I became a Diamond Miner in Star Citizen.. 

There is an important distinction to be made here. You are not diamond mining; you are mining for gems. You can mine diamonds with the Prospector, Mole, and eventually the Orion. But you can't mine diamonds with the ROC or the hand mining tool. You have to mine gems of Hadanite, Aphorite, and Dolivine. When you are prospecting, the difference between the two minable object icons is a gem, or a boulder.

When extracting just aim the beam in a central location and don't move the arm. That should keep the majority of gems from flying around.

Beautiful sunset Olli! Mining is one of my favorite chill activities. Aside from the already mentioned distinction of gems vs diamonds, and the types of gems, here's a few more tips for anyone doing this: 1) Use a Drake Cutlass Black to haul the ROC around. Both the Cutty and ROC can be rented for a decent amount and you be getting in and out of the ROC frequently, so a smaller ship is better. You'll make back the difference from renting and then some on your first run. 2) When you're in the ship flying around, set the scanner to 179 degrees and keep pinging until you see a square pop up at

Thanks for watching folks! Just curious, what's your favourite way to make cash in Star Citizen?

You’re like the Junkfood of Star Citizen, a ton of variability, addicting and not good to my health to keep watching you so much. Keep up the great content.

pro tip for roc mining and discovering diamonds. If you're flying and you find a ship mineable rock, 9/10 times if you scan and a marker pops up less than 2000m away it'll be a roc minable resource.

I have some tips for you! Try to fly closer to the ground and do not exceed 100 m/s approx. If you overdo it, don't worry, but the golden trick is this. The "diamond rocks" mostly never appear deeper than 3000 meters. So you can really ignore anything from 5km onwards. Oh! And remember you can scan the rock before land just pressing "V" and holding left click. That way you know what the stone is before you mine it. Hadanite for the win! hahaha As always an excellent video. Thank you very much for the content.

I wish they would allow us to put Camera views on blank screens in the cockpit so we could show a side view (pitch), a front on view (yaw), and an overhead (positional) when landing. AND of course, for such a sophisticated universe, an auto landing feature. I mean come on...if Tesla's can practically park themselves today... :)

Best Star Citizen videos on RU-vid! Thanks man! :D

ROC mining is my fav thing to do in game. Be interesting to know if one of my tutorials was one you watched 😜. Also, loving the Quicksilver paint!

wow What a trip! Decent payday, as well. Looking forward to more. 👍

I love the interior of that ship honestly it looks incredible I would love to live in that thing

When you wiggle the rock sucker you end up tossing the gems far behind you. Just leave it still in one place between a bunch of gems, because it has a like a 2 foot pickup radius. But there is a delay, that's why it doesn't just grab them immediately.

ugh one of my favorite things in star citizen is being on a lit up moon, and you turn you head and BAM crusader is there in the distance. so close you could almost reach out and touch it. so cool.

Ok that ending had me chuckling for 10minutes, you could say that's one way of getting back into the ship.

Ollie, thanks to you I purchased a Tobii Eye Tracker 5, and man it is great! Already had a TrackIR 5 Pro, but hate the wire and having to wear a headset all the time. Tobii is just as responsive it seems and has no such cable limitations.

Nice I've just done this today for the first time. Been playing since a few weeks before invictus and it was my first roc mining. There's something zen about chilling in the roc.

In 3rd person mode you can use the arrow keys to move the camera into your ship, and see the ground vehicles in your cargo hold. alternatively, you can use this method to find people stowed away on your ship

When extracting you want to hold the beam still until it grabs the rock and sucks it all the way up. Otherwise the rock will leave the beam and be thrown somewhere.

The way you move around so much when extracting is SOOO TRIGGERING!! haha

They had a 3D landing system like Elite Dangerous but it was only for the old landing pads. Good news is that's planned to be one of the things added to the UI rework. Love that you still enjoy the sunsets like me.

Great video and enjoyed the sunset 🌇 with you! 😃

It's also more efficient to break all the rocks first and then extract all at once

Man I feel yeah, Those disconnects drive me absolutely nutz. I cant tell ya how many times it took me an hour or so to get things set up and get to my destination to do a task only to disco when I got there. I love SC too but the bugs make me want to take a long break. Great video though

Remember that time we sat and watched the sunset on Daymar? That was awesome.

boulder you need ships for (mole and prospector) rocks you need rover miner (ROC and ROC DS) stone you can mine with land lazer, and honestly i tell a lot of new players to do this bc it lets you learn how to control your ship easy and theres no risk dying, get a multi tool and mining attachment and then go to aberdeen, get to the planet surface and start pinging, ignore anything that pops up over 700ish meters (in most starter ships) bc the ore deposits that show up farther away are boulders and rocks, you have to be kinda close to the rocks for them to be pinged, u can make roughly 1k per stone u mine and ive seen them generate in groups of 8 so far (depending on what it is obviously but i mostly find hadanite so im going off that) its a nice and relaxing thing to do

What a therapeutic past time, I'm really weird I like the grindy missions lol

hahah that ending was great, had too many moments like that myself

Love the video, great content! I need to use my ROC a little more.

As a ROC miner this was so painful to watch but I forgive you as it is your first time and have to remind myself I was the same, though I did research on it first.

Star citizen, let’s goooo!

Hely Ollie, great content as always! New SC channel here!

I like to say the nose dip is just the Connie nod its approval on a good landing

How did you manage to flip the ship at the end ? Lmao Great video as always ^^

21:36 hmm, this taken outta context 🤔 😅 😂 actually that's Still good advice 👍 🤣🤣

Oli have you ever been to BennyHenge? It might be a fun trip, it's a place that not many new players know about.

This puts perspective on the Mercury Star Runner's cargo hold. You can put 2 mining rovers in it.

I enjoy mining, I just haven't figured out the best way to go about it. I have a Roc and a prospector, for me it's just the annoyance of loading and unloading a roc every time. But group mining where one person scouts and the rest mine has been fun for me.

Hey man ive just wanted to tell you that i have been watching your vidios for a while now, and i just appreciate the vidios you make. Keep um the good work! :)

Your videos are amazing, I love everything you do. Keep up the great work!

Your enthusiasm is wonderful, it reminds me a bit of Wallace (from Wallace and Gromit), so maybe you should try your hand at cheese mining on the moon..

Hey Olli so cool vid just want to say that I’m gonna buy all 3 Versions of the constellations i’m gonna use the Phoenix for luxury transport for the universe I’m gonna use the Taurus for moving stuff and doing missions and I’m gonna use the other one (I don’t know the name of it) for cargo.

If the nodes are on a hill or side of a hill a lot of them will roll down.I like using the ROC but just remember it will wear out and also a 30k when you have gems in the ROC that’s off the ship will cause you to lose your gems. That’s why I don’t try to fill it up with gems. Also if you own one 172k in game it’s a good idea to upgrade it just like a ship.

You're a miner... I'm a professional NPC T-Pose inspector...

Nice to sée you enjoyed this gameplay. And yes its worth to take each fragments Hadanite is thé most expensive ressource in thé game. You Can sell it everywhere at thé same Price. 1 pièce of it is 275aUEC worth. Just in comparison Quantainium IS 44 but After refining 88 worth. You Can bé rich on both mining méthods but ROC mining little bit slower but you Can bé insanely lucky and find Big gisement. Each rock gives you between 20 and 30 fragments. It gives 3 différents diamant types. - Hadanite you recognize it from its pink purple color on it - Aphorite its blue color - and Dolivine its green

Man that really sucks you dc'ed right as you were landing to mine. I crashed earlier today right as I was helping someone log some details on a ship-related bug and it really made me wish it was easier to connect with people you just met in game when you can't even select servers like every other mmo, or have a more friendly respawn mechanic when dc'ed instead of most often being 1,000's of km's of away from where you were

The extractor pulls the gem towards the nuzzle but if you move it just as the gem "arrives" the gem misses or bounces off. It makes some sense, I guess.

I just finished watching the rover jump from space, so SAME PLANET!!

Olli you need to do is keep the laser straight you move it around too much when you're on the diamond just stay steady if you move it around a lot it's just gonna bounce off your windshield so the idea is keep the laser nice and steady instead of waving it around and yes you learned later on in the video it's more of an art just have to have patience as Yoda would say patience you must have.

Press V to go into advanced scanner and you can tell what resources are in the rocks when you're close enough to them hold left click in advanced scan mode.

Man, I love your videos.

Lol at the end of the video, would be nice if there was some sort of way to flip a ship back over. Like a tow service you could call that had some sort of crane would be awesome.

Ok @Olli43...I'm watching sharing and enjoying all your vids. Have I missed your tour of the Origin m50?! I know you got one! Somewhere....sup with that bro? You hating on the lamborguini or what? lol or did I miss it? I'm feeling neglected...I can't play so content is keeping me alive bro! Thanks for all the content. Can't wait to meet someday in the verse.

One tip is that instead of going straight towards the sun to go om1 the North Pole or on 2 the South Pole and go to the right daylight side for north and left daylight side for south

lol at the end bits hehe

Lol the upside down Connie.

Your helmet is of no concern to us, but to you. Daymar is comparatively chill for a desert moon, so you can survive most of the time even with a simple flight suite rather than the Pembroke, but in much hotter environments like Arial or Aberdeen a helmet other than the Pembroke one will cause you to still suffer detrimental effects due to the heat, even if it'll take longer than with a normal flight suite or a heat resistent armor. And don't worry Olli, you're not doing it wrong, ROC mining has been buggy since 3.14 or so and CIG was either still unable to fix it or they still haven't gotten around to fix it. Now the servers also lag behind a bit when trying to suck the minerals up and boom, extraction mode feels like cleaning a desert with a toothbrush. In fact, it should work exactly as you described. A slight brush with the extraction laser should start to suck it up and aside from you wildly moving the arm it should get sucked right in. Yeah ROC mining is comparatively lucrative. For Pirats it doesn't matter how far from the mining outposts you do your business though, because they keep observing you and will hit once you've gathered enough minerals for them to profit.

Dude love roc mining it so peaceful compared to other game loops

I just want to be able to camp in this game 🏕 Have a fire (like the ones at some outpost/derelic sites if im right) to keep you warm during a cold night on microtech. Putting a bed in something like an ursa rover would be awesome!

Olli, just a heads up mate. If you ever do gem mining again when you ping if anything pops up under 3km it will be gems.

Pro Tip: The best way to scan for gems is to scan and then check whichever ping that comes up within 4000m of your scan position, it is a guaranteed gem, just earned a 200k in an hour on Ariel, Mine for gems like hadanite on Ariel and Aberdeen where they spawn a abundantly.

If I remember correctly did have the parking HUD guide thing in the earlier version of the game, but they've removed it quite some time back for some reason

I do the initial rock cracking all at the same time and leave the extraction until the end and extract all the gems at once. That way you can suck up tons at the same time saving a lot of time And yes like you eventually worked out keep that daym thang still 😂

You Sir are an inspiration. Thank you for the great videos!!! And I like when you keep the 30K bugs in, makes me feel I am not alone!

The guy in chat got me dead laughing 6:48

Those 2 white pips at the beginning were rescue beacons. Thats a new feature. It shows for everyone.

@Olli43 I'll have you know that a romantic watching the sunset in third person as you drive the roc into the sunset was EXACTLY what I signed up for when I subscribed.

So when ur connie is upside down, sometimes u can get in through the dorsal airlock by jumping and closing it at the same time. The door slams shut so it knocks you inside lol.

I would love a mining ship that I can put my rock in. I hate that I have to use a non-mining ship to mine if I want to use my Roc. I always come across great boulders that I have to pass up.

The Phoenix is my fav ship i just love how it looks 😍

So way back in the mine!🎵🎶

I'm just a lowly Multi-Tool night-time cave miner, stocking my Aurora with as many gems as possible, but making decent cash for my needs.

aim at it.. Maybe that will work:) thanx for good content, havent tried mining in a year. Perfect on a Sunday.. Y right, dident see all of the video... :)

9364 Thank you for sharing all of the awesome moments in the verse. And yes, that's stuck in my head.. 9364 9364..

what are the default keys to do the mining and switch to picking up in roc? also how to change ping fov like u did to 180 degree?

Am I the only one that wants oli to sound effect my entire life with powering on and powering off ships

“I watched a tutorial, I think like 4 or 5 so now I know what I’m doing” is my approach to every aspect of life😂😂

The Ursa fits into the Phoenix, it's a tight fit, but it fits, so the ROC is bound to work.

Accually Star Citizen had that Headup Display back in da Day... at least as i remember... I can remember having it on Lorville for example... It might be that i am not right but i image it had it

man the game looks and move so good can you shere your rig fit like grafic card pocesor and stuff ?

the intro i was so scared he was gonna play mining diamonds

Nice, I'm glad that someone made fresh instruction for mining, but... Oli, You must start use directional radar, bind key for change radar angle and use narrow beam to see from distance. Also I suggest smaller more agile ship - is better with scanning and landing. Next thing is - Yes, during extraction You shouldn't move too much laser - it have nice radius of suction, but also it have some success rate, and this is why sometimes hadanite fly around - don't bother with that - waste of time. All is about time to get full ROC. Full ROC is around 250k aUEC. One Tip: Weekend is always most slugish time for SC - a lot 30k.

BEST SUN SET EVER really a really nice game right!!

The ROC mineables won't pop up any further out than about 1200m when you ping so if its outside of 1200m it's likely a ship mineable...unless they changed it since the last time I was mining. Edit: Your not really doing anything wrong the servers take a few seconds to catch up to the megasuck9000 at the moment. Edit: Last Time I was Arduously Hadenite Mining... I would fill the ROC get out fill my armor and Backpack then refill the ROC it was around 250-275K I think

Can you use the little Jet on the lower back of the Constellation Phoenix?

It's a lot faster if you crack all the rocks first and then suck everything up (and yes, without wiggling the extraction laser) after

Hi Olli, a little SC history lesson about the landing UI. Back in the 2.0 days(where you could not land on planets and moons) there was a landing UI that only worked for pads. But at 3.0 CIG took it away as it was only made for pads and not hangars and planet surfaces. They do want to add it again but better. The only thing that is blocking them is the full ship MFD system conversion to Building Blocks code instead of Flash UI code

you can open the doors of the connie from the inside and f4 the Z around to see if the ROC is in your bay.

you missed a loot box near the MPC at the desk

lol I was sat here screaming stop wiggling it damnit.

For a second I thought you were in a Redeemer at the beginning and I was just thinking "Imagine working your mining outpost job when a Redeemer makes an approach."

At around 27:30 you search for boxes and mist the on drop off machine and one rigth of the NPC on the floor.

go around 100ms and check 1000-1200m away rocks only at lowest alti (on Aberdeen)

Is the gravity the same on all the planets or do some have stronger or weaker gravity?

Those ai white in the sky is typically a bounty that got spawned

I ROC mine with my Nomad, and any Connie has 3 times a Nomad cargo space so, it fits bruv.

so is there a way to toggle off the silliness of the objects blue highlighting? I'd like to at least have the pleasure to search for items to use by myself, if nothing else.

What I would like to see implemented is being able to mine with the ROC and then go back to your ship and offload your haul and go back out to mine more until you can’t fit anymore crates on the ship with leaving only enough room to load back up the ROC. And also being able to “tune the scan” to be able to select what you are using for a miner it would only show you items that your mining rig can break down.

Very good video

I’ve only done a few roc mining adventures but unfortunately…. Two times that I landed to sell my bounty… my ship and roc have been destroyed while I was selling. 😖 I was never sure if it was pirates or players just being annoying but… such is life in the verse.