X4 Foundations - How to get Blueprints

What I love about X4 is the ability to build your own empire by building your own stations and a massive fleet. However, before you can build stations you need Blueprints.

You can buy blueprints from the various Faction Representatives – however, certain blueprints require that you have a high rank (20+) in order to buy them so they are impossible to buy in the early game. Also buying blueprints can be very expensive but luckily you can get blueprints for free.

If you fly around a station using your scanner, you will pick up some data leaks – as you get close to a data leak, you will hear some static noise and see a red spot with some electric sparks flying around. Fly close to the data leak to download the data. You will most likely either get a mission or unlock a discount at the station, but in some rare occasions you may also get a blueprint. This is however very time consuming and involves a lot of RNG so I don’t recommend using this method for farming blueprints.

Getting blueprints using EMP bombs

The fastest way to farm blueprints is by using Spacesuit EMP bombs to hack a station.

Prerequisites:

  • You must have completed the Player Headquarter (PHQ) quest.
  • You must have researched how to hack the module at your PHQ.
  • You must either craft or buy Spacesuit EMP bombs.
  • You must buy a Bomb Launcher for your spacesuit; you can buy it from a trader NPC at a station.
  • Optional: I also recommend you research Teleportation so you can order your ship to safety and teleport back after hacking the station in case the station turns hostile.

EMP bombs can be bought from traders at SCA pirate bases, HAT Free Ports or black markets.

If you have all the required materials, you can craft Spacesuit EMP bombs at the workstation on any station – it is located near the Trader and Ship Dealer NPC’s:

  • Lodestone – drops from asteroids when mining.
  • Remote Detonator – trader at Black Market or pirate base
  • Secure Container – can be found in lockboxes or bought from traders (rare). Also drops from ship kills.

After you have bought or crafted EMP bombs, fly to the station you want to hack, fly around with your scanner active to locate the module you are looking for, then jump into your spacesuit and order your ship to fly to a safe distance. Now SAVE your game before you continue…

Make sure to select the Bomb Launcher as your active tool/weapon in the space suit and aim for a flat panel on the component you want to hack. Right-click the EMP to detonate it – this will create four data leaks that you need to scan. One of these data leaks will contain a blueprint for the component you used the EMP bomb on. Now teleport back to your ship.

Warning: Do not hack the same station with EMP bombs more than 1-2 times – the station will turn hostile and call for fighters to hunt you down! 

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