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- Those with Bulk storage that can harvest Crystals, Ice, Nividium and Ore with Surface Miner URVs and an on-board Mining Laser.
- Those with Liquid storage that can harvest Hydrogen, Ions and Plasma with Scoop Collector URVs.
Since the The Player Ship (Skunk) can mount a mining Laser and any ship with a drone bay can equip mining URVs, any ship with an appropriate cargobay can so in practice,any "Trade" ship an appropriate cargobay and drones may work as a Mining Ship in practice. Especially . When Bulk Mining Ships are in "low attention" (essentially OOS) where a Mining Laser isn't even required , Mining Lasers are not even needed by the CPU-friendly code.
There are 3 main types of Mine ships:
- Medium miners, which harvest Bulk or Liquid wares.
- Large miners, which also harvest Bulk or Liquid wares (may be a Large Trade ship - see above).
- The Scaldis (harvests either type; has Mining Lasers) (or re-purposed Trade ships (harvests single or both types, but no mining laserother XL Trade ships - see above).
Ships, and Mining ships in particular, are discussed in more detail here.
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