Topic: Bginner Mining Guide
1. Scope
This guide is for new player who wish to perform mining or harvesting.
It is up to date for Perpetuum Patch 3.8.2, any later patch notes should be checked for changes
Welcome Resourcedigger you are the heart of Nias infrastructure, a job seldom loved, but always needed.
If you like to have a good living as pure Miner or Harvester you need to understand also some market mechanism, that are therefore briefly explained here.
2. Raw Materials
See http://wiki.perpetuum-online.com/index. … _Materials for more information about raw materials
Each Raw Material has its own speciality when it comes to amount/time.
3. Search Field
Searching for a mining field requires a Geoscanner and directional scan (optional tile scan for field quality). It is best performed with a fast bot containing only LWF and Geoscanner. For Liquids, you best take one tile and write its position down, this allows you to mine it without Geoscanner equipped on Miner.
Plants can be seen when walking around. If you select a plant, and check in Window "Landmark Information" if it is harvestable, it's name is repeated in yellow followed by '(' <number> ')'. The number tells how many cycles are left before plant is gone.
4. Field Container
A field container is activated from cargo and than fixed on the ground, it has a 4 digit key and can be accessed by everyone in your squad, or who knows the key (guess in 3 tries, or get it told by you). The container holds unlimited amount and will be vanish 1 hour after the last agent is closing it. This means you can virtually mine forever in the same container. A container can be accessed from 100m range.
Mining requires a field container placed strategically on the field. You fill container every few minutes from bot cargo and haul afterwards.
Harvest with mech requires more movement than mining. In a most areas, you need several container distributed around, or can skip container at all.
5. Equipment
It is wise to use the following Equipment first on T4 level: LWF, Accu Recharger, Indu Tunings.
5.1 Geoscan
Fast bot (Argano or Light Ewar), Geoscan and Light Weight Frame (LWF)
5.2 Mining
Mining is accu related, as you want to have the accu always above 50% when mining, else you will come to the point your modules stop working.
The more indu tunings you use, the more accu you need.
For every fit you want to have a Geoscanner and find a balance between Indu tunings and Miner Modules to keep your capacitor stable. To achive this you should using an accu recharger in every leg slot.
The Argano is received for free for industrial agents, and should be replaced by Riveler as fast as possible. You can think about using a Termis intermediate to get the NIC needed for the Riveler faster.
5.3 Harvesting
The fitting for harvesting is at the moment similar as mining, but you can consider to change the number of indu tunings to max head slot and stop the harvest modules always when your energy falls below 50% this leads to the fact that you need a lot micor management, but get far more resolurce from plants and therefore need less movement / can harvest more resource from same field in similar time
7 Hauling
After mining you need to bring the content of your field container home. This is best performed with a dedicated bot like Sequer. So the purchase of a Sequer is one of your first steps.
8. Spend EP
In any case you need to see, that a skill reducing cycle time increases amount of Min/time, but also increases accu requirements so spending too much EP in that extensions contradicts the need to keep accu stable. It is necessary to balance this well. As you have no experience when reading this guide I suggest to skip those extensions.
9. Market
Market is mainly driven by demand and offer. Beside the public visible market, every player corp has its internal market. This leads to market modifications that are not always obvious.
The main demand from production view exists for Titan, HdT and Liquizid.
The offer for Alpha-Liquids is very high due to the fact that is easy to mine them without activity (Sequer, Scarab placed on field for 12-24h)
The effort to harvest plants is very high and harvest scales worst from light bot to Heavy Mech, this makes its price rather high, but demand is limited, therefore the price can get very volatile, if too much offer is available.
Epitron is dangerous to mine and requires more effort to haul, that effects mainly its price.
Colixium and Noralgis have a high investment needed to gain them.
If you consider the risk of loosing Bots on Beta/Gamma as Invest together with mining charge, the best ratio of NIC vs Time and Invest is often gained by Titanium.