I haven’t seen a guide for this that explains it good enough, so here we go.

1. Go to a space station and buy emergency cartographic charts.

2. Go into space and activate chart. If it reveals anything other than “Distress Beacon” don’t go to it. The charts will only find one building of each type at a time, so leaving an icon for each type will ensure you won’t find any more of those types.

3. If it reveals a distress beacon, go to it and get just close enough to see if there is an npc pilot. If there is, leave. If there isn’t, congrats you’ve found a claimable ship.

Leaving the distress beacon icon for the npc ship will guarantee the rest of the distress beacons will be claimable ships. So now that have all 4 icons you will only be able to find claimable ships with emergency cartographic data.

It seems that your current location within the system determines what the planetary chart will find(you’ll get a lot of “building of similar type already charted”), so pulse around repeatedly attempting to plot the data until it works.

Using this method you will find ship after ship, and can claim dozens within a short time. Return to the space station, salvage, rinse and repeat. Happy hunting!

In my opinion, it would be nice if we had an update that focused on improving combat in the game, and perhaps introduced a way for players who would like it, to be challenged. The derelict freighters so far have been the closest update I can think of that deals with combat, and they are a lot of fun; however there’s still room for improvement with spaceship combat, melee weapons, or exocraft combat. For example in my testing with other players, two players can’t hurt eachother while in minotaurs, and so you can’t have mechbattles between players; however, a minotaur can shoot a spacecraft down, and a spacecraft can blow up a minotaur, so there’s that. Anyway would you support improvements to combat, and if so, how would those improvements look to you?