My tips for mining beginners:
Chisel mining.
You’ll need nearly no power nor expensive tools just stone chisels.
The chisel doesn’t care about the blocks armor.
Just use an Iron hammer for Seams.
Speed (Dexterity stat) and reach (Control stat) however will help you a ton !
Chisel-tunneling:
Chiseling down/up/sides
The name of the game is simple.
Uncover as many blocks as fast as possible and of course praise Rngsus or Lootsifer if you prefer.
Happy mining 
Its not hard
Chisel mining is actually my preferred method just so I’m not eating through the iron hammers 
Found a lot of ore that way, just sadly wasn’t chisel mining the only time I found diamonds 
Funny how Lootsifer works
its no hard? pff you dont know the process to get them rigth?
using mass craft.
1.- you need volatile blood and flint (18,72)
2.- saltpetre fragments (36)
3.- 500 power (for titanium) the best
4.- titanium allow
volatile blood if you dont have a good hunter its hard farm this.
flint its easy to farm.
Saltpetre fragments its hard to found them, if not, why its very expensive?
500 power, you know what do you need to make the power coils?(without mass craft)
need copper to make the machined blocks, to get them need compact copper, refine them, and machined, need around 50 rought diamonds to compact them, to get the diamonds you need go to lvl 5 planet, ohh wait, to go to this planet need protection, you need spend skills point to protect you, you need good tools because its a lvl 5 planet, the block have a lot of defence and healt, ohh but to go to the lvl 5 planet need a portal, wihtout the PS help, its very hard and expensive to travel, now, you have the diamonds but you need tech components too, in low levels its hard to found them, you need to mid+ levels planet to have a good rate.
now the titanium allow, you need 72 gold/silver allow and 36 titanium bars to make 50 titanium bars, to make gold/silver allow you need coal and a good furnance to make the bars, and you need mix copper with gold and iron with silver, you need go to mid+ lvl planet to farm gold or silver, again you need the PS, to find gold or silver you need time to found them, the titanium you need to go to lvl5 to find it.
ok, now you have 500 power to make titanium bombs, why titanium? because them have the best damage and aoe.
if you go to the lvl 5+ planets you need launch around 8 coppers bombs to break the block, 4 if you use iron (wihtout skills pooints) 6 copper or 3 iron (with skill points) if you use copper or iron bombs its a bad way, why? because the time to explote and launch them are a lot, if you use copper you spend time, but you do a 3 radious hole, if you use iron you dont spend time to explote and launch the bombs, but sacrifice the radious,
for those reazons titanium.
With titanium its more easy, but expensive too, you need the doble items than you need to make copper/iron bombs, and rare ingredients (titanium and gold/silver)
Idk why you say that to make bombs are easy.
Please update the tooltips on Bombs so people know their use is mining and that they have almost no other use.
I think it’s a horrible mechanic and has cheapened the importance of mining and gem finding, such that it isn’t even mining anymore, but if you’re going to keep it in the game, at least put all players on an even playing field by explainin’ how it works.
I dont care about the rest of the recipe. I have made and not bragging over 100k with saltpetre only. People are just too lazy or just dont have a clue what they are doing. Lol
Yeah it’s a very long process to get to efficient titanium bombs. In fact, there’s so much you need to do before you get to titanium bombs, they could make an entire game about it! All the way from beginning with nothing, working up to something. I think this may have been the intent of the developers, as there is currently no “god mode” where you can just get everything for no effort input yet.
The essence of progression means that some things are better than others, and you have to get through some struggles to get where you want to be.
Lastly, remember that stripmining at one altitude (if it isn’t giving you any reward) is unadvisable, try going up and down as wel not just back and forth
dont use gold bombs use sliver it has a bigger range
It is much easier and faster to use 3 gold bombs than 4 silver. Also, I’m spec’d to break with 3 gold without destroying resources.
But I am working on titanium bombs!
I have to figure out how to work the centraforge to get a damage boost on the bombs so I can break in 3 bombs…
if you have the right skill’s you wont destroy resources.
I know… that’s why I calculated the damage I do with bombs and use gold… because I won’t break resources with gold, but I will with silver or titanium…
It’s a careful balancing act that I am fine with, but I can’t just switch to silver without planning to.
nice nice I use the Silver bomb / tat mining skill set 
so I dont break resources^^
Here is my method for finding Diamonds. This is applicable for other gem types if you go to the appropriate planet, location and altitude.
Keep in mind that for bomb mining with titanium bombs to work well as described in 9 above, you will need a spec that supports it. We’ve found the best spec for Serpensarindi and same-tier planets to require:
With that spec, you stand the greatest chance to not destroy resources.
With this technique and spec, I easily pull 200-300 diamonds in a single couple hours session. One last point of advice: if you get to a hotspot and you notice lots of tunnels or even bomb areas already there, it’s because somebody recently went through that hotspot but that doesn’t always mean it’s a lost cause. Diamonds spawn from 0-20 altitude for the most part so if the tunnels and bomb areas you find are, say, lower altitude like 0-10, you can often just go up to 11-20 in the exact same hotspot and still rake in a lot of diamonds.
Lastly, you can do all this without bombs but it just takes longer unless you have a really nice hammer such as a forged titanium or gem hammer which will cost you 10-20K depending on what you’re after.
Good luck and happy mining!
Are the devs going to nerf bombs with the official release? I’d hate to have him respec then have to go back to a hammer spec in 3 days…
The time it takes to get the materials to make the bombs compared to other tools / weapons in the same range is the nerf, my dude. 
I doubt it. Steggs himself just recommended bomb mining to someone on this thread.
Very nice guide:)
If you want to take it another step further, centraforge longevity on the bombs.
I got some with 5m range at the moment and, oh boy, the added efficiency is insane 
Hey, Steggs. Does your endorsement of bomb mining mean they won’t be nerfed anytime soon? In theory, I’d like to never bomb mine on my miner. But if it will remain stronger than hammers, I might as well switch over.
Hey Venuil,
I wouldn’t say it’s an endorsement, it’s just a fact that they are good for mining in their current state.
We want to keep bomb mining in as an option for players because we believe it’s pretty fun, but we don’t want it to make hammers obsolete, so we are looking at some potential changes for them.
Thanks for the reply. I’m a bit torn. I wanted my miner to use hammers only after the wipe. But if I want AoE mining, bombs are the way to go, hands down. I just can’t afford 20k for a single AoE hammer.
Yeah now with forging some hammers are expensive. I liked my old diamond hammer that did aoe in the old universe. I wish the forge had added abilities without the devs removing the old gems abilities.
