Tritium mining when there's no tritium hotspot. Is it worth it?

[Branithar]

My fleet carrier is at Koi 1701, and I didn't realize adding services increases tritium consumption. I calculated the increased fuel consumption and I'll have just enough to get back home, but I want to spend a day mining tritium before my scheduled Wednesday return to the bubble, for a little insurance.

I searched around Koi 1701 and found a couple icy rings, but no hotspots at all (there were no tritium hotspots, and there weren't any hotspots of any other type). I shot some asteroids and rarely found any that yielded tritium. Is tritium mining worth it when there's no tritium hotspot, or I should continue to search for a tritium hotspot? All I want to mine is 100 tonnes of tritium.

 

[Riverside]

ime any hotspot in an icy ring is a better source of trit than no hotspot at all.

Not really that hard to just try it for yourself though.

 

[Jukelo]

I was at an alexandrite/LTD hotspot just now, most of what I found was actually tritium.

 

[GraphiteGB]

Yep hotspots dont alter core item generation rate they only alter laser and sub surface % per rock mining content....
So they increase laser items max percentage found more offen...
Tritium is not hard to find its just hard to find at high percentage with out hot spot...
Getting 33% for a laser rock is hard with out hot spots...

 

[varonica]

My fleet carrier is at Koi 1701, and I didn't realize adding services increases tritium consumption. I calculated the increased fuel consumption and I'll have just enough to get back home, but I want to spend a day mining tritium before my scheduled Wednesday return to the bubble, for a little insurance.

Adding services increases the amount of space used on the carrier, which of course adds to the tonnage and Tritium consumption, I think there's a calculator somewhere that tells you how far you can jump, also spansh FC router will calculate your FC jumps and Tritium use based on your carrier stats, that's a good way to work out if you have enough Trit to get where you want to go.

Elite: Dangerous Index

spansh.co.uk

 

[Tividar]

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[Tividar]

I was at an alexandrite/LTD hotspot just now, most of what I found was actually tritium.

My experience as well.

 

[Branithar]

Are tritium hotspots very hard to find? I want to find a tritium hotspot just outside the bubble, that doesn't have a bunch of fleet carriers parked around it. And if I go back into the black in the fleet carrier, I might need tritium. I found tritium in an icy ring, but mining would be more fun in a tritium hotspot.

 

[Mrat13]

Are tritium hotspots very hard to find? I want to find a tritium hotspot just outside the bubble, that doesn't have a bunch of fleet carriers parked around it. And if I go back into the black in the fleet carrier, I might need tritium. I found tritium in an icy ring, but mining would be more fun in a tritium hotspot.

If you've got spare cash, and the DSSA is still running, you can buy Tritium from their carriers stationed around the galaxy.

 

[Riverside]

Are tritium hotspots very hard to find? I want to find a tritium hotspot just outside the bubble, that doesn't have a bunch of fleet carriers parked around it. And if I go back into the black in the fleet carrier, I might need tritium. I found tritium in an icy ring, but mining would be more fun in a tritium hotspot.

Not that hard to find, at most I usually spend a couple of hours looking for somewhere to refuel, and most of that time is simply finding a system with an icy ring. Most icy rings (more than half ime) have a trit hotspot. I don;t use any external knowledge to find them, I just scan nearby systems as & when I get low on fuel.

Anecdotally I tend to have the most success in K-class star systems, ymmv.

 

[athulin]

Is @Riverside still correct on this? I ask because I've been trying to get a feel for the frequency of Tritium hotspots outside the Bubble myself, and scanned all nearby icy rings I've encountered, but so far (around 300 jumps)) I've not seen a single one. (I'm not asking about the presence of tritium, only about tritium hotspots.) I've not (yet) tried to verify any known locations (such as those in commander's toolbox), but that's probably next on my list.

 

[Riverside]

Is @Riverside still correct on this? I ask because I've been trying to get a feel for the frequency of Tritium hotspots outside the Bubble myself, and scanned all nearby icy rings I've encountered, but so far (around 300 jumps)) I've not seen a single one. (I'm not asking about the presence of tritium, only about tritium hotspots.) I've not (yet) tried to verify any known locations (such as those in commander's toolbox), but that's probably next on my list.

300 jumps seems excessive, I suppose it depends on where you are If you are near an edge of the galaxy or in the dense core it might be harder to find icy rings.

When I said I look around I mean I check out up to a dozen or so likely candidate systems in a sort of bubble around my carrier & usually find something suitable, particularly in nebulae.

 

[SteveWW57]

As part of contingency planning (in case the Thargoids overrun large chunks of the bubble), I went several hundred light years away from the bubble to scout a bug out location for my carrier. I quickly found a system with tritium and platinum hotspots, and then jumping further out, quickly found another suitable system. I must have been lucky?

Steve

 

[conan02]

Not that hard to find, at most I usually spend a couple of hours looking for somewhere to refuel, and most of that time is simply finding a system with an icy ring. Most icy rings (more than half ime) have a trit hotspot. I don;t use any external knowledge to find them, I just scan nearby systems as & when I get low on fuel.

Anecdotally I tend to have the most success in K-class star systems, ymmv.

More on M class. Some astrophysics knowledge helps. What condition must be meet to convert ordinary hydrogen to tritium and have planets with icy rings?
1. Source of neutrons - active fusion star.
2. Possible low temperature star - for cold system.
Near 3 for 5 M stars have gas giants with rings, 2 of them are icy with tritium hotspots.
Finding tritium is easier than anybody things, but most of explorers filter M stars on route because have no profitable planets - metal rich, ELW and water. For others stars class K is next in row to have tritium in system. But everywhere M class is most common. In my exploration activity was easy to find tritium hotspot within 20 Ly radius from any FC position in dense populated area (near galactic plane).

 

[athulin]

300 jumps seems excessive, I suppose it depends on where you are If you are near an edge of the galaxy or in the dense core it might be harder to find icy rings.

When I said I look around I mean I check out up to a dozen or so likely candidate systems in a sort of bubble around my carrier & usually find something suitable, particularly in nebulae.

I'm within 1kLy edgewards of Kashyapa, so it's close to Colonia. OK, then I misunderstood what you meant by 'looking around' . I've probably misinterpreted other posters as well, because I sort of got the impression that I'd find at least one icy ring in ... say a dozen systems would have at least one hotspot. I've just found the R3PER'S tritium trail from (? 2021?) (see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bns8ypLfqwt3-OS6qmxFUhcjw59-Z7VNSWBHola68t8/edit#gid=0 ) , so I'll mosey over to that and check that nothing has changed since then.

Thanks!

 

[Riverside]

I'm within 1kLy edgewards of Kashyapa, so it's close to Colonia. OK, then I misunderstood what you meant by 'looking around' . I've probably misinterpreted other posters as well, because I sort of got the impression that I'd find at least one icy ring in ... say a dozen systems would have at least one hotspot. I've just found the R3PER'S tritium trail from (? 2021?) , so I'll mosey over to that and check that nothing has changed since then.

Thanks!

I don't think I've ever needed a trit hotspot that close to Colonia, there is one in Ratraii that I use when I'm there (plus it's a carrier admin system). There's one in Carcosa too IIRC.

 

[athulin]

It's not that I need one.

I was considering getting an FC in Colonia after an unexpectedly lucrative exobio trip, but had problems locating the kind of Tritium sales location present in the Bubble. So I decided to a) get back to the Bubble, and b) research the situation of natural Tritium sources outside civilized space (i.e. no purchases). The general recommendation appears to be 'don't mine, buy', but I thought I'd make a try to put that on a more quantifiable basis.

I've noted that tritium hotspots are logged in the game journal, but possibly not handed over to EDDN, and apparently not searchable through the standard services even if they were. So ... I've been on a slow boat back to the Bubble, looking very attentively for tritium hotspots along the way ... with initially disappointing results, but it is only one test sample so far. I've also noted that Canonn EMDC plugin appears to collect scanned ring data, though I've not yet figured out if it can be used in any way. Perhaps it is work in progress.

I probably also need to get an idea of tritium yields outside trit. hotspots (in other hotspots, and in blank rings), in pristine icy rings, and perhaps even non-icy ones, sampled in similar ways.

Just the kind of exploration / research that I can use an F.C. for