Horizons Painite PAIN

[amcb10]

Hi fellow CMDRs

I thought I would try my hand at mining but am having serious trouble fining Painite. I have so far visited 4 systems that have Pristine reserves and Metallic so I think I am in the right place but no Painite.

Am I doing something wron, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Siobhan]

Hi fellow CMDRs

I thought I would try my hand at mining but am having serious trouble fining Painite. I have so far visited 4 systems that have Pristine reserves and Metallic so I think I am in the right place but no Painite.

Am I doing something wron, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

It's rare, that's all.
Do a search here or in Google and there's plenty of information about where to find it.
You appear to be looking in the right places though...

 

[d8veh]

Delkar 7 is where I get mine. You have to be a little patient. It works out at about 10T of painite in 500T of mining, which is perfect for unlocking Selene's two requirements at once.

 

[amcb10]

Delkar 7 is where I get mine. You have to be a little patient. It works out at about 10T of painite in 500T of mining, which is perfect for unlocking Selene's two requirements at once.

Am I correct in assuming the inner most ring has the best roids?

 

[Chrystoph]

So, counter question, are you taking a prospector with you?

 

[d8veh]

Am I correct in assuming the inner most ring has the best roids?

I'm not sure which rings have Painite. You can use the system map info to tell you.

 

[Lightspeed]

Well here's my experience so far in hunting for Painite for Celene Dion:

Pick up Cobra IV and fly to Kuk area.
Realize I haven't a clue where to find Painite, log out to look at forum for suggested locations.
Find suitable location, well away from any RES site (in fact no RES site at these rings at all)
Start looking for Painite with prospectors.
Mine a ton of Silver by mistake.
"Scan Detected" followed by "What are you carrying?""
"Hand over 1 ton of cargo in 15 seconds or I open fire."
Switch to beam lasers, power overload because I did not switch off mining laser, cargo hatch etc.
Shields down.
Attempt to hide behind asteroid, "Taking Damage."
Rebuy Screen.
Launch and travel to mining site again .... test an asteroid with mining laser, discover have not reloaded ship with limpets ........

 

[Jaylem]

make sure you are mining the right type of rings. I think only metallic rings ring a bell (haven't touched a mining laser since Selene Jean almost 9 months ago). pristine or not you can still find it. one has a higher yield though.

I did also notice a pattern too, it seems painite appears most in small asteroids (the smaller the better) or fast rotating larger ones with irregular shapes. just a theory anyway, I could of just been lucky.


keep in mind, the fast rotating asteroids can spin and wipe out misplaced collector drones. best to mine to the side of the spinning axis to save limpets.

 

[Teh Smoo]

Well here's my experience so far in hunting for Painite for Celene Dion:

Pick up Cobra IV and fly to Kuk area.
Realize I haven't a clue where to find Painite, log out to look at forum for suggested locations.
Find suitable location, well away from any RES site (in fact no RES site at these rings at all)
Start looking for Painite with prospectors.
Mine a ton of Silver by mistake.
"Scan Detected" followed by "What are you carrying?""
"Hand over 1 ton of cargo in 15 seconds or I open fire."
Switch to beam lasers, power overload because I did not switch off mining laser, cargo hatch etc.
Shields down.
Attempt to hide behind asteroid, "Taking Damage."
Rebuy Screen.
Launch and travel to mining site again .... test an asteroid with mining laser, discover have not reloaded ship with limpets ........

ALWAYS wait for scan before you start mining. NPCs are predictable that way, and you can drop in on uninhabited belt locations to get left alone, except for that nearly guaranteed initial scan.

The smallest ship that I'd mine in is a Python. Can mount 2 lasers, and 3 large guns to kill NPCs. OC your powerplant if you need to run everything, set your power priority properly if not. The Cobra4 is almost acceptable, though, with the OP amount of utility slots.

Smaller ships... the cargo is just not there, the refinery is limited, and the collection is slow with dinky limpets. Small ship mining needs a SERIOUS bone thrown to it.

Larger ships are mostly fine, but collection limpets are annoying. They're better than scooping, but then again, uninstalling the game is better than scooping 500T worth of fragments.

 

[J3DI]

I always use this handy tool: http://edtools.ddns.net/

Also, if your ship can't fight off a pirate. Just drop 1 ton of anything and they go away.

 

[Jaylem]

ALWAYS wait for scan before you start mining. NPCs are predictable that way, and you can drop in on uninhabited belt locations to get left alone, except for that nearly guaranteed initial scan.

The smallest ship that I'd mine in is a Python. Can mount 2 lasers, and 3 large guns to kill NPCs. OC your powerplant if you need to run everything, set your power priority properly if not. The Cobra4 is almost acceptable, though, with the OP amount of utility slots.

Smaller ships... the cargo is just not there, the refinery is limited, and the collection is slow with dinky limpets. Small ship mining needs a SERIOUS bone thrown to it.

Larger ships are mostly fine, but collection limpets are annoying. They're better than scooping, but then again, uninstalling the game is better than scooping 500T worth of fragments.

I fixed that problem altogether by flying away from Initial 'Spawn'. about 7-10km away and no NPC's spawn at all...you can then mine in peace

 

[Cpt Shadow Wolfe]

I use a Cutter to mine with, ain't no NPC gonna bother that ship, I check the area upon entering the asteroid field, if I see a ship, I scan it, if its wanted, I blow it to pieces before it can even get close or think about scanning me, if its a miner or security ship, I leave them alone, because if they're there, nothing else will be coming in. Rule of thumb for painite, best chance is in pristine metallic rings, go to the thickest part of the rings and drop in. If you don't find any in 5 to 10 prospector drones, reset the instance and try again, usually find it in batches, when I find one rock, can usually find others close by, then go for a long dry spell before I find any more. But in the Cutter, can usually get around 100 tons of it before I run outta limpets and have to restock. Of course, I'm filling up the cargo hold with Platinum and Palladium while I am looking for the Painite though.

 

[Meaney]

Found some at Liu Bajara, only Major reservers but 18t Painite from 500t mining. 500t took about 6 hours with a Python, but i took all i can because i wanted 500t and don't care how much credits. Take the inner ring, the outer is not Metallic.

 

[YinYin]

I have so far visited 4 systems that have Pristine reserves and Metallic so I think I am in the right place but no Painite.

Make absolutely sure that you are not in a metal rich location. The asteroids look the same, but the content is different.

You can check whether the ores you do find match: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Mining#Values
(or just double check with the system map that you are in the right ring - it's not always the inner one)

Am I doing something wron, any help would be appreciated.

Outside of extraction sites, useful Painite asteroids are about one in thirty. This is what it looks like, locating one of those within 5 minutes:
[video=youtube;8anGfouBIRY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8anGfouBIRY[/video]


Within 20 km of an extraction site, high value asteroids (including Painite) are much more frequent - and you can even return to them (they replenish 2 hours after depletion).

 

[rrobes]

If you kill the first NPC's that turn up to harass you (if you are away from the RES), I find that after, they will leave you alone

I've had luck at Frey for Painite.

 

[d8veh]

If you kill the first NPC's that turn up to harass you (if you are away from the RES), I find that after, they will leave you alone

I've had luck at Frey for Painite.

That's often not easy in a mining ship. Instead, it's safer to avoid them altogether. When you drop-out of supercruise, put 4 pips to engines and keep boosting. You need about 20 boosts altogether, during which time you normally see the pirates appear on your radar but they disappear in the distance behind you. Once they've gone, they won't bother you again. They're programmed to appear at your drop-out location soon after you drop out.

 

[amcb10]

Make absolutely sure that you are not in a metal rich location. The asteroids look the same, but the content is different.

You can check whether the ores you do find match: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Mining#Values
(or just double check with the system map that you are in the right ring - it's not always the inner one)




Outside of extraction sites, useful Painite asteroids are about one in thirty. This is what it looks like, locating one of those within 5 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8anGfouBIRY


Within 20 km of an extraction site, high value asteroids (including Painite) are much more frequent - and you can even return to them (they replenish 2 hours after depletion).

I see you didnt use prospectors, do you just fly around until a fragment of what you need comes off?

 

[YinYin]

I see you didnt use prospectors, do you just fly around until a fragment of what you need comes off?

Yes, otherwise I'd run out of limpets long before I found anything.

If you have a hundred limpets to spare, you can use prospectors for searching.

The second reason is that prospectors fly much slower than my ship.

 

[-=VampyrE=-]

Find a System (prestine Resouces is the best)
Click through Ringed planets.
Find "Metallic" ring!
Mine!

In Metalic rings, the probability to find painite is very high!

 

[Shackram]

Any Pristine Metallic ring will have it, but it is obiusly rare. Make sure you have an A class prospector to make the most out of the 'roids you find.