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Asteroids glow orange to represent heating up from player damage. In order to guarantee better drops, players should attempt to keep an asteroid as 'hot' as possible by making it consistently glow brightly from consistent attacks. Attacking an asteroid too quickly will result in the asteroid breaking from being overheated. Players should be careful to not overheat asteroids, as overheated asteroids drop nothing. | Asteroids glow orange to represent heating up from player damage. In order to guarantee better drops, players should attempt to keep an asteroid as 'hot' as possible by making it consistently glow brightly from consistent attacks. Attacking an asteroid too quickly will result in the asteroid breaking from being overheated. Players should be careful to not overheat asteroids, as overheated asteroids drop nothing. | ||
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Asteroid
Asteroids are common rock formations floating in space. They come in multiple sizes, and the larger ones often act as terrain to maneuver around. Smaller asteroids can be attacked with your ship's weapons to obtain valuable resources. Any weapon/equipment capable of dealing damage will assist in destroying an asteroid. Asteroids randomly appear in Open Space, with multiple types available to mine for resources. They are indicated by a circular symbol on your HUD when flying in Open Space.
Asteroid types include:
- Poor Asteroid
- Asteroid
- Rich Asteroid
- Graphite Asteroid
- Rich Graphite Asteroid
The materials that asteroids drop are used for crafting advanced ships. Asteroids can provide the following items from their ore drops:
- Enriched Monocrystal
- Alien Capacitor/Alien technology (returning to hangar will reward the player with iridium.)
- Impure graphite
- Impure silicon
- Vanadium
- Impure osmium
- Crystal shard
- Credits
Depending on the type of asteroid mined, a player can obtain better rewards. Rich asteroids provide better resources when mined correctly, compared to regular and poor asteroids. Some types of asteroids only drop a specific type of ore - i.e Iridium Spines only drops Graphite Ore. A suitable asteroid can be found with the help of a special item called a “Spatial Scanner”.
How To Mine Asteroids
- Asteroids can be mined by attacking them with any weapon or offensive module.
- Asteroids will begin to glow orange as they take more damage.
- When an asteroid has been sufficiently damaged by a player, it will break and drop ores for players to collect.
Asteroids glow orange to represent heating up from player damage. In order to guarantee better drops, players should attempt to keep an asteroid as 'hot' as possible by making it consistently glow brightly from consistent attacks. Attacking an asteroid too quickly will result in the asteroid breaking from being overheated. Players should be careful to not overheat asteroids, as overheated asteroids drop nothing.