Mining 2026

[Heisenb3rg]

O7, cmndrs.

Want to know if there any good "mine > sell" routes right now with maximum profit/hour? Im doing laser mining actually, so will be very thankful for any tips and routes with painite or something same costs farming.

[Edelweiss ✿]

That's going to change by the hour, you'd have to use a tool like Inara to check sell prices

[Bomoo]

Yes, same with trading. Learning to spot good trade routes is a whole art, which to be honest I'm still trying to figure out.

[Heisenb3rg]

I know how to earn around 100 mil. per hour by trading right now, but pretty sure mining is still more rentable if u know how to exactly

[Heisenb3rg]

So is there any good systems with painite spots or should I mine anything else?

[Gök-Han]

Look onto the fantastic ingame map.
Switch to:
"Pilot Federation"
(one button below the "Realistic Mode")
then to "Status Map"
"Aufschwung, Abriegelung, Pleite, Investition"
English:
"recovery, lockdown, bust, investment"
Mark these locations and look for industrial, refinery and high tech stations/settlements
those will be very pleased to buy your mined goods due they need it at most and are willing to pay real good Credits for it.

Two days ago in the homeworld of Aisling Duval in Cemiess where I wanted to raise up the ranks to try out the Imperial Courier, I made some good business, due one factory station was totally broke and they paid some real good Credits to buy all the raw metals they could get. I managed to buy and to sell and with 160 cargo with the Corsair. Some good deals were made of some millions for a quick trade.

Hope this will help.
Look for industrial, refinery and high tech worlds/stations in critical systems.
Its all in the in-game map.
Just a quick learning of how to "read" the map is everything what is needed.

Cheers Commander(s)!

Edit:

Another advice, if one of those critical systems were visited and the nav beacon scanned by you, then you can see the prices of the goods without to travel to those systems. Therefore switch to "User Data" two buttons below of the "Realistic Mode" then to "Wares". There you can switsch to "Import Price" and take the good you want to sell, to see the price in the system. Its really nice the in-game map.

It's just needed to "read" the map.
Its very easy and simple to use.
Just have a look.

[Crazybyte]

Online tool for mining in elite dangerous...

https://edtools.cc/miner

[Gök-Han]

By the way, can some veteran miner can build me a non engineered Type-11 mining ship on EDSY please?
So I don't need to open a new thread or to seek some outdated ship-build from five years ago here on the threads search section.

Thank you very much in advance.

[allocesninja]

Originally posted by Gök-Han:

By the way, can some veteran miner can build me a non engineered Type-11 mining ship on EDSY please?
So I don't need to open a new thread or to seek some outdated ship-build from five years ago here on the threads search section.

Thank you very much in advance.

You don't need a build. The type 11 just does it's thing straight out of the box all you need on there is a prospect controller the mk2 prospect/collector controller, the special large mining hard point and a refinery with cargo racks. The large hard point is so powerful fitting anything else on there is a waste. The only question is do you want more collectors or more cargo because that one hard point mines rocks in about 20seconds. if you are core mining or subsurface there's no bonus so only add those if you want it.

[BloodravenD]

Originally posted by Gök-Han:

By the way, can some veteran miner can build me a non engineered Type-11 mining ship on EDSY please?
So I don't need to open a new thread or to seek some outdated ship-build from five years ago here on the threads search section.

Thank you very much in advance.

My current build: https://edsy.org/#/L=Jc2kEzSJ0H4C0S00,JdJ02Jr902JrB02H9XG2BM_W0JprG23G000Exi02Exi02EhtG2B9rw0,EQ202CzY02Cjw02CzY02,9p3H05G_W0AAAH230_W0AOEG25G_W0AdtG25G_W0AqMG26G_W0BAEG23G_W0BJcG25G_W0Bcg12,,0AA120AA120AA1208c1208c124mt021rq027RAG27GPD05xs020YY022jwG29G_W00nG02,Big_0Red_0Rock_Deater,YumYum

Do note, I have since removed the offensive weapons. I still need to engineer most things, however I do have the FSD at g4 long range, power distributor at g4 charge enhanced, and the pre-engie'd detailed surface scanner, although a stock one would suffice for scanning rings.

[allocesninja]

Originally posted by BloodravenD:

[My current build: https://edsy.org/#/L=Jc2kEzSJ0H4C0S00,JdJ02Jr902JrB02H9XG2BM_W0JprG23G000Exi02Exi02EhtG2B9rw0,EQ202CzY02Cjw02CzY02,9p3H05G_W0AAAH230_W0AOEG25G_W0AdtG25G_W0AqMG26G_W0BAEG23G_W0BJcG25G_W0Bcg12,,0AA120AA120AA1208c1208c124mt021rq027RAG27GPD05xs020YY022jwG29G_W00nG02,Big_0Red_0Rock_Deater,YumYum

Do note, I have since removed the offensive weapons. I still need to engineer most things, however I do have the FSD at g4 long range, power distributor at g4 charge enhanced, and the pre-engie'd detailed surface scanner, although a stock one would suffice for scanning rings.

I didn't even bother engineering mine or bother keeping weapons/fighter bay it is practically perfect so I thought there was no point

[Doom]

Originally posted by Heisenb3rg:

O7, cmndrs.

Want to know if there any good "mine > sell" routes right now with maximum profit/hour? Im doing laser mining actually, so will be very thankful for any tips and routes with painite or something same costs farming.

There isn't one, because market is dynamic. Normally platinum has high price, but sometimes it crashes, which divides profit by 5.

Locate hotspot, use inara for selling point.

The best thing to mine is platinum via laser mining.

Originally posted by Heisenb3rg:

I know how to earn around 100 mil. per hour by trading right now, but pretty sure mining is still more rentable if u know how to exactly

Via trading you should be able to do 150+ on a BAD day using inara. On a good day it is possible to get 80 mil per trade, but this is rare.

Mining is mainly worth it if you find it fun. Not the worst way to make money though.

Originally posted by Gök-Han:

By the way, can some veteran miner can build me a non engineered Type-11 mining ship on EDSY please?
So I don't need to open a new thread or to seek some outdated ship-build from five years ago here on the threads search section.

Thank you very much in advance.

There isn't any secrets. Simply stick mining equipment into mining slots and volley repeater into volley repeater slot, fill all size 6 slots with cargo. Ensure you have refinery and DSS and advanced limpet controller. And that's it. You probably don't even need to engineer the distributor.

[Heisenb3rg]

Ah okay, thx for ur info guys. Just thought if there any new tips I should know from time when I did my "real" painite runs with Anacaonda build back in 2020 or so. Or mayber someone discovered new systems with triple painite or platunim spots in one ring XD

[Heisenb3rg]

Originally posted by Bomoo:

Yes, same with trading. Learning to spot good trade routes is a whole art, which to be honest I'm still trying to figure out.

U dont need to bro, Inara is bulding max profitable routes in one click, and now u can make for a round 70+- mil. per 15 minutes or less run using Clipper MK2

[BloodravenD]

Originally posted by Heisenb3rg:

Ah okay, thx for ur info guys. Just thought if there any new tips I should know from time when I did my "real" painite runs with Anacaonda build back in 2020 or so. Or mayber someone discovered new systems with triple painite or platunim spots in one ring XD

If you are laser mining, ideally you would want to pick up platinum, as it usually is the best profit compared to the other lasered ores.

[Gök-Han]

Originally posted by allocesninja:

Originally posted by Gök-Han:

By the way, can some veteran miner can build me a non engineered Type-11 mining ship on EDSY please?
So I don't need to open a new thread or to seek some outdated ship-build from five years ago here on the threads search section.

Thank you very much in advance.

You don't need a build. The type 11 just does it's thing straight out of the box all you need on there is a prospect controller the mk2 prospect/collector controller, the special large mining hard point and a refinery with cargo racks. The large hard point is so powerful fitting anything else on there is a waste. The only question is do you want more collectors or more cargo because that one hard point mines rocks in about 20seconds. if you are core mining or subsurface there's no bonus so only add those if you want it.

This is the customized ship of mine. Is it alright?
Next week I want to try out the first mining trip.

https://edsy.org/#/L=Jc00000H4C0S00,JdJ00JrA00JrA00Hez00Jpe00Exp00Exp00Exp00,DBw00DBw00CzY00CzY00,9p300AAA00AOi00Adt00Aqq00BAE00BK400Bcg00,,0AA000AA000AA0008c0008c004mt001rq007RW000a60003w000nG000nF00,Stoned_0Rider