Ice harvesting

Ice mining is different to standard asteroid mining as only mining barges and exhumers are capable of fitting the required equipment, and the refined products are not used for manufacture, but for the standard operation of Player Owned Structures(POS) as well as Capital Ship Jump Drives.

Ice mining equipment also differs to asteroid miners, as the yield is a fixed peremater depending on the ships being used. All capable ships will mine one piece of ice per cycle, except for the mackinaw which has a 100% bonus, thusly 2 pieces of ice will be mineed per cycle.

To improve the amount of ice mined, the cycle time is reduced, allowing more cycles.

Basic Ice Mining Requirements

Mining Barge:

• Astrogeology III
• Science IV
• Industry V
• Mining Barge I
• Mining IV

Ice Harvester I

• Ice Harvesting - level 1

1 Piece of Ice Per Ice Harvester Every 10mins

Mackinaw Ice Mining

Perfect Ice Mining Requirements

Mackinaw

• Exhumers V
• Spaceship Command IV
• Industry V
• Astrogeology V
• Science IV
• Mining IV
• Mining Barge V

Ice Harvester II

• Ice Harvesting V

2 x Ice Mining Upgrades

2 piecs of Ice Per Ice harvester Every 4 mins 20sec