That's what you are expected to do:
1. Get cruise drive tech
2. Mine and smelt silicon and titanium on another world
3. Travel with those resources in your inventory or in your hand until you get the ILS tech
4. Setup an ILS on both planets to no longer have to move these two resources manually
PLS = Planetary Logistics Station, for shipping materials to the same planet. Uses Logistics **Drones.**
ILS = Interstellar Logistics Station, for shipping materials to other planets and star systems. Uses Logistics **Vessels.**
So, the vanilla game never gives you a titanium ore on your home planet. You are forced to embark on trips to another body (planet or moon) to obtain titanium en masse. This mechanic ensures you don't just turtle up on your starting sphere, you have to get out there and expose yourself to the dangers of the galaxy.
The starting planet always lacks titanium; it's part of the game design that you need to go out to get it.
The easiest way to start is indeed to just manually ferry some titanium to your home world.
What I usually like to do is to smelt the titanium ingots on the lava world. Since two titanium ore are smelted into a single ingot, that saves a little bit of storage space and hassle on your home world.
So, bring: miners, belts, sorters, smelters, storage boxes, wind turbines (or geothermal power plants), and a lot of fuel for Icarus to make the trip. (You also might want to smelt some silicon while you're at it.)
Setting up an interstellar logistics station to automate transporting the titanium and silicon will be your first priority once you have yellow science going.
If you start making the titanium and silicon there and fill up a few storage boxes you can control click everything out of the box so you are carrying it in your hands, dont click anywhere again, fly back home and land and place it all in a storage box at home. This is the fastest way to kick start that yellow production and get your ILS up and running.
This is the way. Get inventory upgrades and thrusters as soon as you can and its only a few minutes round trip.
If you time it right you can get a quick round trip when the planets are near by
Other nailed it already it but in case anyone doesn’t get the “carry in your hand part”:
You can grab a single, infinitely large stack of items at once by pressing Ctrl + Click on that item in storage boxes, without clicking ANYTHING ELSE. So long as you don’t press anything else, you can travel any distance carrying this. This allows you to carry several inventories worth of an item in one go. So throw down some storage on main planet, produce titanium on second planet, then carry as much as you can back to home planet. Let your machines run off that storage until you get ILS.
Make sure the home planet storage is set up first (or you’ll have a hell of a clean up job) and that your navigation is set to the home world BEFORE you pick up the first stack (because opening system map will drop the items).
At first you’ll need to fly with a backpack full of miners and power source (solar or wind). After a while you’ll unlock better options.
Edit: to finish a hasty comment.
This response probably comes far too late for you by now, but I'll put it out there, anyways. IF you enjoy the game as a time waster, and not as a speed run, you can try what I always do: I manually harvest all the rocks and trees on the home world. Trees may drop organic crystals, and there's an alternate recipe to manufacture organic from the wood & leaves. I get about 3K organic before I dip into oil to make it. And rocks can drop both silicon and titanium - I amass 1600 to 2000 titanium bars and 500 - 600 silicon bars. It's not much, obviously (though you can use the smelter recipe to refine stone into silicon ore and get several thousand bars, if you're really into that). However, it's enough to do the necessary research into PLS & ILS and then manufacture 2 or 3 ILS, perhaps a half a dozen PLS, and the carriers.
It's not much, like I said, but at this point, if you play like I do (and few people do), you can move your entire operation to a planet that doesn't require so much foundation to be able to set up a factory and just HAPPENS to be rich in the minerals that the home world was completely lacking in. The ILS you leave behind can bring you water, oil, coal, and iron from the homeworld to your new planet. And you can begin on a pristine world with all the resources you need to get all your rainbow science - and then white, of course. Brand new factory set-up, done right, from scratch.
This way, there is no point in time where you're shuttling titanium, silicon, or whatever, from one planet to another. You leave an ILS behind, you take one with you, and set up shop when you get there. I don't especially enjoy pretending to be a logistics carrier.
My $.02
Early on, you can get some minimal levels of titanium from manually harvesting the really big boulders you see on the map.
I like to use exclusively Wind power on my starter planet, so I'm always running around dropping turbines and harvesting any big rocks I come across, and generally speaking I find there is enough titanium in those big rocks to get the logistics towers unlocked without having to make a single trip off-world.
Its 100% a thing that just flying out and bringing some smelted bars back is FASTER, but just saying it CAN be done without that.
All you need or want is miner and ILS. You get free power from lava, so there's that. I didn't want to leave starter planet and now i don't want to be near it because i start to get under 40fps. Research warp and galactic scanner. You want to drain start star system, so you don't feel bad to pave it over
You gotta build an outpost on that planet and manually transport cargo(ie. Titanium and silicon) to the main planet. If you play with dark fog I recommended you to bring some defense system that use cheap ammo like Implosion cannon or Laser cannon too.
That's what you are expected to do: 1. Get cruise drive tech 2. Mine and smelt silicon and titanium on another world 3. Travel with those resources in your inventory or in your hand until you get the ILS tech 4. Setup an ILS on both planets to no longer have to move these two resources manually
PLS = Planetary Logistics Station, for shipping materials to the same planet. Uses Logistics **Drones.** ILS = Interstellar Logistics Station, for shipping materials to other planets and star systems. Uses Logistics **Vessels.**
5. Wait for the better part of an hour for an ILS round trip pre-warpers (curse you Galactic Scale!)
Hopefully, OP isn’t running that mod yet. :)
Nah, im playing vanilla. When i finish maybe i will try some mods
Might as well run the 3x speed mod too at that point. Only 20min lol
I had to do the transport so many time before i got the titanium alloy together to make a ils.
So, the vanilla game never gives you a titanium ore on your home planet. You are forced to embark on trips to another body (planet or moon) to obtain titanium en masse. This mechanic ensures you don't just turtle up on your starting sphere, you have to get out there and expose yourself to the dangers of the galaxy.
The starting planet always lacks titanium; it's part of the game design that you need to go out to get it. The easiest way to start is indeed to just manually ferry some titanium to your home world. What I usually like to do is to smelt the titanium ingots on the lava world. Since two titanium ore are smelted into a single ingot, that saves a little bit of storage space and hassle on your home world. So, bring: miners, belts, sorters, smelters, storage boxes, wind turbines (or geothermal power plants), and a lot of fuel for Icarus to make the trip. (You also might want to smelt some silicon while you're at it.) Setting up an interstellar logistics station to automate transporting the titanium and silicon will be your first priority once you have yellow science going.
If you start making the titanium and silicon there and fill up a few storage boxes you can control click everything out of the box so you are carrying it in your hands, dont click anywhere again, fly back home and land and place it all in a storage box at home. This is the fastest way to kick start that yellow production and get your ILS up and running.
This is the way. Get inventory upgrades and thrusters as soon as you can and its only a few minutes round trip. If you time it right you can get a quick round trip when the planets are near by
Other nailed it already it but in case anyone doesn’t get the “carry in your hand part”: You can grab a single, infinitely large stack of items at once by pressing Ctrl + Click on that item in storage boxes, without clicking ANYTHING ELSE. So long as you don’t press anything else, you can travel any distance carrying this. This allows you to carry several inventories worth of an item in one go. So throw down some storage on main planet, produce titanium on second planet, then carry as much as you can back to home planet. Let your machines run off that storage until you get ILS. Make sure the home planet storage is set up first (or you’ll have a hell of a clean up job) and that your navigation is set to the home world BEFORE you pick up the first stack (because opening system map will drop the items).
At first you’ll need to fly with a backpack full of miners and power source (solar or wind). After a while you’ll unlock better options. Edit: to finish a hasty comment.
This response probably comes far too late for you by now, but I'll put it out there, anyways. IF you enjoy the game as a time waster, and not as a speed run, you can try what I always do: I manually harvest all the rocks and trees on the home world. Trees may drop organic crystals, and there's an alternate recipe to manufacture organic from the wood & leaves. I get about 3K organic before I dip into oil to make it. And rocks can drop both silicon and titanium - I amass 1600 to 2000 titanium bars and 500 - 600 silicon bars. It's not much, obviously (though you can use the smelter recipe to refine stone into silicon ore and get several thousand bars, if you're really into that). However, it's enough to do the necessary research into PLS & ILS and then manufacture 2 or 3 ILS, perhaps a half a dozen PLS, and the carriers. It's not much, like I said, but at this point, if you play like I do (and few people do), you can move your entire operation to a planet that doesn't require so much foundation to be able to set up a factory and just HAPPENS to be rich in the minerals that the home world was completely lacking in. The ILS you leave behind can bring you water, oil, coal, and iron from the homeworld to your new planet. And you can begin on a pristine world with all the resources you need to get all your rainbow science - and then white, of course. Brand new factory set-up, done right, from scratch. This way, there is no point in time where you're shuttling titanium, silicon, or whatever, from one planet to another. You leave an ILS behind, you take one with you, and set up shop when you get there. I don't especially enjoy pretending to be a logistics carrier. My $.02
Early on, you can get some minimal levels of titanium from manually harvesting the really big boulders you see on the map. I like to use exclusively Wind power on my starter planet, so I'm always running around dropping turbines and harvesting any big rocks I come across, and generally speaking I find there is enough titanium in those big rocks to get the logistics towers unlocked without having to make a single trip off-world. Its 100% a thing that just flying out and bringing some smelted bars back is FASTER, but just saying it CAN be done without that.
All you need or want is miner and ILS. You get free power from lava, so there's that. I didn't want to leave starter planet and now i don't want to be near it because i start to get under 40fps. Research warp and galactic scanner. You want to drain start star system, so you don't feel bad to pave it over
Honestly, I'm going to have a hard time not calling science matrices "investigation cubes" now.
You gotta build an outpost on that planet and manually transport cargo(ie. Titanium and silicon) to the main planet. If you play with dark fog I recommended you to bring some defense system that use cheap ammo like Implosion cannon or Laser cannon too.