Displacement launcher bouncing off of asteroids? What are fissures? Why do abrasion blasters do nothing?

[Shadowdrake]

I'm not getting the new mining in this game, can someone explain to me how to mine?

[Edelweiss ✿]

- You need to land the shot right in the center, if it doesn't hit the right spot the displacement missile will ricochet

- fissures, if you are lucky enough to find one, is a place to put dpeth charges on it to crack the rock open

- they only work on surface materials

[ferus]

Get a pulse wave scanner and scan the asteroids - the brighter yellow they are the better the yield will be.

Fire a prospector limpet into the desired asteroid and on your contacts tab you will see:

1. Surface deposits
2. Sub surface deposits
3. Asteroid fissures (not on all asteroids, these are not that common)


Displacement missile works on sub surface deposits and you need to hold down the fire button until it drills into the asteroid.
Then when you hit the blue spot (indicator on bottom left) you have to release the trigger.

Abrasion blaster is used for surface deposits and you need to be quite precise with it. Just hit the surface deposits with the blaster and the chunk will fly off.

And fissures need to be blasted with a seismic charge.
There is also a small mini game involved - depending on the strength of the fissures (low, medium, high) you need to hold down the trigger and charge the seismic charge just right (the tool itself has an indicator for it that is divided into 3 thirds - the longer you hold down the trigger the more you charge up your charge).
On the top right you will see another small indicator with yellow, blue and red zones.
You need to set the charges so that you hit the blue zone where the asteroid yields the best results.
If you go too weak and the charges explode you get nothing.
In blue you get the best results.
If you go red the asteroid is blown up and you sacrifice some materials.
You need to set the correct amount and correct strength charges to hit the blue zone (and you have 2 minutes before the first charge blows).


If you have the time check out the mining stream on YouTube where Adam explained it quite well.
I watched it twice just to get all the info in ;)
Once before beta when it still seemed confusing and once while I was playing and everything was clear then.

[Shadowdrake]

Thanks all, yeah I tried looking it up on google but all I saw was vids that I didn't have the time to watch at the moment or other people like me asking how it works. Except on those threads everyone just complained about the new mechanics instead of answering the dude's question lol. Thanks for the info!

[Knight Drive]

New mining player here.
Ferus that explanation was perfect. I know I'm late to the party, everyone on videos just seems to want to chat chat chat.

I just swapped over from Starliner stuff and exploration. I got bored and wanted a bit more action, not as much as bounty hunting though. I've sunk about 8 million credits in a new ship, traded in the old one and threw everything that I could at it. I was starting to regret my decision until it finally clicked thanks to that comment.
Hopefully by next week I'll have made back the 8 million and some change!