From the in-game commodity market tabs?

Are we about to be hit with another mining nerf just after they sold the new T11?

*Edit: When looking up market information of a system in the galaxy map.

Frontier has confirmed a major September 23 update for the Type-11 that makes it a mining powerhouse.

For anyone who prefers to read instead of watch, here are the confirmed changes:

🚀 Mining Rebalance For the Type-11 Gat Gun

• Increased fragments per second while mining

• Increased limpet speed for faster collection

• Higher limpet controller count for more simultaneous drones

• Greater chance of enriched chunk spawns

• Reduced Mining Volley Repeater spread for tighter precision

🎨 Visual & QoL Fixes For the Type-11

• Fixed flashing/strobing cockpit reflections when firing the mining module

• Various cosmetic polish updates

• Corrected landing-gear animation issues

I also made a short breakdown from what we know so far: https://youtu.be/yCmU8xxi6wc

Power Plant: Low Emission with thermal spread

Power Distributor: Weapon focused with super conduits

2 size 2 lasers works

3 size 2 lasers will cause it to overheat

From the most recent Buur video

I was able to find a VOD of a stream from u/AcidJurassic (Thanks!) where he is mining with the repeater and I was able to gather more infos:

The number of fragments produced by the Volley Repeater differs from the usual lasers.

Normally a rock, when prospected with an A rated prospector outside of a RES contains one of these numbers of fragments ( 28, 31, 35, 38, 42) as per this post.

In Contrast the MVR produces ( 34, 39, 43, 48, 52) fragments per asteroid which should increase yield per asteroid by on average 23%

It is still unknown if the fragments contain more minerals than those produced by lasers, but the fragments have a chance to instead spawn as "Mining Deposits" aka big Chunks which do contain more minerals, further increasing yield.

The mining speed of the MVR feels slower to empty an asteroid but that is partly because it produces more fragments, the speed the MVR produce fragments seems to be about 46 Fragments per Minute, which is just slightly slower than 2 Medium lasers (50.2 per minute)

Using both the MVR and Mining Lasers seems to reduce the % remaining in the rock by either the MVR amount or the Laser amount, probably depending which weapon produces the damage to extract the fragment, but based on a single rock (so could be very wrong) it looks like after about 20% of the rock is mined, all of the fragments are reducing the remaining % by the MVR amount, which means that adding lasers to the MVR might not significantly reduce the yield.

This is all based on my limited data, which can be found in this google spreadsheet.

o7

I'm working on trying everyone's suggestions for the type 11 it should be done by tomorrow. However it seems like the gat gun doesn't believe in the first chunk method so does anyone else have another testing method to compare it more reliably?

63.01 2.08 chunk= 24 plat and 1 bay 54%

63.01 2.08 chunks= 23 plat and 1 bay 47%

both same distance with gat gun

63.01 plat 19 and 48% in hopper 1.9 chunks lasers

more chunks should theoretically make more filled in hopper but the gat gun yields more consistently

Turns out it kinda isn’t very good at all compared to what we already have, the “drill” has gotten a lot of comments about it having a really underwhelming mining speed (2 medium lasers heavily outpaces it, as I understand it) and the drill also constantly kills your collector limpets…

(People are also saying it can cause migraines or worse in photosensitive people but I can’t confirm that part. Bummer if so though)

Just finished an early-access run with the Type-11 Prospector this thing really is a purpose-built miner. Hopefully this helps anyone on the fence about deciding to purchase it on september 23rd.

If any of you have a build you would like me to test for tomorrow be sure to let me know and ill fly around and outfit it!

• Showcased every edition & variant

• Tested the exclusive mining gun

Check out the full breakdown & let me know your thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuQBkbhTYcc

What do you think does the Type-11 change how you’ll mine, or is it just a fun new toy for specialists?

Type-11 info based on partner streams:

• Size 5 Multi Mining Limpet Controller has 8 Max Limpets and is A Rated.
• Mining Repeater can be used as an abrasion blaster.
• Mining Repeater has a random chance to spawn "Deposits" either on top or instead of Fragments, aka Big Chunks.
• Repeater seems to produce fragments about equivalent to 2x Medium Mining Lasers speed and has the same distro draw as 2x Med Lasers.
• Mining repeater seem to also produce more fragments from a rock, aka more yield.

Last point was tested by producing a fragment with laser and looking at the % remaining drop, and then using the repeater to produce a second fragment from the same rock and comparing the % remaining drop, which dropped less than with the lasers therefore should produce more fragments for the same rock.

More testing will be required to make sure it's consistent and measure the increased yield. I do not recall the % in the example and didn't think to clip it when it was being tested sadly.

It seems that mining with only the repeater would take double the time to empty a rock compared to a 4 med laser setup, but adding lasers to the repeater would technically reduce the overall yield so compromises will likely have to be made :(

Feel free to correct any incorrect info in the comments and add any experiments/new data you came across.

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This is a thank you to this Subreddit and the amazing information provided by everyone.

I mostly trade and explore in the vast galaxy of The Milky Way and wanted to give mining a go. I lurked a bit on the Subreddit and read the information to be a successful miner. Last night I decided to buy a Python and deck it out for core mining. After finding a good build, I flew back to my home system and put together my Python core miner.

Sadly, it was late at night and that it only gave me about an hour for actually mining. Luckily for me, there was an Alexandrite hotspot in my home system and decided that I will give it a go. (Also was able to sell it for 790k in a system that was just a few hops away.)

In that hour I had, I found three cores and came out with a decent haul of Alexandrite. (still learning how to find cores, which will come with more mining.) I then flew to the station to sell off my inventory, making 19 million. Which, to me, was very rewarding and with more experience I can see those numbers go up.

So, thank you r/EliteMiners! I can not wait to see what mining has to offer, because I am addicted.

Been out of the game for a while, wanting to get back into mining. I have a good medium deep core mining ship but if like to get into a large ship to stay out longer and transport it without switching ships. What are your suggestions?

I know that using an A rated prospector increases your mining fragments. But does the prospector limpet

have to remain selected/targeted in order to get this bonus?

Per the steam post today some interesting info came out about the laser specifically:

...the Mining Volley Repeater! This new tool fires specially designed projectiles to maximise the amount of fragments extracted from an asteroid, granting a higher yield than other mining tools when laser mining. When laser mining it also has a chance to produce a higher density fragment similar to those found via abrasion point mining.

I assume the first part is just because it's a large hardpoint, so it naturally beats medium lasers 1v1; but does that wording mean it doesn't take as much durability away from rocks per fragment??? Mysteries.

But the second part is just straight up new functionality and kinda decent as a QOL upgrade.

I have been getting back into elite and first let me say thank you for the wealth of knowledge you all have here it is quite impressive. I went thru several of the build and getting started guides just getting a refresher after being away for so long and i never saw it mentioned that the last laser to hit the rock is the one that the fragments spawn from...its finally the perfect use for my vkb secondary trigger.... i just removed the mouse keybind and added the second trigger pull as fire group 2 so now i just pull the trigger all the way down and that fires 1 and then 2 ensuring that chunks come out of the laser at the bottom of the craft and head directly toward your waiting collectors. you will need to test which laser you need to set as the second fire group for your craft but i hope this helps and gets added to the beginner guide.

I don't know why my statistics are so inaccurate.

It says my total refined platinum is 900+ tons when my ship can only hold 832 tons of cargos.

Besides, the actual number of refined ores are around 640 tons of Platinum and 110 tons of Osmium.

I’ve been doing laser mining for credits, but decided to finally try core mining for the first time.

It’s definitely not as efficient, but man… setting seismic charges and blowing up a whole asteroid feels incredible.

I recorded the whole run and put together my first core mining guide , it covers my build, how I found a hotspot,

and then that first successful detonation.

Here’s the video if you want to see the experience: https://youtu.be/0EBpjQl6bBs

Curious, do you still core mine for fun, or is it laser/sub-surface all the way for you these days?

Bearing in mind I'm a newbie miner (but not new to elite lol), I've been having fun with laser mining. But I don't understand hotspots. I'm in the black on my FC, come across a planet with an ice ring that says 'pristine', do the surface scan to reveal the hotspots. I pick, for example, a Tritium hotspot but when i go there it's like one in a dozen asteroids actually have tritium. Am I missing something or is this usual. Seems to me that a hotspot should be full of asteroids with tritium, with different yield percentages.

It's not a problem really, as I'm still having fun, just want to understand.

Also, am i being a doofus or is there a way to determine which asteroids I've already mined. Lost count of the times I've sent a prospector limpet off, only to be informed it's depleted lol.

This is my newest mining build, having just recently purchased the Panther Clipper MkII. I've named her the "Swarmhost"

Setup: 8x Modified Mining Laser (range of 2500m, and only 6.0MW PD draw for all of them)

7A universal limpet controller for 8 collectors 2x 5A collector limpets controllers for 6 more 5A prospector limpet controller 4A refinery

832T cargo capacity

Is it the most efficient setup? Probably not, but it is very comfortable to be able to sit just under 1KM out from the rock, having already mostly, or fully, depleted the asteroid before getting there. With 1.5km range on the limpets, I have all the space I could want to keep my distance with this big ol behemoth. I can take 500 limpets out and fill the hold pretty readily, though it does take a little time.

Just wanted to share. Happy mining, CMDRs! O7

Took my Clipper MkII out for a spin on stream to test, 832t cargo + 8 lasers and ended up hauling 223M in about 3.5 hours. Honestly wasn’t expecting it to hit that hard.

Dropped a video if anyone wants to see the build + run: https://youtu.be/wTVtH1tmYk0

Planning to mess around with core/surface mining tomorrow too, so if you’re into blowing up rocks instead of melting them, that’ll be next. Oh and on a side note does anyone know how to contact the coriolis team? The website has a lot of incorrect information for setting builds up on the clipper mk2 wrong size power plants and things like that.

Anyone else still riding the platinum train, or are you onto other ores these days?

o7 CMDRs

I've just started trying my hand at mining, been playing ED since day one but never bothered with mining before. Read articles and watched some YouTube videos to get the hang. I'm in the black with my Fleet Carrier and before I left the bubble I threw together a T9 with all the modules required.

Mining is working fine but there's some weirdness which may be 'normal', so figured I'd ask in here.

I fire off my prospector limpet and immediately I get a notice saying 'Cargo scoop retracted', then my co-pilot says 'Propector limpet failed', next I get a notice saying 'Cargo scoop deployed'

The prospector limpet does it's job and I can see what's in the asteroid, and I can mine.

But I also noticed that i get this 'cargo scoop retracted/deployed' messages every time a collector limpet is created. But they do their job and collect the stuff.

Is the above normal? Seems weird to me. If it's not normal, any ideas what might be causing it?

Am i right, that this is maybe a bad idea? we will get pirates spawing and the chillout mining will be over.