No Man’s Sky: How to Get Chromatic Metal

Chromatic Metal is one of the essential resources in No Man’s Sky that is used for several purposes including Building, Crafting, Charging, and Upgrading. You will need Chromatic Metal throughout your journey in No Man’s Sky whether you are a new player or an old player. There are several ways to get Chromatic Metal, but there is an easy way you can get tons of Chromatic Metal without much hassle.

This guide will help you how to get Chromatic Metal in No Man’s Sky.

How to Get Chromatic Metal in No Man’s Sky

Chromatic Metal can be obtained in various ways including purchasing from Galactic Trade Terminals, destroying pirate ships, destroying cargo pods, etc. Moreover, there is an easy way to get Chromatic Metal and that is making it by yourself using some of the ordinary resources that are easy to come by.

How to Make Chromatic Metal in No Man’s Sky

Chromatic Metal is refined in any Refiner machinery in No Man’s Sky. You can use any Refiner you have available to turn Copper, Cadmium, Emeril, indium, and several other resources into Chromatic Metal. The easiest refiner that you can get in No Man’s Sky is a Portable Refiner and the easiest resource that you can use to turn it into a Chromatic Metal is Copper.

Put down the Portable Refiner and interact with it. Add Carbon (Fuel) to the refiner and then add the Copper in the Input slot on the left side. Now, look to the right side to see Chromatic Metal as the Expected Output. Press the respective button to begin the process and the refiner starts refining Chromatic Metal.

You can leave it running if you want to turn all of your copper into Chromatic Metal or you can manually stop it after getting a satisfied number of Chromatic Metal. Once done, you can put the refined Chromatic Metal and Copper into your inventory, and then pick up the refiner to add both the refiner and the fuel back to your inventory.

It is the easiest and quickest method to get Chromatic Metal in No Man’s Sky and you can do it repeatedly whenever you need some.