Deep core mining - am I doing something wrong?
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Ive messed around casually with it ill share what little I know till you get better responses.
You want to use your detailed surface scanner and shoot a probe into the rings, itll reveal the hot spots by type (itll specifically say like void opals, low temp diamonds etc). When I get in a hot spot I probe all the asteroids that glow bright yellow and usually give discoloration at a distance, dark splotches that almost look like graphical glitches when your sending out the pulses sometimes theyll have bright red / green graphics around the edges. Sometimes I get lucky and its what im looking for. People say all the deep core roids look the same, like pop corn.
This is what little I know, it made me 1.5 billion in 12 hours over three nights a few months ago.
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There is only one type of model for core rocks. Even then it's not necessarily core. It has to be bright yellow with whatever artifacts your graphics settings causes you to see and the right model, then it's a core.
Looks like broccoli or popcorn in shape, but really bright yellow, almost green hue. It will stand out. Ignore the small bumpy ones that look like pinapples and the long cockroach looking ones. They will glow bright but there's nothing in them.
True to form FDev put it all into one rock shape/color. In metal rings the shape will be slightly different, more like a skull or upside down pear.
Use night vision, and when up close to the rock you'll see the fissures even without a prospector limpet or a pulse wave scanner. In fact you can core mine without either, it's just a bit like finding a needle in a haystack.
True to form FDev put it all into one rock shape/color. In metal rings the shape will be slightly different, more like a skull or upside down pear.
Use night vision, and when up close to the rock you'll see the fissures even without a prospector limpet or a pulse wave scanner. In fact you can core mine without either, it's just a bit like finding a needle in a haystack.
Here's a post I made on another forum a while back, might help, skip to no. 3
:I average 100 mil an hour with my Imperial Cutter, but I've gotten a lot of practice and am very efficient with opal mining, let me share you some tips.
1. I recommend starting in Solo mode.
2. Because your having problems with pirates, I recommend out fitting a fast ship that can out run them if you encounter them, for example an Orca. You can still get 64 tons of cargo space.
3. It doesn't matter where it is, but you need to find an ice ring close to your current location that is a pristine ice ring (Use eddb or inara). Whats more important is to find a ice ring that is in darkness, and not lit up with sun light. This is important, because a dark ring will make life a lot easier when trying to spot glowing cores (My ideal location is in system V886) .
4. Once you have found the ideal ice ring, and a void opal hot spot, drop out of super cruise near the edge of the hot spot, (you want to be heading to the center in a straight line as you harvest opals).
5. Turn on the night vision for your ship.
6. This will be a bit difficult to explain, do not go into the ice ring directly but position your ship in a way so that your ship cockpit is horizontal to the plane of asteroids in the ring (where you can see the rocks in the upper top of your cockpit).
7. Put all power to engines, and while holding down your pulse wave scanner, go full speed in a straight line towards hotspot centre waypoint while looking up for core rocks. Move your hud and look left to right (don't forget to keep boosting when you can).
8. Now this is important. To find the core rocks we only need understand two things. Small and bright. We will ignore any glowing rock that is not small and glowing. 99% of the time the smallest rock is the core rock.
9. Once you have found a small glowing core rock, go to it and launch a prospector. As you see the prospector moving towards the rock, make sure to select it to see what the actual core is once the prospector hits the rock. If the core is not an Opal go back to step number 6 and keep looking.
10. Once you have found a Opal Core, you will need to become efficient at busting it open, and this can only be done with practice. You should try to only ever use 2-4 charges at most when breaking these rocks open.
11. Before we start its important that you know how to move around the rock and maneuver your ship for efficient fast placement of charges. In terms of movement, we will mainly use the ships downward directional thrusters. Its hard to explain but I mean your ship will be moving around the asteroid rock vertically downwards with your directional thruster as you circle around the rock looking for fissures.
12. Go to your targeting panel/contacts. We always want to put chargers into asteroid fissures with low strength first. Select a asteroid fissure with low strength, maneuver your ship using the directional thrusters until your in front of the fissure. For the first low strength fissure, hold the charge till max and release. Select your second low strength fissure and hold the charge until at least two bars are highlighted before release. Sometimes two low strengh fissures will be good enough to get optimum yeld, if not you now need to select a high strength fissure and put a low yield charge into it (usually hold the charge until first bar is filled up).
13. Detonate the optimum yield and collect the goods.
Hope this helps.
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No. Just make sure your prospector is targeted (selected) so you can see its results in your HUD.
A Prospector Controller which can handle 2 limpets at the same time will help you scout for core roids faster.
A short vid that helped me a lot:
Source: https://youtu.be/pWB3iSwB0eU
Those black lines/facets are a sure indicator of asteroids with a core. With some practice you'll be able to identify them with 95-100% certainty. Previously it seemed I can never bring enough limpets, now I throw them out soon into the mining.
My "style" is gliding over the ring FA-off and just turning left and right firing the wave scanner untill I see an asteroids with deep black lines. They I engage FA and go closer to see if the black facets appear.
Asteroids that have a high content are hardest to see if they hold a core as they also have deep black lines but when you get closer you won't see the distinct black facets.
Hope this helps!
Those black lines/facets are a sure indicator of asteroids with a core. With some practice you'll be able to identify them with 95-100% certainty. Previously it seemed I can never bring enough limpets, now I throw them out soon into the mining.
My "style" is gliding over the ring FA-off and just turning left and right firing the wave scanner untill I see an asteroids with deep black lines. They I engage FA and go closer to see if the black facets appear.
Asteroids that have a high content are hardest to see if they hold a core as they also have deep black lines but when you get closer you won't see the distinct black facets.
Hope this helps!
yer doing everything wrong
big yellow asteroid = no
small yellow asteroid = 99% no
medium sized bright yellow asteroid that looks like a space popcorn = yess
PS: if its money you're looking for, mine painite in any overlapping hotspot. 150million cr/h minimum. conditions not applied
big yellow asteroid = no
small yellow asteroid = 99% no
medium sized bright yellow asteroid that looks like a space popcorn = yess
PS: if its money you're looking for, mine painite in any overlapping hotspot. 150million cr/h minimum. conditions not applied
When u get close to the core 'roids and have nite vision on, the fissures look like spider webs. They are very distinct so you don't really need the prospector limpits other than to identify what type of mineral is in that 'roid (sometimes it's bromellite, so you may want to pass on those 'cos bromellite's only worth 8,500cr per ton, tho if you have the room.....)
Bear in mind, limpets fly at 200m/s only. So if you launch them at going 200+, you will crush your limpets in flight. Done that way too many times.
True, you can see the fissures without a prospector but you won't see the content of the core (as you wrote) and also you won't see the strength of the fissures. And, naturally, after prospecting you can target the fissures and see where they are instead of flying around and searching for them, leaving you plenty of time to optimize the charge. IMO a small prospector is well worth the loss of cargo space.
Good point!
I tried the new mining to see what it was all about and to say I could do it and promptly went back to massacre missions.
Update if anybody cares: I tried it again today and made $25 million on diamonds and opals in a few hours. Haven't had any luck with the surface scanner revealing hot spots but I went to the pristine ring and focused on the brightest yellow asteroids and managed to have a little luck. Haven't exactly mastered the subsurface explosion thing either.
It's the exact opposite of massacre missions - a low stress way to make money. A nice alternative.
It's the exact opposite of massacre missions - a low stress way to make money. A nice alternative.
if you throttle up (not forward) while going +200ms the limpit doesnt die
GoryDamnPixie,
Thanks for posting, your step-by-step explanation was clear to even a dolt like myself- mostly;
Thanks for posting, your step-by-step explanation was clear to even a dolt like myself- mostly;
- why don't I want to put charges in ONLY low strength fissures ? Are there only two low strength fissures to an astroid ?
- the timer starts the moment the first charge is placed corrrect ? Upon which you have X amount of time to place the rating 1-3 charges ? What happens if the timer runs out before you're done ? I anticipate being slow and clumsy on my first attempt(s)
- once the asteroid detonates, is there yet another step, with an abrasion blaster to free the minerals ?