EVE Online — Industry Career

Exordium is deliberately training space rather than good economic space: its ores are Grade 0 and yield fewer minerals, and manufacturing, ME research, TE research and invention all carry an extra 5% installation fee there. Learn Industry in Exordium; build your real operation somewhere else.

• Complete the AIR New Player Experience
• Learn how cargo holds and specialised mining holds differ

  A mining hold only takes ore, which is why a Venture carries far more than its cargo suggests.
• Learn the difference between ore and minerals

  Ore is what you mine; minerals are what reprocessing turns it into.
• milestoneLearn the difference between mining and reprocessing

  They are separate economic activities and should be costed separately.
• the ruleLearn that minerals are inputs, not profit

  Nothing is profit until it is sold for more than it cost you to obtain.
• Learn how the Industry window works
• Learn how Blueprint Originals and Blueprint Copies differ
• Learn how manufacturing jobs consume materials
• Learn how player-owned structures differ from NPC stations

  Taxes, bonuses and asset safety all differ, and they decide where you should build.

• Mine and manufacture in Exordium until it is comfortable
• the ruleLeave Exordium and establish your real industrial base elsewhere

  Grade 0 ore and a 5% installation surcharge make it a poor long-term home.
• milestoneUse your one-way Exordium shipcaster when ready

  Caldari Tatrys → Onnamon · Gallente Mondaekus → Intaki · Minmatar Dettisolin → Amo · Amarr Ichorah → Mehatoor. One use per character, shared across every career.

• Complete the Industry Career Agent chain

  Reward Ships, modules, starting ISK
• Mine your first ore and reprocess it
• Manufacture your first item
• Receive and fit your first Venture

  Reward Venture
• Learn basic hauling
• Learn that production jobs take real time

  Industry is the one career where the clock does the work and you do the planning.

CCP divides Industrialist into Mining, Manufacturing, Salvaging and Trading. Trading beyond the AIR requirement belongs to the separate Business career, so only the AIR objectives for it sit here.

• Begin the Mining objectives

  Reward AIR rewards
• Begin the Manufacturing objectives

  Reward AIR rewards
• Begin the Salvaging objectives

  Reward AIR rewards
• Complete the Trading objectives AIR requires

  Only what AIR asks for — the rest is the Business career.
• Progress the Industrialist reward track and claim rewards

  Reward Skill points
• Complete the Industrialist graduation objectives

  Reward Industrialist track completion

CCP's recommended entry point, and it stays useful for gas and lowsec work long after you have barges.

• Train Mining Frigate and Mining
• Obtain a Venture and fit mining lasers, propulsion and a basic tank
• Carry combat drones where appropriate

  Belt rats will interrupt you otherwise.
• Learn how the Mining Hold works
• Mine a full hold, return, unload, repeat until it is routine

  Reward ISK

Catalyst modernised mining substantially. Every ORE mining ship now includes an integrated Mining Surveyor, laser and strip-miner cycles are much shorter than older guides describe, and mining can produce Critical Successes that yield bonus ore WITHOUT removing that bonus from the asteroid. Any guide that predates this is wrong.

• milestoneActivate the Mining Surveyor and read the asteroid value overlay
• Compare nearby asteroid values before committing a cycle
• Fit a Mining Survey Chipset

  It also interacts with the critical-success and residue systems.
• Read remaining-quantity information
• the ruleStop wasting cycles on nearly depleted asteroids
• Learn how the mining-hold indicator works

• Mining III → IV
• Mining Frigate III → IV
• Astrogeology III and Mining Upgrades III
• CPU Management IV and Power Grid Management IV
• Navigation III–IV and Evasive Maneuvering III–IV
• Shield support skills for your mining hull
• Drones III–V depending on the ship

Both are new and both are specific to the critical-success system — they do not appear in older mining guides at all.

• milestoneMining Precision I–III, then IV–V if you are serious

  Improves your mining and ice critical-success chance.
• milestoneMining Exploitation I–III, then IV–V if you are serious

  Improves the bonus yield a critical success generates.

The New Eden map can find ore anomalies, ore distributions and systems containing a particular ore — use it rather than warping belt to belt.

• milestoneUse the map's Ore Anomalies, Ore Distribution and Specific Ores filters
• Survey the field before you start
• Mine the valuable asteroids first

  Reward ISK
• Watch Local and keep an eye out for belt rats
• the ruleReturn before your ship is worth more than you want to lose

Introduced with Catalyst specifically to fill the gap that used to send new miners straight from a Venture into a Mining Barge. Alpha characters can train Mining Destroyer to II. The standard Pioneer gets bonuses to mining yield, mining range and gas harvesting.

• Train Mining Destroyer
• Obtain a Pioneer and fit three mining lasers
• Learn its increased mining range

  Range means fewer repositioning cycles, which is most of the yield gain.
• Use the integrated Mining Surveyor
• milestoneRecover the cost of the ship through mining

  Reward ISK
• optionalOptionally buy a Pioneer BPO from an ORE station in Outer Ring

From Elias Peltonnen at AIR Laboratories, Kisogo VII. Three mining-focused missions that teach the modern mechanics and reward a Pioneer. Do this BEFORE buying your first Mining Barge — it is the cheapest Pioneer you will ever get. It came with Catalyst rather than Cradle of War, but its systems are permanent core gameplay now.

• Travel to Kisogo VII and start Fractured Legacy
• Complete Mission 1 and learn the modern Mining Surveyor mechanics
• Complete Mission 2 and experience Phased Field mechanics
• Complete Mission 3
• milestoneClaim the Pioneer and the additional module and BPC rewards

  Reward Pioneer, modules, BPCs

Ore can be sold directly, compressed and sold, reprocessed into minerals, or fed into your own production. Which is best is an arithmetic question, and it changes week to week.

• Train Reprocessing and Reprocessing Efficiency
• Train the ore-processing specialisations you actually use
• Compare station and structure refining rates, and their taxes
• milestoneCompare ore market value against mineral output value after real yield
• the ruleNever assume self-mined material is free

  Mined material has an opportunity cost equal to what you could have sold it for. This single habit separates profitable industrialists from busy ones.

Facilities have no global production-capacity limit; your own simultaneous job count is limited by skills instead. Good learning products: ammunition, drones, common modules, rigs, T1 frigates and destroyers — things people consume constantly.

• Obtain a Blueprint Original
• Install your first manufacturing job

  Review materials, estimated cost and duration before you commit.
• Choose input and output locations deliberately
• Deliver the finished job
• the ruleCompare build cost against market value

  Do this before scaling anything, ever.

A Blueprint Original has unlimited runs and can be researched and copied. A Blueprint Copy has limited runs, cannot be researched further, and Tech I copies are the input for invention. Reaction Formulas are used for reactions instead of manufacturing, and Ancient Relics feed Tech III invention.

• Buy your first BPO and manufacture from it
• Create a Blueprint Copy
• Understand licensed runs
• milestoneLearn how ME reduces materials and TE reduces time
• the ruleNever casually haul a researched BPO library through dangerous space

  A researched library can represent years of work and is not insurable.

Mass Production and Advanced Mass Production increase how many manufacturing jobs you can run at once — that is what actually scales output.

• Industry IV → V
• long trainMass Production I–IV, then V
• long trainAdvanced Mass Production I–IV, then V for a dedicated producer
• Supply Chain Management if remote installation helps

  Lets you install jobs remotely when the blueprint and materials are already at the destination.

A BPO takes up to 10 levels of ME at roughly 1% material reduction each before rounding, and up to 10 levels of TE at 2% time reduction each. For most manufacturers ME matters more economically; TE becomes valuable once job duration rather than material cost is your bottleneck.

• Research a BPO to ME 1
• milestonePush your commonly used BPOs toward ME 10

  Reward Permanent material savings
• Research TE on the items you produce in volume
• Understand that research time increases sharply per level

Research, copying and invention share Science job slots, which are SEPARATE from manufacturing slots — so a mature industrialist runs both categories at once instead of one blocking the other.

• Copy a researched BPO, choosing copies and runs deliberately
• Manufacture from a BPC and keep the BPO stored safely
• Laboratory Operation III–IV, then V
• long trainAdvanced Laboratory Operation I–IV
• Scientific Networking if you manage jobs remotely

Salvage materials matter most for rig manufacturing. Useful, but do not salvage merely because wrecks exist — compare it against what else you could be doing with the time.

• Train Salvaging and fit a Salvager
• Salvage your first wreck

  Reward Salvage materials
• Train Salvaging III–IV and use Salvage Drones
• Learn tractor beam use
• Use salvage in rig production

  Reward Rigs
• optionalOptionally train ORE Industrial and fly a Noctis

  Only when salvage volume justifies a dedicated hull. Compare salvage value per hour honestly first.

Multi-month conflicts that explicitly support Industrialist contribution through mining and manufacturing objectives. Objectives release gradually — the in-game Upcoming tab is the schedule.

• Open Theatres of War → Military Campaigns
• Find the mining and manufacturing objectives
• Choose an empire and contribute the required resources or products

  Reward ISK, LP, empire standing
• Claim your personal contribution rewards

  Reward ISK, LP, standings
• Check the Upcoming tab regularly

Limited-time mining anomalies in each empire's highsec Bulwark systems, visible through the Bulwark Mining map filter and intended to last the expansion: Imperial Raspite Reserve (Amarr), State Polycrase Reserve (Caldari), Federal Moissanite Reserve (Gallente), Republic Kangite Reserve (Minmatar). They reprocess into Scordite-like output plus special crystalline faction minerals.

• Use the Bulwark Mining map filter to find a reserve
• Mine the Bulwark faction ore

  Reward Faction minerals
• Reprocess it for the crystalline faction minerals
• Turn them in at the faction item trader

  Mehatoor (Amarr Navy Anchorage) · Onnamon (Caldari) · Intaki (Federation) · Amo (Republic Fleet).

  Reward Boosters, faction modules, SKINs, SKINR components
• milestoneTarget the Industry-relevant rewards

  Prototype Pluto Excavators and the upgraded Mining Survey Chipset are the ones that change how you mine.

Cradle of War introduced the permanent Achievements system. Permanent progression, not a recurring task.

• Review the Industry achievements and pin the ones you want
• Complete milestones and claim the rewards

  Reward Skill points, titles, SKINs

Choose a barge by HOW you mine, not by price. CCP describes barges and exhumers as the primary strip-mining platforms for ore, gas, ice and deep-core material depending on modules fitted.

• Train Mining IV+, Astrogeology and Mining Barge
• Fly a Procurer when survivability matters more than yield

  The right answer in lowsec, nullsec, and anywhere gankers operate.

• Fly a Retriever when you mine solo and want fewer unloading trips

• Fly a Covetor when throughput matters and hauling support exists

  The lowest tank of the three. It assumes someone else is watching.

T2 mining modules introduce crystals and residue. Residue removes material from the asteroid WITHOUT putting it in your hold — so an aggressive crystal choice can destroy shared ore your fleet wanted.

• Learn which crystal family matches your ore
• Train the matching processing skills
• Fit T2 mining equipment
• milestoneUnderstand efficiency-focused versus higher-residue choices
• the ruleFollow your corporation's moon-mining residue policy

  Destroying shared moon ore is how miners get removed from fleets.

Crosses into Exploration — you need scanning, or an explorer who will bookmark clouds for you.

• Train Gas Cloud Harvesting and fit scoops or harvesters
• read firstLearn gas-site NPC timers and hazards
• Harvest your first cloud, then a full known-space site

  Reward Gas
• Complete a wormhole gas harvest and return it safely

  Reward High-value gas
• Learn which gases feed boosters and which Fullerites feed Tech III

Ice products support structure and starbase fuel, jump fuel, capital logistics and large industrial operations.

• Train Ice Harvesting and find ice belts
• Mine, compress and reprocess your first ice

  Reward Ice products
• Learn which isotopes match which racial capital technologies
• optionalOptionally use a Perseverance

  An ice variant of the Pioneer from the Winter Nexus 2025–26 reward track rather than a normal BPO — buy from another player if it is cheap, but it is not progression.

CCP places expedition frigates among the advanced paths after the Venture, with access to ore, gas and ice equipment.

• long trainTrain Mining Frigate V and Expedition Frigates
• Fly a Prospect for covert ore and gas work

  Train Cloaking and learn covert travel where the fit permits.
• Fly an Endurance for ice and expedition harvesting
• Build lowsec, nullsec and wormhole extraction habits

Moon extraction is scheduled by the structure owner, so there is no universal timer — it runs on your corporation's calendar.

• read firstFind an Athanor or Tatara operation and learn its extraction schedule
• Join a moon pull and mine your first moon ore

  Reward Moon ore
• Learn the moon-ore rarity tiers
• Train the appropriate moon-mining crystals
• Compress, haul and reprocess moon ore

  Reward Moon materials
• milestoneIdentify which moon materials are actually valuable

Phased Fields spawn randomly in lowsec and nullsec, need scanning to find, and contain Prismaticite. Efficient extraction needs Industrial Command support and Mobile Phase Anchors. A Phase Anchor needs 100 energy for full operation: a Porpoise supplies 35, an Orca 50, a Rorqual 100.

• read firstFind a Phased Field and scout the system
• Assemble a fleet with Industrial Command support and Mobile Phase Anchors
• Deploy the anchor and connect your command vessels
• Phase the asteroid in and mine at full efficiency

  Reward Prismaticite
• the ruleMonitor the moving hyperspace fracture and extract before it turns unsafe

Prismaticite is an Erratic Ore: direct reprocessing gives ONE of eight possible mineral outputs at random. Reactions let you choose which family you get instead — the controlled route is usually worth the extra step.

• Compress your Prismaticite
• Direct route: reprocess and accept the randomised output

  Reward Random mineral family
• Controlled route: acquire Atmospheric Gases and the Unrefined Mineral Reaction Formula
• milestoneRun the reaction in a Composite Reactor, then reprocess the result

  Reward Chosen mineral family

The Hulk is the natural pure-yield target but is not automatically the best hull for every environment — a Skiff that survives out-mines a Hulk that dies.

• long trainTrain Mining Barge V and Exhumers IV, then V if dedicated
• Fly the exhumer that matches your environment

  Skiff for tank, Mackinaw for capacity, Hulk for yield.
• Train T2 Strip Miners and your mining crystals
• Mining Precision IV–V and Mining Exploitation IV–V
• Mine confidently in lowsec or nullsec
• Run moon mining and Phased Field operations
• endgameKeep several replacement hulls

  Reward Mining endgame reached

Current Mining Foreman Burst options cover mining equipment preservation, mining range, cycle optimisation, and critical-success/residue efficiency.

• Train the Leadership prerequisites and Mining Foreman
• Train Mining Director if you are specialising
• Train Command Burst skills
• milestoneLearn the Mining Foreman Burst charges
• milestoneLearn compression mechanics

  Compression is what makes fleet mining logistically possible at all.

A Tech II variant of the Pioneer from Catalyst, able to fit a Mining Foreman Burst and a Micro Jump Field Generator. Its BPCs come from inventing Pioneer BPCs — an excellent bridge between individual miner and Industrial Command pilot.

• Build Pioneer Blueprint Copies
• milestoneInvent Pioneer BPCs into Outrider BPCs

  Reward Outrider BPC
• Manufacture an Outrider and train Command Destroyers
• Provide mining boosts to a small gang
• milestoneUse the Micro Jump Field Generator to reposition the fleet

  Also the emergency extraction tool when a gank lands.

Industrial Command Ships support miners with fleet bonuses and compression rather than mining much themselves.

• Train Industrial Command Ships and Mining Foreman
• Fit Mining Foreman Bursts
• Learn Industrial Core mechanics
• the ruleLearn when NOT to activate your Industrial Core

  It immobilises you, and an immobile support ship is a free kill.
• Support a mining fleet and maintain combat drones

A fleet-support and logistics platform, not "a bigger solo mining ship". Treating it as the latter is how people lose one.

• Obtain an Orca and provide boosts and compression
• Use fleet hangars and the Ship Maintenance Bay
• the ruleTank it appropriately

Do not train into a Rorqual because it is the biggest mining-related hull. Its value is capital-scale fleet operations and industrial infrastructure, and it needs an organisation behind it.

• long trainTrain Capital Industrial Ships and Industrial Core
• Train advanced Mining Foreman skills and jump-drive skills
• Learn cyno logistics
• Train Excavator Drone support where appropriate
• the ruleJoin an organisation that can support capital operations
• Provide capital compression and maximum-scale fleet support
• endgameMaintain replacement and liquidation planning

  Reward Industrial Command endgame reached

Most Tech II BPCs come from invention using a Tech I BPC plus datacores, and invention can fail. That failure rate is part of the cost and most new manufacturers forget it.

• Select a Tech II product and research its Tech I BPO
• Create Tech I BPCs for invention
• Train the required science and Encryption Methods skills
• Acquire datacores and learn decryptors
• Install your first invention job and read the probability
• milestoneObtain your first Tech II BPC and manufacture the product

  Reward Tech II item
• the ruleCost it including failed attempts, components and fees

  Never cost T2 as materials → finished item. BPC creation, datacores, decryptors, failure rate, intermediates, reaction materials, fees, taxes and transport all belong in the number.

Good specialisations: T2 ammunition, T2 drones, T2 modules, Interceptors, Assault Frigates, Covert Ops, HACs, Logistics, Exhumers, Marauders. Do not try to vertically integrate the whole T2 economy at once.

• the ruleChoose a single T2 product family
• Research the relevant T1 BPOs and produce invention copies
• Source datacores and determine the optimal decryptor
• milestoneSource moon materials, or buy the intermediates

  Buying inputs is frequently more profitable than making them. The best industrialists often mine nothing at all.
• Manufacture T2 components, then the finished item

  Reward Tech II output
• Calculate true margins and scale only what is profitable

  Reward ISK

• milestoneRun 10+ concurrent manufacturing jobs
• Maintain an optimised BPO library with high ME and TE
• Operate across multiple production systems
• Establish reliable material sourcing
• endgameProduce consistently and profitably at scale

  Reward Manufacturing endgame reached

CCP splits reactors into Composite, Hybrid and Biochemical. Reactions run only in suitable Refineries with reactors, in systems at 0.4 security or lower. Reaction job slots are separate from both manufacturing and science slots.

• Train Reactions and Mass Reactions
• long trainTrain Advanced Mass Reactions
• Train Remote Reactions if you manage them remotely
• the ruleFind a refinery with the reactor type you need

  Highsec cannot host reactions at all — 0.4 or lower only.

Reaction Formulas behave like blueprints but cannot be researched, copied or invented.

• Acquire moon materials and the reaction formulas
• Install a composite reaction
• Produce processed moon materials

  Reward Tech II intermediates
• milestoneConvert them into Tech II components

  Reward Tech II components

CCP explicitly lists Booster Manufacturing among advanced industrial specialisations.

• Harvest or buy the required gases
• Produce the intermediate chemicals in a Biochemical Reactor
• Train the booster-production skills
• Manufacture combat boosters

  Reward Boosters

• Run composite reactions at scale
• Run hybrid reactions for Tech III inputs
• Run biochemical reactions for boosters
• Supply your own or others' Tech II and Tech III production
• endgameOperate reactions profitably against bought intermediates

  The honest test: are you cheaper than the market you are replacing?

  Reward Reaction endgame reached

PI extracts planetary raw materials and processes them into commodities used across New Eden — structures, fuel chains, Tech II production and capital components all depend on it.

• Train Remote Sensing, Planetology and Advanced Planetology
• Train Command Center Upgrades and Interplanetary Consolidation
• Choose a planet and deploy a Command Center
• Scan the planetary resources
• Place an Extractor Control Unit and install extractor heads
• Create storage and Basic Industry Facilities
• read firstRoute raw and processed materials

  Routing is where most first colonies go wrong.
• Start extraction and export through the Customs Office

  Reward P1 materials

Raw resource → processed material → refined commodity → specialised commodity → advanced commodity. PI is one of the few EVE activities that naturally rewards a recurring personal schedule, but the cycle length is YOUR choice, not a server reset.

• Produce P1

  Reward P1
• Build a P2 production chain

  Reward P2
• milestoneBuild a dedicated factory planet
• Produce P3

  Reward P3
• milestoneProduce P4

  Reward P4
• Coordinate products across multiple planets
• Optimise Customs Office taxes

  Reward ISK
• the ruleBuild a predictable recurring extraction schedule

  Choose cycle lengths that match how often you actually log in.

• Run the maximum practical colony network
• Operate dedicated extraction and factory planets
• Produce P3 and P4 reliably
• Supply structure and capital production from your own PI
• endgameOptionally scale across multiple characters

  Reward Planetary Industry endgame reached

Built around wormhole resources and Ancient Relics. CCP describes it as more advanced and skill-intensive than Tech II.

• read firstLearn the wormhole supply chains
• Obtain Ancient Relics
• Acquire Fullerites and run hybrid reactions
• Manufacture T3 components

  Reward T3 components
• Produce T3 subsystem BPCs and manufacture subsystems

  Reward Subsystems
• milestoneManufacture Strategic Cruisers or Tactical Destroyers

  Reward T3 hulls

CCP identifies structure production as an advanced specialisation combining enormous mineral quantities with high-end Planetary Industry products. Calculate the logistics volume BEFORE you start.

• Produce or source P4 commodities
• long trainAcquire and research the structure and component BPOs
• Produce structure components
• milestoneBuild your first deployable structure

  Athanor, Astrahus and upward — Tatara, Fortizar, Sotiyo.

  Reward Upwell structure
• Build Standup modules and structure rigs
• the ruleCalculate hauling volume and arrange safe logistics first

Enormous capital requirements and blueprint costs. The larger the product, the more Industry becomes logistics and treasury work.

• long trainObtain and research capital component BPOs
• Obtain the hull BPO or BPC
• Source minerals, PI and reaction materials at volume
• the ruleSecure material storage and reliable logistics
• Manufacture capital components

  Reward Capital components
• milestoneAssemble a finished capital hull

  Freighters, Jump Freighters, Dreadnoughts, Carriers, Force Auxiliaries, Rorquals — and optionally Supercarriers and Titans.

  Reward Capital hull

Four Navy Destroyers and four Tech II Command Carriers create current-era production targets for established industrialists.

• Source the BPCs for the Navy Destroyers

  Dragoon Navy Issue, Corax Navy Issue, Algos Navy Issue, Talwar Fleet Issue.
• Source the BPCs for the Command Carriers

  Salvation, Simurgh, Gaia, Ymir.
• Calculate build cost and source the advanced components
• Manufacture a current-expansion hull

  Reward Current-expansion hull
• Compare the margin against your other capital and T2 production

  Reward ISK

• Maintain a capital component and structure BPO library
• Run a reliable mineral, PI and reaction supply chain
• Produce structures and Standup modules
• Produce capital hulls
• Optionally produce supercapitals
• endgameOperate an industrial network rather than a workshop

  Production base selection, System Cost Index, taxes, hauling distance, market access and asset safety all become the actual job.

  Reward Advanced Construction endgame reached