Hello, I've made a few post of the past weeks with 8-10 multitools (MTs) that I've found recently over the past year. I've been hunting tools since launch and thankfully ish that it has gotten a lot easier.

This seems like common since, but I had several questions arise, so I thought an update may be useful to some newbies.

Tools are pooled at the system/space station (SS) level and planetary levels. In general the SS level usually carries the dominate tool from each planet. You can see this by landing on each planet in the system and reloading your save. Then fly back to the SS and you'll see a different tool, this tool will be the dominate tool for that planet in most cases.

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1. Decide on your hunting method
   1. duplicating inhabitable outpost (IOs) maps
      1. whatever method you use to dup
   2. trading navigation data (ND) for maps
      1. trade NDs for inhabited outpost (IOs) maps and maybe a few ancient artifact maps
      2. go to a couple wealthy systems and visit a planet
      3. use 6 or so maps to load up the HUD with the NPC buildings, there should be one minor settlement.
      4. check the minor settlement (MS) to see if it sells nd, if not use another map until the next minor settlement shows up, rinse and repeat. Once the NDs are found place a base computer down with a base name that makes sense to you. I use xxx NavData where xxx is the quantity sold at the minor settlement. repeat this in at least 1 other wealth system. This way you have access to a few hundred NDs.
      5. take any opportunity to gather more NDs, little cubes laying around space stations and minor settlements.
   3. designate a ship as your hunting ship with a good MT
      1. you will want, good shields, warp capable (long distances not required), decent weapons
      2. keep only the basic necessities in your ship, no materials that may attract the attention of system authorities / pirates. Otherwise they will pester/distract you from the goal
      3. take any opportunity to gather more nds, little cubes laying around space stations and minor settlements.
      4. good multitool is helpful for the planets with aggressive sentinels but when I'm hunting I avoid any entanglement the distracts me from the MT Hunt.
   4. MT Hunting (when starting out)
      1. Warp to a system go to SS and check MT class, if it's not A class then move to next system. I only say this for newbies, you can hunt MTs in SSs with B & C's but has the class goes down it can get more complex hunting for an S class on the planets.
      2. When the A class is found reload a save on each planet and check the SS for the dominate MT. Note: generally it will not show the 2ndary MT on the planet. The 2ndary MT is the MT that shows up in cabinet once you reload your save either at the planet you are on or other planet in the system or space station.
      3. If you have checked all the dominate tools for each planet and if non of them are what you are looking for then you can bail on that system. However, you may want to find the dominate tool on each planet even if it's not the style you want to find. The 2ndary tools can be the alien, experimental and/or anomalous MTs. This all about your tolerance for the repetitiveness and time.

So I think that is probably a good start for those that are new to NMS. I'm sure many will chime in with additional tips/tricks to help out.

These are all the S classes I've found in the past year or so.

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