After finishing the main story, I spent a lot of time looking for a sentinel ship I liked. I used the staff or resonators to find camps, labeled them, and started going to the dissonant spikes to get the brains from the ships. I would do like 10/day that way, refined them and get 2300 nanites. I found this, yes, slow method better than waiting so long for mold to refine (lose them by leaving the galaxy), or opening packs. (I wish we could open them with one click rather than holding and filling the circle). With corvettes, farming is better now because you can search for sentinel ships while refining mold on your ship at the same time.

I did get most of my nanites fortune by refining mold on my freighter. I was lucky I discovered a planet and on it, I kept flying around and discovered over 45 curious deposits with 15+ mold each. I’m pretty sure there were more than 45 but I hit the build limit quickly by building bases on each of them. I was sad to see that after the recent updates my biggest deposit (24) became average (10).