Couple points. It's better to find the axis of rotation of the asteroid and / or shoot off the edge causing the fragments to shoot away from the asteroid so the limpets don't crash into the asteroid as it spins. Really important for new miners with low cargo and few limpets. Another thing is if your limpets aren't keeping up with the lasers, better to wait to laser as they degrade over time once removed from the asteroid. Also I noticed you had a bunch of overlapped hot spots, as I understand there is typically better mining in the overlap zones depending on overlap types. Thx for the video!
Thank you for the extra details and for watching!! Positioning at the rotational axis is indeed good advice! I may pin it. Overlaps are better 100% absolutely usually if they're of the same resource, which if I recall in the ring I showed they were all different. I'd have to look at the raw gameplay to be certain. Many things would be worth a mention that I didn't include, but the goal was a quick easy beginner video. Sometimes less is more when teaching. Hope to see you around Cmdr! o7!
This helped me a lot. Also discovered that by doing it, I can get very close to the asteroid and those fragments will go under my ship and the Limpets get em super fast!
@@Pauly421 The game only keeps track of a certain amount of stuff. This is typically determined by how far away it is from you. As the chunks are moving they are forgotten about once they are far enough away. If it didn't do this performance would degrade over time since your machine would be keeping track of stuff you forgot about hours or even months ago. When I mine I watch the contacts panel and keep just slightly more chunks than I have collector limpets. I.E. 6 limpets = 7 or 8 chunks of what I'm interested in. That way stuff doesn't fly away too far waiting its turn to be collected. Once the asteroid hits 0% you watch the contacts panel until all the interesting chunks are collected then move on to the next asteroid. I find collector limpets are cheap so I will stock about 75% of my hold capacity and throw some away if I need to. A ton of platinum pays for a lot of limpets. I try to mine at the poles, that way the chunks aren't flung away at a high velocity and my limpets can cycle through them faster. o7
Hey ya'll let me tell you about dollar shave cl... haha juuuust kidding. Thank you kindly! Appreciate you watching and I hope to have another informative one out soon.
I just started two days ago and I watched this vid specifically bc it was the newest one I could find. A lot of game communities don’t make updated tutorials so thank you!
The reason limpets die as soon as they get the mined resources to you is because you have a targeted material when you launched a limpet. Dont target anything when you launch them and you'll see they wont die . To prove that theorie target a chunk of LTD and launch a limpet, as soon as she gets that chunk into your ship the limpet will die. Good video btw 👌
I just attach them to the laser, I've had hardly any die when the targets keep flowing. The annoying thing is when you're down to your last 2 limpets and 1 ton from full cargo, and then one limpet chases the other and they both die lol.
Been looking for a good mining tutorial for a while, I finally found it. All the others were really messy and didn’t explain anything for a beginner. This one did, really nice video. You explained everything well. Thank you
Thank you for the comments! That was the goal... I'd rather do a handful of decent helpful videos than hundreds of bad ones. I'm coming up with outlines for exploration/scanners and trade/tourism next. o7 CMDR!
Great video. Mining is indeed still very profitable and not super difficult. Especially pay attention to limpets people! Remember, limpets are cheap and expendable. If anything just fill your inv up with them. You can always jettison if needed. They are dirt cheap. Its always better to have too many than not enough!
As an experienced engineered Vulture pilot mining to unlock Selene and Didi for my new Corvette, I went from “Ug need blast rocks, how Ug blast rocks?” To “Ahh yes the mineral content, splendid find chap!”
I fell asleep listening/watching you. Not because you are boring, but because you have a calm and tranquil voice. Great 'how to' vid for surface mining.
Thanks! I just fully loaded out a Type-9 and posted to reddit because I had no idea what I was doing. This made me feel both stupid and now hopeful! Thanks.
Right off the bat: You're awesome for not having a shitty dubstep intro or constantly screaming or meming, which is just fucking asinine. Thank you for the pleasant and informative content! :D
I went 300ly the other night in a Corvette and when I started mining, the first limpet informed me that I had no refinery. 23 jumps! I fell asleep twice getting there, had to just call it a night after that demoralizing cherry on the cake. I even grinned to myself when filling the limpets too, then I go and forget the damn refinery lol.
There are a few details all too often left out of mining videos. First being that there are only a very few places where a strict Laser mining build is viable. The vast majority of rings you could spend multiple hours scanning rocks without finding enough product to do much more than cover the cost of the fuel and limpets you used. Second being ship size. You can laser mine in smaller ships. But you'll find you spend more time flying to and from the ring, while dodging would be NPC pirates and maybe a few player pirates than you spend actually mining. As well, with the new Multi-Limpet controller. A class 7 multi-controller will run up to 8 limpets at a time. But the multi-controllers cannot be stacked. They can be paired with one or more regular controllers.
I have a billion in credits and I still mine. I got lucky and started out when painite and low temperature diamonds hit an insane boom at the same time a new rich source within the bubble was found. You could even surface mine it without too much searching. It let me buy my first ship capable of both lasers and core mining. Right now, Monazite is about the most lucrative mineral. Pulse wave analyzers combined with the night vision function can help sort out the asteroids with deep deposits. The game mapping can show black grid lines or odd colors when you pulse in quick succession. It's a glitch that shows the ones that spawned with core deposits
2:26 if im using the size 3, i do use the 2nd prospector for the following asteroid and kinda leap frog with it. shoot 2 off at the start, mine the first one, and on my way to the 2nd asteroid fire off another prospector at the 3rd asteroid and so on. so instead shooting one at a time and waiting for it to get to and scan the asteroid, it'll already be ready and waiting for me. (if the asteroids aren't worth it, it still makes finding a good one quicker)
Thank you for the video. Does it make sense to buy a new ship specifically for mining? For context I've played this game for maybe 4-5 hours now and I just bought a new ship because hey, why not?
It can be good to have a few ships dedicated to specific tasks, but you can also just store and swap modules, it really depends on your plate style. I myself tend to specialize ships when Im sitting on about 35million credits.
I still can't fine that page he's looking at why cut off the most import part idk even know to get there in the fist place and u jump to it lies just appears when u dock
i have just come back to Elite Dangerous after a few years and have been disappointed in mining. I enjoy deep core mining which is why I persist however the rewards are pretty poor these days. Void Opal anywhere near where I am is only selling for a maximum of 400,000 or there abouts. I have not tried out laser mining since my return to the game but I cant help but wonder if it could be more profitable given the speed of it against the lengthily time of finding core asteroids.
Hey I hear you... especially for someone who has recently come back it's probably more noticable that the payouts are less than the "hay-day" you and I probably remember. But if you can focus less on the money and just going out and enjoying yourself now and then you can still earn some decent credits. That's what I do. I just like going out once in a while and enjoying the peacefulness of cracking rocks.
I just did a laser mining run. Made a long post about it here in the comments. TLDR: It sucks as a solo experience. Just got 4,5 million from an 1hr+ run into an overlapping LTD hotspot. 7 Diamonds and random trash minerals before I lost my last limpet and all patience seeing how low the yield is. If I had more limpets I could stay longer, but it would be as much of a waste of time as it is, regardless.
I have been doing this a bit lately. I think it is important to note that there are a lot of different things to do in Elite, and getting stuck in a grind can be tedious. I can probably make more money doing trading runs, with a large ship (say 650-750 cargo space) you can easily find ways to get into the 40mil per hour range. I don't do a ton of combat and bounties, but I think you can easily surpass that there. Now with laser mining, I don't ever seem to be able to get much with LTD now a days, spend a couple hours out there and maybe find 100. With Platinum however, I can do alright. (Omicron Capricorni B -- Planet B1 - A ring -- equidistant from the two plat hotspots) I have a ship with 320 cargo space which I can fill with platinum in about 2 hours, then selling to a carrier in system for 260k or within 200LY you can sell it for 275-280k you can easily make 75-80Mill in a couple hours, which is about as long as I can handle out there anyway. In this spot specifically, I don't even bother with an asteroid with less than about 30% platinum and often see them in the 50-60% range (I think they top out around 63%). If I hit a dry spot I might go for a 25%. Then I go do other things just so I don't get too bored. That was a long way around to say, you can make ok money off it, but there are better ways, just don't get stuck in a rut.
@@riseandshinemrfriman5925 If you go out there there is a bug with the hotspots and they do not show up after you surface scan the ring. You can still target them if you filter your nav panel for points of interest. I will just get close enough to the planet to get the rings filling up my screen, then target the platinum hotspots that are next to each other. There are two that are an overlap and if you come in about 4-4.5MM (I think that is million meters) from each then just target the further one away and make your way in that direction to keep track of where you are. So for example I will find the two hotspots, get right in the middle and try to drop in so one is like 4.5 away and the other will be close to that number. Then I target the furthest and start scanning asteroids. The star next to this planet is annoyingly bright, so that can be tough to deal with, but if you are smart about which way you are moving you can at least keep it behind you and it is not so bad. One nice thing in here is I think it is a higher security system so I have not had any issues with pirates. I get scanned but it is normally a system security vessel, but as usual give it a min or so after you drop in. I have not had any issues with losing connection and then coming back in and getting jumped by pirates though. There is also a coriolis station where you can get mining outfitting and limpets, and a butt-ton of fleet carriers where you can at least get limpets and sell for a decent price.
*TLDR:* I disagree with this video. Mining is dead (if you solo mine in a small ship). I make WAY more consistent credits with road to riches scanning with FSS only. Game used to be better, more fun when we could make some credits, as making credits was a numeric mini-game for many of us. Wish it was better and more fun, but Frontier is dumb and won't listen to their players. Shit sucks now. The end. *Long read ahead:* Aight, here's my conclusion (and a rant following up on it) after watching this video and mining for over an hour in Col 285 Sector JU-S b19-3 , A 3 B Ring , which has several overlapping low temp diamond hotspots. I chose the hotspots on the inner side of the B ring. AspX with 68 cargo. 3A limpet controller with 2 limpets out for collection. 4 lasers. I switched from prospecting to blind asteroid laser probing close to the end of my run, cuz I wanted to check if and for how long I can prolong my run by blindly mining. While it did prolong my stay in the ring, the results of that were that I simply stayed longer but didn't really get much out of it due to blind probing and wasting time on that. So... 50 limpets lost due to random asteroid crashes, prospecting with very poor results and apparently random limpet failures cuz _"why not"_ . I made whooping 4,5 million credits from this. 4,5! ...I make much more via road to riches. I only managed to refine 7 low temp diamonds, some other minerals which go for 30-57k per ton and that's it. Mining is to me for all intents and purposes as dead as can be. They didn't just nerf mining, they literally killed it by reducing the chances to find any valuable resources, gating chances to quickly find the right resources behind limpets which directly tie into resource collection, since they're universal and get used up for prospecting and collecting. The resource density appears to have also been reduced to nothing. I sometimes depleted an asteroid after less than 8 seconds of lasering it with 4 lasers. Unless you fly a huge ship, have friends who focus on prospecting while you focus on picking up, you can literally avoid mining entirely as solo mining literally just wastes your precious time. I'm definitely not going to make money via road to riches as exploration for quick credits is as mind numbing as looking at nothing but a rock (yes, a literal rock in real life) for an hour. Combat isn't my cup of tea as I suck at combat. Tried taking out ship generators and that didn't work cuz aiming at moving targets in a 360°C environment is just annoying as all fucking hell. One second you aim at a subsystem, the other second you aim at the jump wake of what used to be your almost dead enemy. Nah, not bothered doing this to myself. Now...the last thing which MIGHT be worth trying is NPC piracy which may be fairly interesting albeit rather difficult and the other thing which I absolutely loathe unless the payout is decent - passanger missions. :D ..............fuckin hell, man. All I wanted from ED is having fun making credits mining and they've taken that shit away from me and all other solo players who enjoy mining - playing their credit making mini-game. Oh, and the game randomly seizes to respond to input. It's running, but simply ignoring all input. They've turned this game into one constantly overheating pile of space trash. Tbh. I wish they could recover like No Man's Sky did, but apparently that's beyond the CEO of Frontier. Sorry, with issues like this still plaguing this game after so many years, it's difficult to stay positive. I'm just frustrated that my favorite space game after years still remains the condensed manifestation of willful ignorance, arrogance and incompetence. What they called broken was so much fun for most of us, and they didn't take a lesson from that, they took away the fun we had. I'll end the rant/input from my mining run here. edit:typos
Thank you so much Cmdr for your thoughtful write up! My TLDR is that it looks like you and I are probably in agreement for most of it. It has changed, especially since the days you and I probably remember when the gettin was good. That being said though, for new commanders it's still a viable option (though you make a good point about small ships) and many folks like myself do actually enjoy the activity of it. My goal was to give the basics and let them make their own decision as to whether they want to make money that way. But awesome writeup, thank you so much for participating on my channel and I hope you'll check out my future series. o7!
@@OrbitalJeffo Sure. Can't hurt sticking around, despite my issues with ED at the moment. That's something I actually wanted to write before but forgot about, while recalling the annoyances of ED. You convey informations in a very pleasing manner without annoying distractions that may entertain kids/teens for a while, but can quickly become annoying otherwise when trying to ingest knowledge. Thanks for trying to help out your fellow players. I appreciate it, despite not getting much out of mining at the moment. Glad there's folks like you out there who try and help get back into the game after being OOTL for a while. o7
Elite Dangerous is great, when you view it as a SPACE FLIGHT SIM, with many things to do to keep the grind feel at bay. Enjoy the Process, as you reach the end game of a fleet carrier. Exploration and traveling through space to me is exciting. Playing at a slow pace and NEVER play just to make credits at ALL times. ENJOY the process, once you reach the destination the excitement will end , so don't be in a Hurry.
@@williammoran9715 Thank you for your opinion. Enjoying the process requires to see something enjoyable in the generic tedium that Elite Dangerous calls "gameplay", though. While it's (the gameplay) not "bad" per se (it used to be MUCH worse, by what I remember, in comparison to the experiences I've had in the past months playing), it is extremely monotonous, as its base interactive elements are (imho) very basic/superficial. This of course can work for and against ED, as there's people who enjoy quick success and those who love spending time interacting with their game. But I've been _kind of_ successful in rekindling my love for ED. I had to decouple some of my past experiences with the game, from current balancing meta, and kind of make a "fresh start", pretending to play the game for the first time again. That actually helped. I've also watched many guide videos and tutorials, along with plenty of reddit lurking, steam community suggestions, etc. to learn more about the game, since I've been stop-and-go playing ED for years now, always getting tired of the grind and not knowing where to go and what to do. I must say, the initial lack of available information _how_ to play ED years ago, posed the biggest issue for me. After "starting over", earning some credits via Laser Mining (thanks Orbital Jeffo and other awesome CMDR's helping out the community
This is maybe not the answer that you're looking for, or really the answer I'd like to give.. but this is where third party apps like inara.cz shine. It's actually pretty difficult to use the galaxy map to watch the market in game without jumping to dozens upon dozens of systems. You need the system trade data in order to see the commodities market/imports and exports and it just takes so much time. I don't think there's any shame in getting a little outside help on this one. Some folks are purists though. I say make it easier on yourself and find the best stations to sell at quickly on inara.cz.
There are a lot of different opinions you can go with, but honestly, I say try out a few of the ships you're most comfortable with. Based on my experience, I recommend at least a medium ship, though, just for the cargo space. People say the Imperial Cutter is the best large mining ship, but like in the video, I prefer my Type 10. Some folks I know also have outfitted Cobras and Kraits for mining. If you have a little bit of capital to try some things out, I say experiment. If you need to start out low budget, I've been told (no personal experience here) that the Asp Explorer might make a good option. I welcome any other commenters to chime in here, too. o7 CMDR!
@@OrbitalJeffo I'm a new player, so I am on a low budget, but I did just buy an Asp Explorer and got it outfitted for the road to riches. I think I might just outfit it for mining to try it out once I'm done with that, thanks for the advice!
Overlapping zones used to be much more powerful. After the fleet carriers update a while back, overlapping zones are less multiplied, but still should be more fruitful than non-overlapping zones.
I don't think mining lazers work as turrets. They operate just as fixed straight-ahead weapons. Did it say they were turreted in the outfitting screen?
@@dharmeshmistry342 OH, I figured it out. So they're turrets so you can bring someone multicrew and they can help you mine. Multicrew CMDRs can take control of turreted weapons as the gunner. It's really the only way to use them in such a way I think.
Lots of stations carry mining equipment, usually depending on its economy. I'd recommend looking up on inara.cz it's a super powerful resource for finding what you need. ✌️
Thanks for watching. I probably should have mentioned something about the multi-controller since they're super beneficial for saving a slot, but the goal was to get someone just enough information to begin. What else would you include?
I can't seem to find the "collector limpet controller" or the "prospecter limpet controller" anywhere the the shop 🤔. Am I doing something wrong or are they only available in certain systems?
Yeah, not every outfitting shop is identical. Some stations will carry it, others may not. I would recommend shopping in systems/stations that are Extraction economies. You could also visit inara.cz which has a search feature to find the closest seller of the modules you need. o7!
@@OrbitalJeffo thx for the comment man I appreciate the help. I've only just started playing this game and it's a BIG learning curve for me but I managed to figure it out, I was looking in the right place I just had the wrong ship 👍
@@djboogy3985 There is a lot to learn, but just take it easy and have fun. Enjoy space and you'll find you're progressing your Commander up just fine in no time! o7!
Hey Ellis! Sorry so late. If I recall correctly, this happens when your bins become full. On your right panel, inventory page, go to the refinery tab down the lefthand column. You probably have all of your refinery bins full, possibly with other mining resources that you aren't actually mining for. There's an eject button for each bin that you can use to clear it out and make room for the resources you're actually after. This will get things moving. The normal flow of the refinery is first to put resources into the hopper up top, then into the bins for refining and packing into cargo. Hope this helps. o7 CMDR!
What's a good mining ship for a new player, I find the sidewinder is definitely not good in anything 😕 I'm sure that's because is the starter ship, I don't have many credits but I managed to buy a hauler thinking it would be better but it only has 1 slot for weapons/mining
Don't know where you are financially in the game ATM, but take the time (not sure how much game time you have) to do data delivery missions for either the empire or federal factions. It the safest way and easiest way to make your first 20-50 mil more depending on how far with it you want to go. It also unlocks ranks for ships as you do this. Once you get about 30-50 mil, you'll have a decent amount for a starter mining build and then some for insurance in case something happens.
@@AceLeader09 thanks, by now I got really into the game so I upgraded finaly got my first anaconda, took me a long time and lots of mining but its so worth it
There are hundreds of stations that can sell you this equipment throughout the human-occupied regions of the galaxy. They're sold along with any other module for your ship, though some stations stock will vary. I recommend inara.cz to locate the one closest to you, even though its an out-of-game resource they have a feature to locate stations which stock the components you need. Otherwise I'd check systems with extraction economies.
You can use the Pulse Wave Analyzer to see different brightness levels of orange, but that is giving you information for subsurface or core mining by showing levels of special deposits. Those videos are next in the playlist. Not really useful for laser mining, as the prospector limpet gives you the percentage information you need to know for that. o7!
Hey there, sorry for the late reply, been dealing with some stuff. The Crystalline Entity is a Type 10 that I've outfitted to mine and/or do secure transport. Here's a Coriolis link: s.orbis.zone/jdwh . I've tried to design it to, at the very least, escape from an outgunned attack successfully.
How to do you deal with mauve adder issue Yesterday each time I cracked up an asteroid (after spending a lot of time finding it) I get to harvest only 2 - 3 units then BOOM disconnect : Mauve adder
Oh no! This wasn't something I was dealing with when I was out there mining to make this video the other day, but I haven't been able to play since. I wonder if there's a server issue? Consider submitting a report to Frontier if it continues but I'd also pick a new star system and see if it helps. Hope it gets resolved!
There was a whole section on the surface scanner :) edit: I see what you're saying. I didn't include it in my equipment list, I should have. I will have to figure out how to work it in.
nah too hard and too slow i spent 8 hours just to make 6K doing mining, i can make 10K just 2 hours bounty wanted in resource site! much better and much more fun! mining is boring and slow damn slow!
@@OrbitalJeffo well i m not an expert in mining but as the way the it is this days ED has change you can not longer make money like years ago! sadly game is more hard right now, those gold rocks with black line are hard to find nowadays
Couple points. It's better to find the axis of rotation of the asteroid and / or shoot off the edge causing the fragments to shoot away from the asteroid so the limpets don't crash into the asteroid as it spins. Really important for new miners with low cargo and few limpets. Another thing is if your limpets aren't keeping up with the lasers, better to wait to laser as they degrade over time once removed from the asteroid. Also I noticed you had a bunch of overlapped hot spots, as I understand there is typically better mining in the overlap zones depending on overlap types. Thx for the video!
Thank you for the extra details and for watching!! Positioning at the rotational axis is indeed good advice! I may pin it. Overlaps are better 100% absolutely usually if they're of the same resource, which if I recall in the ring I showed they were all different. I'd have to look at the raw gameplay to be certain. Many things would be worth a mention that I didn't include, but the goal was a quick easy beginner video. Sometimes less is more when teaching. Hope to see you around Cmdr! o7!
This helped me a lot. Also discovered that by doing it, I can get very close to the asteroid and those fragments will go under my ship and the Limpets get em super fast!
Wait the mined ore degrades while flying off into space??
@@Pauly421 The game only keeps track of a certain amount of stuff. This is typically determined by how far away it is from you. As the chunks are moving they are forgotten about once they are far enough away. If it didn't do this performance would degrade over time since your machine would be keeping track of stuff you forgot about hours or even months ago. When I mine I watch the contacts panel and keep just slightly more chunks than I have collector limpets. I.E. 6 limpets = 7 or 8 chunks of what I'm interested in. That way stuff doesn't fly away too far waiting its turn to be collected. Once the asteroid hits 0% you watch the contacts panel until all the interesting chunks are collected then move on to the next asteroid. I find collector limpets are cheap so I will stock about 75% of my hold capacity and throw some away if I need to. A ton of platinum pays for a lot of limpets. I try to mine at the poles, that way the chunks aren't flung away at a high velocity and my limpets can cycle through them faster. o7
Just subbed for the same reason
No boring ads. No annoying music. Pleasant voice and calm delivery. SUBBED
Hey ya'll let me tell you about dollar shave cl... haha juuuust kidding. Thank you kindly! Appreciate you watching and I hope to have another informative one out soon.
I just started two days ago and I watched this vid specifically bc it was the newest one I could find. A lot of game communities don’t make updated tutorials so thank you!
Thanks for watching! I plan on making another series on a different in-game topic. Still planning that one out, though. o7 CMDR!
The reason limpets die as soon as they get the mined resources to you is because you have a targeted material when you launched a limpet. Dont target anything when you launch them and you'll see they wont die . To prove that theorie target a chunk of LTD and launch a limpet, as soon as she gets that chunk into your ship the limpet will die. Good video btw 👌
Oooooh I really should have said something about that. I'll mention it in the core video. Thanks for watching!
big time comment bro thank you
@@Drumzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz you're welcome 😊
I always target my limpet so I can watch it's distance.
I just attach them to the laser, I've had hardly any die when the targets keep flowing. The annoying thing is when you're down to your last 2 limpets and 1 ton from full cargo, and then one limpet chases the other and they both die lol.
This is the video I've been looking for... others have wayyyy too much information and not enough actual tutorial...I can't wait to try this again
Been looking for a good mining tutorial for a while, I finally found it. All the others were really messy and didn’t explain anything for a beginner. This one did, really nice video. You explained everything well. Thank you
Thank you for the comments! That was the goal... I'd rather do a handful of decent helpful videos than hundreds of bad ones. I'm coming up with outlines for exploration/scanners and trade/tourism next. o7 CMDR!
I've watched so many mining videos and still hadn't felt I had a good understanding until this video. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words, CMDR! Hopefully my next series will help some folks too. See ya out there!
Excellent mining guide. Decided to give mining another try after several years and your vid was an excellent primer.
Nice and steady!
Thank you! Good luck! Hope to see ya around o7
Great video. Mining is indeed still very profitable and not super difficult. Especially pay attention to limpets people! Remember, limpets are cheap and expendable. If anything just fill your inv up with them. You can always jettison if needed. They are dirt cheap. Its always better to have too many than not enough!
As an experienced engineered Vulture pilot mining to unlock Selene and Didi for my new Corvette, I went from “Ug need blast rocks, how Ug blast rocks?” To “Ahh yes the mineral content, splendid find chap!”
Just started E:D not too long ago and I'm needing things for engineering...and I had no clue until now how to do it. Thank you and subscribed!
That ignore list tip has saved me so much effort thanks man
I fell asleep listening/watching you. Not because you are boring, but because you have a calm and tranquil voice. Great 'how to' vid for surface mining.
I appreciate the compliment! Come stop by the Twitch stream some time. Link is in the channel profile. o7!
@@OrbitalJeffo will do! Just downloaded it again. Gotta set up my HoTAs
What a perfect representation of how relaxing this game can be if you put in the effort to learn the systems. This video was silky smooth. Well done
A lot of people don’t enjoy mining and think it’s boring. In all honestly I think mining is quite relaxing. Something a bit less stressful to do
I’ve core mined for several hours and this seems much more relaxing. Excited to try it later tonight. Great video!
Finally, updated tutorials! Please post more of these. A bounty hunting one and Robigo one would be great!
Making a note! o7!
Very good video, and nice to see one in 2022 about mining. Looking forward to more :)
Thanks! I just fully loaded out a Type-9 and posted to reddit because I had no idea what I was doing. This made me feel both stupid and now hopeful! Thanks.
Right off the bat: You're awesome for not having a shitty dubstep intro or constantly screaming or meming, which is just fucking asinine. Thank you for the pleasant and informative content! :D
I appreciate the kind words. Just not my style to be loud and in your face :) o7, CMDR!
IKR! Every other video is just a production extravaganza, not to mention the 5 extra minutes of stand-up comedy. Asinine is about right.
I went 300ly the other night in a Corvette and when I started mining, the first limpet informed me that I had no refinery. 23 jumps! I fell asleep twice getting there, had to just call it a night after that demoralizing cherry on the cake. I even grinned to myself when filling the limpets too, then I go and forget the damn refinery lol.
Very chill / informative guide thank you. Also, you have lockpicking lawyer voice / vibe.
Thanks for watching! o7 CMDR
Thanks for this video!!!! Finally understood how to properly scan de RINGS! Thank you so much my Master Jedi!
If you map collector limits with mining lasers you have always got max number out to speed things up.
That's a great suggestion! o7!
There are a few details all too often left out of mining videos. First being that there are only a very few places where a strict Laser mining build is viable. The vast majority of rings you could spend multiple hours scanning rocks without finding enough product to do much more than cover the cost of the fuel and limpets you used. Second being ship size. You can laser mine in smaller ships. But you'll find you spend more time flying to and from the ring, while dodging would be NPC pirates and maybe a few player pirates than you spend actually mining. As well, with the new Multi-Limpet controller. A class 7 multi-controller will run up to 8 limpets at a time. But the multi-controllers cannot be stacked. They can be paired with one or more regular controllers.
"delicious mining goodness" is exactly the mining flavor i want ahahah
The Doug DeMeuro of Elite Dangerous
Thanks for the video.
I have a billion in credits and I still mine. I got lucky and started out when painite and low temperature diamonds hit an insane boom at the same time a new rich source within the bubble was found. You could even surface mine it without too much searching. It let me buy my first ship capable of both lasers and core mining. Right now, Monazite is about the most lucrative mineral. Pulse wave analyzers combined with the night vision function can help sort out the asteroids with deep deposits. The game mapping can show black grid lines or odd colors when you pulse in quick succession. It's a glitch that shows the ones that spawned with core deposits
thanks for the tutorial commander o7!
SKILL BASED mining?! *scrambles to reinstall*
That ice field is Impossibly beautiful.
Currently making about 40-50mil per hour laser mining paltinum, haven't tried low temp diamonds yet.
Awesome! They used to be mega profitable before some updates. Still worth checking out, IMO. Thanks for watching!
lol this manual has a cult recruitment video vibe, it's weirdly soothing
Lol jooooin uuuus..
you said "oh seven" gg man. o7
Yessir. I come from Twitch, most of us Elite streamers say it out loud. I suppose it might sound weird if you're not used to it.
2:26 if im using the size 3, i do use the 2nd prospector for the following asteroid and kinda leap frog with it. shoot 2 off at the start, mine the first one, and on my way to the 2nd asteroid fire off another prospector at the 3rd asteroid and so on. so instead shooting one at a time and waiting for it to get to and scan the asteroid, it'll already be ready and waiting for me. (if the asteroids aren't worth it, it still makes finding a good one quicker)
You can do it that way sure! I feel like I would lose the second one before I get to it but it sounds like a good method.
please do a video about sub surface mining if you haven't already
Next up! In the next two days it should be up. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tutorial ! :)
o7 CMDR!
Thank you for the video. Does it make sense to buy a new ship specifically for mining? For context I've played this game for maybe 4-5 hours now and I just bought a new ship because hey, why not?
It can be good to have a few ships dedicated to specific tasks, but you can also just store and swap modules, it really depends on your plate style. I myself tend to specialize ships when Im sitting on about 35million credits.
I still can't fine that page he's looking at why cut off the most import part idk even know to get there in the fist place and u jump to it lies just appears when u dock
i have just come back to Elite Dangerous after a few years and have been disappointed in mining. I enjoy deep core mining which is why I persist however the rewards are pretty poor these days. Void Opal anywhere near where I am is only selling for a maximum of 400,000 or there abouts. I have not tried out laser mining since my return to the game but I cant help but wonder if it could be more profitable given the speed of it against the lengthily time of finding core asteroids.
Hey I hear you... especially for someone who has recently come back it's probably more noticable that the payouts are less than the "hay-day" you and I probably remember. But if you can focus less on the money and just going out and enjoying yourself now and then you can still earn some decent credits. That's what I do. I just like going out once in a while and enjoying the peacefulness of cracking rocks.
I just did a laser mining run. Made a long post about it here in the comments. TLDR: It sucks as a solo experience. Just got 4,5 million from an 1hr+ run into an overlapping LTD hotspot. 7 Diamonds and random trash minerals before I lost my last limpet and all patience seeing how low the yield is. If I had more limpets I could stay longer, but it would be as much of a waste of time as it is, regardless.
I have been doing this a bit lately. I think it is important to note that there are a lot of different things to do in Elite, and getting stuck in a grind can be tedious. I can probably make more money doing trading runs, with a large ship (say 650-750 cargo space) you can easily find ways to get into the 40mil per hour range. I don't do a ton of combat and bounties, but I think you can easily surpass that there.
Now with laser mining, I don't ever seem to be able to get much with LTD now a days, spend a couple hours out there and maybe find 100. With Platinum however, I can do alright. (Omicron Capricorni B -- Planet B1 - A ring -- equidistant from the two plat hotspots) I have a ship with 320 cargo space which I can fill with platinum in about 2 hours, then selling to a carrier in system for 260k or within 200LY you can sell it for 275-280k you can easily make 75-80Mill in a couple hours, which is about as long as I can handle out there anyway. In this spot specifically, I don't even bother with an asteroid with less than about 30% platinum and often see them in the 50-60% range (I think they top out around 63%). If I hit a dry spot I might go for a 25%.
Then I go do other things just so I don't get too bored. That was a long way around to say, you can make ok money off it, but there are better ways, just don't get stuck in a rut.
@@rustyrebar123 Thank you. I'll try that system and see how it goes. o7
@@riseandshinemrfriman5925 If you go out there there is a bug with the hotspots and they do not show up after you surface scan the ring. You can still target them if you filter your nav panel for points of interest. I will just get close enough to the planet to get the rings filling up my screen, then target the platinum hotspots that are next to each other. There are two that are an overlap and if you come in about 4-4.5MM (I think that is million meters) from each then just target the further one away and make your way in that direction to keep track of where you are. So for example I will find the two hotspots, get right in the middle and try to drop in so one is like 4.5 away and the other will be close to that number. Then I target the furthest and start scanning asteroids. The star next to this planet is annoyingly bright, so that can be tough to deal with, but if you are smart about which way you are moving you can at least keep it behind you and it is not so bad.
One nice thing in here is I think it is a higher security system so I have not had any issues with pirates. I get scanned but it is normally a system security vessel, but as usual give it a min or so after you drop in. I have not had any issues with losing connection and then coming back in and getting jumped by pirates though.
There is also a coriolis station where you can get mining outfitting and limpets, and a butt-ton of fleet carriers where you can at least get limpets and sell for a decent price.
Thanks you, great video. Love the format. have you got one on deep core mining as well
I do, in fact go to my profile, it's a 3 part series on each type of mining. Planning on doing exploration and then market trading up next. o7 CMDR!
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Preaching about forgetting limpets😂😂
Don't forget them limpets
Whats the best ship to use for mining in the 20mil credit range? xD
me looking at this going ....erm whats scanning..what button is that.. what button is that...what fire group is that..????
*TLDR:* I disagree with this video. Mining is dead (if you solo mine in a small ship). I make WAY more consistent credits with road to riches scanning with FSS only. Game used to be better, more fun when we could make some credits, as making credits was a numeric mini-game for many of us. Wish it was better and more fun, but Frontier is dumb and won't listen to their players. Shit sucks now. The end.
*Long read ahead:*
Aight, here's my conclusion (and a rant following up on it) after watching this video and mining for over an hour in Col 285 Sector JU-S b19-3 , A 3 B Ring , which has several overlapping low temp diamond hotspots. I chose the hotspots on the inner side of the B ring.
AspX with 68 cargo. 3A limpet controller with 2 limpets out for collection. 4 lasers. I switched from prospecting to blind asteroid laser probing close to the end of my run, cuz I wanted to check if and for how long I can prolong my run by blindly mining. While it did prolong my stay in the ring, the results of that were that I simply stayed longer but didn't really get much out of it due to blind probing and wasting time on that.
So...
50 limpets lost due to random asteroid crashes, prospecting with very poor results and apparently random limpet failures cuz _"why not"_ .
I made whooping 4,5 million credits from this. 4,5! ...I make much more via road to riches. I only managed to refine 7 low temp diamonds, some other minerals which go for 30-57k per ton and that's it.
Mining is to me for all intents and purposes as dead as can be. They didn't just nerf mining, they literally killed it by reducing the chances to find any valuable resources, gating chances to quickly find the right resources behind limpets which directly tie into resource collection, since they're universal and get used up for prospecting and collecting. The resource density appears to have also been reduced to nothing. I sometimes depleted an asteroid after less than 8 seconds of lasering it with 4 lasers.
Unless you fly a huge ship, have friends who focus on prospecting while you focus on picking up, you can literally avoid mining entirely as solo mining literally just wastes your precious time. I'm definitely not going to make money via road to riches as exploration for quick credits is as mind numbing as looking at nothing but a rock (yes, a literal rock in real life) for an hour.
Combat isn't my cup of tea as I suck at combat. Tried taking out ship generators and that didn't work cuz aiming at moving targets in a 360°C environment is just annoying as all fucking hell. One second you aim at a subsystem, the other second you aim at the jump wake of what used to be your almost dead enemy.
Nah, not bothered doing this to myself.
Now...the last thing which MIGHT be worth trying is NPC piracy which may be fairly interesting albeit rather difficult and the other thing which I absolutely loathe unless the payout is decent - passanger missions. :D
..............fuckin hell, man. All I wanted from ED is having fun making credits mining and they've taken that shit away from me and all other solo players who enjoy mining - playing their credit making mini-game.
Oh, and the game randomly seizes to respond to input. It's running, but simply ignoring all input. They've turned this game into one constantly overheating pile of space trash.
Tbh. I wish they could recover like No Man's Sky did, but apparently that's beyond the CEO of Frontier.
Sorry, with issues like this still plaguing this game after so many years, it's difficult to stay positive. I'm just frustrated that my favorite space game after years still remains the condensed manifestation of willful ignorance, arrogance and incompetence. What they called broken was so much fun for most of us, and they didn't take a lesson from that, they took away the fun we had.
I'll end the rant/input from my mining run here.
edit:typos
Thank you so much Cmdr for your thoughtful write up! My TLDR is that it looks like you and I are probably in agreement for most of it. It has changed, especially since the days you and I probably remember when the gettin was good. That being said though, for new commanders it's still a viable option (though you make a good point about small ships) and many folks like myself do actually enjoy the activity of it. My goal was to give the basics and let them make their own decision as to whether they want to make money that way. But awesome writeup, thank you so much for participating on my channel and I hope you'll check out my future series. o7!
@@OrbitalJeffo Sure. Can't hurt sticking around, despite my issues with ED at the moment. That's something I actually wanted to write before but forgot about, while recalling the annoyances of ED. You convey informations in a very pleasing manner without annoying distractions that may entertain kids/teens for a while, but can quickly become annoying otherwise when trying to ingest knowledge. Thanks for trying to help out your fellow players. I appreciate it, despite not getting much out of mining at the moment. Glad there's folks like you out there who try and help get back into the game after being OOTL for a while. o7
Elite Dangerous is great, when you view it as a SPACE FLIGHT SIM, with many things to do to keep the grind feel at bay. Enjoy the Process, as you reach the end game of a fleet carrier. Exploration and traveling through space to me is exciting. Playing at a slow pace and NEVER play just to make credits at ALL times.
ENJOY the process, once you reach the destination the excitement will end , so don't be in a Hurry.
@@williammoran9715 Thank you for your opinion. Enjoying the process requires to see something enjoyable in the generic tedium that Elite Dangerous calls "gameplay", though. While it's (the gameplay) not "bad" per se (it used to be MUCH worse, by what I remember, in comparison to the experiences I've had in the past months playing), it is extremely monotonous, as its base interactive elements are (imho) very basic/superficial. This of course can work for and against ED, as there's people who enjoy quick success and those who love spending time interacting with their game.
But I've been _kind of_ successful in rekindling my love for ED.
I had to decouple some of my past experiences with the game, from current balancing meta, and kind of make a "fresh start", pretending to play the game for the first time again. That actually helped. I've also watched many guide videos and tutorials, along with plenty of reddit lurking, steam community suggestions, etc. to learn more about the game, since I've been stop-and-go playing ED for years now, always getting tired of the grind and not knowing where to go and what to do.
I must say, the initial lack of available information _how_ to play ED years ago, posed the biggest issue for me. After "starting over", earning some credits via Laser Mining (thanks Orbital Jeffo and other awesome CMDR's helping out the community
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I have 2.3k hours on this game and I've just been ramming into another asteroid to destroy the limpets
Bruh, why didn't I think of this
how much can you earn?
what about where/how to sell? thanks
This is maybe not the answer that you're looking for, or really the answer I'd like to give.. but this is where third party apps like inara.cz shine. It's actually pretty difficult to use the galaxy map to watch the market in game without jumping to dozens upon dozens of systems. You need the system trade data in order to see the commodities market/imports and exports and it just takes so much time. I don't think there's any shame in getting a little outside help on this one. Some folks are purists though. I say make it easier on yourself and find the best stations to sell at quickly on inara.cz.
What ship do you recommend to use?
There are a lot of different opinions you can go with, but honestly, I say try out a few of the ships you're most comfortable with. Based on my experience, I recommend at least a medium ship, though, just for the cargo space. People say the Imperial Cutter is the best large mining ship, but like in the video, I prefer my Type 10. Some folks I know also have outfitted Cobras and Kraits for mining. If you have a little bit of capital to try some things out, I say experiment. If you need to start out low budget, I've been told (no personal experience here) that the Asp Explorer might make a good option. I welcome any other commenters to chime in here, too. o7 CMDR!
@@OrbitalJeffo I'm a new player, so I am on a low budget, but I did just buy an Asp Explorer and got it outfitted for the road to riches. I think I might just outfit it for mining to try it out once I'm done with that, thanks for the advice!
Is it good to drop in overlaping zones or go for the middle of the hotspot?
Overlapping zones used to be much more powerful. After the fleet carriers update a while back, overlapping zones are less multiplied, but still should be more fruitful than non-overlapping zones.
Just curious, why do you use turreted Mining Lasers? Is there a specific benefit to doing it? I don’t get how it would work even.
I don't think mining lazers work as turrets. They operate just as fixed straight-ahead weapons. Did it say they were turreted in the outfitting screen?
@@OrbitalJeffo Yeah, that’s why I was confused.
@@dharmeshmistry342 OH, I figured it out. So they're turrets so you can bring someone multicrew and they can help you mine. Multicrew CMDRs can take control of turreted weapons as the gunner. It's really the only way to use them in such a way I think.
how do you get mining lasers? where do i buy them
Lots of stations carry mining equipment, usually depending on its economy. I'd recommend looking up on inara.cz it's a super powerful resource for finding what you need. ✌️
@@OrbitalJeffo ok thanks.
a lot missing from this video, why dont you want to use a multi limpet controller? double the active limpets
Thanks for watching. I probably should have mentioned something about the multi-controller since they're super beneficial for saving a slot, but the goal was to get someone just enough information to begin. What else would you include?
@@OrbitalJeffo more mining lasers?
@shiftyone1213 For sure, like I mentioned in the video where I explained why I only use two: more lasers means faster mining! ✌ thanks Cmdr o7!
@@OrbitalJeffo I'd also include the Pulse Wave Generator?
I can't seem to find the "collector limpet controller" or the "prospecter limpet controller" anywhere the the shop 🤔. Am I doing something wrong or are they only available in certain systems?
Yeah, not every outfitting shop is identical. Some stations will carry it, others may not. I would recommend shopping in systems/stations that are Extraction economies. You could also visit inara.cz which has a search feature to find the closest seller of the modules you need. o7!
@@OrbitalJeffo thx for the comment man I appreciate the help. I've only just started playing this game and it's a BIG learning curve for me but I managed to figure it out, I was looking in the right place I just had the wrong ship 👍
@@djboogy3985 There is a lot to learn, but just take it easy and have fun. Enjoy space and you'll find you're progressing your Commander up just fine in no time! o7!
my refinery says resources unallocated how do I fix this?
Hey Ellis! Sorry so late. If I recall correctly, this happens when your bins become full. On your right panel, inventory page, go to the refinery tab down the lefthand column. You probably have all of your refinery bins full, possibly with other mining resources that you aren't actually mining for. There's an eject button for each bin that you can use to clear it out and make room for the resources you're actually after. This will get things moving. The normal flow of the refinery is first to put resources into the hopper up top, then into the bins for refining and packing into cargo. Hope this helps. o7 CMDR!
What's a good mining ship for a new player, I find the sidewinder is definitely not good in anything 😕 I'm sure that's because is the starter ship, I don't have many credits but I managed to buy a hauler thinking it would be better but it only has 1 slot for weapons/mining
Don't know where you are financially in the game ATM, but take the time (not sure how much game time you have) to do data delivery missions for either the empire or federal factions. It the safest way and easiest way to make your first 20-50 mil more depending on how far with it you want to go. It also unlocks ranks for ships as you do this. Once you get about 30-50 mil, you'll have a decent amount for a starter mining build and then some for insurance in case something happens.
@@AceLeader09 thanks, by now I got really into the game so I upgraded finaly got my first anaconda, took me a long time and lots of mining but its so worth it
@@MyRusty89 you on PC and or discord by chance?
@@AceLeader09 console, xbone
@@MyRusty89 lol I started ed on console my self. You still playing?
This sadly doesnt explain where to buy any of this
There are hundreds of stations that can sell you this equipment throughout the human-occupied regions of the galaxy. They're sold along with any other module for your ship, though some stations stock will vary. I recommend inara.cz to locate the one closest to you, even though its an out-of-game resource they have a feature to locate stations which stock the components you need. Otherwise I'd check systems with extraction economies.
@@OrbitalJeffo thx man
I thought you could scan and see the asteroids as different colours?
You can use the Pulse Wave Analyzer to see different brightness levels of orange, but that is giving you information for subsurface or core mining by showing levels of special deposits. Those videos are next in the playlist. Not really useful for laser mining, as the prospector limpet gives you the percentage information you need to know for that. o7!
@@OrbitalJeffo Thanks for the reply, yes i have just watched the 2nd video on subsurface so all makes sense now, Thanks.
Can you please link your ship build on the video?
Hey there, sorry for the late reply, been dealing with some stuff. The Crystalline Entity is a Type 10 that I've outfitted to mine and/or do secure transport. Here's a Coriolis link: s.orbis.zone/jdwh . I've tried to design it to, at the very least, escape from an outgunned attack successfully.
How to do you deal with mauve adder issue
Yesterday each time I cracked up an asteroid (after spending a lot of time finding it) I get to harvest only 2 - 3 units then BOOM disconnect : Mauve adder
Oh no! This wasn't something I was dealing with when I was out there mining to make this video the other day, but I haven't been able to play since. I wonder if there's a server issue? Consider submitting a report to Frontier if it continues but I'd also pick a new star system and see if it helps. Hope it gets resolved!
Reset router. Or if you're using mobile hotspot, turn off data and then turn on again.
Yes mining is not dead but i bet you wish a full t-10 would bring you 200'000'000 CR like back in the day. Now you can expect like 60'000'000
but ey, like your positivity o7
Those were the days.....
:))) all you need to mine...and get to the planet rings, and ups!!! the surface scanner wich you never mention it :))) WTF DUDE?
There was a whole section on the surface scanner :) edit: I see what you're saying. I didn't include it in my equipment list, I should have. I will have to figure out how to work it in.
oh seven is not a greeting. Salute is a greeting. o7 is a person saluting. Good video.
Yes, thank you. Folks who stream on Twitch end up saying it out loud a lot. Salute!
oh seven is not a greeting. Salute is a greeting. o7 is a person saluting.
Salute, CMDR!
New players aren't affording this crap...
I'd say you're probably not ready to get into mining just yet.
nah too hard and too slow i spent 8 hours just to make 6K doing mining, i can make 10K just 2 hours bounty wanted in resource site! much better and much more fun! mining is boring and slow damn slow!
That's ok! Play what works for you. What were you mining for that only got you 6K?
@@OrbitalJeffo well i m not an expert in mining but as the way the it is this days ED has change you can not longer make money like years ago! sadly game is more hard right now, those gold rocks with black line are hard to find nowadays
@@Nirond I hear ya!
It does seem a little slow, but 2 hours for 6K is about the same. Just hauling silver you can make 3-4 million in less than ten minutes.