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Outer Ring Excavations	Outer Ring Excavations
	Exhumers
	Procurer Class

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If it's worth your time, it's worth protecting.

– ORE marketing division

The exhumer is the second generation of mining vessels created by ORE. Exhumers, like their mining barge cousins, were each created to excel at a specific function, the Skiff's being durability and self-defense. Advanced shielding and drone control systems make the Skiff the toughest mining ship in the cluster.

Exhumers are equipped with electronic subsystems specifically designed to accommodate Strip Mining and Ice Harvesting modules.

SHIP BONUSES

Mining Barge bonuses (per skill level):
6% bonus to ship shield hitpoints
2% bonus in Strip Miner yield
4% reduction in Ice Harvester duration
Exhumers bonuses (per skill level):
4% bonus to all shield resistances
2% bonus in Strip Miner yield
3% reduction in Gas Harvester duration
Role Bonus:
50% bonus to drone damage and hitpoints

Required Skills

Exhumers I41m
- Spaceship Command IV1d 1h 8m
- Industry V5d 22h 13m
- Astrogeology V17d 18h 40m
  - Science IV1d 1h 8m
  - Mining IV1d 1h 8m
Mining Barge V23d 16h 53m
- Astrogeology III13h 20m
  - Science IV1d 1h 8m
  - Mining IV1d 1h 8m
- Industry V5d 22h 13m
- Mining Frigate III8h 53m
  - Spaceship Command I8m

Training Time what's this?

50d 22h 47m 10s

Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps.

Grouping

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Ship Attributes

Fittings	Powergrid 176 MW CPU 310 tf Capacitor 900 GJ High 2 Launchers 0 Turrets 0 Medium 4 Low 3 Rig 2 medium Calibration 400

Navigation	Max Velocity 110 m/sec Inertia Modifier 0.64 Warp Speed 3.5 AU/s Base Time to Warp 17.74 s what's this? Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects.

Drones	Drone Capacity 100 m³ Drone Bandwidth 50 Mbit/sec

Targeting	Max Tgt. Range 67.5 km Max Locked Targets 8 Magnetometric Sensor 14 points Sig. Radius 200 m Scan Res. 440 mm

Structure	Structure Hitpoints 6,500 HP Mass 20,000,000 kg Volume 150,000 m³ Cargo Capacity 350 m³ Mining Capacity 18,500 m³

Armor	Armor Hitpoints 6,000 HP Armor Resistances EM 60 THR 35 KIN 25 EXP 10

Shields	Shield Capacity 6,500 HP Shield Resistances EM 0 THR 20 KIN 40 EXP 50

Summary

The Skiff is the toughest of the Exhumers without any modules, and becomes as tough if not tougher than many battleships when fully fitted and skilled. However, the skiff sacrifices yield and some ore hold capacity to do this. Therefore, the skiff should be used when under the threat of being ganked or when having to operate under heavy NPC fire. When fitted out correctly, it is impossible to make a profit from suicide ganking a skiff, which should deter all but the most determined people from attacking you in high sec.

For more information on this and other ORE ships, please visit the ORE Basic Ship and Skill Guide page.

Skills

Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Skiff for a specific or its common role(s) can be written here.

Tactics

Due to how vulnerable and cumbersome the mining barges are, it is ill-advised to travel between stargates in lowsec in one, as they make for very juicy targets. Instead, a good idea is to transport your Skiff packaged in a hauler, which raises less (albeit still some) suspicion.
- A Badger, even at base skills, has a capacity of 3,900 m³, allowing it to carry a packaged mining frigate, barge, and even an exhumer, and still have enough cargo space for its modules, can perform the cloak trick, and when designed well, can align in under 6 seconds. Beware however, that when packaging a ship, all its rigs are destroyed, so either use cheap Tech I rigs or design your ship around not using them.

Notes

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Patch History

A long, long time ago...
2024-11-26 Version 22.02 Release 2024-11-26.1 Patch Notes Max Locked Targets improved from 6 to 8 Agility improved from 0.8x to 0.64x

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 * Due to how vulnerable and cumbersome the mining barges are, it is ill-advised to travel between stargates in lowsec in one, as they make for very juicy targets. Instead, a good idea is to transport your Skiff packaged in a hauler, which raises less (albeit still some) suspicion.
-** A [[Badger]], even at base skills, has a capacity of 3900m3, allowing it to carry a packaged mining frigate, barge, and even an exhumer, and still have enough cargo space for its modules, can perform the cloak trick, and when designed well, can align in under 6 seconds. Beware however, that when packaging a ship, all its rigs are destroyed, so either use cheap Tech I rigs or design your ship around not using them.
+** A [[Badger]], even at base skills, has a capacity of 3,900{{m3}}, allowing it to carry a packaged mining frigate, barge, and even an exhumer, and still have enough cargo space for its modules, can perform the cloak trick, and when designed well, can align in under 6 seconds. Beware however, that when packaging a ship, all its [[rigs]] are destroyed, so either use cheap Tech I rigs or design your ship around not using them.
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