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Tainted Metal

Tainted Metal is a salvaged scrap in No Man's Sky.

See also: Best nanite farms

What can you refine from Tainted Metal?1 recipe

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Shredded fragments of a soft, grey metal. Its surface is porous, and when touched it oozes ever-so-slightly.

Found in the creaking wreck of a derelict freighter. The space station Scrap Dealer may find this interesting...

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2026-10-28