Type-6 Void opal mining?

[DefraggedSSD]

Is it possible for me to make my Type-6 cargo transporter into a viable miner so i can make some more capital? what kind of equipment should i get to mine void opals?

[Straight White Male]

Sure, you can use the starter sidewinder if you must too.
All ships can be used to mine.

[Boomer]

I forget which but one of the new tools for mining requires a medium hardpoint

[DayDreamer]

If you want to do deep core mining, im almost sure its not possible with type 6 if im right.
Try to get a keelback if you cant afford a bigger ship. Not really comfortable, but at least able to deep core mine

[Agony_Aunt]

Yeah, if you want to do deep core mining you need at least 1 medium hardpoint, which means no sidewinder or type 6.

However, you can do regular mining which is still very profitable, much more than it used to be.

[DefraggedSSD]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Yeah, if you want to do deep core mining you need at least 1 medium hardpoint, which means no sidewinder or type 6.

However, you can do regular mining which is still very profitable, much more than it used to be.

I have a Cobra MK3 aswell. Would that have the slots avaible?

[Vlesh]

To deep core mine you need
1. a refinery (Can do a smaller one, deepcore mining doesn't give you a whole lot of different types of materials, just a ton of the same material)
2. An Abrasion Blaster (To break off pieces that reveal from inside the asteroid 1 slot weapon hardpoint)
3. A Seismic Charge Launcher (To break open the asteroid 2 slot weapon hardpoint required)
4. Detailed Surface Scanner (To probe scan rings to find hotspots)
5. Pulse Wave Analyser (To find asteroids worth your time inside the ring)
6. Prospector Limpet (To attach to the asteroid and tell you whether or not it can be deep cored and show you where to put your charges and at what strength)
7. Collector Limpets (Optional, but I seriously don't see how people can enjoy manually scooping up a dozen or more objects)
8. Enough cargo space to not only hold a decent amount of limpets but also the materials you mine

I hear tale of some 24/7 miners that can deep core without the wave analyser or prospector limpets, they can visually see the cracks and where to place the seismic charges. I have not tried this and probably never will so I can not tell you how valid these claims are, but you definitely can see the cracks before you prospector the asteroid if it's deep core minable and you know what you're looking for and that's something you'll have to learn the more you do it. The better you are at recognizing if an asteroid has the cracks and therefore is deep core minable BEFORE you prospector it, the more materials you will get with the less time/limpets wasted.

[josh5813]

Go for Low Temperature Diamonds. Two containers are worth 1,000,000+ in Cemiess. Princess Aisling Duval needs her diamonds!

[Vlesh]

Originally posted by josh5813:

Go for Low Temperature Diamonds. Two containers are worth 1,000,000+ in Cemiess. Princess Aisling Duval needs her diamonds!

What he said, check eddb and see what things are selling for high prices in your area, Void Opals are usually in big demand but there is no single best material to mine. For instance, where I'm at Benitoite is the big ones.

[DefraggedSSD]

Originally posted by josh5813:

Go for Low Temperature Diamonds. Two containers are worth 1,000,000+ in Cemiess. Princess Aisling Duval needs her diamonds!

ah i found my system had a high demand for grap-something. 1 for like 500K

Can anyone explain me the abrasion blaster? how does it work? does it recharge? also how do i prevent limpets from expiring every time it collects something?

[Vlesh]

Abrasion Blaster is like a space shotgun. Hold the button, it takes a second to shoot, and it shoots a scattered blast. Anything surface side can be shoot and broke apart with the abrasion blaster for your limpets to collect. There will be specific targets for this, shown with a pimple looking icon.

To keep limpets from expiring once it collects something, don't target anything when you launch your limpet, it will stick around and grab everything it can within the time limit it has. They will still ram into parts of the asteroid and destroy themselves quite a bit though, so be sure to bring more than a couple and try not to position yourself so they ram into something below you trying to bring you materials.

Keep large distances between yourself and anything directly below you. Limpets like to dive pretty far down and come straight up directly at your cargo scoop. Point is though, they are going to destroy themselves regardless.

[DefraggedSSD]

Originally posted by オッドアイ:

Abrasion Blaster is like a space shotgun. Hold the button, it takes a second to shoot, and it shoots a scattered blast. Anything surface side can be shoot and broke apart with the abrasion blaster for your limpets to collect. There will be specific targets for this, shown with a pimple looking icon.

To keep limpets from expiring once it collects something, don't target anything when you launch your limpet, it will stick around and grab everything it can within the time limit it has. They will still ram into parts of the asteroid and destroy themselves quite a bit though, so be sure to bring more than a couple and try not to position yourself so they ram into something below you trying to bring you materials.

Keep large distances between yourself and anything directly below you. Limpets like to dive pretty far down and come straight up directly at your cargo scoop. Point is though, they are going to destroy themselves regardless.

thanks. but after a while my abrasion blaster just ran out of energy and it never started recharging. Does power distribution to weapons matter?

[RCyclone]

Originally posted by Defragged:

thanks. but after a while my abrasion blaster just ran out of energy and it never started recharging. Does power distribution to weapons matter?

Yes, it does. Normally 2 pips is fine in most cases unless you like faster recharge speed.

[Vlesh]

Yep Abrasion Blaster doesn't use ammo, it's a blaster, energy weapon. Needs energy to function. Only ammo you should have to get is for the seismic Launcher and your limpets

[DefraggedSSD]

Originally posted by オッドアイ:

Yep Abrasion Blaster doesn't use ammo, it's a blaster, energy weapon. Needs energy to function. Only ammo you should have to get is for the seismic Launcher and your limpets

yeah i understood that after i facepalmed realizing i had like no pips in my weapons. I thought it was special since the bar was ticking down slowely instead of it being temp worn. doesn't matter tbh since i was out of limpets at the same time

[blue]

You will need:

-Collector limpets
-Prospector limpets
-Refinery
-Cargo (For Limpets and Minerals, up to you how much you want/need)
-Abrasion Blaster
-Seismic Charge Launcher
-Detailed Surface Scanner
-Pulse Wave Scanner