However even then not all of the asteroids that look promising will have the precious cores you are looking for.īut a lot of folks, even now, don’t realise that you should keep the trigger for the pulse wave scanner held down so it pings continuously. I assume you already know that when looking for asteroids with cores you are looking for asteroids of a certain shape which glow brightly when using the Pulse Wave Scanner. Here is a simple trick to help you tell which bright asteroids have cores and which do not with the Pulse Wave Scanner in Elite Dangerous. If you do please feel free to leave a comment here or a comment or like on the YouTube video linked in #1. Using the tips below, especially #1, I have been able to get between 80 million credits and 100+ million credits an hour while mining Void Opals in my Anaconda. Google searches though will reveal many more.
If you need an introduction to core mining then I would start with this one from the excellent Obsidian Ant. In my experience though, these points are rarely mentioned in other guides. This is not intended as a complete guide to core mining, other folks have already provided those. In this article I cover five points to improve your core mining experience and profits in Elite Dangerous.