Iridium can be found in the big asteroids orbiting the planets. Look for greenish tints or just shoot the huge asteroids. Found 1 or 2 planets with columns of em too. Look purplish in tint.
Got all 3 warp upgrades installed and linked to the base drive last night. Curious to find out how far I can warp now. Was gonna wait but I love my current ship despite its small (23) size and I have almost 40 inv slots and am sick of getting shot up by pirates every time I leave orbit due to carrying the mats for the drive upgrades. Hope the let us upgrade ships later.
Game's getting very samey though....and crashes like crazy :/
You serious? All I find is Thalium, sometimes Iron and once I found Aluminium (though I also find that on planets)
Also Quick - the cost of a new ship is the difference between your old and the new, so it's like an upgrade cost - once you find/buy a better ship, the next one is cheaper (eg upgrading from 16 to 24 slots is more expensive than from 20 to 24), so you wont necessarily find cheap high-slot ships but have to upgrade in smaller steps
Also:
Yellow Stars/Class G
These are the default star systems you can travel to from the start of the game. Mostly basic resources can be be found on the planets present within them, and a lot of the planets are barren.
Red Stars/Class K
You need a warp reactor sigma upgrade to travel to these stars. Planets will have slightly rarer resources on them, and more planets will be habited with fauna and flora.
Green Stars/Class E
You need warp reactor tau upgrade to have the ability to travel to these systems. They contain even rarer resources and even more planets will be tropical/lush.
Blue Stars/Class B
You need a warp reactor theta upgrade to travel to these systems. Planets will have a chance of having even the rarest resources on them, and a higher chance of being lush with plentiful plant and animal life.
From reddit, i already found a couple of yellow planets with some rare resources (graviton balls, albumin pearls), i can only imagine the even rarer ones :O
I'm currently in the US for literally 1min to turn around and pick up my PR!