I find it wonderful just how different Cyrene can be by not going very far. In this run, I ended up mining in more areas I have yet to. There are still a couple more ores and enmatters I’m looking to track down. Mostly on the ore side of things.

I have also been doing a fair amount of crafting with the resources I’ve been finding. Cyrene crafting is a lot more difficult than I’ve experienced on say Calypso. As they required a lot of harder to get drops from creatures and their planet only ores and enmatters in quite a few of the crafts.

While usually, I would not be that thrilled with finding a bunch more crude oil. I did not mind it ended up being the second-highest percentage-wise of what I found this trip. I ended up finding 13 different ores and enmatters this trip. Adding to quite a hefty amount of different materials I have already been collecting.

It’s a shame I did not bring along the winter clothing that I left back on Calypso. As it sure felt like I needed it being out here. At least I had my lucky jacket with me.

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I even found another ore that I have near heard of before. The issue with quite a lot of these is they lack much of a sales volume. I would say Cyrene is in an active development stage of things. There was very little known about this ore in general that I could find. It might be something I end up tossing into my storage and forgetting about.

Players have been constantly finding new blueprints to craft with from the latest update. I can only assume since the developers of this planet seem to have decent uses for many of their other Cyrene-only mining materials. It’s only a matter of time before a blueprint for the ore is discovered or those who already have one start crafty with it.

Sometimes with this stuff you just got to speculate. I only did mine 5 PED worth of the stuff. For all, I knew a year from now it could still be worth not much or 200% markup. Still, it was not a lot and I did not find any on my other mining trips either.

With the massive amount of ore and enmatter, I was finding in a close area of each other. I did not need much more than something like that to turn this run into another profitable run. With the way my hunting has been going, it is tempting to just go full-time mining.

However, transportation back to Calypso and not getting looted and losing it all just to sell some of this still scares me. The other issue is a large percentage of my finds are Cyrene-only resources. While they have high markup on them. I don’t see them even being listed on Calypso or moving in large volumes on Cyrene that would warrant a massive mining operation being taken up.

Then I found a size 14 that had 75 PED of Zorn Star Ore. These Cyrene ores and even enmatters sure do love to global on this planet. If only I could get a decent hit on some other things as well that I knew I could sell for some decent markup that would not take forever to sell.

This stuff ended up being a little up on a mountain. While I would usually just summon the claim down and mine it more on flat ground. It did not seem that hard of a spot to set myself up on. It was also going to take a while to extract it all.

I have started to do some research into finding a better mining extractor. It seems I can either take forever to mine things or save some money. On the other hand, I could extract things quickly but pay two or three times the decay.

Most seem to go with an extract that cost slightly more to use than the ones you buy off the trade vendors on most planets. It will extract a little faster so you are not sitting around for half an hour to an hour or more to mine out a global. It will do so at a slightly higher cost. At least then I would not be an (L) item and I could just repair it every trip.

Like all things in this game, there is an extreme side to things. There is a line of Genesis Star Excavators that have been modified or improved. They appear to drop off some summer event creatures as an extremely rare drop. Depending on the one you want it could be costing you $1k worth of PED to buy from another player.

There are quite a few items in-game many would consider being “career makers.” While having just an amazing extractor all on its own would not be enough. You once in a while find someone cashing out of this game selling an entire set of high-end mining gear: finder, extract, unlimited amp, and refiner.

Final Thoughts

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