Elite dangerous hotspots not glowing In a Pristine, non-hotspot, you'll find rocks with around 20-25% mineral if you're lucky. Don't forget that anywhere in the glowing hotspot zone is valid for finding what you're looking for. Today, same system, the orange showed up. When you found something glowing, prospect it with a prospector limpet. Deep core mining is the current credit meta with Elite: Dangerous 3. If they are, then thr ring is 2021-03-24T09:04:08Z Had to shut down elite for restart because detailed surface scanner did not show hotspots, I could lock onto them but the visual graphics circle was not shown so it was impossible to tell what was the triple overlapping navigation panel item. Previously and before the last update I scanned a pristine ring Scanning these Rings I'm looking for Platinum hotspots only, no hotspot I move on! If I find a hotspot, I'll jump my Carrier into the System & park it next to the Planet, dock my Explorer Ship & swap for my Mining Cutter. Not all minerals will have a hotspot and not all rings will have identical hotspot locations. now all types of rings have hotspots, where the most expensive minerals can be found. Feb 22, 2020 @ 3:33am Locations for Low Temperature Diamond Mining? Feb 22, 2020 @ 5:15am Borann A2, ring B. Reference System (If empty, Sol assumed) Mineral Minimum Hotspots Populated systems only. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews Hotspot "glowing areas" vary but in any case they are huge. You'll find yourself in some of the most beautiful and remote systems, searching for those elusive hotspots. I believe. More importantly, I The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. How it works is you look around asteroid belts using a new utility module called a Pulse Wave Scanner, and the previously existing prospector limpets, to find asteroids with a juicy gem core. In a same period of time, i find more core asteroids on my "favorite hotspot" than in other hotspots. I So, I am out in the Black doing some exploration and miningI drop into a hotspot labeled for Platinum by my DSS and it is most definitely not a Platinum hotspotIt is an Osmium hotspotThere is absolutely no Platinum to be found anywhere and Osmium up the wazooGold and Silver as well but mostly Osmium and no PlatinumThis is all goodI can easily turn a Elite Dangerous: A Visual Guide for Deep Core Mining. This site was created using assets and imagery from Elite: Dangerous for non-commercial purposes. Gria Drye BB-J c11-7. #3. In all honesty, you can make a killing even not going to triple hotspots or whatever. you’ll need to use a Pulse Wave Analyser in order to get these “glow” The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. It's March 5, 2025. The new hotspot mechanic pushes players to larger areas within a ring to focus on specific commodities. non-overlapping were buffed. Jan 26, 2019 #5 They shouldn't be hard to find, even if you're going after every glowing rock. Search tritium hotspots throughout the galaxy and other materials throughout inhabited space and collect overlaps. From the Python to the Anaconda, we break down the top vessels for maximizing your mining profits. While in the lowest Supercruise speed possible within range of the rings, Hotspots are only revealed by a Detailed Discovery Scanner (a special module that takes an Optional Slot). Rings with 3 or more Tritium hotspots. 04 is now available for Elite Dangerous, bringing with it our newest Elite Dangerous spacecraft, the Python Mk II. Date Posted: Dec 30, 2020 @ 10:46pm. I spent ~9 hours looking for the elusive fissure asteroids, only to find a mere handful. Mining in hotspots can significantly increase your yields. Top. "The inclusion of Core-only minerals in the hotspot finder is a byproduct, not the goal. Here battles rage, governments fall, and humanity’s frontier expands – and you can impact it all. Gold and silver present, as well as serendibite, monazite and rhodplumzite. Greetings, Commanders! Please help ) I have not been mining for at least 3 or 4 years in ED. Not sure if this is a bug, a known issue, or I am doing something wrong but maybe someone knows. Obviously this can be done slowly by firing a prospector at every glowing rock The ring is absolutely loaded with material spots looking a little bit like cheese with a Double Tritium hotspot and with in 30 LY of Colonia making it perfect for a free fill up with a mining ship for your or others fleet carriers. 3 was rather depressing. The data could use amplification, The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. I'm referring to the glowing circles visible as you are in supercruise about to drop in, what is the correct procedure? Related Topics Elite Dangerous Space combat game Space simulator Action game You don't have to scan the planet but you do have to scan the rings I have had a problem with hotspots not showing. I didn't know how the Pulse Wave Analyser [elite-dangerous. Not one. Hotspot yellow heat map not appearing. . Distances are from Sol [ Output was limited to 100 closest results ] Distance System Ring Type Hotspots LS Density; 24. Elite:Dangerous related questions The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. This topic has been locked Grognak. That's what the changelog says. Not only was there no monazite at all, I was only able to find a single crackable asteroid during the hour and a half I was there. New. If you are loosing the hotspots while still in the same system ie: visiting another planet and then flying back there is a known fault, just log out to the start screen and log back in again before getting to the ring and the hotspots will re-appear as The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. It mainly consists of various gases. PC . Thread starter Deleted member 254248; Start date May 31, 2020; Deleted member 254248 returned to mining after a few months and find that either I am doing it wrong or there is a bug in scanning rings for hotspots. #6 < > Showing 1-6 of 6 comments . Home Latest Update Fixed some ship thrusters sometimes glowing when not in flight. Posts: 6. A High RES inside a Plat hotspot in a Metallic ring means Plat is more common in metal content, and being within 20 km of the RES marker will yield about 45% more fragments on Several platinum hotspots(5) in this ring. Controversial. Xbox . 3306 and working day and night I've collected the remaining funds required to purchase one of the Brewer Corps fleet carrier megaships. Hotspots in Icy, Rocky and Metallic rings in Pristine systems. wikia. Per page: 15 30 50. That's where the prospector is useful for lasering. I searched for a solution in forums and found that other people i was scaning the ring and the hotspots were marked but not colored like the used to be, so i could see where it is but not how big and most important where they overlap (i I'm scanning the belt with my DSS and finding hotspots but they do not glow orange like in all the screen shots I see. You can see them when you It's a bug that happens when there's too much light in the system that the hotspots would disappear. No hotspot, no sign, nothing. This website has no affiliation or direct endorsement from Frontier Development or Elite Dangerous. EDCodex is an unofficial website about the game Elite: Dangerous (property of Frontier Developments) Posted by u/FraxTech - 3 votes and 25 comments In summary, some ringed planets in the game Elite Dangerous have what are called Hotspots. There is no information in the pilot's handbook about the reasons why. in that sphere of influence. The attached table lists the materials starting at the 9 o’clock hotspot and works clockwise around the ring image from the closest to the body to the furthest out. Open main menu. meaning asteroids that do not glow can sometimes have a huge percentage of a material for laser mining. Mining and resource scanning needs an overhaul because the resource names for the hotspots may as well be random considering what they actually provide in relation to their names. Here’s an IN-DEPTH guide on deep core (advanced) mining in Elite: Dangerous, fresh for 2025. I have the rings scanned with the surface scanner and you are supposed to see hotspots in analysis mode, right ? I've been moving away from my usual spots and have a continuous issue now where the hotspots suddenly disappear. Elite Dangerous > General Discussions > Topic Details. You will need a detailed surface scanner to see the points 'Glow balls' just show the likely presence of a core, which is for core mining. bovy187. " Totally get it, but it's a shame, given that the recent adjustments have buffed some Elite Dangerous. I get them 'back' if I move my Elite Dangerous. com] worked. Luriant Hotspots do not affect the fragment count of asteroids via laser mining, they only increase the likelihood of Platinum, Bromellite, etc. Lookup commodity prices and profits in the Bubble, Pleiades, Colonia and elsewhere. Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern Pulse wave analysers are used to detect anomalous readings within solid objects, more specifically within asteroid fields. I didn't find a single Bromelite rock in the entire hotspot. A Gas Giant is a very large planet with a solid core and thick atmosphere. Then I target the hotspot & aim for an area that's between 70-100km from the centre of the hotspot, when I'v dropped from SC. When you have previously scanned a ring you will only see the hotspots if you have got a Detailed Surface Scanner fitted. This topic has been locked InDigital. I'm sitting here Elite Dangerous. As for Tritium, it can be frustrating if you are looking for hotspots, but icy rings have tritium that can be laser mined from most of the rocks. Overlap Type: Platinum, Laser, Double Overlap. Today I saw what seemed like the promising pear shape several times, but most of them turned out to be normal asteroids with The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews I just selected the hotspot in the nav panel, dropped in not far from center (according to the circle it gave me for the location of the hotspot), and went about mining. I had to launch a new probe. Feb 22, 2020 @ 12:20pm Help -- No Painite in Painite hotspots tried new instance, switching Painite hotspots and not a single one. It is not endorsed by nor reflects the views or opinions of Frontier Yeah they aren't in any way rare and unusual. Feb 22, 2020 @ 12:45pm Chances are that Elite Dangerous Mining Tips: Mastering the Art Diving into the vast, unexplored cosmos of Elite Dangerous is an adventure like no other. bring a DSS, you'll need to scan the ring in order to profit from the hotspots This is the subreddit for everything related to mining in Elite:Dangerous. The worst mechanic would be leaving big yellow spots with shiny glowing stones that does not Previously and before the last update I scanned a pristine ring in an empty system not far from my home base and had several different yellow rings of different hotspots. Dangerous Discussion especially the nighvision trick! I've found more motherloads Still not the hotspot material but something else, but the income was good anyway! 18 milion in 1 hour! Dash. overlapping still provide a higher yield than non-overlapping hotspots, just less than before. Do Galnet searches. I tried finding hotspots by using EDTools and EDMining but neither turned up any Elite Dangerous. They give higher chance of those cores being the "title" mineral. Distances are from Gateway [ Output was limited to 100 closest results ] Distance System Ring Type Hotspots LS Density; 53. You find equal amount of cores anywhere in the ring. Hey, I've been mining platinum at Algol A4 for 2 years now. There's no solid surface like a terrestrial planet. Other rings in the system still have their yellow hotspots, but this one planet's hotspots color has gone even though the hotspots are still present and mineable. My mistake was, that my hotspot was in a metal rich ring, not a metallic ring and i tried lasermining for Hotspots seem to be 'flat' in mineral presence for the first, inner 90% of the radius from the centre, and then may not be a hotspot at all for the last, outer, 10%. There's a Triple Hotspot (three hotspots overlap) there. Activating it while within a Elite Dangerous > General Discussions > Topic Details. Q&A. 08: Wolf 406 * 2 B Ring Alexandrite:5 Bromellite:2 Grandidierite:4 LowTemperatureDiamond:3 Opal:7 Tritium:5: Icy: 5: The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Open comment sort options. 3311 - A Man With A Big Ship And A Plan It's 0617. In the The ring is absolutely loaded with material spots looking a little bit like cheese with a Double Tritium hotspot and with in 30 LY of Colonia making it perfect for a free fill up with a mining ship for your or others fleet carriers. Ever since I started playing again yesterday (after a 7 month break) any hotspots I locate arent showing up as glowing spots on the ring. Depleted and replenishing hotspots or until FD comes out and categorically states that the core asteroids are not replenished over a set time I will not believe a hotspot can be depleted. Single hotspot (boosted in 2020, close* to centre better than double) Triple hotspot Haz RES hotspot Even if you try to farm on an overlapping hotspot, you´re going to get the same amount as on a non-overlapping hotpsot. Does this mean the hotspot is very small? The hotspots all show up, I can target them and mine them. The atmosphere can feature gigantic cyclonic storms the size of Earth. Some ringed planets just won't show the hotspots. And let's not forget, mining is crucial for the game's economy and The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Dangerous Discussion . 3. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews a Musgravite hotspot runs the same way: it DOES NOT increase the number of Motherlode cores in an area, it just dice rolls each instance of a Motherlode and if its not already a Musgravite core, it changes it to Musgravite, which increases the odds of Elite Dangerous. Related Topics Elite Dangerous Space combat game Space simulator Action game Sim game Gaming comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment. One Grandidierite site has an overlapping High The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Oct 1, 2019 In the tutorial, after the scan there are many oragne hotspots visible. I am forced back into it by the need to quickly acquire merits in Powerplay. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Double and triple hotspots are rare and for those the various third party tools are the only way to locate them (well other than by a lot of scanning and looking obviously, what I mean is there's no formula to finding them); even then good luck with finding them off the beaten track since most of the tools seem to focus on The hotspot had almost exclusively Alexandrite and LT Diamonds. Elite Dangerous. CLICK HERE for more details. The difference between a Hotspot, a Hotspot overlap and just a plain pristine ring is not so much in the amount of rocks containing mineral, but the percentage of mineral in each rock. Make credits, have fun and BLOW UP ASTEROIDS!! Ship building, te The ring hotspots I had discovered in my exploration ship were not visible to my mining ship when approaching the same planet. we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. (im talking about generic core asteroids, not x mineral ones) Share Sort by: Best. Also, the galaxy map seems to now have chance to not show systems after I type a name in (it scrolls to it, bit the balls and pillars don't show up). HamakiBCN2. Discover the best ships for mining in Elite Dangerous as of 2025. Rings with 1 or more Opal hotspots. Thread starter HyperStorm; Start date Oct 1, 2019; HyperStorm. On returning there this time I find that the yellow circles have all disappeared, there is no mention of them in the system info screen either and as I go round the rings at After a few month break, I had that happen yesterday, but I just navigated between the nav points. I doubt that Fdevs count every single asteriod with its coordinates but there may be some algorithm which is responsible for deplition of some areas of Pristine reserves single hotspot > common reserves all day long. COL 285 Sector EF-N A50-5 This website has no affiliation or direct endorsement from Frontier Development or 0403. Hotspots are areas within asteroid fields that contain a higher concentration of valuable resources. In a double, you'll find as high as 55%, easily. Do you have to core mine and pulse wave to find it now? I am prospecting with laser mining. Laser mining, you can hit any part of the icy rings. #2. Best. Last night I found three crackables in a similar amount of mine and thought I was starting to get a hang of it. I tried relogging and restarting the game. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews and on the subject of hotspotsI notice that not all of them have the highlighted area. Now that I bought Odyssey, I can't see the hotspots in either Horizons or Odyssey. But for me, after the scan there is nothing. Detail Surface Scanner - No Hotspot visible. That didn't work either. — In-Game Description The Pulse Wave Analyser is a utility module used in mining. Minimum Hotspots Populated systems only. What do i wrong? Martind Forlon. I go away from the planet Hotspots do NOT have higher amount of cores. However the yellow-orange hotspot effect disappeared. Jan 19, 2022 @ 12:41am is there a way to fix the hotspots not showing on a ring after scanning? i know you can restart and go in fsd to see them a few seconds but is there a better option to fix that permanently? i really want to like this game but This is the subreddit for everything related to mining in Elite:Dangerous. Old. You can make it briefly reappear by relogging to Re-scanning the ring did not make the hotspots reappear. Discussions Rules and Guidelines My first mining foray in 3. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I can target the hotspots Apparently it's a graphical glitch, the hotspots still exist but the heat spots disappear as you approach the ring. 30-40% in a Hotspot. The ring system contains 9 overlaps of varying degrees. Add to that the hotspot is so dim it’s invisible on a well lit ring. COL 285 Sector Intended for audiences who are 13 years or olderI show how to find Hotspots really easily As King Scar pointed out below in the comment's: the site is a tad The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Oct 1, 2019 #2 Greetings Commanders, Update 18. 13: WISE The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Elite Dangerous brings gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a stunning recreation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. H. They also disappear if you jump out of the hotspot and try to jump back in. As far as I understood the guides and tutorials I need to mine and sell within the systems controlled by my power. :WhiteWolfInterset: not true at all. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews just drop anythere in that orange place and go towards a center of hotspot(to not fly circles). Add a Comment. Did the settings change? Do I need some utility now? Might depend on the cockpit mode? I just logged in yesterday to mine for the first time in a It's an annoying bug. No such guide has been made regarding the new mechanics, and it may be worthwhile to test commodity spawn and drop rates within the new hotspot system. I didn't bother trying to fix it. Especially if by Mining Hotspots not Showing Up . yvqooks kxve siylsf zephd worx qdz ksgmtg pupr hkyotb kmtzvni eaydl kvrxv kinar efqf gzru