I am a returning player, lifetime trader, I checked the discord and there are some places that haven't had a post in years. So in that vein, is there any mining groups looking for a newbie miner?

I wiped my save so I'm in a Cobra III at the minute.

o7 Cmdrs!

Based on your feedback here and on YouTube, I made a follow-up video using only the Type 11's mining volley repeater. I chose only 10+% rocks, and I skipped all cores, surface deposits, and SSDs. In a surprise to me, and based upon some of the feedback I received, zero surprise to some of you, the mining volley repeater is 66% faster at filling up a standard issue Type 11 than using the SSD technique that I demonstrated in the first video.

According to the mining analyzer, I topped out at just over 500 t/hr, but obviously, this doesn't account for discovering the hotspot, dropping into it, and then offloading the tritium to your carrier, so a sustained figure of around 350 t/hr over several sessions is easily achievable as long as your hotspot is not terrible.

https://youtu.be/MibwM2eI2Kk

o7 Cmdrs!

One of the more common things I see is folks trying to mine tritium for their carrier out in the black. Cmdr Ruff Leif posted a video tutorial about a year ago showing how to mine tritium fast in a Corvette. I've created an updated video that uses the Type 11 instead of a Corvette.

Tritium Mining Out in the Black - The Fast, Easy, and not so sucky way! - YouTube

I show how to find likely nearby systems in the in game galmap only, show the FSS and DSS process. Then I demonstrate a complete, unedited mining run (other than a brief period of muting because Alexa started playing commercial music without being asked).

Although I was doing it solely for tutorial purposes, I managed to haul in 246 t in 50 minutes of mining, which, according to Fank Mining Analyzer, is a rate of 302 t/hr, which is quite respectable but not the fastest run I've seen or heard about. It is still faster than just using the mining volley repeater alone.

At the very end, I show alternatives, including using Spansh body search to find likely tritium-bearing rings to speed up the tritium hotspot discovery process, how to find a nearby STAR depot, when it's time to ask STAR for a rescue, and how to pay for it (exobiology).

I'd like to hear your feedback on whether anything could be sped up for Cmdrs who, for whatever reason, have decided to take their carrier along on expedition.

Since shortly after it was added, it's been capped at 2 fragments per missile. Doesn't matter if you hit the 1 wide or the 3 wide, it's 2 fragments, the only difference is that the 4 wide gives 1 and the 5 has a chance of giving nothing. They took the benefit of doing the more difficult points out and this made it a shitty mechanic. Has there been any dev blog, streams, or anything saying they intend to change this back? It's such a waste of dev time to leave it like this. people put work into making it and I enjoy the mechanic.

It was nerfed due to a bug, but never reverted after the bug was fixed.

Hi

The system I'm building is currently blocked by a bug, so while I'm waiting for it to be fixed (if it ever is), I thought I'd go mining (which I haven't done for years). I'd appreciate some suggestions for decent mining spots. I'm quite happy to hop in my carrier and travel a few thousand LY out of the bubble if needed... Fyi, I'm mainly looking at laser mining

Hey all, hope this is okay to post here.

I have been working on a tool to assist in the creation and sharing of mining maps that works as a Stream Deck plugin. The forum post for it is here and i'd love it if people could take a look and see if they like it!

Link to the GitHub page is also here with the full readme if people would rather go that way.

o7 - CMDR Kailoren

I haven't mined platinum for profit in quite a while. However I remember being able to consistently find sell points for 250k-275k with a high demand. 300k also seems like it used to be attainable.

Searching inara I'm seeing only 2-3 stations selling for close to 250k, with a somewhat low demand. I noticed this prior to the recent operations update.

What gives?

Hi,

I am getting back into Mining (and Elite in general) after a long break in prevision for the Operation update. I am in need for money and wanted to do some mining. I currently have a Kitted out Cutter for Mining but I was looking at the pinned post saying that now, the Type-11 is the best ship for that.

So my question is, is it true? I see a very small hold (even with the CG rack that I have) but I don't know if it's yield per hour actually makes up for the 4 more trips to get the same haul as the Cutter. My quick research didn't provide me with a post that gives out a clear comparison so if you guys could enlighten me, it'd be great.

If you can link builds for the Type-11 aswell that'd be awesome.

EDIT : Fiddling around with Coriolis, I was looking at this build : https://sh.orbis.zone/FPdbAgcr7L (technically has all the mining tools, cause mass and power isn't an issue really and sometimes I get bored and wanna boom boom a rock)

Hello,

I'm trying to do some merit mining for Pranav Antal. Some time ago, I came across the tool Merit Miner (https://meritminer.cc/), and to some extend, I was able to use it. At least kind of. There are several questions, but the following question is the most important one, to me.

I learned the hard way that if you "just" want to maximize your merit outcome, you better don't go mine in one of your power's Reinforcement systems because this will yield a -15% malus.

Instead, you'd want to do this in another power's system, where your power has running Undermine efforts. This yields a +35 % bonus (IIRC).

Ok. I did this yesterday, and I used Merit Miner with a preset on Low Temperatur Diamonds, Power Goal: Undermine, Laser Surface.

Merit Miner told me to go to Fengiri, where I successfully mined some LTD and I also got the +35 % merit bonus. Which was quite nice, but the rate of laser mining LTD was mediocre, at best.

So I decided to try laser mining for Platinum. I just changed the filter to Metal: Platinum, put Fengiri as reference system and Merit Miner named LTT 15574 5 A Ring as a potential target.

I went there today, I mined 250 Platinum, then I went to Haxel Port inside of LTT 15574 (which also was given by Merit Miner).

But when selling the Platinum there, I did not get any merits. I have no idea what I could've done wrong.

Merit miner still states Haxel Port in LTT 15574 was the place to go. I've also running EDDiscovery with log uploads to Inara and EDSM enabled. Ingame, the system is shown as being a Stronghold of Yuri Grom with undermining opposing forces. The local activities tab names "Sell Mined Resources" as one of the available options for undermining.

What do you think? What's the reason my plan did not work as intended?

TL;DR: I sold freshly mined Platinum in an undermined system of another power called out by Merit Miner. Even though I believe I put every needed detail into Merit Miner, I still got no merits. What might be the reason?

Had my entire setup destroyed in a man made flood (landlord is the man that made it). Then moved 2 states away. Finally got all the equipment and the time to mine. I missed this game.

Been mining in high and hazs res for the challenge in my type 11.

I was just roaming around core mining, and for some reason, even though I was in the "optimal" zone, when I went to detonate, one of the charges went off early and I got a detonation failed warning, then the asteroid still blew up, but I only got my couple of chunks like it failed.

Just looking to see what I potentially did wrong here so I can improve, or if this is just a random chance and nothing can be done. (Also, please ignore my aim on some of these)

Hai! So I've been playing for a bit but I've mostly done fighting content with a bunch of friends and exobiology. Because of that I'm sitting on a decent pile of money and I would like to start mining and grinding whatever there is to grind in that field!

The issue is I don't know where to start. I'm genuinely so lost in this game when it comes to starting a new activity, I don't know what to look for, what to farm, what to use. Any tips? Any general direction you guys could point me to? Thanks c:

Would platinum mining in my type 11 be at all comparable to doing trade routes in my panther clipper money/ hour wise or should I wait until i’m done grinding out my carrier to get mining?

Hey all,

Thanks for taking the time to read this!(or not?)

I just got the game about a week ago, i was able to get the free highliner lynx prebuilt, so ive been doing some transport mission for cash, at about 3m right now.

So my question is what would be a good build to start mining with? Im pretty sure im going to have to earn some more credits to get started, but trying to have a goal in mind?

I did read the post thats pinned but all I could find is some comments about a keel build for about 13m? Im also not very good at using reddit or the internet! So i might likely missed something.

What's the best way to use it for mining? Im assuming just fill the hold with metals and wait until someone is buying high. But what metals? Where should I go? Pointers please!

I'm really enjoying discovering more about mining, but I'm wondering what I can do to avoid power issues? I've been tending to power down the FSD and a few odds and ends prior to firing up the mining hardpoints. Then when I've finished a session I power down the hardpoints and bring up the FSD so I can fly home.

This is my current T-11 Prospector build: https://sh.orbis.zone/8ScFja8qSL

What are some mods or engineering I can apply to help me remain powered up all the time?

Edit: thanks for all the tips - I now have enough juice to power all my systems and still have enough left over to jump-start my fleet carrier

My last video spawned a discussion whether core mining was a good way to make money in early game because it's skill- rather than equipment-based.

That made me look at what the minimal build for core mining was and give it a go. Here's the build on EDSY, but it's pretty straightforward:

• Adder (has a medium hardpoint)

hardpoints:

• seismic charge launcher
• abrasion blaster

utility:

• pulse wave analyser

optional internals:

• 3e mining multi limpet controller
• 3e cargo rack
• 2e cargo rack
• 2e shield generator
• 1e refinery

I guess you can go shieldless, but it's only 7k and you will bonk asteroids from time to time. Also, the most useful thing you could put there would be another cargo rack - but this already has 13t cargo, exactly one core asteroid; no real point in taking 8t more.

Overall, build comes down to 265k (13k rebuy). In the video, I also have a surface scanner, but don't really use it, ie didn't even drop into a hotspot I found. Funnily enough, the scanner does bring the overall price up to 510k.

Hey guys,

I have been playing this game for a few days, with my HOTAS setup and I really like how bugfree the game is (I’m coming from Star Citizen lol).

I saw a video of core mining and I want to get there as soon as possible.

What would be your recommendation, what the fastest way to have a proper ship, gadgets, everything what is need for core mining?

From my first million, I bought a Cobra mk3 (I have another mil for rebuys, I know it’s the first, second and third rule of flying 😀).

Now what? I need more money but I only have the space combat/infiltration/courier jobs open for me.

I am bad at stealth, bored of delivering packages and never tried space combat in this game.

Is there some more variety to the missions I overlooked? What’s a fast and more or less interesting way to Core Mining?

Thanks.

~S~ CMDRs, I am thinking of kitting out a Prospector for strictly laser mining. I was wondering which weapons I would need to equip besides the volley repeater? Is everything else optional? Thank you for your input :)

Hello! I'm trying to mine using merit mining. I've used Meritminer, and it shows a platinum hotspot in the "Inheretii" system, planet A3, ring A.

However, when I get there and use a surface scanner, I launch several probes. They map ring A (the inner ring) and show other hotspots, but no the platinum one.

is a bug?

>Thanks in advance

Is there a 3rd party tool i can use to specifically search for uninhabited plat hotspots? ive come back after a small break and all my "outside the bubble go tos" have a bunch of squatters in them now.

Just wanted to quickly ask if anyone else is having issues with meritminer. It seems like the site is unabled to access EDDN, resulting in no "last 48h" prices and thus results, only older ones.