Here are some easy methods of farming dilithium. The academy quiz, Traelus and Strange New Worlds are particularly easy ways of grinding dilithium.
One general piece of advice for daily repeatable missions: Accept them as soon as they become available, don't wait until you actually want to do them. Cooldown on these starts as soon as the mission is accepted. This is good because then you occasionally have the opportunity to repeat a mission straight away.
If you have more ideas please feel free to add them here.
Academy EventReward: Variable
Repeatable: A recurring 1-hour event
During the event you can scan particles at your respective academy to collect particle fragments. These can be traded for dilithium in batches of 15, 30 or 60 particles. Once you get the hang of this event you can usually manage 120 particles, often more, during the event. This would translate to roughly 5000 dilithium.
Advice:
- Bring a Pulsewave rifle
- Try to find a good route, ideally with particles close together where you don't double back alot
- Don't waste time attacking other people's hostiles
- You don't need a Bekk / Ensign if think you don't want one
- When first arriving, check how many people are in your instance, switch to one with as few players as possible
- If you find people running on your route, consider switching instance
- Good spots:
Klingon Academy: Between the firing range and statue
Starfleet Academy: Hallways at the back of the main building (Past bank and exchange)
- When you find anomalies, you have to pick the right scan type:
--- Multiphasic Scan for Expanding Particles (1st option)
--- Positron Imaging Scan for Dissipating Particles (2nd option)
Academy quiz / lore questionsReward: 480 Dilithium
Repeatable: Every 20 hours
Time taken: 1 minute
For: Any character
Go to your respective academy and talk to Lt. Viala (North building) or the lore singer (map centre) for Starfleet and Klingons respectively. Pick up both quests offered. For Starfleet, the computer terminals are in the same room. For Klingons, the computer terminals are inside the main building.
Once you have answered the lore question you can go back to the officer and pick up your reward.
Lore answers can be found
here.
Strange new worlds / we need breathing roomReward: 1440 Dilithium
Repeatable: Every 20 hours
Time taken: 5-20 minutes, depending on luck.
Accept the Strange New Worlds or Breathing Room assignments (Fed / Klingon) and any Explore the ??? assignment. Go to any star cluster for which you have an exploration assignment and complete it.
Hint: You can also complete a Diplomatic Investigation assignment to progress on the exploration assignments, and these can be quite a time-saver.
Once you have explored three systems you can pick up your dilithium.
An interesting strategy if you are playing with a friend:
- Accept the required missions, go to a cluster in which your teammate (!) has the Diplomatic Investigations mission.
- As long as your teammate does not complete the Diplomatic Investigation himself, you can repeat it as many times as you like.
- You can hence repeat the same Diplomatic Investigation three times and complete Strange new worlds in under 5 minutes.
Traelus Satellite RepairReward: 480 Dilithium
Repeatable: Every 20 hours
Time taken: 5-10 minutes
Pick up the mission and proceed Traelus system in Eta Eridani. The first two satellites need to be repaired correctly or else the mission will fail:
First: Replace fuses, align solar array, alter EP flowrates and finish the repairs.
Second: Replace capacitance cell, radiometric converter, patch computer matrix
On the third you will be attacked. Defend the satellite. As soon as all attackers are destroyed you can pick up your team and leave.
Elite STFsReward: 960 Dilithium + Extra
Repeatable: Every hour, for each individual mission
This requires you to be on level 50.
You receive borg marks and neural processors for these missions. These can be converted to dilithium via the Rep system.
50 Borg marks -> 500 Dilithium
5 Processors -> 1000 Dilithium
