Best Gem Mining Loop for Star Citizen 4.0 | Maximize Your Profits!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In this video, I cover the best gem mining loop for Star Citizen 4.0 to help you maximize your profits. Learn the most efficient routes, tips for successful mining, and how to get the best gems for your efforts.
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UPDATE: To save time when selling, try lowering the crate into the elevator and then opening it to drag the gems directly into local storage. This also means that you can stack the gems in the crate for less moving. Thanks commenters of this video for such wonderful advice!
No more 150 stacks manually!
making deliveries you get 350000 in 1 hour by accepting 7 missions from the same area. it's more boring but more profitable.
@@davidmeyis4369 it might be your timezone that allows you to get reliable missions. For me they're 90% broken. At about 3 AM things get better, but that doesn't help me much. Afaik we all share the same mission services/database/etc. backend globally, so server meshing gets us good real-time action, but all transactions suck when everybody plays. Therefore, I have to do sandbox gameplay and avoid missions if I want to do anything at all these days.
If Missions Work 😂@@davidmeyis4369
@@davidmeyis4369 you mean hauling missions right? Yeah I am doing those now but they are bugging way too often. Losing missions is a big pain, I have many wasted trips with either cargo not being recognized or not receiving the money. Maximum I sucessfully got so far was 4 completed missions together. But feels like the more missions I accept worst things get so I am back down to 2-3 missions per flight.
Because of those issues, I am doing closer to 200k per hour if I truly consider all the wastes and bugs and server hops.
One thing a friend told me. Fill up the Green Charge Bar when mining. Just to the point before it reaches over-charged, then swap to another rock. By the time its filled, it should break itself and you are already working on another rock. Saves a few seconds but damn those seconds add up.
yeah thats what I do too
gotta keep in mind the rate it cools at, but ya, this works. im used to juggleing 3 rocks at a time this way
9:27 You can quickly scoop up all the gems in a split second if you time it correctly. As soon as the Fracture laser turns off automatically switch to (I use right click) Extraction mode and left click to fire the Extraction laser right in the middle of the rock. It also depends on the lag of the server but I've instantly scooped up the gems many times this way.
unloading the gems if you have access to a freight elevator is easier than what you are doing, just put the 2SCU box on the elevator, go to the freight elevator terminal, with the box showing on the left side doubleclick on the box, to access it, then select the stones and clock "move to storage" to empty the content of your box in the local inventory of the landing zone. That's how I do it in those locations where they pay more
Also, some notes:
1) if your mining laser stuck and won’t move - try pressing freelook button(z by default)
2) currently you can’t mine on Aberdeen - you have to wear Pembroke suite, which is removed from the store right now
3) you can rent C1 spirit- which can take 2 ROCs, if you want to mine with friends;
4) if you want safest place to mine without murder-hobos in avengers, try Daymar
5) you can claim roc in hangar and just drive it in a little space on the right from entrance - there is a “parking” spot
Mined on Aberdeen whenever I could get outta the hangar... Got real sweaty, and spontaneously combusted once, but I did min there.
Welp, off to pyrer.
I mine all the time on Aberdeen, you just need to get out of the roc at 41c and back into your ship to cool off, about 20sec. At 42c U will start to take dmg but you have a good 30s+ before you pass out. On big jobs with 7+ "and slow to crack" I can crack them all. Start picking them up before I need to run for the ship to cool off. If on a good server and the instant pickup is working its easy to get it all done in one shot.
If you send your crate down first, you can open it in the Local Inventory and unload it straight from there. Right click in the inventory and choose open.
Could save yourself the trouble of the backpack transfer
This works 80% of the time. The freight elevators are more often broken currently. Once it stabilizes it's probably the best. But yes you need to do this anyway at some sake locations.
@Johnjohnthejohn so, 80% of the time, it works every time?
don't use the elevators for the crates (containers), especially 2SCU and 1SCU ones. you can just drop them next to the inventory terminal, then drag it into your inventory directly. i find this much faster.
@@jaybird210 where has this tidbit of information been all my Star Citizen life...
@@jaybird210 and U never run into the not working lift or the lift eating your box/gems from time to time.
Just a tip, you don't need to pack more than 2 bottles of lux at any time. Drink both and then store the empty bottles in your pack. When empty bottles stack they automatically refill. Infinite Cruz lux.
Straight to the gaht dang point! Thanks! I hate this trend of plugging your channel for 3 minutes prior to getting to the video.
Gorgeous landscapes, Hadanite aplenty. Love Ignis! Great tutorial Starr! You can send the 2 scu container down in the freight elevator, and then open the Inventory ATM (kiosk) and pull gems out easily if you're in a hurry. It also keeps items safe in case of a server error.
Wow nice, welcome back Starr!
I'm glad their is a play loop for this play style and I hope the crafting system makes this a more important part of the game. Every play loop needs to be impotent for everyone.
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this Starr! Knowing how _incredibly_ badly this game is performing right now, and how much you suffered to get this put together, this guide is brilliant thank you!
BTW, there's an ASOP terminal right behind the Freight Elevator booths when you're managing ships & crates. It'll save you from having to run back up to the front of the hangar to call-up your ships ;)
FYI
You only ever need to carry 2 Cruz drinks.
Step 1: Buy 2 Cruz drinks
Step 2: Drink both drinks, then stack the empty bottles in your backpack.
The drinks will still show 0%, but they will actually keep refilling themselves.
Step 3: Drink as needed, and just keep returning the empty bottles in your backpack.
explored this since the first day and the first thing was buying a ROC to harvest there :D great you made a video to spread the info!
This is perfect! Just talked to my cousin about mining in Pyro.
Thanks for this. I haven't been mining in ages but this is a great way for players to make some credits after the wipe.
Pro-tip: for those who don't like waiting for the freight elevator to go up and down, and also risk losing items due to bugs in the elevator mechanics, just use the inventory terminals to retrieve and place back the 1 and 2 SCU containers (I haven't tried this with the 4 SCU and larger).
When taking out, just right click and select "drop" (be sure you are off to the side, or you will get knocked down... no damage, just annoying) and when placing back, just tractor the container to the side of the terminal, access the terminal, then click and drag back into inventory.
This way, you can also take the gems out in one batch once it's in your inventory. And most importantly you save time it takes on the elevators and avoid losing items to any elevator bugs.
Good stuff to know, thanks for the informative video!
Thank you for showing this.
Nicely done!
Great video man. :)
I would suggest, you use the mining laser power as your Guide as to how much power you use. You can be at quite a good range or close, as the power reaches the Green area, just drop the power down and let it power the rock. That way you do not need to be moving around with your ROC or even go into the overpower/red zone. The optimal "range" is so so, the optimal area on the Power is way more important. The "Range" on the other hand, is a good way to control your power with the larger rocks/asteroids in a Prospector.
--- Stacking (The Hadanite)
Does not matter, you just lower the box into the elevator and drag it all over to the location inventory. Then return the box to your ship and either head out to mine again, or if it's the last of the day. Go and sell it all. (Does not matter, but it is a preference thing).
--- Storing (Ship, Gear)
I allways leave everything in my ship. ROC, StorAll it has not failed me yet.
a great video! Love the way you do it!
Star! i have not been able to watch your streams lately. miss you and your better half.. lol keep up the good work...
Another tip for all, if you position your Roc so that the marker is directly where it says "optimal" in the green bar those tougher to break nodes are a little easier to break. Found this out with a bit of experimenting.
Liked for ROC bowling simulator!
Great little guide, been playing for almost 4 years and I learned something from this video!
@starrstreams you can holster any gun/utility item on your character with holding R by default
also you can send the crate down the cargo elevator and then open the inventory on the terminals to open the crates internal storage and just drag the content out at once.
Geeat video will give this a go. Havent ROC mined for about a year
Great video. Thank you
Nice to see you back Roc mining! Your vids first turned me onto it several patches ago. If you store the 2scu container via freight elevator, then pop it back onto elevator, double click the container to open it, then move the gems to warehouse, it might be quicker. Similar to an earlier comment. Cheers! o7
That was interesting.
When you are at your local storage terminal, you can drag 1 and 2 SCU boxes into store, then open them there,.
This avoids an issue I have with boxes sent down in the lift.
@@robertstuart7109 yep good advice. I later discovered that heh
lovely vid. I notice you use the radial wheel to stow your tractor gun. Idk if you know but if you hold R it stows it for you. little keybind to make it quicker =)
I hope they add refineing to gems like the ones you break can be un cut and then you can go to refinrery to get them cut into actual gem shapes to sell for more that would be cool
Go Micheal !!!!
You can open both storages(Roc and Self-storage) if they are next to each other by spamming f. Might need a few attempts. :)
In my experience, gem outcroppings will not show up outside of 4 km, and that is a 3 dimensional distance, so the higher up you are, the closer the formation has to be for it to ping. Love your videos Starr!
Love the vid! Also the music is great - what piece was that with the horns?
do not use the elevator, just transfer 150 gems per time from roc to storage directly, using your backpack
At 2:24 did you know that, there is a terminal right behind the freight elevator terminal, that you can use to call ships.
@@Commander-Mustang I did but it’s a habit thing for me. I’ll snap out of it soon enough.
@@starrstreamsjust completed the video. Nice. Tnx for this.
Welcome back
just send the crate down the freight elevator and open it up from within the inventory kiosk and you can move the entire crate contents into the station inventory in one click
Pyrer eh? OK, I a give it a shot... If I can get outta my hangar! 🤣
hdms.... hah! I didn't realize MS stands for Mining Stations.
At what altitude do you want to fly at when pinging?? I couldn't see it on the screen, damn my old eyes hehe
As close as you feel comfortable flying
If you switch to a Heavy Core or an Environmental Suit you can equip the Pembroke or Novikov Backpacks which have much more capacity then the one shown on the video. You can buy the Pembroke backpack in any Refinery in Stanton
@@aforgottenhero Pembroke is currently unavailable in game
Fun times!
Shoutout to me for showing all this to Starrstreams.
star citizen gameplay copyright you 2025.
You can still split stack on bottles so you only ever need 2 maybe a 3rd extra in case
if i eat or drink anything i get a death bug, to workaround this berry blast from juice bars on space stations around stanton and stanton gateway in pyro is the only drink that provides h20 and nutrients without getting affected by the death bug. hope this helps anyone reading these comments
I think you can sell the crate full, at cargo center terminal, just never tryied
just put the full crate down and try to sell it from terminal and check if the gems will be there
it works with gear, idk if works with gems
also, just a note, mining outposts you can sell at will buy hadanite for 437,000 credits per SCU of hadanite. if you want to sell for the most and don't care about time or risk, that'd be the way to go.
@@TheEveryDayC do you have to sell the gem from your backpack? or can you send the box down the elevator and sell it all at once?
@@Wargueta98 I sell 150 at a time from backpack after the cargo lift stole my full 2scu box.
@@KC8DKT turns out i couldn’t even sell.. :( i had 2 full 2 scu boxes, and a half full roc, and the game crashed causing me to lose it all on my way to sell
How long would it take to fill up the 2scu crate once you reach the planet?
Depends on what you find cluster wise I’d imagine. Also, if you’re solo or not. Lots of variants.
2 hours
great video, and good tips on how to sell. maybe you said why, but why roc mine in Pyro if you go back and sell in stanton where there is also alot of Hadanite? is it that much more gems there than in Stanton that its worth all the extra risk and travel? i mean talking about convenience =) I think I will try mining in Aberdeen if Hurston gives best pay, didnt know about that.
Pyro tends to spawn mostly Hadanite, whereas Stanton moons have more percentage green and blue. Magda and Daymar are still good options.
What about pirates do you have any encounters? , I am normally mine hadanyte on deymar but wonder if in that planet is better and also where do you sell it? its and hdms out post there ?
Nothing encountered yet because most of the contracts currently only work in Stanton, plus there are pvp zones right now to entertain them. It will change. You should always be aware wherever you are.
Wait... Is there still a ship inventory? I used to take a roc on the nomad, but there would not be enough space for a container. (Didn't play since 3.20)
Everything is physical now
there is still ship inventory but you have to use an access point such as a locker or storage space on the ship to use it , no more pressing I when your on your ship to open it
@@HipHopgamer88 thanks for confirming!
I was in Lorville on Hurston and couldn't find this location to buy Gear, containers etc. Where was this?
Are gaming PCs considered a larger purchase in the UK considering the tax levels? Or is it mostly similar to the states?
@@barcidstudios I’m not entirely sure tbh. Maybe someone in the comments can answer that.
What about if you built it from parts?
Good video, but this wasted time. Better mining in Standton Aberdeen (230c) or Arial. Its faster...
Faster sure. Still good options in Stanton but virtually 100% bigger nodes on this moon. It’s a trade off set by personal choice.
@@starrstreams Thanks for the tip. I'll have to look at that month. I found 7-12 stones on Ariel
Jackson swap is heavily bugged atm with memory leaks. Dont go there until they fix that.
why you dont use the cargo elevator?
Thank you for this great short video 👍
Where can I find that chart?
Tried this twice on ignis but everything after the first scannable rock shows, everything else is ghost rocks :(
That’s a server / shard issue which very rarely happens. I’ve seen it once.
Yeeeaa ROC mining
jacksons swap is on monox... lol no i will never go back to monox again until they fix 4.0 bug on monox, where you get trapped there by big input delay of several minutes.
Hey man I need your help. I’m at Canard View with a nomad full of Bexalite but I can’t find a terminal to sell it at. Any ideas, I’m really stuck !?
What are good moons closer to port tressler for mining? I hate doing long jumps especially to pyro
Aberdeen is good or daymar but reason why he showed Ignis is cuz the entire moon is just hadi which is the most cash per scu def worth it then trying to fly around on a hot moon
how is 4.0 working for you?
Right now. It's a bit of a struggle to be honest.
@ I just tried to do a cargo mission cause your video got me hyped the server crashed as I arrived but the server protection kicked in so it was okay
is the rock ds able to crack larger rocks then the normal rock?
Has a slightly more powerful laser but they crack the same rocks
Going back for the next stream?
The juggling from the roc into a backpack, splitting into stacks, then dumping into yet another container, then moving that container to an elevator, and then going to find a console to sell is beyond ridiculous. They need to optimize this profession bad
That’s the whole idea behind physical inventory though
I actually enjoy it more than any other loop.
@HipHopgamer88 ill break it down real simple for folks then....to move a gallon of milk from the trunk of my car, (roc) i do not need to place it in a back pack on my back, slowly turn from my trunk, remove the gallon of milk from my back a moment later, and place it in shopping cart, (1scu box) to then move it to my fridge.
@@BlueSpectre you do in this game
all the HDMS can have the elevator stuck bug and . you can be wasting time
You are positively mad 😀
Thaaat Voice... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Is it even worthwhile last time I done roc mining it was a hassle and took about 2-4 hours to fill a few crates and for it you get like 150-200k but that was a year or 2 ago it wasn’t worth the time but the game was less broken back then
If you’re playing to earn money then Sc with its many wipes maybe isn’t the best game to play?
Why do you sound like Jack Frags? lol.
People tell me this a lot. I’m older than Jack so technically he sounds like me?
how did you even manage to login lol.
With pain. This video took hours and hours and hours to record
I got lost at the point where you brought the gems back to Everus. So when you bring the crate to the lift are you moving the gems to your backpack and then to the local storage?? I saw your update about lowering the crate into the elevator but I am still lost. LOL I have been away from SC since they made this change to mining. I used to be able to mine the gems and store them in my ROC and then got to a mining station and just sell them straight from my ROC. No crate needed.
Once you have send the full crate down to the storage, open the freight elevator kiosk, move the crate you send down to the left pane, double click to open it, then drag the gems from left pane (your crate) to the right pane (local storage).
@@realKrovax Thank You!
"I hope they fix this...... I'm sure they will by the time you're watching this"...................... they still haven't fixed it 😂😂
It's been just fine.
@starrstreams really? Hasn't been good for myself or anyone I play with! Strange..
@ yep I’ve been doing live stream gem mining.
Oh sorry I was talking about the comment you made with the hanger repair 😂 yeah I can imagine the mining is working fine
@ ahhhh gotcha
The game is unplayable nothing works.
@@antonward8352 I’ve been playing for about 5 days and I have the exact opposite experience and am fairly impressed with this buggy product.
Lol... 129k per... 3-4 hours??? Lol no
@@Wendar96 your numbers make zero sense. More like 1m in that timeframe minimal
@@starrstreams First you need game to work. But it doesn't work. Every element of game is broken. The route from video will take at least 3-4 hours, at best
There's no trading console in jackson swap scammer
@@jenkins7381 there really is
yeah sure keep filling the box then the server crash or something happen u lose ALL lmao.. jesus just mine on daymar dont use the box just fill the roc, go back to seraphim, put all on storage, sell or go back for another trip.. to fully fill the roc u will prb spend around 2h anyway, travelling back to seraphim will take 2 min, make no mistake, the way the game is bugged rn, you WILL lose that crate full of gems.
@@ninjawizard7021 the sign of a good game loop is that everyone can do it their own way. If that’s your preference then great. It’s smart to not take risks.
How thafck you still posting while the Game is totally broken and unplayable for the last 4-5 days? At least be honest and share this unfortunate situation with your viewers instead of blindly leading them to think there is a Game and grab more $$$$ from UA-cam.
It think i mentioned the game being quite buggy right now in the video and there being a high chance of losing mineables. I feel your pain, it’s been a bit rough these past few days.
ive been playing it just fine , also i highly doubt anything posted here would lead someone who doesnt own the game to go and purchase the game , this is more of a guide for those already involved in the verse.
@ any advice to new new new players?
If it's more money to sell at one of the mining stations on Hurston and this is a video showing the best mining loop, why are you not showing people how to sell at a mining station? Is there something you aren't telling us?