Optimising you Multi-tool
Your multitool holds the key to fruitful harvests.
This is because the Optical Drill Mining Tech Module for your multitool also affects plant harvesting.
I did an awful lot of testing asking for harvest quantities from many people until a friendly viewer commented on a stream where I’d mentioned my annoyance.
So big thank you to Kozi03 for setting me in the right direction!
At base, the crops will harvest at a multiple of 25, so 25 for Faecium and Star Bulb, 50 for Solanium, Gamma Root and Frost Crystal and 100 for Echinocactus, note I have only included those relevant to this guide.
With the Optical Drill correctly optimized, this can go as high as multiples of 44, though it is more like 43.5 or so.
44 for Faecium and Star Bulb, 87 for Solanium, Gamma Root and Frost Crystal and 174 for Echinocactus, this is a 74% increase in harvest quantities which is frankly insane.
You can achieve this by having your Optical Drill, with all 4 of its sides touched by any of the 5 Mining tech modules, this includes the base Mining tech, Advanced Mining Laser and the 3 Upgrades you can have.
This bonus to its standard 50% is produced by adjacency bonuses.
These other modules touching it imparts a bonus by simply touching and being the same type, the bonus is the same regardless of which of the mining tech it is.
To not mess up your standard Multitool setup, I would advise using one of your 3 Multitool slots specifically for Harvesting and Base Resource Farming.
Here is another big old list of some Multitools you may be interested in with their Galaxy, Portal Address and the Minor Settlement location in Lat and Long that you will find the S Class version.
As with the Crashed Ships, I would highly advise that you turn off multiplayer before entering the system to ensure you will be able to obtain the Multitool, being in an instance with other players only gives one player the chance to get the Multitool or crashed ship, and this can chain indefinitely if there is always one person in the system with MP turned on.
Also, if an entry says to reload at the space station, this should usually be a requirement for it to appear as that is the default option, but if it doesn’t appear, reloading at the space station will often fix it and cause it to spawn correctly.
am i missing something? i don’t see the list.
no list?
Lots of things happened with multitool location which changed them all, a separate multitool system is being worked on
Hey Xaine,
Thanks for all the great guides. I assume that base multi-tool bonuses also improve farming rates?
I’m a new player and trying to piece together how everything works. As I understand it, prior to the “living ship” update, multi-tool bonuses used to be displayed in game. They are no longer displayed, but I think they still exist? So, according to the wiki, an S-class pistol will have the greatest mining bonus of 20-35, so you should do all your farming with one of these?
I guess it is a roll of the dice if that is better than an experinemtal/S with 25-30, and there is currently no way of knowing what you have without buying two and doing some side-by-side comparisons?
Great guides! Thank you so much. Would it be possible to make a multi-tool guide for optimizing a second tool as a weapon? That would be amazing 😁