I was watching this great video by WBG this mornin', and it got me thinkin'...
--Prof.Cynical

It's often been reported that crashed ships (& I think cabinets too) respawn after 48 hours real time.
I'd verify this... But I'm not a Tuber!
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You might have explained why to avoid Outlaw Systems for this method of MT hunting
So for those interested:
S-Class cabinets are rare, thus A-class are what you're typically looking for (though S is great when it happens)
Odds of S-Class: Outlaw: 5%,   3☆: 2%,   2☆: 1%  1☆: 0%  
So for S-Class, yes Outlaw is best. But...
Odds of an A-class: Outlaw: 5%   3☆: 28%  (thus Odds of S/A-class are 10% & 30% respectively)
2☆& 1☆: I dunno, Google it, then go find a 3☆ system


This also pertains to:  Freighters, Capital Ships & StarShips, thus for these items Outlaw Systems are best as only S-Class matters  (only noobs use nanites... and grizzled vets sick of wasting hundreds of hours waiting for that F&*$%,:#ING S-Class to Spawn!!!)

Note: many people have stated S-Class StarShips in Outlaw Systems will not get Max Stats.
(Hol'up... I'm supposed to wait for S-Class Ships with MAX Stats to spawn??!!! EFF this game, I'm going to play Candy Crush!)
This doesn't apply to Freighters/Capital ships or MT's (always check SS cabinets)

Ty whiskey man

If you really think about it though, moons do orbit a sun also... just differently.. and if all is as acurate as depicted by sience then nothing orbits anything because everything is in a cork screw hurtling through space so no real or it just a spirling corkscrew.

Is there a version where you just show finding an S class and how to change it in the cabinet. Just that

Let's see if I got this right:
Go to a system, go to the space station and check the cabinet. If the gun inside is class C or B, move to a new system. Repeat, until you find an A-class gun. Then go down to one of the planets in that system, save and reload the game while there, then go back to the station and check the cabinet again. If it's not an S-class gun, go to other planets in that system and do the same.

Thanks great info.

My third ever royal is an s class, haven't don't this yet, damn i got lucky

At 00.35 the audio overlapping I thought was a bug and instead of waiting a few seconds I spent 15 minutes troubleshooting what I thought was an audio bug then realized it was intended to illustrate questions by players lmao 🤦‍♂️

After playing for a while, I think farming nanites isn't so hard and caring about the class of the chest doesn't matter very much. Unless it effects getting experimental/alien. IDK about that. Getting a good supercharge placement on a tool is much harder and checking a cool looking C isn't that much harder than a coool looking S. Except with the S you can often just see immediately while with the C class you have to go upgrading, and moving save files to prevent autosaves locking in the spending of all those nanites if its a bust. Edit: you can just reload the restore point in the station to get the nanites back, but if you want to keep checking the chest you will need to have a save from b4 pulling the MT, which requires you to copy that save to a safe directory before NMS automatically overwrites it.

A couple ways to nanite farm:

Make a small base next to any crashed ship A class and above. You can farm them and salvage them about once a day. There is a chart for distress beacons. Look in 3 star economy systems. If you fix a sentinel ship of any class it is also worth it for the units. You don't have to fix it after the first time. Takes some time to set up, but once you have 10-15 and a week your nanite horde will be huge. You have to sell the modules before testing them out to actually bank nanites though. But it won't take you long to find modules you don't need anymore.

The base tutorial missions includes a multitool builder guy. Finish up his short questline then he gives out infinite multitools. If you put him on your freighter you can pop system to system and he has a different tool each system. Just warp until he is handing out A or S class tools then just pop back and forth from your freighter to the anomaly breaking them down. I guess that is an exploit though since it seems odd he just will give out multitools infinitely. Sell those modules and that is it, huge numbers of nanites quickly.

I think you need 85,000 nanites to upgrade a c tool to an S tool. So if a tool looks cool you can save up.

Super useful and well put together guide. Kudos brother!

New to this game. My first attempt at utilizing this process was in a six planet system, so seven pools to work with. Every single time I landed on a planet and reloaded and went back to the station, the cabinet on the front wall was a B class and the cabinet on the back wall was in A class. It cannot be a coincidence that every single planetary pool was exactly the same. I’m guessing a recent update changed this mechanic in the space station. That being said, I did find that there was a planet in this system that was default A class weapon cases. Furthermore, after much hunting, I did find an S class on said planet.

Got my first alien multi tool on the first planet I tried after watching this 🤘🏻

thanks for the hard work but this is not completely failproof. i just started the game and i want an A class alien tool. i found an alien tool in the space station pool so i went to search for an A class weapon cabinet. unfortunately i spawned two minor settlements next to each other one with a C-class cabinet and one with an A-class and it was the only A-class cabinet in the system. so when i reload the save on the space station the alien tool only goes to the C-class cabinet not the A-class one. even after reloading the save multiple times.

Thanks - this old video is still very helpful for new players.  I do have one question for anyone out in the 'verse that knows:  Does this Class up-down rule apply to the Sentinel multitools found at the harmonic bases, as well?

This is brilliant, concise and well detailed! Your organization and production quality earned you another subscriber in myself! My question is; can you do a video as well explained for hunting exotic ships? Even if it’s less extensive in depth by the nature of ship hunting compared to multi tool hunting. I’m interested in locating my own exotic squid, not from the NMSCE but a native find. I have a hanger full and squad full of exotic ball ships I’ve found on my own but squids are eluded to my hunt. I think there is an opportunity for another hit video like this in a well explained ship hunting guide. Thank you Taylor!!!

if they let you buy super slots.... class wouldn't matter, in tools or ships...it's all about super slots and their layout...way too much cosmetic BS in the game....function over form

Still relevent today despite being old. The cabinet also defines the supercharged slots layout. Nice video for hunting new multi-tools

I know you made this guide 3 years ago, but in the meantime space stations have changed and there are now two multi tool cabinets. I had one today that had one pistol B class and one rifle A class. Tried to use your search method which still confuses the cr... outta me;), and actually did find THE S class cabinet on a planet, albeit only being an ugly pistol. I am still not sure I understand how to "up" the class by going back and forth and/or reloading/not reloading. Also, then you have to pair this search with the one for an exotic multi-tool, too.
Maybe sometimes one can try to hard. Maybe I will just randomly visit minor settlements and hope I get lucky. And whatever is not S class I can surely upgrade with nanites.
Thx for all the hard work, anyway.

The beginning of this vid sounded like my internal monologue at any given time