How to Make Money Fast Prospector Mining in Star Citizen 3.23 with a Rental Prospector 

Sorry for the misquote on starting money I should have checked the patch notes. I start with a bit more than the average player.

I want an Argo, RSI and or a Drake one seater miner...the Misc Prospector is nice, but we need variety.

Best SC Guides in the 'verse. Another amazing video. Don't forget gadgets! You can always use mining gadgets even with a rented prospector.

Great video man, but the starting aUEC of 3.23 is 25k (if you used a referral,) so you’ve got some increases somewhere

Do you have somewhere the build for your “fully kitted out” prospector? Love to know what to upgrade as I own a prospector but have not used it in years. Thanks for the great video.

Glad to see I wasn't crazy for mining like this in 3.22 (current public version). I mined on Arial and got a ton of gold, tarinite, bexilite, and the random quantanium rock. I have my own Prospector by doing this. One of my runs netted me a cool 600+k of credits. That was two loads in a Constellation Andromeda. I was stoked that my experience was well worth my effort. I started off using a Cutlas Black. The rent was lower and yes I had to run many trips with the CB. I still made the credits to afford my own Prospector and kit it out. I also have earned enough to buy myself a Vulture. When mining gets boring. I go run some salvage missions and turn a good profit doing that. So being a miner/salvager is working out well. My style of passive play in the most of times is relaxed. I do get the occasional pirate encounter. The only problem is. I am empty and have nothing worth stealing. Why are pirate's stupid? I guess if they had a brain. They would be able to mine for themselves and not have to steal it. I digress, it has only happened a couple times and was just annoying more than immersive. Good luck to the others who do this method. It truly is a great way to make money. My tip is. Stick to the most valuable ore. Even if it will take you a few more minutes finding them to fill your cargo hold up. The end result is more credits in your account. My #1 targets are as follows. Bexilite, Tarinite, Gold, and then others. I will only scoop up Quantanium if it is the last thing that will fill my cargo. I don't risk it when it is the first thing I see. I want a full cargo. Yes, it may be worth more. The quantity of the others I could get verses say 700 or less of Quant. Is way more valuable in the refined form. There is the lack of a chance you will mess up and go critical. I don't like blowing up my ship. So, Quant is usually the last thing I will scoop when I find it. With waypoints coming in 3.23. We can mark these rocks now and come back to them. That will be awesome!! Looking forward to the changes and improvements are what we all are working towards. o7

great video. Loved that crash recovery feature! It might be time to dive back in.

3:02 "almost everyone that starts playing will start with about 150k AUEC" I'm sorry, WHERE, once you make the account you get 10k by default, and 10k additional if you use a friend code, who on earth starts with 150k auec ? If you're a new player just do normal missions to start to get the hang of the game, do bunkers, they're fun now, do delivery missions ( they won't pay that much, but it will require you to learn the basics of scm and nav mode), you can try salvaging as well, these are all relatively simple and straight forward activities that requiere almost zero knowledge, so everyone can do them; as for prospector mining, you need to read a damn manual on internet to even understand how to switch to mining mode, then how to search for rocks, how to break them, what resources to pick, how to refine sstuf, how to haul stuff and how to sell it... so much work that a new player is most definitely not gonna be able to do and will either get bored or get stuck because of a bug or a problem in between

Hawkes is the GOAT. Give us a solo mole run down when you can please Hawkes…

Love mining. Haven't hopped into it yet with 3.23. Spending all my time dogfighting, bounty hunting, etc checking and testing MM and new weapon changes. Once I get that figured I'll hop back into mining and salvage again. Nothing I love more than throwing on some music, a podcast or a good audio book and just relaxing while breaking rocks.

I tried to mine, but my workorder disappeared with few SCU's of Quant and I just got angry and crashed my self in to a planet

Fair warning: Everything that looks like a miner, salvager or hauler this update is being hunted more so than usual. I am guessing it is because of some bigger streamers playing right now.

Considering refining takes like 9 hours I'm not sure I understand how you're saying you make more money refining your rocks instead of just directly selling them when I can just do a few runs and make more money in 2 hours directly selling those to the refinery. Great video nonetheless!

New player here… How does this compare to ROC mining? Is one better than the other? Trying to grind out money to buy ships in game.

My progression so far: Cutlass Black starter> ROC> Vulture> Prospector. I joined late in 3.22 and almost made enough for the Corsair after using the Vulture to buy the Prospector on the 80k scrap missions. I was only 500k away and still grinding when 3.23 dropped and I lost my vulture and 3 mill auec to the wipe. I was soo close, maybe a couple hours away from having 3-4 game loops covered. With my Vulture gone and the ROC broken the Prospector has been my saving grace for a path to prosperity despite the loop being relatively burdensome. Couldn't have made anywhere near the progress without video's like this. 👍💯

Good video and you said everyone in 3.23 starts with 150k? Lol I started with 25k 👀

My takeaway, don't mine if you can only play 2 hours a week

I am curious what your loud out is to break rocks larger than 6k. Haven’t played since 3.17. Cheers 🍻

how did you start out with 150K? I only got 25K when I booted into the verse after the patch. Sad times :( Love your content btw! Can't wait to see your new updated zero to hero for 3.23!

You can rent a Drake Cutlass Black at the same refinery you rent your Prospector. Haven't checked the price for it after 3.23 dropped though.

bro holding v doesn't work for me please help

How are you able to refine all the ores at once? For me it only lets me do 1 at a time and it dumps the rest

I did some mining last night and dropped off 3 orders. Got my notification that they were ready for pick up. Showed up in my c1. That should hold 64 scu of cargo. I picked up 58 across 2 orders.. got to my ship only to find it empty and my orders gone. All the time wasted. New bug I guess

I liked my prospector but still upgraded to the MOLE just for the bigger mining heads.

the crashing thing is soooo much better, and to be fair it dont take as long as logging back in and losing all ya shit LOL so 3mins is fine with me.. xD took me about 1 min on server i was on when i crashed today ! o7

best 3.23 trade route video next!

Only a few major issues here ... 78k to rent the ship plus i mined 11 trips first cost me over 150k plus i dont have a cargo ship big even to move anything thats another 50k i was in the hole for over 200k and made roughly 400k for 5hrs so not a huge gain ... Rented it again and 20 runs i was 316k in the negative .. Rented a c2 from invictis blew up losing everything from a 12hr mining run in 5min

As a dedicated cargo hauler, I've noticed the increasing popularity of piracy as a gameplay feature. Surprisingly, I don’t mind it-piracy adds an exciting dimension to the game. However, there's a major concern that needs addressing: the unfair advantage pirates have when they attack traders in areas without comm stations. Currently, these attacks often go unpunished, and it's frustrating to be repeatedly ambushed by players this way and not being able to retaliate.

You aren't any longer able to manoeuver the mining head with the mouse, correct? It moves the whole ship now and I can't find a configuration to move the head only like it used to be.

Im just starting in SC with a friend and we are looking for fun non-combat ways of making some money. What would you recommend for multicrew/2 person mining?

I legit was just thinking about this, having purchased a Prospector prior to the money wipe.

Base is a mere 5k. If you buy a WB ship or upgrade during a sale it bumps to 25k. Most people cant start with renting a prospector for 1 day, in fact only people who know the game well who dont need this guide will have enough to rent a prospector on day one.

What is the start money ? I bought like 200 K for real money back in the day , to Max the things on prospector , since wr have wipes every 3 month haha.

Hello hawkes gaming I was asking if there's a way to make a video of the settings you use for star citizen.That helped me out and everybody else on the channel If you already have a video of the settings on a Star citizens, can you please let me know?I knew to the game I do not know what setting should I To make sure I get the best performance in game. If you can help. Me, please let me know big Bang.By the way thank you again

I've been having bad luck with bounties and merch missions since my sticks died - may try mining cause the prospector looks pretty neat.

When a wipe comes, when people cry out woth thier diminishing bank accounts... Hawkes gaming steps forward to help us make space money

Who the heck is getting 150k each wipe? Me and my friends all get 20k or 25k. Wut???

Can i ask what Prospector Build you do? thanks :)

i've been mining using a rental prospector since i joined the game in 3.15.. never had a problem making money with it. just need to do enough runs to make back the rental cost plus profit

... and the legend strikes again - want to know how to make space coin in the verse - you gotta watch this...!!

I played around with this over the weekend. Just selling raw ore can make you some good money. That will get you started, then once you get some money flowing in you can start paying to get it refined.

Sooo, what do i do after i refine the materials i mined with the prospector? I managed to rent a Cutlass Black for Cargo transfer, but now idk where to go to sell it. i'll try finding other tutorials that hopefully mention this part as well.

Is that a white/blue paintjob for your prospector or just the lighting? Because it looks awesome.

Hey! If you mine with a Prospector do you mind to tell us your loadout? Like which mining head you use?

Everyone is expoilting cargo atm you can double sell it

rips p2wthon mk2 mining video but still love hawkes gaming!!!

anyone figure out how to gimbal the laser head in this patch? it worked in last patch but this one is broken...

I rent proapector and I guessed I have bug bks I cant even start charge on anithing above 3000k mass

I'm not sure if I learned something or not. It feels like you already had prior info about mining to understand the video.

Mining on moons also means trolls in fighters blasting miners for no reason except to be a troll... no thanks, i love my belt mining in the middle of nowhere.

around 3 mins you talk about starting cash and i only get 25k and 2 friends on free fly only got 20k

What would you recommend... Mining or salvage for the bigger buck?

why do i start star citizen every wipe with like 15k or so?

I wish we would just have to target rocks and send out drones to mine them. Pointing and aiming at shit is annoying..

Misinformation. Everyone does NOT start with 150k aUEC in 3.23.0. - reference 3:00 second to 3:20 second mark. They start with 40k aUEC.

Perfect timing was thinking about this but didn't know how to go for it 😂

150k starting??? I only started with 25k

where's this 150K of money we started out with? started two weeks ago

$150K starting aUEC? Where is this? When was this?

I tried the prospector (before the latets patches...51k to rent. Went and mined quantanium, taranite, beryl, gold etc, good stuff...ofc also some LQ stuff got in there, but not much. Came back to the refinery and picked the supposedly best but also slowest method. THING TOOK 48 HOURS! 48!! In the end my profit for all the hassle was 100 K or so. So I went back to mining gems, I like that 'game play' a bit better also :D

Ive got an Argo mole, would it be worth solo'n with that too? I assume the stock size 2 will help to get going from the start. Also why do some materials unselect when you press get quote? I thought it was a max of 2 at first but then i tried later and it would only allow 1 at a time.

150k starting aUEC?? I think I started with 62k this wipe and I have a handful of referrals and multiple game packages on the account. ...But either way the money to rent a prospector isn't that hard to come by even on day one. Income per hour estimate is pretty week though. I was expecting 120~150 per load (after refinery).

Where did you find that mass distribution list? Thanks

I hoped, I waited, and now he is back 😍 are you planning to do a new full guide because the C2 loop is now pretty much useless with it being so freaking expensive :( now watching this video so excited 😍

thank you. very informative. I love your format as it is fast and concise. BUT I also would enjoy a little more background info. the "credits per hour" -> does that include changing ships, traveling to sell with the cargo ship ? what is also interesting is the exact job of refining -> cargo -> and then where exactly to sell. is selling refined materials depennding on supply & demand market mechanics ? thanks again. keep it up!

Who is starting with 150,000 auec?

I may have missed it but what does your "decked out" Prospector carry for lasers and modules? Thanks for the vid!

Find somebody who owns an Argo Mole and pay them to steal the Argo Mole bags, put them on your owned prospector with multi tool tractor beam go from 32 scu to 48scu storage

who starts with 150k uec??? Me and my friends only starts with 20k

I was on Cellin last night in my Mole and found a Q rock 0f 56,000 mass and 49% Q. I couldn't get it as I was solo, but it is good to know that God rocks are out there! :) Nice vid.

how the heck do you start with 150k? started with 25 k

Great Info! Just a note: the music is a bit too epic and loud for an informative video. It was keeping me "on edge" the whole time, and I was only able to focus on what you were saying trough mental effort/strain.

Is there a comprehensive mining guide for the mole ? My friend has one and constantly is sad that a) we cant get it full and b) that all guides are just for prospectors

Did anything change between 3.22 and 3.23. I mean what you showed from Red Monster Gaming is from 3.22

I've been thinking about upgrading my Cutty Black to a Prospector. I feel like I can always grind mining to start and just buy any other ship in game.

Welcome Back! It would be helpful to see a tutorial on scanning in 3.23.1. It’s honestly driving me nuts m the prospector and the mole.

why not a mention to prospecting in the Halo?

Another method that iv found to make alot of money to be quite enjoyable is doing routes with the Hull C. Now while it isn't obtainable in game im pretty sure, it is a really fun experience to do sole trading in space if you or a friend happen to have the ship. You can easily get over 200K of pure profits per run with little competition and no need to land planetside.

I'll take the 3-5 min crash recovery over the 30k. Holy crap do new players have it good with this!

I ccud my Prospector into a vulture when those came out but salvaging blows in 3.23. I don't really know if I want to go back to mining.

Thank you so much for this guide! I was about to deliver my Prospector and start mining, but I didn't know how, where, what :D

Always been interested in the other gameplay loops, PvE is the one I do with my friends the most and salvage got tanked. I'm curious if its possible to do Mining around irl work? I'd play when I get home but can only do a couple of hours and then won't be back on till the next day, is there a way to refine for that long or is it better to go for the ones that give me the most regardless?

150,000 really? i started with 50k

Hey @HawkesGaming you can now buy mole bags for the prospector in the cargo shops, in stations

another amazing Video Hawkes! 🙌

Another amazing video Hawkes, been looking forward to your 3.23 coverage as you always do an amazing job. Keep up the great stuff man you're one of my favs in the SC community

After hours of mining and tons of calculations for optimal strategies, i bought a vulture.

Great video! Definitely gonna give this a shot Only feedback is that the music kinda becomes overbearing at times

Because CIG trashed the Mole

Can soneone tell me where to sell refined ore?

Hell yea hawkes at it again

The eternal search for elusive space cheddar. :) Excellent starter guide!

I would love to see a ROC mining guide for this patch, especially since its got limitations with hills now

Aren't you able to detach your mining head on a rental by unlocking the mount in the cockpit and then switching the head with a tractor beam?

actually a really good guide also profit numbers in cluded, liked that one

So i need a ship that transports my mining haul too? The prospector doesn't store the cargo itself?

Anyone know if you can still put the mole bags on the prospector for extra ore storage?

Worth it if i only use titan?

cough cough .... that Fully kitted prospector is not fully kitted is it? its still 32 SCU. cough...

Looking forward to the comprehensive mining tutorial!