport can offer you a huge amount of materials, credits, rare loot and sometimes monocrystals
-the escort ships vary in size and firepower but are mostly dangerous when in a group
-there are several types of transports, starting from the most common to rare:

  • transports that drop 2 containers i consider common ships
  • transports that drop 1 or 2 containers and 1 common green ore i consider less common ships
  • transports that drop 1 container and 1 or 2 common green ores i consider as a “low drop” ships
  • transports that drop 2 containers and 1 golden ore i consider as a “medium drop” ships
  • transports that drop 2 green and 1 golden ore i consider as a “high drop” ships
  • transports that drop 1 green and 3 golden ore i consider as a “rare drop” ships
  • transports that drop 4 fuel cells i consider useful sometimes and/or a bad joke

Rare drop ships usually require 1-3 tries to score a rare loot, whereas with the lesser ones it takes more tries. Patience is a virtue in this case, as well as speed of farming.
You have to kill all the escort ships and the transport for the next one to spawn, the faster you do it, the faster you get your drops. Shoot the transport ship first to stop it but not kill it and then clear out the escort first and transport last.
Some transports give out negative karma points so beware of the numbers as well as the criminal status.

EMPIRE SYSTEMS

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ONTREGOS

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Station Gardian 17

  • red gate transport drops 5k random vouchers, basic materials and credits
  • ontregos transport drops rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits
  • tracking station transport drops fuel

Transit Route

  • red gate pirate transport drops rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits
  • iridium mines blackwood transport drops 5k random vouchers, basic materials and credits

Imperial Transport

  • red gate transport drops basic materials and credits, side note= ores drop rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits                 

Tracking Station

  • red gate cyber transport drops 5k random vouchers, basic materials and credits
  • iridium gate transport drops credit items

Iridium Mines

  • red gate transport drops fuel
  • tracking station transport drops rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits
  • imperial transport drops basic materials and credits
  • transit route transport drops rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits, side note= the sector is rich with materials and rare loot

Ontregos Pass

  • station guardian transport drops basic materials and credits
  • blackwood shipyard transport drops basic materials and credits, side note= high possibility of crystal drops

Ontregos Drift

  • red gate transport drops basic materials and credits while the pirate transport drops 10k random vouchers and materials

FELONY

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Felony Border

  • cyber warden outpost transport drops rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits
  • ontregos pass transport drops materials and credits, side note= smuggler spawning at collapsed laboratory gate drops additional materials and credits

Collapsed Laboratory

  • felony border transport drops materials and credits

Wastes

  • red gate cyber transport and other transport drops various materials and credits

Warden Outpost Ruins

  • wastes smuggler drops materials and credits
  • red gate cyber transport drops materials and credits
  • captured dreadnought transport drops materials and credits, side note= it’s difficult to farm transports due to aliens but if some can manage them this place is a great sector for various materials

MENAR

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Blackwood Shipyard

  • red gate transport drops mostly various crystal ores and credits

PANDORA

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Dreadnought Debris

  • pandora anomaly transport drops materials and credits
  • ontregos pass transport drops materials and credits, side note= smuggler spawns near the guard post, drops 5k random vouchers, various materials and credits

Pandora Anomaly

  • devils jaw transport drops materials and credits

Devils Jaw

  • pandora anomaly transport drops materials and credits
  • dreadnought debris transport drops materials and credits

SCHEAT

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Alpha-7 Complex

  • ice reef transport drops materials and credits, side note= great farming place, valuable minerals all over the place + cargo drone nearby

TROY

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Ice Reef

  • raider range transport drops materials and credits
  • red gate transport drops materials and credits, side note= it’s possible to gather fast materials from very few transport kills

YDRA

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Naberia-392 Complex

  • northstar crash site transport drops materials and credits, side note= interesting and small place, lots of buffs ores and items to use

Northstar Crash Site

  • naberia-392 complex transport drops materials and credits, side note= ydra system overall seems like a great place to farm synergy from NPC’s and osmium from transports

PRIDE

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Captured Dreadnought

  • warden outpost ruins transport drops materials and credits
  • scrapyard transport drops rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits
  • red gate transport drops materials and credits, side note= smuggler spawning at the scrapyard gate drops additional materials, credits, sometimes rare ores and on rare occasions whole plates/rods

Scrapyard

  • raider range transport drops materials and higher amounts of credits
  • warden outpost ruins smuggler drops additional materials and credits

FEDERATION SYSTEMS

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OLYMPUS

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Station New Eden

  • colonization hub transport drops credits
  • red gate transport drops materials and other items of higher value, possible neo/bery drop point
  • ice pits transport drop 5-10k random vouchers and materials
  • control post transport drops fuel

Colonization Hub

  • barter zone transport drops neodium/berillyum a bit less frequently and some materials, mostly silicon and credits
  • new eden transport drops basic materials and credits, mostly crystals

Abandoned Beacon

  • red gate cyber transport drops credits

Ice Pits

  • abandoned beacon transport drops credits mostly

Ice Belt

  • colonization hub transport drops 5k vouchers, materials and credits, mostly graphite plates
  • red gate transport near colonization hub gate drops materials and credits
  • far red gate transport drops fuel

Control Post

  • new eden transport drops rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits
  • red gate transport drops credits
  • abandoned outpost transport drops fuel, side note= cartel merchant drops materials and vouchers

Service Shop

  • red gate transport drops materials and credits
  • upper platform transport drops materials and credits

EREBUS

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Barter zone

  • colonization hub cyber transport drops 5k random vouchers, materials and credits

Vanguard Outpost

  • barter zone transport drops materials and credits

Research Center

  • barter zone cyber transport drops 5-10k random vouchers, materials and credits

VELORUM

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Water Harvest

  • poseidon complex transport drops materials and credits

Poseidon Complex

  • water harvest transport drops materials and credits
  • processing rig transport drops materials and credits

Processing Rig

  • poseidon complex transport drops various materials and credits
  • abandoned beacon transport drops various materials and credits, side note= PC and AB transports can drop neodium/berillyum ores
  • rig transport spawning on the far end of the sector drops 5k random vouchers and credits
  • red gate transports drop fuel, side note= rich sector

Cobalt Mines

  • new eden transport drops materials and credits, possible drop of neodium/berillyum ores, side note= smuggler from poseidon offers extra materials and credits

Base Ellydium

  • colonization hub transport drops materials and credits
  • cobalt mines transport drops materials and credits
    - ice pits transport drops materials and credits, side note= sector rich in useful materials

HALDON

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Abandoned Outpost

  • contorl post transport drops materials and credits
  • red gates transports drop valuable loot such as neodium/berillyum, various materials and credits, side note= high probability of rare loot

NEW CERES

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Eastern Mining Station

  • red gate transport at the far end of the map drops various materials and credits
  • red gate transport spawning close to northern mining gate drops various materials and credits, side note= nice place to farm materials, possible neodium/berillyum drop

Northern Mining Station

  • eastern mining station transport drops materials and credits
  • red gate transport drops materials and credits, side note= various materials + drone in the middle of the map, barely visible

CORSA TRIAMA

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Destroyed Station

  • northern mining station transport drops 5k random vouchers, materials and credits
  • red gate transport drops materials and credits, side note= high chance of graphite plates + drone close by 

 

JERICHO SYSTEMS

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PALLAS

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Station Mendes -IX

  • red gate transport drops materials and credits, possible neodium/berillyum loot
  • mining site transport drops various materials and credits
  • stripped deposits transport drops credits
  • station transport drops fuel

Mining Site

  • stripped deposits transports (2) drop rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits
  • iridium haul transport drops  rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits

Stripped Deposits

  • red gate cyber transport drops credits, same gate transport drops fuel
  • mining site transport drops materials and credits

Outpost

  • the source transport drops 5k random vouchers, basic materials and credits

Gas Harvest

  • red gate transport drops 5k random vouchers, basic materials and credits

Irirdium Haul

  • red gate transport drops credits

Transport Hub

  • red gate cyber transport drops basic materials and credits while the other transport drops rare loot including neodium/berillyum and various materials and credits
  • iridium haul transport drops materials and credits, side note= the transports drop graphite plates mostly

Pallas Border

  • red gate transport drops credits
  • ruined station transport drops 5k random vouchers, basic materials and credits

SOLARIS

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Orange Giant

  • cyber terramorphing station transport drops credits
  • red gate transport drops materials and credits, side note=smuggler drops additional materials

Terramorphing Station

  • sorting facility transport drops credits

Abandoned Outpost

  • terramorphing station cyber transport drops credits
  • red gate cyber transports (2) drop materials and credits, side note= ores around the big asteroid can drop neodium/berillyum

Solaris Wasteland

  • terramorphing station cyber transport drops useful materials, side note= due to ridiculous amount of aliens I didn’t bother researching the sector much*

Ruined Station

  • orange giant transport drops materials and credits, side note= mini version of solaris wasteland, not appealing for farming but rich with building materials for ship parts

PROCSSIMA

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The Source

  • outpost transport drops various materials and credits
  • lava spines transport drops various materials and credits, side note= sector is a great random material farm

Lava Spines

  • the source transport drops credits

Iridium Strand

  • threshold transport drops materials and credits
  • abandoned complex transport drops credits

Threshold

  • the source transport drops materials and credits
  • red gate transport drops materials and credits

ANTARESS

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Sanctuary

  • stripped deposits transport drops various materials and credits

Ancient Ruins

  • monolith remains transport drops various materials and credits, possible neodium/berillyum drop
  • red gate transport drops various materials and credits, possible neodium/berillyum drop, side note= smuggler at monolith drops 10k vouchers and materials

Monolith Remains

  • red gate invisible transport drops only neodium/berillyum and monocrystals*

Abandoned Complex

  • red gate transports (2) drop 5k random vouchers, materials and credits, side note= smugglers (2) drop materials and credits

 

FRONTIER SYSTEMS

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MEZZA

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Sorting Facility

  • raider range transport drops various materials and credits

PROCYON

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Smugglers Hideout

  • water harvest transport drops materials and credits, side note= extra materials and credits from smuggler coming from fort muerto gate

KAYEED

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Raider Range

  • scrapyard smuggler drops materials and credits

VEGA

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Fort Muerto

  • smugglers hideout transports (2) drop materials and credits
  • red gate transport drops materials and credits
  • raider range transport drops materials and credits, side note= high chance of getting neodium/berillyum ores from regular gates, lesser chance from red gate transport

 

 

small notice- the " *" is there as a referrence to “not confirmed” or simply a joke :Đ

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And if the escorts are ALL using singularity cannon and/or the transport is exceptionally weak, it’s probably the 4 fuel cells one ;p But they Always have singularity cannon from what I’ve seen.

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Never farmed transports and never will, but thanks for sharing the findings!

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Is there any way to get osmium? I thought I’d never set foot in OS again after they removed PVP, but I am constantly running out of osmium nowadays (ammo etc). The drops from pvp just aren’t enough.

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You can research on mk1 mods to upgrade them to mk2, to convert them into Osmium.

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>>Some transports give out negative karma points so beware of the numbers as well as the criminal status.<<

Explanation(if you want): Turn on Station protection, every civil transporter you can attack = no criminal status. Protected(mostly the mission transports) = criminal status.
Every civil transporter gives -karma if destroyed. Regardless if you are marked as criminal or not after destroying it.

If you want to test:
Station Mendes-IX:
Fuel transporter coming directly out the station heading towards Stripped Deposits.
3 other: One coming from Mining Site has mineral deposits onboard, the next from red gate and the third(unsure maybe) from Stripped Deposits. Loot is mineral deposits or 2 container(trash or rare 5k voucher) depending on which one.(afair references)

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7 hours ago, RennieAshII said:

And if the escorts are ALL using singularity cannon and/or the transport is exceptionally weak, it’s probably the 4 fuel cells one ;p But they Always have singularity cannon from what I’ve seen.

Pretty much ever transport is unique in a sector, and escort ships play little to none of a role what the transport might be carrying. I found some of them having heavy escort ships but dropped 7k cr and vanadium which makes no sense if you look at the escort ship damage.

6 hours ago, xKostyan said:

Never farmed transports and never will, but thanks for sharing the findings!

They are my main source of materials nowadays, its easier to blast a transport and get steady materials and some rare ones instead of flying around and collecting ores in a middle of alien/pirate/cyber spawns all the time risking everything.

3 hours ago, millanbel said:

Is there any way to get osmium? I thought I’d never set foot in OS again after they removed PVP, but I am constantly running out of osmium nowadays (ammo etc). The drops from pvp just aren’t enough.

Yeah, i also lack a ton of chips and osmiums and farm them at specific places, i mean, i literally watch tv or do something, blast transports real quick with destro, collect loot, do something else while they respawn, far away from danger other than their escorts. I’ll be covering the home sectors these days and from there try to move on to others, it’s a bit difficult task.

2 hours ago, Swifter43021 said:

You can research on mk1 mods to upgrade them to mk2, to convert them into Osmium.

Mk3 upgraded items give 3x more mats, you just have to figure it out which one.

29 minutes ago, Lord_Xenon said:

 

That was a unified sentence for every player. Some transports can’t be attacked with protection on but they arent important anyway in most cases. The criminal status referred to when you go into negative karma rather than just the partial attacker status.

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Would it be easy for you to use specific transporter names? Some are labeled as transporter, other as hauler, next one as caravan etc…

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Just use the gate reference for recognizing them. Names only wont help.

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tested this and your guide seams to be accurate, though I didn’t get a single piece of neo or berry from the listed transports.

Just reminded me that i hate os, the lousy credit drops in asteroids, even more lousy drop rate of neo and berry. Ugh, they really need to buff OS loot. Just makes it worse, that you get a load of credits drops from pve and pvp too.

After they took away the upgrade kits from loot, grind has increased and some materials are hard to come by for ammo.

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Well, it wont drop instantly when u enter the sector obviously but is a lot easier than farming pve’s. And the mats per minute are determined by your own skill of how fast u can kill and collect stuff.

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I didn’t mean that you just wrote their name, but coming from+flying to+name+loot. A database listing.

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Maybe one day, at this time ill stick to their spawnpoints.

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Update: Added a couple more systems to the list, enjoy.

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I still reckon that singularity only escorts are fuel ships :stuck_out_tongue: Definitely in the station areas.

I’ll have to check this list though. Does sector matter much?  I find the ones in the station do a fine job most of the time.

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I have found many fuel transports, singularity is just a coincidence, some of their escort ships vary in weaponry also so you can’t tell which one is which until you destroy them all and see the loot. All in all u have to do everything manually for this kinda thing.

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Final update, all sectors done, enjoy!

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Nice! I’ll try it out to farm some osmium this evening

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Be sure to save up on patience while doing so ![:D](<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/006j.png “:D”)

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And here i am looking for more places to farm, turns out i was right to map them ![:D](<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/006j.png “:D”)