How does mining of asteroids

[Loki999]

Tried the nightly build. Cargo scooping works like a dream in that. Also finally happy to say i discovered how to fuel scoop.Still same problem with lasers on the MF though.... guess ill have to fly upside down when wanting to mine stuff. Glad i'm not into combat.

[NeuralKernel]

I'm trying with a constrictor and eagle bomber...Nothing... there isn't any cargo, no animated "kaboom"... I can see the gun is shooting straight, it just isn't doing anything...The cannon WAS working just before the v28 release... I see the shot speed has changed, could that be screwing with the mining cannon?

[Loki999]

Try a Viper, i tested in that, worked fine.

[robn]

We increased the laser bolt speed in 28, but I don't think the mining laser were tested. There may be something in the cargo spawn code that assumes a slower bolt rate. I'll check it out as soon as I can.

[NeuralKernel]

Mining works perfectly on Asteroids in the nightly build... Nov 10, f881091...Still can't mine anything from anything bigger than a small asteroid, though... is that by design? No lunar prospecting?

[robn]

'NeuralKernel' wrote:
Still can't mine anything from anything bigger than a small asteroid, though... is that by design? No lunar prospecting?
Mining currently only works the mining laser against an asteroid. No other combinations.

[Loki999]

Just to show mining working under Alpha 28 (actually the nightly but it also worked under base 28).Just had a party on the asteroid, then left without cleaning up <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_biggrin.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />PS: The Hydrogen you can see i didn't mine. It was jettisoned to make room for the water i was collecting.

[NeuralKernel]

Nice! Now... either there needs to be more asteroids/comets generated in star systems or the cannon needs to work on moons! Ideally both... water just isn't THAT rare in the universe <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />And with traffic being much more common... I wonder about space junk cleanup with a cargo scoop...How about missions to collect X number of Y? rubbish from around inhabited planets, water for remote outposts...Spawn a random collection of cargo pods in various orbits every time you get close enough to a celestial body... "mining" without a cannon <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

[wishcraft]

Actually, how do I even find asteroids? More generally, what types of bodies can be mined from and how do I find them? Even more generally, is there some encomapssing mining tutorial? Or would I have to go through the changelogs or something?

[Brianetta]

The only asteroids are those small bodies that you'll see in fixed orbits. Phobos and Diemos count, although you'll get in trouble for shooting them up.There is no tutorial. Full-on mining is a future feature.

[wishcraft]

Right. Yeah I noticed some of the bodies I took to be moons or planets actually count as asteroids. So, mining isnt fully implemented yet...But I could just start shooting at an asteroid with a mining laser and bits will chip off which can be scooped up and sold, in alpha29, is that correct?