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There is a risk of combat in mining missions, though the hostiles 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. | There is a risk of combat in mining missions, though the hostiles 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. | ||
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Higher level mining missions require you to mine larger amounts of ore: | Higher level mining missions require you to mine larger amounts of ore: | ||
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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 space - usually until the asteroids are depleted - and bring the ore back to the agent's station.
There is a risk of combat in mining missions, though the hostiles 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:
- Level 1 missions will require mining up to Template:Gaps m3 of ore
- Level 2 up to Template:Gaps m3 of ore
- Level 3 up to Template:Gaps m3 of ore or Template:Gaps m3 of ice
- Level 4 up to Template:Gaps m3 of ore, Template:Gaps m3 of ice or Template:Gaps m3 gas.
Thus, you can do high level mining missions with a low level ship, but it begins to take more time than it is worth.
Ships and Fitting
The same ship that you use for regular mining should work fine for a mining mission:
- Level 1 Venture
- Level 2 Venture or Prospect
- Level 3 Mining Barge
- Level 4 Exhumer
If you have more than one mining ship available, first note the amount of ore required and make sure your ship has the capacity. Once that is settled, a more secure ship will make NPC attacks less bothersome.
Of course, you do not need a mining ship to do mining missions. Any ship that can mount a mining unit will do, as will any ship that can carry mining drones. However, dedicated mining ships tend to work faster and carry more ore.
If you have room, you may want to carry a Salvage Drone to salvage the wrecks of the pirates that you kill. If you have a very large drone bay, you may want to carry a set of Mining Drones - however, these drones do not add a great deal to your mining capacity, and many miners do not use them at all.
Mining Mission Ores
Mining missions typically use unique ores for which there are equivalent normal ores.
- Augumene = Pyroxeres
- Mercium = Omber
- Banidine = Veldspar
- Pithix = Jaspet
- Arisite = Gneiss
- Oeryl = Dark Ochre
- Geodite = Crokite
- Polygypsum = Arkonor
- Lyavite = Kernite
Normally, the asteroids you are asked to mine will be entirely used up while gathering ore for the mission. That ore will be taken by the agent to complete the mission.
