If you are like me, part of the very small community of miners in E
, you might have been excited for the material drop rate increases that beyond brought. You might also be wondering, which materials does mining actually provide. Well, the answer is it depends on the ring. I have picked up over 400 material drops in various rings and (using a script) counted the amount various materials drop per ring. Without further to do, here it is:
Icy rings: sulphur, carbon and phosporus dominate these rings, unfortuntly not many high grade materials can be found here. Niobium is an ultra rare drop.
Metal Rich Rings: Iron and nickel are more common here than they are in icy rings, but more importantly common materials drop at reasonable rates here, and cadmium spawns semi-frequently. Tungsten drops ultra rarely here.
Metallic rings (incomplete):I don't have enough data on these rings at the moment, but I will be collecting more tomorrow. As a placeholder here is what i have so far:
Rocky rings: I'll probably never scout out these as they are even worse than icy in terms of payout.
So it appears that for material mining, your best bet is metallic or metal rich, the new materials don't drop at the right rates, and that metal rich and metallic rings to have noticeably different drops. Hopefully I'll have more data on this tomorrow when I do some more metallic mining.
Also, if anyone would like to contribute to this, PM me your player journal of a session where you mined in one of the rings. For the integrity of the data I ask that you ensure that you picked up every material that spawned (ie you weren't using filters and had less-than-full material storages) and that you didn't do any surface prospecting or mine in more than one ring during the entire play session the log records.
, you might have been excited for the material drop rate increases that beyond brought. You might also be wondering, which materials does mining actually provide. Well, the answer is it depends on the ring. I have picked up over 400 material drops in various rings and (using a script) counted the amount various materials drop per ring. Without further to do, here it is:Icy rings: sulphur, carbon and phosporus dominate these rings, unfortuntly not many high grade materials can be found here. Niobium is an ultra rare drop.
| Material | Count | Percent |
| sulphur | 133 | 30.9% |
| carbon | 99 | 23.0% |
| phosphorus | 67 | 15.6% |
| iron | 58 | 13.5% |
| nickel | 35 | 8.1% |
| manganese | 13 | 3.0% |
| germanium | 10 | 2.3% |
| zinc | 7 | 1.6% |
| lead | 3 | 0.7% |
| rhenium | 2 | 0.5% |
| cadmium | 2 | 0.5% |
| niobium | 1 | 0.2% |
| Total | 430 | 100% |
Metal Rich Rings: Iron and nickel are more common here than they are in icy rings, but more importantly common materials drop at reasonable rates here, and cadmium spawns semi-frequently. Tungsten drops ultra rarely here.
| Material | Count | Percent |
| iron | 82 | 19.4% |
| sulphur | 74 | 17.5% |
| carbon | 55 | 13.0% |
| nickel | 50 | 11.8% |
| phosphorus | 48 | 11.4% |
| chromium | 44 | 10.4% |
| manganese | 34 | 8.1% |
| germanium | 20 | 4.7% |
| cadmium | 6 | 1.4% |
| lead | 5 | 1.2% |
| rhenium | 3 | 0.7% |
| tungsten | 1 | 0.2% |
| Total | 430 | 100% |
Metallic rings (incomplete):I don't have enough data on these rings at the moment, but I will be collecting more tomorrow. As a placeholder here is what i have so far:
| Material | Count | Percent |
| iron | 39 | 23.4% |
| nickel | 25 | 15.0% |
| chromium | 25 | 15.0% |
| sulphur | 23 | 13.8% |
| carbon | 22 | 13.2% |
| manganese | 14 | 8.4% |
| phosphorus | 10 | 6.0% |
| zinc | 7 | 4.2% |
| tin | 1 | 0.6% |
| lead | 1 | 0.6% |
| Total | 167 | 100.0% |
Rocky rings: I'll probably never scout out these as they are even worse than icy in terms of payout.
So it appears that for material mining, your best bet is metallic or metal rich, the new materials don't drop at the right rates, and that metal rich and metallic rings to have noticeably different drops. Hopefully I'll have more data on this tomorrow when I do some more metallic mining.
Also, if anyone would like to contribute to this, PM me your player journal of a session where you mined in one of the rings. For the integrity of the data I ask that you ensure that you picked up every material that spawned (ie you weren't using filters and had less-than-full material storages) and that you didn't do any surface prospecting or mine in more than one ring during the entire play session the log records.
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