Mining

Mining types:

Maul with Mining Drones

Surface mining will mine the Materials that are on the outer Layer of an Asteroid. Usually less rewarding but easier.

Core mining will empty the last remains of the Asteroid. The Core has higher HP but gives usually more rewarding Ores.

Each mining type will be indicated on the Mining Gear. It will either say "Surface" or "Core". There's a 5% chance you will spawn a Core Ore on spawning a surface one.

Asteroid Fields and claims:

Claims can be either bought from Stations or in the Bar by Strangers who offers you them.

Asteroid Fields can be found in most Systems. While Asteroid Fields will replenish after 1 Hour when not visited in between, POIs unlocked trough Claims won't.

There are 2 Skills in the Mining Skill tree that will give you more informations on what's present inside a field and each asteroid

	Without the Advanced Scanning Skill	With the Advanced Scanning Skill
Before scanning
After scanning

Yield:

Yield determines the chance to spawn ore when damaging an asteroid, while Power affects how much damage you deal. As damage accumulates, reaching thresholds triggers ore spawns based on Power. Higher Yield increases spawn chances and can be boosted by skills, crew, or equipment. With Yield Values over 100% there is a chance to create a second "drop" and so on.

Drone Laser = 60% Yield Drone Driller = 80% Yield.

Disclaimer: This Picture is AI generated.

Hazardous Areas:

Some Asteroid Fields contain a type of Danger, the reward is bigger but also deadlier.

Hazard Protection Booster can be bought at most Minuds Stations

Explosive = Land Mines, Cold, Radiation and Heat. You can protect yourself from most damage by installing one or multiple Hazard Protection 1 Booster, additional protection will be less and less effective, preventing you to reach immunity.

Types of Hazardous Areas

Mineable Ores as of 0.8.0.2

Element	Ores Found In
Titanium	Cerrax, Neonine, Orminite, Tachyline, Torvenite, Xylenite, Zorinite
Oxide	Amberic, Baryth, Caldras, Drakitium, Neonine, Tachyline, Xylenite
Silicon	Amberic, Drakitium, Lithar, Onexel, Orminite, Xenorite
Tungsten	Argenthyte, Baryth, Caldras, Dromium, Lithar, Torvenite, Xylenite
Carbon	Cerrax, Drakitium, Dromium, Halcyonite, Onexel
Iridium	Amberic, Argenthyte, Halcyonite, Xenorite
Platinum	Dromium, Tachyline, Zorinite
Astatine	Caldras, Halcyonite, Neonine, Xenorite