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Rares, I Like Rares achievement in Elite: Dangerous

Rares, I Like Rares

Sell 1,000,000 credits worth of rares

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How to unlock the Rares, I Like Rares achievement

  • Lurking LawyerLurking Lawyer
    20 Sep 2015 20 Sep 2015
    This is pretty easy to unlock once you have a ship with a decent sized hold and jump range.

    Start at Zaonce and then buy the commodities shown in yellow - these are rare commodities. From Zaonce, jump to Lave (Lave Station), Leesti (George Lucas), Diso (Shifnalport) and Orrere (Sharon Lee Free Market) and buy up the rares from each. By the time I reached Orrere and filled up there, I had around 36 tonnes of cargo.

    Jump from Orrere to Witchhaul (Hornby Transit) - about 190 light years. Sell all your rares there (for me, it generated a little over 500,000 credits) and then buy what's on offer.

    From Witchhaul, visit Fujin (Futen Station), 39 Tauri (Porta), Zeessze (Nicollier Hangar) and George Pantazis (Zamka Platform) and buy up all of their rares before jumping back to Zaonce and selling them all there.

    (I take no credit for the route - I got it from Google - search for "Elite Dangerous rare trading routes" and the first image is a pictorial representation of the above)

    In an Asp with two additional 8 unit cargo holds (i.e. 48 in total) the achievement popped on returning to Zaonce and midway through selling the cargo. It should be possible to do it on one circuit of the above ring with the Asp's standard hold and one 8 unit extension.

    It took around 90 minutes, but it could be done in less - I stopped to scan unexplored planets)

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    o DEEVIUS oThanks for the reply, and the solution. Yes, I got the 1 million achievement at Witchhual, very nice payout for the 82 tonnes I had, over 1.5 million in fact.

    I'm on my way back but I'm still continuing with the solution because it's lucrative. For anyone else trying this now, I'm in a Type-6 with extra cargo (100 tonnes) and it's more than sufficient for this achievement, medium landing pads everywhere too. Thanks.
    Posted by o DEEVIUS o on 07 Jan 17 at 22:48
    TheAnonymitycouldn't you just buy and sell at the same station if you didn't want to travel all over the place? or would that not count toward the achievement?
    Posted by TheAnonymity on 14 Apr 18 at 20:35
    o DEEVIUS oIf you buy a rare material from a station then try to sell it back to the same station you won't make any money, you'll either sell it back for the same price or actually lose credits.

    So for example if you bought a few rares at 3,000cr, then sold them back (if there is even any demand that is) you'll make <3,000cr back, whereas if you traveled and sold them far away you'd make tens or even hundreds of thousands from them.
    Posted by o DEEVIUS o on 14 Apr 18 at 20:43
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  • trink202trink202
    12 Jan 2016 10 Jan 2016
    Here is an image that has a short route for rare trading, It is not mine, so I take no credit for it: http://imgur.com/HtMnZyf

    I started out with about 250k credits, upgraded the Sidewinder to the B rank FSD, and 8t of cargo space. I made the run twice, and made about 325k more credits. Then upgraded to a Cobra MkIII with more cargo room and upgraded FSD to finish this off.
  • te5s3raktte5s3rakt
    16 Jun 2023 16 Jun 2023 16 Jun 2023
    The simplest method to get this (and the achievement for 250,000 credits worth) is to buy rares from a station and immediately sell them back at the same station.

    Cheranovsky City, in the Ngurii system (about 195LY from Sol), sells Soontill Relics which are perfect for just that.
    The station usually holds about 80 at any given point. These are have been stated in some Engineering guides as being worth around 19k. At the time of writing this though (June 2023), I found them worth only 17k. So this may fluctuate.

    Worst case though, assuming you buy/sell all 80 on hand, as long as they are worth over 12,500 credits, you'll earn your achievements.

    This does however require a little bankroll up front (little over a million in this case).
    And you won't make any profit (and in fact, worst case, depending on the rare and station, you might loose some credits).
    But if you've got in the 10's or 100's of millions of credits already, then profits from rares is probably meaningless to you by now.

    Side note: An engineer called Elvira Martuuk wants Soontill Relics. So if you're doing this with these, then hang onto 3.

    To make it easier to find:
    Elite: DangerousLave is a Rare ThingThe Lave is a Rare Thing achievement in Elite: Dangerous worth 60 pointsSell 250,000 credits worth of rares
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