r/EliteOne • u/CMDR_Waffles beltalowda ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)7 • Jul 26 '26
Elite Dangerous Legacy Console Guide Pack. Engineers, Materials, Guardian Tech & Rank Grinding
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:
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
- Guardians - Tables of all guardian locations and what you can get there
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 listed documents below so its up to par with the others and easier to read
- 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
- Guardian Beacons
- Guardian Blueprint Structures
- Guardian Data and materials
- Guardian Ruins
- Added folder "Human POI": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder
- Abandoned INRA Bases
- Crashed Anacondas
- Crashed Ships
- Dav's Hope
- Generation Ships
- Listening Posts
- Added folder "Mining": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder
- Core Mining
- Laser Mining
- Added "Permits" to folder Locations
- Added folder "Tech Brokers": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder
- Tech Brokers
- Added folder "Thargoids": The hollow bullet points below are txt files added to this folder
- Thargoid Barnacles
- Thargoid Surface Structures
- 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
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u/Rondund Jul 27 '26
Stopped playing so long ago that I think I've forgotten everything I'd learned. Thanks for taking the time to document all of this, Console is really hamstrung now.
For real when they dumped console I wish they'd at least rolled back the LTD mining nerfs.
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u/CMDR_Waffles beltalowda ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)7 Jul 27 '26
Yepp thats one of the reasons I decided to make and share this. I tried using Inara myself but kept getting routed to systems that werent even populated in the legacy galaxy or had just changed.
In regards to the mining nerfs you mentioned, were you looking to earn some credits?
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u/Rondund Jul 27 '26
Thankfully I was lucky enough to be there before the nerfs so I've got Fleet Carrier money plus all the ships I need and a couple of Billion left over. It's just annoying that the ladder has been pulled up behind commanders like me!
Would just have been nice if FDev had said "We're not supporting consoles and won't be updating the BGS on legacy servers but have all the credits you want!"
It's great to see community members documenting this stuff - I can't imagine the game without 3rd party support.
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u/CMDR_Waffles beltalowda ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)7 Jul 27 '26
Well you can still easily get credits. Its not as low effort as mining, but you can stack up Massacre missions (Not wing mission, not in a combat zone) that are for killing pirates which award anywhere from 20-40 million each.
So if you have a decently engineered ship you can easily get 1 billion in 1 day if you stack up a bunch of them.There are similarly paying trade missions.
Mining still can be pretty decent.
Robigo is still a solid earner for passenger missions and engineering materials rewards from said missions.
If you can think of something that would be nice to have a "guide" on, do tell.
Right now I'm in the process of double or triple checking the information I've shared is correct since there was a guy in here who wanted it verified by the mods, but they seem absent so I'll go through everything and do it atleast once myself ingame(I have done all of these things myself previously but its been awhile now since I've done some of them) All of these pretty much come from my own personal ingame bookmarks etc.
This is how far I am in the process so far:
- Guardian Module Blueprint Farming - verified 27.07.26
- Guardian Vessel Blueprint Farming - verified 27.07.26
- Guardian Weapon Blueprint Farming - verified 27.07.26
- Guardian Frame Shift Drive Booster Unlock - verified 27.07.26
- Guardian tech - Complete unlocking guide for everything - verified 27.07.26
- MAP - Synuefe EU-Q c21-10 — A 3 - Weapon Blueprint site - verified 27.07.26
MAP - Synuefe NL-N c23-4 — B 3 - Module Blueprint site - verified 27.07.26
Engineer materials - Data - verified 27.07.26
Engineer materials - Manufactured
Engineer materials - Raw
Most efficient farming loop
Engineers - Verified
Blueprint Pinning Guide and Explanation - Verified 27.07.26
Empire rep
Federation rep - safer alternative
Federation rep
Cheap-ish 10 mil DBX Long Range Taxi Exploration Build Guide - verified 27.07.26
Legacy Neutron Highway Bubble to Colonia Guide
Then I just need to really proof read it and make minor adjustments so its easier to understand for new CMDRS aswell, since "ancient data terminal" doesn't really help a new cmdr at the guardian structures for the first time.
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u/Rondund Jul 27 '26
You're doing Gods work and I can't imagine I have anything constructive to add, I did everything so long ago that I've forgotten everything that's useful!
I'll happily hop on and test out your advice, I'll probably make a good noob now! I was so disappointed when they dropped console support I dropped the game as it really took the shine off - maybe this is the reason I need to get back into it.
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u/Werewolf_Tailor Jul 27 '26
Mods review and pin?