How do you mine asteroids?

[arthasbg]

Title. I tried looking and nothing. Cant find any tips ingame either

[Dirak2012]

You shot them...

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Phase beam

[Pul Myfinger]

Fly into a dense 'roid field and with your weapon of choice (CyclotronB, for me).
Fly straight ahead with weapon spammed or held on and pitch backwards in a circle.
Add a slight roll to cover more area and very the pitch to get to 'fresher clumps'.
You will collect a LOT of random, useful resources.

[rhuntington]

The Phase Beam is awesome at this job as is the Photon Cannon. Make sure you have free slots in your star ship.

[Bubba Fett]

Mining in this game is pretty much the exact opposite of core mining in Elite Dangerous. :^)

[TESGuides]

^^^^ All of those ^^^^

It's practically impossible to mine for one specific element. Platinum is generally pretty easy to spot (the odd-looking asteroids) and the big potato-looking ones are usually Silver. Those don't yield much, but at least you can be reasonably sure of what you're going to get. The regular ones are silver, gold, and tritium, but you get whatever you hit.

If you're just trying to mine one particular resource, fill up your ship inventory except for one slot. Shoot one asteroid and check what you got. If it wasn't what you wanted, dump it, and shoot another. Repeat until you find the correct resource. Now just shoot. You'll get a ton of "Inventory Full" messages when you hit the ones you don't want, but the resource in your inventory will continue to stack until filled.

[aggressor27]

And with the cannon, the oldie buy goody with this one is to spam the fire button so you don't overheat it. It actually fired faster that way than just holding it down.

[)(eno]

If you can't figure this one out yourself then I advise you don't play Elite Dangerous.

[arthasbg]

Originally posted by rhuntington:

The Phase Beam is awesome at this job as is the Photon Cannon. Make sure you have free slots in your star ship.

Oh so i can use the photon cannon? Cuz it doesnt say suitable for mining. And then i was wondering how to get tritium fo rhte phase beam while also needeing it to mine tritium.

[ShadowMystic]

Originally posted by arthasbg:

Originally posted by rhuntington:

The Phase Beam is awesome at this job as is the Photon Cannon. Make sure you have free slots in your star ship.

Oh so i can use the photon cannon? Cuz it doesnt say suitable for mining. And then i was wondering how to get tritium fo rhte phase beam while also needeing it to mine tritium.

It seems strange but I'd rather that instead of parking and locking on with a mining beam a la EVE:Online.

Though. The latter would be a cool option in a freighter.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Originally posted by arthasbg:

Originally posted by rhuntington:

The Phase Beam is awesome at this job as is the Photon Cannon. Make sure you have free slots in your star ship.

Oh so i can use the photon cannon? Cuz it doesnt say suitable for mining. And then i was wondering how to get tritium fo rhte phase beam while also needeing it to mine tritium.

Just go crazy on an asteroid field. You'll get lots of gold, silver, tritium, and more.

[yökyöpeli]

Originally posted by rhuntington:

The Phase Beam is awesome at this job as is the Photon Cannon. Make sure you have free slots in your star ship.

Red this just moments ago. Thank you very much! Totally awesome.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Mining asteroids has always been a kind of silly task in the game. It is a little harder now that they improved the quantity so it not an asteroid filled space anymore. You have to find a patch and just randomly shoot.

There is a tiny bit of skill involved in picking candidates, but generally it is shoot it if it is in front of you. There is no precision to it generally.

They nerfed the quantities you can buy, so it may be a more valid option now then in the past. I usually try to buy what I need rather then do it.

[Praxis-W]

Can you still harvest Platinum in asteroid fields anymore? Does it depend on the system, or color of the star?

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Cake for Mumm-Ra:

Just go crazy on an asteroid field. You'll get lots of gold, silver, tritium, and more.

But not so crazy that you inadvertently hit (aka attack) one of the new NPC ships there also mining.

Well, unless you did want to have a battle...