Prospector is a miner's must-have tool, assisting you through the entire prospecting and mining workflow. Features include:

• A configurable list of commodities you are looking for in settings.
• Rings which may contain these commodities are called out when detected via FSS.
• Rings which contain hotspots for these commodities are called out when probed via DSS.
• While mining, it will call out rocks which exceed the threshold (in settings) of material, or cores.
  • Note that the game does not provide any information on surface and sub-surface deposits, so you still need to use the Contacts panel for that.
• Provides a handy overlay of what's in your cargo hold (including limpets!)
• Plus miscellaneous session statistics.

TODO/Wishlist:

• Notify if you are undocking in a ship with mining gear but without limpets in cargo!

Tips

None yet.

Changelog

Release notes: v1.0.3.32704 - Nov 22, 2024

• Added Min Density a setting (for determining if ring is suitable for announcing).
• Minor display string improvements.
• Uses new signing cert.
• Support for ObsCore 1.0 features; notably About info.
• Updates for ObsCore 1.2 (in preview).

Release notes: 0.24.143.0120-beta - May 21, 2024

• Minor updates, internal refactoring. Starting work on material prospecting, however nothing is really exposed/visible.

Release notes: 0.22.348.0223-beta - December 13, 2022

Update to .net 6.0 to support latest version of Observatory Core plus a bugfix for an NPE and a minor notification adjustment.

Release notes: 0.22.268.345-beta - September 24, 2022

Lots of updates and improvements, notably:

• During FSS, calls out bodies rings of interest that meet a specified minimum "density".
• When rings are scanned with DSS, calls out hotspots for materials of interest (configurable by setting).
• Added options to control which notifications are enabled.

Release notes: 0.0.92.1935-beta - April 2, 2022

Initial release.

The journal filename related changes brought about by Update 11 required nearly every journal-reading application to be updated and thus the bug I was waiting for to be fixed in Observatory Core is now fixed in the latest version, and so I can finally release Prospector!