Elite Dangerous - How to Mine Void Opals for ~100 Million Credits per Hour

[@ObsidianAnt]

Mining Void Opals has been around for a while now, but I've been asked a lot of questions about it. So here's a video to help out. :)

[@xplayman]

The core asteroid is not necessarily a bright yellow. The tell is that on the initial colorization from the pulse you'll see black blobs on the rock like you start to see on your pulses at 4:48. When you see those black blobs and not just black lines, there is a 9 out of 9 chance that it's a core asteroid.

[@mizuvoidmuffin7132]

Ones with deep orange contrasting a bright yellow are almost always Void Opals as well. Fissures will appear even before the prospector so when in doubt, I typically do a quick fly around. Another note: Anaconda's directional thrusters also made it surprisingly good for Deep Core mining, much to my own surprise. But it might take longer to reach a new rock. (Quick Edit: Night Vision can help see fissures.)

[@saosiskissaki464]

only thing I want to add is there is only one shape of core asteroid per ring type so all the core asteroid look the same in icy rings.

[@ObsidianAnt]

Very true, but it's a possibility that this is a bug and unintended.

[@Apolleone]

@@ObsidianAnt most likely not a bug. It's just easier to make only one destructible model than do it for all asteroid models.

[@NevadaGamingWedge]

When you've been doing 80 hours of just shipping missions and find out that mining is the big thing now. oof.

[@kaadn18]

I KNOW RIGHT.

[@mikanuutinen2264]

Ikr

[@SenderBudYerGood]

Got the game in the winter sale and that's all I did until a few days ago. Now I'm trying to find all the information I can on it especially how to identify the correct asteroids with have core resources.

[@jay-1172]

@@SenderBudYerGood using the pulse scanner, look for the bright red/orange ones that flip to green/black with the pulse scanner. The shape straight up looks like popcorn or angry popcorn as my friend says.

[@SenderBudYerGood]

@@jay-1172 Thank you for this! I have found a few so far in the couple trips I made. The ones that had deep core resources were the greenish with the black lines on them. Very helpful information, I appreciate it fellow commander

[@pauls6253]

After mining dozens of core asteroids, and thinking I knew all there is about it, I'm blown away by how you use your charges. I thought the strength of charge required was determined by the strength of the fissures. I've been using 1 level of charge on low strength fissures, medium on average and high on high. To see you blow up an asteroid with only 2 charges, being used in the opposite way than I thought was intended is really eye-opening. Thanks for another great video.

[@ianblake8450]

Hello super late! I’ve been doing the same thing, just matching strength... somehow I’m blown away by how that’s not the best method. I’m face palming so hard rn

[@mollygrubber]

Pays better than hauling human excrement. Bonus.

[@AleK0451]

wonga

[@DadBod3000]

After a nearly 12 month break, I've been itching to get back into this game and try out the new mining mechanics! Thank you for such a helpful video!

[@MrDaddynomates]

I remember when 300,000 credits was a good hour of bounty hunting. Now people won't leave the dock for less than 50 million per hour. What happened? Hyper inflation?

[@sc0or]

To transfer a good ship from the Bubble to Colonia hundreds of millions credits are needed. May be they would like to kick off Colonia's development. May be they would like us to spread across the Galaxy and we will need more credits on this. May be they prepare ship carriers for enormous price. May be player's planetary base will be introduced (I would suggest its price about 1b of credits). Who knows.

[@Bakamoichigei]

_"A good hour of bounty hunting"_ ...I remember when a single bounty could get you as much as 350,000

[@MrDaddynomates]

@@Bakamoichigei yeah the payouts started to increase over time. Getting millions of credits was a grind. Now it's literally easy. I suppose Fdev wanted to make the game easier or something.

[@spamhere1123]

@@MrDaddynomates This comment seems kind of asinine, although I could be misinterpreting what you're saying. One of the biggest problems with E:D is how little it respects your time, and how much time it requires of you to get even the most basic of stuff. Updates like these are a welcome sight to players like me who really like the game and would like to experience all it has to offer, but also have a life and don't have many, many hours to put in every day.

[@yungdomino4718]

Bounty hunting is still shit and needs a rework

[@Razor_Wing]

The worst feeling is blowing up a Void Opal asteroid, then realizing you didn't install a refinery. RIP Me.

[@adamchristopher6917]

Next worst: finding the void opal deposit then realizing the Type 7 you brought to mine everything else can't shoot seismic charges. >.

[@mattsmechanicalssi5833]

@@adamchristopher6917 I went out last night, and I forgot to stock up limpits! DOH!

[@XDrakePhoenixX]

Or blowing up a 'roid, and finding out - too late - you're too close.

[@Pine0wlple]

Adam Christopher Wait are you saying I can’t DCM in my T7 Shoebox? That’s a bummer, I wanted to make that my mining box!

[@theplaidpilot8156]

@@Pine0wlple I think you can use seismic charges on a type 7, i think he just meant that he forgot to equip them.

[@calebpritchett8575]

I've made close to a billion just playing over the past few days. It's been a ton of fun! I never get tired of seeing those asteroids burst apart.

[@hamm29]

Caleb Pritchett same here

[@ULTIMBANGA]

It is over 9 THOUSAaaaaaND ! euh.... Millioooons, wait... IT is OVER 900.000.000 !! 2 billions for me last week, who says 3 ?

[@mosca86]

Im not sure if im just blind, unlucky or just doing something wrong. At this point ive mined close to 8 hours in a python with about... 1 cargo load to show for it. Ive made MAYBE 10mil/hour. Im lucky to find a core ever hour or so.

[@2424Goldie]

Brannon Mosca Sadly it’s the same for me

[@INT_Based]

Brannon Mosca venture further away from the bubble. Try to find really low population systems

[@InquisitorShepard]

Manage to get one, 5 seconds later: "What are you holding?" "Gimme that."

[@atlas8827]

damn pirates

[@tomekl3476]

And intrediction every 15 seconds in anarchy system. But to be honest. In medium security system i dont have any pirates in Diamonds zone in ring. (I only met diamonds not void opals sadly, but it still sell for quite large price. I made like 30mil on 1 hour run while finding not only diamonds)

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

Good information CMDR.... O7 thanks. As an addendum to this, It is best to collect the loose fragments first as these degrade with time, when you have done this then blast off the ones still attached to the rock as while they are attached, they don't degrade.

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

More important if you are doing it in a smaller ship or dont carry limplets. You can usually get away with blasting everything if you have collectors out

[@kentchr76]

Don’t you just mean that the loose fragments disappear after some time like materials from destroyed ships? As far as I can see they don’t actually degrade - meaning you need more and more fragments to get one Void Opal.

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

@@kentchr76 they do once broke lose from the deposit. They will continuously lose health until they get destroyed.

[@kentchr76]

mansuy adrien You misunderstood me. The fragments don’t seem to actually degrade and loose value over time. After some time they just disappear. I don’t think I can explain it in any other way.

[@Assimilator1]

@@kentchr76 - yes you can, you just say they lose health or integrity of time! ;)

[@Zulysse258]

Hey ObsidianAnt, been following you for a long long time now and i'd like to THANK YOU for getting me back in E:D after +- a year of absence. You always bring great content and opinions, so here's to more of that ! ❤️

[@Cpt50Caliber]

You are by far the most concise and patient tutorial for this on KZbin. Thank you so much.

[@xyzzy3000]

Mining as the next big thing... Amazing.

[@tomekl3476]

Core mining isnt that bad. I must say its better than exploration and trading.

[@demonlordotrt754]

Mining has allways ben a good valuable way to earn easy money just nead time spent finding sead material with time of labor as long as the wealth is worth 3x to 5x or more then labor and time is good.

[@camboose3726]

Ok so I just happened to dock at a station called obsidian orbital, and I thought it was just a coincidence, but now that I've landed I am amazed! Congrats on getting your own station

[@skythe83]

One extra thing worth mentioning: all deep core asteroids look exactly the same, I always look for a popcorn shape. Oh and also you can see the fissures using your shiplights, no need to waste prospectors.

[@CrucialDuude]

This was the only video to actually teach the workflow of mining the opals, and it got me mining them literally after I went out and messed around to familiarize myself with the modules needed.

[@wesleylarsen6597]

Mined 300 opals today in 1 go.. did not feel safe traveling back from way out of the bubble, found a pristine ring without pirates... buddy escorted me back in wing formation.

[@squantrill]

I found a stunning system not far from the bubble but far enough from other players exploiting it. It has two planets with rings and on these rings it has concentrated areas with a selection of pretty much all of valuable minerals. So far I make 500 million every 3 hours. That was two sessions. Love the new mining mechanics, spot on

[@Aedrieus]

I came back to this video since it's been a while that I've used this method and it got me my first billion. It's a lot of hard work but this video helped me a great deal to figure out how to get those valuable resources. Thank you for the quality content.

[@ericthorn6686]

LoneRenegade so void opals are still viable?

[@darthhunter69]

I went mining today, found a void opal hotspot and came here to learn how to mine them. I knew all the equipment already, and I was already prepared, but I needed some more guidance to know exactly how to do it. I managed to find 2 void opal asteroids today, I screwed one up but I still managed to get 17 opals from the one I got right. Extremely helpful tutorial, thanks a lot

[@veteran501]

Ahhhh i get it now! Low Strength doesnt mean that you need 1/3 charge, or Avg 2/3rd of a charge... So in fact it means that a Low Strength one can be blown up by a fully charged Seismic charge in order to create a larger impact on the graph... I didn't know that... Ty!

[@midnight5895]

GADDAMN I'm having a blast with Elite lately. After not playing it for years I dusted off my Saitek X52 Pro and started the R2R... I'm far away from beeing good but it's so much fun to learn all the stuff and new techniques which ED has to offer ❤️♥️

[@mikeb1978]

midnight5895 yeah I’ve been getting the itch to dust my Saitek off as well. Been about 2 years since I’ve played.

[@oafik4939]

Just got back into Elite, had no idea what these new mining tools were. Incredibly helpful video, thank you!

[@Chieftian101]

Immensely helpful guide, also got to have some very contrasting first 3 detonations. 1st: under charged, then over charged, so accidentally got rid of all the fissures removing my charges. 2nd: went perfectly 3rd: Spent way too long trying to rotate around (nearby rocks were a pain) and got to find out first hand my ship will indeed get 1 shot my a bunch of charges. Anyway so to speak your video helped me get to the point I could have such a unique experience, so thank you.

[@MoraesJr]

To keep eddb up to date is highly recommended to use ED Market Connector. It has some other nice features too. Would be great a video from you showing and explaining the use of it. Cheers.

[@oliverek7]

I have been doing this for the past few days and have net myself a whopping total of 45 million credits and I’m now on 61.3 million and going to buy a Krait mk 2!!!

[@ianblake8450]

Hello two years later!! I bet you’re a trillionaire with a corvette or some exclusive deal. I hope the deep core mining treated you well :) only played three months and just got into seismic charge mining and I’m absolutely in love with it

[@isaiahbradfordiii4041]

Top notch "How-To", OA. This really helps a lot. I'm going to use your tactics tonight. Thanks!

[@tennisballbird]

I'd like to thank you Obsidian Ant, this video has given me the the necessary motivation to reinstall Elite:Dangerous.

[@CalamityJeff]

Thank you so much! After a long time playing other games, I'd thought to jump back in ED for a while and try out mining. I've never really managed to gain a lot of money from other stuff, but now I finally have my A-rated Federal Dropship :D This method really opened up the game for me and the mining it self is so much fun and relaxing :) Keep up the good work man!

[@ianblake8450]

I’ve only been deep core mining for a few days, thought I had mastered the techniques. However, focusing on the prospect limpet showing the entire makeup of resources, I didn’t know!! Makes absolute sense 😅 also, I never thought about starting with high charge to low strength fissures and working up, I always just guessed for any fissure that pointed toward me... thank you for helping me perfect charge mining! Now, to beat all the inara campers to stations...

[@adamchristopher6917]

The frost cloud created by deep core blasting can allow one to run silent for the duration of cleanup. Handy for escaping detection by roving pirates. Just don't forget to drop silence before engaging supercruise. Awkward times all around. :3

[@ianblake8450]

I find really obscure sectors with nice hotspots (trial and error), to avoid pirates. But this is actually a really, really good tip for the back pocket!

[@INT_Based]

Having a lot of fun mining in my python. It’s a really nice change of pace from the passenger missions I’ve been doing for a while now. I love the calming music that plays intermittently while cruising around in the asteroid fields.

[@cmdrchicago11b46]

is the money better?

[@INT_Based]

CMDR CHICAGO 11B yes, definitely. I made about $170m tonight. Though it wasn’t all void opals. There was some Alexandrite and Grandidierite mixed in as well. I’d say it took about 3 1/2 hours. I found a really low population system with a few gas giants and just relaxed. No pirates flying around at all. It was fun I’ll still be doing quick passenger missions on the side though because I want to support my system factions as I’m allied with them all, and I normally only take bulk first class passengers in my type 7. I won’t do anything under 5,000,000 usually and they’re almost always really quick trips, so I’ll say you can make money a lot quicker with these types of passenger missions if you’re allied, but devote a few hours to mining and getting the swing of things and you’ll be making a lot more dough for sure! 👍 o7

[@Dany182_Gaming]

Put some Guardian of the galaxy mix tape in the background. Thank me later.

[@disgruntl3dv3t]

Thanks for posting this! While exploring is fun, and I fully intend to continue doing so, mining void opals just netted me in 5 minutes what I make in an hours from exploration data!

[@xerokill86]

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation as usual, this helped immensely! I watched other videos, but somehow the detonation charge level was something that was completely lost on me. I had no idea the missiles could be charged up, so I was just stuffing every hole with low charge explosives and I was absolutely obliterating everything inside the rocks... Every other video I watched failed to detail exactly how this mechanic is supposed to work. A side note: using turreted hardpoints only seems to work if you have a human multicrew onboard... and who the hell does that?! So just do yourself a favor, save a few credits and get the fixed ones, also for the Abrasion blasters, I find it's generally much easier to have a pair of them spaced out on the ship to maximize your odds of hitting the targets, especially when you're first getting the hang of things.

[@benicolay]

You can also find Grandidierite (sp?) nearby, or in the same hotspots. This is worth collecting as it is pretty valuable - similar to Alexandrite

[@hafizuddinnasarudin3591]

finally a good explanation on how to do the new mining... i keep getting fail detonation before huhu... thanks CMDR!!

[@62cents]

Just came back to game after half a year hiatus, and being mailny pve combat player (and it's shit for money) I wanted to try something new to get money. Did 3 hours of deep core mining today and gotta thank you man - made 270mil. Plus, it was actually quite fun!

[@brianbrian5842]

Thank you so much ObsidianAnt for this video and a lot of your others. I consider myself a good pilot but this last update really threw me a curve ball with the new mining and system scanner thingy. Again, thanks for this information which is both excellently produced while being pleasantly palatable, especially compared to that Yammiks guy whom I've stopped watching long ago.

[@krisvires]

This is legit! I've been mining for about a week now, started in a Keelback, and now I'm rocking an A rated Anaconda. Beats the hell out of the ~70 Mill I ground out the hard way from missions/events over the last 2 years.

[@Dauntius]

I've been looking for a good guide for this, thanks!

[@smiesi8976]

I really enjoy the python to mine. Really like this ship

[@Ueberdoziz]

*pi-thong

[@acdcdave1387]

I love that ship, I use mine for cargo hauling. Maneuverable for its size and holds a buttload

[@zzodr]

I remember going to Riedquat in the original Elite back in 1986. Was the first time in Elite I got my ass kicked and died. I had a crappy forward pulse laser.

[@saosiskissaki464]

Try to be about 2 million meter from the center, have the center of the hot spot as your target and fly towards center. This way, as long as you don't enter the ring at the same spot, you will never cross your own path.

[@godofsquirrels494]

Obsidian Ant made a video about it. Bout to get nerfed

[@Fres_80100]

4 mounth later . Friend : hey dude how you doin today ? Me : pretty good just made 367 mil cr by mining over 3 hours , and you ? Friend : made 8 mil with combat ._.

[@Grey9200]

A dev on the forums stated that the rate at which the "motherloads" respawn in a hotspot/ring is so high that it is impossible to outmine them. So far i can confirme this, since the update dropped iam farming the same hotspot in the same ring in the same system in the bubble and iam always finding enough void opals that my krait is full in around 2 hours what gives me regular 300-400 million (depends if i also farm other things then opals) I always see exploded asteroids in the spot what is an indicator that other people are also mining in this hotspot. Thats the most money i was ever making in elite, not even passanger/board flipping made so much money for me. Maybe they listened that people wanted somethign to make more money on without grinding your life of.

[@christophmilton3946]

Dunno if it's already been confirmed but just found an asteroid in Metallic Ring which can be Seismic Charged for Painite Core. 100% just got my PS4 'Pain in the asp' Achivement for it! :)

[@blackjack6259]

Excellent video as always Obsidian Ant. Now that the CG for this last week is over I am going to go get a Python or Krait and try this myself. I think it is going to look great in VR.

[@camy252camy3]

Didn't know about laying multiple charges at once to bring the damage graph up to the right level. This will save me so much hassle thanks very much!

[@ianblake8450]

Okay you’re officially the most recent comment I’ve seen. How’s the success going? If you need any help, please lmk! Only been going at it for a few days and the wealth is ultra plentiful

[@aubreywilliams4238]

Another outstanding how-to! So much that I will try this tonight. Once again, thx.

[@DesertStateInEU]

It seems like patch 3.3.03 ruined it, they fixed a crash that occurred while mining, but it looks like they "fixed" something else too. Before the patch if you held down the pulse wave non stop and an asteroid had large dark spots on it, it was a jackpot 100%. Now many have dark spots and no core. Also sometimes the pulse wave lights up a few asteroids for a moment, then they quickly stop glowing and a few other asteroids light up that didnt before. This glow switch is almost like a traffic light. Not to mention ring reserves seem to be completely irrelevant. Ive found way more deep core asteroids in low reserves rings than in pristine rings.

[@gene083]

Did has you explained step by step and I just got my first couple low temp diamonds and some other (blue letters) core stuff. Thanks!!!

[@Cacophant]

I think the bit about turreted charge launchers is wrong; they turreted version only functions as a turret in multicrew, otherwise it operates as a fixed hardpoint I believe? Pretty sure it says that in outfitting when you purchase it?

[@jordanlee9001]

Claymoar I think you can change the turreted-option though so it acts as an AI-controlled turret without the need for multicrew

[@JonArbuckle066]

Made it to 2 billion in a few days. Good to go. Thanks.

[@jasonosborn5726]

As always, thank you for sharing your knowledge. This was a great help.

[@Ledabot]

Didn't know the tip about not going to the center of the hotspots. Glad i learned something

[@kentchr76]

It’s only if you expect that other cmdr’s have already been there. I mine in a system discovered and mapped by me, so I know that I am the first cmdr. there.

[@Ledabot]

@@kentchr76 of course, but i was mining within the bubble, so its pretty likely

[@ImTheMrFoxman]

@@Ledabot I mean, is it really programmed in such a way? Wouldn't each instance be unique with maybe a "total # of cores findable" being a server side number that dwinles down each time a player cracks one open in their unique instance? I doubt they actually have a hard-coded log for each and every single asteroid around every single ringed planet. So why would distance from the center matter if most instances will be unique? Even in open, you might pop into a separate instance from another player though you're both in the same place.

[@ObsidianAnt]

All asteroids are persistent across all instances and game modes. This is why when you are playing solo and drop into a ring, you can see dust clouds from asteroids that other players have already broken. Instances are not unique.

[@AethyrPrime]

Summary: 1st - Ice rings 2nd - Detailed Surface scanner 3rd - Pulsewave scanner 4th - Prospector Limpet 5th - Seismic charges (high to low / low to high) 6th - Abrasion blaster 7th - Collector Limpet Run like hell

[@Lexe2009]

Obsidian ant has the best videos and information !

[@mateusdiegodesouzavasquez4058]

Always with good hints! Thank you!!

[@palmeraviles7250]

Bro thank you!!’ I’m so damn tired of being a space taxi. Federal corvette here I come!!!!!

[@TheTenerifeVibe]

Thanks for the video, I am brand new to Elite and I am yet to explore the mining option, but this is a great intro

[@ianblake8450]

I hope it’s gone well! Lmk if you need help at all! I love deep core mining lol

[@Esotericism72]

The real trick here is finding the void opal cores. I've had times where I find 2 or 3 in 15-20mins and other times, where I've searched for an hour or more and only found 1. I wonder if there are a set amount of opal asteroids in each hotspot or not. If anyone can answer how this works, that would be much appreciated.

[@Broekmanium]

Asteroids are synced throughout online, solo and private play. Noticed the shitty 5-10 second lags whilst mining? Sync lag.

[@MrWinotu]

@@Broekmanium that's interesting - so when i fly to the hotspot they might be set quickly to dissapear from there? I have actually some strange bug whenever i fly i discover very little of them... I earned last time 40 mln after around 5 hours of play... I spent all limpets - 192 and found only several Opals, Musgravites, Serendbite in several systems :( Flying and dropping my limpets from one to one.

[@MrWinotu]

@@Broekmanium one more thing: how many of the orange asteroids you find have fissures? In my case it's around 1 per 20-30...

[@prolosertheatomistic8101]

@@MrWinotu Make sure you don't mistake the reflected glow on another asteroid for the real deal. Go up real close to it and scan again, to make sure it's BRIGHT yellow. If it has any kind of fading it probably isn't going to have any opals (or whatever mineral you're looking for) in it.

[@lammaerb7867]

@@Broekmanium well... 2 days ago on EliteMiners reddit people described asteroids respawn six days after they are harvested thus the rings will never deplete, and they tested it as well for weeks. Can you link where Frontier confirmed the asteroids will not respawn?

[@General_Flores]

I've done this for about 7 hours now, I've found a grand total of: 1 deep core asteroid... what am I doing wrong?

[@tomekl3476]

Jett Flores search one that are really bright yellow and they turn green when near. They also should have black lines when scanning.

[@Thena_the_Grey]

Are you going to hotspots first? If so, the best thing to look for when using the Wave Scanner is SUUUPPEER bright and saturated asteroids. Not simply glowing yellow/orange brightly, but go for the ones that really stand out. I generally find 5-7 cores (Low Temp/Void Opals) and sell my entire load for 100-120mil after an hour of core mining.

[@christianburton2096]

This guide is great except looking for systems with data was impossible as a new player. I had no system data for anything within 150-200ly. I checked. Every. Fricking. One. Hours just looking for a system that would tell me what it had. That was not helpful for a new player at all. After much searching I found eddb’s body search function to be helpful. Hope this helps any other frustrated new players.

[@christianburton2096]

Dave54600 no apparently not at least for me. I was inside the bubble about 156.7 ly from LH 3447

[@davewright8206]

you can find the price at stations by highlighting minerals then import a blue triangle will appear I am really surprised you missed this

[@jamesprewitt1501]

Don't know if it's related or not but another tip would be to look for little to no fog in the hot spot I've noticed that there seems to be more deep core astroids in hot spots with little to no fog

[@trevinfonseka7697]

If anyone is having trouble finding opals here’s a word of advice: DO NOT mine anywhere inside the bubble at all. If you want to mine you’re gonna have to make the trip out of the bubble (at least 50 lightyears out of it or so) to find rings with a good amount of opals in them.

[@thethinking1]

Mining lasers not a thing anymore then?

[@SeamusOR]

The PARAS system the gas giant with the two different rings (can't remember whether it was paras 5 6 or 8) the ice ring is loaded with alexandrite, no need to scan the ring just drop out of supercruise anywhere on the ring and pulse for smaller-medium ice asteroids, they usually have alexandrite or void opal cores.

[@SeamusOR]

Two asteroids gave me 8 mil bare in mind this was my first ever attempt at mining

[@Kiriixer]

How did u know there were void opals inside? It just said alexandrite? I’m looking for help since I’ve already spent 40 prospector limpets on searching void opals, I found the hotspot, the very bright yellow asteroid. And then it never says void opals...

[@timjamesmackenzie]

Just watched another vid (wanted to know this myself) spent a while finding your comment so I could tell you... Target the prospector. The info panel on the left will tell you what's in the core. Regardless of what's on the surface. Wonder how many I could have got by now

[@seyeruoynepotsuj]

I've only just learned that deep core mining is a thing! Excited to give this a try in my python!

[@ianblake8450]

Bruh I bet you fared so well.. in a python?? Sheesh, I’m out here in my Cobra MK3 going to port after I collect 32 Alexandrite

[@hamm29]

The krait II is great for this as it is nimble enough to work an asteroid and Have a wingman watching your six for pirates

[@cheekyj4794]

Currently trying to fill a clipper, about half way now. And yes I'm doing it all in a ring that's says common reserves. Get a asteroid with a core every 5-10 minutes of searching. But Ant you didn't describe the odd colour shift the asteroids make if they have a core.

[@cheekyj4794]

Should have also said, it's when you scan the asteroids. Some (the ones you want) will shift brightness from quite dark to very bright. Others do change a little, but the ones you want change to most. After a couple you get your eye in.

[@Drmklr]

@@cheekyj4794 If you see a green tinge before it pulses bright yellow, you should get deep core results more often. saves on limpets

[@cheekyj4794]

@@Drmklr couldn't have put it better.

[@DobbsyLondon]

Phantom represent!! Ship of the discerning gentleman.

[@richardbrout2242]

yes!! awesome ship.

[@MBOmnis]

I don't quite understand how you knew there were Void Opals in that asteroid, since the Prospector Limpet didn't list it anywhere. It detected Alexandrite in the core. I know the area was identified as a "Void opal hotspot" but does that mean every asteroid in the area will have it?

[@LeadSkillets]

When I get back to the bubble I'm definitely bringing out my mining cutter. 1 Billion per trip sounds too good to pass up.

[@RealSugam]

it takes practice, but the key to finding these core targets is to know what not to bother searching and wasting time on others. Typically I find a core after passing like 20 duds and I do not even give them a second glance. Could find a core back to back or not one for quite a while. Again, practice your eye in seeing the difference and if you are just learning I would take a large holding ship like a type-9. Fill up with like 300 limpets, double up on blasters for more ammunition (or what ever they are called that breaks open the core) and treat it as a learning experience rather then a mission to maximize your profit. Its not easy and takes some time but you will get efficient at it eventually. If you are new to core mining and come across a low income core do it anyways for practice.

[@bullzdawguk]

Question. If you play in solo mode, do the rings get depleted in the same way as playing in open play mode? Are the resources linked in both modes? Also, I prefer farming Benitoite in rocky rings. They're the second most expensive mineral and you don't have the hassle of dealing with your ship freezing if you get too close to the exploded asteroid.

[@ianblake8450]

I wish this was true, two years later... I pass up every benonite asteroid I see

[@IDecaturX]

i did 2 runs, just !2! runs in my cutter and made 660million, i did sell like 200 tons at a time though XD

[@CaBarry374]

How long did each run take? That's more indicative of how well you did, really. It's a serious question, btw: I'm not letting myself come back to the game till Feb and I'm trying to decide which of my ships to take out. If it's significantly better to take the big space dildo instead of my Mine-thon, it'd be super neato to know ahead of time.

[@IDecaturX]

@@CaBarry374 1st run took about 2 hours, unfortunately I was a bit unlucky with the 2nd run it took nearly 3 hours it all depends on how quick you can find a asteroid you can blow up, I did also take 200 limpets per run too and just focused on void opals.

[@CaBarry374]

Still, a decent average of 120+ per hour beats the 50-80 I'm seeing people report with medium sized ships. Space dildo it is. Danke.

[@yungdomino4718]

@@CaBarry374 80 million an hour is sweet dude. Worst case scenario you mine for an hour, get 80 million and make a exploration krait. Engineer the fsd and you've got a 40ly range. Use road to riches and make some money that way.

[@CaBarry374]

@@yungdomino4718 I have two accounts, one with fully kitted and engineered Cutter, Corvette, and a dozen other ships, the other with a decently kitted and partially engineered Anaconda. I'm doing OK, just trying to maximize for kitting the second account with ships so I can have various friends drop in without having to buy the game and spend hundreds of hours to catch up. Double boxing Elite is hard, but lots of fun. Had half a mind to take a conda with nothing but abrasion blasters and storage/collectors and the cutter with the serious mining tools to seriously over power that exploit, but I'm trying to be a good boy.

[@jessecarlton2021]

After a 2 year break. I came back and mining is so much better now. Actually fun to do. It’s still very monotonous but it’s a lot more interactive. Now, what else is there to do in Elite Dangerous?

[@DJ70906]

Thanks for this. Appreciated.

[@TarisRedwing]

Looks like they added all the asteroid stuff to the galaxy commodity search map stuff. It's kinda handy but doesnt seem to have a very far search radius. I'll need to test out the manual search option of systems I look up on INARA site.

[@benrey5144]

dude i went from cobra to conda + 1 billion credits left in about a week

[@bobthebagel9532]

If you need some money relatively quickly, do a few massacre missions, then use that money to start doing something else

[@DavidMulligan]

@ObsidianAnt When you describe builds in a video, please either include links to Coriolis builds in the show notes or pin user submitted builds in the comments. Thanks for all the great content!

[@MAtthew6626]

Thanks so much for sharing this. Awesome stuff. One thing you forgot to mention that there is only one model of brakable asteroid per ringtype. Meaning that all crackable icy asteroids look exactly the same. Where is your accent from by the way? I dig it

[@titus4166]

I feel like it takes me forever to find the bright yellow ones. And, Not sure how others quickly find them to make so much money in an hour.

[@somethingsomethingsomethingdar]

Ive been mining for the last 3 days and I have found that the brightness of the asteroids does not necessarily reflect the presence of fissures.

[@panuels]

True. The cores can be found in specific asteroid type per ring type. Just rewatch the video. The 'correct' shape for the icy one is pretty clear.

[@djskiltz]

FYI: Here's a secret I have noticed and would like to share it with everyone. Step 1: Hold the pulse wave scanner. (If you release between pulses this will not work.) Step 2: Visually inspect the 'pulse sequence' of everything being pulsed by the scanner. Step 3: here's the secret and description of what to search - all asteroids containing core deposits "pulse in reverse". Meaning that it will flash dark then bright. Then as you approach, it can be confirmed. The first flash may look like of yellow/orange mixed with 'pixelated black/green colours' and the second flash will be a bold yellow/orange. All other asteroids not containing core deposits will have the 'default pulse'. Which is bright to dark. @obsidianant shows an example as he approaches the first asteroid. "Prokielbasa85" is my mixer stream channel. There can be found 2 past streams where I give a perfect example of this methodology.

[@redherring271290]

Just want to let the budding miners know that when using the abrasion blasters, you want to be head on to the target and close enough that all the blasters hit the spot. You get a nugget for each abrasion blaster that hits. So on my asp I have 4 abrasion blasters so I would get 4 nuggets from each spot when I'm accurate. Makes a difference!

[@atlas8827]

this was a bug and it is now patched.

[@redherring271290]

@@atlas8827 Ye I saw this :(

[@TarisRedwing]

I love the look of that ship

[@federz666]

god damn this is a lot of effort... Mining laser, prospector+collector limpets, DSS, double painite hotspot, .. Much easier and more consistent

[@stoutishsugar8141]

They should make a limpit fighter so that you dont have to drive a type 9 into an asteroid or and other ship

[@pichelguy346]

Thank you ant, very cool!

[@PasqualePuterio]

Very informative as usual! Never mine the sub surface, right? Maybe just for some mission..

[@Kurgan_UK]

I dont know if this has been mentioned but i think resolution is also a factor. I was in 2560x and wasn't getting definitive black lines , dropped it to 1920x and presto, lines a plenty

[@sparky_862]

Was looking for Opal Mining Tuts ... Found one and started looking at it ... In the same time looking at the vid, I saw ObsidianAnt and was like "Fuck that, I need hes voice". So here I am

[@catherder6552]

At least this type of mining takes a modicum of skill and attention to do well and you can can fly back to your station singing "I'm in the money"

[@leonardorser3455]

well done as always..thanks man

[@AstroKing9619]

Super helpful, thank you Cmdr o7

[@NeokillGamer]

Great video!

[@PvtDamion]

I've been watching your content for a while and enjoy the vast majority of it and this tutorial seems very comprehensive, just wanted to let you know, but I only recently got back to ED after only doing the tutorial + a couple of hours on Ps4 when it released a couple of years ago. Now on to the question: is this still a thing?

[@epyon542]

Generally what I do to find a station and a ring to mine if you don't mind using external sites is I go to EDDB and look for the closest system that buys the Opals at 1.6 that's the closest to my current position. Then I set that system as my reference system and look for a ring, any quality will do but I generally start with pristine first. I have done this a few times and every time I've found a pristine ring near one of the high buy stations and the rings are generally only about 10-15ly away from the station so you could take a large ship to get to the rings too with the only issue being taking the large ships to the station to begin with.

[@sc0or]

Large ship which can be used for mining is Anaconda. Clipper is also ok, but it's defense capability is noting comparing to Conda's. The others are either mid-sized, or cannot be used as miners. So, both of them jump quite far. I'd like to say, that 50ly is pretty close to the target system for these ships. If we use Conda we can easyly install fuel scope. And then even 150ly will be also fine. Typically, systems with 1.6kk are located less than 100ly from each other. So, two-three evenings of mining on MkII, then you can purchase Anaconda (top core internals, top pulse, multi-cannons, good shield with boosters, fighter, mining equipment...) and have a pleasure time being searching for cores. The only unexplained thing is why the are no 1.6kk systems in Aisling Duval's controlled area. From the very beginning till now such systems are everythere except the light blue bubble.

[@epyon542]

@@sc0or I always forget the Cutter and Anaconda make good mining ships, I was thinking something like a fully loaded t9 as a large ship.