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Element Dust
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704 points   Oct 11, 2020   Report

Saw a guy on reddit who bred 2 tek parasaurs constantly and when the babies died he would farm them for dust and scrap metal. Ruthless, but efficient

57 points   Nov 6, 2023   Report

Forbidden fun dip

2 points   May 26, 2025   Report

another way is to kill tek creatures and harvest them (like tek raptors)

85 points   Jun 10, 2022   Report

When you are in the Extinction Map: Hit the Lamps, benches and Tables in the City with a Doedi. You get a lot of dust! Easy way to get Full Tech Armor.

119 points   Dec 25, 2020   Report

Once you open the engram Element fron Ext, you can craft Element from the dust. Use a weight Argy and pump points into Doedic's weight as well to take more swings per flight. They do not get extra dust from melee points. Have been farming for a while to know the difference now 🙂

85 points   Aug 26, 2020   Report

Take a good doed to extinction stay in sanctuary and attack every light poll and bench you see they pay out heavy in dust, electronics and crystal

33 points   Oct 24, 2022   Report

You can also get element dust from tek dinos

55 points   Nov 20, 2020   Report

You can breed tek animals and kill the babies with a chainsaw and bam your farming element dust

Goodluck

25 points   Feb 9, 2023   Report

Just vandalise the local benches tables and lamps in extinction to get easy element dust.

26 points   May 20, 2021   Report

Get tek animals breeding let the babies grow up and kill them and harvest with chainsaw or highest dmg weapon you have

24 points   Aug 28, 2021   Report

On extinction go to a element vein, bring a mantis with metal tools, and watch the element dust pile up

16 points   May 21, 2022   Report

Defense units can also drop this

22 points   Sep 1, 2020   Report

The Mantis with ascendant picks with harvest a lot of dust. Just pump melee and weight

8 points   Jul 16, 2023   Report

All bionic Dino variants work as well to drop. I recommend using tek parasaurs for easy farming

21 points   Aug 30, 2020   Report

Killing tek animals will give you this in addition to electronics.

9 points   Feb 15, 2023   Report

The best way to get E-dust is, now that most tek Dinos give the same amount, to have one male and as many females as the amount of baby tek Dinos you can feed, now that they can eat a surprising amount of berries(make sure to have a few stacks).

Now, after haching the eggs, you raise them to adulthood, then kill them & then harvest them for element dust and other useful recourses - enjoy:)

12 points   Feb 15, 2022   Report

Tek variants of dinos also drop Element Dust.

14 points   Nov 23, 2020   Report

If you get a good battle dino, just go out on it and find tek animals. Kill them, you will harvest lots of element dust, electronics, scrap metal, and oil. One 10 minute run can bring in probably one or two element worth of element dust. Electronics are used to craft many things, oil is used to make gas, and scrap metal can be smelted into scrap metal ingot at one scrap metal=one scrap metal ingot (double of regular metal to regular ingot) I strongly suggest using argies for these runs, because they have weight reduction on the metal, and these tek runs can be quite encumbering. I will warn you, however, that tek dinos have not yet been added to mobile. One element is 1,000 element dust, and can only be crafted at a tek replicator. On the island, the tek dinos that you can find are tek parasaurs, tek raptors, tek stegos, and tek rexes. These can be tamed and bred, and you can harvest the recourses from the babies. Tek animals are the same as organic but with different drops.

13 points   Oct 6, 2020   Report

Usage: Element Dust is used to craft the following item:

• Scout Remote

• Tek Gravity Grenade

• Unassembled Enforcer

• Unstable Element

• Unstable Element Shard

It is also used to power the (Scout) and act as (Enforcer) food/energy source.

10 points   Jan 29, 2021   Report

If youre on extinction use the doedicarous to farm it from the street lights. Around 600ish per pole

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