Too many silicon miners and you bring the price down. So far the best medium miner is the Argon Drill.. (thats the name of the ship Drill) The Sunder Is a Gas (Liquid) miner. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. When buying your ship manually make sure you select captain. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Everything paranid is better. Computer Science student, suddenly dissident. Nov 20, 15:48, Post The mass of the Sentinel Variant is roughly 1.2 times of the Vanguard Variant. by Vectorial1024 Wed, 28. ok imeant for 4.10 then, they really nerfed mining to hell it is not fun anymore to do. Change). Aug 19, 09:16, Post Your forward facing guns can be used for mining and you will be all set. (they dont have the built in software. by mr.WHO Tue, 27. 6. The AI while being rendered is garbage and he will crash into things and all kinds of strange things. Humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb the first opening they develop is the anus. I'll stick to my mercury sentinels, only ever lost one that's because it went venturing into xenon territory for some reason. If your AutoMiners Get STUCK!! Good luck. You can buy good mining vessel Medium size at a Warf. Dont be in sector with them! Warfs sell Small Vessels and Medium Vessels. Select Max settings then immediately set to min settings (this gives you a better pilot - its a bug). Dec 18, 23:23, Post Thats why its called a Mining vessel! Only reason come up within he only looks for one spot to sell his ores, if they only need 500 of them and he has 900, he will dump 400 and sell the 500, than go back to mining. 4. Well go into behavior and Delete the Automine order for its no longer the default order. It bizzare me why Argons have so many L-size freighters when I only ever use Shuyaku sentinel. He is looking for somewhere to sell his Ores. Best would be to start with Gas as that doesn't attract khaak. Hydrogen 30K per trip. Nividiim is 220k per trip. [4.10 with all expansions] Good places for gas mining. Install hundreds of mods with the click of a button. So far the best medium miner is the Argon Drill.. (that's the name of the ship Drill) The Sunder Is a Gas (Liquid) miner. M miners have a mining loop delay which means that those which finish in full cycles (minimal wasted time) have a huge efficiency improvement. For our purposes, we are going to need a good old-fashioned miner. There is no Mining Software to buy its included in the ship. In this X4 Foundations tutorial we look at how to mine. i don't have any hard numbers or evidence, but the Split ships seem to be doing pretty well, the miner variants top off the solid + liquid storage at a pretty damn decent speed. Its not legend, crew has impact, though the Captain skill has much more (cant recall exact what the balance is). by taztaz502 Tue, 27. 8. by ballti Mon, 26. The Manorina (Gas) Vanguard is a medium gas mining ship built by the Hatikvah Free League and Teladi Company you only need a general ship licence for the respective faction to be able to purchase this ship. Im trying to find out what systems are great for mining and solar power, Im playing as a Terran cadet but its been over a year since Ive played the game so Im a little bit rusty. It's not world hunger because we can't feed poor,it's because there will never be enough to feed the rich .. 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All the software you need is bought and included in game. Set it free. Crystal mining: Some asteroids have surface spots that can be individually mined away to release various types of crystals. Good luck. The gas miner should mine 2x-3x more than a Magnetar (didn't test mineral miner) Currently Ive been only working at the rings of Saturn but I would like to learn about a few other systems with a high volume of asteroids. You need a captain on your ship to automine. There are a plethora of mining ships available, each with its own set of features and unique abilities. by Oraculo Sat, 15. yes, did anybody know, thar Asteroids respawn? Hey people. Dec 18, 15:30, Post No sat coverage auto-miners and traders can't see them I believe. chevron_left. The Hermes vanguard may not be the most efficient trader, but it is the fastest and thus least likely to die. My gas miner has drones and auto collects gas but then he stands still and don't sell it. Scan this QR code to download the app now. https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence/display/X4WIKI/X4%3A+Foundations+Manual Silicon's definitely the most profitable, but it depends on what's needed in the area. But it will take forever. Regarding efficient L miners, I considered mining speed more crucial than travel speed. 3. Valve Corporation. Don't recall if so in 4.00 but in 4.10 the Nopileos' Fortune resource patch (aka smoke pipe patch) seems to stretch on for very long distances. Also M's can use the highway, speeds things up, Large tend to mess around going behind the gates, txting their mom, filling in their tax returns etc.. You can always hack the station storage spilling out all their goodies and making sure the station needs a new supply (perhaps even allowing you to fill it with their old one.). ok will try that, still no methane! Mercury is a great location for a dual use station where it sells energy, and shipping energy to one of your other stations with repeat orders. When logged in, you can choose up to 12 games that will be displayed as favourites in this menu. Dec 18, 16:08, Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited. X4 Foundations mod: . 6. The captain will take care of the rest! Recently added 51 View all 2,177. . From what we can tell once your miner fills his hull, he searches for a place to sell your goods. ). Mining Ships are the back bone of the entire economy of the game almost all items are produce or require raw materials in there production chain either directly or . Wed, 12. Or do they respawn? (not sure if this is cause maybe you passed by something and updated it) but yeah satellites are key to fast service. 2. X4 Wiki: Some of the other miners for the other races have been reported to have problems with selecting them as AutoMiners (Still Testing Please Report if they Work). Skyblade May 25, 2020 @ 3:41pm. X4: Foundations; X4: Foundations - Spoilers; X4: Foundations - Technical Support; X4: Foundations - Scripts and Modding; Construction Community; The mine command will only have the resources at that location. But do invest in all types of mineable wares to encourage economy growth. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. by PrivatePanic Wed, 11. Grand exchange is still a good place (at least for my game) Ore is definitely the one to mine for at the start and always use 2 star miners at the very beginning to increase mining speed. by Ezarkal Mon, 17. This includes miners, of course. Re: Gas mining basics. Moderator: Moderators for English X Forum, Post X4: Foundations, Cradle of Humanity, add the Terrans into the game and with them a whole load of new ships. by Nikola515 Thu, 13. videogame_asset My games. The Ore doesn't make a huge amount of money compared to Silicon, but they still pay for themselves eventually and feed the refined metals factories so my sector traders there can grab it. Go to Behavior tab. PAR Chthonios (Gas): 62603520; Finding 3: Best Ships In Each Category. Seemed to work fine with expert automine. Fly every ship, TRADE and FIGHT to BUILD your empire with modular station construction and THINK carefully when embarking on an epic journey. They are affordable and easily obtainable at Warfs. Dec 18, 22:26. Faster your vessel the quicker it will go back and forth from Mining and Selling. 4. Including their game start. You can have medium and large mining turrets (didn't compare mining speeds). by Gregorovitch Thu, 13. I would like to also make a few stations, one made primarily for mining, one for solar power for energy cells, and one for large production and to be my home base, if I remember correctly one of the Terran systems is insanely good for solar panels, does anyone know which system it is? (The bastards were asking for 19/km. Teladi sentinel carriers make good traders. For the gate Distance thats pretty simple.. how many jumps do you want the AI to go to sell its Ores once its filled? What to do? The best I've seen so far for ore/silicon was something like 22/km, while doing a prospection mission for the Teladi in Grand Exchange III. Than go into your info tab (the one right next to behavior tab) and go check out your Miners Inventory.. To see if there was something wrong with the system, I ordered one gas and one ore miner to "auto-mine." Through that command, both are getting helium and ore. . All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Choose AutoMine. If you have no satellites around stations and you yourself are not at a station (showing trade values) your miner is going to dump his cargo and go back to mining. (/\)arped wrote: . 13 Getting the trade subscription for a race/faction, while expensive, it provides trade info for all discovered stations, present and discovered in the future. Could be you don't have satellite coverage of stations that buy gas. by CaptDom Tue, 4. Dec 18, 02:34, Post Do add the Docking Computer Mk2 though just in case you need to manually land it at some point. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Ship Travel speed affected out-of-sector mining speed. by Vectorial1024 Mon, 26. You don't even need to put mining turrets on a ship, it'll still mine just fine. by Vectorial1024 Mon, 26. Nowhere to really sell helium. You will also find additional information from developers here. Information and Behavior. Below this you have two choices Gate Distance and Wares. Ice 40K per trip. Select which one you want this vessel to mine.. You can do up to three I belive. also using resource probes helps, i believe it helps the miners locate the best nodes to mine. finally rather the bad coding of mining!! Wares allows you to select which Ores your Captain will grab. There is no manual gas mining. chevron_right. Dec 18, 18:13, Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited. Aug 19, 00:24, Post 1. Privacy Policy. by Miravlix Thu, 13. Originally posted by Xandriany: So far I think medium miner silicon is best 70k per trip. Dec 18, 04:52, Post 6. A Split commander walks into a bar, gets drunk and decides to become a miner. Moderator: Moderators for English X Forum, Post #5. Do NOT follow your AI pilot and watch him work. by mr.WHO Thu, 12. Nov 20, 18:14, Post Cost about 300-400k a ship. 11. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. As with mineral fragments, the Container Magnet can speed up collection. Already made me 250000 in 4 runs. When travel speed increases, DR should increase. Also, large miners are largly unprofitable. These ships vary in size and are usually slower moving ships primarily used to mine minerals or liquids from space. (More Testing needed but you might not need a mining laser for Automining). Also feel free after reading Blog to check out our Affiliate Site: So my first auto miner set up in argon prime is working flawless. 10. In terms of pure stats, Teladi L miners have the chunkiest loadout. For more information, please see our Nvidium yields are always very low, but you also don't really need it much aside from a few research projects. by Karmaticdamage Tue, 27. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Aug 19, 02:21, Post Hi guys, recently new to the X series, I've worked out how to set up auto mining etc, but I've noticed that my miners take absolutely forever to mine anything, i mean i had a play session of about 3 hours and one of miners only filled about 1/3 . All rights reserved. I think you need to just fly in gas and it will automatically collect gas (that's what I heard anyway). 5. Site news (important news will be issued), Comments on your files, images and videos, New images and videos added to your files. However, one of the most important factors in choosing a mining ship is its size - M or L. The M and L miners have their unique features that make them . by Hador Thu, 13. (I buy the license and don't bother with sats before I can buy those). by Imperial Good Sun, 24. Dec 18, 16:41, Post Your pilot will wait for you to contact him to start his mission. Dec 18, 01:16, Post Mercury makes more sense early for helium mining. What one should take from it is that all faction traders and miners operate in the same order of magnitude as far as moving stuff goes. Remove all the consumables you dont need for a ship you wont fly except maybe a few sats to drop off now and again remotely. 2. I'm sorry I've got no answer to the question, because I'm looking for it also !! (I say roughly, because the game could only display mass up to the nearest ton; decimal values are discarded. Your pilot will sometimes wait with a full load for a few minutes. Life is but hollow, desolate is tomorrow. Mining drones don't seem to scale out-of-sector, 800 vs 20 is same mining speed (give the ship a bunch of defenders and repair for lolz-level safety). Raptor900k Experimental Miners (universal - gas - mineral). Speed helps in moving about the collection zone, but crucially, the Chthonios deploy drones from dedicated launch tubes. Manage an empire or EXPLORE space in first person. Moderator: Moderators for English X Forum, Post I've got 2 Silicon and 4 Ore miners in Argon Prime. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. X4: FOUNDATIONS, the long awaited sequel in the long running X series brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. This forum is the ideal place for all discussion relating to X4. Please post any spoilers for X4: Foundations here. Aug 19, 14:47, Post With double the current travel speed I was getting 4x as a Magnetar, but i scaled it down so it's only semi-ludicrously fast, still about 3x throughput of a Magnetar. The gas miner should mine 2x-3x more than a Magnetar (didn't test mineral miner). These ships vary in size and are usually slower moving ships primarily used to mine minerals or liquids from space. 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Some of the other miners for the other races have been reported to have problems . Cookie Notice Large miners have the negative effect of being so large they might get stuck! So they gather more ores in a single run. May 20, 04:35, Post by Imperial Good Tue, 27. #4. All rights reserved. You have to buy a ship that is a mining vessel. What ship type should I buy? Dec 18, 22:35, Post by teleportationwars Mon, 26. The small size variants are usually not considered for mining when players usually get decent capitals due to their smaller cargo capacity and weaker mining drills. 3. Rinse and repeat. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. X4: Foundations Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. It's only done automatically by giving the ship the order to mine gas. We need to restart Automine and dont want to confuse it. . by Aquitaine Sun, 24. by dtpsprt Wed, 11. by sentenced-1989 Fri, 13. If you haven't found a resource patch with at least 1.5/km for minerals or 0.2/km for gas don't even bother, and those are still very much at the low end. by Steel Mon, 17. by Snafu_X3 Mon, 17. Valve Corporation. You cant really mess it up, the game wont let you purchase the ship without the software requirements. X4: Foundations > General Discussions > Topic Details.