Elite Dangerous: Guardian Weapon Blueprint farming

Discovered by CMDR Refundian via Reddit, with the map annotated by Reddit user WillaZillaDilla.

Ship requirements

Any ship will do, an Anaconda is landable just in front of the gate without issue. You’ll need an SRV (so planetary vehicle hangar and a vehicle occupying it) and for safety you’ll want one or more Point Defence Turrets on top of your ship to wipe out the missiles from the sentinels.

Other than that, a fuel scoop, and patience inversely proportional to your jump range should be heaps.

Method

Go to the system Synuefe GV-T b50-4, and the body is B1. When you’re in range of it, you should see “Guardian Structure” as a point of interest, go land there. It’ll look something like this map:

Oriented to the same as this map, I parked off to the left, you can just see the gateway on the very left of the image, just to the left of the relic pylon. Don’t park too close or you’ll get put into orbit when you reset it.

Jump in your SRV, and cruise through the gate and the relic pylon should rise out of the ground. Carefully (it’s possible to destroy the relic by shooting it) shoot the top of the pylon and make the relic drop, then scoop it up. Proceed further inwards to the point marked “ORB”.

As you pass the middle regular pylon, a sentinel may rise out of the ground. Don’t panic, just shoot it, ensuring that the dot of your turret is not below it as you’ll miss and waste ammo. The normal shots don’t really hurt, you can tank them easily, and your point defense turret should destroy the missiles.

Continue to the orb, as you drive up to it the two pylons should rise out of the ground. Shoot at one, or both, to activate them. About half way up, they split open with a triangular shaped opening with a rod inside it. When you shoot it, it starts glowing, keep shooting until it says “pylon charged” or whatever.

Once you activate the first pylon, you start a timer. Don’t panic, you have plenty of time, the timer is replenished with each pylon. You will have also awoken a sentry or two, which is your more pressing issue, just shoot them down.

Drive around and activate each of the pylons. Note that oriented to the map, the north-most and south-most pylons both have their openings oriented south, so you can shoot the north-most one from the centre path, but the south-most one you have to drive around it to see the opening.

After activating all six pylons, you’ll get a message about the terminal being active. Drive up to the spot marked “ORB” which is where the Data Terminal is, choose the relic from your cargo and select “jettison” (not destroy). The machine will eat the relic, and then spit out an orb which will crack open.

Switch to analysis mode, target the orb, and scan it (hold left trigger on a controller) to collect the blueprint. Switch back to weapon mode and take out the sentinels, or just drive off. You’ll likely need other parts from this area, but technology components are better found on the site in a different system, but you can scoop up any you find here. In particular:

• There are two guardian codexes right next to each other, you’ll drive between them just past the relic pylon. Just put your SRV in analysis mode, scan one, then scan the other. This gives random pattern data, but as far as I’m aware this isn’t needed for any of these blueprints. You’ll want pattern delta for the guardian shield reinforcements though so since you’re here you might as well grab these on each reset.
• There’s an angular pillar with three destructible planels on it, just past the relic pylon on the right (south east on the map from the relic pylon). Shoot the destructible panels, one of the guaranteed drops is Guardian Technology Components, which you’ll need a lot of, so grab them each reset.

Need more than one?

Drive back to your ship, exit the game to main menu, and then re-log. This will reset the instance, and you can repeat the above process as many times as necessary.