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Asteroid mining
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Researching the Asteroid Mining Module (Construction/Production 5000RP) provides access to this useful ship component.
To begin asteroid mining, simply create a ship with at least one mining module, create a mining colony on a suitable asteroid (via F9 or through right click on the body within System View F3) and move the ship there. On the summary page for the colony, a new entry, labeled Orbital Mines will appear.
Asteroid Mining Strategies
Depending on what ships you have constructed, there are a number of ways to exploit asteroid mining.
- Use pure mining ships to extract minerals and then collect the ores with freighters
- Use mining ships with enough cargo capacity to take away the minerals once the asteroid begins to deplete.
- Use larger mining ships with enough cargo capacity to move a mass driver, a few mining ships can then use their mass drivers to move mining output to a single location with a system for easy collection.