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'''Mining missions''' are given by Mining agents and require you to mine an asteroid or set of asteroids in a mission pocket - usually until the asteroids are depleted - and bring the ore back to the agent.

There is a risk of combat in mining missions, though the hostiles, sometimes referred to as belt rats, that show up tend to be much weaker than hostiles found in security missions. It is advisable to have some offensive capability (like a set of combat [[drones]]) or have a strong enough [[tank]] that you can ignore any hostiles that show up and start shooting at you.

Higher level mining missions require you to mine larger amounts of ore:

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[[Skill Hardwiring#Resource Processing|Useful implants]] that can be purchased with Loyalty Points include mining yield, mining upgrade CPU penalty, ice harvester duration, gas cloud harvester duration, and reprocessing waste improvement.

== Combat ==

There is a risk of combat in mining missions from two different sources.

First, the mission itself may be scripted by CCP to spawn hostile NPCs. These spawns will generally be the same faction, type, and number of hostiles every time the mission is run with little variability; they are typically much weaker than NPCs fought in equal-level Security missions. These spawns should be recorded in the specific mission report for that mining mission.

Second, the use of mining equipment anywhere in a solar system can cause hostile NPCs to spawn; mining in a mission location is not exempted from this. These spawns will be the same faction, type, and number of rats that also spawn in that solar system's [[Mining#Asteroids_and_belts|asteroid belts]] and thus will vary<ref>At time of edit, 2023-12-28, the UniWiki does not yet have articles dedicated to documenting the different asteroid belt pirate, or "belt rat", spawns.</ref> depending on region, security level, and whether or not an [[Incursion]] is affecting that solar system at the time of mining. Running a level 1 mining mission in 0.9 or 1.0 security (when no Incursion is in effect) is perfectly safe from NPC hostiles, but running that same mission in Null Security could result in a fight with an NPC battleship.

Given the above factors, it is advisable to have some offensive capability (like a set of combat [[drones]]) or have a strong enough [[tank]] that you can ignore any hostiles that show up and start shooting at you.

== Rewards ==

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 '''Mining missions''' are given by Mining agents and require you to mine an asteroid or set of asteroids in a mission pocket - usually until the asteroids are depleted - and bring the ore back to the agent.
-There is a risk of combat in mining missions, though the hostiles, sometimes referred to as belt rats, that show up tend to be much weaker than hostiles found in security missions. It is advisable to have some offensive capability (like a set of combat [[drones]]) or have a strong enough [[tank]] that you can ignore any hostiles that show up and start shooting at you.
 Higher level mining missions require you to mine larger amounts of ore:
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 [[Skill Hardwiring#Resource Processing|Useful implants]] that can be purchased with Loyalty Points include mining yield, mining upgrade CPU penalty, ice harvester duration, gas cloud harvester duration, and reprocessing waste improvement.
+== Combat ==
+There is a risk of combat in mining missions from two different sources.
+First, the mission itself may be scripted by CCP to spawn hostile NPCs.  These spawns will generally be the same faction, type, and number of hostiles every time the mission is run with little variability; they are typically much weaker than NPCs fought in equal-level Security missions.  These spawns should be recorded in the specific mission report for that mining mission.
+Second, the use of mining equipment anywhere in a solar system can cause hostile NPCs to spawn; mining in a mission location is not exempted from this.  These spawns will be the same faction, type, and number of rats that also spawn in that solar system's [[Mining#Asteroids_and_belts|asteroid belts]] and thus will vary<ref>At time of edit, 2023-12-28, the UniWiki does not yet have articles dedicated to documenting the different asteroid belt pirate, or "belt rat", spawns.</ref> depending on region, security level, and whether or not an [[Incursion]] is affecting that solar system at the time of mining.  Running a level 1 mining mission in 0.9 or 1.0 security (when no Incursion is in effect) is perfectly safe from NPC hostiles, but running that same mission in Null Security could result in a fight with an NPC battleship.
+Given the above factors, it is advisable to have some offensive capability (like a set of combat [[drones]]) or have a strong enough [[tank]] that you can ignore any hostiles that show up and start shooting at you.
 == Rewards ==