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== Mining overview ==
To construct your station you need metal [[ingots]] and [[Gases_and_Liquids|gases]], which are made from [[ores]] and [[Ores#Frozen_Ores|ice]]s, which are to be extracted from the ground with the means of mining.

== Basic mining guide ==
=== Preparing to the mining trip ===
* Have your life support okay:
** Suit [[battery]], [[Oxygen|breathing air]] [[Gas Canister|canister]] and [[Basic Jetpack|jetpack]] [[canister]].
** Character's [[Food|Nutrition]] and [[Thirst|Hydration]] taken acre off.
* Have your primary [[equipment]]
** [[Mining Drill]], [[Mining Drill (Heavy)]] or [[Pneumatic Mining Drill]] charged.
** [[Mining Belt]] or [[Mining Backpack]] worn to automatically catch ores and ices. Bring a few extra if you can.
* Have your secondary/optional equipment
** [[Tablet]] with [[Tracker]] [[cartridge]] AND a working [[Tracking Beacon]] at home. It will help you get home at night, in storm or if you get lost.
** [[Light]] source: [[Road Flares]]/[[Flare Gun]] or [[Portable Light]]. The [[Helmet|helmet]] light is kinda weak and [[power]] hungry.
** [[Ore Detector]] or [[Sensor Lenses]]. Optional. Ores can be spotted visually well enough.
** [[Food]] and [[Water Bottle|Water]]. While it is unadvised to open the [[helmet]] outside to eat, it won't immediately kill you.
* Be ready for accidents
** Have [[Duct Tape|duct tape]] on you in case you fall in a hole and damage your suit
** A [[Storm]] will hinder your vision greatly and prevent flying.
*** It will also blow away (steal and destroy) items you left by your base. Tidy up and fasten your [[Kit (Crate)|crates]] and [[Portable Gas Tank|tanks]] before you leave.
*** You can mine during the storm if you already are at vein, but finding a new ore patch may be difficult.
** Before you leave your base make sure that nothing is going to overheat, overflow, overpressurize or explode for some other reasons.

=== How to dig ===
# Spot a surface node of the vein of desired ore or ice and approach it.
# If you're unsure what the ore is (e.g. silicone and ice are particular hard to distinguish sometimes) aim at it with your [[drill]] in hand. A note will appear on the screen.
# Look around. Note and remember where your base is.
# Activate your [[Mining Drill]] (right click).
# Aim at the ore and hold left mouse button. The ground start deforming and the ore node will vibrate and eventually disappear into your mining belt.
# Keep removing dull ground roughly 1m around the spot until you find an another node revealed.
# Repeat until you done or the vein is mined out.
# Fly out the hole you made using jetpack ('''j''') or dig a walkable ramp up.
# Turn off the drill to save its battery.

=== Tips ===
Before leaving a partially mined vein make the topmost ore node intact and exposed so you can find it later and distinguish it from an exhausted vein.

You can relocate your ores from the mining belt into your regular inventory (jetpack, [[backpack]], uniform, cardboard boxes, etc), but ices stored not in the special ''ore'' slots will begin to melt and evaporate as soon as outside temperature reaches above zero.

== Means of mining ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Tier !! Tools !! Notes !! Yield !! Automation
|-
| 0 || [[Pickaxe]] || Useless. If you have no batteries you're dead anyway. || 100% || Manual labor
|-
| 1 || [[Mining Drill]] || Basic tool || 100% || No. Auto [[Stacker#Unloader|unloading]] belts at best
|-
| 1 || [[Mining Drill (Heavy)]] and [[Pneumatic Mining Drill]] || Advanced tool. Digs faster. || 100% || No. Auto [[Stacker#Unloader|unloading]] belts at best
|-
| 2 || [[Kit (Autominer Small)|Autominer Small]], [[O.G.R.E.]] || Stationary device || 150%<ref>https://steamcommunity.com/app/544550/discussions/0/592912124322349502/#c663844088187021834</ref>(needs verifying) || Can be automated, needs to be reconstructed and relocated upon exhausting the reachable area.
|-
| 4 || [[Deep Miner]] || Stationary device || infinite resources || Can be automated to work forever, needs supporting machinery
|-
| 5 || [[AIMEe]] || Wandering [[robot]] || 100%? || Requires programing
|-
| 6 || [[Rocket Miner]] || Autonomous [[shuttle]] || infinite resources || Needs supporting machinery
|}

== Priorities ==
=== Iron age ===
At the start game you will need [[Ore_(Iron)|iron]], [[Ore_(Copper)|copper]] and [[Ore_(Silicon)|silicon]]. Even a stack or two of each will do good. If your [[Game_Settings|difficulty]] settings disallow eating and drinking with a helmet on, very very soon you'll need at least 4 [[Ice_(Oxite)|oxite]] pieces to fill a 1x1x1 closet with minimally breathable mix (drop in the [[room]] and melt it with your [[Welding Torch]]).

=== Steel age ===
To operate your [[Furnace]] for the first [[time]], you'll need 150 [[Ore_(Iron)|iron]], 50 [[Ore_(Coal)|coal]], 1 [[Ice_(Oxite)|oxite]] and 2 [[Ice_(Volatiles)|volatiles]] (or 2 and 4 if you're kinda slow or the weather is cold like on [[Europa]]). Of course, you can make less than 200 [[Ingot (Steel)|steel]] in your first batch, but why would you? From now on you'd better grab all the [[iron]] ore you can lay your hand on, not forgetting a corresponding amount of [[coal]]. Your demand for [[Ore_(Copper)|copper]] will gradually rise up from now on.

If you stumble at [[Ore_(Gold)|gold]], [[Ore_(Silver)|silver]] or [[Ore_(Lead)|lead]] — have a stack or two.

Since the [[steel]] lets you build the [[Station Battery]] and a few pieces of [[gold]] and [[copper]] let you hook it up with a [[Cable Coil (Heavy)]] to the [[Solid Fuel Generator]], you now can utilize [[Ore_(Coal)|coal]] for [[energy]] generation if you prefer it over [[Solar Panel]]s.

=== Golden age ===
Further advancement will be impossible without the moderately difficult alloy smelting. Your fist batches of [[Ingot (Solder)|solder]] ([[Ore_(Lead)|lead]]+[[Ore_(Iron)|iron]]) and [[Ingot (Electrum)|electrum]] ([[Ore_(Gold)|gold]]+[[Ore_(Silver)|silver]]) will widen your construction capabilities. Do not overdo it, a stack of each ore will give you enough alloys to play with. Do not forget that [[Ore_(Gold)|gold]] and [[Ore_(Silver)|silver]] are also used in raw non-alloy form, especially the gold.

Also mine [[Ore_(Copper)|copper]], you'll need a lot of it. Less so for the [[Ore_(Silicon)|silicon]], but still.

As your facility grows, you'll need to supply it with gases. Have a stack of [[Ice_(Volatiles)|volatiles]] for your smelting operations. It is up to you which breathable [[air]] mix to use on your station, but if you aim at the realistic (but not strictly required by the game mechanic) composition of 25% [[oxygen]] and 75% [[nitrogen]], then you'll need to mine roughly 4 pieces of [[Ice_(Oxite)|oxite]] and 10 pieces of [[Ice_(Nitrice)|nitrice]]<ref>Warning: raw [[nitrice]] ice contains [[Nitrous_Oxide]] which is harmful and needs to be filtered out</ref> per frame of pressurized volume.

For the life support purposes each player character (of human specie) consumes about 1 [[Ice_(Oxite)|oxite]] ice piece worth of oxygen and 4 [[Ice_(Water)|ice]] pieces worth of [[thirst|water]] per game day.

=== Nickel age ===
[[Ingot (Invar)|Invar]] and [[Ingot (Constantan)|constantan]] are the rest of alloys you can make with the basic furnace. They both need [[Ore_(Nickel)|nickel]] ore.

=== Cobalt age ===
Not all of the [[Advanced Furnace]]'s exclusive smelting recipes require [[Ore_(Cobalt)|cobalt]], but beforehand you had no use for it at all.

Note that so far the [[Ore_(Uranium)|uranium]] has no use in the game.

=== Space age ===
There are ways both to prospect ore veins under the planet surface and to mine asteroids (off screen) using rockets. This guide does not cover that yet.

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	\| 5 \|\| [[AIMEe]] \|\| Wandering [[robot]] \|\| 100%? \|\| Requires programing		\| 5 \|\| [[AIMEe]] \|\| Wandering robot \|\| 100%? \|\| Requires programing
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	\| 6 \|\| [[Rocket Miner]] \|\| Autonomous [[shuttle]] \|\| infinite resources \|\| Needs supporting machinery		\| 6 \|\| [[Rocket Miner]] \|\| Autonomous shuttle \|\| infinite resources \|\| Needs supporting machinery
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	Also mine [[Ore_(Copper)\|copper]], you'll need a lot of it. Less so for the [[Ore_(Silicon)\|silicon]], but still.		Also mine [[Ore_(Copper)\|copper]], you'll need a lot of it. Less so for the [[Ore_(Silicon)\|silicon]], but still.

	As your facility grows, you'll need to supply it with gases. Have a stack of [[Ice_(Volatiles)\|volatiles]] for your smelting operations. It is up to you which breathable [[air]] mix to use on your station, but if you aim at the realistic (but not strictly required by the game mechanic) composition of 25% [[oxygen]] and 75% [[nitrogen]], then you'll need to mine roughly 4 pieces of [[Ice_(Oxite)\|oxite]] and 10 pieces of [[Ice_(Nitrice)\|nitrice]]<ref>Warning: raw [[nitrice]] ice contains [[Nitrous_Oxide]] which is harmful and needs to be filtered out</ref> per frame of pressurized volume.		As your facility grows, you'll need to supply it with gases. Have a stack of [[Ice_(Volatiles)\|volatiles]] for your smelting operations. It is up to you which breathable [[air]] mix to use on your station, but if you aim at the realistic (but not strictly required by the game mechanic) composition of 25% [[oxygen]] and 75% [[nitrogen]], then you'll need to mine roughly 4 pieces of [[Ice_(Oxite)\|oxite]] and 10 pieces of [[Ice_(Nitrice)\|nitrice]]<ref>Warning: raw nitrice ice contains [[Nitrous_Oxide]] which is harmful and needs to be filtered out</ref> per frame of pressurized volume.

	For the life support purposes each player character (of human specie) consumes about 1 [[Ice_(Oxite)\|oxite]] ice piece worth of oxygen and 4 [[Ice_(Water)\|ice]] pieces worth of [[thirst\|water]] per game day.		For the life support purposes each player character (of human specie) consumes about 1 [[Ice_(Oxite)\|oxite]] ice piece worth of oxygen and 4 [[Ice_(Water)\|ice]] pieces worth of [[thirst\|water]] per game day.

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