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What is Tritium used for?
There are many resources you need to collect as you travel through the vast world No Man's Skybut perhaps none as important as Tritium. This rare radioactive isotope is essential for space travel, whether it's from inside your star or the bulk of an interstellar frigate.
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Finding Tritium isn't too difficult, but harvesting a large amount can be a task that can go much faster with a few helpful tips. This guide will tell you everything you need to know about how to get Tritium quickly and what you will use it for later.
What is Tritium?
Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen with the chemical formula H3. In the real world, natural tritium is rare, and most tritium is created by nuclear reactors.
In No Man's Sky, Tritium is used in a variety of products from raw materials and supplies to fuel for your fleet. It's a rare sight on the planet, but unfortunately, Finding large quantities of Tritium is as easy as going into space.
Where to find Tritium
Tritium is usually found by shooting asteroids from the cockpit of your starship. Asteroids are commonly found in a wide belt within the solar system, so there's no shortage of asteroids you can shoot at.
Once you find an asteroid belt, just go inside and start blasting rocks. Each rock that explodes will give at least a small amount of Tritium along with other elements such as gold, silver and platinum.
Keep an eye out for asteroids identified as 'Tritium Rich' on your sensor. These will yield more Tritium and have a higher chance of yielding a Tritium Hypercluster.
A few minutes of detonating asteroids can yield hundreds of Tritium. Just keep blasting until you get your volume. The Photon Blaster core is ideal for destroying asteroids due to its decent range and rate of fire.
Tritium Hyperclusters can provide more Tritium. Just remove the Hypercluster from your inventory to get the extra Tritium penetration.
Free tritium sometimes available for purchase at Galactic Trade Terminals. It is sometimes found in small amounts from rocky material mined in planetary caves. It will also be available in small quantities in the inventory of new starships or items after purchase.
A bandit station will always have a small amount of money (several hundred) of Tritium available for purchase.
Sources Of Tritium Summary
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Asteroids
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Tritium Hyperclusters
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Galactic Trade Terminals
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What is Tritium used for?
In addition to fuel, Tritium is used to create many different products. Below is a list of all the foods that contain Tritium.
Tritium is often used fuel for your Starship or Frigate. Tritium can be fed directly into your Pulse engine to fuel it or refined into fuel for your Frigate.
Carrier recipe
something |
Ingredients |
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A winding freight road |
silver x80 |
Tritium x10 |
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Fleet Command Room |
Silver x120 |
gold x40 |
Tritium x10 |
Freight lines |
silver x80 |
Tritium x10 |
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Freight lines |
Silver x30 |
Tritium x5 |
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Cross Junction Shipping |
silver x80 |
Tritium x10 |
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Exterior stairs for luggage |
Silver x30 |
Tritium x5 |
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T Freighter Junction |
silver x80 |
Tritium x10 |
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Cargo ladder |
Silver x30 |
Tritium x5 |
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Main cargo room A |
Silver x120 |
Tritium x20 |
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Main cargo room B |
Silver x120 |
Tritium x20 |
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Large cargo room C |
Silver x120 |
Tritium x20 |
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Fuel Frigate (50 Tons) |
Di-hydrogen x50 |
Tritium x50 |
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Fuel Frigate (100 Tons) |
Dihydrogen x100 |
Tritium x100 |
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Fuel Frigate (200 Tons) |
Di-hydrogen x200 |
Tritium x200 |
Starship Recipes
something |
Ingredients |
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Efficient Thrusters |
Di-hydrogen Jelly x1 |
Tritium x100 |
Wiring Loom x2 |
In-flight assistance |
Warp Hypercore x1 |
Platinum x60 |
Tritium x200 |
Nonlinear Optics |
Hermetic Seal x2 |
Wiring Loom x1 |
Tritium x100 |
Phase Beam |
Tritium x100 |
Wiring Loom x1 |
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Starshield Battery |
Tritium x50 |
Gold x20 |
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Sub-Light Amplifier |
Magnetic Resonator x3 |
Platinum x100 |
Tritium x200 |
Exosuit recipe
something |
Ingredients |
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Win Magpulse x20 |
Magnetic Resonator x1 |
Metal patch x1 |
Tritium x90 |
Denier symbol |
Tritium x16 |
Gold x16 |
Platinum x16 |
Rocket Boots |
Tritium x100 |
Hydraulic wiring x1 |
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Star seed |
Platinum x16 |
Tritium x16 |
Gold x16 |
Trade Rocket |
Wiring Loom x2 |
Tritium x120 |
Di-hydrogen x90 |
Exocraft recipe
something |
Ingredients |
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Exocraft calling station |
Uranium x100 |
Tritium x100 |
Unstable Plasma x4 |
Grip Boost Suspension |
Magnetic Ferrite x50 |
Tritium x50 |
Wiring Loom x1 |
Recipe Refiner
something |
Ingredients |
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Aronium x1 |
Paraffinium x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Cobalt x60 |
Aronia x1 |
Paraffinium x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Ionized Cobalt x30 |
Deuterium x1 |
Di-hydrogen x1 |
Tritium x1 |
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Di-hydrogen x1 |
Tritium x5 |
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Dirty Copper x1 |
pyrite x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Ferrite Powder x120 |
Dirty Copper x1 |
pyrite x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Pure Ferrite x60 |
Grantin x1 |
Dioxide x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Cobalt x60 |
Grantin x1 |
Dioxide x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Ionized Cobalt x30 |
Hero x1 |
Ammonia x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Cobalt x60 |
Hero x1 |
Ammonia x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Ionized Cobalt x30 |
Lemmium x1 |
Uranium x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Ferrite Powder x120 |
Lemmium x1 |
Uranium x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Pure Ferrite x60 |
Magno-Gold x1 |
Phosphorus x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Cobalt x60 |
Magno-Gold x1 |
Phosphorus x30 |
Tritium x20 |
Ionized Cobalt x30 |

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