A Beginner’s Laser Mining Guide - MORE than "The Grind" | Elite Dangerous Mining 2024

Ah yes, mining with Type-7, we've all tried, not a fun experience.

Thanks for the relaxing video, used to mine with my T9, fun times, I’ll have to do a cutter miner as there must be something it’s useful for. But the Thargoids call me.

Is it worth to buy Elite Dangerous: Odyssey?

Another great video. Very true- mining is relaxing. If you want exciting go to a haz Rez (good mining plus plenty of pirates to fight- just need a good fighting ship as well). Personally I prefer chilling with mining and fighting in a has Rez.

Awesome, I've just outfitted a laser mining python, for doing some engineering stuff. Very budget, haven't even moved over my highly engineered modules from my Kraits.

Definitely interested in the core mining, I've gone out a few times core mining. I'm very bad at it and often manage to waste a bunch of charges bouncing off the asteroid and ruin asteroids by bad detonations or taking too long!

Still fun though but hasn't been very profitable yet. xD

Always wondered about the appeal, now I get it

I made enough to by my fleet carrier years ago laser mining Low Temp Diamonds when they were the hot thing. I have since transistioned to core mining, for ongoing fleet carrier costs and for relaxation. I prefer to find my own systems out in the black. I look forward to what you have to say on the subject and see if I can improve my own approach.

Whats the best mineral or metal to mine for nowdays?

Great video! o7 CMDR

Nice no nonsense guide! Thanks
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Wish I had seen this before I attempted mining the other day. Great vid, keep em coming.

o7 Commander. Loving your videos, keep up the good work! Also don't forget your limpets. ;)

I love this new channel. You're doing a great job. Keep it up!

I'm late to the party but 2 things to remember.
Prospector limpits increase the amount of material based on grade so always go grade A
And secondly be careful with spinning rocks as they can damage limpits as they aren't smart enough to avoid them so you can lose a lot of them that way

Absolutely. Brilliant.
More please. O7

I love your guides because you actually teach us the tools needed to find a good place to do these activities. A lot of guides just say "go here" and its 32 jumps from me. Looking forward to the core mining guide!

If you're looking for requests, I'd love to see an exobiology guide and maybe a guide on the basics of the background simulation.

I wish the comments would let me post the "quit having fun! 😡" bitter gamer comic in the comments here to mock all the jaded commanders out there

I don't mine much because I get frustrated with the refinery bogging down and I don't understand how to deal with it... Maybe some info on handling that would be useful. Otherwise a good tutorial. Thanks.

When you are full, flush any junk out of your refinery. If you’ve previously picked up a small amount of palladium, for example, but your current rock is still spiting out platinum, then flush the palladium and let the bin fill with platinum. When all your refinery bins are 100% full, then go sell up.

The fact that you made an excellent mining guide while using a Type-7 for it is amazing. Finally somebody who doesn't care about min-maxing the absolute maximum number of credits in the shortest amount of time. Thank you so much for focusing on gameplay for its own sake, and not "here's how to 'beat' Elite Dangerous". Subscribed and looking forward to more!

My problem with laser mining is i keep falling asleep during the run.

the cutter build is interesting.
Why a 6d shield?
Due to the nacelle med slots position would it not be better to have mining lasers on the L slots?

Would crashing into the ring not deal damage?

Good work, keep it up! :)

Great video, cant wait for more!

Few things:
Good work, keep it up! :)

The prices are constantly change in the game, so it is not always platinum best to mine, it is often low temperature diamond.

I thing it is always good to equip core mining equipments to along side with laser mining. Low temp diamond host both for example. And you can do laser mining, and sometime find core veins, then it is a full win. I know there is (will be) a video about core mining, but it worth mentioning here too :)

I thing the Anaconda is also being the best miner, good hard points, internals, jump range, and distributor.
The best shield for miners are scaled down prismatic shields, eg. C3 for Anaconda. This is a power play module, but it is defently worth getting (it is the most popular).

Great walkthrough! cant wait to see the next video!

Stoked for the core mining one, definitely what I've spent the most time doing by far in Elite, it's that right balance of engagement and relaxation, especially if you've got a couple buddies and you're all just roaming about together.

You didn’t mention managing the refinery. If you fill your hoppers with materials you don’t actually want you can’t process what you do want.

Enjoying your guides. Keep up the good work.

Sometimes I'm at a platinum hotspot, and all I can find is 40 to 50% worth of platinum... And a lot of useless rocks... I'm never lucky...

it's also fun with friends, we were mining 3 pilots, one flying type 7, he was our hauler and collector, one flying sidewinder, he was our scout, finding core asteroids for low temp. diamonds and I was in asp exp. for cracking and protecting hauler. with this all 3 of us can buy our first anaconda 😄

Nice guide, only thing missing - what to do or how to react if Pirate's come back whilst you're mining. You have to jettison some of your stash i'm guessing?

I have hardly ever gone mining, mainly because I had no idea how to best use all of the components. Now I have a good grounding in what to do and how to do it. Thanks for this.

Why didn't you use the prospect scanner? Not useful here?

Another great informative tutorial. Thanks may give this a go.

Couple things I have learned in the 10k hours I have put in ED, It doesn't matter if or where other people have mined at the metallic ring Platinum hotspot you are mining, as laser mined metals are player specific and regenerate every 3 hours, this is why many commanders use maps. Cores are shared with everyone, and only regenerate once every 6 days, so this might be what you are thinking.
As for Omicron Cap B it is a good spot but there are better platinum hotspots in/near bubble, If you use the "miners tool" and go to "list" then "Plat HS high yield (27)" and then "get", here you will be able to see the average platinum per asteroid in each of these rings, you will notice that 25 of the 27 hotspots on the list actually yield more than Omicron Capricorni B on average.
I use a fully engineered Vette to laser mine, Cutter is better if you want to mine like 512 at a time, but for 256 cargo the my Vette takes about 35 minutes and that's about the amount of time I want to spend mining before I get bored lol
Really well put together video, one of the best out there :)
o7

Python for the win, but of course, that takes some money to start with. I would come to mining later but I guess you can give it a go with a Type 6.

I actually have a Type-9 that does both laser AND core mining, gotta say it's really nice from time to time

The one important thing about limpets: if you target something collectible, they are a one-use thing. They collect what you targeted and after are gone. If you don't target anything collectible they will just collect anything around you and won't be gone after one pickup but keep on collecting for a good while. So when mining, don't target any ore chunks but just let your limpets do their job.

Thanks for this, I didn't have the best time with mining in the past so have ignored it since. I might have another look now though.

Awesome guide! Using the Type-7 seems quite interesting for mining... I always considered that ship to really just be for trading (or running thargoid rescue missions). I'll have to give this a shot! Excited for the core mining guide.

Thank you very much for that add to ignore list trick!! O7 CMDR

Awesome, Thanks for the ship builds. 👍

I actually mined in excess of a billion credits in one day in my trusty Type 7. Damn Vr headset meltet my face away but.... No pain no gain 🎉