How do I pick up chunks of asteroid that I mined?

[Smokin Thrax]

So I went to an asteroid, I have a mining laser and a refinery all I need. Then, when I mine the asteroid enough, a chunk breaks from the main body, I open my cargo scoop, try to pick it up but I can't ( I fly straight on where the asteroid bit is). It just crashes into my sidewinder and nothing happens. How would I pick up an asteroid bit with my ship that I mined?

[🅽🅴🅼🅾]

The cargo scoop works, just take it nice and slow. Requires some practice and patience. Alternatively there is a "Cargo Collector Limpet" that runs out and grabs it for you.

[Steve]

Easiest way: fit a collector module to your ship, buy some limpet drones and have them collect the ore for you.

Hard way: open your cargo bay doors and slowly scoop them one by one, keeping them in the "blue" area in your left hand scanner/display.

[Smokin Thrax]

Originally posted by PaulFoster:

Easiest way: fit a collector module to your ship, buy some limpet drones and have them collect the ore for you.

Hard way: open your cargo bay doors and slowly scoop them one by one, keeping them in the "blue" area in your left hand scanner/display.

Thanks both of you, but where would I buy these limpet drones, and how much do they cost? I have 55,000 credits and am trying to purchase a hauler

[Smokin Thrax]

Originally posted by NeMo:

The cargo scoop works, just take it nice and slow. Requires some practice and patience. Alternatively there is a "Cargo Collector Limpet" that runs out and grabs it for you.

Thank you, but where would I buy these limpet drones and how much do they cost?

[Snake Plisskens]

You need a collector limpet controller purchased in outfitting, and then limpet "ammo" (i don't remember what they are called), that you purchase from munitions at a space station. they take up cargo so that is something to keep in mind. they are rather inexspensive, but the controller probably costs a pretty penny.

Fromt what i have read, people will do around about half of their cargo in limpets, but maybe start around a third of your cargo and see how that goes at first.

[Wolf]

how to use cargo scoop :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zipujCei6gc

[Smokin Thrax]

Thank you !

Originally posted by wolf:

how to use cargo scoop :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zipujCei6gc

[cetaman]

Mining: October 11th 2019
If I break off a piece of ore from an asteroid and send out a limpet it grabs it and brings it back. It then says Cargo Acquired. It doesn’t matter if I get it manually with my cargo scoop or with a limpet, nothing shows in my Ship’s cargo under the Inventory tab. No matter how many I collect they do not show up. No filters set. Am I looking in the wrong place?

[Ratt]

Originally posted by cetaman:

Mining: October 11th 2019
If I break off a piece of ore from an asteroid and send out a limpet it grabs it and brings it back. It then says Cargo Acquired. It doesn’t matter if I get it manually with my cargo scoop or with a limpet, nothing shows in my Ship’s cargo under the Inventory tab. No matter how many I collect they do not show up. No filters set. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Ore doesn't go straight to cargo; it goes to your refinery. You have to pick up several chunks of rock (how many depends on the purity/density of the target material, which you can see while targeting it) to get one unit of refined product. These raw bits of material are held by your refinery, which turns them into a unit of cargo when it has enough raw material to do that.

A refinery is another module you have to install in an optional module slot. If you don't have one, you can't mine (and your cargo scoop should have been warning you about it). The number of modules and amount of cargo space needed to mine efficiently make it hard for small ships like the starting Sidewinder I assume you're in (if you're saving for a hauler and have only 55,000 credits).

[Pctechnik]

Cetaman is not the OP "♥♥♥♥ cheese", way to go reviving a dead topic.

Also, DONT select each individual chunk and send a limpet after it, a tergetted limpet is consumed after it drops the nugget in your hold.

Instead, fire off the collector WITHOUT a target selected, it'll collect everything it can in its range while its active. Yes, limpets die... There are many topics about this waste of life.

[Lupus]

cetaman, please start a new thread. Thanks.