MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA: How To Find Minerals for Crafting! (Basic Elements Mining Guide)

[@Quintus_Fontane]

The only planet I enjoyed mining on was Voeld. Almost all of the mining sites were easily accessible, and I found myself having a pleasant hour driving around depleting each of them, drinking tea and admiring the snowy scenery. Every other planet you have to mess around trying to drive up giant ridges and mountains to find the mining 'sweet spots', and it QUICKLY becomes a giant pain in the arse.

[@williamumbranox7217]

Small tip, when searching for vanadium, drive over remnant ruins inside the mining zones. I have never found any outside the ruins. That isn't to say it can't be found outside the ruins, however, it should make the farm more efficient. Happy hunting!

[@stevenneal5551]

the mining in this game is better than the other ones to me its not as boring im more engaged because im actually playing but thats just me

[@egustafson]

Steven Neal hell yeah the mining in me2 was boring as shit. At least I get to turbo around in the nomad

[@caymangeorge1851]

I can only mine in ME2 if im stoned as hell.

[@doctorc8852]

you know ive got to be honest im a new mass effect player and i found this video by accident. but im glad i did. you are very informative and i enjoyed greatly. what i was looking for (fyi) was hpw to deconstruct items. which you kind of covered but enough for me to figure it out. so thanks.

[@TheAstralClaw]

Nice mining guide , i found some info useful. Keep the good work man

[@acuyra]

I honestly didn't feel the mining was that big of a problem, since the game gives you so many ways to do it. I kind of mixed it up- I rarely went out of my way to mine, but if I happened to cross through a zone, I'd take a few seconds to get whatever was there and be on my way. The minerals perk helped me put a lot, since I spent a lot of time going back and forth on the ship - I tend to planet hop a lot, anyway. And in the latter half of the game, I found myself with a ton of money and extra weapons to deconstruct.

[@foilpainterfantasyartist1711]

I really don't care for mining with the nomad and don't go out of my way for that but prefer the other methods you mentioned. Another great video!

[@justiceburrito2468]

You can also get minerals by investigating anomalies that show up in system maps via the scanner. So far they haven't been super rewarding to pursue but they're relatively quick.

[@torrenddw]

thanks for the video. you can also get resources while flying in the Tempest from anomalies and a limited planet scanning system from the system map. just fyi.

[@friendoftellus5741]

It is exciting to be able to mine.

[@baeminn5665]

Mentioned the grey market connections. Viable if you have the credits. I bought most of the Uranium I needed for my Remnant armor right from the kiosk on the tempest.

[@LaFleurCZ]

I actually like mining because I love driving in the Nomad. I collect everything and mine a lot so I have so many minerals now so I can craft almost everything I want but I don't know what to craft, maybe a widow sniper :D

[@DiceSlizer]

Quick question, when a mining zone is depleted, does it remain so forever, or is it reset after leaving the planet/a sufficient time has passed?

[@kellstone3660]

This is the game where planet scanning would have been much more appropriate

[@timoty95]

another decent way of gathering mats is by scanning a system sometimes planets will have decent size deposits of some of the more commen mats like iron and graphite

[@clabytrey]

its addictive just finding resources support the initiative

[@j05hu4z7]

like your videos. Do you have good tips for get huge DPS? or tips to take on difficult enemies

[@Jabberwokee]

Specs certain skill sets (profiles) to specifically take on different threats: one set for shield breaking, one set for armour breaking, one set for tanking, one set for DPS - you just gotta match the skills to the profile your building. Also, profiles ARE important: sentinel is amazing for tanking, straight up tech/engineer is amazing for elemental combos, biotic is good for crowd control etc

[@genericusername9639]

I think you should be able to planet scan and scan with your nomad. the anomaly thing is ok but you can get so much more from planet scans. plus it adds incentive to visit all the planets instead of just the 100% completion.

[@DarthDaddy-cg6ro]

Thanks.

[@benjamincoker1177]

i much prefer the planet scanning to the new method of finding minerals

[@browser30]

Depleted does not mean you can't launch any more mining drones; on at least three occasions I have depleted a mining zone and found another location within that zone that I could mine.

[@anselhelzengaming2467]

The mining doesn't ruin the pacing for me. I tend to plan out what i'm gonna do. I'll focusing on knocking out side quest for a time, then I'll do main story stuff, then, spend a bunch of time craft, then I'll go out to specifically mine. That's just me, but mining isn't so bad with the nomad.

[@desiretoinquire2375]

I do like the mining. If I going to be crafting powerful stuff that will give me an advantage, I don't want the game just giving it to me. So I like the feeling of going out and working at gathering the materials I need for it. Also it makes sense that being in a new galaxy where we don't have established resourses, we would have to go and gather these things ourselves. And no offense, I often get the impression that people who don't like things like this in games tend to be the more mindless type of people who just want to play a game that doesn't make you think and/or work for your accomplishments.

[@Ebola419]

I didnt care for the mining in the OT ME games and I dont care for it now. But if I had to choose between the two I would choose OT mining as I feel like it was faster to obtain the minerals you wanted compared to mining in me:a

[@devynndavis738]

What is that glorious nomad skin called? And where can I get it?

[@BasedNate]

how did you get that nomad skin?

[@xrayaiz74]

I don't own the game BUT from the videos I've watched I think mining could be made more interesting by having the player find abandoned tech and equipment. After discovering all the key components or technologies required (via recipe) you could then assemble or construct a massive mineral/ore retrieval refinery or factory that beams the refined ores directly to your outpost or the Nexus. It puzzles me that in the writing/planning of this game that the producers didn't leverage all the collected technology to automate mundane tasks from previous game chapters. It doesn't have to be mandatory BUT it should be an option that's immediately available AFTER unlocking the factory/refinery feature on a planet. The rate of collection by a factory/refinery would be x100 times more than standard means using drones and on foot. Orbital satellites would completely negate any need for personal scanning for minerals.

[@ikaemos]

The mining is a bit more engaging than planet-scanning (and definitely more fun than looting nodes in DAI), but I was annoyed that, if you get two mineral signals within close proximity of one another, you don't get both of them once you deploy a mining station. Like, the stations have a radius marker around them, but they don't actually mine _everything_ around them; you only get the mineral you detected via the mining scanner. It's a bit counter-intuitive, you're actually mining specific _spots_ but the stations show a wide circle.

[@DarkWish98]

Tbh i don't recommend going straight to mining on a new planet to get it out of your way, from my experience on Voeld you get a LOT and a mean a shit ton of quests just by roaming around, and i already barely have a clue what X quest was about, depends on you if you can remember the details but i dont its too much. Also as long as you are in the blue with the mineral, ,and even not in the blue, you still get a decent chunk of them so you shouldnt care too much about that i think, and you do have infinite drones. Also about Harval i think it contains different minerals? like processed stuff logically? you might need more of it for crafting or something i dont know because i got like 3000 silicon from there and thats INSANE, i dont have many recipes unlocked to be certain

[@DarkWish98]

And by the way im much more interested in research points specifically Milky way points because i have 0 of those and most of the stuff i want is milky way stuff... I researched N7 armor to tier V and now i cant find any more MW points

[@bikusad9226]

Dark Wish get the cryo tech perk, it gives you a decent amount of MW pts every 45 minutes

[@bruulbrainsmasher1210]

I hate it. Should be able to assign people to do it. The Pathfinder shouldn't​ have to waste his time on that shit.

[@CaptainGunlance]

Jv how do you get reverent cores?

[@doorknob2525]

what time will you be streaming tomorrow good sir?

[@Wolverine-ky9gk]

You can find them in container's or by killing remnant architects

[@liamquraeshi2898]

How do you get the rad levels on eos down?

[@awkward.6889]

TheVeryShyguy Did you complete the remnant vault?

[@KyleMaxwell]

So far I'm unconvinced of the necessity of crafting, to be honest. Some of that is probably my difficulty level ("Casual" like the filthy one I am :P ) and some is probably just not knowing enough about how it works. But I still gather all the materials I can because hoarding!

[@thagodfather007]

Kyle Maxwell why wouldn't you want better weapons or amour? Customizing your loadout is what makes Mass effect great

[@Encephalon]

biggest things in crafrting I find is the Augmentation's that you can grant weapons, such as different ammo (Grenade Launchers) or different fireing (Mass Effect, Plasma or Energy) and even giving Big weapons like Black Widow or something Heat Sinks so you don't have to hunt ammo boxes in the middle of a fight, that is what Crafting has done for me.

[@awkward.6889]

Kyle Maxwell I'm the exact opposite. Sometimes I refuse to use pickup weapons, simply because I take too much pride in my crafted gear. Those augmentations and gun mods really help, and allow your to customize your gear around your playstyle. Pickups don't allow that freedom.

[@walterkrueger5947]

you can get the cryo rewards down to a half hour

[@vegassims7]

Mining was funner in prior Mass Effect games.

[@omensoffate]

Vegas Sims funner?

[@awkward.6889]

Vegas Sims You wants

[@jasonm2091]

What about planet scanning?

[@Haarba1]

You can launch in depleted, sometimes depleted got pretty big deposits, bug I think...

[@commentsonthetube14]

I really don't like the nomad mining. I also think it's really annoying that you need to max the wave or get it in the blue as you were saying. Back in ME2 if you just touched the edge of a mineral node and mined it in the planet scanning game, you got the whole node. I liked that better.

[@Hangman1]

When char dont talk, dont show Face And stay in helm ( silent ) this game is playable

[@JohnMichaelStrubhart2022]

A limited supply of AI controlled miners would be nice. You would still have to strategically use them, but it wouldn't be boring.

[@GG-mz7ob]

honestly thought mass effect 2 had one worst mining in game till i play this game after the launch

[@AmanShah187]

on foot isn't that great but... on Havarl where you cant use nomad but can explore and drop forward stations. I must have mined 4 or 5 thousand nickel and 3 or 4 thousand of another one just by exploring the entire map on foot and mining anything I saw on foot, granted I am ocd about exploring every corner of the maps

[@AmanShah187]

COPPER!!! it should be so common but I never have enough, just want to have tier 5 n7 armour but it costs so much damn COPPER!!! agh

[@dgripper05]

I will say I have mined minerals from depleted spots, it has happened about 3 times

[@pakupalos]

dont like mining but i dont mind it as a driveby, i dont stop and mine whole node

[@cassandra9581]

I have like 1 trillion metric tons of metal and I have no idea what to do with it.

[@theanderblast]

Could you out the legend "Spoiler" on screen when you have mid-video spoilers? That way I'd know how far to skip past.

[@aquilavictrix5480]

It really depends on how you appraoch your gaming session. I'm not an OCD gamer and generally play for 40-50 min. max per day. I like to spend 5 to 10 minutes on mining then I move on. I don't do mining to clear the map but just to get the right amount of mineral I need for the weapons I want to craft. Lots of people I spoke with about this seems to have an issue with the compulsive desire to clear the entire map. They are IMO looking at it from a wrong perspective. My two cents.

[@jeanremynoble1798]

Opportunity miner here. If there's a node on my way to somewhere I'll open the scanner, if it happens to start spiking I'll spend a few seconds to find the sweet spot, and then move on. I don't craft compulsively, I found my preferred weapon/armor set early, and just work up the tiers when I level up, so I am only researching and crafting 2 weapons and the armor components.

[@jared4188]

really? so this dosnt add up if you don't go back at the 45 min interval

[@RXTRUX1]

And I thought resources were annoying in the previous ME games :-(

[@randomvariable1589]

He sounds exactly like falcon from gameranx .

[@Cragnous]

Mining with the Nomad would have been much better without that mini game, just go to location and drop mining drone, done.

[@S34Mii]

I don't really like mining on this game. So time consuming riding around like a drunk driver finding that "sweet spot" to release the drone in. It was better in the trilogy doing it from the planet view.

[@trismugistus]

No, I find the mining on-planet tedious (both vehicular and on foot). It feels like busy work ... or playing No Man's Sky. I'd much rather it was just part of the bases or FOBs or whatever, and entirely automatic. I mean, it's 600 years in the future, we can't get UAVs to just buzz around the planet mining for us? It seriously needs a human pathfinder to drive around looking at some wiggly lines?

[@jordanj1959]

Dude, Mining is so boring for me. I get all my resources and minerals from random boxes, deconstructing items and the AVP.

[@hootie005]

Mining? Why mine when u got a crap ton of credits like me? Lol

[@awkward.6889]

Hootie Gaming Because Hootie, using a -pickaxe- launching probes allows you to work with the poor people! It improves your image!

[@hootie005]

TBC LOL

[@devynndavis738]

Hootie Gaming Same here I get 10,000 credits every couple hours

[@sapkowska]

mining in: ME2>ME3>MEA>..... the bottom of hell....>DAI ;)

[@awkward.6889]

Sapkowska Oh god, not Inquistion. Without my advanced probe technology, mining is just abominable. I just left mining to Cullen and Leliana. I still picked up some obsidian along my journeys, but it was so tedious having that awkward animation play over and over again.

[@sapkowska]

Unfortunately for me I have compulsion to pick up EVERYTHING in my way... uh.. nightmare! ;)

[@jeremytodd00]

No, mining sucks, but I love the game over all.

[@seanrogers3389]

Or you could get millions of credits from the glitch on Kadara and buy them all

[@ulrich112]

I wish there were better options to get materials. sigh. not all of us can just go and spend hours on mining

[@ElKelley3]

I liked planet scanning better

[@benfogarty535]

how the hell did you work all this shit out?

[@jasonm2091]

Mining in the nomad sucks in this game. There are to many sites. Makes me not want to to a second run through. Just too tedious.

[@Viktoria_Thaelin]

always decon weapons and armor, never vendor

[@jowoman7799]

It's honestly so annoying. I can't get a certain things so I'm using the same fucking weapon from the start of the game. I want something new but I just can't get anything. It's passing me off.

[@carlbennett4827]

I would prefer planet scanning.

[@simontemplar2987]

Do not really care for the mining part of this game. I prefer to hit up the vendors and pray for some good rng in opening caches

[@qasimhabib568]

Damn so u can create actual builds and stuff? And people claim this isn't a good RPG...

[@Matt_Matthews]

I hate mining. How they managed to make A worse mining system then ME2 I will never understand.

[@molock360]

i just want to know where is the f"$# Uranio

[@StarlightDragon]

I don't like any of the resource gathering content in this game or in most games. It's especially awful in this game and definitely one of the many problems this game has. Combined with its horrible UI, it makes crafting an absolute grind.

[@MrsGraphiteGal]

once you get past lvl 50, you have so many credits mining isn't essential. start a ng+ and its pointless! as in everything else in this game badly designed and even worse implementation just to pad out the main content and waste time. btw, the Nomad skin is Nebula, one of my fav. skins.

[@redtwist4426]

2nd

[@awkward.6889]

Damnit, I don't want Minecraft in my Mass Effect! We must riot.

[@Encephalon]

it's not, it's optional.

[@awkward.6889]

Encephalon Like that bait?

[@hootie005]

TBC fishing for haters again? Lol

[@awkward.6889]

Hootie Gaming It's really fun, just don't let them bite off your fingers.

[@doctorc8852]

no i dont.

[@neka_jp2070]

*Jazz Hands* This is not the resource your looking for....

[@ivanwyatt6069]

Dont care for the nomad at all...mining or handling. Radiation is stupid...cheap way to rachet up difficulty. IMHO.

[@alise1973]

don't like it. worse than DAI and planet scanning