Core Mining Question

khaos526

khaos526
The past week I have finally gotten back to civilized space and started core mining, first looking at different videos and documents and then creating my own document which helps me immensely.

One thing I haven't found or may have missed is the minimum safe distance away from the blast radius. I currently get 1.5km out and am totally fine, but have been reluctant to get closer in fears of damaging my ship.

Does anyone know the approximate safe distance one can get before damage occurs? Or does it actually depend on the size of the asteroid or how many charges you place or how many medium or high charges are placed on the asteroid?

Just curious...
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
I do not think there is a set "minimum distance" but, I find that the "mother-lode" asteroids often tend to appear near the top or bottom boundaries of a ring, usually with open space at hand. I generally approach a mother-lode from the open-space side, set my charges and then back up a good ways out into open space. o7
 

Eliza

Eliza
You have to be at last 1km away from the blast for no damage. Nevertheles, the "sonic-wave" will disrupt your HUD. Don't mind abaout that. It's only some kind of sfx.
 

Fish172

Fish172
I have fitted a couple of lightweight shield boosters with the blast block mod on them. No longer seems to matter much if I am 200m or 2km away. Shields hold and that`s all I care about.
 

khaos526

khaos526
Cool thoughts and might have to try out a few of these then, such as the pips in Systems to 4. I knew the special effects happen with the HUD regardless, but maybe I'll test a few of these out first on my first core just to see how close I can get. I just didn't want to risk actually blowing up my Python at all, that was my only concern...
 

GeoJase

GeoJase
If you have good shields, then it doesn't really matter how close.

But if your using undersized shields to jam in more cargo, then 1km is entirely safe. At that range you can view the spectacle really well too
 
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