Complete Guide to Mining | Star Citizen 3.23 4K Gameplay and Tutorial

[@Farrister]

The art of salvage... wait, what?

[@Whoadayson]

You were just seeing if we were paying attn hu?!

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

This wasn't a very good guide to salvaging...

[@throdwobblermangrove6200]

very good guide to mining. maybe the best I have seen so far and I love your calm voice and clear structured video. Thank you for this one.

[@Farrister]

Thank you :)

[@throdwobblermangrove6200]

@@Farrister I have to thank you, for your good content.

[@DeepRunner1-y1l]

Great job ,very well explained and anyone who is just starting out will appreciate this video,I did not know the mole and prospector containers could be swapped out so it was well worth watching from beginning to end .Thank you as always for your quality work and dedication to your craft and to all the players from old to new of Star citizen we deeply appreciate it,I believe at this point watching your channel whether ship reviews no 1 A Quality videos' or Game play loops or site seeing around the verse to see interesting places to visit and explore or apply a trade is no longer an option but a true necessity to improving the Star Citizen experience throughout the verse,again thank you for your time.To you and everyone else, see you in the verse and have a great weekend.

[@Farrister]

Honestly it's such a pain to swap them around, I don't recommend it!

[@DeepRunner1-y1l]

@@Farrister thank you for the heads up,but I really want to torture myself like I have been playing this game for the last 3 years through every patch I want to experience it all, so I can tell others and complain how this alpha game isn't working right like everyone who tries it lol.Have a great day.

[@morganlefay-k4c]

@@Farrister I didn't know you can buy MOLE bags, thanks for the video

[@ItzAllMine360]

Excellent video dude. A profound amount of work must have went into this. Much appreciated 👍

[@Farrister]

Appreciate it, thanks - you are right, a lot of work!

[@mijrys]

i really love your videos! Keep up with this great work!

[@Farrister]

Thank you! Will do!

[@flechman63]

Always a great reference to come back to

[@ph11p3540]

Seagulls say mine mine mine mine

[@Spike.SpiegeI]

I know how to mine but watched anyway, your videos are always so well explained and relaxing to watch! Keep up the good work sir!

[@Farrister]

Thank you!

[@AndrewJens]

Very thorough. Thanks.

[@snaggletoof1927]

So peaceful and relaxing. I don't see many players gathering people for mining operations anymore. Thanks for the great guide, Farrister!

[@TvoracUdovica]

Even i do mining almost weekly i still watch You, this is so good explained to new players thank you in name for comunity

[@Farrister]

Thank you :)

[@icedtead9812]

thank you professor Farrister!!

[@Farrister]

Professor!

[@alexdafreguesia]

Tks. Really appreciate it.

[@Farrister]

Thank you!

[@neofromthewarnerbrothersic145]

Question for miners in 3.23: Are you still able to mine reliably enough with the lag spikes/desync? I tried a little bit of ROC mining with a buddy recently, but when the server had a lag spike, we both got blown up because his laser kept feeding. He was new, but I had enough experience to shut my laser off as soon as I noticed it wasn't responding to my power adjustments. I've been wanting to get back into mining lately, but the servers are having a lot of these lag spikes right now, even on low population/high server FPS. Side note: people always think the servers are getting worse, but I actually think they're getting better. Since 3.23 dropped they've been all over the place - had some weeks where we saw "server error" every 30 minutes or so. But now instead of getting server crash/recovery, we just get these gnarly lag spikes periodically. Haven't seen a server error for almost a month (knocks on wood), and I've had a lot of really long play sessions. Looks like an improvement to me.

[@Farrister]

I do, but if things go slow I back off

[@theforgottenguise7971]

Great video mate, quant is actually on a 25 min timer and storing your ship when you land kills the timer

[@Farrister]

It's 25mins?!

[@Sludgebuster]

@@Farrister Its been that way for quite a few patches now....

[@cpltitan8975]

So is this where my mining career starts

[@Farrister]

This is where the fun begins

[@MC-BigCara]

Thanks, used to love mining but haven’t done for a long time as rewards were pretty crap so I shifted to space power wash simulator

[@Farrister]

Space power wash also great

[@CathrineMacNiel]

7:46 are you saying that you can find Jalanite on a surface and not just inside sandcaves?

[@Farrister]

I thought it was just caves?!

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@Farrister yeah only in caves, at least thats my latest info regarding jalanite. I was probably just a bit confused as you were discussing hadanite and jalanite being the most profitable while showing the roc the roc sized rocks on the refinery deck.

[@Farrister]

@@CathrineMacNiel ah I see :)

[@1975Brummbaer]

I really hoped you would describe how to change the ore bags that you purchase at the refinery and get it on your prospector. I didn't find a way to do that. Can't physicalize the bags out of the inventory and even if i could I can't use tractorbeams at the moment in a hangar.

[@Farrister]

Have to use a MOLE, or find one at the moment. It's really awkward to do, I don't recommend it for most

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

Question: Farrister, with Kopion occupying some caves, has Hand Mining now become risky? And hand mineable out in the open, Particularly on both Microtech and possibly Hurston are they more risky now because of critters?

[@Farrister]

Maybe, I hadn't really thought about it!

[@schakTheNerd]

I can't speak for Hurston, but I cave dive occasionally on Microtech and have yet to encounter kopion in a cave there. Still, I wouldn't go unarmed just in case.

[@MrKarolinger]

Awesome

[@jpsaayman9220]

Question about the 12SCU bags that you can buy. How do you drop them to use on the Prospector? Iv tried to drop them in hanger / Carrack and it's not dropping

[@hawkzulu5671]

Really the only way i know of upgrading the prospectors bags is to get someone that has a mole (used to be able to just take salvage contract to find a mole) - Unlock the item ports on the mole and prospector and pull the bags off the prospector and out of the way so you can detach the bags from the mole and put them on the Prospector. It seems that thats no longer a thing in 3.24 - i tried and the mole bags were too tall to get underneath while the prospector is sitting on the ground. Next time im in the P.T.U. im going to ask a person to help me - ill hover the ship above the ground and see if they can tractor beam my mole bags onto the prospector

[@Farrister]

You need to equip them to a MOLE at the moment, and then drop them. It's really awkward though...

[@kurohyou69]

Great video guide! The ending states salvage instead of mining. Just a heads up.

[@Farrister]

Haha wonderful

[@CathrineMacNiel]

I just tested the purchasable pod option, still since those two purchase options have been made available you can' t use them. You can' t switch them out via VLM, or inside your hangar (since you can' t drop non carriables). You also can' t move them to your prospector so you would be able to switch outside of armistice. So the only option would be to use a donor Mole once again. Its sad :(

[@Farrister]

You can transfer the pods from a MOLE, and then replace the empty slots on the MOLE with the purchased bags

[@Farrister]

Although now I think about it I gotta try that xD

[@Mono-dj4lo]

Gentleman and a Scholar thankyou, i need this after mining in EvE for 9 years, its all i know :) . Do you have a community Discord and/or ingame Org?

[@Farrister]

I'm part of an org, United Space Confederation, details in video description!

[@Skumbagbrad]

How do you get your game to run/record so well? Is it post upscaling and fpsing? Or is this how you see the game?

[@Farrister]

This is how I see the game. But I don't bother hitting record on low FPS servers

[@dr.warner2288]

if you manually replace your saddlebags and the ship blows up do you need to replace them again?

[@vertexrikers]

21:00 what's that weird toggle behaviour? In the past i could refine everything - now it seems selecting one disables the other and is super weird. Bug or feature?

[@Farrister]

It's not actually deselected, it's a UI bug rather than a feature bug. Quite annoying though lol

[@vertexrikers]

@@Farrister aah, that explains it. I'll check if i get the quote for everything next time. Ty!

[@MADhorseKD]

Can we transfer the ore from miners to a cargo ship, and then go to a refinery as well? My friends have mining ships and ground vehicles and i have my caterpillar. I would love to be useful for more than just post refining ^^' And i'm not even sure that i can transfer their refined ores into my ship or not.

[@ninthhelltv987]

bravo!

[@zacharylansing]

I'm having trouble getting into mining mode in my prospector and i don't remember it being this hard. I'm not in flt mode and the button is just M. I'm very confused. I think i am bugged.

[@BaronCrumbly]

Mining is one of my favourite things to do in game and I really do enjoy the solo Mole experience; the industrial roleplay immersion is great (but I do break this somewhat by flinging myself backwards down ladders to save time). Everything's set up for maximum relaxation, i.e. a Hofstede main laser with optimal window buffs, and I don't mind being limited to smaller-sized medium rocks since it'll still only take an hour (give or take) zipping around the Aaron Halo to fill up the Mole with ore. I'm not picky with what I mine as long as a rock has at least some tier 1 ore, and I'll usually end up with 30-50% tier 1s in a run. The only problem is when I've finally done enough runs to fill up the Caterpillar to go to the TDD, and I can't sell because of the cargo removal failure issue, but hey, that's Star Citizen :') Although I'm hoping being able to unload cargo to our hangars in 3.24 will solve this. Anyway, this is a fantastic guide and has everything I wish I knew starting out!

[@sneakyjoe453]

Can you sell straight form the ship?

[@Farrister]

It depends what type of mining you are selling

[@sneakyjoe453]

@@Farrister for ROC mining what planet do suggest I do

[@A_Trall]

tnx

[@csx5882]

I wonder, how many players with the multitool mining attachement it would take to break a rock with the mass of 3000

[@AccidentalFriendlyFire]

We can use multiple gadgets again? Boys, looks like mining is back on the table!

[@Sludgebuster]

You can't. still only one per rock.

[@kingssman2]

Mining is a very intricate and complex gameplay compared to other PVE loops. Too bad the rewards are not as strong as say salvaging or combat missions.

[@Desrtfox71]

ROC-DS is actually the best ROC even for solo mining. Its only real downside is that it's a little bigger, the rest is basically all upside. There I said it. The secret is out

[@Farrister]

Haha, I'm still not a fan!

[@Desrtfox71]

​@@Farristerwell, you should give it a try. I was skeptical myself and only tried it because I wanted to explore how it works anticipating some two player ROC mining. I discovered it's pretty substantially superior overall.

[@ninja12333444]

Nobody likes swapping seats every time you want to move the roc, the only upside is that it has a tiny bit of additional storage

[@Grimm_Holt]

CIG needs partners like hunt showdown does. You should get paid or given in game ships for all your hard work.

[@Farrister]

I'm just happy if they are useful!

[@vik12D]

Mining: the safest, most reliable way to make auec. Aaron Halo FTW!

[@Sludgebuster]

Cellin. Always Cellin.

[@vik12D]

@Sludgebuster Pretty much impossible to get pirated in Aaron Halo.

[@GreenKiwi149]

hello

[@lga9046]

Selling gems is fully broken, has been for a year

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

"Art of Salvage"?? Did you not mean " Art of Mining"??? LoL

[@Farrister]

Just wonderful...

[@selfworthy]

Is this still a game or ist it already grinding work? i mean, if you do all that, why don`t you grind something in the real world that earns you something instead of paying for to work.

[@majormaccas]

make a 25 min video a 15 min video by setting 1.5x playback speed and enjoy a normal talking speed 😉😂

[@Farrister]

Have at it! I have tried talking faster but I just fall over my words, so this is best I can do :D