Resource Units(RU) are used to buy ship modules, fuel, crew and to build your armada of smaller ships. At the start of the game, you have none of them (RU's that is) but that is not much of a problem because you don't have a base in which to do all those wonderful things mentioned above either. So you have to find one.
Good news is, there's one just waiting for you in orbit around the third planet (which you should recognise as Earth, only it would be red when you get close). Bad news is, they are screwed and are waiting for supply ship for the last 8 years. So, before you can use it, you have to do a little quest for them. (P.S. If you loaded from a save and have already done the first quest for the good star-base captain, you can skip first two steps, because you already have a base). So, here it goes. :)
First step:
Fly your ship to Earth, talk to probe then land on orbital station (not the Moon and not the planet!). Be polite and sincere when talking to the captain and accept to help him with his troubles
(Spoiler: they have replicators on board but need radioactive isotopes to power them).
Second step: Go to Mercury (the first planet, closest to the sun), auto-scan the planet, dispatch lander closest to the red and orange blobs, get over two or three of them (you might get hurt there, since earthquakes and fire damage your lander. Try to avoid them.), press shift to get lander back to the ship, choose navigate and go back to station. Save, talk to the captain, unload the isotopes. You'll have to fight enemy ship at this point, choose the little white one for it (you fire weapon with Right Ctrl) and blast it to pieces. Talk to the captain and huray, we have the base now :).
Third step (The Tricky Part also known as the reason why you are reading this blog/site) :
Now that we have the base, there are multiple ways we can get to RU's now. We can sell fuel, landers and crew, which is all time consuming. Or we can offload mining resources, which is much less so. This way shows you how to do it by offloading mining resources. There are three ways to do this (four if you go here), but all of them involve landing on the planet, some magic mojo, getting of the planet, going to the base and offloading minerals. Now, magic mojo is what you are obviously interested in. The ways you can do it are as follows: Safe and incredible slow way, the faster and insanely dangerous way and the fastest, waiting but still safe way.
First method: (safe but incredibly slow way)
1) Go to Moon, scan it, land on it, kill everything that moves but don't go near the building and don't pick any ore (if you do pick it, just press shift to get back to mother-ship to unload it).
2) Having made moon safe, dispatch your lander again.
3) Go to Cheat Engine, enter "0" (zero:) ) and click on First scan button. You'll get bunch of "physical addresses" on the left side of CE screen.
4) Pick up lump of metal , noticing how much you picked (For example, you picked big lump which is 14 pieces or close to). Enter that number (14 in our example) into Cheat Engine and click on Next Scan (not New Scan!).
5) You should now get only one address on the left side of CE screen. Double click on it. It will show on the bottom of the CE screen. Double click on the value to change it. Put some big number on it, for example 50000 (it has to be less than 250000. Don't ask me why :)). Go to Ur-Quan Masters window, pick up another blob of metal (if you can) then press Shift to get back to ship.
Congratulations, you now have 50.000 (or whatever number you entered) of the resource you picked. It won't say anywhere that you do (it will in your cargo bay but to learn how to do that, see Q&A) but believe me, you really do. You'll now notice one thing: If you look at Cheat Engine after the moment your lander returned back to ship in Ur-Quan, the value would have changed from 50.000 to 0 (zero, or maybe 16, or some other number). If you dispatch the lander again, the number will be zero again. You can change it in Cheat Engine again and when you press shift the value will be added to your cargo. Repeat as many times as you want but try not to go over million RU's, because you'll need a lot less than that (each unit of moon minerals is worth 3 Ru's). When you have enough minerals, go to base, offload them and you have your RU's :).
The problem: Unloading takes forever. Since moon minerals are worth only one RU each, you'll need 333000 of them to get near million. To counter the problem, you can either press Ctrl during offloading (and lose the fun of watching RU going up) or you can use method number two.
Second method:
1) Go to Moon, kill the robots, pick up as much ore as you can and go to building on it.
2) Go to your base, offload minerals, buy some fuel and crew then leave.
3) Go to Pluto (last planet, very small purple one. This is old game, made while Pluto was still considered planet). Scan it. Dispatch your lander, not too close to purple mineral.
4) Press the New Scan/First scan button in Cheat Engine (scan for 0 /zero). You'll get bunch of addresses again. Pick up the purple blob and do Next scan (!) for 5 (since you just picked 5 tzo crystals). Double click on single address until it copies to lower part of Cheat Engine screen. Change it to 20.000 (or some other big number less than 250 thousand), go to Ur-Quan window and press shift to go back to ship. You can explore Pluto now, safe in the knowledge that you now have 20.000 tzo cristalz instead of 5. They are worth 25 RU's each when you get to your space station.
P.S. Be polite and friendly (but not the coward!) to any aliens you find on Pluto. They are essential for Melnorme credits cheat.
P.P.S. Any time you land on any planet, the number in Cheat Engine will change to zero. If you need more tzo crystals, land on any planet (I prefer the Moon, since it is closest to the station and is pretty safe), change the value in Cheat Engine and press shift in Ur-Quan window to put that value in your cargo.
P.P.P.S. I know that Moon is not planet, but since you can't land on Earth it is the closest celestial body on which you can land.
And finally, the third and fastest possible way to get your hands on a lot of RU fast (besides the one described here)Good news is, there's one just waiting for you in orbit around the third planet (which you should recognise as Earth, only it would be red when you get close). Bad news is, they are screwed and are waiting for supply ship for the last 8 years. So, before you can use it, you have to do a little quest for them. (P.S. If you loaded from a save and have already done the first quest for the good star-base captain, you can skip first two steps, because you already have a base). So, here it goes. :)
First step:
Fly your ship to Earth, talk to probe then land on orbital station (not the Moon and not the planet!). Be polite and sincere when talking to the captain and accept to help him with his troubles
(Spoiler: they have replicators on board but need radioactive isotopes to power them).
Second step: Go to Mercury (the first planet, closest to the sun), auto-scan the planet, dispatch lander closest to the red and orange blobs, get over two or three of them (you might get hurt there, since earthquakes and fire damage your lander. Try to avoid them.), press shift to get lander back to the ship, choose navigate and go back to station. Save, talk to the captain, unload the isotopes. You'll have to fight enemy ship at this point, choose the little white one for it (you fire weapon with Right Ctrl) and blast it to pieces. Talk to the captain and huray, we have the base now :).
Third step (The Tricky Part also known as the reason why you are reading this blog/site) :
Now that we have the base, there are multiple ways we can get to RU's now. We can sell fuel, landers and crew, which is all time consuming. Or we can offload mining resources, which is much less so. This way shows you how to do it by offloading mining resources. There are three ways to do this (four if you go here), but all of them involve landing on the planet, some magic mojo, getting of the planet, going to the base and offloading minerals. Now, magic mojo is what you are obviously interested in. The ways you can do it are as follows: Safe and incredible slow way, the faster and insanely dangerous way and the fastest, waiting but still safe way.
First method: (safe but incredibly slow way)
1) Go to Moon, scan it, land on it, kill everything that moves but don't go near the building and don't pick any ore (if you do pick it, just press shift to get back to mother-ship to unload it).
2) Having made moon safe, dispatch your lander again.
3) Go to Cheat Engine, enter "0" (zero:) ) and click on First scan button. You'll get bunch of "physical addresses" on the left side of CE screen.
4) Pick up lump of metal , noticing how much you picked (For example, you picked big lump which is 14 pieces or close to). Enter that number (14 in our example) into Cheat Engine and click on Next Scan (not New Scan!).
5) You should now get only one address on the left side of CE screen. Double click on it. It will show on the bottom of the CE screen. Double click on the value to change it. Put some big number on it, for example 50000 (it has to be less than 250000. Don't ask me why :)). Go to Ur-Quan Masters window, pick up another blob of metal (if you can) then press Shift to get back to ship.
Congratulations, you now have 50.000 (or whatever number you entered) of the resource you picked. It won't say anywhere that you do (it will in your cargo bay but to learn how to do that, see Q&A) but believe me, you really do. You'll now notice one thing: If you look at Cheat Engine after the moment your lander returned back to ship in Ur-Quan, the value would have changed from 50.000 to 0 (zero, or maybe 16, or some other number). If you dispatch the lander again, the number will be zero again. You can change it in Cheat Engine again and when you press shift the value will be added to your cargo. Repeat as many times as you want but try not to go over million RU's, because you'll need a lot less than that (each unit of moon minerals is worth 3 Ru's). When you have enough minerals, go to base, offload them and you have your RU's :).
The problem: Unloading takes forever. Since moon minerals are worth only one RU each, you'll need 333000 of them to get near million. To counter the problem, you can either press Ctrl during offloading (and lose the fun of watching RU going up) or you can use method number two.
Second method:
1) Go to Moon, kill the robots, pick up as much ore as you can and go to building on it.
2) Go to your base, offload minerals, buy some fuel and crew then leave.
3) Go to Pluto (last planet, very small purple one. This is old game, made while Pluto was still considered planet). Scan it. Dispatch your lander, not too close to purple mineral.
4) Press the New Scan/First scan button in Cheat Engine (scan for 0 /zero). You'll get bunch of addresses again. Pick up the purple blob and do Next scan (!) for 5 (since you just picked 5 tzo crystals). Double click on single address until it copies to lower part of Cheat Engine screen. Change it to 20.000 (or some other big number less than 250 thousand), go to Ur-Quan window and press shift to go back to ship. You can explore Pluto now, safe in the knowledge that you now have 20.000 tzo cristalz instead of 5. They are worth 25 RU's each when you get to your space station.
P.S. Be polite and friendly (but not the coward!) to any aliens you find on Pluto. They are essential for Melnorme credits cheat.
P.P.S. Any time you land on any planet, the number in Cheat Engine will change to zero. If you need more tzo crystals, land on any planet (I prefer the Moon, since it is closest to the station and is pretty safe), change the value in Cheat Engine and press shift in Ur-Quan window to put that value in your cargo.
P.P.P.S. I know that Moon is not planet, but since you can't land on Earth it is the closest celestial body on which you can land.
The third way (Not recommended!)
1) When you land on Mercury while doing mission for station captain, do the first scan in cheat engine for 0. When you pick the first blob of material (red or orange one), look for the quantity you picked in Cheat Engine with Next scan(!) . Double click on the singular address until it goes to the bottom of the Cheat Engine screen, then quickly go to Ur-Quan window and press shift. Now, you are back on the ship with a couple of crew man missing (as mentioned above, Mercury is hostile planet and fire damages your lander, at least for now). You don't want to lose lander at this point of the game, else you are pretty much screwed.
2) Land quickly on Mercury, change the value in Cheat Engine to some big number (say 20000 or 50000), go quickly to Ur-Quan window and press shift.
Congratz, you now have as much radioactive isotopes as the number you entered. Go to station and you are now rich man. Radioactive isotopes are worth 8RU a piece. I really don't recommend this method.
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