Engineering mats from mining?

[Guizin]

Can you get engineering mats from mining?

[Phoenix]

yes.

[TiberiuS]

pretty often, too. But only some (like elements). Some have to be gathered in other places.

[Wolf]

Originally posted by TiberiuS:

pretty often, too. But only some (like elements). Some have to be gathered in other places.

iron and nickel are elements and can be found in astroids :)
but there are some select elements/materials you will have to surface prospect on planets

[TiberiuS]

Originally posted by wolf:

Originally posted by TiberiuS:

pretty often, too. But only some (like elements). Some have to be gathered in other places.

iron and nickel are elements and can be found in astroids :)

Yeah, that's what I implied. ;)
Also Carbon can be found in asteroids

[|sHaKeR|]

Hello mate!
I spent a lot of hours with mining in the game and I wrote down what materials etc. you get, here is the list:

Ice mining: sulfur, phosphor, iron, carbon, plumb, chrom, mangan (rare), nickel, selenium (rare).

Asterodes / metal: sulfur, phosphor, iron, carbon, plumb, chrom, mangan (rare), nickel, selenium (rare), niobium (rare), cadmium (rare), zinc (rare)

but I would still recommend looking for these materials on planets, there are much more common occurrences.

I hope I could help ;)

greetings

[Guizin]

Originally posted by lsHaKeRl:

Hello mate!
I spent a lot of hours with mining in the game and I wrote down what materials etc. you get, here is the list:

Ice mining: sulfur, phosphor, iron, carbon, plumb, chrom, mangan (rare), nickel, selenium (rare).

Asterodes / metal: sulfur, phosphor, iron, carbon, plumb, chrom, mangan (rare), nickel, selenium (rare), niobium (rare), cadmium (rare), zinc (rare)

but I would still recommend looking for these materials on planets, there are much more common occurrences.

I hope I could help ;)

greetings

thank you so much, this will be very useful

[ZombieHunter]

Only from non-core mining. Sub surface missile and mining laser.

Best way to collect mats is signal sources and doing powerplay. When you undermine you usually find wings of 2 to 3 ships. They are simple kills and all drop materials.

Most materials are simple to find. I'm at the point where the data is actually harder to find than the materials. You will find as you play a significant disparity between how often different data and materials drop.

[Guizin]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Only from non-core mining. Sub surface missile and mining laser.

Best way to collect mats is signal sources and doing powerplay. When you undermine you usually find wings of 2 to 3 ships. They are simple kills and all drop materials.

powerplay for mats? how so?

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by Guizin:

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Only from non-core mining. Sub surface missile and mining laser.

Best way to collect mats is signal sources and doing powerplay. When you undermine you usually find wings of 2 to 3 ships. They are simple kills and all drop materials.

powerplay for mats? how so?

Kill the ships, collect in space. I get tons of materials from this. Ignore the power play crap floating in space and get the good stuff floating around. This is how I find configurable components, etc. B/c it spawns various types of ships like T9, T6, T7, Fighters, Asps, etc they all drop various types of materials. A gold mine of materials.

Another way is in nav beacon or res sites. Get one hit on a ship and let the cops do the rest. When it dies, it drops materials. Because of the various ranks and types of ships in those sites you can get some really good materials.

You cannot get elements from this but those are simple to find on planets. Remember materials and elements are not one to one. They usually come in groups of 3. Same with data.

[Guizin]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Originally posted by Guizin:

powerplay for mats? how so?

Kill the ships, collect in space. I get tons of materials from this. Ignore the power play crap floating in space and get the good stuff floating around. This is how I find configurable components, etc. B/c it spawns various types of ships like T9, T6, T7, Fighters, Asps, etc they all drop various types of materials. A gold mine of materials.

Another way is in nav beacon or res sites. Get one hit on a ship and let the cops do the rest. When it dies, it drops materials. Because of the various ranks and types of ships in those sites you can get some really good materials.

You cannot get elements from this but those are simple to find on planets. Remember materials and elements are not one to one. They usually come in groups of 3. Same with data.

elements are too boring to gather using the srv
you have to target then and then run your srv over them. i wish you didnt have to select them. just run over them and u get em

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by Guizin:

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Kill the ships, collect in space. I get tons of materials from this. Ignore the power play crap floating in space and get the good stuff floating around. This is how I find configurable components, etc. B/c it spawns various types of ships like T9, T6, T7, Fighters, Asps, etc they all drop various types of materials. A gold mine of materials.

Another way is in nav beacon or res sites. Get one hit on a ship and let the cops do the rest. When it dies, it drops materials. Because of the various ranks and types of ships in those sites you can get some really good materials.

You cannot get elements from this but those are simple to find on planets. Remember materials and elements are not one to one. They usually come in groups of 3. Same with data.

elements are too boring to gather using the srv
you have to target then and then run your srv over them. i wish you didnt have to select them. just run over them and u get em

SRV and missions are the only way to get them.

[BonPadre]

you could also use your preferate method to get lots of mats, and then use the material trader option to get what you need from that.

Not saying it's the most efficient, but sometimes it helps to get rid of some easy to get mats that you're already full of, and get what you really need.

[[BKM]Harry]

I had a go at mining raw materials in rings, had a ship with 2 mining lasers and collector limpets and no refinery. it was in my view incredibly boring and monotonous and I did not feel i was getting a great deal from it. while the SRV is may be slow to gather things at least your are actively doing something.