How to collect minerals with cargo scoop from Scarab SRV

[Numitor Rimor]

Hi! I am new here.
I have just landed on a planet, deployed my SRV, found a mineral, fired at him and now I have several mineral pieces on ground. I have cargo Scoop deployed with home key, but I can't manage how to collect all this mineral pieces, passing on it with srv doesn't do anything. Anyone can help?
Thank You All

Edit: minerals then disappeared before I can collect it!

 

[Faded Glory]

You need to target the fragments then drive over them with the SRV and they will get picked up.

Same with canisters if you ever want to scoop them Targeting them first is the key.

Edit - Either use the target ahead option or target them from the contacts panel in the left HUD.

 

[d8veh]

Note that the target button always selects the furthest fragment. If you press it a second time, it will select a nearer one when there is one behind the other. That can allow you to pick up two fragments on the same run forward if there's a bit of distance between them so that you can target again after collecting the first. It just saves a bit of time sometimes.

 

[Para Handy]

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Edit: minerals then disappeared before I can collect it!

Yeah, like stuff that is generated in space from combat (materials and cannisters) there is a "life" that counts down and they disappear when it reaches 0%. (Saves places becoming full of stuff.)

 

[Numitor Rimor]

Task accomplished! Thank You All very much!
P.S.: I targeted the materials from the left panel, but what is the hot key for targeting objects? "T" does nothing...

 

[d8veh]

Look in the "driving" sections of your keybindings (escape-options- controls). You can make it anything you want normally the same as your ship (T).

 

[Cmdr Nemo]

Though the SRV can scoop a gazillion pieces of materials at any one time, it can only hold up to two canister's, in which case one can upoad to their ship thus pick up two more.

 

[Craith]

often you can also park on top of a bunch of minerals and target one after the other without moving - either via the contacts menu or headlook/VR and "target in front of me"-key
it is enough to just touch it with a wheel to get it into the SRV, material collection is less exact than in the ship.

 

[Numitor Rimor]

Excuse me, now that I have learned how to mine material with SRV, I've collected a bunch of carbon, sulphur, iron and phosporous. Then I headed to a planetary outpost in the same system, but I can't sell this raw material. I need something to refine raw minerals, or I must just go in another outpost hoping they will need these elements?

P.S.: hey look at my new avatar, appropriate for scavenging minerals, no? (this line will only be understood by over 40 yrs old peoples that owned a Commodore 64...)

 

[Ashnak]

Ahhh... what you collect on planetary surfaces are Materials. You need them for synthesis (e.g. recharging the SRV's battery, a.k.a. refuelling, or creating ammo for various weapons, or boosting your jump range) and engineering. To be precise, raw materials. There are two other classes of materials, manufactured and data. A few synthesis recipes want manufactured, and engineers also want data. Materials don't take up any mass on your ship, and stay with you when you get blown up. Storage is limited though, sorted by material type and limited according to the material's class - common stuff you can store more than rare stuff.

The stuff you can sell - minerals and metals - you need to mine from asteroids, usually in the rings of planets. For those, you need mining tools on your ship and a refinery in your ship. The asteroids also yield low level raw materials. Those mined resources you can sell - but they also take up cargo space in your ship, and like any other cargo, are lost when your ship gets destroyed.

 

[Numitor Rimor]

So the materials scavenged by SRV can only be used for internal manufacturing? If so, it will be better to sell the SRV and the SRV Bay, and to get Mining Lasers and a Refinery, for making commerce in the space stations?
Thanks

 

[Ashnak]

You got it.
Oh, and you'll also need cargo modules, and it is highly recommended to have at least a prospector limpet controller. Collector limpets are kind of optional for small ships (the controller takes up valuable cargo space). Other equipment will depend on the kind of mining you want to do.

 

[Numitor Rimor]

But... What is the advantage to have an srv in a small ship (sidewinder)? It is somewhat usable for commercial purposes or it is only useful for discovering structures on planets and extracting raw materials on them (I think it is impossible to scavenge minerals on planets with mining lasers from the ship, right?). Because if it is used only for discovering, it makes no sense to offer a sidewinder base fitting with it in Elite Dangerous: Horizons, since the srv equipment fill up almost any space on ship making it useless for commerce, except a small cargo... Or SRV is also commercially usable for cartography of planets?

 

[Ashnak]

Very little direct commercial use - you can pick up cargo from crash sites for sale. But when you start engineering, you will need a lot of materials, same for long distance travel/exploration for the FSD boosts.
The Guardian story line also needs the SRV, and there are missions that at least recommend the SRV.
But the hangars and SRVs are cheap and available almost everywhere. You can just swap them in and out of your ship as needed.

 

[SMcA]

But... What is the advantage to have an srv in a small ship (sidewinder)? It is somewhat usable for commercial purposes or it is only useful for discovering structures on planets and extracting raw materials on them (I think it is impossible to scavenge minerals on planets with mining lasers from the ship, right?). Because if it is used only for discovering, it makes no sense to offer a sidewinder base fitting with it in Elite Dangerous: Horizons, since the srv equipment fill up almost any space on ship making it useless for commerce, except a small cargo... Or SRV is also commercially usable for cartography of planets?

I think part of the confusion is due to ED having evolved. In the early days rewards were much less and the upgrade path was slow. You had to do what a small ship could do until you could afford the next ship up. Nowadays people boast they have Anacondas and Pythons and don’t know you have to upgrade modules to get better performance.

The sidewinder is a ship loved by players of the original game even though it sits unused in their hangers. I use mine for bookmarks.

 

[d8veh]

But... What is the advantage to have an srv in a small ship (sidewinder)? It is somewhat usable for commercial purposes or it is only useful for discovering structures on planets and extracting raw materials on them (I think it is impossible to scavenge minerals on planets with mining lasers from the ship, right?). Because if it is used only for discovering, it makes no sense to offer a sidewinder base fitting with it in Elite Dangerous: Horizons, since the srv equipment fill up almost any space on ship making it useless for commerce, except a small cargo... Or SRV is also commercially usable for cartography of planets?

You need materials for engineering. The SRV on planets is one way to get them, and for two of the engineers, it's probably the best way.

You can't unlock the Guardian stuff without an SRV.

There is a whole lot of gameplay around missions for base assaults and base scans, which require the SRV. Many players made billions using Sidewinders with SRVs for base scans. They were were happy days because you could even do them in open play having a laugh with other players taking it in turns to blow each other up after they got the scans.

When SRVs were first introduced, there was quite a lot of gameplay associated with scavenging materials and commodities, but that all got made pointless when they introduced all the hotspots, like Davs Hope, the crashed Anaconda, the megaships and the geological sites, where you can go and get all the materials you want by easy mindless routines.