OLD Mining

Mining is the mechanic with which the player gathers resources to be refined for further use.

Mining is done by launching Drone's that will then gather raw resources. See Drone Bay.

Minable resources are detected by the Sensor Station and consist of the following

Minables:

• Asteroids
• Iced Asteroids
• Debris
• Derelicts (Future Content)
• Planets (Future Content)
• Gas Clouds (Future Content)

But the primary type is Asteroids where a Mining Drone will gather its resources from.

Size Classes for Mineables

There are three classes of Asteroids that can be found:

• large (60 Units)
• medium (30 Units)
• small (10 Units)

The class of the asteroid sets the available amount of resources that can be found.

Asteroids

Asteroid Types:

• A (Common | Ores only)
• B (Uncommon | Ores only)
• C (Rare | Ores only)
• AB (Common and Uncommon | Ores)
• AC (Common and rare | Ores)
• BC (Uncommon and rare | Ores)
• ABC (Common, Uncommon and rare | Ores)

Asteroid creation

Depending on the type of Asteroid the ores are also randomized(1-4 | Ores are placed with a percentage). The amount depends on the Asteroid Class. Asteroids are created in groups of at least 3 - 10 random classes and types.

Example for a Asteroid Cluster:

1. Small A = (4 Iron, 6 Copper)
2. Small AB = (2 Copper, 4 Gold, 4 Iron)
3. Medium BC = (15 Silicon, 6 Aluminium, 3 Gold, 6 Titan)
4. Large AC = (24 Lithium, 36 Iron)
5. Small B = ( 9 Gold, 1 Silicon)
6. Medium A = (15 Iron, 15 Copper)
7. Medium A = (30 Copper)
8. Small B = (10 Silicon)

Asteroid Cluster resources:

• 59 Iron,
• 53 Copper,
• 26 Silicon,
• 24 Lithium,
• 16 Gold,
• 6 Aluminum,
• 6 Titan

Iced Asteroids

There are only two types of Iced Asteroids: Frozen Water and Frozen Nitrogen

Iced Asteroid creation

With a Ratio of 3(water):1(Nitrogen) the game should create a field of 1-10 Iced Asteroids with different size classes.

Example for Iced Asteroid Cluster

1. Small Water = (10 Water)
2. Small Nitrogen = (10 Nitrogen)
3. Medium Water = (30 Water)
4. Medium Water = (30 Water)
5. Large Water = (60 Water)
6. Medium Nitrogen = (30 Nitrogen)

Ressources in the Iced asteroid cluster:

• 130 Water
• 40 Nitrogen

Debris

After the destruction of a vessel or station, a debris field can be found. The debris field consists of pieces of its former ship/station and its cargo; with a fully random number of debris and cargo containers.

Debris Field content:

Basically the same as the craftable repair resources used to repair the ship components.

• Hull plating (Titanium)
• Interior plating (Iron)
• Machine pieces (Iron, Silicon)
• Cables (Copper, Silicon)
• Smashed electronics (Tin, Gold, Silicon)
• Electronic parts (Aluminium)
• Computer parts (Titanium)
• Mechanical parts (Lithium)

Debris can be smelted into refined resources, but will always produce less than its ore variant.

Additionally, there may be Cargo crates floating around that can have a range of different items on board.

Random Cargo content:

• 1-10 Random Crafted Items
• 1-10 Random Refined Metals
• 1-10 Random Fuel, SuperFuel, Coolant or SuperCoolant
• 1-10 Oxygen or Filters
• 1 Random Mining Head
• BoobyTrap (Will detonate when not properly scanned and deactivated with a multitool; An Explosion will damage the player and the room with its components)
• Hullbreach charge (Nasty, like the Boobytrap but will cause a massive Hullbreach in the room its opened)
• Intruders (Future Content) (Critters, Pirates, Bots)
• Biohazard (Future Content) (Spores, Diseases)

How to Mine

To mine any kind of resource a drone is required to be configurated and launched to the target mineable. Configuration of the Drone is Done in the DroneBay. If the right head (Mining Head for Asteroids, Salvage Head for Salvage) is installed on the drone, and there is sufficient storage inside the drone - the drone can be launched. After launch the drone will fly to its programmed target and start mining/salvage Operations and storage the resources in its own inventory/storage. Depending on how the drone was set up, it will return to the ship or to a position to be taken on board, where the player will need to unload the drone.

After this, the drone can be refueled or recharged, and deployed again. A Player can launch several drones and is not limited to one drone.

Time for Mining

Time Modificatior for Size

Size	Time Needed	Resource mined per Unit
Small	30 sec	1
Medium	60 sec	5
Large	120 sec	10

Resource Time Mod per Unit

Ressource	Time Needed
Iron	20 sec
Copper	20 sec
Silicon	30 sec
Gold	30 sec
Aluminum	40 sec
Titanium	50 sec
Lithium	40 sec

Resource Time Mod per Unit for Iced

Ressource	Time Needed
Ice Water	30 sec
Ice Nitrogen	30 sec

Salvage Time Mod per Unit

Salvage	Time Needed
Hull plating	60 sec
Interior plating	20 sec
Mechine parts	30 sec
Cables	35 sec
Smashed electronics	60 sec
Electronic parts	45 sec
Computer parts	50 sec
Mechanical parts	50 sec
Cargo	30 sec

Size + Ressource = Time needed for one(+Ressource Mod) units to be mined.

Example: Medium + Iron = 90 sec per 5 units mined