Is Prospector Mining in Star Citizen 3.22 Good Again??! Money Making Guide

Is prospector mining in Star Citizen 3.22 good again finally? If you own a prospector this Star Citizen money making guide is for you! The mole rebalance a few patches back really made prospector mining in Star Citizen very hard. In this video I take the prospector out mining at one of the best places you can possibly mine in the current Star Citizen 3.22 patch. Is prospector mining good again? Here is 40 - 50 minutes of mining and the profits made in this money making guide in less than an hour.
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[@adrianhunt865]

Awesome info! Your the best info guide mixing humor chill attitude and spot on information! Keep the content coming😊

[@crazyivanow2989]

Congrats Hawke, you deserve it! Following you since the ED Days

[@aaronk9860]

Literally just picked up a Prospector yesterday. How did you know I needed this video? :) And gratz on the 100K!

[@HawkesGaming]

Open your mind!!!!

[@Ph4n_t0m]

​@@HawkesGaming open, you're mined! 😅

[@mammoth505]

I love your work Hawkes. You have guided me since 3.16. Hope to see you out there.

[@cyborghunter5933]

Hey Hawkes, as always, a very entertaining vid and timely for me as I've been doing salvage in my Vulture to make enough space chowder to buy a Prospector and start mining now that the ROC is bugged and doesn't work properly. Also a shoutout to RedMonsterSC to whom you made reference in your vid. He is SC's mining God 😁

[@sirmotte8662]

Another gem! Thanks for sharing and the website recommendation. Time saved = immeasurable!

[@user-vi5wv9ht8l]

Great job ,always like your videos.

[@Lightstep9]

@Hawks Merry Christmas and Happy new year to you and your family, I hope it was safe and peaceful. Yes mining is still nerfed pretty hard. At least there is some functional parts to it. The refineries are overloaded and the wait times are rough, especially the refining fee over charging. I assume CIG is doing this - deleting money through fees and time to promote self refining once that finally comes out, hopefully that will remove the constant overloaded status at Refinery stations. Hangars could be great, an actual home until they also release Habitations. Being able to properly manage ships and inventory is a much needed change. : ) 🚧🚚

[@SilverSlix]

Great job on the video 👍🏻

[@nocillis]

🤯 Thanks man for the vid. You've renewed my hopes of solo mining

[@Kyole4255]

Congrats mr. Hawkes^^

[@jamesdevaney1137]

Thanks for the tips!

[@asiftalpur3758]

100k subs that's insane! absolutely deserved

[@Uboo]

Thanks for the update. Mining is fun, just wish less rocks are impossible. Besides ERTs salavaging makes good money now.

[@DannyQ1988]

congratz on the 100k subs, personally it will take something special to replace the glorious space fireworks that is core asteroid mining in ED

[@galaxya40s95]

Great video as always. @Hawkes Gaming: Would you consider making a deep video about scanning? Types of stuff you can scan for, how far or in what position to be for best results, explaining the signatures and what they indicate as well as the hud. What bugs are there currently and potential workarounds (shooting mineable rock or leaving and returning comes to mind). Whether there are differences in scanning capability of different ships. Etc. Thanks

[@HawkesGaming]

Well as it stands now it only really matters if youre mole mining in the halo and want to specifically find Q type asteroids.. For the most part now you just ping when you get sort of close to the ground level then go to the very first high signature you find. You usually find one after the first ping and most of the time there will be at least one good rock or multiple to mine.

[@galaxya40s95]

@@HawkesGaming Thanks for the reply. I think I didn't express it correctly. When I wrote "scanning" I didn't mean just for mining purposes. I meant scanning in general. Player or npc ships, wrecks, cargo (that seems random or I do it wrong, sometimes i get results immediately sometimes not at all, even though I know the ship/wreck has cargo). And of course mining scanning, for example FPS,ROC,Prosp,Mole, how to recognize which signatures are relevant for each mining type and at what altitude and speeds to scan for them. I have looked for a hile now, but couldn't find an up to date and concise guide. Mostly just tidbits here and there in videos/articles focusing on something else. But this is just a suggestion, thank you for reading it regardless. Cheers

[@fenrirsonofloki1]

FOR THE VIEWS!!!! CONGRATS ON 100K subbies

[@Juromil93]

You can also change bags for more SCU 32>48, just take them from ARGO MOLE with tractor beam (need unlock ship components R.ALT+K) then when you have them just store Prospector,after thru Mobiglas remove power plant save and close Mobi ,reopen Mobi move back power plant save and close again and now you have biger bags even after claiming Prospector

[@Jigga1.21]

Hawkes i'll be honest man, i've been mining since patch 3.17, however in 3.22 I finally gave up from prospector for the vulture (for now). I will always continue watch your videos as always, hopefully mining changes in the future, thanks my dude. 🙌

[@mitchelvandermeer1421]

Nice video about the prospector that mining is still decent monney making

[@anothergoogleuser]

Thanks for sharing.

[@Dingbat1967]

Good Vid - should do a tutorial on how to swap the Prospector bags to mole bags. Need a willing donor but when you put the prospector bags on the mole, the mole actually doesn't lose any capacity!

[@HawkesGaming]

I would but there are already so many on youtube already.

[@dug1086]

I'm excited to start playing again.... Glad its in a better state now

[@Amalgamotion]

Yea, you're a solid source too, ya know Red monster and Hawkes. Helping me make millions of space ducats! I was getting frustrated with the Roc Mining so been salvaging and cargo running for my chedda. This is a nice way to break those up. Dig the other loops too but when you want a chill time in SC... Mining also Seems like it'd be helpful in engineering loops if they make the talent trees mesh like they should. :s

[@thatguyyouknow7804]

mad respect man

[@MrWarteck]

100k is 99 892 more than Me LOL Congrats

[@fenrirsonofloki1]

thats 108 more than me

[@MrWarteck]

That is a lie sir you have 1 sub Thank you and your Welcome

[@HawkesGaming]

@@MrWarteck ROFL!!!!

[@fenrirsonofloki1]

wait im a liar i have 11.

[@galaxya40s95]

Oh, didn't notice, congratulations. Btw I left you a comment ​with a video topic suggestion, if you want ideas for content to get to 200k. Cheers @@HawkesGaming

[@dasweallycool9714]

Great vid! To confirm, refinery's are not accepting scm boxes of ore right? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong..

[@florianchevalier7386]

Thanks sir!

[@hamm29]

Bro I've been following you for years here and in Elite dude I got a gameplay Loop that you would absolutely love... you need to ditch those rocks man get you a space tow truck but I guess space tow ship i literally make over a million credits an hour doing absolutely nothing except tugging Hammerheads it's fun somebody needs to do an updated video on the SRV

[@kennethhytten4580]

What kind of Powerplant are you using for your Prozzie? Should i mind change at all?

[@smokeclouds8]

4:07 What armor set is that and where can I get it?

[@tbomgardner4647]

I enjoyed prospect mining so much before they killed it. I melted my prospector and pledged for the SRV. Now when I use it, I can make $250k dragging away one hammerhead in less than 15 minutes. You don’t have to worry about the rock blowing up and killing you, like with the prospector. You don’t have to worry about losing your refined ore to pirates or a 30k. You also don’t have to hire a crew like on a salvage ship to shuffle the boxes. SRV hammerhead missions are quick and usually painless. If you take the time to EVA to the hammerhead and sit in the captain’s chair, you won’t even get a crime stat.

[@Ph4n_t0m]

That was a great little vid! Prospector mining was my first go-to but I used to just go out blind, and mine whatever I came across (intert materials excepted!). Once again, thank you for my "Emerald Gem" Cutter. I love that thing! And the 10 Mill we can say paid for the interior cleaning - she's got that 'new car smell' now. Seriously though, much much appreciated! I look forward to being able to take you out in the Reclaimer I bought, make some mega space-cheddar and teach you how to land while we're at it hahaha just teasing. Matter of fact, I'm the _last_ person who should be landing a Reclaimer... I lost 6 hours of IRL time when she dropped outta the sky like a lead-wrapped boulder... blowing-up what could have been 2 million in RMC in the process... uuuuugh... Kinda makes me wanna go out in the prospector again. At least I can land one of those as gracefully as a feather... I hope you might consider doing some Let's Play footage coz when I'm at work, this is the only way I can get my Star Citizen fix! Happy New Year Hawkes, and thanks again for your kindness and entertaining content!

[@saloonno1232]

Any ideas how to fix the prospector, when the storage bags are blown off? I’ve tried repairing, I’ve tried destroying the ship and retrieving it, I’ve tried almost everything. It’s still shows up without the bags.

[@aubryoakes7108]

This seems like a much better situation for solo miners, but I lament the death of scouting gameplay. Scouting quant clusters and getting paid bounties was my favorite kind of gameplay.

[@VAS.T]

using the current meta money making strat is the key. mining pays peanuts. last patch it was risky 30k salvages. this patch its selling Construction Materials one at a time until your game bugs out and the selling price jumps up to 96k / 1 SCU

[@traintrain2333]

why does my storage bags keep falling off my prospector? ? i mine one rock and few minutes later they fall off like and when it happens it hurts my ship to reclaim another one

[@ViniciusConsorte]

I just do mining now to chill and have some fun with the laser minigame, for money its not worth thou.... things need rebalance badly..... but i get it, they push the money to every feature they need tested so the herd goes to produce data.

[@NORKIE]

im looking forward to the day we can park the ship on a node and get a coffee while we let it mine away at a big node, maybe get a few lads on the same underground node (non-coop rocks so they dont overheat, not that a node the size of a building would ever overhead)

[@themilkywaycafe8369]

Congratulations hawkes

[@tibinicle]

Hey dude just hopped on recently after not playing for a while, so quick question: What is better currently for early cash? - renting the cutty black and roc - renting a prospector

[@HawkesGaming]

The Roc as the mining head on a rental prospector is really crap. It'll cut back on how consistently you find the rocks you want to mine. Something you wont run into doing roc mining at all.

[@ChristopherJones16]

@@HawkesGaming wait can you say that again? "The Roc as the mining head on a rental prospector is really crap" Are you saying the Prospector's mining head is crap or the Roc's?

[@Oinnelstan]

@@ChristopherJones16 The stock mining head of the Prospector is a bit average.

[@henryvaneyk3769]

Doing Salvaging Wreck Clean Up runs is less frustrating and you are guaranteed 80k per wreck, each taking about 5 minutes. I think my Prospector will be sold off for spares as soon as we can do that.

[@themilkywaycafe8369]

Yeaaaaah THE GLOOOOOOOORIIIIIUUUS HAWKES GAMING

[@Genericusername1004]

Commenting for algorithm

[@ashleymaple16]

only issue is not being able to put new mining laser on fitting items on ships seem glitched

[@BobWobbles]

If you're having trouble getting mods to 'stick' I fixed it by synchronising my PC's time with windows.time .. you do it via the control panel. Sounds strange but it works.

[@promugg]

Can you do this in a rented prospector?

[@promugg]

The answer is no, no you can not.

[@Storm-Cleaver]

@HawkesGaming the Link to RedMonster in your description doesn't work. If you link this one it should: www.youtube.com/@RedMonsterSC

[@cvlang06]

Compared to vulture salvaging. Prospector mining makes a respectable earnings.

[@stephenlatta6028]

Just tried salvaging yesterday with a vulture. Made around 900k for 2 hours work. So id say its pretty similar. The best i was getting with prospector was 150-200k an hour. But looks like i was on a bad planet for prospector. Will try again later

[@henryvaneyk3769]

Try Wreck Clean Up under the Personal tab. 80k per wreck and you only have to fracture the wreck to get paid. You do not even have to collect materials.

[@Oinnelstan]

Hi. I'm making between 600-700K aUEC in under an hour, in the Vulture by doing the "Clean Up" mission, that are found in the Personal tab of the MobiGlass. It's easy money, but I suspect it'll get a nerf because it's a little too good.

[@cvlang06]

With the 80k mission + collecting rmc. You can make 600-900k an hour depending on how efficient you are. I did that until I got my reclaimer. Reclaimer is stupid money. Takes about an hour and a half doing 8* 250k missions and you make 12m+ per load. Salvaging is nuts right now. But prospector mining money is back to respectable again. So that's good.

[@henryvaneyk3769]

​@@cvlang06 It seems that they nerfed those today. I played for an hour on both EU and NA and not a single Clean-Up mission came up.

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

Do you have a preferred Prospector loadout ?

[@cardboard9124]

before I saw a little c before SCU in the refinery, i thought i had just made 2.2 million with 900 scu of taranite

[@THEMALBINO]

Thanks to you i have 9 billion in elite dangerous. I have 247million auec in star citizen. If you need auec let me know. o7

[@Sulucion6Tone]

Ill play the game once it goes Persistent Live (2032) - until than, all 5 of my ships will sit and do jack shit. Still love the videos Homie :)

[@TonyLo11987695]

😊😊😊

[@TheBurnknight]

600k an hour is kinda meh nowdays, erts and salvaging is where the moneys at, quite common getting 4 mil an hour if u know what to do

[@TheDiggidee]

Is Star Citizen good yet?

[@dugggins]

where are your Mole bags?

[@anillius4703]

No, 4 prospector runs cant be done in less than an hour

[@SC_Dreki]

It certainly isnt the golden days of the Prospector anymore, but it is nice to see the devs are addressing the issue and at least trying to make the Prospector a viable solution for mining again. For most of 2023 Prospector was a waste.

[@doubledigital_]

tbh fuck minng get a vulture and go salvage .. mining is DEAD.

[@austinsparks4561]

I watched this looking for a video to tell me where to go and what parts to use. instead i got a video saying to go look at a website. what fucking help is that. might as well have said go do the work yourself.