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[Blightor]

I have this vague memory of it being part of the features to be in the game, but somehow its seems as if this is not happening?

I know its in mods, but I just wanted to know if its ever going to have an implementation in the main game, especially now with all of the economy and outpost building going on.

Many thanks, and great game and mods!

[Gothars]

Hi, welcome to the forum

I don't really remember if any mining was ever in the "upcoming features" list, but I know that personal "shoot at asteroids" mining was never a planned feature. Instead it was considered to let players set up automatic mining operations which then would have to be managed and defended. You could probably argue that outposts will fulfill that role, I'm sure you will be able to specialize them for mining operations.

[Camael]

Tried to find it, but could not, neither could google, but I am quite certain I remember Alex said he thought about it but found no way to make it interesting so it probably won't happen. Would also be hard to balance, as the amounts produced by Your average mining outposts would dwarf anything the player could pink from some roaming asteroids, same goes for industrial consumption, so it would be quite pointless as unrefined ores are pretty much worthless in the game anyway.

[Blightor]

Thanks for the welcome

Found it back in feb last year on the old favorite wayback machine.  Under Upcoming Features.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160216143745/http://fractalsoftworks.com/

But yeah, I guess its maybe merged into the Industry stuff?

[SCC]

You should be able to make a mining outpost in the future and that's the closest to it. Alex isn't keen on putting a chore mining in his game and since he didn't want to or couldn't put fun asteroids in combat mode, he decided automated mining it is. And, well, there's not much difference between a mining station that just mines resources for you and a mining station that also ships the resources to markets.

[MajorTheRed]

I agree with, still, any mining would be part of the outpost mechanics
Still, it's not impossible that asteroid belt and cluster will be explorable and integrated to the closet outpost if something valuable is found.
Or better (but I'm dreaming) maybe we will able to create space station related to them.
I still think that non-planet stellar features should be part of the exploration mechanics (but not exploitation).