X4 GUIDE: How To Build & Run a Mining Station (3/4) 

You need a mining ship to sell the ore, i wasted 5 hours trying to figure out my issue. Regular traders cant carry ORE! you need a mining ship to be a trader for raw minerals

Bloody hell, after 4 hours of endless scrolling and suffering.... Your video has greatly assisted me in finally constructing a new mining facility, from the clear and detailed explanation and steps, to the appropiate video duration and precise showings. I very much appreciate your work and have subscribed to see more.

That is one of the best and comprehensive tutorials on X4 I have watched. Thank you!

This 4part series needs to be a mandatory watch for new players. Great clear and well paced. Thankyou

This video is pure gold, I was stuck on the simplest mechanics of base building like actually snapping parts together and no one on youtube showed how to do that lmao.

When your mining manager gets to 3 stars, you can extend your sale range by operating a trade station 3 jumps away that will buy and redistribute ore across another 2-3 jumps, significantly increasing your available markets, ensuring your product can find a buyer somewhere (even if it has to change hands a few times).

Been playing since 2018, you're doing good work helping players with stuff that can be obtuse for newcomers.

Amazing Tutorial!! Have to say not many are so dedicated in making such an easy and clear to follow guide. Thank you for hard work.

Thank you for all the great X4 vids! I usually don’t comment but this one is for the algorithm :)

Amazing tutorials. You anticipate most of the issues we encounter and head us off before we stub our foot. I also appreciate how concise they are; I have little interest in a 3-hour tutorial.

Just started playing X4 Foundations and this helped immensely! Thanks!

This guide is exactly I was looking for. Excellent tutorial!

Thank you so much, im 200 hours into this game and this is the first time sombody has told me the issue with the failed orders on station asigned traders

I started to give up on this game because I did not understand. Thanks to you I will try it again

Best build a station vid I`ve found so far! Thanks

Finally, I’ve found someone who can explain things, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Great Video and nicely recorded. 👍 looking forward for the next Video with the industrial complex.

Imagine trying to understand this game if youtube didn't exist. Thanks for the info!

Nice - I've been waiting for this one! I just built a monstrosity stumbling through trying to make a silicon factory work (and wasted a bunch of credits in the process). Very well put together as usual. Someone was just asking me about a video breakdown on this. Will recommend this one!

Thank you for this. The trade restriction and the sell failures were stopping my mining bases from working.

Thank you for these easy to follow tutorials. Excellent timing for me, since the Steam Summersale gave me some X3 nostalgia, so I bought X4.

That really is a banger sir here !!! I've totally missed (after 100+ hours of gameplay still....) That when assigning miners and traders to a base their level and capabilities would be the one from the manager. That makes sense when saying / writing it as it seems legit that the manager leads them, but you've explained and illustrated this so well !!! Thanks again for sharing that knowledge ! Can't wait for the next step ! Btw thanks as well for sharing your shortcuts in the beginners video, changed the way I fly (especially shortcuts on the mouse)

Thank you for making these tutorials.

Thanks for making a Video about small Stations. Even as a Veteran in X i learnt something new 😅

Thank you, this was short and clear just as it should be.

Also, set up a miner ship to run repeat trades to other stations to keep your ore sold off. For the sale destinations, add as many locations as needed to always keep that ship busy. If your station ore level gets depleted, assign more mining ships to prevent that. Enjoy the profitsss.

This game is such a underrated gem. I dont know exactly why, I also had a hard time getting into the game even though I've been a huge fan of games like Freelancer, Elite and EVE Online. But X4 ticks all the boxes.

Another excellent tutorial. Subbed.

Great great stuff. Very simple to understand

Thank you, I was missing the trade restriction list trick.

4:58 at last someone explained this I just spent like 2 hours trying to figure out wth should I do how to hire a builder jeezzz thank you

WOW. Ive tried so many times with X4 but just cant get to grips with it. I guess i'm too use to Elite and Eve. Ive played over 300 hours trying to get to grips over the years and never got a station going. It just shows how hopelessly lost I have been. Your guide is amazing and has totally blown me away. Why have I been so thick. Ill be trying the game again but this time slowly following your guides. Station building is a whole new dimension for me. Thanks.

Yet another great tutorial cheers!

Thank you! I look forward to your next video. :)

Hey thanks for that video man, im like 50 hours old into X4 and I really wanted to do exactly what you just showed me, but the in game tutorials didnt help. Looking forward to your next video, as I have 8 medium miners already I can tell that I would need to build larger solid storage and a second dock so that there is less que's for the ships.

This is probrably not talked about, but if you click on manage plots button, you can "Spy" on where Khaak and Xenon stations are at or being developed by finding their plots that are oddly placed

Very good playlist. I think i will try the game. I was a bit scared to get lost after the tutorial but not anymore haha

Very usefull, thank you !

BEST GUIDE EVER

instead I made it a trading station: just added some liquid and container storage. (designed one in the station manager). if 100% is full price...just buy at 25-30% and sell at 40%.. generally works... add some miners, and traders, only buy what you mine from your own. and you'll make more then just ORE. for argon I like to start at second contact flashpoint 2. there is ore and ice there, ore in the reach, and ore+silicon in second contact 7. if you have a 3 star manager all in range. 1 gate south of argon prime.

if your miners are going to mine too far away from the station eg in other sector (due to high manager level) you can set a repeat order to a miner (instead of it being a subordinate) and repeat mining ore/silicon next to station and set it to sell to your station. it will continue to mine and sell automatically

Didn't try making my own station. I just assumed it would be prohibitively expensive, since just buying a L trade ship costs upwards of 1M credits. But this looks like you can get every piece for less than that. Gonna try it tomorrow.

your voice recording is so nice and crisp i just love listening your voice deep in my earholes like uhhhh idk i love it

Thanks bro your a Legend.

Just Thx you!!! They should make your video mandatory to play X4 :)

Great video really helped me get into the game. Now I've built a factory to produce off the products though my miners are suddenly saying "No buyers found in range". My settings are exactly the same as yours and before I added a factory to produce off the Silicon it worked fine. Its almost like the base has decided it doesn't want Silicon anymore despite it being in need of it for production...! I can manually transfer the ore/silicon but that kinda defeats the object of an automated setup...

I tried to mine in The Reach but about 6 to 8 Xen came and wiped out my mining fleet. I only have 2 fighter craft and both were destroyed while trying to drive them off. It's very hard to get started, as most of the missions I've seen only pay around 50K. Automining in Argon Prime seems very slow but it's the safest place for now.

I do not have this job...I mean rather play this game(?) LOL I am interested but holy moley! I can appreciate the thoroughness and the detail it contains but this is way too much like a job - no career for me. Don't get me wrong, all the detail and minute specifics are enticing, but I just do not have the required amount of time to invest in it. That all said, you sir know how to teach. That is a rare gift and I applaud your efforts to help out the community!

i spent over an hour getting so mad at not being able to figure out why my TRADERS were refusing to take my ore....live and learn

so helpful, the game sucks at telling you how to do stuff. Didn't even know about blueprints till he said it

Ok but consider this: Early game: huge investment just for some miners to work. Just find better places for them. Late game: Now your station will buy from your own traders from later on, which is bad because you want to sell ore not ship it back and forth. Better to scrap the buy offer altogether, you dont need it. Especially if you set the sell price to lowest, which makes sense.

Rare smart moment for me watching this before i play the game for the first time instead of wasting hours of my free time lol

My ships normally travel to the sector where I provide l produce energy cells looking to buy but claim there are no allowed trades. I don't see how when they're right next to the factor that sells to them for free

I haven't been able to get the miners to mine or store anything automatically. Manually i have been able to, but i can only get them to store the ore in the build storage. Manager is 2 star, auto mining is at 1 star, but the ore is in the same vicinity of my HQ. Storages are connected to my station, not sure if that matters. I Had the wrong storage.. Also why make a trade rule to buy ore form yourself? couldn't you click a button to not buy ore at all?

My mining base is up and running :)

Hey, nice content, are you using any graphics mods? My game does not look that cool even on max settings

Thanks a lot for your video! I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I can see the station buying and selling Ore to my miner (only my miners have access to the station as per your guide), but I'm making no money at all from it. I have 4 miners to auto mine, and 4 miners to from the station. Any idea what I could have missed? :(

I learned to play dwarf fortress this game can’t be much harder it’s all there to rewatch

Bro speaking like teacher :D necessary for this kind games...

Quick question. I’m a new player and have only about 30 hours into the game. I ended up just making a fleet of miners that did “local mine” action. Is this not the same with extra steps? What are the advantages of this kind of station, is this just to cover showing how to build a station and it turn into an ore refinery?

is their a reason for using 2 smaller storage and not a single medium? which costs less than 2 smalls to build and holds 2x more than the 2 combined.

It's weird, I have everything set up in the same way but my Trading ships keep claiming there's no trades to be made. So I made it as cheap as I could just to see if they'd do it, but it's the same. But if I set the mining ships to auto-mine, they're still able to sell their ore. So now I have 20k ore and no idea how to get it off station to sell aha~. I haven't been playing long so I'm sure I'll get this.

Hi Mysh. Do you have any idea why my freighter fails when trying to transfer cargo drones to it? I have a pier so it can dock. It just wont transfer them without the yellow failed to complete order message.

hey could you do a video on your graphic setting i feel like mine are high but i dont know what to turn down and still get good quality if thats possible

these videos have helped me a lot, yet I can't open station or logical overview, it just exits out of the menu

I have a question that idk if i messed it up or what, when i trained the station manager with seminars so the trader can go through 2 gates, turns out the miners can also do it, and my miners decided to jump through a gate to go somewhere else to mine instead in the sector i am which is where i want them to mine, is there a way to prohibit the miners from going through gates?

vrey nice thx

I played this game since release. Today I learned that Shift will snap in an 45 angle and the number before the incoming ships are the minutes...

just bought this game and got nowhere so i started watching these.. how are you supposed to figure this out without external help? i mean, merlin's tattered jockstrap, it's like wading through menus upon menus ..

Where is 4/4 of this awesome guide?

can you select what your miners mine? great video btw!

My miners are telling me no matching order I don't know what I did wrong. Figured it out. I didn't click restrict all factions then allow mine I just blocked mine rip.

Set everything up, but my miners aren't mining. They just sort of fly around and do nothing with orange rocks next to their icons, and the popup when I hover over them says, "Failed Orders: Automine No buyers found in allowed sectors" You mentioned your traders doing that if your prices are too high, but my prices are as low as I can set them, and it's my miners who aren't cooperating. It's like they're on strike or something. (Edit: same goes for the traders)

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP. I have a mining station like this one but everytime my trader comes back to load up, I dont get any credits like Im trading my ore for free. Where do the credits go where my station trader makes a transaction?

i have set everything using setting from your video but my miner keep giving me Failed order : Auto Mine , No buyers found in the sector

Has anyone tried to dock on their capital ship while it's in travel mode? I have tried and maaaan that is insanely difficult.

What kind of ship for the trader? A courier?

You saved me from uninstalling this game lol

not start stuff but i love to see just how many ore etc processors i can stuff (with food and habitats and storage) into 2x2x2 i think when i last played i got to 16? edit: 10 refined metal 10 silicon wafers :P with 3x 6s3m and 1 large docks :P or 30 hull part modules in another 1 xD

my station has no manager, how do i get one?

Where does the money go when the trader sells the ore?

Thought I was smart.. Bought a regular cargo ship instead... Spent 15 minutes being frustrated it wouldnt sell my ore... Assigning and reassingning and swearing... Until I realised the little bugger was a container ship and not solid... DOH!!! Yeah, just do what he does in the guide folks... Dont think... xD

next part where

was thinking of returning to the game after years away.. watched this video and decided no way. the game used to be so much easier than this spreadsheet nightmare. i play games for fun, and this doesnt look like fun anymore. what happened ? did a crew of nerds take over egosoft ?

seems a bit much only for you to find out you need a lvl 3 trader to do how the video shows. what's the point of getting a lvl 3 manager if the trader is the skill you really need. you need to be able to assign a trader to the station have have him do what ever the manager wants. seems way to much for something simple.

I still don’t understand how you guys make money in this game… a miner takes like 6-7 hours of play time to pay for itself and missions are really rare if you take into account the type of mission your ship can handle/is built for.

Always the UI. Egosoft never learns. OH well... It's an X-game. They are not supposed to be easy.

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Heh i never buy modules

ok so what a waist of time. i don't know why i didn't think of it earlier. you cant even do this with a freighter or a trader.. you make it seem like freighters can haul ore and sell it, but they cant. container storage is different then solid and liquid storage. so this is just BS. you are just building a station and having miners haul ore to the station, then just having miners haul from the station. Its not worth the effort. the game is designed for production. just sell your ore to some one that will buy it from the miner, or use it for production. do not waist your time doing this thinking a hauler will trade witht he best prices in the region or something. it doesn't work that way. I bassically just made a station for selling ore and hydrogen to other factions.... to bad no one HAULS ORE AND HYDROGEN.

Good video but I would have used a crew member who wasn’t skilled in piloting. You assigned a two star pilot as a manager. You can use that pilot instead to fill shortages on a ship. What I would do is assign the least skilled crew member to manager roles, then level them up to two star level using seminars. Pilot stars don’t come as easily as manager stars.

blyat suka this is trolling. noway i be able to play it