1. Negative
   When mining Quantainium you can lose up to roughly 75% of your cargo after the run. Your ship will just show a vastly reduced SCU amount rather than 32 (or 96 with the mole).

2. Negative
   30k errors. Welp.

3. Positive / Negative
   You sometimes have much higher (or lower) percentage of Quantainium than you should have.
   Higher often happens if the first chunk(s) you pick up is/are 100% Quantanium, lower often happens if you pick up other materials first.

4. Positive
   You can sometimes sell your cargo multiple times at the terminal. Often happens together with the bug 1) and is possibly related.

5. Negative (has workaround)
   Some rocks can't be scanned or mined even though they show as scannable / minable.
   New Workaround: Initiate a quantum jump to any nearby location and immediately cancel it in order to make the rocks scannable again.

6. Negative
   Asteroids can vanish. Haven't experienced this around Yela but others tell me it's a thing.

7. Negative
   Scanner is bugged sometimes and the ping doesn't go off, although cooldown is still on.
   Workaround: Press left mouse button to try to reset.

8. Neutral/Negative
   Sometimes when you return to sell and then go on another mining run, the ship will still think there's volatile cargo loaded. This might result in the jettison warning lights going on at some point. If you haven't loaded any other mineral yet, it's safe to just jettison (possibly multiple times), otherwise your ship might explode at some point. If you already do have cargo loaded and none of it is Quantainium, you should be safe, even if the warning lights go into the red at some point. (No guarantees though! :))

1. Get a Helix laser if you don't already have one
   - Just do it. Trust me.

2. Quantainium
   - Realize that it's pretty much only worth going for rocks containing Q with some rare exceptions for Laranite (or Agricium / Taranite if those exist at the place you're mining). Borase and Bexalite and everything below Agricium usually break into terrible chunks that aren't worth picking up.
   - Always break all rocks first before you actually extract the first bit of Q. You'll have much more time to fly back to base. Also if you start with 100% chunks you might trigger the positive part of bug 3).

3. Handmining isn't worth it if you have a Helix
   - Getting out of the ship and using your time on some measly chunks of rocks is just way below the average profit over time for Q or even Laranite/Agricium

4. I've never come across a rock I couldn't break with a Helix
   - Some rocks are quite stubborn but if you fly in pretty much touching distance (the laser loses energy over distance) and then pan the laser (or strafe your ship) to slowly "paint" the rock will result in the rock energy level going up, if ever so slowly. Try to see which spot works best and laser over it a couple of times.
   - If you're doing a "nose touch operation": always, always strafe backwards from the rock before the fracturing sensor reaches 100%, even if there's no overcharge.
   - You can get a bit more power on the front shields when pressing numpad 8 up to three times (I recommend once or twice). This way you're better protected if things actually do blow up.

5. The scanner is shit
   - You can learn to fly "on sight" but it only works well on planet and moon surfaces
   - See Tips for scanning above

6. Pick a point of reference
   - Pick a point of reference for orientation and generally try to fly in that direction. E.g. the planet Crusader when in the Yela belt. Or the rings when on Yela surface.
   - After scanning or mining a rock or rock cluster, turn towards your point of reference again. This way it's easy to avoid wasting time by flying to already scanned minables.

The amount of Quantainium seems to vary strongly in the Yela belt. At first I thought it's server dependant but now I think there might be some "zones" inside the belt.

• So far experienced: Good zones are when you can find Laranite too.
  Bad zones when you mostly find Corundum and Gold.

• It seems to depend on Yela's rotation. There's a possibility that it's better, the farther away from GrimHex you are which rotates around the moon together with the asteroids.

• If you have your own observations on this, let me know by @-ing Montis in the cargo-and-mining channel on the official SC discord.

• activate scanning mode with tab, then hold left click to scan a specific object / rock and hold right click to charge up the ping - ping can be released earlier for lower range but faster recharge pings

• asteroids are more normalized and are usually between 4.5k and 5.5k mass while rocks on surfaces fluctuate from 2k to 8k

• this section is even more WIP than the others, don't @ me

Quantainium is an unstable and volatile material that can make your ship explode. The following are rough times for each stage after pickup up for first chunk of Quantanium (which is why you want to split all rocks first, then pick up the Quantainium all at once):

Some of these times might not be accurate as I haven't done thorough testing on them myself!

• Stage 1 (no indicator): ~8 minutes 30 seconds

• Stage 2 (slow yellow alarm): ~5 minutes

• Stage 3 (faster orange alarm): ~2 minutes and 30 seconds

• Stage 4 (fast red alarm): ~10 seconds

• Stage 5: you dead

So all in all you have roughly 16 minutes to get rid of your Quantainium or to store your ship as soon as you pick up a chunk. Storing your ship seems to halt the Quantainium deterioration.

Also keep in mind these times are somewhat arbitrary as they depend on multiple factor. E.g. bumping against a rock or having a rock explode in front of you can shake up the Q and cause a faster explosion. Just be careful out there, will ya? :)