What do you look for in a mining ship?

[Stormraven]

What kind of functions and capabilities do you like your mining vessels to have? Huge haulers for scraping planets? Smaller, more maneuverable ships for eating asteroid belts? Giant carriers with mining drones?
How do YOU do Salvage?

 

[Brokengauge]

Usually I just drift up to whatever has caught my fancy, get out of my ship, then;

1. Drop a build module
2. Mass collect everything I can see
3. Wonder how long until this method is no longer viable lol

 

[nogg]

I usually meander around a asteroid field in a small mining fleet, usually about 2-4 mining ships with escorts. the main thing I value in my fleets is mobility, seconded by storage and salvage power.

 

[Heillos]

Usually I just drift up to whatever has caught my fancy, get out of my ship, then;

1. Drop a build module
2. Mass collect everything I can see
3. Wonder how long until this method is no longer viable lol

Hate to break it to you, but in the current build (and, indeed, very many before that), this does not work. It hasn't for a while, to the very best of my knowledge, although I couldn't tell you when it was fixed.

 

[kiddan]

Since I usually only go mining for one or two types of resources at a time, I prefer large arrays that suck up an entire asteroid in one shot. Sure, you need quite the storage and have to wait for it to reload. But as least you won't be looking for more of that resource for a while!

 

[Brokengauge]

Hate to break it to you, but in the current build (and, indeed, very many before that), this does not work. It hasn't for a while, to the very best of my knowledge, although I couldn't tell you when it was fixed.

Well, just goes to show how long it's been since I've done it lol. I mostly play in creative mode right now, been planning an RP survival server with a friend, but haven't started it yet. It's good that was removed. Now I have to stop being lazy...

 

[Jarraff]

My mining ships usually have 50000 salvage blocks. 100 blocks for each output for a total of 500 outputs. I mine asteroids and occasionally I will buy a derelict station for the armor blocks. Since the asteroid update I have not bothered with planet mining.

 

[Gasboy]

For the longest time, I would make a ship big and tough enough to handle pirates, with a cannon and lock on missiles as secondary concerns, and a big salvage cannon with lots of cargo room.

But just last night I was working on a mining drone. Figured I would give the fleet thing a try.

 

[Groovrider]

Large array, heavily armed, eats asteroids/pirates.