Qbits are the main currency in Cubic Odyssey, and they are essential for your progress. Qbits can be spent on buying new ships, their parts, speeders, weapons, resources, and other useful items. In this guide, I will teach you how to earn Qbits fast and get rich in the very first hours of gameplay.
Quests
Probably the easiest way to earn Qbits is by completing quests. Quests can be taken from the NPCs in settlements. Settlements are marked on the map with blue icons. Cities are available initially, while other settlements become available after you discover a pirate base and kill all the mob-pirates there.
The most profitable quests are the following:
- Find and kill a group of pirates (this is very easy, especially if you have a sniper rifle);
- Kill a “large predator” or a “dark creature” (usually it is a common or darkness mob, which is relatively easy to kill, but there is a bug in the early versions of the game where the mob does not appear);
- Deliver a certain number of ores, for example, 50 Titanium Ore (such quests are easy to complete when you already have a lot of various ores in your cargo).
I don’t recommend you take quests for hunting pirates in space, because your ship will be damaged, and you will have to spend quite a lot of resources/Qbits to repair it.
Selling Resources
In every city, there is a Trade Terminal. If you open the “Sell” tab, you will see the list of items which can be sold. In the same way, you can trade with merchant NPCs in settlements.
The maximum number of items that can be sold is always specified on the right. On the screenshot below, you can see an example: a Trade Terminal in the city Jivec (Bardwell 1) offers 58 Qbits for each unit of Aluminum Ore, which is very easy to find, and is willing to buy 100 units in total.
When you start selling items, the price will gradually decrease, but you will still earn quite a lot of Qbits – about 4-4.5k in the example with Aluminum.
Also, you can craft some items, and then sell them to NPCs. For example, trade terminals in almost any city in the starting system offer about 100 Qbits for Wirings. This means you can earn 8-9k Qbits for every 100 units you craft. Ores for this are very easy to mine in Ancient Ruins, as well as to find in chests in buildings on the planet surface, and there is a separate ore guide on the website where I explained how to do it.
Don’t forget that besides cities, you can trade with space stations (there is always one next to the Warp Gate in each system). They buy resources for a much lower price, but you can sell up to 500 units instead of 100.
Selling Weapons
Starting low-tier weapons cost about 400, if you sell them to the Armorer NPC. Weapons can be relatively easily found in chests, which are present in any structures on the surface of any planet. The loot is random, so sometimes you can find as many as 3-4 weapons at the same time.
Also, the pirate mobs you kill will quite often drop weapons as loot, so you can easily earn several thousand Qbits on almost every single planet. The fastest way to find pirate mobs to kill is to find ancient ruins built from the Ancient Hull Block. Several pirates are always present inside. All you need to do is explore the planet, find ancient ruins, kill the mobs inside, and take their weapons.
In addition, you will find chests with valuable loot in such ruins, as well as quite a lot of easily accessible ore veins. In total, such farming generates a good profit, which makes it a very effective way to earn Qbits in Cubic Odyssey.
