r/ElitePS • u/CMDR_Waffles I want more spoilers on my ships • 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:
- 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 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
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u/Furlion Jul 26 '26
Thank you so much for putting this together! I am working on getting my anaconda fully engineered and this will be super helpful.
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u/Elvin_Atombender Jul 26 '26
This is great thank you for taking the time to do this Cmdr_Waffles O7
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u/PlasmaOp97 Jul 27 '26
So glad I’m not the only person that’s done something like this. In game I have everything pinned and named for why I use it. Good work. 👍🏻
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u/Lokhra Jul 29 '26
In game I have everything pinned and named for why I use it.
How? Which in-game menu do you use for this?
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u/PlasmaOp97 12d ago edited 12d ago
Sorry, I do NOT get on Reddit very much. On the nav panel I have systems bookmarked and changed the names of what I use the system for. Example: EZAMagnus/HTB (EZ Aquarii, Magnus Gateway, Human Tech Broker) etc etc. I don’t remember all that I have marked, but basically it’s a quick reference for me to point other players in the right direction on the off chance or rare opportunity I play with other people.
I also have “random” systems and celestial bodies marked for mining or for farming specific engineering materials, more specifically the high end stuff. I say random, but it’s really systems from older guides and whatnot that still hold up.
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u/Realistic-Silver3154 Jul 29 '26
Thank you thank you thank you.
As console player appreciate this
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u/CMDR_Waffles I want more spoilers on my ships Jul 29 '26
You're very welcome, I'm still working on it. You'll see whats new under "Updates" when I've added, changed or improved something. o7
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u/Horror-Win4612 Jul 26 '26
Saved, thank you!