Cosmoteer - Mining and Factories Guide

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Sorry about my inconsistent thumbnails and titles, lol I forgot to uppercase it all. I don't get paid anyway.

[@_fiend]

This game is definitely way too much fun, I’m currently working on ideas for space stations. I always enjoy having more smaller ships, and stations than one large ship.

[@Spinexus]

I run a fleet too. Tho i´m only able to field 2 atm... personnel xD

[@_fiend]

@@Spinexus the way I’ve been doing it is leaving a skeleton crew of two on a platform that I use to store resources from my attack ship, then I expand the storage bays of the skeleton ship, and as I gather more resources I source my materials from my storage rather than ever spend a dime on purchases. Currently can hire plenty of guys but only use about 20-30

[@genjishimada4426]

I learned the hard way that if you make a combat station, make it have a front that is defendable unlike the first cannon pirate stations.

[@_fiend]

@@falleneyegames in a way it can be done, just requires lots of micro. You’re limited solely by crew size, and your funds, if you want you could have a fleet of ships.

[@TexanFoxx]

Video Idea: Starter ships, how to make them -> why certain things are chosen (price, early game power vs cost, defense, etc) -> different difficulties/economies designs You're using them every episode, you do address it slightly on the basics guide, but I think just a 5-6 minute video on all of what I mentioned might be more beneficial and another video. :)

[@brandonsanders2694]

Game is good, I’ve had to make ships specifically to beat certain ships and stations, when your specifically having to counter ship designs, That is great game design, my favourite ship design so far is double railgun siege ship for out ranging stations

[@danielgloyd4529]

I am a new player to the game. After I killed a few pirates and collected the bounties, I transitioned straight into a huge mining/factory ship with just a bunch of cannons and lasers on the front to fight off any pirates. I have been strip mining everything, building advanced parts, and using that to expand the ship and sell anything extra. The crew limitations seem a bit harsh for this kind of ship, but otherwise I haven't yet run into any problems. I have been able to just bully even other factions starbases because my ship is just a big rectangle with armor around it. Anything the front points at dies within second. I can't wait to see what some of the harder areas will look like. I hope this kind of ship is viable at higher levels. I've only made it to 6-8 difficulty areas so far.

[@CommandoOps]

Three things missile spam. Deck guns. Not vulnerable super lasers

[@ribbon_dog]

your videos are incredibly helpful as a new player. I just picked up the game as it went into early access and all your guides have helped me tremendously, keep up the good work!

[@uncledrake6606]

I sincerely hope new players don't take that ship design for an example! The ship in this video has several blatant problems. A - There is no situation in the game at all, where a mining ship could ever need more than 2 mining lasers. None. B - Enemy ships are not random in this game. You can't be surprised by a roaming enemy ship while mining, ever! So why waste resources and manpower building weapons into a miner?! C - There is no collision damage in this game, so armor on a miner just wastes energy on thrusters you don't even need. Miners will never be in a fight. D - Ammo factories are pretty much useless on a ship that doesn't use cannons or a minelayer. Stockpiling ammo is almost never viable vs slapping an ammo factory directly on a cannon/railgun

[@OneEyedOneHornedGian]

That was great! Also tells me I need to put my air locks close to my largest clump of barackses.

[@ShaneXbit]

I'm loving your videos. Thanks so much for answering these as well as you do.

[@a_ghost710]

Been searching for a video exactly like this the past few days

[@lazer2997]

You earned a sub! Good luck with the channel, looking forward to more clever content as I explore my new obsession.

[@fedoraman.]

ah yes the ultimate design *box*

[@tjl102]

funny story because my current minning ship also pushes things into stars to take the resources (particularly stations after i do the missions, and sell my stuff haha). but the minning laser and resource gatherer i use to do this with means my crew doesnt leave my ship to mine/gather because it would be death sometimes... also i have a crew role specifically for using the mining lasers over everything else, and another one on general all energy supply, helps the lasers not go down...

[@NPC-mk7ng]

Good job on that ship. a lot of work and thought went into this.

[@nayber2352]

quick thing about the airlocks, they use the closest airlock to the stuff, yeah, but thats a good thing. When they go to refill air, they don't fly all the way back to the middle of the ship, they refill at the nearest airlock and go back out, so they are slower getting into space, but faster once they are in space

[@HuNgerforrock]

To give you some ideas as a beginner what mistakes (I suppose they were mistakes at least) I made which you haven't covered yet: blueprint frenzy - I bought a lot of blueprints the moment I had the money, involving all kinds of weapons and factories instead of upgrading my ship and I wasn't even sure if those modules are important, weapons variete - after having a lot of blueprints I started putting every kind of weapon on my ship, so it had rockets, lasers, deck cannon, but just a few from each since I'm not a millionaire yet and I doubt it was working effectively, mining and factories - now that I cleaned the first sector I decided to create a mining and factory/storage ship to collect all the stuff in the clean sector to just realize I don't have the money for that... I wanted to build an uranium enricher but it is hella expensive so I will probably reduce my main ship for this, however I'm unsure if I should just jump to the next sector instead. It is also not trivial to a novice player to find out how one's ship is worth. At least I realized I should use blueprint mode more pruposefully to find out the costs. AHh also the engine room was very seducing with the promise of optimising energy distribution and 50% more thrust, so I rushed it when probably I shouldn't have (at least when I got it I did put thrusters all around :D). My main ship had 2 engine rooms full of thrusters, same practically non-existent armor as the model-s starting ship with the very same one and only small shield, and 1 from every kind of cannons except rail and prism. My little abomination

[@Spinexus]

Jump to the new system if your limit is personnel. If not build your carrier in your current system. For the main ship: Choose a weapon type you like (energy or ammo based) and use a mix of those besides point defense always run those. For the carrier: Just build it, even if it´s just an engine with storage and 2 crew. It can hold more stuff that you can sell which starts the loop of expanding it, piece by piece (if you dont know how to get more ships YT is your friend) Hope any of this helped!^^

[@_fiend]

I highly recommend you think small when it comes to ships in this game, as they are balanced. Small thrusters vs medium vs big basically is about speed, so a ship with lots of small thrusters will move quickly in tight spaces, and turn faster, but the big ones let you hit a faster max speed. Same with heavy lasers and big guns, more dps, but also less accurate fire. The trade off for these things is often subtle or sometimes very obvious like my ship had four laser turrets which I turned in for two large ones and I gained 10 kmph more in my speed while also being able to power them better, having less doors, but still my four laser setup was stronger since I could target four shots accurately instead of two poorly aimed ones. My best idea so far is to not concern my primary ship with resources at all, only carrying the bare minimum, and I have a freighter that comes to collect all loot for me, and a guard ship for it.

[@T.efpunkt]

I recommend watching the previous video on this channel "how to get rich fast". Go to the next system, do the "rescue station" missions: giant loot fiesta!

[@richardcagle5475]

@@T.efpunkt yeah, just demo the whole thing an build the upgrades to your ship there. just bring lots of hypercoils, a good supply of tritanium an a few diamonds an processors an the station will provide thousands of steel an such. i havent bought a thing after banking two mil credits, i just dont need to buy anything anymore. at least, not yet :)

[@thenameissix8206]

Amazing vids man, keep it up

[@T.efpunkt]

Another thing you can do is mining arround the sun. Shield your ship, pull the astroids out with a tractor beam, win!

[@bradleyyang9076]

Personally I like first mining the entire asteroid before moving under all the stuff to pick it all up, also you can make it so there isn't as much storage for hyper-coils so the hyper-coil factory will stop once it fills up the storage (idk what the plural for storage is) that it is assigned to, it will stop. i think.

[@bbear0_o]

Isn't it storages just add s? No hate man, i swear.

[@bradleyyang9076]

@@bbear0_o yeah i wasn't sure because autocorrect was saying it was incorrect

[@HuNgerforrock]

Depends on what you mean by storage. The actual storage entities like a vault, or just generally the space where you can put stuff. Because storage as entity has plural with 's', but as the 'general space where you can put stuff' it has no plural form

[@Holtijaar]

I'd say to make it clear that you mean multiple structures "storage compartments"

[@TimboTbagz]

Technically speaking, 'enough storage' is just as viable as 'enough storages'. 'Storages' is only correct when you actually have multiple storage locations i.e. 3 storage rooms a.k.a. 3 storages. You can still refer to your entire storage as simply 'storage'. It's essentially the same as saying 'space' or 'spaces'. You can have enough 'space', but you can also have enough 'spaces' if there are separate spaces. Your use of English in your comment is, therefore, correct in my view. One final point: The plural is 'as many storages', rather than the singular 'as much storage'.

[@protrololo]

Good luck you ar a great youtuber and I hope you will get Monotized support from Croatia 🇭🇷 😄

[@bigboi9856]

i would recommend you place a blanket or pillow behind your mic to reduce echo

[@imblackmagic1209]

can you make a guide on thrusters? maybe explain the way they work with their thrust power and the weight of the ship, how to look at those stats and everything else

[@cappo1178]

Subbed, great video and would love to see a play through

[@LumberchukStudios]

Hey man this looks pretty cool! How does this game compare to a pure automation game like factorio? I imagine those elements are obviously not as detailed since this game has some much more other content! Also do you know if factory ships of this size affect multiplayer at all? Thinking of getting in on this game with a few friends, one friend loves factory style games and the other like space sims so feels like a great compromise.

[@BrianC1664]

That plea was sufficiently moving (subbed)

[@shrillcrayfish6168]

Any modders who may be watching ( I don't know how hard this is so ill assume very hard) it would be cool if someone could make a mod that made auto trading and made npc ships come and trade with you. So you can make a trade station. Set some parameters fill it with stuff and let ships come back and forth to it and trade with you like your a station. May be stupid. May not be but I'd download it because I want a reason to design a station. If anyone makes something like that fantastic. Haha. Just a thought is all

[@johnm.4141]

I have also seen a lot of people ask the developer of the game to do this. Maybe something that will happen once the game is more complete.

[@mortenpetersen8888]

Thanks a lot for your videos. Im still new to the game so I’m learn still. What do you do with all the excess expensive materials when you switch to a smaller ship design ? (When you are not using the mining ship)

[@thatonekmc]

Either sell it or put it into a storage that has a crew quarters and airlock attached. It will sit considered a disabled ship while holding your stuff.

[@Der_Heiland05]

Great video, is it possible to share your storage ship (to the steam workshop)? Would be cool!

[@arnorthrop]

Great video!

[@imblackmagic1209]

great video! although you can start mining and factories pretty early anyway, no need for a super mega big ship, you still need a hauler type ship for mining tho

[@T.efpunkt]

Definetly makes sense to make your second ship a cheap but huge frighter instead of going for more firepower early on.

[@gnuu2899]

Hello, ty for all the great videos. I subbed & liked after you begged :'D! One thing: Speak louder or turn up the volume. Other videos are a little louder and it is a pain to always go and turn up the volume when watching a vid from u.

[@aoihitori]

I'm about to remake my Mining ship. The timing is too scary but thanks for this.

[@sindahir3]

wow nice mining ship! just a big brick but everything in it you need. but do you really need guns on that ships? do pirates respawn in later games?

[@T.efpunkt]

Same as with fire extinguishers: better safe than sorry! If there's a fleet waiting for you after a jump you'd probably be happy about some self defense capability 😉

[@richardcagle5475]

yeah i park my factory ship off to the side when farming and an enemy comes on screen. when i need the missiles im damn glad theyre there, but i dont start a fight with it. too slow an bulky to get away an when a fight comes to you it feels good to be able to just launch 100 missiles an sit inside my comfy box till its time to collect the scraps

[@caschque7242]

What about assigning factories to storages? To deliver the product? I used that, but it seems to only work for my default role. and after everything is done. and it is not tied to the storage jobs.

[@dertin95]

one tip i got: attack asteroids instead of mining them with an only mining laser ship. you go closer by yourselve and no crw going outside. and most of the time if you mine them you destroy 80% of them anyway

[@IloveJellow]

made a giant scope for mining rocks. it able to eat up a whole field in 10mins

[@porterwake3898]

I want this game sooooo bad.

[@TheyCalledMeT]

not just best practises are helpful, also anti patterns are very useful. intentionally showing very common mistakes and explaining what's wrong about those .. sometimes is much more helpful than just showing how it should be done

[@FirstLast-yz6rw]

Hey thanks for this video. Just so you know, you seem a little frustrated when you are explaining some things. You know that thing football coaches/teachers do when they explain something and slowly raise their voice.. Anyway, I hope you keep making videos. I'm learning a lot from them and I appreciate it 😊

[@mcbrite]

I'd love to have even ONE KZbinr make a video about the damn ship controls... Especially the more hidden ones...

[@thatonekmc]

I'll add this to my list, life has been getting in the way so it could be a bit.

[@johnm.4141]

So you do want airlocks all over your ship, at least if you have walkways. They were moving a lot faster on the walkway than compared to traveling in space.

[@virgomaquiavelico58]

you can do something like a starter guide, like how to expand from the beggining

[@bbear0_o]

If you exhaust the stones in a system, is that it? Ot will it respawn somewhere?

[@T.efpunkt]

As far as i understood the galaxy is persistent. Every astroid and wreck stays were it is forever, but once it's salvaged it's also gone forever.

[@Im_not_here_real]

can you post the ship on the steam workshop i just got alot of stuff and i need place to put it and stuff to spend it on

[@unleashed613]

i´m having a hard time getting crew, i can build the 3M ships but no crew to fill it 😥

[@Safttuete]

Can you show us the blueprint

[@HASTN]

Subbed!

[@frenzymodexd]

How do you designate a storage area as Iron for example?

[@thatonekmc]

Click on storage management or press V, click on one of the resource types, and then click on individual storage tiles or hold Ctrl for the entire storage.

[@Sven3399]

So did u deal with the fact, that the crew will always prioritize storage inside the factory? They will always take the airlock and deposit it in the factory, rather than just tossing it in storage from space, no matter the chain setup or crew priorities I set up. Is this a bug and did you encounter it ?

[@Sven3399]

This feels pretty ineffective to me, since they keep entering the ship which takes time

[@thatonekmc]

I know what you are talking about, it is particularly bad when trying to load a missile ship. I don't know how to fix it. I think it is just a part of the game.

[@Sven3399]

@@thatonekmc Walt replied to my "bug report" on this, and said its a known issue. So thats good to know

[@TheMcgut]

@@thatonekmc by the way, you were saying iron because it says Fe over the steel, which is "iron: on the periodic table.. so you were kinda right lol

[@s0lrac352]

can you make a download To all your ships

[@codesmith5]

Can you add steampacks for the different ships you demo? I have your starters and appreciate it

[@thatonekmc]

Yeah I'll add a folder to hold demo ships.

[@Maikel710]

Mining in the Sun is actually not that hard. Build a small shipt with a huge Shield front who blocks the dmg and a traktorbeam who grabs the Meteor and than slowly pull it out. :D

[@monkeybuisnezs4577]

Can you link the blueprints for your ships??

[@thatonekmc]

They are in my steam ship pack kzbin.info?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEh3TWlvUk1oemp5VVQ3R19kaHNmQVgtTWQ3QXxBQ3Jtc0tta3ZtamstZ1ZRdFFhMHkzakZTM2E4SlFoa2ctblNzT1V1S1BMX0FxZDBJQ2VWaUpWZlJ4LUFBOWtwb0N1X2YwZElwMnlidzRYYjRxR1E4dFpoRUVIQTgybTNwM2dNczVGc3N0NTViY0phYlNJWmMydw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcommunity.com%2Fsharedfiles%2Ffiledetails%2F%3Fid%3D2883255521&v=WSOxk270MRE

[@malter.468]

U got monitized to me gz:D

[@yedemon]

As far as I can figure out, the best way to mine is use a magnet and two mining lasers.. (with least people and cleast way~~)

[@SeiyuRavensong]

Awe darn, you didnt show how to get the bonus to crafting. or what that means.

[@thatonekmc]

It's just placing the factories next to each other, every adjacent factory increases by 25%

[@ingrimmschboindil1302]

Does someone know if asteroids do respawn, like in those asteroid fields?

[@neuran1337]

as far as I know and noticed there is no respawning of asteroids or any other kinds of pirates and stuff. everything is generated at the beginning/traveling to a new solar system.

[@ingrimmschboindil1302]

@@neuran1337 so how does the economy sustain itself, or is there even one. Like pirate ship dont just reapear? And what about freighters and faction warships?

[@neuran1337]

@@ingrimmschboindil1302 I don't know exactly if freighters really are simulated to buy and sell stuff out of the current solar system you are in. I guess there is a predefined range of items that circulate around a solar system. and this value rises linked to the difficulty of the system. For me at the moment the task to battle more challenging enemy ships to gain fame is perfect for the game. In the midgame when you have some factories for yourself, economy is not important anymore since you can afford everything. with rising solar-system-difficulty the asteroids also are getting bigger and richer regarding resources.

[@rrlukas414]

How can i get enough Crew mebers? Thats my biggest Problem and im Not strong enough to do better Quest

[@T.efpunkt]

There is the build-in option to adjust the crew/fame ratio for your save games but there are also mods for this in the workshop

[@skitcher]

🙃

[@richardcagle5475]

stole a lot of this ships layout ideas and it works pretty damn good. god awful expensive, but thats the challenge that keeps us playing isnt it. thanks for the info

[@djmouton251]

i subbed so you can get monotized

[@Der_Yoloist]

Fe = iron; so dont worry if you call that steel factiories -> iron factories

[@Tunn3kazInk]

Take a sub , get money

[@britishknightakaminininja1123]

The sound quality (and volume) on this video wasn't good. I subscribe to a lot of channels, and I watch even more, and my volume is generally set to a level that is comfortable for hearing them. Whenever I come across one of your videos, on those settings that work for all the other creators, I simply can't make your voice out at all. I have to turn the volume way up just to hear you at all, and even then, the quality isn't great. I'd be pretty certain that fixing your audio setup, so it more closely represents what the average levels are likely to be, will help you get less video abandonment, and more chance of subscription.

[@Vedurin]

Of course you keep saying iron. Fe is the symbol for iron. There is no steel ore. Steel is made from iron.

[@WolfmenLP]

good vid, dont beg for subs please xd thats just awkward

[@thatonekmc]

Tis naught but comedy