Easy Laser Mining with Maps! Elite Dangerous Tutorial

[@Mile13Gaming]

I hope you found this helpful! What should my next video be about? Let me know!

[@one2fwee]

I know you already have an Engineering Guide from 5 months ago (Been watching that too!) but a short 'update' video to explain what the new balance/changes have done to Engineering would be a useful video to have for sure. ^^ EDIT: Another idea is to explain how to remove Bounties & Fines, safely. - This was one of the most confusing things for me as a new player when I started, it's not explained in game at all and sadly a lot of information out there is pre-crime changes update so it's out of date, leaving newer Commanders struggling to understand.

[@AtlasRandGaming]

Been coming back to mining after a few years of thargoids mining. I miss DTEA videos. He was always a great tester

[@Mile13Gaming]

He was the best.

[@one2fwee]

Thanks! Great explanation. I've recently come back to Elite after a couple years and mining is super relaxing, so running maps seems like a good chill gaming session :D

[@Mile13Gaming]

Absolutely! It's almost meditative. :)

[@ransapar2259]

Thank you so much for doing these very well made, helpful, and up to date videos for elite, they've saved me a ton of time flailing around the million different sources for mining info

[@Mile13Gaming]

So glad you found them helpful! Thanks so much!

[@selbie]

I wish FDev gave a spherical coordinates system for rings. All you need is Azimuth, radial distance, and Z height relative to the ring midpoint. Regardless of that it's always impressive to see how players create their own survey data. This will be super useful.

[@ItsPixelFox]

Excellent video, Commander! o7 I wish we had these accessible back during the Void Opal and Low Temp Diamond craze days. Good times, those were.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Yep. You can still routinely get 250K/ton for platinum fairly easily, which isn't too shabby.

[@blogtwot]

Great explanation video. It's amazing the time and effort some commanders will put in to help others, one of the best things about ED.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Totally agree. One of the best gaming communities around!

[@cmdrandreyuenari4150]

Mapped mining is another way to make the game a second job. Just like Road to Riches and Billionaires Boulevard. Why would you work through other people's lists? It is a more rewarding experience to find stuff by yourself.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Yeah, but they're not mutually exclusive. I love going out exploring, finding systems that have never been discovered. But sometimes, you need to go make some credits, and map mining is an efficient and methodical way to do that.

[@cmdrandreyuenari4150]

@@Mile13Gaming I see your point, but in my opinion it's already easy enough to make money if you stay within the rules of the game. If you go exploring for example and do some exo biology scanning you will probably get a few hundred million from a casual trip already. And a player who likes PvE combat can stack some pirate missions which can pay a couple of hundreds of millions on a good afternoon. Even commodity market trading is worth it and everything of this is doable without third party tools. A few days ago I made about 200 million Cr with two runs in my mining cutter and found quite good prices for platinum via the in game market tool. You don't need to cheese your way through the game. Your videos are really good and well explained though.

[@AlexBehemot]

@@Mile13Gaming I don't know, if the thing is fast credits, then it is more efficient to take your Anaconda to cut Cyclops in half in Asterope and in a matter of 20 to 30 minutes you already have 100m or more. The truth is that mining is not for everyone nor is it as effective to get credits as some mention, and as the companion says, following a map makes the game very monotonous and ends up boring, I prefer to use the wave scanner and attack the brightest asteroids I found instead of following a map, the result is almost the same. Anyway, nothing saves from becoming monotonous in this game, hunting Cyclops in the Pleiades too, exploring and scanning biological samples too, the trick to avoid this is to constantly rotate tasks and avoid do things the same way for to long, do it all spontaneously, the more guides you follow, the more monotonous the game becomes.

[@zombuster2233]

i just started ED back after a couple years break and i was credit grinding on platinum in the same spot you were when i left haha! great mining tip video, this will make my grind less grindy on my return so i can get to what i want to do quicker

[@zombuster2233]

a quick question if you dont mind, where are you selling your platinum? I've been using INARA to look for sell points based on distance/price (im in a type 9 so distance is a big factor LOL) currently, Kovalyonok Port in the system of Limapa has the best distance to price ratio that im willing to settle for, but if you have some secret spot im all ears

[@Mile13Gaming]

Glad I could help! With a decent cargo hold and a good run, I've made 150M in a little under an hour. I know a lot of folks have done it faster than that.

[@EDCoPilot]

You made that look easy! May just try this out myself.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Go for it!

[@00ddub]

I wonder if EDcopilot could keep track of the path and create a saved route?

[@sc0or]

I used these maps (platinum) and they worked perfectly. The biggest difficulty was that sometimes commander who made it had a different monitor resolution. So it's bit tricky to find a correspondence on your screen. However there is another method. You take some ED catalogue, search for icy belts (not rings!) around a reference system, and visit them cluster by cluster (near an arrival star). If it does a cluster contains one single asteroid with a RHODPLUMSITE core. It's still pricy. After a day of jumping you'll have a list of systems and clusters with cores. There is one little thing: every time you exit from a hyperspace, few pirates arrive ))) So, plese take your Conda properly equipped. Belts respawn in 4 days. But that list can be huge. For example I found 15 clusters with cores not as far from Shinrartra as 30Ly. I think if you have your freighter close by, you can return and unload every single core into it.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Nice! I'll try that out!

[@sc0or]

@@Mile13Gaming Just to have some idea what I'm talking about, here is a short list of some of them LHS 2552 :: Cluster 2 Puppis Sector TO-R b4-4 :: Cluster 3 LHS 346 :: Cluster 3 Timbalderis :: Cluster 1 Timbalderis :: Cluster 4 Timbalderis :: Cluster 5 Timbalderis :: Cluster 6 Aeneas :: Cluster 2 Aeneas :: Cluster 5 Aeneas :: Cluster 7 Puppis Sector OI-T b3-6 :: Clustrer 2 * Puppis Sector OI-T b3-6 :: Clustrer 5 Heveri :: Cluster 3 Heveri :: Cluster 6 (star atmosphere) Amalangkan :: Cluster 2 Amalangkan :: Cluster 3

[@spacelinkFOX]

Is it possible, you post a link to your mining cutter builds ?

[@arvelh]

Awesome info thank you!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lukaserasmus2000]

Do these maps work for console because i tried to follow it but first my hotspots don't show up (the orange/yellow circles) and second when i checked these asteroids from the screenshots and video they were very low percentage like below 10% each time.

[@michaelgoodwin5510]

Many people don't realize that once mined, you're left with the lower percentage rocks. I have to disagree with the author that logging out and back in will recreate the same rocks with the same grade as before. A ring can be mined out. In my favorite system to mine platinum and tritium there were double and triple overlaps. Not anymore. I've been mining there for years and the hotspots are getting smaller and smaller and there are no more than 1 or 2 overlaps left. Now, i'm mining the 700-900 click range from the center of the hotspot and getting good results with 40-60 %. The center? I'll be lucky to get 1 out of 10 what the hotspot is and then 20% range at best. Maybe FDev resets some systems, I don't know, but I do know a system can be mined out. I'm witnessing it first hand in the system that I can mine 5K tons of platinum in a week using a T9 heavy and a carrier - it's a thousand LY outside the bubble.

[@larryjeff]

Ok but, what if I go into double hotspot and just hit random asteroids with lasers as I go while collecting with limpets?

[@Mile13Gaming]

I mean, sure, that'll work to certain extent, but knowing exactly with rocks to hit will be more efficient.

[@funkyburns6381]

love ur vids, brother

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks so much!

[@papabrou]

Great tutorial Video! Curious where you got the 2 hours respawn time from as I was pretty sure it was 3 hours and didn't hear anything about it being changed...? Of course if you mine for 1 hour and then logoff for 2 hours and then drop again at the start it will have been 3 hours since you mined the first asteroid, but I suspect that if it hasn't been 3 hours since you mined the last ones in the map when the instance was re-created then you will get to the end of the mapped run and the last couple rocks will already be depleted... P.S.: The /r/EliteMiners Reddit Pinned PSA Post has a link to a crowdsourced lists of all of the publicly known Maps.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Yup, I think you're right. Good catch!

[@halloweentimemachine]

This is a super helpful video and tutorial, and it’s really well done, but omg sometimes I cannot believe this game and what it incentivizes players to do

[@datsquidy4299]

I'm struggling to follow the platinum map in the video, it is confusing to me because all the asteroids look further apart for me than they are in the video. Is this an FOV change or another graphical setting?

[@Mile13Gaming]

Definitely sounds like a FOV thing. Mine is set to the maximum in my settings. Also may want to verify that you're lined up exactly where you should be for each asteroid. Sometimes I was focusing so much on the field layout that I didn't realize I was too far forward or too far back. Maybe that's it?

[@datsquidy4299]

@@Mile13Gaming Thanks for the response, it turns out that horizons legacy generates rings slightly differently to how they are in the current odyssey build. Changing version fixed the issue for me.

[@Mile13Gaming]

@@datsquidy4299 Ah interesting. Glad you got it solved!

[@rocket2739]

Realistically how do you switch apps, between E:D and the map screenshots ? Every time I alt tab it's a russian roulette between having an audio stutter or a full pc restart

[@Garryck-1]

Sounds like your system needs more RAM.

[@Mile13Gaming]

What are your system specs? Still images shouldn't take much RAM or CPU at all.

[@cakes1831]

Switch to borderless window

[@rocket2739]

@@Garryck-1 I got 4x8 GB DDR4 3800. How much more than 32 GB would I need ???

[@rocket2739]

@@cakes1831 one of the first things I tried. It changes the behavior, but I still sometimes crash.

[@mandokiin-k9h]

This kills the enjoyment aspect and makes this game a second job for me.

[@EnderGraff1]

Hmm very interesting. Is this actually much faster than jumping in and sending out prospectors? I feel like trying to follow along in the guide would take roughly similar times

[@Mile13Gaming]

It totally is. Especially when you get particular map down, and can just do it by memory, or just use the photos for a quick reference. In my experience, it only takes a few tries to get there. Try just doing the first 10 or so a few times, and you'd be amazed how quickly it becomes familiar. Also, another tip: You can get in position and look at the next image while your limpets are finishing cleaning up, so you're actually not using any extra time there.

[@legitbeans9078]

Nice! :D

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks! 😄

[@legitbeans9078]

@@Mile13Gaming Seriously the Elite community on YT and Reddit is super helpful. It's cmdrs like you that keep the game alive, and it's appreciated :)

[@kevin___]

Hey, thanks for making this video. When did you record it? It seems that the Omicron Capricorni B map is no longer there...

[@Mile13Gaming]

Literally recorded it this week. The YT link in the description works for me. Hmmm...

[@kevin___]

@@Mile13Gaming it really helps if I pay attention. I had gone to the other website, rather than th YT one. My bad 😇

[@Mile13Gaming]

@@kevin___ No worries! Happy mining!

[@papabrou]

Omicron Capricorni Maps made before Update 17? (october 2023?) are likely not valid anymore as that patched removed some asteroids when it fixed the issue with the hotspots disappearing because the star in that system was too bright. That caused the maps to be missing asteroids and could not really be followed anymore, new maps had to be made.

[@kevin___]

@@papabrou thank you for the info. I know what to look out for!

[@hughjardon3538]

It's not really worth mining with maps. I can get close to the best guys map mining rates by just mining random rocks. The disadvantages of the map are firstly the time it takes to learn it and figure out the path; and secondly, you can only do one run per night because the rocks become depleted, while as you can do three runs doing random rocks, and by that time, the rocks become replenished. I average 200 mil/hr mining random rocks. That includes all travelling time and selling time, i.e. 5 hrs playing time gives 1 billion credits.

[@Mile13Gaming]

I mean, your mileage may vary I guess, but all things being equal, selecting only the best rocks will always be better than having random less-optimal rocks thrown in there. Will it take time to learn the map? Sure. Is it worth it if you do a lot of mining? Without question.

[@flis000]

Thx

[@pperretjr]

Nice!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks!

[@rybuds47]

I understand why you made this gude but it should come with a huge warning in the title. This will destroy your immersion for crdits. Just knowing this is how it works has made mining so much less fun. Its all fake, no real chance. Doesnt this kill the fun in mining?

[@Tepnox]

Damn. Now we have map-mining. It's pretty wild after all these years I thought it is simply randomized asteroids each time. Now how in the world is this technically possible with all those systems and asteroid belts out there?! Kind of mind boggling!

[@Neo-vz8nh]

Procedural generation. The same like with minecraft if you use the same seed.

[@DubStepTomatoFarmer]

D2EA RIP

[@Mile13Gaming]

I know. I miss D2EA. One of the biggest reasons I started my channel.

[@lillen141]

This is just stupid 😂😂😂

[@thebanana26]

How so?