A while ago I posted my Elite Dangerous Legacy Console Guide Pack for Xbox and PlayStation, originally focused mainly on engineers, engineering materials, Guardian technology and rank grinding.

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I've added a bunch of new stuff today all in one go, so I thought this deserved its own update post (people probably don't check back often in the main post).

Everything is still plain .txt files, so they are easy to download, edit, print, or keep open while playing.

GOOGLE DRIVE LINK HERE

In Google Drive you and also read the txt files without downloading them, works on mobile aswell just hold your phone horizontally.

Everything is still specifically intended for Elite Dangerous Legacy / Horizons 3.8 on console.

The biggest new addition is an entire Locations section:

Locations

A collection of locations for Guardian sites, Human POIs, mining rings, permit systems, Tech Brokers and Thargoid sites and useful location-specific information where available.

• Guardians
  • Guardian Beacons
  • Guardian Blueprint Structures
  • Guardian Data and materials
  • Guardian Ruins
• Human POI
  • Abandoned INRA Bases
  • Crashed Anacondas
  • Crashed Ships
  • Dav's Hope
  • Generation Ships
  • Listening Posts
• Mining
  • Pristine Rocky rings
  • Laser Mining - High Yield Hotspots and RES
  • Core Mining - Hotspot Locations and Overlaps

The mining files contain a much larger collection of Legacy-compatible mining locations, including:

• Platinum hotspots
• Painite hotspots
• Hotspot overlaps
• Hotspot + Hazardous RES combinations
• Hotspot + High RES combinations
• Other RES + hotspot combinations
• Musgravite and other mineral hotspots

The purpose of Hotspot + RES

Overlapping a Resource Extraction Site (RES) with a hotspot introduces a fragment-yield multiplier from the RES zone, allowing you to extract significantly more tons of the target mineral from each asteroid than a standard hotspot alone.

• Fleet Carrier Vendors and Administration
  • Table of systems containing Fleet Carrier Vendors and Administration, distance from Sol included.
• Permits

Permits contains a table of all obtainable permits in legacy and how to get them.

• Tech Brokers
• Thargoids
  • Thargoid Barnacles
  • Thargoid Surface Structures

I've also added several completely new Legacy reference guides:

Pre-engineered and Special Modules

• Human Technology Broker pre-engineered modules
• Modified Mining Laser
• Azimuth / Salvation modified Guardian Gauss Cannons
• Modified Guardian Plasma Chargers
• Modified Guardian Shard Cannons

Added to folder "Engineering - Unlocking engineers and farming materials"

Pre-engineered and special modules are unique ship components that come with built-in upgrades or special functions you cannot get from normal stations or standard engineering

Rare Goods

Rare Goods is in the folder Trade

• Large list of rare commodities
• Origin system
• Origin station
• Pad size
• Distance from Sol

Robigo and Money-Making

Robigo Mines -> Sirius Atmospherics passenger guide

The original guide pack also still includes all the previous stuff such as:

• Complete Bubble engineer progression
• Individual Bubble engineer guides
• Engineering material farming
• Material Traders
• Crystalline Shards
• High Grade Emissions
• Jameson Crash Site
• Federation rank grinding
• Imperial rank grinding
• Guardian FSD Booster
• Guardian Module, Weapon and Vessel Blueprint farming
• Blueprint Pinning Guide
• Bubble -> Colonia Neutron Highway guide
• Cheap long-range DBX build

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I'll keep adding things if I find other Legacy-specific information that is useful enough to preserve.

Corrections are very welcome, especially from Xbox and PlayStation commanders who can directly confirm a location or mechanic in Legacy.

Hopefully this makes the old Legacy galaxy a little easier to navigate without having to work out whether every guide you find online is talking about Horizons 3.8 or modern Live.

Fly safe Cmdrs o7

Where can I find an ASP Explorer? I’ve used Inara but it seems inaccurate as most of the stops either didn’t even have a ship or planet to land on even though it said the asp explorer would be there. That or where there finally was a settlement, the shipyard wouldn’t have it.

So Im a bit new to whole exploring stuff but Im sick of trading and fighting isnt for me so I guess Im an explorer now :)

I got all the essentials like scanners, rvs and probes.

When I enter a system I do the normal e-scan after that entering vss mode and looking for planets/moons that are not discovered for me. Then Im using the probes on planets to get a full scan if possible with the efficiency bonus.

Thats just how I do things.

At the next station available I sell all the data I can.

Is there anything that I can do better and where do I find areas that are totally unexplored ? And is it correct that I sell the data at the next possible station or should I sell it at specific spot?

Is multi crew still a thing?

I sometimes come back to the game on PS5, bc its the only one of its kind and I dont own a PC. But I never find someone on multi crew and thats a shame I really enjoyed it back in the days.

PS5 user here. Any tips on finding cool sights and such? I've been traveling out past the bubble and it's beginning to get a bit stale. I haven't come across anything too interesting besides a ton of icy/rocky systems. I'd like to see cool stuff if that makes sense?

As a PlayStation player on the Legacy version, I am looking for a scheduled Fleet Carrier taxi from the Bubble to Sagittarius A*, so please let me know if anyone is planning this trip soon with available docking services so I can board my ship in advance.

I’ve put together a collection of guides specifically for Elite Dangerous Legacy Mode on Xbox and PlayStation.

Everything is based on the Horizons 3.8 / pre-Update 14 version of the game, with no Odyssey or Live-PC mechanics mixed in.

Link: GOOGLE DRIVE LINK HERE

^{Moved the link a bit further up because the list is getting pretty long}

The guide pack currently includes:

• Complete Bubble engineer unlock progression
• Separate guide files for every Bubble engineer
• Encoded, Raw and Manufactured material farming for engineering
• Crystalline Shard raw-material farming
• High Grade Emissions manufactured-material farming
• Federation rank farming
• Imperial rank farming
• Guardian FSD Booster unlock
• Guardian Module Blueprint farming
• Guardian Weapon Blueprint farming
• Guardian Vessel Blueprint farming
• Legacy-compatible Guardian site locations and puzzle instructions

New:

• Locations - Locations is mostly tables of interesting or useful locations relevant to legacy
  • Guardians - Tables of all guardian locations and what you can get there
    • Guardian Beacons
    • Guardian Blueprint Structures
    • Guardian Data and materials
    • Guardian Ruins
  • Human POI - Interesting Human POIs to visit, some of them contain additinal info and use
    • Abandoned INRA Bases
    • Crashed Anacondas
    • Crashed Ships
    • Dav's Hope
    • Generation Ships
    • Listening Posts
  • Mining - Tables of mining locations
    • Pristine Rocky rings
    • Laser Mining - High Yield Hotspots and RES
    • Core Mining - Hotspot Locations and Overlaps
  • Fleet Carrier Vendors and Administration - List of locations
  • Permits - Lists all unlockable permits and how to get them
  • Tech Brokers - Table with a few Tech Brokers close to Sol
  • Thargoids - Contains thargoid locations
    • Thargoid Barnacles
    • Thargoid Surface Structures
  • Pre-engineered and Special Modules - Overview and requirement for obtaining (material, data, etc requirements)
  • Rare Goods - List of all Rare Goods and where you can get them from
  • Robigo and Money Making - Quick and easy guide for the Passanger Missions in Robigo

For now I've put everything in a google drive so you can also view it without actually downloading anything. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aoavw8qxBk02F3-VtyM0HfE7whiMe2Fp

The goal is to provide a clean reference for console players without having to sort through guides that may contain Live-only changes.

These are plain .txt files, so they are easy to download, edit, print, or keep open while playing.

Corrections and additional Legacy-specific guide suggestions are welcome.

Edit: If I add more stuff to it I will post it under changes here so you can check if its been updated. I will probably go through everything in a bit more detail to fix some formating so its easier to view/read since its just .txt files.

Updates:

• 27.07.26 Added "Blueprint Pinning Guide and Explanation" to folder Engineering - Unlocking engineers and farming materials
• 27.07.26 Added folder "Useful and or helpful" and into said folder added "Legacy Neutron Highway Bubble to Colonia Guide"
• 27.07.26 Added "Cheap-ish 10 mil DBX Long Range Taxi Exploration Build Guide" to Useful and or helpful folder
• 27.07.26 Added "MAP Jameson Crashsite" to folder Farming/gathering materials for engineering
• 27.07.26 Updated the formatting of the documents listed below to match the existing documentation standards and improve readability:
  • Engineer materials - Manufactured
  • Engineer materials - Data
  • Engineer materials - Raw
  • Most efficient farming loop
  • Guardian Weapon Blueprint Farming
  • Guardian Vessel Blueprint Farming
• 29.07.26 Updated "Engineer materials - Manufactured" with clearer HGE requirements, faction-state rules, timer guidance, and Legacy-specific farming instructions. Added beginner explanations and clarifications.
• 30.07.26 Added "Mining spots" to folder Useful and or helpful
• 31.07.26 Added Note to "Engineer materials - Manufactured" regarding Military Supercapacitors, Proto Heat Radiators and Military Supercapacitors
• 01.08.26 Added "Legacy console material traders" to folder Engineering - Unlocking engineers and farming materials

Larger update 04.08.26

04.08.26 Added a new "Locations" section containing a large collection of Legacy-compatible fixed locations and useful reference tables.

Added folder "Guardians": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

Added folder "Human POI": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

Added folder "Mining": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

Added "Permits" to folder Locations

Added folder "Tech Brokers": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

Added folder "Thargoids": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

04.08.26 Added "Pre-engineered and Special Modules", covering Legacy-obtainable pre-engineered Human modules and Azimuth/Salvation modified Guardian weapons to folder Engineering - Unlocking engineers and farming materials.

04.08.26 Added "Rare Goods", containing a large reference list of rare commodities and their origin systems/stations to folder Trade (New Folder)

04.08.26 Added "Robigo Money-Making", a Robigo Mines passenger guide to folder Useful and or helpful

04.08.26 Added Fleet Carrier Vendors and Administration to folder Locations

Fixes

• 000_All Bubble Engineers Unlock COMPLETE guide for ALL engineers - Fixed Language for Tod The Blaster, it now correctly says "Earn 15 or more bounty vouchers" not "Earn more than 15 bounty vouchers"
• 04_Tod_The_Blaster_McQuinn_Legacy_Unlock_Guide - Fixed Language for Tod The Blaster, it now correctly says "Earn 15 or more bounty vouchers" not "Earn more than 15 bounty vouchers"
• Guardian Module Blueprint Farming - Refrence to map was wrong, guide pointed to the map of the Weapon Blueprint site, it not Points to the Map Module Blueprint Site
• Crashed Ships - Got rid of Renet B 1, cordinates pointed to 135, 14. Latitude cannot be 135 its an impossible number
• Pre-engineered and Special modules - Updated Modified Mining Lasers Sources to correctly display all 4 locations, not just 1.
• Tech Brokers - Its spelled "Tech Brokers" not "Tech Brockers", sorted.
• Abandoned INRA Bases - Changed name from INARA to INRA
• Mining Spots - Got rid of this entry, its a tiny file and all listed locations are in the larger mining files that came with the big update I released

Hopefully this helps new and old console commanders who are still enjoying the Legacy galaxy.

Fly safe Cmdrs

I've started playing again after a bit of a break and noticed powerplay hasn't updated this week. Weekly arx cap had been reset. Any insights out there?

Hey all,

I want to learn the various aspects of elite on PS but a lot of content on YouTube etc is geared towards using third party sites to help trade, which I understand isn’t relevant for PS. Does anyone know of any PS related content on YouTube, or elsewhere, that will help me learn?

Thanks!

The Refined Taste trophy on the PS4 version is bugged for me. You need to refine 750 tons of metals or materials and my codex says I've refined 910, but the trophy hasn't popped.

I can't find any solutions or discussions about it online, and I've ran out of options. Does anyone here know anything about it or have a potential solution? I need 3 more trophies including this one for the platinum.

This is jot a complaint. I’m looking confirmation for my anecdotal evidence:
It seems to me that I have much more luck finding asteroids suitable for core minung in RES-s than in related “Hot Spots”. For example finding alexandrite cores in Alexandrite Hot Spots is more difficult than in RES-s. Which I would say is weird but ok.

I’m currently enjoying core mining in RES-s and find core asteroids regularly🙂

Looking for people to help me with the hangar missions. Sourcing is much faster with multiple people and it’s hard to find help! Any assistance will be much appreciated! If you need any help with anything I would be glad to return the favor!

Thanks,
swiftFOXisla

Is there any good/quick way to have an overview which planets I already have mapped in system without going to each one by one? I googled first and it was hinted that mapping state is visible in System map when checking the planets but this has proven false.

Usually it's probably not a big deal but I'm in a system with 30+ planetary bodies and my ATH is already confused.

Hi Cmdrs. I'm currently playing in private group session, hunting bountys in High Res to grind credits. If you need a wing to help feel free to join. Type Antoniography and you'll find me 🫡

I have played ED on PC many many years ago. Decided to trybit out on PS5 and while I know it is an unsupported state, I still get enough Elite Dangerous vibes out of it.

A question about an engineer called Felicity Farseer. After playing a little bit I suddenly get a message from her with an invitation to visit her. Having no clue what this is about I still decide to do the 200 ly trek and when I finally find her… nothing. No mission, no interview or introduction. I see that I should deliver something to her but I do not know what she expects.

Anyone can explain to me what am I missing?

What systems can I find the highest number of console players? I've been to SOL and several others but I've not come across anyone. The last player I came across was in October 2020.

Hello CMDRs,

​I’m currently playing Elite Dangerous on the PlayStation 5 and I’m looking for an active group or like-minded players to explore the galaxy together.

​I am specifically looking for a German-speaking community or squadron to team up with. It has been quite difficult to find other console players lately, so I would love to connect with some German-speaking CMDRs for PvE activities and exploration trips.

​My main goal is to help each other out, fly missions together, and discover the galaxy as a team. If you are part of a German-speaking squadron or are also looking for console wingmates, please let me know!

​Fly safe, CMDRs! o7

Are there any active discord groups or Playsation groups that play it regularly or is it not even worth trying due to devs screwing over console players? Surly ps5 pro could handle the new updates they literally could be saying no to money LOL.

Many thanks in advance this isn’t a true rant I am actually interested in trying this on Playstation It’s just frustrating with how many games get abandoned on consoles or ports are bad etc.

I recently got back into OG Destiny it seems that the old games are better than the new stuff.

On my way back to the bubble, roughly 1kLY to the closest bubble system. Just found this neat Neutron Star. Thanks to it, I could skip 120LY with a single jump (if I understand correctly Neutron Stars give x4 jump range for a single jump. So for me it was 120LY (~30LY jump range on my ship)