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Dilithium 101

By LaughingTrendy | Tue 29 Apr 2014 12:00:00 PM PDT

This monthly article features useful information about Dilithium, including what it is, how to earn it, and how to use it in-game. We’ll be featuring this article monthly, and adding to it as more questions about Dilithium arise. What is Dilithium? Beginning with the launch of Season 5: Call to Arms, Dilithium has become the major form of currency in Star Trek Online – it is primarily used to purchase in-game items, including ground and ship gear, starships, select Duty Officers and crafting materials, and is used to begin some Duty Officer Assignments. With the launches of Season 6, 7 and 8, Dilithium is also used in select Starbase, Embassy,  Dilithium Mine and Spire Fleet Projects. How is Dilithium earned? Dilithium is primarily earned by completing in-game missions (PvP and PvE dailies, events, STFs, Duty Officer Assignments, spotlighted and qualified Foundry missions, etc.), and is awarded as Dilithium Ore. Players can also go mining for Dilithium Ore once per day on the Vlugta Asteroid Field, near Deep Space Nine, in the Beta Ursae Sector Block. Before this Ore can be spent, it must be refined. Players are able to refine up to 8,000 Dilithium Ore per day – 800 Day Veteran subscribers also have access to a special Duty Officer Assignment on Starfleet Academy (Fed), Klingon Academy (KDF), and New Romulus Command (Rom) that allows for extra Dilithium refining (1,000 extra for a 48 hour assignment). Gold members also have a special perk that allows them to refine Dilithium automatically upon logging in, up to one previous week’s worth.

Also, the recent introduction of the Fleet Dilithium Mine Outpost has added more benefits for earning and refining Dilithium! Check out the full details on this new addition here . STOWiki.org has done a fantastic job creating a Dilithium information page that provides a full list of missions that award Dilithium, including amounts. You can check it out here . Refined Dilithium is also available via the in-game Dilithium Exchange, which can be accessed via the downward arrow on the mini-map. Here, you can exchange ZEN you’ve transferred into STO for Refined Dilithium, and vice-versa. It’s important to note that the Dilithium Exchange is a live marketplace – exchange rates are driven by the playerbase, depending on how much of one currency they are willing to trade for another, and such rates may fluctuate from moment to moment.  

How do I use Dilithium in-game? As mentioned, once Dilithium Ore is refined, it becomes a spendable currency. Many ships in-game require Dilithium to be purchased. Federation players can find Starship Requisitions at Earth Spacedock, Deep Space 9, Deep Space K-7 and Starbase 39-Sierra. Klingon players can find Starship Requisitions in the orbiting shipyard of Qo’noS. And Romulan players can find Starship Requisitions at the hubs of their allies, New Romulus Command, and the Flotilla. Players can also buy many different types of ground and space gear from various vendors across the galaxy. Federation players will find that Earth Spacedock is home to vendors who take Dilithium, and Klingon players will want to visit Qo’noS to spend their Dilithium. Romulans can visit vendors on the hubs of their allies, in addition to New Romulus Command and the Flotilla. Gear can also be purchased directly from the Dilithium Store on the minimap. If you are looking at crafting higher tier items at Memory Alpha, most recipes call for Common and Uncommon Unreplicateable Materials. These are purchased with Dilithium and can be obtained from a vendor on Memory Alpha (Fed), Qo’noS (KDF), or New Romulus Command (Rom), or through the Dilithium Store on the minimap. Select Duty Officers can be purchased with Dilithium from Lt. Ferra at Starfleet Academy (Fed), Lt. S’stas at Klingon Academy (KDF), and Centurion Velaar at New Romulus Command (Rom) – these Duty Officers are of Uncommon/ green and higher quality. As you participate in various Duty Officer Assignments, you will notice that some of them will require Dilithium. Similarly, Season 6: Under Siege introduced the new Fleet Advancement System. While some of the Starbase Fleet Projects your Fleet Officers decide to undertake may require large amounts of Dilithium, you can choose how much you would like to contribute at a given time – this allows for multiple fleetmates to contribute smaller amounts at a time if they wish.  For those players that would like to “thank” the author of a Foundry mission you’ve recently enjoyed, at the end of the mission, along with your review, you can choose to leave a “tip” of refined Dilithium. Among other things, this helps authors fund the purchase of additional Foundry project slots, which means more Foundry missions for you to play! How do I use the Dilithium Exchange in-game? To access the Dilithium Exchange, click on the downward arrow on the mini-map and select “Dilithium Exchange” – this can also be accessed while browsing the Dilithium Store for items and clicking on “Buy Dilithium”, and through the button on the “Assets” tab of your inventory. Again, it’s important to note that the Dilithium Exchange is a live marketplace – exchange rates are driven by the playerbase, depending on how much of one currency they are willing to trade for another, and such rates may fluctuate from moment to moment. The following images provide more information on how to use the Exchange:  

A: This is the “Buy ZEN” tab. B: This section displays the top offers to sell ZEN.

• Example: row 1 tells us that there is 220,170 ZEN available for 125 Refined Dilithium per ZEN.

C: This section displays any outstanding offers you have on the exchange. If you wish to cancel an offer, click on the offer to highlight it and then click the “Cancel Offer” button. Canceling an offer will put the Refined Dilithium you put onto the exchange into your “Exchange Balance” ( F ). D: This section is where you can decide how much Refined Dilithium you would like to offer to buy ZEN. All 3 fields may have values entered in them, and the “Total Dilithium to sell” field is automatically updated as you adjust the values above it*.

• Example: if you would like to submit an offer to buy 100 ZEN, you would put “100” in the “ZEN to buy” field, and then the amount of Refined Dilithium you would be willing to pay per ZEN acquired – the “Total Dilithium to sell” field would then update with the total Refined Dilithium you need in order to purchase 100 ZEN at that “Dilithium per ZEN” price.

E: Once you have entered the information in the fields above (D), click the “Submit Offer To Buy” button to confirm and submit your offer to buy ZEN. When you enter a buy ZEN offer, all the dilithium for it is taken from you immediately. If you get the ZEN for a cheaper price, or you withdraw your offer before it is completely fulfilled, you get that dilithium back. NOTE: ZEN purchased via the Exchange are bound to Star Trek Online.

• If there are not existing sell offers that match your quantity and price, you might get part or none of your order, and it will be fulfilled later when there is a matching sell order. 

F: This section shows your current Exchange Balance. Canceling an offer will put the Refined Dilithium you put onto the exchange into this balance. Future offers will first pull from these balances and you can withdraw available Refined Dilithium or ZEN from your Exchange Balance at any time. G: This section shows your current character’s Refined Dilithium balance, and your account’s ZEN balance.  

A: This is the “Sell ZEN” tab. B: This section displays the top offers to buy ZEN.

• Example: row 1 tells us that there is 162,494 ZEN available for 123 Refined Dilithium per ZEN.

C: This section displays any outstanding offers you have on the exchange. If you wish to cancel an offer, click on the offer to highlight it and then click the “Cancel Offer” button. Canceling an offer will put the ZEN you put onto the exchange into your “Exchange Balance” ( F ). D: This section is where you can decide how much ZEN you would like to offer to buy Refined Dilithium. All 3 fields may have values entered in them, and the “Total Dilithium to buy” field is automatically updated as you adjust the values above it*.

• Example: if you would like to submit an offer to sell 100 ZEN, you would put “100” in the “ZEN to sell” field, and then the amount of Refined Dilithium you are wanting to get per ZEN sold – the “Total Dilithium to buy” field would then update with the total Refined Dilithium you would get if your offer matched or beat an outstanding offer on the exchange.

E: Once you have entered the information in the fields above (D), click the “Submit Offer To Sell” button to confirm and submit your offer to sell ZEN. When you enter a sell ZEN offer, all the ZEN for it is taken from you immediately. If you get the Dilithium for a cheaper price, or you withdraw your offer before it is completely fulfilled, you get that ZEN back. NOTE: ZEN placed in the Exchange will permanently bind them to Star Trek Online. 

F: This section shows your current Exchange Balance. Canceling an offer will put the ZEN you put onto the exchange into this balance. You can withdraw available Refined Dilithium or ZEN from your Exchange Balance at any time, but you need to manually withdraw the ZEN in order to use it in a new sell offer.  G: This section shows your current character’s Refined Dilithium balance, and your account’s ZEN balance.

* If buying ZEN, the Refined Dilithium price must be set between 25 and 500 Refined Dilithium and offers must be set to at least 1 ZEN and no more than 5,000 ZEN. If selling ZEN, offers must be set to at least 1 ZEN and no more than 5,000 ZEN and the Refined Dilithium price must be set between 25 and 500 Refined Dilithium.

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Star Trek Online Energy Credit Farming Guide 2023

Farming energy credits in Star Trek Online can be a daunting task when there isn’t any direct indication of how you can do so in the game. You need EC (energy credits) to buy items from the exchange. You’ll need them even if you don’t plan on making your EC (energy credit) fortune farming yourself and instead earning them vis-à-vis the exchange. You’ll need at least a few million in seed money to get going and that in of itself can be quite hard, especially when first starting out.

This guide is assuming a full free-to-play experience. Players who wish to exchange real life money for energy credits can do so via master keys in the official Zen store. The keys can be sold directly or you can open Infinity Lockboxes to earn lobi crystals and sell the content, although you can get boxes that provide almost no value EC wise.

The below applies to PC and console.

Goal One: Obtain a T6 Ship

Star Trek Online sells T6 ships for $30 when they’re not on sale, but that’s not the only way to get a T6. You can get a T6 via seasonal events, each seasonal event usually requiring 14 to 30 days of play. Without a T6 ship you’re going to have a harder time doing everything in the game that involves space combat. No matter your level, a T6 scales with you. This is critical for new characters.

There are tiers to ships in STO and “T6” or “Tier 6” is the best currently. They, as mentioned, scale with your level. T6 ships come with level scaling weapons and consoles. They usually have a powerful console by default. It’s just so intensely helpful that it should be priority number one.

You can buy T6 ships with EC, but the event ship is going to be always your best bet. Events are always running that offer a ship that will more than get you started doing whatever you want to do in STO.

Energy Credit Daily Quests / Missions

There’s a few daily tasks you can grind out that’ll get you energy credits reliably.

Duty Officer missions give very few energy credits but still reward you with some so always be doing them.

Tour of Duty (in your mission log) grants a few hundred energy credits daily. This is a really strong source of EC, especially early in the game.

Admiralty, at level 50, will start churning out large sums of energy credits. You may not be effective at it with only a few ships at the start, but keep playing. You’ll get more ships and more slots to run missions.

Bind on Equip into Energy Credits

The salvage system makes bind on equip gear desirable for players who are working on the crafting system. There’s also a variety of uses for bind on equip gear that’s particularly low level (more chances to roll upgrades). Lots of duty officer mission reagents go for quite a bit and aren’t account bound. Duty officers themselves sell for quite a lot, if you have duplicates of a specific rarity you can offload them often for 250,000 EC easily for blue and 800,000 for purple.

Energy Credit Farming Locations

There aren’t any specific locations to farm EC directly. Many players, myself included, consider sector space to be a rather easy place to fly around and just farm EC. You pop into patrols and sector space events which usually drop a lot of bind on equip gear. Taking the loot and either discarding it (into energy credits) or selling it on the exchange can net a hefty profit.

This isn’t ideal, but quite fun. Playing the missions gets you lots of EC as well.

Advanced: Dilithium Farming to Zen to Keys

It’s 125 Zen to purchase one master key. At 500 Dilithium per 1 Zen, that’s 62,500 Dilithium per key. Each key is worth ~12 million and you can refine 8,000 Dilithium per day per character. Doing the math, it would take 8 refines to get enough Dilithium to get one key at default rates.

The Dilithium exchange can be slow, taking weeks to process, as fair warning.

If you only play one character then it’s 8 days to get enough Dilithium refined. If you play two then it’s now 4 days. Three take you to 3 days. Four takes you to two days and eight takes you to one key per day. If you list it regularly, it’ll process at a regular rate and within a few weeks you’ll have a constant influx of Zen.

Players who are lifetime or veteran members have auto-refine and just need to logon every few days on each character. Everyone else has to logon every day and press “refine” to turn the refined Dilithium to refined Dilithium which can be sold.

Considerably more time efficient, but again due to the “DILEX” or Dilithium Exchange times, it can be a bit of a pain to see returns quickly.

T6 ships are required to farm Dilithium efficiently. Do not use Dilithium to upgrade outside of Phoenix Packs. Do not use Dilithium in crafting unless you know what you’re doing. Conserve Dilithium. Dilithium Weekends make the “DILEX” even slower.

Energy Credit Location

If you ever can’t find how many energy credits you have then press your inventory button (I on PC) and go to assets.

If you’re thinking on making a new character, see our guide to the different federation options for new characters.

David Piner, an accomplished video game journalist since 2001, excels in developing comprehensive guides and engaging content to enrich the gaming experience. As the esteemed former Managing Editor at TTH (as David "Xerin" Piner) for over a decade, David established a strong reputation for his perceptive analysis, captivating content, and streamlined guides. Having led skilled teams of writers and editors, David has been instrumental in producing an extensive collection of articles, reviews, and guides tailored to both casual and hardcore gamers aiming to enhance their skills. Dedicated to player-centric content, David meticulously crafts guides and articles with the players' interests in mind. He is a proud member of OUT Georgia and fervently champions equity and equality across all spheres.

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Star Trek Fleet Command: How to Get Dilithium & What It’s Used For

How to Get Dilithium in Star Trek Fleet Command & What It’s Used For

In Star Trek Fleet Command , you may come across many different types of resources spread across the galaxy. Some of them are common and can be easily acquired, while others are much more rare, and it will take greater effort to obtain them. Here’s how to get dilithium in Star Trek Fleet Command and how to use it.

Dilithium falls into the latter camp. It is used to upgrade your facilities, as well as other uses, and its utility makes it exceedingly coveted. Though you can produce dilithium at your station, the best way to collect it in mass quantities is via mining. If you’re unsure what to do, check out this guide on mining.

In Star Trek Fleet Command, there is no shortage of galaxies to explore, meaning that pinning down an exact mining location for each ore or resource is a tricky bit of business. Rigel is generally a good place to get started, while others, like YouTuber Synq Gaming, have had success in obscure corners like Clytomenes, due west of Nausicaa.

The odds are, if you find a location that is rich in resources, other players will happen upon it, too – so relying on one farming location alone is not recommended. If you are coming up short on dilithium, it may be worth targeting another resource for a while until the demand for dilithium dies down. Keep in mind, dilithium and tritanium are often found in close proximity to one another; if one is being overmined, it’s a safe bet that the other one is, too.

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Star Trek Fleet Command: Dilithium Mine Locations Guide

In Star Trek Fleet Command , players will need a blue mineral called Dilithium to research new technologies. Out of the three basic resources, with Parsteel and Tritanium being the other two, Dilithium is easily the rarest resource to come across. Today, we’ll show you where to mine for more Dilithium in our Star Trek Fleet Command: Dilithium mine locations guide!

Star Trek Fleet Command: Where to Mine Dilithium

If you’ve been playing Star Trek Fleet Command for a while now, you’ve probably come across Parsteel and Tritanium mining nodes while exploring the galaxy. Dilithium nodes are also out there, but they’re much harder to find.

Dilithium nodes can be found in both neutral and faction zones, but only a few of them. They’re usually spread out across the edges of the zones, so be prepared to enter high-level territory.

Compared to the other resources, Dilithium requires a large amount of time to mine, up to several hours at a time. Keep in mind that other players can attack you at will, so be vigilant to avoid losing too many resources.

Before we share systems that have Dilithium in them, remember that you can look up any system by name using the bookmark system. Simply tap on the bookmark button in the bottom right corner of the screen, then tap on “search coordinates”. You can punch in the system’s name to be taken right to it.

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Here are all the galaxies that contain Dilithium mining nodes in them, if you want to bookmark them for later.

Neutral Zone Dilithium Mine Locations

• Murasaki 312
• Asiti Alpha
• Innlasn Alpha
• Temeri Alpha
• Thaylen Alpha
• Tigan Alpha
• Zamaro Alpha
• Perralon 472

Federation Dilithium Mine Locations

Klingon Dilithium Mine Locations

• Krah’Hor
• Qu’Vat
• Shan Mhna’Tir
• Tej’Lukk

Romulan Dilithium Mine Locations

• D’Deridex

That concludes our Star Trek Fleet Command Dilithium mine locations guide. If you know of any other systems with Dilithium not listed here, please let us know in the comments below!

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