Guide:Synth Purity Challenge

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Synth Purity Challenge will prevent Salvage to drop, Synth infinite and starting materials no longer apply. Damage and shield upgrades except modules will be disabled.

Instead, base damage and max shields are based on your synth materials.

How to complete Synth Purity Challenge

In order to complete Synth Purity Challenge its required to go for a Synth Build focusing on Synth multipliers.

Synth Purity

1xBeam Laser~xGattling Laser

~xContinous Generator

As weapon stats are overwritten and replaced with uniform damage per shot, use high rate of fire weapons, such as Beam Lasers/Gatling Lasers and continuous shields. Since salvage is disabled, Utility Cores are irrelevant in Synth Purity Challenge. That means no Synth Station or Enhanced Reactor upgrades.

As for synth, focus on damage and shield modules. Remember to activate the reactor boost to synth, and use the synth shard and flex shard for even more synth speed. Some more full details:

Modules

• Offense and Defense Efficiency are a must for extra damage and shields boost. These needs Circuitry, Focuser, and Booster.
  
• Power Generator increases the reactor synth boost. This needs Conductive Alloy and Booster.
  
• Void Matter Recovery Efficiency will be useful for some Void Matter farming to maintain the reactor. It requires Processor and Booster.
  
• Energy Void Auto Collector saves user effort clicking on them, and while active the void provides more Void Matter and Synth boost.

Don't forget to activate all your modules to the green border state so that they take effect, and use the module pinning or module order AI customisations as necessary. Synth damage and shields upgrades bought with points also take effect, make sure you are up to date.

V-Device

1. Synth Shard goes into the Red slot for additional Synth Speed.
   
2. Flex Shard goes into Orange Slot bonus for extra Synth Speed. These stack multiplicatively.
   
3. Power Shard in pink slot can help squeeze out extra levels of reactor boost for synth.

Shard Link could be used to get minor bonuses out of the Flex Shard or gain the fire rate bonus out of the red slot Battle Shard, but is overall not very important. Blue and green slots don't affect synth. These slots could be used for some other minor alternative boosts.

Reactor should prioritize Boost Synth Speed and Engine Speed.
All other boosts are useless. Damage and Shields simply have no effect with a 1x multiplier, Salvage is already zero so the multiplier doesn't matter. Compute Speed technically works, but the effect of Compute is zero anyway. Low sectors are useless for Research purposes.

Crew

• Cyber Specialist with focus on 2 Synth Speed skills (Mathematical Materials, Synth Enjoyer)
  
• Materials Engineer with focus on 4 Synth Speed skill (Steady Hand, Coordinated Synthing, Masterful Synthing, Warp Core Siphoning)

Target Sectors for Each Synth Purity Challenge

Each challenge difficulty has some specific Stage Bosses that needs to be defeated in order to finish the challenge:

Synth Purity Challenge 1 - sector 6
Synth Purity Challenge 2 - sector 14
Synth Purity Challenge 3 - sector 20
Synth Purity Challenge 4 - sector 26
Synth Purity Challenge 5 - sector 33

Synth Speed Requirements

Approximate Synth Speed values needed to complete the challenge, after prestige using shard and reactor only. To check your Synth Speed value, look at the top left of the Synth tab near the the first synth slot, just above the selected material icon; or use the Stats & Info tab. Do not include speed from the Advanced Synth Station utility core, as it is disabled during the challenge due to the lack of Salvage.

Synth Purity approximate requirements Collapse

Challenge Completion	Synth Speed (without utility core)	Notes
Synth Purity 1	~20	t2 material infinity
Synth Purity 2	2000
Synth Purity 3	3e5	4th synth slot unlocked
Synth Purity 4	5e10	Most of red materials unlocked; some crew may be unlocked. Material multiplier of about 1e13 expected.
Synth Purity 5	5e23

After challenge completion

Remember to reset back to normal:

1. Reset your ship cores to your usual layout.
2. At the start of the run sure to switch your old synth modules back on such as Laser Boost Automator, Salvage Efficiency etc,
3. Reselect appropriate synth materials based on what you have already infinite crafting for
4. Reset your V-device to your start of prestige setup.
5. Reactivate Reactor boosts to their usual start of prestige setup.

As a result of the challenge completion bonuses, you will now be able to access more complicated materials and modules, thanks to your increased Synth XP and Output counts. Be sure to take advantage of this!