How frequent are the explode-up-able rocks? Will I need many limpets?

Muetdhiver

Muetdhiver
I would pack ~24 tons of limpets with your setup. MkIII by any chance ?

Each asteroid yield 12-14 tons, so 2-3 asteroids will fill your belly. Look for big yellow asteroids, probe them and voilà !

They are not that rare.
 
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LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet
Muetdhiver said:
I would pack ~24 tons of limpets with your setup. MkIII by any chance ?

Each asteroid yield 12-14 tons, so 2-3 asteroids will fill your belly. Look for big yellow asteroids, probe them and voilà !

They are not that rare.
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I had an awful run at it this morning.

30 ton of limps in an Asp Scout (dont ask) and I managed to find 2 spoldy rocks and walked away with 1 ton of mozawhatever its called.
 

Askorti

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My advice is that if you spot a bright yellow rock from afar, but it dims when you scan it again from up close, don't bother probing it. It's unlikely to have a core. That's at least my experience.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Once you've seen a few of the rocks which have fissures, you'll be able to spot them without necessarily needing to use a prospector. That means you won't be wasting prospectors on the rocks which just have sub-surface or surface deposits.

Another tip: you still want pristine, but metallic is not necessarily the best for core mining - more valuable gems can be found in icy or rocky, and the fissures are easier to spot.
 

VR andysonofbob

VR andysonofbob
Ian Doncaster said:
Once you've seen a few of the rocks which have fissures, you'll be able to spot them without necessarily needing to use a prospector. That means you won't be wasting prospectors on the rocks which just have sub-surface or surface deposits.

Another tip: you still want pristine, but metallic is not necessarily the best for core mining - more valuable gems can be found in icy or rocky, and the fissures are easier to spot.
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So if you have no interest in old school mining, pristine Ice and Rocky are the new pristine Metallics?
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
andysonofbob said:
So if you have no interest in old school mining, pristine Ice and Rocky are the new pristine Metallics?
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...and a lot more common.

I haven't had time to check exactly what it's like in live yet - just probe a few rings of each type and see what sorts of hotspots show up, then compare with the price list.
 

Kenneth McGrew

Kenneth McGrew
andysonofbob said:
Assuming pristine metallic and within the hotspot.

I only have 32 tonnes of cargo, will this be enough?

Thanks!
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Run 1 - 78 limpets 4 rocks
run 2 - 78 limpets 5 rocks
Run 3 - 78 limpets 6 rocks
Run 4 - 78 limpets 5 rocks

^^ meh

needles in a haystack and i only prospected "glowing golden asteroids"
 

ithinkiam

ithinkiam
Muetdhiver said:
I would pack ~24 tons of limpets with your setup. MkIII by any chance ?

Each asteroid yield 12-14 tons, so 2-3 asteroids will fill your belly. Look for big yellow asteroids, probe them and voilà !

They are not that rare.
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That doesn't add up. 24 limpets with 32 tons of cargo and 12-14 tons per asteroid core. It doesn't take 8 limpets per asteroid. You'll run out of cargo space before using up your limpets.

With a bit of experience you can be pretty efficient in finding motherlodes. You need minimum three limpets for your first asteroid: 2 collectors and 1 prospector. Then, as long as you don't lose any collectors, you only spend 1-2 prospectors per core-mined asteroid. 16 limpets should be plenty; even allowing for wastage.
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
The rocks with motherlodes are much more intensely colored than those without. Also you can spot several spreading fissures on the surface. These are the only ones you need to apply a prospector on. So, really, you only need a handful limpets.
 
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