Asteroid Mining
There are currently 2 systems with asteroids orbiting a planet, Vulcan and Veritas.
Asteroid mining can be very productive as long as you have a warehouse built to offload excess product untill you have enough of any one product to supply a contract.
You are to maneuver your ship and with a special laser, heat and melt/explode an asteroid so as to harvest rare minerals from it.
You will most probably have to turn off gravity anchor and match speed of an asteroid to be close enough for long enough time.
Left click mouse button on asteroid when close enough to activate laser and maneuver ship to keep beem on the asteroid.
Not all the asteroids are valuable, the good ones will be labeled by there type, some are rare and hard to find.
You will have to experiment with how much laser input is required to achieve best results.
Several new minerals are available for research on your space station or sale at the contract boards.
- Silicon - needed for your Electronics Factory.
- Magnesium - can be sold on the contracts board.
- Uranium - can be sold on the contracts board.
Other minerals such as Iron, Carbon, Titanium and Aluminium are got from various asteroids aswell.
Mineable asteroids are...
- Kamacite - Iron.
- Siderite - Iron and Silicon.
- Ureilite - Iron, Carbon, Silicon and Magnesium.
- Angrite - Iron, Aluminium, Silicon, Magnesium and Titanium.
- Chrondite - Iron, Aluminium, Carbon, Silicon and Magnesium.
- Autunite - Uranium and Silicon.
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