X4 Foundations: Getting Started with Mining Guide

[@bobkerman3280]

Egosoft should hjire you creating more content and guides, just saying. I started playing few days ago and your guides have made my life a lot easier!

[@Quickb3n]

The most concise and infomation dense mining guide out there. Cheers !

[@BilalAslamIsAwesome]

Thank you for this! Clear and concise, as a brand new player the only place i got lost was figuring out where you clicked on the UI

[@JKNinja]

Thank you! Which part was I not clear on with the UI? I'd like to know so I can plan for that in other videos. More feedback is always good!!

[@BilalAslamIsAwesome]

@@JKNinja just had to rewind to follow your cursor to find out how to set up sector auto mine 😊

[@WildHorseProductions]

Thanks for the guide! A long time X2 and X3 vet thats just trying out X4 and even for me with over 500+ hours in the older games its a huge learning curve. They dont make it easy to learn in game, fortunately theres people like you helping make guides! Thank you.

[@wickbroke2950]

I've been cruising around the X4 tubespace, and you have the best visuals and scripting I've found. It also helps that you typically make me laugh out loud about once a minute. Enjoy my 0.001K subscription.

[@GreenMohawk1987]

I greatly appreciate the effort you out into your videos and content. Thank you!

[@net2000man]

Thanks for the content, I'm following your videos closely, especially now that I've embarked upon my first ever Pirate start based on your earlier video! Having tons of fun capping small ships, but haven't capped any medium ones just yet, debating what I should capture as there's so much to consider. Keep up the excellent work, you go into some very good depth which makes this game that much more fun. Thanks!

[@JKNinja]

I'm glad that I could help, and good luck on your first pirate playthrough!

[@theoopsdrivers]

You should do a video update of this since ice now is much better to mine with the Boron. Your videos are THE BEST! Thanks for making them!

[@davidasteed]

this channel is my happy X4 info space

[@leinadreign3510]

Amazing! Thanks for the help!

[@Layk35]

Lol, I love that in every video you take the time to shit on the Elite Vanguard

[@Lonerider-vs3tb]

I've never thought to do the fleet thing personally. Always thought the mimic wouldn't work unless they at the same experience level for the task the commander is doing. They need to set it up for sure for Cleaning up your property list. Gets crazy when you're rolling 10 scouts, 15 small miners, 10 medium miners, then 30 traders small and medium. That's only early game for some people lol. Can't imagine how late game empire makers handle it all 🤣

[@SusannaSaunders]

This looks very useful... I'm just not at the point of being able to use all of this yet! So I've saved it for later... Hopefully in a while I'll be able to understand enough of this to come back and use it! 🙂 Thanks for the video guide!

[@GenosseWolf]

Ice is back on the menu boys!

[@michaelgoetze8531]

"Don't mine Ice as demand for it is very low." *Queendom of Boron has entered the chat*

[@JKNinja]

lol yeah, that quote did not age well

[@Usurperking]

I think I'm in love with your voice

[@krixpop]

To all: Kayaks are NOT dangerous and NOT part of this game ! ! ! Kayaks are awesome small boats for fun and competition... - Kha'ak however can be deadly ! - Thus remember: #NotKayaks !

[@DriftyG]

Good info!

[@Volkmannx]

👍

[@GuidoGallenkamp]

I never use ctrl+click for setting up a fleet. It''s just leftclick on the new ship, rightclick on the fleetcommander.

[@gawni1612]

can you please explain how resource probes work, both with player mining and autominers?

[@JKNinja]

it shows the resource amounts in the given radius. Does nothing for the player but the autominers will use that information for deciding where to go

[@Omidion]

But...what about resource probes ?

[@Josivis]

1:37 I try to get a Station and solid storage for mining nividium as early as possible for my research later.

[@agidyne9676]

I heard that nvidium thing was a good start for mining, so I had my guy go there. Does he auto sell his cargo? I haven’t seen him find any for a long time o.o

[@elnogga]

How do we configure the sell range?

[@JKNinja]

Station sell range is determined by manager rank: 1 extra sector per star

[@james8449100]

Large miners can dock small ships is there a way of setting small miners to dock and mine with the large ones

[@aeletzio]

How can you controll where the autominers will drop off/ or sell the mined minerals?

[@hlpbgh]

One question I've always had is how in-player gas mining works. For all the solid resources, you have an asteroid to shoot at and/or scan. But what does gas mining look like?

[@jakegraham7265]

You have to space walk and insert a hose into the asteroid

[@byorh2]

You mention that one refinery can support 2 miners. Are those 2 S miners or M miners? Or L?

[@JKNinja]

2 mediums per refinery. Once the AI economy starts to stabilize after 10-20 hours you'll get a feel of how each sector works. It changes every game seed but that's a good starting point

[@byorh2]

Thanks!

[@sim.frischh9781]

I tend to go for two medium miners per faction just to build up Rep passively, the income is more of a bonus. Since it also trains the Captains, i use them as Universe Traders later on and replace them with a new cheap Captain, creating a training pipeline. Albeit not an outstanding one. But as of now i have looked down on the Couriers mostly, the idea of using them for Nividium mining didn´t occure to me, that is valauble input.

[@JKNinja]

the small miners are very underwhelming, but when it comes to what they are good at (mining missions and nividium) they perform very well

[@sim.frischh9781]

@@JKNinja That´s pretty much what i took from your video, yes. I have yet to properly play X4, as i have a mere 39 hours play time and not played since May 2020, most of my X experience comes from the X3 games of which i have several hundred hours, possibly even more than 1000 since i first started playing Terran Conflict as a non-STEAM game. But the small miners weren´t a thing in X3, neither were the big ones.

[@jackparalax2156]

My brother in X4, can you explain how carriers and fleets work to me? I've gotten on an X4 binge and forgot everything.

[@maximilianyuen]

nice, clear a lot of stuff that i can't figure out myself. but when i try mimic it just don't work....i have all small courier mimic one of them and created the fleet, and have the leader buy and sell stuff, but the subordinate will just sitting still. so guess it only work for auto mine/trade?

[@JKNinja]

the leader of the fleet needs to complete a trade before the rest will mimic. It can take a few minutes before the rest starts moving

[@maximilianyuen]

@@JKNinja ah thank you sir

[@joelernst8815]

Please stop harrasing the poor vanguard :) . Half of your tutorial videos should be flagged for "offensive" against that poor ship :D . Everytime this video starts I wait for the line containing the word "Vanguard" and at least "garbage/ trash" and seeing a ship being rammed out of screen by frigate. Vanguard is the best choice for fearsome people. No matter how much pirates are around you, you will never need to fear any of them wanting to steal your ship :D . But you run the risk of them destroying it simply cause its a insult against all space crafts out there.

[@shadaris3384]

can you use a medium miner to haul ore from a large miner to stations? essentially strip an area with a couple large then using mediums ferries. or do you have to use a station as an intermediary?

[@JKNinja]

that won't work, you will need a depot station

[@nightmareeevee3565]

Now with borons ice is somewhat valuable

[@deovindice1799]

Ummm, is it me or did you forget to list those seven systems for nividium?

[@JKNinja]

the nividium sectors showcase starts at 1:20, there is also a list in the description

[@Cassin1306]

But there is no description ^^ Anyway, @Deo Vindice here's the sectors : Hatikvah's Choice I Hewa's Twin I Holy Vision Grand Exchange III Ianamus Zura IV Black Hole Sun V The Void :)

[@FathiZaynMuhamad]

What about advance mining

[@Shinarock]

sad thing i just got miner and all it does is go around the resource probes looking? for free things instead of actually trying to mine the asteroids for their sweet insides :S

[@wolfhound146]

Still not sure why people dislike the Elite so much. It is perfectly capable for combat. With a MK 3 combat engine, comebat thruster, MK 3 shield and MK 2 Pulse Laser it can survive quite a bit. You can even pirate medium ships with it. It can take a hit and keep you safe as you take out 4 S ships and a M ship. I have done it many times. Drop a couple of distractions in the form of Laser Towers and you have a ship that can do a good bit. I'm really starting to think anyone who says it's bad just can't fly well or are not good at combat.

[@Raspukek-fu8un]

this what u shitted out here is not for beginners. not even close. this fo playaz hu playad at least month in this isanely complicated game

[@dxx-o5r]

Skill issue

[@Raspukek-fu8un]

@@dxx-o5rits not about skill, its about diligence.