⛏️ Elite Dangerous Mining Guide How to Laser Mine for LTD in Elite Dangerous Money Making Guide

[@HawkesGaming]

The NEWEST LTDx3 mining location is located here Commanders! The fleet carrier patch wrecked Borann but no worries I have your back! Check this video for the new LTD3 location! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpOnkIKBo8d1hpo

[@SiegedHeart]

Yep Its official your my favorite Elite dangerous Guide youtuber

[@SiegedHeart]

Keep being awesome

[@Macabri_2k10]

For the new miners out there, it gets often forgotten in guides like this because you only set it once: set all other materials you don't want to collect to ignore, check the contacts page after you got some chunks and weed out all what you don't want to collect, your limpets then only collect the stuff you want (mixed rocks will discard the part you have ignored and only yield you the stuff you want)

[@HawkesGaming]

Yeah I forgot to mention that which is a bummer. I did pin that in the main post. I'll likely also edit the description to mention it as well.

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

I would word it differently to not confuse new players and make them ignore mats needed for engineering which are labeled as "materials" in the game.

[@portlandtwowheels7607]

I was so happy when they introduced this. Low temp, painite and void opal mining is a lot of fun. I used to just mine for opals but now seeing how easy the others are again...

[@TrangleC]

Good tip. I had to learn this the hard way, by experimenting around. There is one thing I still don't know yet, which would help me a lot. I always have to go into my comm-display and select the prospector limpet to see the contents of a scanned asteroid. Apparently it is possible to just have it displayed on the left, in the cockpit, without the need to open your comms. Knowing how that works would save me so much time.

[@TrangleC]

Nevermind, I found out you just have to target the limpet. Of course kind of makes me feel silly, but then again, I think that is kind of un-intuitive still, despite being so simple. When I target stuff, I usually get information about that thing, not about what that thing is attached to, you know what I mean? This should be something the limpet communicates to me and should have nothing to do with targeting anything, except the asteroid maybe. That is why I didn't think of that option before writing the previous comment. The game kind of breaks its own rules there, on a low level.

[@HawkesGaming]

You will be rolling in Space Bucks after watching this video Commander! Don't forget to set all other materials you don't want to collect to ignore in your control panel. ALSO KEEP IN MIND when Fleet Carriers go live in June all known hot spots will get reshuffled in order to make room for Tritium in the loot tables. This means for a SHORT TIME there will be no known LTD x 3 and Painite x 2 spawns until Commanders find them. Once that happens Inara and the miners tool will refresh with the new locations. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you get as space rich as possible before the June update. There will likely be a short period of discovery while we look for them again! *EDIT* For fire groups I have Mining Lasers and Collector Limpets on 1 and have my Prospector limpets on 2. I have a single fire group for convenience.

[@jeffreyepstein241]

Thanks for the video, I tried to go to a single ltd hotspot a few days ago and I think I would've made more money hauling biowaste in an eagle

[@HawkesGaming]

@@jeffreyepstein241 Yeah it's ugly. The only worth while place to mine diamonds is in a LTD 3 overlap. Even a double LTD is pretty crappy.

[@Fadamor]

Hmmm, looks like that means I need to return to Borann and build-up my cheddar cache. I had it up to 700,000,000+ cr. previously, but after buying lots of tasty modules and ships I'm "only" down to ~365,000,000 cr. now.

[@jeffreyepstein241]

@@HawkesGaming would you recommend painite or Ltd for an unengineered type 9?

[@HawkesGaming]

@@jeffreyepstein241 LTDs for sure. In most cases the Painite demand will be so low and when you apply the have 10 x less than demand you really can't sell much at once. LTD's on the other hand have a much MUCH might demand on a daily basis so sniping Painite sales isn't near as easy as just mining for LTD's in your type 9.

[@Felipe198964]

ALL guides should be like this. Direct and no shit talking.This is why i love this Channel! Im playing ED and NMS following your guides, thanks Hawkes.

[@HawkesGaming]

That is awesome Felipe thank you!

[@anthonyshankman9697]

Thanks Cmdr! Please will do a guide on the Guardian FSD booster. Me and my 10yr old son started playing ED coz of your ‘best start 2020’ guide and we figured out mining from that. It would really help if you could also explain how I can fly while he handles the mining lasers in multi crew. We seem to be almost there but when he takes the gunner role and grabs the turrets he can’t use them. Thank you for your guides, we both love your sense of humor and in-character manner.

[@HawkesGaming]

I can make a video on that if you like. In the mean time if you want to look it up there are videos on youtube already on that topic. Just make sure to take at least one point defense if not two in your ship. When farming for the guardian materials you will have to fight the guardian sentinels. The point defense on your ship will fire at the guardian missiles for you. This makes them super easy to kill. Also keep in mind the closest guardian sites are about 1k light years from the bubble. Taking a small ship will ensure that you can land right next to the guardian site so the point defense kicks butt for you.

[@taiyoctopus2958]

lowkey you kind of sound like a character that belongs on rick and morty XD

[@robyndafox]

Nah he sounds like the main dude from total drama

[@cmdrhb8659]

And breathe

[@lilbill88]

I was thinking the same thing!! Like one of the announcers from interdimensional cable commercials

[@FalkenHunter705]

I just now made Trader Elite after using your 2019 mining guide. 220 million per run in a similar Python build. Thanks so much for making these videos!

[@Zelisius]

I would recommend using 2 point defense on the utility for ships with 4 utility slots. I use 4 in ships with 8 utility slots. Place them around your cargo hatch. I do this just in case I run into pirates

Get close to the rock, and align your cargo scoop (bottom) with the direction in which the materials spin out of the rock. That greatly speeds up collection.

[@HawkesGaming]

Yes it does!

[@user-jm8sy5ox2j]

I grinded empire rank up to the rank you need for the cutter and used the cash to buy an imperial clipper, followed this guide afterwards and mined at the GCRV 1568 and made 1.8 billion in around 10 hours. Used it to buy and fully kit out a asp explorer, python, anaconda and imperial cutter. Now I can easily turn out around 200 tons of painite with my cutter and go sell 522 tons of painite for over 500 million in a single trip and I'm saving up for the absurd cost of a fleet carrier. If only low temperature diamonds didn't get nerfed. One thing this guide doesn't mention is the fact that you should be bringing core and subsurface mining tools when you go out laser mining. They're fairly cheap and you can get a massive boost of painite cargo if you accidentally find a core asteroid or subsurface deposits and it will really speed up your mining trip

[@jonastio]

Your mining vids have been pretty helpful for me. The learning curve on this game has been pretty brutal, but it's been nice to kind of open things up to being able to experience more that this game has to offer. So, kudos fella. Mining has been such a zen experience. You can be calm and methodical, and doing it in VR is so relaxing.

[@chuckles9702]

You broke the economy, Rasch Ring saw prices drop by half today LOL

[@TheWirelessTech]

LTD's have just been merfed (mega nerfed) , you can still mine diamonds but don't expect this type of return anymore.

[@V4LC0UR]

Oh Christ finally a build that isn't fleet carrier dependent thank you so much

[@YuSoMadBra]

I love how you voice always sounds like you have something else to say

[@jareknemec7015]

I'm new to this game. But your tutorials are a life changer to this game. Good job mate

[@MichiFace6]

wow this is so much faster than deep core mining D: didnt know i could farm LTD this easy thanks

[@yann9915]

For the sake of variation I do deep core and subsurface mining at any one time, but what's now pushed me into this sort of mining isn't even the greatly increased income, but the fact that limpets won't kill themselves every 30 seconds T_T

[@Kwaark]

deep core should be the best one, it's so much better gameplay...

[@bobacks]

This is a great tip. Just made a shed load of space cheese, and jumped two ranks. Cheers.

[@HawkesGaming]

Nice bobacks!

[@adamclifton4706]

Bought a Python with enough for 1 buyback (risky) but proceeded to kit it out with the basics, went over to Borann, straight into LTD, bam nice stocked rocks, almost an hour later , 22mill in the bank, not bad for first try, will figure out the more effective farming means, so can rack up big bank , thanks for the guide, helped me so much

[@HawkesGaming]

Awesome Adam glad to help!

[@Spideryote]

3-400k a ton for LTDs these days We never knew we were living in the good days

[@High_Goblin_King]

Thanks, I'm not as wrong as I thought. I'm just trying to get into laser mining and it is tough!

[@Spideryote]

@@High_Goblin_King you want to be mining platinum in Omicron Capricorni on planet B1

[@CalfOnTheRun]

If you're like me and you've only done combat for 500 hours, you should really give this a go. It may see confusing but once you start it's pretty easy to understand. If you're looking for place to mine, just go exactly where he went, worked for me. In addition, any ship works for basic mining like this. For core mining look for some more manoeuvrability

[@CalfOnTheRun]

Also worth mentioning if you're new to the game DON'T DO THIS. You'll miss out on a huge part of the game and it will really take the enjoyment out

[@VikingGuard]

Thought I new much about mining, but this JumpaKonda thing is very neat, and also having collector limpets and mining lasers on the same firegroup makes things even more easier... thanks Hawkes for this tutorial. o7 Cmdr.

[@HawkesGaming]

Glad to help VikingGuard! Love the name BTW!

[@mauler16]

You should really pin this on your Best Start Guide (or vice versa). I’m so happy it exists and it makes it so much easier since I’m totally new to mining. The annotated screenshot would have been helpful prior to my several runs where I missed the point and had to sell 6-7 diamonds a pop as I ran out of limpets.

[@nukezat]

Love it! Was watching the other guide just today and was struggling mining crap.

[@HawkesGaming]

I hope this helps you Commander!

[@Fadamor]

Re: Using a Detailed Surface Scanner on the rings There's a random bug in the game where you scan the rings, but the yellow disks don't appear. If that happens to you, exit the game completely, then re-enter and the disks should be there. (At least they were for me).

[@HawkesGaming]

You are absolutely correct. I will also admit that I experience this bug occasionally. The method you described works 100% of the time once you get back into super cruise.

[@Zorenox94]

Are you sure you weren't in combat mode? You can see hotspots only in analysis mode

[@mattsmechanicalssi5833]

@@Zorenox94 It occurs in analysis mode sometimes. It's an old bug in the game. Doesn't happen often, but exiting the game and restarting it does fix it, like Fadamor and Hawkes said.

[@HawkesGaming]

@@mattsmechanicalssi5833 That is the truth.

[@eROCKaustin]

I thought my game was bugged for the longest time until I realized combat mode hides the scanner info. Don't think I've encountered the actual bug yet

[@Fadamor]

I swore he said "...ten tons less than the current demand..." It's a good thing he followed up with a text explanation that definitely said "...ten TIMES less...".

[@HawkesGaming]

Yeah ten times less is a good rule of thumb. Sorry for the confusion heh.

[@ebo5246]

from my point of view as a medical student having to define everything and understand everything to explain every point I find this video very amuzing because of the way you just listed every important point because you know how frustrating it can be to miss something and have to jump back or so. good fucking video!

[@seanerzat]

This is perfect timing, this is helping me follow your guide from earlier this year

[@HawkesGaming]

Nice! let me know if you have any questions Commander!

[@seanerzat]

@@HawkesGaming you are a blessing and savior to my noobiness good sir

[@commandernomad2817]

@@HawkesGaming Could you do a video on how to quickly get started with combat? the places to go for a fight, good ships to use, some basic loadouts. I followed your best start guide and now i have a few bil but im not sure what to even spend it on.

[@tobydaking1199]

I'm new to ED. I've mostly done cargo transport jobs or I pick up 100 Polymer at 52 per unit which is 5,200cr, and sell that 100 for 4,613 per unit which is 461,000cr with a profit of 456,100. (Buy - polymer at 52cr per unit at Mamaragan/Padalka Orbital) (Sell - polymer at 4,613 per unit at Mahimata/White city) It does change the price usually up and down 10cr, I don't know if it is the same for others since I'm on ps4 and play on solo, or if it will keep the prices as it is now. I wanted to start looking into mining since I got 20 mil for the Type 7 transport ship and didn't know what I needed to equip, might hold on till I get 3 mil before even attempting, in case I eject out. Anyway thank you, this guide answered alot of my questions.

[@teethirtyfour7394]

Thanks a ton man, you’ve literally been my saving grace in terms of all of my free time saved

[@randyherp7887]

In a guide i learned that the materials in rings do deplete, and good mining spots get depleted pretty fast (weeks), so Im not minig in Borann anymore. Is this wrong?

[@HawkesGaming]

The rocks refresh every 2 hours. Core asteroids take forever to respawn. I mine in Borann a boat ton and only run into tiny streaks of dry spells where other commanders have mined before. That is super rare though and not the norm.

[@orodruined4526]

@@HawkesGaming The 2 hour refresh rate is personal. Laser mining has a set number of fragments per rock per commander. This is why wing mining is a viable option, if fragments were not personal, everybody in the wing would compete for the same number of fragments, which would significantly lower the output of each wing member. Dry spells are down mainly to RNG. If the fragments were not personal, your prospectors would also show "depleted" and not just low percentages.

[@hayden8661]

@@orodruined4526 Wing mining is also quite good because only one person needs a DSS, as the other can just use the wing beacon to find the hotspot once the first guy's already there. I've used that quite a bit painite mining with my friend, who just has an adder.

[@felixthescholarlytitan4437]

My RNG must suck because I keep going to the triple hotspot for LTD’s and never get a lot. I’ve been out there for two hours before and only got around 90tons. My current set up let’s me hold 160 tons of cargo plus the six slots in refinery, but the most I normally come back with is 120 tons do to finding only a few LTD spots. Not sure if it’s RnG or if I’m doing something wrong.

[@colin3387]

I did a run in my cobra mk3this morning managed to net 11 tonnes of Ltd before I ran out if limpits and nearly cooked my ship in a star when i got far to close and realized i had no heatsink ammo. Worth it first big pile of space bucks for me

[@HawkesGaming]

I loved those days commander!

[@ImMcSparky]

I love that you waited until the prices eased out. That being said, I do miss the 1.6-1.8mill per diamond

[@Zelisius]

I just sold to a station that was buying for about 1.6 million. Granted, thats the first time Ive seen that in a long while

[@marcushillerstrom25]

Sold for 1.65 yesterday, made 112 million with a asp explorer. Bought a python, today I'm making even more.

[@bskibinski]

had 1.7 a couple of times now in the last month... It's not extremely rare... but yeah... it needs to fall in your playtime. Mostly it's between .9 - 1.1

[@SquigglyBeasst]

I've just started playing ED this past weekend, and have kitted out an adder as per your "best start 2020 video". I see that the fleet carriers update is due tomorrow... so I guess I better be a mining mofo tonight!

[@nickpolice2902]

o7 Definitely going to try this build, many thanks for posting! Also, totally tried a LTD2 spot that was really close to a stellar price the other day, and YIKES... never again lol.

[@HawkesGaming]

Yeah the difference between an LTD 2 and an LDT 3 is mind boggling.

[@williamirwin9686]

Dude i started recently and im loving this game cant wait to upgrade my stuff with all these space bucks lol

[@Blobberrr]

hello thx for this guide worked well used pretty much the exact same as your set up thx worked well got loads of chunks

[@bskibinski]

Hey man, great vids (just got into ED) Just wanted to let you know, you have a great style! love the sarcastic, "read from a script" kind of way of saying things! Great work, keep it up :)

[@HawkesGaming]

Sadly I dont read from a script. I just record a breath at a time then splice it all together.

[@bskibinski]

@@HawkesGaming aaah that's how you get that effect! :) It works really well, the information is very clear (I think auto-generated subtitles love your way of talking ;-) and you don't spend any time on BS, and have quick nice jokes in between. descriptions with timestamps (the mats video). Thanks for honoring me with a reply, and stay safe Commander o7

[@Mavericktravo]

THank you for providing your HUD colors, Nothing else i have used has been as usable - except the default orange.

[@ScottSlooper]

Really excellent video, thank you. I am new, and I don't recognize any of these systems. I wonder if I was spawned way out in BFE compared to everyone else. I don't see other players, ever. No open boxes or triangles on my radar. No responses to my [LOCAL] pleas "Are there any friendly players out there?" Just the canned NPC responses "I'm gonna crush you noob." At first I thought those were other players, but now I realize I am truly alone and being taunted by the computer. Should I stay out here and try to find my own mining areas and just shut up and do my missions, or should I try to find everybody else? Is there a way to look at the map and see from a big picture where I am compared to where the other players are?

[@jameskymala8295]

I sold 520 LTD's (just under 4 hours of mining) the other day for 1.5 m a pop and my game bugged and I lost 289 mil... I put in a bug report as it is apparently a known bug that when you make large sales to stations like this it can over load the server and cause you to loose funds. Sad as it was I technically after they fix my balance will have hit my first Billion credits and its all thanks to you.

[@HawkesGaming]

Wow I hope they fix that for you Commander! Grats on bring on the brink of the Billionaires club!

[@Frankenllama]

i dunno what black magic you use, but i spent 3 hours in that field and didn't get a full cargo hold of LTD. used over 1000 limpets scanning every asteroid in exactly that area you mention

[@HBT0972]

Great video and thanks alot for it...keep up the fine work. You are the best one to watch - you stick to it without rambling on like others. Quick question...you are not using a pulse analyzer...why? Are you just randomly hitting asteroids in the belt? Thanks!

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

If you mine in solo play I would highly encourage building your ship like if you would build an exploration vessel for highest jump range possible to eliminate as much travel time as possible because sometimes the best price* have a very limited demand... for example yesterday I sold my diamonds on a station with only 800 demand and literally 10 seconds later someone in chat cried because price fell from 1,2 million to merely 600k which means I beat that guy to it by mere seconds including the time it took him to write into chat! So if it is not essential, leave it at home. D-rate everything that is not related to jumping or mining (thrusters, shields etc.) and if you are not going to engineer your mining ship, at least consider guardian FSD booster. * - the best price is the highest possible profit per hour not the highest price on inara or edtools. If you get 999k 3 jumps away and 1,3M 25 jumps away from your mining spot, 999k is actually the better price because by the time you are back again mining from that long track, you could have been almost done mining your second load if not already on your way to sell it which means higher profit overall. edit: fixed som typos

[@Overkill1978]

I noticed you didn't use pulse wave scanners. Is random prospecting just numerically faster than using a pulse wave?

[@michaelloman8227]

You don’t use the pulse scanner? And hit every asteroid that has the percent high enough? I always thought saving prospector limpets only hitting the rocks the glowed bright. Still only having 1 in five. Having ltd’s. How many rocks you prospect in a single run? Compared to how manny you actually mine. It seems I’m spending four times as long just filling my hull.

[@dreamyrhodes]

You don't need prospecting can go without and have more limpets for collecting. You can just fire any asteroid then you ignore on the contacts panel everything that's not LTD and after you done that a few times you have all minerals in that ring ignored until only LTD is left. That's the only stuff limpets will pick up now and also the only stuff you see as bright dots on radar. Then when you go without prospector you just fire on an asteroid and wait if there's white comming out. If so collect it it will be LTD if not or only a few come out its not a LTD asteroid and the few dots that come out are probably materials like iron, nickel, sulfur ect (you don't want to ignore these because you need them for Engineers and also manufacting your own limpets and stuff like ammo should you run out and since they take no cargo hold, always pick them up too). These without a stream of white dots coming out you can ignore, because after like 2 or 3s firing on it without white dots appearing, there won't be any more LTDs either.

[@HawkesGaming]

Would not begin to recommend doing this without prospector limpets. You will get less than 10% of the total yeild.

[@Facts4Fun1]

Brand new to Elite dangerous and love your vids but can you please do one that shows a noob like me how to mine from step one? I am a quick learner but cant get the mining training to work.

[@MrSteve0311]

Did they remove these overlapping hot spots?

[@tjyuy9685]

I really am having crappy luck with mining spent about 30 hours now and haven't really found anything worthwhile and haven't made a lot of money. My main money makers passengers and I done about 10 million on that now

[@taoistul]

How did you get that total mass of your ship? Engineering, I imagine.....I have engineering only on FSD, Shiel, and multi cannon, but I imagine that un engineering in the total mass of the ship is a MUST...Because this build is not working for my Python yet... Great work anyway (some extra details for the limpets to collect only the materials that you want and the rest to ignore) some times the pirates will attack you exactly when you are in a low FSD speed(when approaching to the exit...and you can lose the interdiction).... then you have to run like hell

[@scoobylew24]

Lol, your 2020 mining thingy is accurate for another 10 full days!

[@HawkesGaming]

Why is that? Sure the location changes from Borann to somewhere else once more triples are found? Peeps said the same thing about my 2020 best start guide when the diamond nerf came out. It made no sense to me then either.

[@scoobylew24]

@@HawkesGaming gee I hope there's more tripples after the great reset. The great reset is coming, followed by all the things the update will break! o7

[@MegaPrams]

Here you are giving a 2020 guide on miming while i am struggling to find a mining laser

[@MrShadowpanther3]

eddb.io/ is a great resource to find commodities, current prices, and stations that sell various gear you are looking for. INARA is another but I mostly just use eddb.

[@MarcvsBlv]

I'm still pretty new to the game and been looking at getting into mining. I've heard that deep core mining can be more profitable but looks like you're laser mining? What do you think?

[@HawkesGaming]

Right now laser mining is the most profitable way to mine. Before the Nerf Void Opal core mining was king. Now hunting cores isn't near as good as just doing good old fashioned laser mining.

[@figjam9530]

here's the thing. core mining opals you made almost exactly as much as you now make surface mining diamonds at Borann. but surface mining has been in the game from the start and core mining took the devs months and months to code to introduce a new game mechanic. by nerfing opals all they did was completely invalidate months of their own work. SLOW CLAPS, well done fdev. well done.

[@kyriusconstantine]

I have a type 10 for my mining vessel is this a good choice, im still super new to mining and never really done it solo. Usually with some friends. Also does this process after the carrier update was released?

[@ImTheMrFoxman]

Isn't Borann being nerfed in the next update? Which is tomorrow, iirc?

[@AtlasRandGaming]

Comments are like “How should I ________?” Hawkes pastes the same reply “I have a link to how you _______ in the description.”

[@mavislenya1110]

Very concise video. have a like.

[@pauljohnson9910]

Sweet vid as always commander ,comedy gold . That’s a good idea that didn’t occur to me having the Jump a condo parked up real close then if any of them pesky pirates wanna step to then I’d relish the opportunity to give them the hell-a-hard sell .

[@HawkesGaming]

I have been guilty of smoking pirates in my conda on the way to sell. Yup it was a bad idea haha.

[@phil1850]

Hey Hawkes could you please post your interior hud colouring from the graphics override text ? That is a verry nice color scheme.

[@Real28]

Agreed.

[@HawkesGaming]

It's posted in the destription.

[@Real28]

@@HawkesGaming Ballin. Will try it tonight! Been working on green ones but options are too limited.

[@phil1850]

@@HawkesGaming thanks

[@InarusLynx]

What about abrasion, subsurface, and core mining?

[@blueaqualizardsrandomstuff3833]

Any advice for when your scanner probes don’t work

[@dannypagano323]

Any tips on how close you need to be to the targetted hotspot to find ltds? Does a Pulse Wave Analyzer do anything to help locate them?

[@HawkesGaming]

I believe you need to be within 1k to use the DSS. The pulse wave analyzer does nothing for laser mining or finding the hot spots. It only helps find core asteroids.

[@dannypagano323]

@@HawkesGaming thanks! I think that was my issue. was using the PWA thinking it would highlight "valuable deposits" and finding nada. New cmdr here, less than 30 hours.

[@Mr_Xul]

Is it possible to achieve the same results with a Krait or do you lose too much for the change in ship?

[@rubenstrubbe5099]

I can never find the right asteroids. I'm prospecting away but only 1 in 10 roids tops will have ltd's and even then usually no more than 15%. So generally I only get to fill up just a bit less than half my cargo space by the time I'm out of limpets. Is it possible ltd mining got nerfed even more in the last month or so? Not complaining, still managed to upgrade to the python recently, but it took me about 6 two hour sessions in the asp explorer to gather enough space-cheddar to do it. And even then it was only because I happened to be so lucky to find a void opa core by chance on my last run, which sold off for vastly amounts more cheddar than the ltds I was actually looking for.

[@rubenstrubbe5099]

I haven't mined with the Python yet, only managed to buy and outfit it, and then traveled to the LTD hotspot. I really miss the jump range of the asp explorer. I could get from the mining hotspot to wherever to sell in about 10 to 15 jumps but I must have done almost 30 jumps in the Python to get back...

[@Minotaur1975]

After you've scanned the rings with the DSS, do you need to have the DSS equipped on future visits to see the hotspots, or will they always be visible from then on?

[@michaelloman8227]

Always need it equipped but only scan one time.

[@Altaree1]

Do you need the detail scanner to see previously scanned hotspots? Or does the orange glow stay forever?

[@HawkesGaming]

Even if you have scanned a planets rings before if you don't have the scanner on you it wont shot the hot spots.

[@JBGecko13yt]

great video, very informative. do you have an even lower level mining guide? also has there been updates to the game? I am new, I see spots marked on rings but have not seen hotspots yet in my scans, does every ringed planet have hotspots? thanks in advance to whomever answers this

[@Amber-Mae]

Thank god I've been needing this

[@HawkesGaming]

Now go forth and become space rich Commander!

[@gambar]

Found your (other) money making (mining) guide yesterday... Spent 5 hours amassing peanuts for the Adder, made 2 runs to buy the ASP, spent another 2 hours kiting and mining (without any other NPC ever showing up), and when my cargo was full of shinies i friendship-drive hopped away - well at least i tried to. The game froze, I had to restart. When i logged back in, I got scanned IMMEDIATELY and 30 seconds later i was space dust. Was this game seriously made to just piss people off and waste their time like that? Jeez.....

[@colin3387]

How do we target the rings with the scanner? Also how do we move the scanner around? I lucked out and found a few good asteroids but couldn't find the hot spots with my dss

[@Fadamor]

Here's how I did it (I use a joystick, but I suppose the mouse will work the same way). In supercruise, get near the planet with the rings until the Detailed Surface Scanner (DSS) no longer shows "Out of Range" then slow to minimum supercruise speed. Switch to the DSS which will change your display to the scanner display. Slew the display around to what you want to scan using the joystick/mouse, then fire a probe using button 2. One probe scanned the entire ring but if the planet has multiple rings I guess you have to probe each ring separately.

[@doglordo9715]

How should you outfit your ‘jump a conda’?

[@HawkesGaming]

I have a link to my jumpoconda in the description.

[@doglordo9715]

@@HawkesGaming oh okay thanks so much:)

[@shayeladshayelad2416]

Got me an adder 2size 3cargo 1size 2 laser 2 collector limpets booom now im going to get me a cobra (love the adder )

[@BerndFunken]

The problem that i have with all these guides: they are clearly done by players who have already good ships and lots of money. I would love to see a guide with the beginner in mind = they don't have these big ships and not so much money. I doubt i would get all that stuff into my type 6 or in that grade (i have just 1 million cr after buying that ship) and since i'm lousy at fighting i can only try to be a trader, explorer or miner.

[@commandernomad2817]

he made that already: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIW7gnaHgcSio5o i followed it, its very good.

[@stea1thshot137]

@Bernd Funken check out Hawkes other great video for new commanders. I was a brand new player in a sidewinder and 3 mining sessions later I have this Glorious Python! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIW7gnaHgcSio5o

[@HawkesGaming]

I'm guessing you havent seen any of my how to have a best start videos where I start with nothing and a sidewinder to anaconda in 8 hours? All with no engineering??

[@HawkesGaming]

@@stea1thshot137 How that is indeed GLORIOUS Commander!

[@DeSibyl]

Does this still work in Odyssey? I've noticed in Odyssey mining isn't as reliable or efficient as it was in these videos... for instance LTD is worth almost a third of what it is in this video (from 1.6mil/ton to just ~450k/ton)

[@BassHarderonline]

Has Boraan been nerfed? Because I don't find any low temp. Diamond

[@25xxfrostxx]

As of yesterday, Borann has been nerfed. New triple hotspot in COL 285 Sector CC-K A38-2 on Planet 1

[@squirrelattackspidy]

Not clear where you drop into the rings to get best amount of diamonds. It looks like you are just dropping into a bright yellow patch, but it's all bright yellow. Then when you get in, I don't know why you are heading in a certain direction.

[@MrShadowpanther3]

If the triple HS is still there, drop directly between the two closest HS markers in one of the gold bands. Target one of the HS indicators (from your left panel) and just keep mining towards that. It will show up on your navball (upper left of radar) and also on your hud. It is simply to make sure you don't get turned around and start probing rocks you have already checked.

[@annanishimiya7786]

Great guide again. Appreciated lad. Any jumpinanaconda build without engineering? I haven't got the horizon expansion just the base game so i cant build that unfortunately.

[@HawkesGaming]

Sadly a Jumpaconda isn't a Jumpaconda without a lot of lightweight engineering. Horizons is 1/2 off right now if you want to experience the glorious Jumpaconda for yourself. =)

[@annanishimiya7786]

I'm on ps4. Unfortunately, there is no deal for horizon right now >_< Thanks for the answer anyway

[@christophershafer5615]

Is Tritium mined? Video coming up on that? Use a fleet carrier to be a hauler, load it up with LTD and make small trips to high sell for max profit?

[@HawkesGaming]

When FC's appear in June all the hot spots will be re-rolled to add tritium to the mix. It can be mined or purchased. When I get my FC I plan to park it next to where I'm mining. Fill it up and then sell when prices peak at their highest.

[@Zywl]

Is this strategy still vialbe? Painite and low temp diamonds prices have plummeted since then, I'm still doing deep core mining

[@TigCeX]

I am new to the game, should i use prospectors only on bright rocks scanned by pulse wave?

[@HawkesGaming]

If youre just laser mining you can prospect any rock.

[@TigCeX]

@@HawkesGaming Thanks!

[@akooma3694]

what is the best mining ship for beginners? I only have 500k atm

[@jammytwss2128]

Spent most of yesterday mining for LTDs close to my star system but didn't realise that single hotspots don't yield much. I might give borann a go in solo play then.

[@HawkesGaming]

Give it a try! LTD 3 hotspots are tons better than LTD1 or 2 by a long shot.

[@wicked207]

I'm new to the game and to get to these locations will take like 30 something jumps and some parts I get the dotted line. Something like 400ly away, should I wait cause thats gonna take forever in the adder. Wish you had addressed that in the video

[@rubenstrubbe5099]

I had a lot more fun gathering money by bounty hunting in the sidewinder -> cobra -> vulture. Fun and exciting, and not that time consuming. So when I sold off my fully equipped vulture I had more than enough to get an Asp Explorer, equip it to mine and have plenty left. Anything below an ASP I can imagine will be a terrible drag to mine with.

[@MrChili1496]

I have just followed your void opal guide and have ran into a brick wall, found the void opal hotspot but i am nor able to activate my pulse scanner everything is set up as your guide?? you able to help?

[@spacedaniel492]

So how do you find overlapping Hotspots? Couldn't tell in that web page how you determined that.

[@MrShadowpanther3]

Luck... exploration? I would imagine there are more out there, but just have not been reported to the mining tool? I have my carrier about 2500 ly out towards the galaxy center and ran across a Tritium Hotspot inside a LTD hotspot. In this I found an LTD core asteroid with Tritium Subsurface deposits. Juicy find... but rare. LTD's appear in Tritium HS and vice versa. So mining this area nets me quite a bit of Tritium (replenishing my Tritium usage) while mining to offset carrier expenses. I mix this with exploration to break the monotony. It isn't Borann Triple LTD spot returns (which I think that triple HS is gone now with the carrier rework), but when I get back to the bubble, I should easily make 300-500 million just in the ltd's alone. There are still like 99+% uncharted systems out there. Unfortunately the only practical way to mine anything outside the bubble is with a carrier. Limpet restock and 25,000 storage of what you find so you can go back out and mine more.

[@102728]

Apparently the addition of a new element to mine is gonna rejiggle all the hotspots in terms of what they contain, so probably rip borann, hope to have a borann 2.0 rejiggled in the bubble.

[@naomy1701]

did they change the cargo capacitys? i seem to rem in a vid from around Jan 2020 there was a Cap of 264 for the 6E cargo racks in the Python oO

[@Naamtok]

I didn't know you can transfer cargo to another ship. 179ly from Borann to sell LTD in a full to the brim type 9 was quite a lengthy trip. Jumpaconda build please.

[@HawkesGaming]

You can swap cargo as long as the ship you transfer to has the same or more cargo space available. I have my Jumpaconda build in this video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4uzfmt6pNh_p5Y

[@Naamtok]

@@HawkesGaming Cheers! I started ED about 2 weeks ago, and your mining guides netted me a 700+ million Space Cheddar and a bunch of ships. Many thanks.

[@HawkesGaming]

@@Naamtok That's awesome to hear Commander!

[@literate-aside]

Great guide, but jesus that background music during the first few minutes is hella intense.

[@_frostii]

This guide hasn't got the appraise it deserves

[@BrandonOsborn404]

Just to mention that, once you scan the ring and find what you want, you MUST have a DSS to find it again.

[@pizzamechman8380]

Does an anaconda with 320t and 20.24 jump range consider a good mining ship?

[@HawkesGaming]

Sure but if you can work on engineering your FSD and Power distributor it will be much better. Having a guardian FSD booster in there wouldn't hurt either.

[@Zelisius]

You can get 40+ jump range unloaded without a guardian booster and roughly 30+ range when fully loaded with 320 tons and have 3 5a collector limpets. Just lightwieght everything and downsize certain parts like the power plant. Just make it overcharged if needed. A size 7d power distributor with charge enhanced can allow you to shoot 3 medium mining lasers just long enough to deplete a rock. D rate life support and sensors as well

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

I´d like to see an unedited video of that. I have made 320 millions but in about 4 hours. 200 takes me about more than 2 hours. Every youtuber now is saying that 200 in an hour, but I find it really hard to believe, honestly. And I go to Borann, that hot spot, obviously. I am not being bitter or trying to discredit, maybe I do something wrong, but I think I am doing everything right. Maybe with an anaconda and 6 limpets at a time at least. But with a python and 224 tons of capacity, I doubt it. I don´t know...

[@HawkesGaming]

Watch my 45 minute speed run video then. Its compressed into 5 minutes and 27 seconds from takeoff to landing.

[@mikh9202]

2:26 Spawn Painite in the Asstroid! Lols.

[@Teedeedubbelu]

I always put a Guardian fsd booster en full scoop in a nearby station

[@davesmith9844]

With the fleet carrier update there were even more nerfs to mining, how has this affected the credits per hour?

[@finarfin9939]

Dat GLOOOOOOORIOUS Python

[@HawkesGaming]

You know it!

[@scottdrew306]

Hawkes, im only mining about 25 tons of diamonds an hour... what am I doing wrong