Another update to the Elite Dangerous Legacy Console Guide Pack. Original Post

This time I've added an entire Exploration section, aimed at both commanders completely new to exploration and people preparing for much longer trips into the black.

(Everything from this update is in the folder "Exploration Guides")

As before, everything is plain .txt files so they are easy to download, edit, print or just keep open while playing.

GOOGLE DRIVE LINK HERE

Alternative:

GITHUB

Everything is still specifically intended for Elite Dangerous Legacy / Horizons 3.8 on Xbox and PlayStation.

The new Exploration folder currently contains:

• Beginner - Exploration Guide
  • What exploration actually involves
  • Essential vs optional exploration modules
  • Fuel Scoops
  • FSS and DSS basics
  • Selling exploration data
  • First Discovery / First Mapped
  • Fleet Carrier exploration-data penalty
  • Basic beginner exploration workflow and checklist
• Beginner - FSS and DSS Scanning Guide
  • Discovery Scanner / "honk"
  • How to use the FSS
  • What planet types to watch for
  • Checking the System Map for terraformable worlds
  • DSS mapping
  • Probe efficiency
  • Far-side probe shots
  • First Mapped tags
  • Legacy Geological and Biological surface sites
• Beginner - Galaxy Map and Route Planning
  • Fastest vs Economical routes
  • Scoopable-star filtering
  • KGB FOAM
  • Jet-cone routing
  • FSD Injection routing
  • Getting away from heavily travelled exploration corridors
  • Plotting around sparse and permit-locked regions
  • Using physical galaxy data from external route planners safely with Legacy
• Exploration Ships
  • Recommended exploration ships from the Hauler up to the Anaconda
  • Diamondback Explorer
  • Dolphin
  • Asp Explorer
  • Krait Phantom
  • Anaconda
  • Essential modules
  • Approximate module and ship costs
  • FSD engineering
  • Guardian FSD Booster
  • Long-expedition equipment
  • AFMUs, shields, SRVs, repair equipment and weight-saving engineering
• Exploration Terminology
  • Beginner glossary for exploration acronyms, nicknames and common terms
  • ELW, WW, HMC, THMC, DSS, FSS, AFMU, NSP etc.
  • Jumponium
  • Neutron Highway
  • Jumpconda
  • First Discovery / First Mapped
  • Surface POIs
  • Codex terminology
  • Common explorer slang
• Exploration Value Tables
  • Approximate Legacy 3.8 scan values for stellar bodies
  • Planet and moon values
  • FSS values
  • DSS mapping values
  • First Mapped
  • First Discovery + First Mapped
  • Terraformable variants
  • Fleet Carrier Universal Cartographics penalty
• Long Expedition Survival
  • AFMU use and repairs
  • Dual-AFMU setups
  • Hull repair with Repair Limpets
  • Limpet synthesis
  • Heat emergencies
  • Canopy and Life Support emergencies
  • Neutron FSD damage
  • High-gravity planetary landings
  • Fuel emergencies
  • Using Jumponium to potentially reach a scoopable star when stranded
  • Fuel Rats
  • Raw materials worth carrying before a long expedition
• Neutron Highway Guide
  • What the Neutron Highway actually is
  • Neutron FSD supercharging
  • x4 jump-range boost
  • Anaconda-focused long-range build
  • Spansh route planning
  • Sol -> Colonia
  • Sol -> Sagittarius A*
  • FSD damage and AFMU repairs
  • Fuel management
  • Recommended modules and engineering
  • Long-range travel preparation
• Things to Discover
  • Valuable and unusual planets
  • Terraformable worlds
  • Black Holes
  • Neutron Stars
  • Rare stellar types
  • Multiple-star systems
  • Rings
  • High-gravity worlds
  • Legacy Geological Sites
  • Legacy Biological Sites
  • Crystalline Shards
  • Brain Trees
  • Bark Mounds
  • Sinuous Tubers
  • Notable Stellar Phenomena
  • Lagrange Clouds
  • Composition Scanner discoveries
  • Codex exploration and regional discoveries

The idea with this section is that someone who has never explored before should be able to start with the beginner guide and then work their way through everything from their first honk all the way to a long-distance trip to Colonia, Sagittarius A* or beyond.

Original Post

The original guide pack still contains everything from the previous updates as well, including engineers, engineering materials, Guardian technology, locations, mining, Thargoids, permits, Rare Goods, rank grinding, Robigo and the other Legacy reference material.

As always, corrections are very welcome, especially from PlayStation commanders who can directly confirm something in Legacy.

Hopefully this makes heading into the black a bit easier without having to work out whether every exploration guide Google throws at you is actually talking about the console version.

Fly safe Cmdrs o7

I have be looking for a fighter bay since I started playing about 1 month ago. I've tried inara and after 28 jumps to get to ray gateway turns out its not here. Does anyone know where it would be for non pc players any help would be great?

offering 100 mil credits completely free to any player who needs them. Here’s exactly how it works: just DM me on ps , we’ll meet in-game and wing up together. I’ll share 50mil credit missions with you, you complete them, and you receive the full payout. We can do it twice to reach 100mil There’s no payment required, plus i could reach you fastest possible way to get credits .

Recently deleted my old account because I stopped playing for awhile so im looking for people to play with to get money and buy a better ship

18 days ago I had finally had enough of what felt like to me, a very lack luster cosmic experience in gaming.. so I shot into the void and asked Reddit how they all felt about PS5 Horizons Locked Elite Dangerous.. i was met with equally opposing views from various players, I then chose to embark on this Journey.. well. It was worth it, and continues to be so. Countless hours already spent exploring, hunting space pirates, and slowly earning my Sol Permit. I want to personally thank any and all who encouraged me to pick up this amazing day in hopes that I can transfer over to PC. In the meantime, I will continue my search for the itch I cannot identify, the planet I didnt know I needed, or even possibky friends i didnt yet know I have.. To boldy go, where no man has gone before.. I truly hope to see anyone out there on my Journeys, and if anyone would like to join me, my DMs are always open.. Thank You o7s.

I’m curious how difficult Platinum Hunting is in Astro Bot. How long does it take?

Looking for commanders who use mics to wing up or multicrew with.

I’m more looking my to have fun and make our own stories than make money (I have enough) but will help you make money or achieve other goals if you want.

I am not at G5 engineering, more like G3 average and I don’t have a Fleet Carrier.

I like helping new players so if that’s you don’t feel afraid to comment - you don’t need to provide anything.

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A while ago I posted my Elite Dangerous Legacy Console Guide Pack for Xbox and PlayStation, originally focused mainly on engineers, engineering materials, Guardian technology and rank grinding.

Original Post

I've added a bunch of new stuff today all in one go, so I thought this deserved its own update post (people probably don't check back often in the main post).

Everything is still plain .txt files, so they are easy to download, edit, print, or keep open while playing.

GOOGLE DRIVE LINK HERE

Alternative:

GITHUB

In Google Drive you and also read the txt files without downloading them, works on mobile aswell just hold your phone horizontally.

Everything is still specifically intended for Elite Dangerous Legacy / Horizons 3.8 on console.

The biggest new addition is an entire Locations section:

Locations

A collection of locations for Guardian sites, Human POIs, mining rings, permit systems, Tech Brokers and Thargoid sites and useful location-specific information where available.

• Guardians
  • Guardian Beacons
  • Guardian Blueprint Structures
  • Guardian Data and materials
  • Guardian Ruins
• Human POI
  • Abandoned INRA Bases
  • Crashed Anacondas
  • Crashed Ships
  • Dav's Hope
  • Generation Ships
  • Listening Posts
• Mining
  • Pristine Rocky rings
  • Laser Mining - High Yield Hotspots and RES
  • Core Mining - Hotspot Locations and Overlaps

The mining files contain a much larger collection of Legacy-compatible mining locations, including:

• Platinum hotspots
• Painite hotspots
• Hotspot overlaps
• Hotspot + Hazardous RES combinations
• Hotspot + High RES combinations
• Other RES + hotspot combinations
• Musgravite and other mineral hotspots

The purpose of Hotspot + RES

Overlapping a Resource Extraction Site (RES) with a hotspot introduces a fragment-yield multiplier from the RES zone, allowing you to extract significantly more tons of the target mineral from each asteroid than a standard hotspot alone.

• Fleet Carrier Vendors and Administration
  • Table of systems containing Fleet Carrier Vendors and Administration, distance from Sol included.
• Permits

Permits contains a table of all obtainable permits in legacy and how to get them.

• Tech Brokers
• Thargoids
  • Thargoid Barnacles
  • Thargoid Surface Structures

I've also added several completely new Legacy reference guides:

Pre-engineered and Special Modules

• Human Technology Broker pre-engineered modules
• Modified Mining Laser
• Azimuth / Salvation modified Guardian Gauss Cannons
• Modified Guardian Plasma Chargers
• Modified Guardian Shard Cannons

Added to folder "Engineering - Unlocking engineers and farming materials"

Pre-engineered and special modules are unique ship components that come with built-in upgrades or special functions you cannot get from normal stations or standard engineering

Rare Goods

Rare Goods is in the folder Trade

• Large list of rare commodities
• Origin system
• Origin station
• Pad size
• Distance from Sol

Robigo and Money-Making

Robigo Mines -> Sirius Atmospherics passenger guide

The original guide pack also still includes all the previous stuff such as:

• Complete Bubble engineer progression
• Individual Bubble engineer guides
• Engineering material farming
• Material Traders
• Crystalline Shards
• High Grade Emissions
• Jameson Crash Site
• Federation rank grinding
• Imperial rank grinding
• Guardian FSD Booster
• Guardian Module, Weapon and Vessel Blueprint farming
• Blueprint Pinning Guide
• Bubble -> Colonia Neutron Highway guide
• Cheap long-range DBX build

Original Post

I'll keep adding things if I find other Legacy-specific information that is useful enough to preserve.

Corrections are very welcome, especially from Xbox and PlayStation commanders who can directly confirm a location or mechanic in Legacy.

Hopefully this makes the old Legacy galaxy a little easier to navigate without having to work out whether every guide you find online is talking about Horizons 3.8 or modern Live.

Fly safe Cmdrs o7

Where can I find an ASP Explorer? I’ve used Inara but it seems inaccurate as most of the stops either didn’t even have a ship or planet to land on even though it said the asp explorer would be there. That or where there finally was a settlement, the shipyard wouldn’t have it.

So Im a bit new to whole exploring stuff but Im sick of trading and fighting isnt for me so I guess Im an explorer now :)

I got all the essentials like scanners, rvs and probes.

When I enter a system I do the normal e-scan after that entering vss mode and looking for planets/moons that are not discovered for me. Then Im using the probes on planets to get a full scan if possible with the efficiency bonus.

Thats just how I do things.

At the next station available I sell all the data I can.

Is there anything that I can do better and where do I find areas that are totally unexplored ? And is it correct that I sell the data at the next possible station or should I sell it at specific spot?

Is multi crew still a thing?

I sometimes come back to the game on PS5, bc its the only one of its kind and I dont own a PC. But I never find someone on multi crew and thats a shame I really enjoyed it back in the days.

PS5 user here. Any tips on finding cool sights and such? I've been traveling out past the bubble and it's beginning to get a bit stale. I haven't come across anything too interesting besides a ton of icy/rocky systems. I'd like to see cool stuff if that makes sense?

I’ve put together a collection of guides specifically for Elite Dangerous Legacy Mode on Xbox and PlayStation.

Everything is based on the Horizons 3.8 / pre-Update 14 version of the game, with no Odyssey or Live-PC mechanics mixed in.

Link: GOOGLE DRIVE LINK HERE

Alternative:

GITHUB

^{Moved the link a bit further up because the list is getting pretty long}

The guide pack currently includes:

• Complete Bubble engineer unlock progression
• Separate guide files for every Bubble engineer
• Encoded, Raw and Manufactured material farming for engineering
• Crystalline Shard raw-material farming
• High Grade Emissions manufactured-material farming
• Federation rank farming
• Imperial rank farming
• Guardian FSD Booster unlock
• Guardian Module Blueprint farming
• Guardian Weapon Blueprint farming
• Guardian Vessel Blueprint farming
• Legacy-compatible Guardian site locations and puzzle instructions

New:

Exploration Guides update 01.09.26

01.09.26 Added a completely new folder "Exploration Guides", containing a set of Legacy / Console exploration guides ranging from basic beginner scanning to long-distance expedition preparation.

Added "Beginner - Exploration Guide"

• Beginner introduction to exploration
• Essential and optional modules
• Fuel Scooping
• Basic FSS / DSS workflow
• First Discovery / First Mapped
• Selling exploration data
• Fleet Carrier exploration-data penalty
• Beginner exploration checklist

Added "Beginner - FSS and DSS Scanning Guide"

• Discovery Scanner / Honking
• Full Spectrum System Scanner
• Identifying valuable bodies
• Checking terraformability
• Detailed Surface Scanner
• Probe efficiency
• Far-side probe aiming
• First Mapped
• Legacy Geological and Biological surface POIs

Added "Beginner - Galaxy Map and Route Planning"

• Fastest vs Economical routes
• Scoopable-star filtering / KGB FOAM
• Jet-cone routing
• FSD Injection routing
• Sparse-space route planning
• Avoiding heavily travelled exploration corridors
• External route-planning information and what remains valid for Legacy

Added "Exploration Ships"

• Recommended exploration ships
• Hauler
• Dolphin
• Diamondback Explorer
• Asp Explorer
• Krait Phantom
• Anaconda
• Essential modules and approximate costs
• FSD engineering
• Guardian FSD Booster
• Long-trip equipment and repair modules

Added "Exploration Terminology"

• Categorised glossary of common exploration acronyms, abbreviations, nicknames and terminology
• Includes DSS, FSS, ELW, HMC, THMC, Jumponium, Neutron Highway, Jumpconda, Codex terminology and more

Added "Exploration Value Tables"

• Legacy stellar scan values
• Planet / moon scan and mapping values
• First Discovery
• First Mapped
• Terraformable bodies
• Sagittarius A*
• Fleet Carrier Universal Cartographics penalty

Added "Long Expedition Survival"

• AFMU repairs
• Repair Limpets
• Limpet synthesis
• Canopy / Life Support emergencies
• Heat damage
• High-G planetary landings
• Neutron FSD damage
• Fuel emergencies
• Jumponium emergency fuel-star jumps
• Fuel Rats
• Recommended expedition materials

Added "Neutron Highway Guide"

• Anaconda-focused Neutron Highway guide
• Spansh route planning
• Neutron x4 FSD boost
• Sol -> Colonia and Sol -> Sagittarius A* examples
• Recommended modules and engineering
• AFMU / FSD repair
• Fuel management and long-range travel preparation

Added "Things to Discover"

• Valuable and unusual stellar / planetary bodies
• Geological and Biological Sites
• Crystalline Shards
• Brain Trees
• Bark Mounds
• Sinuous Tubers
• Notable Stellar Phenomena
• Lagrange Clouds
• Composition Scanner
• Codex exploration and regional discoveries

Previous Update:

• Locations - Locations is mostly tables of interesting or useful locations relevant to legacy
  • Guardians - Tables of all guardian locations and what you can get there
    • Guardian Beacons
    • Guardian Blueprint Structures
    • Guardian Data and materials
    • Guardian Ruins
  • Human POI - Interesting Human POIs to visit, some of them contain additinal info and use
    • Abandoned INRA Bases
    • Crashed Anacondas
    • Crashed Ships
    • Dav's Hope
    • Generation Ships
    • Listening Posts
  • Mining - Tables of mining locations
    • Pristine Rocky rings
    • Laser Mining - High Yield Hotspots and RES
    • Core Mining - Hotspot Locations and Overlaps
  • Fleet Carrier Vendors and Administration - List of locations
  • Permits - Lists all unlockable permits and how to get them
  • Tech Brokers - Table with a few Tech Brokers close to Sol
  • Thargoids - Contains thargoid locations
    • Thargoid Barnacles
    • Thargoid Surface Structures
  • Pre-engineered and Special Modules - Overview and requirement for obtaining (material, data, etc requirements)
  • Rare Goods - List of all Rare Goods and where you can get them from
  • Robigo and Money Making - Quick and easy guide for the Passanger Missions in Robigo

For now I've put everything in a google drive so you can also view it without actually downloading anything. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aoavw8qxBk02F3-VtyM0HfE7whiMe2Fp

The goal is to provide a clean reference for console players without having to sort through guides that may contain Live-only changes.

These are plain .txt files, so they are easy to download, edit, print, or keep open while playing.

Corrections and additional Legacy-specific guide suggestions are welcome.

Edit: If I add more stuff to it I will post it under changes here so you can check if its been updated. I will probably go through everything in a bit more detail to fix some formating so its easier to view/read since its just .txt files.

Updates:

• 27.07.26 Added "Blueprint Pinning Guide and Explanation" to folder Engineering - Unlocking engineers and farming materials
• 27.07.26 Added folder "Useful and or helpful" and into said folder added "Legacy Neutron Highway Bubble to Colonia Guide"
• 27.07.26 Added "Cheap-ish 10 mil DBX Long Range Taxi Exploration Build Guide" to Useful and or helpful folder
• 27.07.26 Added "MAP Jameson Crashsite" to folder Farming/gathering materials for engineering
• 27.07.26 Updated the formatting of the documents listed below to match the existing documentation standards and improve readability:
  • Engineer materials - Manufactured
  • Engineer materials - Data
  • Engineer materials - Raw
  • Most efficient farming loop
  • Guardian Weapon Blueprint Farming
  • Guardian Vessel Blueprint Farming
• 29.07.26 Updated "Engineer materials - Manufactured" with clearer HGE requirements, faction-state rules, timer guidance, and Legacy-specific farming instructions. Added beginner explanations and clarifications.
• 30.07.26 Added "Mining spots" to folder Useful and or helpful
• 31.07.26 Added Note to "Engineer materials - Manufactured" regarding Military Supercapacitors, Proto Heat Radiators and Military Supercapacitors
• 01.08.26 Added "Legacy console material traders" to folder Engineering - Unlocking engineers and farming materials

Larger update 04.08.26

04.08.26 Added a new "Locations" section containing a large collection of Legacy-compatible fixed locations and useful reference tables.

Added folder "Guardians": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

Added folder "Human POI": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

Added folder "Mining": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

Added "Permits" to folder Locations

Added folder "Tech Brokers": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

Added folder "Thargoids": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder

04.08.26 Added "Pre-engineered and Special Modules", covering Legacy-obtainable pre-engineered Human modules and Azimuth/Salvation modified Guardian weapons to folder Engineering - Unlocking engineers and farming materials.

04.08.26 Added "Rare Goods", containing a large reference list of rare commodities and their origin systems/stations to folder Trade (New Folder)

04.08.26 Added "Robigo Money-Making", a Robigo Mines passenger guide to folder Useful and or helpful

04.08.26 Added Fleet Carrier Vendors and Administration to folder Locations

07.08.26 Added GitHub as an alternative to Google Drive following a user request.

Fixes

• 000_All Bubble Engineers Unlock COMPLETE guide for ALL engineers - Fixed Language for Tod The Blaster, it now correctly says "Earn 15 or more bounty vouchers" not "Earn more than 15 bounty vouchers"
• 04_Tod_The_Blaster_McQuinn_Legacy_Unlock_Guide - Fixed Language for Tod The Blaster, it now correctly says "Earn 15 or more bounty vouchers" not "Earn more than 15 bounty vouchers"
• Guardian Module Blueprint Farming - Refrence to map was wrong, guide pointed to the map of the Weapon Blueprint site, it not Points to the Map Module Blueprint Site
• Crashed Ships - Got rid of Renet B 1, cordinates pointed to 135, 14. Latitude cannot be 135 its an impossible number
• Pre-engineered and Special modules - Updated Modified Mining Lasers Sources to correctly display all 4 locations, not just 1.
• Tech Brokers - Its spelled "Tech Brokers" not "Tech Brockers", sorted.
• Abandoned INRA Bases - Changed name from INARA to INRA
• Mining Spots - Got rid of this entry, its a tiny file and all listed locations are in the larger mining files that came with the big update I released

Hopefully this helps new and old console commanders who are still enjoying the Legacy galaxy.

Fly safe Cmdrs

As a PlayStation player on the Legacy version, I am looking for a scheduled Fleet Carrier taxi from the Bubble to Sagittarius A*, so please let me know if anyone is planning this trip soon with available docking services so I can board my ship in advance.

I've started playing again after a bit of a break and noticed powerplay hasn't updated this week. Weekly arx cap had been reset. Any insights out there?

Hey all,

I want to learn the various aspects of elite on PS but a lot of content on YouTube etc is geared towards using third party sites to help trade, which I understand isn’t relevant for PS. Does anyone know of any PS related content on YouTube, or elsewhere, that will help me learn?

Thanks!

The Refined Taste trophy on the PS4 version is bugged for me. You need to refine 750 tons of metals or materials and my codex says I've refined 910, but the trophy hasn't popped.

I can't find any solutions or discussions about it online, and I've ran out of options. Does anyone here know anything about it or have a potential solution? I need 3 more trophies including this one for the platinum.

This is jot a complaint. I’m looking confirmation for my anecdotal evidence:
It seems to me that I have much more luck finding asteroids suitable for core minung in RES-s than in related “Hot Spots”. For example finding alexandrite cores in Alexandrite Hot Spots is more difficult than in RES-s. Which I would say is weird but ok.

I’m currently enjoying core mining in RES-s and find core asteroids regularly🙂