Remote Mining

More about Mining

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Remote mining is the use of robot miners to remove minerals from uninhabited planets for transfer to your needy, inhabited worlds. You can only perform remote mining on uninhabited worlds, using mining ships that carry robot mining modules. You need to research the technology to create both the hulls and the modules, then design the ships using a miner hull. Place mining modules in the Mining slots when you design the hull. When you're ready to mine, add Mining ships to your production queue.

Alternate Reality Race and Mining Colonized Worlds
Since Alternate Reality races live on starbases, they must remote mine their own worlds.

Remote mining fleets actively engaged in mining report annually on the planet's environment and mineral situation. These ships do not need scanners, unless you want them to be able to detect enemy fleets as well.

Use the Technology Browser (press F2) to learn the research and production requirements for remote miners: look in the Hulls category for the miner hulls, and in the Mining category for the modules.