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- How To Optimize Asteroid Mining
- What Resources Can You Find Asteroid Mining
The galaxy in Starfield is full of resources for you to mine and collect. Whether you mine minerals from a planet's surface, steal hauler ship cargo, or mine asteroids in space, you’ll need resources to build your Outposts and upgrade your gear. Mining asteroids is one of the best methods to gain resources.
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But knowing where to search for asteroid belts and how to optimize mining best is key to saving time and earning more credits. Moreover, choosing the right starship for the job will increase your productivity in asteroid mining, but it’s not all profit. You never know when you’ll Grav-Jump into a fleet of pirates or Ecliptic mercenaries.
How To Asteroid Mine In Starfield
Asteroid mining is fairly straightforward in Starfield but will require you to Grav-Jump to a planet with an asteroid field.
Then, let your weapons loose on the giant frozen rocks. After you’ve blasted the asteroid into a thousand pieces, you can loot a range of goodies from the Mineral Deposits left behind.
To loot Mineral Deposits, you'll need to fly within a 500-metre range.
The deposits will contain a random selection of minerals, and you can find anything from Iron and Water to rare materials such as Gold, Palladium, and Platinum, making asteroid mining a fantastic method for collecting rare resources.
Asteroids are a random spawn when you fast-travel in space. However, they’re fairly common to bump into. The problem is that not all asteroid belt spawns are worth mining.
This is because sometimes the asteroids will only contain water and iron. If you blast a few asteroids and only find water and iron in the mineral deposit, youshould fast-travel to a new planet.
In this case, you should always keep a supply of Ship Parts in your cargo in case pirates attack you and need to heal your ship. It is the wild west out there, after all.
The bigger the asteroid, the more firepower you will need to destroy, but the more resources you'll find. Small asteroids are easier to blow up, but their Mineral Deposits contain fewer resources.
How To Optimize Asteroid Mining
To make the most out of asteroid mining, you should do the following:
- Acquire a ship specialized for hauling or upgrade your ship’s cargo capacity.
- Upgrade your ship's weaponry; better weapons mean faster mining.
- Distribute your ship’s weight to your crew; each crew member can carry roughly 160 weight. This frees up more inventory space on your ship.
- Travel to new asteroid belts. You’ll want to do this after the surrounding space becomes cluttered with Mineral Deposits that are full of junk and resources you don’t need.
Be prepared for a fight when fast-traveling to a new planet for asteroids, as you can often bump into pirates.
What Resources Can You Find Asteroid Mining
Besides the common iron and water, as previously mentioned, you’ll be able to recover the following materials and resources from asteroids:
- Nickel
- Aluminum
- Silver
- Gold
- Platinum
- Palladium
- Ionic Liquids
- Tetrafluorides
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