Elite Dangerous: Ride the Neutron Highway all the way to Colonia!

Step-by-step guide on how to use the Neutron Highway to get to Colonia. Everything you need to know from how to plot the fastest route, what you need to take with you, and how to use Neutron Boosting to get there in less time than you think. If you find this useful, please give me a like, and subscribe to this channel for more videos! And let me know what other videos you'd like to see!
References used the video:
Spansh Galaxy Plotter for plotting your route: spansh.co.uk/exact-plotter
EDSY for for putting together your ship build: edsy.org/
Coriolis, also for putting together your ship build: coriolis.io/
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:28 Plotting Your Route
3:49 Make the Jumps
5:29 Repairing Your FSD
6:13 Final Thoughts

[@wstavis3135]

A good idea is to get TWO AFMUs. Get a small 1 or 2 class and a larger 3 or 4 class. Turn the smaller one off. It is there to repair the larger one if something really bas h a ppens to it. This is a really good idea if you spend a lot of time in The Black or go on an extended ecploration mission.

[@TheCammerhammer]

I'd say as a veteran explorer that this isn't strictly necessary. AFMUs do not suffer malfunctions like some other modules do, so it will keep working right down to 1% integrity. It's extremely rare to run into a situation in which your AFMU cooks but the rest of your ship is intact enough to make this a problem, but in the rare case that it _does_ happen, you can perform a reboot/repair sequence and your ship will scavenge enough materials to get your AFMU back online. I have personally never had a situation in which I have needed to rescue my AFMU this way, though.

[@CmdrDjBurp-dr5uy]

100% agreed. Never go exploring without them personally 😎👍

[@code_4_791]

I didn't even realize neutron jumps were a thing this is so cool!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Really expands your exploration possibilities, doesn't it?

[@deadsetanime7102]

I use the Colonia Bridge route in conjunction with Neutron jumps. There are plenty of Neutron Stars between Fleet Ship positions and there are 56 positions on the Colonia Bridge that are roughly 400ly apart. It's safer and faster and you can stop mid stream and find fresh unexplored exo planets for profit using a CB fleet carriers as a temporary base. With my 76ly conda that is spec'd with a dual srv, I can get a max 300ly neutron ump range so it's often one neutron jump and then 2 normal jumps if I want to stick to the bridge. I often skip some CB fleet ship stars to maximize time and distance then stop to refuel, repair, explore or just log off. I've made it from Tir to Cubeo in roughly 2.5 hours with a non-stop.

[@baileyknoll2928]

Approximately 2000ly above and below the galactic plane towards the inner half of the galaxy there are the "neutron fields" If you can find them it's the easiest way to neutron boost, no hassling with spansh, just plot your route and the galaxy map will find all the neutron stars, plus you will find plenty of undiscovered systems. Maybe it's not ideal for colonial, but awesome for exploration or making your way to beagle point You'll definitely want 2 afmu's,

[@TheBadassdrummer13]

It's the most effective path. I think the record from bubble to Colonia is like 2 hours or less.

[@hawknetwork]

Note: When you drop out of supercruise to repair, do NOT be inside of the jetcones... You will be obliterated...

[@RprtBak]

the fuck is a jetcone

[@hawknetwork]

​@@RprtBakthose two giant streams of plasma coming out of the thing! jet-cone boosting is more of an elite dangerous term rather than a scientific one; it's more commonly known as a pulsar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar

[@Volkaer]

Obliderated how? Slowly? Quickly? Painfully? Would you have time to recover? Would your life flash before your eyes? Would your eyes melt and your muscle tissue fuse with your hull as it disintegrates into atoms and reforms as plasma?

[@caltheuntitled8021]

@@VolkaerSlowly and painfully, and no, you usually can’t recover. You start taking constant damage and any attempt to jump out is thwarted. It hasn’t happened to me in a long time, but I think it constantly causes fsd malfunctions. Either that or you can’t get up to speed while aligned with your velocity to re-enter supercruise. I don’t remember which.

[@gthomason9869]

Very nicely done and calm video hitting all the steps succinctly and accurately. Great job. Look forward to other and more. We need good, updated videos.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thank you so much! Anything in particular you'd like me to cover?

[@mAdcApMalkmus]

This video may make me finally try a neutron jump.

[@perret318]

Awesome!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Go for it!

[@LivyathanAD]

Right on Commander. o7.

[@caltheuntitled8021]

They can be scary at first, but they’re actually very easy and, so long as you know what you’re doing, pretty safe. White dwarves are the more dangerous of the two despite looking less scary and giving a weaker bonus.

[@cd5sircoupe]

Perfect, I couldn't remember what the name of the neutron plotter was, Spansh. I came across a couple of neutrons randomly over the past week and found that using the boost was far easier than I remembered back in 2018 or so. Now those white dwarfs on the other hand... I'm planning on heading to Colonia at some point in the future, got both a DBX & ASPX perfectly capable of it, but I kinda feel like using my carrier instead. I feel like it'd be more efficient these days doing a few 500ly pulls while exploring nearby systems during the cooldowns and then perhaps extensively looking around after a few carrier jumps in a row. I still need to do the grind for Guardian tech like the FSD Booster, and rank up Combat a little, and start Mining so I can get the other Engineers unlocked before I head out, as well as more fuel for the carrier and a couple more Power Play modules. I'm also kinda waiting for my friend to finally get off his ass and get a few things done first. He got into the game for a bit and started bouncing around between others, hasn't started any of the real grind yet aside from very basic Engineering, but does like Exploration. I'm trying to get him up to at least owning a Python, so far he's got a decent ASPX and maybe a Cobra mk3 still.

[@caltheuntitled8021]

I still use the old neutron plotter rather than the newer galaxy plotter. It has the advantage of only needing you to copy the neutron stars and letting ED’s default route plotter do the rest, which means fewer trips to the galaxy map (and less manual copying from my phone). It also doesn’t require me to put in a full ship build in, and instead just enter my jump range. My ship has a few partially engineered modules and a CG exclusive module, so I imagine entering all that would be a pain, especially on mobile.

[@SmashPhysical]

Good video, excellent explanation of what can be a confusing topic for newbies.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks!

[@joshuabidwell2614]

Great vid, I expected more likes

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks! Tell your friends! 😂

[@fiberjunkies]

That's pretty cool... didn't know about the neutron highway! Cool video.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks! Let me know if you try it out!

[@solidus3168]

You can jump off of white dwarves also, albeit a much shorter hop

[@gizmo104drives7]

Quality tutorial mate thanks

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful!

[@TheEmmetdocbrown]

Thx for your advice! I'm pretty new in this game (only 475h of gameplay since October 2023) and i will try this out one day. Sometimes i go on the galaxy map point a star which is 2k up to 5k lightyears away from the bubble and just fly there. On my way i scan systems and when there is something interesting i stop by for a look. Awesome!

[@AdamAwesombrero]

Do you just use the Discovery Scanner, or do you also use the Full Spectrum System Scanner?

[@TheEmmetdocbrown]

@@AdamAwesombreroThe FSS-Scanner. It may take some time before you jump to the next system but you can do it while refueling. when there is something interesting i dive deeper into the star system.

[@fv538]

Well done, to the point and easy to listen to as well.

[@Sir-Complains-a-Lot]

Nicely done!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@RprtBak]

Jumps: 262 Estimated Time: 8 hours Ah. Fun........

[@pperretjr]

Nice😃

[@bernhardeiling3265]

ace content thx CMDR o7

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

I outfitted a real comfortable phantom with a 70+ ly jump

[@Mile13Gaming]

Nice! How'd you get to that jump range? If I finish engineering my AspX, I can get a little over 60.

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

@@Mile13Gaming you gotta get the pre engineered fsd v1 from a human tech broker, gives a nice bonus over regular engineered ones

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

@@Mile13GamingSorry i replied to this before but for some reason my post didn't go up I used the Pre-Engineered FSD V1 from the human technology brokers, it increases jump range more than normal engineering can

[@timhartherz5652]

@@IntangirVoluntaryist The double engineered one has 30% less integrity, won't supercharging them cause more damage?

[@Star_CitizenYT]

tnx

[@psyantologist]

neat!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks!

[@andycharlesworth8748]

Any chance of seeing your build for your AspX please?

[@sergiothebest_AI]

Hi, just a quick note: @4:05 you should use the "Target system" icon just below the one you show in your video. That way, you don't ask the system to draw a route you don't need, because hopefully it's just a simple jump. Nor do you have to worry about the parameters used to trace a route. What's more, the route plotter sometimes misjudges the actual range of the ship, and I've had occasions when it suggested a stopover where none was needed.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Awesome, thanks for the tip!

[@sergiothebest_AI]

@@Mile13Gaming I'm glad if it helps, I discovered it a few days ago :). Do you know the differences between the "Routing Algorithm" of the scheduler? I'm looking everywhere for an explanation and I can't find one...

[@Atlantian_official]

Hi Thanks for the great video I still need some help in you would be so kind. I used your directions from this video and obtained a rediculous length of jumps from my position I am currently at LHS 3728 and plotting route to Colonia via my Cobra MK IV spansh provides a route with 1730 jumps! Can you help me out here and let me jnow how to get this down to a manageable level to get to colonia much much faster?

[@solidus3168]

Never been to Colonia because i have a hard time not hitting the exclusion zone on the neuts…. The lines just dont show up for me reliably

[@Mile13Gaming]

Just stick to the outside reaches of the jet cones - at least in my experience, you don't need to get anywhere close to the star itself. In fact, I don't think I've ever even seen the lines show up myself - likely never gotten closer than halfway from the edge of the cone to the star. Give it a go!

[@arczer2519]

to display exclusion zone make sure you have orbit lines enabled in ship settings panel, im not sure if super-cruise assist is required

[@solidus3168]

@@arczer2519 thanks! I do have all that on. Regular stars are no problem with the exclusion zone marker….its just these WDs and Neuts…..

[@solidus3168]

@@Mile13Gaming will try that, i guess i was using the old method of “ride the exclusion marker to the cone and straight out.

[@CareyEvans]

@@solidus3168 You do need to be going fast enough to get the exclusion zone lines, and apart from that, white dwarf stars are much more risky than neutron stars. I've looked at the size of the white dwarf and the size of its exclusion zone a few times and decided to go the long way around.

[@ctplays6328]

What wS that at the end of the video?? Can we walk around in game?

[@Mile13Gaming]

Are you talking about where I was scanning a big mushroom-looking thing on a planet? That's part of the Odyssey expansion released a few years ago. Check it out if you haven't.

[@ctplays6328]

@@Mile13Gaming oh ok. I don't have odyssey I only have horizons so I was confused but regardless that's pretty cool

[@Mile13Gaming]

@@ctplays6328 It's worth getting if you get it on sale. I got it for $15, and have enjoyed it $15 worth. :) I have a video covering some cool stuff with Odyssey: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aV6TY5dtds2nnc0si=PLIMpDorcfnnFsYn

[@ctplays6328]

@@Mile13Gaming that's awesome which makes me pissed off more. I play on Xbox s and it's not dlc compatible. Can only get odyssey on computer version not console. Developers completely gave up on console version.

[@runspace]

I realize this is a hack to a solution that in my opinion really should be implemented in-game. I have played ED since it came out and I have become so annoyed at the game at times, that I have completely abandoned playing it! Commodities, engineers, route planning... it's all horrible!

[@Tembel_Kopek]

o7

[@wmgthilgen]

Neutron Highway "ALL THE WAY"; Hmmmmmm