Playing the simulations helps a fair bit, but there’s a lot they don’t cover. Same with reading the handbook. Experimentation and heavy wiki reading are required.
true, I've watched atleast 5 different videos about mining guides and I still can't find void opals after scanning and searching more than atleast 100+ stones, that's either my luck or all of my hotspots are garbage
@@jorginho1800 Use the detailed surface scanner on rings. That will point out hotspots where you can find them, along with other rare minerals. I’ve found plenty of void opal hotspots while mapping gas giants.
remember not to actually target the rock chunks when you launch limpets, otherwise they'll pop after one use. just fire them out no target and they'll go gather on their own.
Huh? I just had my very first mining run for tritium and I targeted every popped chunk without my one and only godsent Collection Limpet from exploding.
Bought a mining rig with all my money with a crappy FSD and accidentally sold my fighter plane. This was when the update first came live and I had the hardest time figuring out mining and just haven’t picked the game up since really. Thank you, I can finally play the game again, it’s perfect timing
@@LordRenegrade Which is what FDev seem to aim to do. Of course, it does not matter if one career is ten times (or more) as profitable the way it was two weeks ago, or of it is 10% more profitable, the crybabies will still complain that there is only one valid way to play the game. One interesting immediate effect of fixing the _bug_ that painite demand was resetting too fast is that painite top selling prices are not lasting for very long anymore, which is as it should be. The issue is however they rarely last more than minutes, and then need days to recover. The supply/demand of Elite Dangerous is built on a single player game mechanics, which does not work well in a multiplayer environment.
I just started out yesterday. Blew myself up accidentally by going silent without knowing what it does. Wanted to be a miner straight away, but I’ll be damned if I understood anything he just said. I still have the Sidewinder btw.
Same, I gave up mining pretty early so I went to exploration data gathering instead. You can google Elite Dangerous Road to Riches, there's a site that can plan your route for surface scan or system discovery data.
@@Vysair It's the same tool that's has the miners tool in the video too. edtools.cc is the new website now though edit:forgot to add that you need to pick the road to riches tool
Understood - the game is a blessing and a curse. Although Yamiks is more irreverant/flippant side, this is still a horribly technical game, but with massive potential when you know what you're doing (I'm doing laps round Davs Hope to pickup matierals). Dont' be downhearted, find something you enjoy - mining, bounty hunting, or just running errand/delivery/passenger missions. That's the beauty of the game, diversity.
I actually really enjoy mining as a relaxing thing that I do while I'm working. I will just use regular mining lasers to clear out an asteroid, and get some more work done while my couple of collector drones do their thing.
I'm looking for a game to do this with! Used to do it with EVE Online back in the day. If i'm able to afk with drones pick up the loot that sounds fun. It seems like I have to manually laser first though?
Everytime I hear people quoting him on that makes me laugh ... it's only a thing because all the tunnel visioned combat freaks have made this their credo. Combat could pay 10000 times more than the rest of the activities combined, yet nobody would be talking about what he said.
The best part about this video is that they are nerfing mining as we speak without balancing everything else. They are just nerfing mining right now and then they're going to visit the other things later. So we're going to have a state in the game where nothing makes good money
@@ZeroJ That is my worry too. I have a funny feeling that after mining nerf, other things - if those ever get any attention - will be bumped 10% maybe and left like that... I have enough money to survive for a while but new players seeing this will just abandon the game and find something better to do... I may even come back to NMS full time...
@@melhiore Mining deserves to be nerfed. It's insane how much money one can make with it even at an intermediate level. And one way or another, this is what combat fanatics wanted. They were constantly complaining about being forced to mine to make top credits. If mining isn't more profitable than anything else then they aren't forced to do it. New players, who abandon the game because they can't make tons of credits in a short time, wouldn't have lasted for too long anyway. Quitters are quitters, no matter what.
@@mlblaca For me FDev started to do balancing wrong way round. Instead of nerfing mining that is currently the only way to make money really, they should buff the other stuff, verify and then balance things if needed. I am telling you that we are going to be left with broken game balanced in the wrong way... You see I hate mining - there are others like me, I do that only if I really have to so having other ways to make reasonable money will sort our mining problem in no time...
For people wondering about the fissure asteroid shape: Metal fissure rocks look like a big, chubby spear head. Icy fissure rocks look like a piece of popcorn. Your welcome for this description that doesn’t really help without visuals
I could live without supercruise assist, I only ever use it when I need to AFK or manage something on the galaxy map since it doesn’t go as fast as it could. But docking is so much faster and safer with the computer.
Something to add, when deep core mining, having someone in the gunner role is very beneficial. They see the pulse wave, but their view isn’t limited to the cockpit. The gunner can see all around the ship.
Thank you for this Yamiks! I've been doing passenger missions from Robigo for $$ and I've been wanting to get into mining, but I wasn't able to find one video that comprehensively covers everything. I'll give this a go this weekend!
@@kachkeis6920 - yeah, I'm logging on right now to empty my carrier just in case. Don't want to be caught with like ten billion credits errr whoops now twenty thousand credits of painite in the hold heh.
I suggest Type 9 (when you get enough money just to have dedicated ships laying around) and run flight assist off so you have some gameplay when zapping asteroids.
One thing that might help with deep core mining is to have a ship faster than a T-9, or if you can engineer the T-9 above a snail's pace. I had trouble with it because I spent so much more time between asteroids and it was less profitable than my python despite the increased cargo space as a result. I imagine it still works great with laser mining though, or if you get lucky in an overlapped hotspot as you don't have to move around as much with either (I mostly do deep core for the big boom, so I don't know laser as well).
I've seriously done everything, arrived at atleast more than 10 planets with rings and I've scanned their rings for opal hotspots, searched the hotspots and tried the method where they say oh the more yellow the rock is the more probability to find a fisure with something inside, I'm seriously trying to enjoy the game but the fact that I've spent more than 10 hours trying to find atleast 1 void opal which isn't really that rare or atleast it shouldn't be for the ammount I've mined it's seriously making me not wanting to play the game, and I was enjoying it alot :(
Void opals hotspots can only be found in ICY rings and when using pulsewave scanner look for a CONSISTENT bright glowing rock once ur used to seeing non core rocks u can easily spot the core rock, and when you see it commit its shape to memory. For finding core asteroids, they have to be big or medium big and NOT the huge chunky ones and some of them look spiky, and it needs have some rough spots around it use NIGHT VISION to easily see the fissures (Note when u see smooth surface on the rock ignore its 100% NOT a core rock) , and when u finally see a core asteroid look for LOW strength fissures or AVERAGE, shoot the LOW strength with HIGH strength shots with seismic charge so that u only need to set up around 2-3 seismic charges in total to get on the sweet spot. Use websites like eddb.io to find an icy ring just hit your reference system (where u are currently) and set the ring type to ICY, the system reserves doesn't matter when it comes to core mining. Good luck cmdr o7
@@lt.k4t503 i tried all this dude it doesnt work besides the fact it took a full fucking hour to find out how eddb works still not finding cores enough to make any real profit 1 fucking asteroid to crack an hour im doing better with fucking LTD's they should stop the fucking bullshit and make it appear more or cut the damn bullshit and make the PWA work propperly and just point you only specificly to core asteroids
Well I guess I'll try mining. And thank you. For reminding me about the fuel scoop. It does come in handy. And I have not been stuck in space no more. So thanks again.
@@tidalforces3880 - Grandidierite cores only ever annoy me because I never carry core mining gear anymore. It goes for 752k right now. I would totally mine it. Bromellite, on the other hand, is 8.8k.
@@sterby1 - true. I sometimes pick up missions to get the G5 materials they'll sometimes offer. Of course the moment I do that, the damn material vanishes ;)
Yeah I'd always recommend a shield, At very least if you happen get interdicted, it buys you time until you can jump again. Or as I found out the hard way, not all asteroids spawn in at once when you cruising looking for cores. Was cruising along had 4 pips to engine to cover the most ground, saw a possible core light up, turned in to get a better look. I was flying straight for it and a asteroid literally just popped in right in front of me, rammed right into it, and lost 50% of my hull. Lesson learned.
I think after rebalance the mining will be in a good spot. Yes standard laser mining of painite was paying too much compared to everything else. And deep core pays too little for mining. Haz RES overlap mining is in correct spot as the ship needs to be able to do some combat and is more risky. The price rebalance will reduce Painite and LTD prices and also keep VO in line however it seems to hint that other deep core minerals are receiving a buff (Serendibite, alexandrite, benitoite, grandiderite, monazite, musgravite)
@@matejschwartz6900 everyone keeps talking about the buff to core mining but ignores the fact that you pretty much can't core mine at the moment because the pulse wave scanner is still broken for the 3rd or 4th month with no planned date for a fix
The easy examples of how the different mining tools work together will probably stay useful for a long time. Exactly what to do where however will change over time.
@@matejschwartz6900 They literally just need to tank the prices if too many people sell a single commodity. Just a bit more aggressive price fluctuations, like in No Mans Sky. Supply demand, mf, go mine some gold now.
The thing about night vision is not used to find rocks, it's to confirm them. After some time you will notice certain shades and other things on how the rock glows with the scanner. And some of them are more likely to have a core. But a chance. So if you don't want to waste your prospectors, you aproach the suspect, and check if you can spot the fissures with are somewhat visible with NV. They have a specific almost cobweb look to them this way
I use night mode when it’s … dark as shit out and I can’t see what I’m trying to blow up / what’s trying to blow me up. That’s a good tip to know for if I ever go mining.
@@hasfidanken I used this guide after playing for 5 days, 3 of which was just doing courier missions between dromi and matet and not watching UA-cam or using any 3rd party tools. Basic setup section explained a lot.
The sidewinder 'can' mine, but it has no medium hardpoints, meaning no seismic charge launcher. I would suggest upgrading before attempting core or subsurface mining. Even a cheap ship like an adder can core mine, so long as it has a medium hardpoint. Personally, I run an adder for core mining as I am relatively new. brings in roughly 1-3mil per run if you mine in alexandrite or void opal hotspots on icy rings. Use the only T3 optional slot for a T3 cargo rack, with another T2, as well as a T2 refinery and T1 limpet controllers. You don't have space for auto docking computer or supercruise assist, so practice both manually too. Hope this helps!
Is there one type of mining that is the most profitable? So I dont necessarily have to make a dedicated mining ship, but an exploration ship with some mining capabilities if there are some juicy rocks nearby
Your videos are great. 😂🤣🤣 Watching this one in preperation for trying the EGS giveaway. Maybe. Would like to see your take on Angels Fall First someday.
I didn't mine since EDO release. Is it still decent to make some CR? Just basic laser painite mining in EDO or EDH. I know doing inara trade routes is just OP (reliable) but it is just not for me lol... I'll rather mine for an hour or two.
@@jake413 I'm talking about all the things that are going to get broken and/or unplayable due to bugs and domino effects they didn't anticipate, like every time they do this.
@@jake413 theyre doing a massive nerf to painite and low temperature diamonds but they're buffing the other core mining materials by an undisclosed amount. This is a massive nerf because currently you can't core mine due to the fact that the pulse wave scanner hasn't worked since August and fdev has no plans to fix it. Essentially laser mining is taking a 60% nerf in profits and there is no compensation in any other areas
if you look to sell your hold and found the system to go to, you can open the map to look for the station where you need to go and target it so you know where to go to when you enter the system
how does the GD refinery work? I head to a platinum hotspot - shoot out a prospect - ship tells me it failed, but still does the glowy thing and then litttle targets everywhere that I blast off with abrason guns and next thing you know the whole area is just full of little chunks that i have manually targeta and shoot a collector? Ooooof two hours today and not one single platinum in a double layered hot spot. look at my refinery and it states its full but nothing is 100% so I 'vent' them whihch means i basically threw it all away yeah?
Thank god youtube made it to where you could title different segments cause this video overcomplicates a basic walkthrough. I do appreciate the high quality, but gosh dang I just want a quick and easy answer.
All you do is mine, sell it, and that's it...cant use it to craft, no point of controlling regions for ressources...very shallow game. Mining got to matter, or else its an empty activity. But ed has the best mining system in all space games.
At 5:22, you said that limpets are odd sized number so I should skip somethin? WTF does that even mean? I need major help with fire group assignment, etc etc.
It's perfectly safe to mine without shields (barring mishaps), but getting the cargo to a profitable place to sell it out might be trickier (if one of those aforementioned mishaps happens during an interdiction).
@@whydoihavetodothisannoying I thought that too, until a hatchbreaker limpet spilled out 40 or so LCDs into space while I surrender-boosted. Sure, I got complacent, and shields might not have helped, but the point is, mistakes happen, and when they do, shields buy the time needed to fix them, as often as not.
@@joekilker6373 Wasn't talking about submitting, NPC attackers are so bad it's been more years than I can remember since I legit got successfully pulled by one. Last week I parked my fully laden T9 close to a star and wen't to take a leak, could hear the interdiction start when I was walking back. Even with having to throttle up out of submission they still didn't stand a chance.
Laser mining is getting nerfed by a huge percentage next week and the "buffs" to compensate for it are unusable due to the pulse wave scanner still being busted beyond use. It really looks like fdev is going to be pushing out the shitty patch that we all expected
Mentioned this in another comment, but an absolute beginner should save for an adder, as it is the cheapest ship with a medium hardpoint. This means you can equip a seismic charge launcher and mine deep core asteroids. Use all the modules mentioned in the video, but lower class/rating if you don't have many credits.
First, make sure you have one installed and set it to a fire group by itself. While in supercruise, go to that fire group and go into analysis mode. If it shows as red, you are either too far away or moving too fast (it will tell you which). Once you are in range and going slow enough, fire it and you will enter a special interface where you can fire probes. For the purposes of mining rings, you want to aim so that it says “ring” below your pointer and then use the same button to fire. The scanner will only hold 3 probes, but your ship will automatically fabricate more of them out of nothing so you have unlimited shots. Scanning rings usually only takes one probe anyway. Also, make sure that you aren’t confusing it with the discovery scanner, which shows up as “D-Scanner” when selected.
Where do I find these things (no third party tools) as my station doesn't sell them? I need to buy a prospector limpit and DSS Although the guys talking about odd numbers and ascending hierarchy? I don't know what any of that means. I just want to mine man.
Once you deploy limpets, you cant get it back. But often you can bring a fraction(I go like a third) of your cargo hold with limpets and be fine for your entire mining trip
Little confused here, do the different types of mining (laser, deep core, etc) provide different amounts of value/credits? Or are they used to acquire specific ores? I left ED before this stuff was implemented. Am I missing something If i reinstall the game and just laser mine?
there are some new commodities... but mostly the pay wise depcore or laser mining tends to be on top... thou come soon some changes deep-core should be once more on top
It's kind of crazy how my almost 2 day trip out of the bubble and back selling discovery and universal cartographic data has been completely invalidated by 2 hours of mining.
He guys. I asked that question in other videos but I didn't get an answer yet. Maybe you can help me here. I'm a beginner and I just can't find prospecting limpets for example. I heard in another video that you can't find every item in every Station. But how can I find out where to buy that stuff? I found a database website where you can search for it but it shows thousands of places where I've never been before... Can you help me out here?
@@TheYamiks hi. Thanks for your reply. That's the database I mentioned. But when I type in my Starsystem and prospecting limpets then it gives me so many places I've never heard before... Maybe I'm using it wrong :/
I am mining everything common in the rich metal haz rez as it makes filling my type 10 easy with gold and a few others high value common items till I am outta limpits.
I quit playing due to mining, I can't figure out the only way of making money in the game, I actually think I shouldn't even play games, I have no skill or talent...
Just takes time, practice, & not caring about re starting after some asshole blows your shit to space dust. Keep at it Aria & there are plenty of people willing to help you..
So what you said about avoiding NPCs, at the end. Does flying away also work if you have rocks on-board or only if you are empty? If I even have just one commodity I'm attacked immediately. Sure I blow them to shit and take their stuff, but still.
Only if your cargo is empty, though sometimes if you drop cargo fast enough the NPCs will be distracted and take that as payment Refinery contents don't count
Good video but I was hoping it was a beginners guide to mining. The ships you talk about are very big but cost millions to get. A beginner guide I was hoping you would talk about the sidewinder your first ship eg beginner or how about the next ship up from that like the cobra mk 3 or similar. Its a goid video but if I was already in a large top tier ship. I woukd most likely be making all kinds of credits. Good video but not alot of help for beginners.
You can apply the same principles for smaller ones. in fact i did not talk too much about ships in the first place as I expect everyone to tailor their own builds KNOWING this info
I watched this video and still dont know what I'm actually supposed to do. I just want a simple video that someone can speak clear and concise english and doesn't drag on, with a step by step guide of them actually minning. This is titled "Beginners guide" and starts off by saying the ship to use is the Cutter, Type 9, and python?........."BEGINNERS GUIDE"
earning early money is hard, just as in real life making money is easier with money I recommend first hunting bounties/exploration, then trading from hauler to type 9 until you can afford to mine type in elite dangerous trade loop and go on the eddb page to find a good trade route
@@jakejones8225 That's not really the point. If someone is watching a "begginer's guide" of anything, they're probably expecting the video to be aimed at beginners. You know; someone just starting out. So, how would such a player even know what these ships are? Or where to find them? Or, even if they do know, as a beginner they probably don't even have the funds for them, which kind of questions why these ships are the first thing mentioned in the video? Just throws the beginner off with "wth am I watching right now?" Maybe start with the beginner ship that people get. Can it be used for mining? How do you have to prepare it for mining? Or do you simply need to buy a new ship before even being able to mine? etc. Some late-game expensive ship is no help for a beginner, nor is pretty much most of the stuff that was included in the video, when a beginner has no idea what he's talking about.
I found this video to be far to vague it seems this video is missing actual details and forgets to explain what keys to hit instead of when you get close "just get it or you know just do it" i'll never understand how anyone is supposed to understand such vaugue explanations as just do it instead of explaining to hit key to scan this then when you get close hit this key.I had to find a video from a player that had the same issues and took thew time to explain in detail and i learned so much I would not of understood otherwise and would have just quit playing. I'm glad i stuck thru it i find the game fun and now i'm more experienced i understand this video better talking with So many new players on verge of quitting like i was because of this lack of understanding the game going thu tons of videos where they tell new players to just do certain things with out explaining what keys to push to actually get things done i'm glad i found a single video where the player i talked about was in the same boat and another player explained everything to him and he made a detailed video for all the confused new players sick of hearing vague descriptions of what to do. Here is the link! huge help! enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/enZawlskFeQ/v-deo.html After watching that video then come back to this video and you will be able to understand this video so much better! Enjoy and good luck!
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I’ve been watching ED videos for hours and I still don’t know how to do anything.
I understand the feeling :-) Seems like most content creators have another definition of 'beginner'
Playing the simulations helps a fair bit, but there’s a lot they don’t cover. Same with reading the handbook. Experimentation and heavy wiki reading are required.
true, I've watched atleast 5 different videos about mining guides and I still can't find void opals after scanning and searching more than atleast 100+ stones, that's either my luck or all of my hotspots are garbage
@@jorginho1800 Use the detailed surface scanner on rings. That will point out hotspots where you can find them, along with other rare minerals. I’ve found plenty of void opal hotspots while mapping gas giants.
@@caltheuntitled8021 done that, been through there, extremely unlucky because I've still not found them
remember not to actually target the rock chunks when you launch limpets, otherwise they'll pop after one use. just fire them out no target and they'll go gather on their own.
That's why they do that. Thanks for the tip.
Huh? I just had my very first mining run for tritium and I targeted every popped chunk without my one and only godsent Collection Limpet from exploding.
Ohhhhhhhh... I wish I had known that a day ago... thought the limpets were broken
This comment is extremely underrated. Literally solves my problem. Thanks very much!!!
Bought a mining rig with all my money with a crappy FSD and accidentally sold my fighter plane. This was when the update first came live and I had the hardest time figuring out mining and just haven’t picked the game up since really. Thank you, I can finally play the game again, it’s perfect timing
blue button "balance by buffing other careers"
red button "balance by nerfing mining"
Fdev "nervous sweating".
me: **smashes both buttons with frenetic abandon**
I see we are going with "ignore most of what they said"
@@LordRenegrade Which is what FDev seem to aim to do.
Of course, it does not matter if one career is ten times (or more) as profitable the way it was two weeks ago, or of it is 10% more profitable, the crybabies will still complain that there is only one valid way to play the game.
One interesting immediate effect of fixing the _bug_ that painite demand was resetting too fast is that painite top selling prices are not lasting for very long anymore, which is as it should be. The issue is however they rarely last more than minutes, and then need days to recover.
The supply/demand of Elite Dangerous is built on a single player game mechanics, which does not work well in a multiplayer environment.
They did both from what I heard. Buffed bounty hunting nerfed mining
Muffin button.
I don't feel the tutorial prepares you enough for tackling missions immediately.
It just takes time to learn after 3 hours u should be better
It took me a whole damn day of playing to figure out the controlls
@@kraxusgaming9483 I still dont know what the other half of my keyboard does.
@@bronzejourney5784 i felt that
I play at 3/4 speed and still not sunk in!
You are officially my favorite elite dangerous captain I love your commentary
I just started out yesterday. Blew myself up accidentally by going silent without knowing what it does. Wanted to be a miner straight away, but I’ll be damned if I understood anything he just said. I still have the Sidewinder btw.
Same, I gave up mining pretty early so I went to exploration data gathering instead. You can google Elite Dangerous Road to Riches, there's a site that can plan your route for surface scan or system discovery data.
@@Vysair It's the same tool that's has the miners tool in the video too. edtools.cc is the new website now though
edit:forgot to add that you need to pick the road to riches tool
Understood - the game is a blessing and a curse. Although Yamiks is more irreverant/flippant side, this is still a horribly technical game, but with massive potential when you know what you're doing (I'm doing laps round Davs Hope to pickup matierals). Dont' be downhearted, find something you enjoy - mining, bounty hunting, or just running errand/delivery/passenger missions. That's the beauty of the game, diversity.
I actually really enjoy mining as a relaxing thing that I do while I'm working. I will just use regular mining lasers to clear out an asteroid, and get some more work done while my couple of collector drones do their thing.
I'm looking for a game to do this with! Used to do it with EVE Online back in the day. If i'm able to afk with drones pick up the loot that sounds fun. It seems like I have to manually laser first though?
Every time I hear Braben blabling about that single activity it makes me laugh... Fantastic opening...
Everytime I hear people quoting him on that makes me laugh ... it's only a thing because all the tunnel visioned combat freaks have made this their credo. Combat could pay 10000 times more than the rest of the activities combined, yet nobody would be talking about what he said.
The best part about this video is that they are nerfing mining as we speak without balancing everything else. They are just nerfing mining right now and then they're going to visit the other things later. So we're going to have a state in the game where nothing makes good money
@@ZeroJ That is my worry too. I have a funny feeling that after mining nerf, other things - if those ever get any attention - will be bumped 10% maybe and left like that... I have enough money to survive for a while but new players seeing this will just abandon the game and find something better to do... I may even come back to NMS full time...
@@melhiore Mining deserves to be nerfed. It's insane how much money one can make with it even at an intermediate level. And one way or another, this is what combat fanatics wanted. They were constantly complaining about being forced to mine to make top credits. If mining isn't more profitable than anything else then they aren't forced to do it.
New players, who abandon the game because they can't make tons of credits in a short time, wouldn't have lasted for too long anyway. Quitters are quitters, no matter what.
@@mlblaca For me FDev started to do balancing wrong way round. Instead of nerfing mining that is currently the only way to make money really, they should buff the other stuff, verify and then balance things if needed. I am telling you that we are going to be left with broken game balanced in the wrong way... You see I hate mining - there are others like me, I do that only if I really have to so having other ways to make reasonable money will sort our mining problem in no time...
Elite Dangerous is FREE on Epic Store now, sale ends 11/27/2020 at 12:00 AM. Anyone who wants to start playing ED now is the time boys.
For people wondering about the fissure asteroid shape:
Metal fissure rocks look like a big, chubby spear head.
Icy fissure rocks look like a piece of popcorn.
Your welcome for this description that doesn’t really help without visuals
But Yamiks! Where do I put my advanced docking computer and supercruise assist module?
The most important modules
Knowing Yamiks, I'm sure he'd say to put them in Uranus...
up yur prison wallet
I could live without supercruise assist, I only ever use it when I need to AFK or manage something on the galaxy map since it doesn’t go as fast as it could. But docking is so much faster and safer with the computer.
@@caltheuntitled8021 safety? Pfft
Something to add, when deep core mining, having someone in the gunner role is very beneficial. They see the pulse wave, but their view isn’t limited to the cockpit. The gunner can see all around the ship.
I'm new to the game and your one of the few tutorial makers I've seen. Gotta say you got a new fan keep up the good work lmfak
Thank you for this Yamiks! I've been doing passenger missions from Robigo for $$ and I've been wanting to get into mining, but I wasn't able to find one video that comprehensively covers everything. I'll give this a go this weekend!
Enjoy until next week, Fdev announced a rebalancing and the prices could drop forever after that.
@@kachkeis6920 - yeah, I'm logging on right now to empty my carrier just in case. Don't want to be caught with like ten billion credits errr whoops now twenty thousand credits of painite in the hold heh.
That's how I make my $. Mining always seemed like a pain in Uranus. Might give it a shot now after this.
I suggest Type 9 (when you get enough money just to have dedicated ships laying around) and run flight assist off so you have some gameplay when zapping asteroids.
One thing that might help with deep core mining is to have a ship faster than a T-9, or if you can engineer the T-9 above a snail's pace. I had trouble with it because I spent so much more time between asteroids and it was less profitable than my python despite the increased cargo space as a result. I imagine it still works great with laser mining though, or if you get lucky in an overlapped hotspot as you don't have to move around as much with either (I mostly do deep core for the big boom, so I don't know laser as well).
I've seriously done everything, arrived at atleast more than 10 planets with rings and I've scanned their rings for opal hotspots, searched the hotspots and tried the method where they say oh the more yellow the rock is the more probability to find a fisure with something inside, I'm seriously trying to enjoy the game but the fact that I've spent more than 10 hours trying to find atleast 1 void opal which isn't really that rare or atleast it shouldn't be for the ammount I've mined it's seriously making me not wanting to play the game, and I was enjoying it alot :(
Void opals hotspots can only be found in ICY rings and when using pulsewave scanner look for a CONSISTENT bright glowing rock once ur used to seeing non core rocks u can easily spot the core rock, and when you see it commit its shape to memory. For finding core asteroids, they have to be big or medium big and NOT the huge chunky ones and some of them look spiky, and it needs have some rough spots around it use NIGHT VISION to easily see the fissures (Note when u see smooth surface on the rock ignore its 100% NOT a core rock) , and when u finally see a core asteroid look for LOW strength fissures or AVERAGE, shoot the LOW strength with HIGH strength shots with seismic charge so that u only need to set up around 2-3 seismic charges in total to get on the sweet spot. Use websites like eddb.io to find an icy ring just hit your reference system (where u are currently) and set the ring type to ICY, the system reserves doesn't matter when it comes to core mining. Good luck cmdr o7
Agreed mining is aids and this game doesnt help at all. Seems like something only people with money can enjoy
@@lt.k4t503 i tried all this dude it doesnt work besides the fact it took a full fucking hour to find out how eddb works still not finding cores enough to make any real profit 1 fucking asteroid to crack an hour im doing better with fucking LTD's they should stop the fucking bullshit and make it appear more or cut the damn bullshit and make the PWA work propperly and just point you only specificly to core asteroids
lol, man I love your videos! well done on this particular one, this is actually a great guide which wont bored you.
I have an E:D crisis, only doing data missions in a Hauler at the moment.
Join someone's Bounty Hunting multi-crew and you can make money without even using your Hauler
That white spaceship that he has is quite the beauty if I do decide to get elite dangerous I'll try to go for that ship eventually
Well I guess I'll try mining. And thank you. For reminding me about the fuel scoop. It does come in handy. And I have not been stuck in space no more. So thanks again.
0:52 core detected: BROMELLITE..... I F%&%$ hate that!!
@@tidalforces3880 - Grandidierite cores only ever annoy me because I never carry core mining gear anymore. It goes for 752k right now. I would totally mine it. Bromellite, on the other hand, is 8.8k.
@@LordRenegrade Just find some missions about mining bromellite and presto, you made some money out of it and Bob is your parents sibling
@@sterby1 - true. I sometimes pick up missions to get the G5 materials they'll sometimes offer. Of course the moment I do that, the damn material vanishes ;)
I solely mine grandedirite. 550-600k per tonne!
Yeah I'd always recommend a shield, At very least if you happen get interdicted, it buys you time until you can jump again. Or as I found out the hard way, not all asteroids spawn in at once when you cruising looking for cores. Was cruising along had 4 pips to engine to cover the most ground, saw a possible core light up, turned in to get a better look. I was flying straight for it and a asteroid literally just popped in right in front of me, rammed right into it, and lost 50% of my hull. Lesson learned.
Lol ..... Either too late or too early depending on how the rebalance shakes out
I think after rebalance the mining will be in a good spot. Yes standard laser mining of painite was paying too much compared to everything else. And deep core pays too little for mining. Haz RES overlap mining is in correct spot as the ship needs to be able to do some combat and is more risky. The price rebalance will reduce Painite and LTD prices and also keep VO in line however it seems to hint that other deep core minerals are receiving a buff (Serendibite, alexandrite, benitoite, grandiderite, monazite, musgravite)
@@matejschwartz6900 everyone keeps talking about the buff to core mining but ignores the fact that you pretty much can't core mine at the moment because the pulse wave scanner is still broken for the 3rd or 4th month with no planned date for a fix
Ignorant! Yamiks rolls on Yamiks time zone so Master Yamiks is always on time!!!!
The easy examples of how the different mining tools work together will probably stay useful for a long time.
Exactly what to do where however will change over time.
@@matejschwartz6900 They literally just need to tank the prices if too many people sell a single commodity. Just a bit more aggressive price fluctuations, like in No Mans Sky. Supply demand, mf, go mine some gold now.
You sir have the most entertaining presentation style in the universe! That in addition to good quality information = gold.
Wow. Thank-you for a wonderful video. So well done. Subbed and liked!! =]
Came for the mining tutorial
Stayed for the innuendo and entertainment
The thing about night vision is not used to find rocks, it's to confirm them. After some time you will notice certain shades and other things on how the rock glows with the scanner. And some of them are more likely to have a core. But a chance. So if you don't want to waste your prospectors, you aproach the suspect, and check if you can spot the fissures with are somewhat visible with NV. They have a specific almost cobweb look to them this way
I use night mode when it’s … dark as shit out and I can’t see what I’m trying to blow up / what’s trying to blow me up.
That’s a good tip to know for if I ever go mining.
How is this a beginners guide, I literally don't understand a damn word of this.
I think I'm giving up on this game it's too impenetrable for me
Same
2:10 "Even a dildozer will do."
It's only a guide for mining. Not the complete game...
@@tomikun8057 still manages to explain not a damn thing about mining to beginners.
@@hasfidanken I used this guide after playing for 5 days, 3 of which was just doing courier missions between dromi and matet and not watching UA-cam or using any 3rd party tools.
Basic setup section explained a lot.
This was a great video, and yes, I've now subscribed.
Good content, would be even better if you slowed down a bit
can we mine with basic starter ship?
The sidewinder 'can' mine, but it has no medium hardpoints, meaning no seismic charge launcher. I would suggest upgrading before attempting core or subsurface mining. Even a cheap ship like an adder can core mine, so long as it has a medium hardpoint.
Personally, I run an adder for core mining as I am relatively new. brings in roughly 1-3mil per run if you mine in alexandrite or void opal hotspots on icy rings. Use the only T3 optional slot for a T3 cargo rack, with another T2, as well as a T2 refinery and T1 limpet controllers. You don't have space for auto docking computer or supercruise assist, so practice both manually too.
Hope this helps!
@@isaacsharpe3672 What the fuck is medium hardpoint. I just started the game 3 hours ago.
Yamiks has finally explained mining to me!
Corvette is a great mining ship, can get 458t with nearly 5000mjs shields, 3,200 hull plus 4 mining lasers and 2 huge/1 large beams for defence
whenever i try to scan a ring it says i'm too far from the surface although i'm right next to the point i drop out of warp drive, can somebody help?
This was wonderfully entertaining!
I just heard about this game yesterday, and bought this game yesterday.
Is there one type of mining that is the most profitable? So I dont necessarily have to make a dedicated mining ship, but an exploration ship with some mining capabilities if there are some juicy rocks nearby
Your videos are great. 😂🤣🤣
Watching this one in preperation for trying the EGS giveaway. Maybe.
Would like to see your take on Angels Fall First someday.
im totally new, how many limpets of each type should i bring? also how do i set them up on hotkey
A beginners guide should focus on beginner ships.
I didn't even know that there are tiers to the slots, thanks for that, my cargo capacity went from 50 to 96
You made my day. I love your videos, you made me laugh pretty hard lol. And great info, thanks!
commit the fishers to memory, huh? what how. do the limpits take up cargo space or is there a slot on the ship?
11:20 that's why i love deep core mining
Literally was just wanting this video lol thanks
I didn't mine since EDO release. Is it still decent to make some CR? Just basic laser painite mining in EDO or EDH. I know doing inara trade routes is just OP (reliable) but it is just not for me lol... I'll rather mine for an hour or two.
Until next week, when they break everything.
The mining changes look decent to me. At least they didn't obliterate the prices with the nerf hammer
@@jake413 I'm talking about all the things that are going to get broken and/or unplayable due to bugs and domino effects they didn't anticipate, like every time they do this.
@@jake413 theyre doing a massive nerf to painite and low temperature diamonds but they're buffing the other core mining materials by an undisclosed amount. This is a massive nerf because currently you can't core mine due to the fact that the pulse wave scanner hasn't worked since August and fdev has no plans to fix it.
Essentially laser mining is taking a 60% nerf in profits and there is no compensation in any other areas
@@user-jm8sy5ox2j they're working on fixing the pulse wave analyser
@@user-jm8sy5ox2j looks like they decrease painite to 600k/t so really more like 25-33% decrease
sheesh Yamiks , you make me think i need astroglide to do mining.
The choice of words in this video. Heheh.
Great as usual.
the hard points on the website shows no weapons? are they just optional?
This was not the video for beginner... or is the beginner classified in this game if you have only played it for 3000 hours or so?
Am I in that video? I feel like I recognize the formation and paint jobs on those Imperial Cutters, and that T-9 is mine. :P
What does the extraction site do?
6:00 i tried to do this thingy but no way to move anything in it , why there no any tip or whatever how to play with keyboard+mouse?
Damn near everything in the game is not assigned to a hotkey yet. You probably have to assign hotkeys for it.
if you look to sell your hold and found the system to go to, you can open the map to look for the station where you need to go and target it so you know where to go to when you enter the system
how does the GD refinery work? I head to a platinum hotspot - shoot out a prospect - ship tells me it failed, but still does the glowy thing and then litttle targets everywhere that I blast off with abrason guns and next thing you know the whole area is just full of little chunks that i have manually targeta and shoot a collector?
Ooooof two hours today and not one single platinum in a double layered hot spot. look at my refinery and it states its full but nothing is 100% so I 'vent' them whihch means i basically threw it all away yeah?
dont manually target, the limpet stays for a certain amount of time and collects on its own
Thank god youtube made it to where you could title different segments cause this video overcomplicates a basic walkthrough. I do appreciate the high quality, but gosh dang I just want a quick and easy answer.
how would then this be ULTIMATE?
@@TheYamiks yeah I should have watched the whole thing I still dont know wtf Im doing lmaoooo
All you do is mine, sell it, and that's it...cant use it to craft, no point of controlling regions for ressources...very shallow game. Mining got to matter, or else its an empty activity. But ed has the best mining system in all space games.
At 5:22, you said that limpets are odd sized number so I should skip somethin? WTF does that even mean? I need major help with fire group assignment, etc etc.
limpet controler modules come in odd number module sizes... so size compartments 1-3-5-7 ... so yeah yu can install a size 3 in a compartment size4.
"Shoot your probe up Uranus rings" I'm fkn dead lmao! 🤣🤣🤣
Where can I buy ammo for the limpet collectors? I go to stations but none seem to have them.
Not sure if you've figured it out yet, but you have to look under "advanced maintenance" section to stock your limpets
It's perfectly safe to mine without shields (barring mishaps), but getting the cargo to a profitable place to sell it out might be trickier (if one of those aforementioned mishaps happens during an interdiction).
Just play solo... there has to be something seriously wrong, like getting a stroke during an interdiction to loose to an NPC. Even in a space cow.
@@whydoihavetodothisannoying I thought that too, until a hatchbreaker limpet spilled out 40 or so LCDs into space while I surrender-boosted. Sure, I got complacent, and shields might not have helped, but the point is, mistakes happen, and when they do, shields buy the time needed to fix them, as often as not.
@@joekilker6373 Wasn't talking about submitting, NPC attackers are so bad it's been more years than I can remember since I legit got successfully pulled by one.
Last week I parked my fully laden T9 close to a star and wen't to take a leak, could hear the interdiction start when I was walking back. Even with having to throttle up out of submission they still didn't stand a chance.
Laser mining is getting nerfed by a huge percentage next week and the "buffs" to compensate for it are unusable due to the pulse wave scanner still being busted beyond use. It really looks like fdev is going to be pushing out the shitty patch that we all expected
"pulse wave scanner still being busted beyond use" What? It's working fine for me.
The Wiccan broom is parked somewhere near witch head and isn’t moving till space legs so yh just drifting till then
My only question is in advance maintenance how much restocking of limpets control do I need.
What was symbol the Cmdr was “lasor mining” into the asteroid at 7:12? It feels so...familiar somehow.
Can't quite put my mind on it, it seems familiar but yet abstract...
I use a beluga for mining... BTW there's no such thing a triple painite hot spot ryte?
Space is big so who knows.
What about edtools.cc ?
Is it possible to mine with the starter ship?
its weak
@@stroky4868 ok thanks
I prefer more collector limpet than cargo, on the cutter, minimum of 4 5A, else you are really waiting after each rock (laser mining)
2 years ago i mined myself to 1Billion Credits... after that i bought my Dreamship and didnt knew what to do with it lol
I need a basic beginner guide, not an ultimate beginner guide
A good start ship for mining ?
Mentioned this in another comment, but an absolute beginner should save for an adder, as it is the cheapest ship with a medium hardpoint. This means you can equip a seismic charge launcher and mine deep core asteroids. Use all the modules mentioned in the video, but lower class/rating if you don't have many credits.
how do i send a probe out of my Detailed surface scanner? It just "scans" i dont understand.
First, make sure you have one installed and set it to a fire group by itself. While in supercruise, go to that fire group and go into analysis mode. If it shows as red, you are either too far away or moving too fast (it will tell you which). Once you are in range and going slow enough, fire it and you will enter a special interface where you can fire probes. For the purposes of mining rings, you want to aim so that it says “ring” below your pointer and then use the same button to fire. The scanner will only hold 3 probes, but your ship will automatically fabricate more of them out of nothing so you have unlimited shots. Scanning rings usually only takes one probe anyway.
Also, make sure that you aren’t confusing it with the discovery scanner, which shows up as “D-Scanner” when selected.
Where do I find these things (no third party tools) as my station doesn't sell them?
I need to buy a prospector limpit and DSS
Although the guys talking about odd numbers and ascending hierarchy? I don't know what any of that means.
I just want to mine man.
Anaconda isn’t good for mining compared to Pythons and Cutters ?
How do I get the collector limpet back into my ship
Once you deploy limpets, you cant get it back. But often you can bring a fraction(I go like a third) of your cargo hold with limpets and be fine for your entire mining trip
Little confused here, do the different types of mining (laser, deep core, etc) provide different amounts of value/credits? Or are they used to acquire specific ores? I left ED before this stuff was implemented. Am I missing something If i reinstall the game and just laser mine?
there are some new commodities... but mostly the pay wise depcore or laser mining tends to be on top... thou come soon some changes deep-core should be once more on top
Thenk you. Helped me a lot.
Seismic changes. ....I'm at a loss for words
Instant 👍
Good video thanks, I can't open the build's link by the way.
It's kind of crazy how my almost 2 day trip out of the bubble and back selling discovery and universal cartographic data has been completely invalidated by 2 hours of mining.
bruh im so confused why my missile bouncing off the rock? is it not lined up ?
He guys. I asked that question in other videos but I didn't get an answer yet. Maybe you can help me here. I'm a beginner and I just can't find prospecting limpets for example. I heard in another video that you can't find every item in every Station. But how can I find out where to buy that stuff? I found a database website where you can search for it but it shows thousands of places where I've never been before... Can you help me out here?
I recommend looking up EDDB.io there are tools to help you find what you need and more
@@TheYamiks hi. Thanks for your reply. That's the database I mentioned. But when I type in my Starsystem and prospecting limpets then it gives me so many places I've never heard before... Maybe I'm using it wrong :/
Good points but gets a bit annoying at parts but over all good info
Can I translate and reprint this video to China video website？
Very informative..
But you didn't tell us where we can get that awesome Jack-o-lantern dash accessory.
🤔
I was unable to find a detailed surface scanner for some reason
I am mining everything common in the rich metal haz rez as it makes filling my type 10 easy with gold and a few others high value common items till I am outta limpits.
Less jokes, more understandable. for all guiding videos.
they already fixed pulse wave?
I quit playing due to mining, I can't figure out the only way of making money in the game, I actually think I shouldn't even play games, I have no skill or talent...
Just takes time, practice, & not caring about re starting after some asshole blows your shit to space dust. Keep at it Aria & there are plenty of people willing to help you..
What’s most profitable?
So what you said about avoiding NPCs, at the end. Does flying away also work if you have rocks on-board or only if you are empty? If I even have just one commodity I'm attacked immediately. Sure I blow them to shit and take their stuff, but still.
Only if your cargo is empty, though sometimes if you drop cargo fast enough the NPCs will be distracted and take that as payment
Refinery contents don't count
Good video but I was hoping it was a beginners guide to mining. The ships you talk about are very big but cost millions to get. A beginner guide I was hoping you would talk about the sidewinder your first ship eg beginner or how about the next ship up from that like the cobra mk 3 or similar. Its a goid video but if I was already in a large top tier ship. I woukd most likely be making all kinds of credits. Good video but not alot of help for beginners.
You can apply the same principles for smaller ones. in fact i did not talk too much about ships in the first place as I expect everyone to tailor their own builds KNOWING this info
I watched this video and still dont know what I'm actually supposed to do. I just want a simple video that someone can speak clear and concise english and doesn't drag on, with a step by step guide of them actually minning. This is titled "Beginners guide" and starts off by saying the ship to use is the Cutter, Type 9, and python?........."BEGINNERS GUIDE"
earning early money is hard, just as in real life making money is easier with money
I recommend first hunting bounties/exploration, then trading from hauler to type 9 until you can afford to mine
type in elite dangerous trade loop and go on the eddb page to find a good trade route
You learn ED by playing. You will improve but you can't quit. It takes time.
@@jakejones8225 That's not really the point.
If someone is watching a "begginer's guide" of anything, they're probably expecting the video to be aimed at beginners. You know; someone just starting out.
So, how would such a player even know what these ships are? Or where to find them? Or, even if they do know, as a beginner they probably don't even have the funds for them, which kind of questions why these ships are the first thing mentioned in the video? Just throws the beginner off with "wth am I watching right now?"
Maybe start with the beginner ship that people get. Can it be used for mining? How do you have to prepare it for mining? Or do you simply need to buy a new ship before even being able to mine? etc. Some late-game expensive ship is no help for a beginner, nor is pretty much most of the stuff that was included in the video, when a beginner has no idea what he's talking about.
Im an uber newb. Idk what u are saying 80% of the time.
Still unsure how to get the bits of resources that come off the rocks after i lazer them.
I found this video to be far to vague it seems this video is missing actual details and forgets to explain what keys to hit instead of when you get close "just get it or you know just do it" i'll never understand how anyone is supposed to understand such vaugue explanations as just do it instead of explaining to hit key to scan this then when you get close hit this key.I had to find a video from a player that had the same issues and took thew time to explain in detail and i learned so much I would not of understood otherwise and would have just quit playing. I'm glad i stuck thru it i find the game fun and now i'm more experienced i understand this video better talking with So many new players on verge of quitting like i was because of this lack of understanding the game going thu tons of videos where they tell new players to just do certain things with out explaining what keys to push to actually get things done i'm glad i found a single video where the player i talked about was in the same boat and another player explained everything to him and he made a detailed video for all the confused new players sick of hearing vague descriptions of what to do. Here is the link! huge help! enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/enZawlskFeQ/v-deo.html After watching that video then come back to this video and you will be able to understand this video so much better! Enjoy and good luck!