Refining mining

[Strangepork]

Once I'm at a decent pristine mining location, is there any best practice for choosing which rock to mine?

Is there anything i can do to increase productivity and speed in finding valuable resources?

It just feels a bit random at the moment and as if the server is just dishing out numbers at me regardless of what I do...

 

[Dommarraa]

I pop off a couple of chunks, then see what they contain on the contacts tab

Anecdotally, most painite is discovered near your arrival point. Not a rule, just an observation

 

[NVNM]

Don't bother with anything but the best metals and minerals (Painite, Platinum). Maybe gold and silver if they're abundant. As Dommarraa said, shoot the rock a few seconds and check what sort of chunk it spits out. If it contains useless stuff, move on. A big refinery helps since there is no way to tell drones not to pick up the worthless chunks. More refinery slots means less clicking and sorting for you.

 

[Strangepork]

Thanks for the tips guys. I'm doing most of that stuff.

I guess I was wondering if there is any way to differentiate between rocks by sight, and de-randomise the process?

 

[NVNM]

Sadly no. Only way to see what's in a rock beforehand is prospector drones.

 

[Strangepork]

Thanks again.

 

[Arjin]

Thanks for the tips guys. I'm doing most of that stuff.

I guess I was wondering if there is any way to differentiate between rocks by sight, and de-randomise the process?

All we have is the difference by sight in rocks vs metal roids.

 

[metatheurgist]

I pop off a couple of chunks, then see what they contain on the contacts tab

Anecdotally, most painite is discovered near your arrival point. Not a rule, just an observation

Not true for me. I suspect different parts of the rings give different yields but I have no hard evidence (there's no way I'm going to start logging stats on this).