That guys "asteroid core locator" guide is hard to spot! Help finding the core mining rocks

[redmantab]

That guys "asteroid core locator" guide is hard to spot! Help finding the core mining rocks

Title says it all. I've been using that guide floating around these forums which shows in Rocky belts a picture of an example of a core asteroid and it also shows an example in an icy asteroid field. Either way, I can't really seem to find them easily. I have resorted to just flying around using the pulse analyzer and then shooting every orange Rock. It can take 20 - 30 min to find cores.

Can you guys please help me a bit with finding asteroids with cores (fissures to open and find those rare gems etc) a bit more easily and quickly?

Thank you in advance

 

[Renaissance0321]

In my experience the cores will not be right next to each other. You have to fly for a little but to find the next one. The cores are NOTICEABLY brighter than the other rocks and have a distinctive shape. Meaning if you see a bright rock but it's not the right shape, move on. Once you have found a possible, fly close and use night vision. It is much easier to see the fissues, especially if it is dark where you are flying. If you see fissures it is guaranteed to be a core. Sometimes you have to be very close to see them.

It took me about two days of mining to finally understand what I was looking for. Rocky belts are much easier to differentiate than icey for me, however, icey is where da money is at.

Just keep at it and you will get better once you understand what to look for.

P.S. Sometimes you have to get 200km away from the hotspot in order for cores to start popping up. It is my understanding the hotspots deplete after being mined excessively.

 

[glaukos]

The cores are absolutely not noticeably brighter on my screen (not using 2.0x supersampling because it kills my framerate). In fact, I would say the smaller asteroids appear the brightest, perhaps because the color grid/texture/whatever is more dense. Identifying by shape kind of works, but the same irregular 3D shape looks very, very different from different angles. Not to mention after flying around for 20 minutes not seeing anything that looks like the right shape, your mind starts to play games and wonder if you're being too picky looking for just the right shape and are skipping some because you saw them from a strange angle. And since there's no way to know how mined out an area is, you start to wonder if it's all mined out. But there's no way to know.

 

[redmantab]

The cores are absolutely not noticeably brighter on my screen (not using 2.0x supersampling because it kills my framerate). In fact, I would say the smaller asteroids appear the brightest, perhaps because the color grid/texture/whatever is more dense. Identifying by shape kind of works, but the same irregular 3D shape looks very, very different from different angles. Not to mention after flying around for 20 minutes not seeing anything that looks like the right shape, your mind starts to play games and wonder if you're being too picky looking for just the right shape and are skipping some because you saw them from a strange angle. And since there's no way to know how mined out an area is, you start to wonder if it's all mined out. But there's no way to know.

This. The shapes look very very different from different angles. Tips on this point would be appreciated. Ty!

Also, do I want exactly "rocky" fields or are metallic or metal rich basically the same? Which non ice fields do I want? Exaclty rocky?

 

[DaggerSnake]

I didn't find any of the "how to" guides very useful for finding the core asteroids. This is one of those features that comes with practice. There are subtle differences in pattern and color hue, contrast and brightness that are learned. I think everyones system, monitor and eyes are going to be a little different.

I started mining cores seriously yesterday and have about two hours of play time logged. I'm using an AspX Miner and I love it. The two bottom hard points next to each other are perfect for a pair of Abrasion blasters. You'll shear off two chunks with each double blast.

My first run was a lot of trial and error, prospecting golden asteroids, using both regular and night vision modes. I found couple cores and then worked on placement and charge strenght for best yield. My first try didn't crack it.

On my second run out, I felt like I knoew what I was looking for better. I could find core asteroids without a prospector more easily and my eye seems to pick them out faster. I made 30 million on that run with core Serendibite (600k/ton) and Benitoite (400k/ton). Insane prices!

My latest run was to an icy ring Void Opal hot spot. I maxed out 96 tons of opals in about 30 mins. Even got pirate scanned asking for 1.3 million. I threw them 3 tons out of pitty for their patheic cargo holds and they were like "wow thanks!" and left me alone. First time I've actually paid an NPC pirate.

I'd say the best way to get better at spotting core is to just log in time and get used to how they look. Before long, you'll be dialed into them. I'm also thinking that cores spawn randomly and just like the res sites, sometimes you'll get anacondas and sometimes, lots of Cobras. If you are not coming across any, just reset the instance and try some more.

 

[M00ka]

Pro-tip: If the asteroid isn't spinning there is a 1% chance it has fissures and the faster it spins the more likely it will be crackable.

NOTE: Not scientifically proven but in my limited experience every damn 'roid that can be cracked was spinning like a demented top on crack!

 

[SethJS]

So far my experience has been that certain asteroid shapes never yield cores. Any circular/spheroid shapes never have any cores but are commonly bright yellow, especially if small. Any "pine cone" or "bell pepper" shape, or asteroids that are over a certain size seem to almost never have any cores.

I've also noticed that the good asteroids have a tendency to be on the top or bottom edge of the ring. I have seen a few asteroids with cores virtually right next to each other, so it's worth sending out a prospector to both before starting to mine one so you can easily find the next once the first is completed.

 

[Bdragon4]

I've cracked a good number of them and they're pretty easy to spot.

Fissure Asteroids are always medium sized, usually have surface deposits, and tend to have a little bit of distance between themselves and other asteroids. When you scan, they're always eye-searingly bright. This is all I look for and I'm usually right about which one's are crackable.

 

[glaukos]

When you scan, they're always eye-searingly bright.

Not on my screen they aren't. So many people just assume that what they see is exactly what everyone else sees. If you think, "It's so easy," and yet many people are complaining that it's hard, maybe what they are seeing isn't the same as what you are seeing. On my screen, I have to squint to see that they're even glowing at all (especially in a sunlit icy ring), and there are definitely other asteroids (particularly the small sphere-shaped ones) that appear much brighter than motherlodes. Glowing asteroids do show up better in dark, shadowy metal rings than in sunlit icy rings, but it's still definitely not the case that motherlodes are brighter than other asteroids on my screen.

 

[Futuristichub]

OP you’re going to want to ignore certain shaped rocks. Ignore the round bright ones. Ignore the long ones and ignore Orange ones. What you’re looking for are bright yellow greenish asteroids. You pulse scan initial. Then you go ahead and get close and scan again if the asteroid stays bright when you scan it a third time right at the asteroid then it’s got a core. The asteroid will look like a bunch of chewing gum globbed up into one. Almost like popcorn. That will have asteroid fissures!

I however hope they allow all types of asteroids to be blown up because it’s got a bit boring seeing the same shape over and over.

 

[rhiz]

OP you’re going to want to ignore certain shaped rocks. Ignore the round bright ones. Ignore the long ones and ignore Orange ones. What you’re looking for are bright yellow greenish asteroids. You pulse scan initial. Then you go ahead and get close and scan again if the asteroid stays bright when you scan it a third time right at the asteroid then it’s got a core. The asteroid will look like a bunch of chewing gum globbed up into one. Almost like popcorn. That will have asteroid fissures!

I however hope they allow all types of asteroids to be blown up because it’s got a bit boring seeing the same shape over and over.

I've found that the really deep orange ones are invariably cores (I suppose it's subjective how we describe these things - the image below looks very orange to me ). Everything else that you say is 100% correct - the shape and the presence of fissures. I'm finding them every 5-10 minutes it seems. Here's one from 5 minutes ago:

Look for this kind of shape ("bubble gum globbed up" ). Ignore the small, smooth round ones and the large elongated ones:

Set charges as best you can:

Roll around in your copious amount of credits:

 

[Dizzy B High]

There's a little trick with the pulse scanner.

Firing it the first time does a "basic scan" of the field.
Scanning a second time right after, reveals more details on asteroids for about a second, then it reverts to the basic details again.

You can keep your finger on the pulse scanner button and continuously scan in 2nd this detailed mode (it will show this detail for about a second then show results from the first scan).

The detailed mode will reveal blackish lines (if your in an icy ring) greenish lines if your in a metallic / metal rich ring.

The differences are quite subtle, you will know if a roid has a core or not because it will have large areas of it as just black when you you are approaching it and scanning with the detailed scan.

 

[rhiz]

There's a little trick with the pulse scanner.

Firing it the first time does a "basic scan" of the field.
Scanning a second time right after, reveals more details on asteroids for about a second, then it reverts to the basic details again.

You can keep your finger on the pulse scanner button and continuously scan in 2nd this detailed mode (it will show this detail for about a second then show results from the first scan).

The detailed mode will reveal blackish lines (if your in an icy ring) greenish lines if your in a metallic / metal rich ring.

The differences are quite subtle, you will know if a roid has a core or not because it will have large areas of it as just black when you you are approaching it and scanning with the detailed scan.

I hadn't noticed that - many thanks. What kind of prices are you guys seeing for the various new minerals. Everyone seems to be talking about void opals, but what about Alexandrite, Grandidierite etc.

 

[DaggerSnake]

There's a little trick with the pulse scanner.

Firing it the first time does a "basic scan" of the field.
Scanning a second time right after, reveals more details on asteroids for about a second, then it reverts to the basic details again.

You can keep your finger on the pulse scanner button and continuously scan in 2nd this detailed mode (it will show this detail for about a second then show results from the first scan).

The detailed mode will reveal blackish lines (if your in an icy ring) greenish lines if your in a metallic / metal rich ring.

The differences are quite subtle, you will know if a roid has a core or not because it will have large areas of it as just black when you you are approaching it and scanning with the detailed scan.

DO you think that it's developed as a two mode scan, or are you seeing a glitch? I've seen the black lines. Seems more of a artifact of the different parts of the crack-able asteroid. Sometimes they don't show up.

 

[DaggerSnake]

I hadn't noticed that - many thanks. What kind of prices are you guys seeing for the various new minerals. Everyone seems to be talking about void opals, but what about Alexandrite, Grandidierite etc.

The last station I was selling at was buying Voip Opals at 623k a ton. But the cash cow for that system was Serendibite at 879k per ton. I think it depends on the system, there's so many new minable things out there. It's pretty awesome. I'm really loving mining.

 

[rhiz]

The last station I was selling at was buying Voip Opals at 623k a ton. But the cash cow for that system was Serendibite at 879k per ton. I think it depends on the system, there's so many new minable things out there. It's pretty awesome. I'm really loving mining.

That's what had me wondering - I'm generally seeing better prices for Low Temp Diamonds at over 1 million a ton. Have they introduced any info on the new additions - what they're used for etc so that we can deduce some of this stuff in-game? Yeah - I've always enjoyed mining, but it's much more engaging now. Of course, the credits help. Nice job FD.

 

[zepisco83]

After a while you will know what asteroids to mine, so far i have spotted 3 shapes, one small other medium and another big. The small one it s really bright and you can easily see black spots when scanning even from far. The Big one is tricky because its not so bright and the black spots are only visible closer.
I always try to mine in the shadow of the planet, no lights or night vision when scanning, you can noticeable see the brighter asteroids. I've been mining in the Hermitage system on the smallest ring planet, there's about 10 hotspots and if i am not wrong 3 of them are void opals but even there i usually find also other materials.
I then sell everything in the LFT 992 system(3 jumps away) in Szulkin mines or something like that, there are about 6 or 7 minerals at 700k including 2 over 1 million/ton, void opals are at 1.6M. The only problem is that the station is at 126k ls, about 12 minutes in SC, but at least there all the prices are good.

 

[Lightspeed]

I'm pretty convinced by what I have seen in the game, and what is posted in the various guides, that we are all seeing subtle differences in the images according to our screens and settings. Which helps to explain why some are having great success and others are not, even allowing for random number generation.

That said, the guides are very helpful because their main principles apply .... :

Look for the brightest;

Look for the shapes;

Don't waste time on the small 'roids.

 

[JonathanBurnage]

Title says it all. I've been using that guide floating around these forums which shows in Rocky belts a picture of an example of a core asteroid and it also shows an example in an icy asteroid field. Either way, I can't really seem to find them easily. I have resorted to just flying around using the pulse analyzer and then shooting every orange Rock. It can take 20 - 30 min to find cores.

Can you guys please help me a bit with finding asteroids with cores (fissures to open and find those rare gems etc) a bit more easily and quickly?

Thank you in advance

Hi - I’m not sure if it was my guide you meant (I’m sure I’m not the only person to make one), but my pictures were mainly of metallic crackable rocks, as well as an icy. I didn’t post a picture of one from a rocky ring. Sorry for any confusion.

 

[BL1P]

Maybe you mean the Excellent video about double Pulse detection ?

https://streamable.com/9d5uu

All credits to the guy who made it.