What is PI?
Planetary Industry (PI) lets you harvest resources from planets and turn them into materials used for fuel, structures, and trade goods. It’s a semi-passive income stream—you set it up, check in every so often, and collect your profits.
Essential Skills
Go to the planet management tab of the skills catalogue,
the skills you will want are there –
- 1. Command centre upgrades – very much needed as it determines how much you can build on a planet.
- 2. Interplanetary consolidation – Allows you to have 6 planets per character
- 3. Planetology and Advanced Planetology – allow for more clear scans of a planet
- 4. Remote sensing – means you can scan planets from different systems
Types of Planets –
So there is 8 planet types
Barren / Gas / Ice / Lava / Oceanic / Plasma / Storm / Temperate
Each type of planet provides 5 different resource types
For example barren provides
Aqueous liquids / Base Metals / Carbon Compounds / Microorganisms / Noble metals
– The table below will show the planet types and the resources on them.
 | BARREN |
| STORM |  |
 | TEMPERATE |
| OCEANIC |  |
 | GAS |
| LAVA |  |
 | PLASMA |
| ICE |  |
Production Tiers
- P0: Raw materials (direct from the planet).
- P1: Refined from P0 (e.g., Water).
- P2: Made from two P1s (e.g., Coolant).
- P3: Made from P2 or mix of P1/P2 (e.g., Robotics).
- P4: High-end items (POS/structure components).
💡 Beginner Tip: Stick to P2 production at first—it’s efficient and less hauling.
Example Setup (P2 Production)
- Place Extractors to harvest two different P0 resources.
- Route each P0 → Basic Processors → creates two P1s.
- Route both P1s → Advanced Processor → produces P2.
- Store everything in a Launchpad for pickup.
How Often to Check In
- Extractor cycles can be set from a few hours to several days.
- Shorter cycles = higher efficiency but more micromanagement.
- A common choice: 3-day cycle for casual PI.
ISK & Profit Expectations
- High-sec PI: Low yield, okay for training.
- Low-sec & null-sec PI: Higher yield, better profit but riskier.
- Wormhole PI: Best yields, but requires hauling out safely.
- A single character with 5–6 planets can make 200–500M ISK/month fairly passively.
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- Always use an Epithal for hauling PI (huge PI cargo bay).
- Focus on planets with short hauling distance between resources.
- Use Launchpads instead of storage units (they double as import/export hubs).
- Check the market before choosing what to produce—demand varies.
✅ That’s the basics – For a more in depth how to guide click this link