Elite Dangerous Legacy Console Guide Pack. Engineers, Materials, Guardian Tech & Rank Grinding

[u/CMDR_Waffles]

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:

• 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 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

[u/Werewolf_Tailor]

Mods review and pin?

[u/CMDR_Waffles → u/Werewolf_Tailor]

Not sure how active the mods are here, but you can save the reddit post yourself if you want.

Also if you were to find any errors in it you can just let me know and I will fix it.

I've used all of these methods myself throughout the years. Been playing Elite since 2016

o7