OLD Mining

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

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

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

Minables:

• Asteriods
• Gas Clouds
• Debris
• Planets
• Derelict Cargo

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

Asteriods

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.

Additionally, an asteroid has a random composition of ores in it, and the type sets the ratio of these ores.

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)

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 Class (40% Iron, 60% Copper) = (4 Iron, 6 Copper)
2. Small AB Class (20% Copper, 40% Gold, 40% Iron) = (2 Copper, 4 Gold, 4 Iron)
3. Medium BC Class (30% Silicon, 20% Aluminum, 10% Gold, 20% Titanium) = (9 Silicon, 6 Aluminium, 3 Gold, 6 Titan)
4. Large AC Class (40% Lithium, 60% Iron) = (24 Lithium, 36 Iron)
5. Small B Class (90% Gold, 10% Silicon ) = ( 9 Gold, 1 Silicon)
6. Medium A Class (50% Iron, 50% Copper) = (15 Iron, 15 Copper)
7. Medium A Class (100% Copper) = (30 Copper)
8. Small B Class (100% Silicon) = (10 Silicon)