@Christos Montariou All depends on what is your definition of veteran. Veteran usually is described as long experience in a particular field. Mining has been "in game" for quite a while now. Just because it is still in Alpha does not disqualify a person from having extensive experience in something...
For me who doesn't mine at all, this is very good for me and will definitly be using it every time i go and try mining. Thank you for the guide, very well done. The build information is really great to have for people starting out and what to work for when upgrading the mining lasers once you have enough UEC.
Thank you for putting so much effort into this video Mike! Edit: This is the kind of immersive gameplay that keeps me supporting SC as it slowly bakes.
Nicely done video. I'm a very experienced miner, but never really understood the stats on the consumables, thank you for explaining them in a such a concise manner.
Dude kudos on this guide..... its perfect for beginners. You basically cover all the points that need to be covered. As a fairly seasoned miner like myself this is all things I would share with friends trying to get into mining
Ive watched like a dozen of these fucking mining guides and this is the ONLY one that is this concise AND comprehensive. Thank you for your excellent video editing skills and not filling the minutes with wasted time. Definitely checking out this channel for more content!
I'm a long time Elite Dangerous player where I have done a lot of mining. Now I am looking at starting my SC adventure and the mining aspect of the game interests me the most. This is a perfect mining guide. Well organized with the right amount of detail and easy to understand. Build recommendations are icing on the cake. SC can feel intimidating so thanks for making this tutorial and helping new players.
This is the most in-depth mining guide for SC anyone could have. I think I might try out ground mining with the ROC, for I never really got good at mining with ships. Also thanks for putting in the chapter sections on the timeline, easy to find what I want when I revisit the video.
Great video Mike! I get asked so many questions everyday about mining, especially with the changes in 3.12. The ship builds section is very nice touch and glad you put that in. I think the things you didn't cover are things best discovered while playing, all that comes with experience and finding what works best for you.
Mike, the quality of this video is so good ! Seriously. 19 and a half minutes of beautifully shot footage, clear and well thought out information, great narration. Background music is perfect. This must have taken a lot of work. Good stuff :)
Really nice rundown and I'm loving the mining gameplay with where its at. I'd hadn't thought to add two of the same consumable on different slots! Just a few things I'd change with the mining so far (bugs aside) 1) You should be able to either split your refining jobs or pick them up in separate loads. I bought a Prospector in-game and I only have a Titan for transport. So at the moment, it's impossible to transport a full prospectors worth of refined goods. You have to rent a Cutlass which obviously eats into profits. 2) The drinks station between the ore trade terminal and the refining terminal should have free tea/coffee and biscuits. That's it honestly, everything else is really smooth.
really awesome mining guide mike! Guides like this really help enrich the star citizen community and we appreciate all the time and effort you put into creating content.
Mining is always tough to get a handle on as it seems to be always changing so thank you for making this video to bring us up to date and hope to keep seeing them in the future as this evolves. I need to go buy new mining lasers.
Great Video! Haven't done mining in a while (upgraded my Prospector for something else a while back), but this kinda gets me interested in buying one in game, setting it up and making some cash! Thanks, and great useful vid!
A lot of information. Thank you for the work you put into the video. As a new player (Spent a few hours yesterday running around ingame) Having watched SC videos all day today due to not being able to get in game till 11:30 tonight, I find that for being claimed as one of the best starter activities this all seems intimidatingly complex. I will be starting out with a Nomad or Cutlass and a ROC If I can swing it. I was hoping I could just point and shoot without all the consumables/extras. You mentioned Hadonite on or around Ariel being a simpler way to go about it. Space mining is my goal later on as I can afford it and they stop with the intermittent wipes. I prefer the carebear jack of all trades role myself. Mining and more industrial pursuits suit me better than combat which I seem to suck at in pvp. I get the power levels and zones talk but the consumables and timing stuff is confusing. Anyway. It is a lot of information and I thank you for it.
Protip use an absolute axis for mining laser power. Typically a knob, slider, or analog trigger any device. This allows you to set power precisely and nearly instantaneously to the desired level with the only limitation being your reflexes and latency.
Just scanned the video segment names, it looks like a very complete guide that I will certainly going to watch later on! But you already get the like for the big comprehensive work you did on it!
Fab mike, that is a really well put together vid, and nicely shot too. Happy new year and I hope you can quit your job to permastream in 2021. All the best to you and Emmie.
3.12 has stopped the drift on the Mole whilst in the mining seat which is a great improvement for those solo miners like myself who want the increased SCU of the Mole but don’t always have another player to crew it.
I keep blowing myself up mining quantinium using surge and stampede.i will look for smaller rocks and try a different strategy. Thanks for the well researched and presented tips.
Thank you very much for your updated guide, it really helps detailing the steps because with all the bugs and gameplay bug generated wiggling - is it right, is it wrong what can be done to fix it or work around etc. Like presently it is left click and hold to complete the final detail scan. These variations create a lot of confusion. They really need to seize the day and make a full on tutorial and learn n play mission tutorial or people new or returning to Star Citizen. I think the game is getting closer to being more accessible for people as they can complete activities more reliably. I feel CI needs to do this as more test data is usually better than less test data.
I'm a pretty experienced miner in this game, but I like to watch all sorts of tutorials on the topic just to see if there's any little gems or secrets that I missed or didn't know about. There almost always are.
Thanks much for this guide. I liked hand mining alot but got sick of caves and the oppressive feeling inside them...which is cool from a perspective haha. I just bought about two weeks ago a in game Roc but only been able to try it twice and have had problems since with it so that's annoying. So I have to have more success getting out and in my Connie and actually using it to judge that type of mining. But thanks for the help😁
Is this REALLY the ultimate guide Mike? Really?! I dunno. I’m skeptical. 😑🤣 Thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos Mike. Appreciate it bro!
As a brand new player who did a event with a vet and earned over 3 million I'm gonna ago buy a prospector lol. Is this video still pretty spot on? Best one I've found.
Thanks for this, good vid. I used to mine a lot, and it fell off for me since the nerf (requiring consumables for higher value/yields and the increased time in elevators is the biggest issue here). Not sure I'll get back to it for now, the limited amount of things that can be mined without consumable is frustrating to me. Having to plan so much ahead in a world where you cannot scan for a specific mineral makes the change underwhelming to me. If the price where to come back similar as before, I could get behind it, but as is, nha. Will skip until it's updated again, may skip until the Orion is released even, since it's really not that profitable anymore. Combat missions are ROC mining are a lot better money wise.
I thought that your editing and writing skills went up by a factor of 3 in the making of this video. You should be getting a lot of great comments for your effort. And they are well-deserved accolades.
Great post - only thing I'd disagree on is that second number on the scan: I'd argue that's the most important number as it indicates the purity of the element in the rock. Took me forever to figure that out, but if something is Agricium 20.00 - 2.00, or Agricium 15.00 - 20.00, the second one will be FAR more likely to break off 90%+ chunks, whereas the first will likely have crumbs buried in with inert or worthless ore. I'll tend to skip any rock with a purity less than 10.00 unless the percentage of the ore present is huge.
@@SaltEMike Yeah, it's not obvious at all and they never explained it. I heard it from....someone. In game, I think? And then I started looking at it, and yeah: it lines up. So that second number might be the most important one.
Not sure if u can change the loadout but I bought a roc because I wanted to try some mining without investing to much.. which loadout would u recommend for that? :)
hi, changing ROC components doesn't affect mining performance right now AFAIK, but you can solve the laser overheating issue if you buy better coolers (i think)
The only thing missing from the hud now is a distance meter as the distance is often out of view. Consumables being useful makes it much more interesting.
Is ROC mining as complicated as ship mining? There are no consumables for it, but does it matter what laser I put on a ROC? What do you do with ROC cargo? Can it be refined too? Just park it in the station with a refinery, inside your cutlass?
All great questions for the next guide. It’s much easier…it’s one break and scoop. No refining. It’s my favorite kind of mining. You sell to mining outposts or major landing zones.
are the SCUs including the dropable boxes for prospector and mole or without them? Do they work yet? I think the prospector used to have more usable cargo capacity than the mole.
In a next video, it would be nice to mention for players that use the Mole, which slot in the fitting screen corresponds with which mining laser position on the ship.
So say my friend and I go out mining in a Constellation and an Argo Mole. Could he fill up his Mole and then transfer the contents into the Andromeda for me to take off and be sold? If so is the Connie the best ship to support an operation like this with the same range and cargo capacity, or might something else be better?
Even from a veteran miner this is the best mining guide out there in TH-cam. A well organised and structured video. Well done!
@Christos Montariou All depends on what is your definition of veteran. Veteran usually is described as long experience in a particular field. Mining has been "in game" for quite a while now. Just because it is still in Alpha does not disqualify a person from having extensive experience in something...
I don't think I have seen a more professionally edited tutorial video. Precise, to the point and packed with info. Well done.
The problem is it’s sort of out of date, although I still would do the same things today. There are more components…
For me who doesn't mine at all, this is very good for me and will definitly be using it every time i go and try mining. Thank you for the guide, very well done. The build information is really great to have for people starting out and what to work for when upgrading the mining lasers once you have enough UEC.
Thank you for putting so much effort into this video Mike!
Edit: This is the kind of immersive gameplay that keeps me supporting SC as it slowly bakes.
The long awaited mining guide from the DonkMiner himself! o7
Nice guide. Your Lancet build is exactly what I'm enjoying at the moment.
It was inspired by you for sure!
Nicely done video. I'm a very experienced miner, but never really understood the stats on the consumables, thank you for explaining them in a such a concise manner.
Really useful. Even as a fairly experienced miner having a link to a guide for newbies to bring them up to date is invaluable. Thanks so much!
Dude kudos on this guide..... its perfect for beginners. You basically cover all the points that need to be covered.
As a fairly seasoned miner like myself this is all things I would share with friends trying to get into mining
A great mining video for 3.12. Turning off the mining laser and scanning at 4x to reduce your profile are great tips.
I can’t wait until we have salvage gameplay at this level of maturity
Ive watched like a dozen of these fucking mining guides and this is the ONLY one that is this concise AND comprehensive. Thank you for your excellent video editing skills and not filling the minutes with wasted time. Definitely checking out this channel for more content!
I'm a long time Elite Dangerous player where I have done a lot of mining. Now I am looking at starting my SC adventure and the mining aspect of the game interests me the most. This is a perfect mining guide. Well organized with the right amount of detail and easy to understand. Build recommendations are icing on the cake. SC can feel intimidating so thanks for making this tutorial and helping new players.
This is the most in-depth mining guide for SC anyone could have. I think I might try out ground mining with the ROC, for I never really got good at mining with ships. Also thanks for putting in the chapter sections on the timeline, easy to find what I want when I revisit the video.
This was a fantastic guide to mining. Not as pro as you but I dabble and picked up a few good hints here. Great work!
I do a ton of mining, and this guide was very good.
Great video Mike! I get asked so many questions everyday about mining, especially with the changes in 3.12. The ship builds section is very nice touch and glad you put that in. I think the things you didn't cover are things best discovered while playing, all that comes with experience and finding what works best for you.
I hate mining - but needed to understand the process for various reasons, and found this very very useful. Many thanks Mike.
Thank you for making the only guide that was helpful and concise enough to finally get me started with mining.
Ty, ty, ty - finally makes sense of various pieces of information. The consumable info will be a big help with the larger rocks. Good job!
Great content. I'm new to SC ain't got a clue what you have been talking about but I will learn from this. Thanks
Great Guide from the soon-to-be Mining Master. To my knowledge gems gotten from hand-mining and ROC work are not refine-able. So just sell those.
Mike, the quality of this video is so good ! Seriously. 19 and a half minutes of beautifully shot footage, clear and well thought out information, great narration. Background music is perfect. This must have taken a lot of work. Good stuff :)
Nice and clean. Just in time for me to learn how to mine again. Cheers Mike!
Easily one of the most informative guides I've seen in a long long time. Going straight to my discord for the org...
Really nice rundown and I'm loving the mining gameplay with where its at.
I'd hadn't thought to add two of the same consumable on different slots!
Just a few things I'd change with the mining so far (bugs aside)
1) You should be able to either split your refining jobs or pick them up in separate loads. I bought a Prospector in-game and I only have a Titan for transport. So at the moment, it's impossible to transport a full prospectors worth of refined goods. You have to rent a Cutlass which obviously eats into profits.
2) The drinks station between the ore trade terminal and the refining terminal should have free tea/coffee and biscuits.
That's it honestly, everything else is really smooth.
really awesome mining guide mike! Guides like this really help enrich the star citizen community and we appreciate all the time and effort you put into creating content.
Great channel but hands-down the best mining guide out there. Thanks for all the hard work putting this together.
Daymar is my new favorite place to mine - thanks for the advice to get out of the asteroid fields and check out the moons!
Mining is always tough to get a handle on as it seems to be always changing so thank you for making this video to bring us up to date and hope to keep seeing them in the future as this evolves. I need to go buy new mining lasers.
Wow! This is definitely the best mining guide I've come across. Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
Great Video! Haven't done mining in a while (upgraded my Prospector for something else a while back), but this kinda gets me interested in buying one in game, setting it up and making some cash! Thanks, and great useful vid!
Great video! Can really tell the time and effort that went into it. Would love to see more break downs and fit recommendations like this!
A lot of information. Thank you for the work you put into the video.
As a new player (Spent a few hours yesterday running around ingame) Having watched SC videos all day today due to not being able to get in game till 11:30 tonight, I find that for being claimed as one of the best starter activities this all seems intimidatingly complex. I will be starting out with a Nomad or Cutlass and a ROC If I can swing it. I was hoping I could just point and shoot without all the consumables/extras. You mentioned Hadonite on or around Ariel being a simpler way to go about it. Space mining is my goal later on as I can afford it and they stop with the intermittent wipes.
I prefer the carebear jack of all trades role myself. Mining and more industrial pursuits suit me better than combat which I seem to suck at in pvp.
I get the power levels and zones talk but the consumables and timing stuff is confusing.
Anyway. It is a lot of information and I thank you for it.
Good luck and the ROC is the way to go.
Really good guide to mining. Nice work.
Protip use an absolute axis for mining laser power. Typically a knob, slider, or analog trigger any device. This allows you to set power precisely and nearly instantaneously to the desired level with the only limitation being your reflexes and latency.
Thank you for this. Currently installing the game atm. Looking to get into Mining and Touring !!
Good luck enjoy.
@@SaltEMike Thank you
Just scanned the video segment names, it looks like a very complete guide that I will certainly going to watch later on!
But you already get the like for the big comprehensive work you did on it!
Well done... I know you mostly stream, but you have skills doing this too. Trying to save up to the prospector.. Only a million to go! Lol
Damn Mike! THIS is how you make a guide!
Hella good job.
Fab mike, that is a really well put together vid, and nicely shot too. Happy new year and I hope you can quit your job to permastream in 2021. All the best to you and Emmie.
3.12 has stopped the drift on the Mole whilst in the mining seat which is a great improvement for those solo miners like myself who want the increased SCU of the Mole but don’t always have another player to crew it.
I keep blowing myself up mining quantinium using surge and stampede.i will look for smaller rocks and try a different strategy. Thanks for the well researched and presented tips.
Mike, let me tell you: you did an outstanding job! I can only imagine how many hours you spent on this. Thank you and keep up the good work!
thank you for the excellent guide. I learned everything I was interested in about mining . good luck
Thank you very much for your updated guide, it really helps detailing the steps because with all the bugs and gameplay bug generated wiggling - is it right, is it wrong what can be done to fix it or work around etc. Like presently it is left click and hold to complete the final detail scan. These variations create a lot of confusion. They really need to seize the day and make a full on tutorial and learn n play mission tutorial or people new or returning to Star Citizen. I think the game is getting closer to being more accessible for people as they can complete activities more reliably. I feel CI needs to do this as more test data is usually better than less test data.
Excellent guide, great job Mike.
Really good info here. Thanks for the video
Very nice guide, the only one going really deep. Good job!
I'm a pretty experienced miner in this game, but I like to watch all sorts of tutorials on the topic just to see if there's any little gems or secrets that I missed or didn't know about. There almost always are.
I'll give it to them, those mining work orders definitely have players coming back to play for at least the next few days. Awesome gameplay loop.
This is what, i’ve been waiting for ...long time. My respect and happy new year for you mike.
Great guide men, will definitely share it to the new players
I don't comment a lot but I have to say, great job on this video!!
Very nice Guide! Thanks specialy the Refining Part!
Thanks much for this guide. I liked hand mining alot but got sick of caves and the oppressive feeling inside them...which is cool from a perspective haha. I just bought about two weeks ago a in game Roc but only been able to try it twice and have had problems since with it so that's annoying. So I have to have more success getting out and in my Connie and actually using it to judge that type of mining. But thanks for the help😁
Excellent video. Thank you for hard work researching. I'm excited to implement your approach. new subscriber
Great guide Mike, nicely done. Lots of useful info.
Awesome guide Mike thanks!
Best video on the subject of mining! Thanks!
This is the best miming guide on TH-cam
Thank you and it’s so old!
@@SaltEMike Okay, make a new one
Great guide. Thanks for all the work you put in it.
Thank you! Lots of great advise for a noob to the game.
Is this REALLY the ultimate guide Mike? Really?! I dunno. I’m skeptical. 😑🤣 Thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos Mike. Appreciate it bro!
best mining guide by far
Hey, thanks for all the info and the spreadsheet!
Tiptop guide Mike, cleared some things up there👍
Epic ! have a great 2021 !
Great video. I will be watching this sever times for reference.
Best mining tutorial so far
Words cannot convey my need for this 💯
What a fantastic guide! Great work as always. o7
Really useful thanks Mike 👍
As a brand new player who did a event with a vet and earned over 3 million I'm gonna ago buy a prospector lol. Is this video still pretty spot on? Best one I've found.
Yea I’ve wanted to make a new one but there really isn’t a point. Not much has changed
Good luck on the road to 100k for this :)
Thanks for this, good vid. I used to mine a lot, and it fell off for me since the nerf (requiring consumables for higher value/yields and the increased time in elevators is the biggest issue here). Not sure I'll get back to it for now, the limited amount of things that can be mined without consumable is frustrating to me. Having to plan so much ahead in a world where you cannot scan for a specific mineral makes the change underwhelming to me. If the price where to come back similar as before, I could get behind it, but as is, nha. Will skip until it's updated again, may skip until the Orion is released even, since it's really not that profitable anymore. Combat missions are ROC mining are a lot better money wise.
Me and some friends managed to fit 3 ROCs in a Carrack. The last one had to be canted behind the other two, but it worked just fine.
I thought that your editing and writing skills went up by a factor of 3 in the making of this video. You should be getting a lot of great comments for your effort. And they are well-deserved accolades.
Great post - only thing I'd disagree on is that second number on the scan: I'd argue that's the most important number as it indicates the purity of the element in the rock. Took me forever to figure that out, but if something is Agricium 20.00 - 2.00, or Agricium 15.00 - 20.00, the second one will be FAR more likely to break off 90%+ chunks, whereas the first will likely have crumbs buried in with inert or worthless ore. I'll tend to skip any rock with a purity less than 10.00 unless the percentage of the ore present is huge.
Interesting I’ll dive more into rhat
@@SaltEMike Yeah, it's not obvious at all and they never explained it. I heard it from....someone. In game, I think? And then I started looking at it, and yeah: it lines up. So that second number might be the most important one.
Not sure if u can change the loadout but I bought a roc because I wanted to try some mining without investing to much.. which loadout would u recommend for that? :)
hi, changing ROC components doesn't affect mining performance right now AFAIK, but you can solve the laser overheating issue if you buy better coolers (i think)
@@lalas147 alright cool! thanks :D
@@zepteck1901 np ^^
Very nice Guide! For some of the space mining noobs like myself, perhaps it would be beneficial to give a few tips on getting to the Aaron Halo
The only thing missing from the hud now is a distance meter as the distance is often out of view. Consumables being useful makes it much more interesting.
CIG should hire this guy to make tutorial videos on their channel. like seriously..
Excellent. I learned a ton! Saved
Thanks, My brothers and I are still ROC mining, about to make the jump to prospector mining once 2 of us have prospectors up and running
Really nice guide thank you you the effort on this one.
Super helpful! Thanks Mike!
fkn a...gud shit dood...the stealth tip is dope
Is ROC mining as complicated as ship mining?
There are no consumables for it, but does it matter what laser I put on a ROC? What do you do with ROC cargo? Can it be refined too? Just park it in the station with a refinery, inside your cutlass?
All great questions for the next guide. It’s much easier…it’s one break and scoop. No refining. It’s my favorite kind of mining. You sell to mining outposts or major landing zones.
"greycant roc"
That's brilliant! XD
But I will have you know that I'm grey and CAN roc alongside the best of them!
Still love you though, Mike!
are the SCUs including the dropable boxes for prospector and mole or without them? Do they work yet? I think the prospector used to have more usable cargo capacity than the mole.
Very helpful man! Thank you!
Best SC guide ever.
great vid! but how to target a mineral? to extract onlty these?
In a next video, it would be nice to mention for players that use the Mole, which slot in the fitting screen corresponds with which mining laser position on the ship.
Yes 1 is center now
very cool mate finally all make sense
So say my friend and I go out mining in a Constellation and an Argo Mole. Could he fill up his Mole and then transfer the contents into the Andromeda for me to take off and be sold? If so is the Connie the best ship to support an operation like this with the same range and cargo capacity, or might something else be better?
Excellent guide. Thanks.
Are you able to move the mining head with your mouse? Mine is stuck in boresight, can't figure out what's bugged......
great work, thank you for the guide.