Newcomer / Intro What does Resources Unallocated mean?

L M P

L M P
I was playing around with mining asteroids in the rings of a gas giant and when some chunks come off there are chunks that say Resources Unallocated and my Collector Limpets won't pick them up.

If I try to capture chunks just by using the Cargo Hatch it will not capture the chunks that say Resources Unallocated.

My question is why do some chunks say Resources Unallocated and what does Resources Unallocated mean?
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
It means there is a chunk in the limpet that doesn't fit in the refinery and therefore the limpet is stuck. You have to free a refinery bin for the new stuff in the limpet.
 

Maenden

Maenden
I think it means there's no free bin to put the fragments in for refining - or you cargo hold is full so the refinery can't store the finished product.

I might be wrong - I usually am. :(
 

L M P

L M P
Chris Simon said:
It means there is a chunk in the limpet that doesn't fit in the refinery and therefore the limpet is stuck. You have to free a refinery bin for the new stuff in the limpet.
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So I would end up needing to eject something in the refinery to make room?
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
More than half the time this message is completely wrong. Just like the "Refinery Full" message, when your refiner clearly isn't full.

Both bugs have been around for at least 2 1/2 years, get used to seeing them.
 

Greybeard_LXI

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L M P said:
So I would end up needing to eject something in the refinery to make room?
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Sometimes the message appears for a second or two. In this case, the fragment is waiting for the refinery to finish processing a full salable item and moving it to cargo.

If the refinery has a full line and cannot move it to cargo you can jettison something inexpensive from cargo and keep the more valuable
 

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I know this thread is way out of date, but it's still the first link on Google for this error, so I'll leave this here for the next person:
  • When you pick up a chunk of meteor, it contains multiple materials. One chunk might contain, for example, iron and silver.
  • When you scoop up this chunk, it will move to your refinery.
  • Each type of refinery has a limited number of "bins" for refining. Each bin represents a slot where an individual element can be collected. For example, if your refinery has 2 bins, it can refine silver as well as iron at the same time. As a beginner, you likely have a refinery with 1 bin.
  • You can see the status of the refinery in your inventory. Each bin should either be empty or show what element is contained within it, and a progress bar of how much of that material you've collected. Once this bar reaches 100%, you will get a unit of that material which will go to your cargo, and that bin will now be empty.
  • Scooping up a chunk that contains material you've already allocated to a bin will automatically refine that material and add it to the right bin, but whatever material is left in that chunk will stay in your scoop. You need to vent this extra material to keep scooping.

As an example, let's say your refinery has 2 bins and you are refining silver in one and iron in the other. If you pick up a chunk that contains silver and titanium, the refinery will automatically refine the silver, increasing % in the bin that is storing silver. The titanium now has no place to go, because you don't have a bin for it. It's an "unallocated resource." You need to either vent the titanium to make room in your cargo scoop, or you could vent one of your bins (silver or iron) to start refining the titanium. You can vent by going to your refinery in you inventory and clicking on the resource you want to vent.
 

Nightjar

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Check Contacts. Each fragment is listed, with its contents. You need to set it to ignore anything but the 2 yr wanting. If you have a bigger refinery, you have to ignore fewer. It's easy to change when you get to a ring.
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d8veh

d8veh
I get that message occasionally when laser mining with my Cutter. I only collect two types of fragment - platinum and Osmium - and I have 10 bins, so I guess it's just a case that the limpets can collect the fragmants faster than the refinery can deal wity them. I've never looked to see what's going on. I just ignore the message, and it sorts itself out.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Appended said:
I know this thread is way out of date, but it's still the first link on Google for this error, so I'll leave this here for the next person:
  • When you pick up a chunk of meteor, it contains multiple materials. One chunk might contain, for example, iron and silver.
  • When you scoop up this chunk, it will move to your refinery.
  • Each type of refinery has a limited number of "bins" for refining. Each bin represents a slot where an individual element can be collected. For example, if your refinery has 2 bins, it can refine silver as well as iron at the same time. As a beginner, you likely have a refinery with 1 bin.
  • You can see the status of the refinery in your inventory. Each bin should either be empty or show what element is contained within it, and a progress bar of how much of that material you've collected. Once this bar reaches 100%, you will get a unit of that material which will go to your cargo, and that bin will now be empty.
  • Scooping up a chunk that contains material you've already allocated to a bin will automatically refine that material and add it to the right bin, but whatever material is left in that chunk will stay in your scoop. You need to vent this extra material to keep scooping.

As an example, let's say your refinery has 2 bins and you are refining silver in one and iron in the other. If you pick up a chunk that contains silver and titanium, the refinery will automatically refine the silver, increasing % in the bin that is storing silver. The titanium now has no place to go, because you don't have a bin for it. It's an "unallocated resource." You need to either vent the titanium to make room in your cargo scoop, or you could vent one of your bins (silver or iron) to start refining the titanium. You can vent by going to your refinery in you inventory and clicking on the resource you want to vent.
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Great job on necroing a thread and then writing a load of convoluted noob-stuff and including some great "howlers". :rolleyes:

Meteors do not exist in the game - you mine asteroids. (Meteorites however are found on the surface of bodies.)

Iron does not go in a hopper - it is a material (for synthesis and engineering), not an ore.

Iron always appears as a discrete fragment - it is never in a fragment with an ore - all "materials" are like this.

Titanium is not produced by mining.

(Have you actually done any mining? :rolleyes: )


Instead of continually venting you should, as @Nightjar says, put other ores on your ignore list (contacts page of LH UI) - just leave the stuff you are mining for as not ignored - no clogged hopper, no venting and no rubbish using your bins.
 
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Para Handy said:
Great job on necroing a thread and then writing a load of convoluted noob-stuff and including some great "howlers". :rolleyes:

Meteors do not exist in the game - you mine asteroids. (Meteorites however are found on the surface of bodies.)

Iron does not go in a hopper - it is a material (for synthesis and engineering), not an ore.

Iron always appears as a discrete fragment - it is never in a fragment with an ore - all "materials" are like this.

Titanium is not produced by mining.

(Have you actually done any mining? :rolleyes: )


Instead of continually venting you should, as @Nightjar says, put other ores on your ignore list (contacts page of LH UI) - just leave the stuff you are mining for as not ignored - no clogged hopper, no venting and no rubbish using your bins.
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I think it's pretty obvious that I'm a noob and I've done very little mining, which is why I Googled the error. I necroed the thread because, like I said, it's still up there on the Google results. I didn't find the responses helpful at my experience level, and I had to figure it out myself. @Nightjar's method is better and I'm glad I know about it now, but without experience it's hard to understand. And they wouldn't have posted it if I hadn't necroed the thread. I immediately contributed what I figured out, not to flex my knowledge of the game, but to help other new players get past this issue. I carefully chose "iron", "silver", and "titanium" in the example because it would be easier to follow than terms like "osmium". I prioritized clarity over precision and I see little disadvantage to this. I'm trying to contribute to the community in a positive way, so I just ask that you try and do the same. Next time you see someone trying to help and getting some details wrong please try and list your corrections without putting them down.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
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I think it's pretty obvious that I'm a noob and I've done very little mining, which is why I Googled the error. I necroed the thread because, like I said, it's still up there on the Google results. ................
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OK - Maybe I was a bit rough with you, mea culpa. Problem is (and I blame the horrible search on this forum) - using the googly for Elite is fraught with pitfalls - things change but google doesn't give a monkey's - it still pulls up pages from the web-archive of forums long despatched to never-never land. (Of course yootoob is even more susceptible to this.) In your case it just triggered on the keyword I suppose and left you thinking that this thread was the last-thing on the subject.

So, in making your post, you hoped to provide some insight to help any poor unfortunates in the future, unfortunately because you didn't research it you totally undermined its position - using materials and commodities as examples basically would just confuse any newcomer who hadn't been put off by you calling the asteroids meteors.

There are lots of resources to help you with information - the wiki is a undervalued resource which has lots of good stuff - it would have helped you avoid your mistakes. e.g:

elite-dangerous.fandom.com

Miner

Miners extract metals, minerals, and materials from asteroids and sell them for profit. Mining involves traveling to sites such as pristine planetary rings, and asteroid belts around stars, identifying resource-rich asteroids, and using specialized Hardpoint modules to extract and collect...
elite-dangerous.fandom.com elite-dangerous.fandom.com


Whist Odyssey is not yet well covered by guides etc, Horizons (and legacy parts of Oddysey?) is well served with guides.

There are good guides to the various activities in Elite, from the excellent "Comprehensive Beginners Guide" at the top of this forum to the more specialised guides, usually found in the Guides and Tutorials sub-forum of this one. For example there is a comprehensive guide to mining by Lance "Spacecat" D. the thread about which is here, followed by a direct link to the actual guide ( I recommend reading it anyway, it is well put together):

Guide / Tutorial - The popular guide to mining.

Greetings commanders A long time ago, a player friend of mine (Hanako) wrote a popular guide aimed at players unused with powerplay, it's been well received as a beginner's guide to a complex subject. And a few months ago I kept up the tradition and wrote three further guides. Introducing...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk

(thread started ages ago but guide updated)

docs.google.com

The popular guide to space mining

The popular guide to space mining! By Lance ‘Spacecat’ D. of Aisling’s Angels “There’s gold in them thar hills!” Last update: June 19th 3306
docs.google.com docs.google.com


So, yes, you had good intentions and my apologies for being rather intolerant (I must have been coffee deprived at the time) - so I hope it won't put you off in the future.

Good luck (y)
 
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