# Nanites

Generated 2026-10-17. Data: No Man's Sky Cosmos 7.06 (build 180836), extracted from the game files on 2026-10-17. Interactive version: https://nmsii.dlu.one/

15 ways to make nanites (`TECHFRAG`), best nanites per hour first, one refiner kept fed.

| Refine | Nanites | Time | Nanites/h | Per item | Value spent | Gettable | Where it comes from |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hadal Core | 50 | 1.0m | 3,000 | 50.00 | 97,500 | loot (medium) | Underwater — hives and the sea floor |
| Larval Core | 50 | 1.0m | 3,000 | 50.00 | 65,000 | loot (medium) | Whispering Eggs, outside abandoned buildings |
| Vile Spawn | 50 | 1.5m | 2,000 | 50.00 | 16 | loot (medium) | Hives |
| Flesh Rope | 50 | 1.5m | 2,000 | 50.00 | 16,016 | loot (medium) | Hives, underwater, Whispering Eggs |
| Hyaline Brain | 230 | 53m | 259 | 230.00 | 35,000 | loot (hard) | Corrupted-planet creatures, while hunting Sentinel Interceptors |
| Salvaged Data | 15 | 5.3m | 169 | 15.00 | 52,000 | loot (easy) | Buried beside Damaged Machinery — dig with the Terrain Manipulator |
| Inverted Mirror | 95 | 37m | 155 | 95.00 | 17,000 | loot (medium) | Byproduct of shooting Dissonant Resonators for Echo Locators |
| 25 Pugneum | 1 | 30s | 120 | 0.04 | 3,450 | loot (easy) | Destroyed Sentinels |
| Radiant Shard | 50 | 30m | 100 | 50.00 | 1,900 | loot (medium) | Hives, underwater, Whispering Eggs |
| Tainted Metal | 2 | 1.5m | 80 | 2.00 | 380 | loot (medium) | Derelict freighters, Corrupted Sentinels, Autophage camps |
| 35 Platinum | 1 | 1.0m | 60 | 0.03 | 17,675 | T1 raw | Asteroids — the rarer gold-tinted ones |
| Faecium + Hexite | 1 | 1.0m | 60 | 0.50 | 684 | loot (hard) | Guild Envoy reward |
| 15 Silver + 15 Gold + 25 Platinum | 1 | 1.5m | 40 | 0.02 | 20,710 | T1 raw | Asteroids — shoot them in any system |
| 5 Corrupted Ichor | 1 | 1.5m | 40 | 0.20 | 8,080 | loot (unknown) | no recipe makes it, and the guides do not say where it drops |
| 5 Runaway Mould | 1 | 2.5m | 24 | 0.20 | 100 | loot (easy) | Curious Deposits, which respawn every time you return to the planet |