Moon mining
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Background and History
The Lifeblood expansion was released on October 24, 2017, and brought with it substantial changes to the process of moon mining. Previously moon mining was completed using player-owned starbases, but the Lifeblood expansion introduced a new class of [Upwell structures] called [Upwell structures#Refineries|refineries] which are anchored in 0.5 space or below near a moon mining beacon and then used to extract a chunk of the moon for mining.
Moon Scanning
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Moon Ore Extraction
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Moon Ore Mining
Once a moon chunk has been extracted using a Refinery, it exists as an asteroid field which contains both normal ore types and special moon-specific ores which can be mined for moon materials. After extraction, the mining is performed using the same mining equipment and processes used for asteroid Mining. Mining crystals are available for each class of moon ore to improve efficiency of Tech 2 mining lasers.
Ore Types
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