How to mine in Space:
You will need:
- Your ship equipped with:
- Mining Laser
- Cargo Hold
- Tractor Beam (optional)
You can get the starter equipment for free by doing the
Corellian Engineering Corporation Questline, finishing this questline will give you a Y8 Mining POB Also.
Locate an Asteroid
- Use your navigation map to find an asteroid, you can right click and autopilot to it, you need to be within around 500m to hit it with mining laser.
Mine Medium Chunks
- Use the mining laser to break off medium chunks from the asteroid.
Beware: this might spawn 2-4 Hostile Asteroid bandits that are the level of the zone you are in (T1 in Naboo and T5 in Kessel for example)
If no chunks come off of it, just keep hitting the big rock till it blows up, it will respawn within a few seconds at roughly the same place and be full of chunks again.
Break Medium Chunks into Small Chunks
- Shoot the medium chunks to break them into small chunks.
I advise being within 50-60m of the medium chunk with tractor beam on if using a tractor beam, this will catch most of the small chunks as soon as it explodes.
I set a macro using the command '/ship WeaponGroup toggleTractor' and put it on my toolbar so i can toggle with the F keys, the Tractor beam does not need to be assigned a group only the mining laser and a backup Damaging Laser in case of bandits if used.
Collect Small Chunks
- Shoot small chunks to collect ~20 units each.
- Use the tractor beam to collect ~40 units each.
Unload and profit
- Finally Land and pull up your datapad, select ship and right click you will have an option to unload into inventory, now you are free to use, sell to your friendly shipwright or on the bazaar.
Asteroid Types, Systems and Uses
- Iron (Tatooine & Corellia space): Heavy fighters, texture kits
- Sulphuric (Naboo Space): Y-8 reactor
- Organometallic (Lok and Kashyyk Space): Capacitor, reactor, Y-8 reactor, shield, Null Bolt, railgun
- Cyanomethanic (Yavin Space): Starfighter cargo holds, texture kits, winglets, strakes
- Carbonaceous (Naboo Space): Armor, capacitor, engine, Null Bolt, Gauss, railgun, mining lasers, tractor beam, vehicle restore kits
- Petrochemical (Yavin Space): Armor, reactor, heavy fighters, Y-8 cargo holds, vehicle restore kits
- Methane (Dantooine & Kashyyk Space): Booster, Gauss, Mk1 & Mk2 mining lasers
- Silicaceous (Corellia Space): Booster, shield, starfighter & POB cargo holds
- Acidic (Dantooine Space): Engine, POB cargo holds
- Crystal (Dathomir Space): Mk3 mining laser, tractor beam, winglets
- Icy (Endor): No use that i could see, but i might have missed it.
- Obsidian (Lok and Kessel space): Y-8 cargo holds, winglets, strakes, Vehicle Modulator
- Diamond (Kessel Space): Y-8 mining laser
Strange asteroid chunk
These are rare and are used in the special extra texture kits or if brave a decoration in your house, beware they are HUGE when dropped in house, There are 5 types:
- Misshapen (A-wing kit)
- Colourful (ARC and Z-95)
- Strange (B-wing)
- Glowing (X-wing)
- Ancient (Y-wing)