Industrialist (Producer)

The Industry Career Agent is one of the five career agents in the game, which show new players different types of PvE activities in EVE. The industry career agent missions teach you about mining, reprocessing, manufacturing, and hauling. In total these missions pay about 1.5M ISK in rewards.

Making Mountains of Molehills (1 of 10)

Type	Mining
Objective	Mine 1,000 units of Veldspar.
Ship suggestion	Venture
Rewards	Miner I (granted upon acceptance)

• Miner I has a better mining rate but longer cycle time compared to Civilian Miner.
• Since this mission does not have any scripted combat, you may want to unfit your weapons and mount as many miner modules as your ship allows to expedite the process.
• You may get a warning about "insufficient cargo space" if you're flying a Venture - you can safely ignore it, as the game somehow "forgot" that your Venture has a special ore bay which can hold many times more ore than you need to mine for this mission.
• The mission has created a "private" deadspace pocket for you with a single Veldspar asteroid. Once you warp there, target-lock the asteroid and activate your mining lasers.
• If you aim to complete this and all subsequent missions without buying any ores/minerals off the market, you will need to mine about 6,000 units of Veldspar.
• Once you pass a checkpoint by starting to mine in the mission location and receiving a message from the agent, the source of the Veldspar does not matter as long as you have at least 1,000 units at the time of turn-in.

Making Mountains of Molehills (2 of 10)

Type	Industry
Objective	Reprocess Veldspar into at least 150 units of Tritanium minerals.
Rewards	Venture

• Should you wish, you can instead buy Tritanium off the market or use any leftovers to complete the mission.
• Reprocessing can be done by docking in a station, moving the ore to the Item Hangar, right-clicking on the ore and selecting "Reprocess". Note that you pay a small fee for reprocessing.
• Ores can only be reprocessed in increments of 100 - if you have 99, for example, you need to acquire at least one more unit to reprocess them.
• If you have a new character (with around 50% reprocessing yield), you will need at least 300 Veldspar to acquire 150 Tritanium through reprocessing.
• You can divide a stack of ores (or any other item) by pressing shift and drag-and-dropping it.

Making Mountains of Molehills (3 of 10)

Type	Industry
Objective	Manufacture (or otherwise acquire) two units of 1MN Civilian Afterburner.
Rewards	1MN Civilian Afterburner BPC (granted upon acceptance); Expanded Cargohold I

• To manufacture items, you can right-click on the BPC, select "Use Blueprint", and supply the required minerals for building them. To produce two modules, increase the "number of runs" to 2 to get an updated quote. Wait for the manufacturing to finish, open the industry tab in the station menu on the upper right side of your screen, and click "Deliver" to obtain the items.
• You cannot produce more than two modules from the BPC you were given - BPCs (unlike Blueprint Originals (BPOs)) can only be used a limited number of times (in this case, 2).
• Producing all two of the required modules costs 128 Tritanium.
• As in several other missions, you can simply buy the modules off the market and turn them in instead. In addition, you can also use the "corvette trick". Take out the 1MN Civilian Afterburner module from your corvette, trash the ship, and click "Board my Corvette" button on the station menu - a new one with all the default modules will be produced, allowing you to take out another afterburner module.
• Expanded Cargohold I increases the size of your ship's cargohold capacity at the expense of reduced structure hitpoints and maximum velocity.

Making Mountains of Molehills (4 of 10)

Type	Mining / Industry
Objective	Destroy hostile NPCs and mine enough Veldspar to reprocess into 7,000 units of Tritanium.
Rewards	Miner I

• You have to destroy two rogue drone NPCs (rats) as part of the mission. Fit any ship with at least one weapon, warp to the deadspace area, and destroy the rats.
• Then you can either go back to the deadspace location in a mining ship (the rats will not respawn) and mine enough Veldspar (about 3,500 units) to refine into 7,000 units of Tritanium, or you can buy the Tritanium from the market.
• If you were following this guide, you may well have enough Veldspar and/or Tritanium left over from previous missions such as mission 1 to complete the mission without any additional mining or market purchase.

Making Mountains of Molehills (5 of 10)

Type	Courier
Objective	Transport Crates of Electronic Parts (40 m³) to another station.
Rewards	1MN Afterburner (granted upon acceptance); Expanded Cargohold I

• Don't forget to put the mission item into your ship's cargohold before you undock.
• Clicking the "set destination" button will plot a course to the station where you have to drop off the item; the next stargate/station on your route will be highlighted in yellow on your overview.
• Once you get to the destination station, you can start a conversation with your agent remotely to complete the mission, but you must return to them to start the next one.
• If you're not sure where to return to, you can look up any agents you have previously interacted with in your address book (accessible through the "People & Places" button on the NeoCom).

Making Mountains of Molehills (6 of 10)

Type	Industry
Objective	Manufacture (or otherwise acquire) 20 units of Cap Booster 25.
Rewards	Cap Booster 25 BPC (granted upon acceptance)

• As with many other missions, the quickest way to complete this mission is to buy the Cap Boosters from the market.
• To manufacture items, you can right-click on the BPC, select "Use Blueprint", and supply the required minerals for building them. To produce 20 modules, increase the "number of runs" to 2 (this item is manufactured in batches of 10) to get an updated quote. Wait for the manufacturing to finish, open the industry tab in the station menu on the upper right side of your screen, and click "Deliver" to obtain the items.
• Producing all two of the required modules costs 329 Tritanium, 80 Pyerite, and 25 Mexallon.

Making Mountains of Molehills (7 of 10)

Objective: Transport a small item (20 m³) to another station.

This is another very simple courier mission (like mission 5 that makes you deliver the Cap Boosters you acquired earlier to another station in a nearby star system. Note that this mission (amongst others) requires you to put up a small sum of ISK as "collateral", which is returned to you after you complete the mission. While the amount is trivial, the principle of collateral for hauling is heavily used for hauling contracts between players (to deter the hauler from just stealing the goods they were meant to be hauling).

Reward: A Overdrive Injector System I module (increases your ship's max velocity at the expense of reduced cargo capacity).

Making Mountains of Molehills (8 of 10)

Objective: Manufacture a Civilian Shuttle.

Granted when accepted: Faction-appropriate Civilian Shuttle BPC.

While manufacturing a ship sounds more daunting than manufacturing ammunition and modules (which is what you've been doing so far), it works exactly the same way. View the BPC (for manufacturing a Shuttle) your agent gives you in the Industry window to see that it requires 2,640 units of Tritanium minerals - by now you should have no problems acquiring (mining, reprocessing, or buying) the necessary materials. The actual manufacturing is fairly rapid too - around 5 minutes.

Unfortunately you can't circumvent the manufacturing by buying the shuttle off the market this time - your agent wants a specific kind of Civilian Shuttle which isn't available on the market.

Making Mountains of Molehills (9 of 10)

Objective: Mine some ore and destroy the rat that appears.

Fit up a ship with both a weapon and a mining laser (your Corvette does the job just fine), undock, and warp to the deadspace location (sometimes it's in an adjacent star system). Inside the deadspace pocket there will be several asteroids; start mining them with your mining laser. After a minute or so a single weak rat shows up - destroy it. It drops a cargo container when destroyed; loot it, and return to your agent. While you're flying back, right-click and select "Show Info" on the "Production Assistant" you just "rescued", noting with amusement both the description and that it falls under the "Livestock" item category. Capsuleers in EVE can have a dark sense of humour.

Making Mountains of Molehills (10 of 10)

Objective: Manufacture (or otherwise acquire) a Frigate.

Granted when accepted: Faction-specific frigate (Tormentor /Bantam /Navitas /Burst) BPC.

Your agent gives you a BPC for a Frigate and asks you to manufacture it. You're probably very familiar with the process by now (from, amongst other things, mission 6), but manufacturing a proper frigate will take a few more kinds of minerals, which you can either reprocess from ore or buy from other players. Since some of the minerals can only be reprocessed from ores found in low- or null-sec spaces, mining them yourself is quite risky if you're a new player. Should you wish to buy the required minerals, you'll be needing non-trivial amounts (from a new player perspective), so it probably makes sense to check the prices in nearby stations to avoid paying far above their market value. It will probably take a bit of flying around to bring all the minerals to your agent's station.

The table below lists the required amount of minerals if you wanted to manufacture the frigate yourself (note that each BPC could have different material requirements depending on the material efficiency - the table uses 2% material efficiency as given from the agent):

Minerals Required for Manufacturing Objectives

Ship to Build	Tritanium	Pyerite	Mexallon	Isogen	Nocxium	Zydrine	Megacyte
Tormentor	21,111	2,322	4,222	211	42	21
Bantam	21,111	7,600	2,322	475	4	2
Navitas	17,945	4,434	3,379	265	32	12
Burst	16,890	3,167	4,222	159	21	6	2

An easier way to complete the mission is to buy a finished frigate off the market, or even better, to simply turn in the same frigate granted to you when you accept the second Exploration Career mission. To do the latter, repackage the frigate if it was assembled before handing it in.

This mission nicely illustrates that, in EVE manufacturing, time can be exchanged for money and vice-versa. Keep this in mind should you go deeper into manufacturing - you can try to acquire all the necessary materials yourself, or you can pay someone else to do it for you (by buying their ore, minerals, or modules/ships via the market - remember, in EVE, almost everything has been manufactured by players), and it's up to you to find the right balance and make the most of both your time and (in-game) money.

Reward: Your race's Fast Industrial ship (Sigil /Badger /Nereus /Wreathe). These ships are slow and very weak in combat, but can carry large amounts of cargo.