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Player owned ships that have captains with enough skill stars can be set to automatically find profitable transactions or to mine resources and sell them at nearby NPC stations. The AutoTrade and AutoMine behaviours are set as the Default Behaviour under the Behaviour menu (see below for info on mining). As opposed to an order, a behaviour Behaviour is a permanent assignment for a ship until revoked. For AutoTrade and AutoMine the player must specify a whitelist of wares to trade before adjusting the leash range for how far to look for stations to buy and sell at. The ships will then be fully automated allowing the player to divert attention to other tasks.
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These ships collect their wares like other items and wares in space (on contact with the ship).
Those with Solid cargo storage equip a Mining Laser/Turret to break up asteroids into small, collectable mineral fragments.
- The control of Mining Turrets on Medium Ships is explained on the Combat and boardingWeapons page.
Large ships:
- These hulls collect natural resources through the use of specialised drones.
- Those with Solid cargo storage equip a Mining Turret to break up asteroids.
- Once in range, Mining Turrets on Large ships automatically open fire on asteroids within line-of-site.
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- Some asteroids have surface spots that can be individually mined away to release various types of crystals.
- Depending on rarity, crystals can be quite valuable when sold to Item Traders (see "Items versus Wares" section above).
- As with mineral fragments, the Container Magnet can speed up collection.
Manual nebula mining for liquid
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resources
At this time, it is currently not possible to collect resouces from resources from nebulae while the player pilots the ship.