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These hulls collect natural resources through the use of specialised mining drones. Similarly to the above, L/XL Solid miners use mining lasers mounted on turrets to break up asteroids. Once in range, mining turrets will automatically open fire on asteroids within line-of-site. At this time the player is unable to trigger the release of Mining Drones without handing back control of the ship to the Captain.
Ordering ships to
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mine
All player-owned mining ships can be ordered to mine using the Mine order by right clicking a resource region on the map and selecting the Mine order before left clicking a resource to harvest from the list. They can then be order to sell their wares to stations. Player-owned miing mining ships that have captains with enough skill stars can be set to automatically mine resources and sell them at nearby NPC stations (see "Auto Trading and Auto Mining" section above).
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Some asteroids have surface spots that can be individually mined to release crystals for collection with the Container Magnet (hold the O keyhotkey). The cystals can then be sold to Item Traders (see "Items versus Wares" section above). Depending on rarity, they can be quite valuable.
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