X4 Foundations: Void Mining Guide

holymoly that is a lot.

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nice

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How did you put custom background into you menu screens?

Hmm trde station in danger zone=more dead npc traders=more sold ships?

This is great production for X4 tutorials! Great work!

Absolutely love your video!!!! Its absolutely amazing content! Iv been watching a few of your vids. Pls never stop

i finaly bought a med miner worth 2mil credits. and it died after 1 haul in void. luckily i had saved like 5 mins prior. so i reloaded and specated...... and watched it die again. now i know whats going on at least. i got no clue how to build factory or anyting. i got ur channel marked i sure i be comeing back often if i play that long. so far im bored. seems like so little to do early game. maybe im missing things i dont know. i finally got few minors making me passive money. so i going to take my starter ship go off exploring. get some missions done and hopefully that will open the game up more for me.

Or just be a man and go out into the void with a bucket and scoop up methane

Which build are you running on the Gas miner? Also why not run the Crane Vanguard instead which has even more shields?

hi, so the point to the station with the storage depot, is for NPC to buy it ? or u put your own trader to fill the demand ?
asking cause i don't have 2 or 3 star pilots yet

X4 Boron say hello JK!

Thanks so much. You've got some great guides on this game, and I love your humour too. Honestly, if not for your videos, I probably would've given up on it.

Good buttons, pressed

There's a chassis upgrade called "Tenacity" which gives you 100% damage reduction from hazardous zones. So the void ain't a problem at all and you can get at it without any trouble whatsoever - same for the tides in Avarice. I've already commented this on the crystals guide, but I think ppl watching here might profit from this too. Enjoy!

Hey just found your channel. Love your content :)

Is there a site where something like a interactive map to find resources? Just like you just showde for methane?

I have scape base in their. the enemy are coming through a gate their, Hull parts and bizzo`s( claytronics) abound now.

A better alternative is to keep using M Miners/Gas harvesters instead of L ones. Why? Because you can use a M miner with a cheap basic hull mod to give your M miners upto 90% less damage taken in hazardous areas. Meaning they are completely immune to the field even with a single medium shield generator worth of shield regen. And UNLIKE L-sized miners, they won't instantly lose all their drones as soon as you pass through the sector.

Learned this lesson the hard way, as I kept losing ships (miners and scouts) that I sent there, unaware of the hazardous region. When I eventually noticed I wasn't getting attack alerts, I Googled it to figure out what was happened, and learned about the hazardous region (which I later experienced for myself following the Segaris Pioneers questline).

So I blacklisted the region, but now I think I might just follow your advice. Thanks man.

ah so the lucky number is 500 watts, hmm I might have to sell all my L mags for ant L miner

Am I missing something? I'm playing Terran cadet start and there are no hazardous areas in the void. Also no xenon. Did something change in the 5.0 update?

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Jessie, we have to mine Methane

Gunna run through some of your tutorials, bout to return to the game and never really got too far into it

A most excellent video.

Why does your Thraka's IV only say 13,000K? Mine says 232M Methane

Lol you found my true HK location, 4 s/m 2 L and 1 XL, ship fab's, capable of continuous output, fully modular and easily expandable.... too be honest broke the game a bit for me I look with pity at my buyers (pretty much all the factions), they think they rule theyr worlds...
PS, and has if the nearly 2k guns on board weren't enough to defend it self, I also have 1 defence station right on top of each gate with nearly 500 guns each, bit overkill, have 2 at frontiers edge, but I destroyed the Xenon there and now Ant is the "owner"...

Ironic that this video comes days after xenon took over the void sector in my playthrough. Still, great for future reference.

I'd rather just take a Xenon sector. That way I have an excuse for more pew pews

I needed this video so bad. My hull parts factories are in Argon Prime and just the other day my three stations harvesting methane stopped gathering it and all my miners are trying to harvest the same spots. I've been avoiding The Void not wanting to deal with this sector. I didn't know OOS drones didn't deploy. Thanks for the tip!

Nice one.
Just to add some things.
Ships will automatically avoid the dangerous area. As long as you don't build the station in the dangerous parts, there is no need to move it vertically. This also applies to miners it seems, so far all my miners seem to avoid the sector by themselves.
However, the automatic mining-avoidance and blacklists no longer work if you assign miners to a station that is in The Void, as it automatically greenlights the sector for ships belonging to that station. Miners will still try to mine there if they have nowhere else to go.
Only the Magnetar and Crane can safely mine there as they are the only L miners with two shield slots to reach that critical 500 recharge rate.
The area where the two radiation belts cross deals double the damage - 1000 damage per second. You get hit by both belts at the same time.

Great video as usual. I think it's worth mentioning also that the void is also a frequent target of Xenon incursions, so staying away from the south and north side with your stations is a good idea.

Or you can use a mod that removes the radiation all together.. they won't get killed by the radiation but they will get killed by those pesky little xenon 😁

Just a tip... if you place a station above the ecliptic in the middle of the Void, be sure to arm it properly. I have such an installation and it gets frequently visited by Xenon K's on their way from Getsu Fune to Frontiers Edge or vice versa.

20s in and we destroyed the first Elite.. Up to a good start!

The void is quite crucial for all the Terran play. It's the only way to get into the other parts of the gate network. So, You have to take it. Vise versa, it's the only path to get to Sol. It's also next to ANT's capital sector and only 1 sector (Second Contact II) away from Argon Prime.

I just built a huge advanced electronic factory there (50 adv. electronic production modules. I guess I overworked.)and I am thinking of turning it into a huge shipyard.

Also, there is a mod to change the hazard only to depleting shields, not armor or hull.

You make very good videos about x4 ! thank you and keep it up

Unless Egosoft has changed that, being out of sector/system deletes the danger immediately