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Raw Mining Lasers (or short: \c(0d0)R-Mining Lasers\c()) are a special kind of Mining Laser.

R-Mining

To learn more about them, read the chapter on \c(0d0)Refining\c().

There are \c(0d0)Refining Mining Lasers\c() and \c(0d0)Raw Mining Lasers\c().

All \c(0d0)Mining Lasers\c() are made for specific materials and are only capable of mining the next higher and all lower materials.

Special \c(0d0)Salvaging Lasers\c() allow to extract materials and equipment from wreckages.

The ores can then later be refined at a \c(0d0)Resource Depot\c()'s refinery into normal materials.

The ores you collect won't be stored in your bank immediately, but in your \c(0d0)Cargo Bay\c(), so to effectively mine with these lasers, \c(0d0)Cargo Blocks\c() are required on the ship.

It is thanks to their simplicity, that they have a way higher efficiency when it comes to collecting materials.

If your ship has a \c(0d0)Captain\c() you don't have to stay in the same sector, your captain will carry out commands without you there.

Once transformed, the station will only be able to move if put into \c(0d0)Transport Mode\c() and docked to a ship.

While you are in the same sector as one of your ships, you can tell it to carry out small, single target orders like \c(fff)attacking\c() a target, \c(fff)harvesting\c() an asteroid, \c(fff)docking\c() to a station, \c(fff)guarding\c() a spot, or \c(fff)flying\c() to a position or through a gate.

To find asteroids with hidden resources, install an \c(0d0)Object Detector Subsystem\c().

Only a very small percentage of the bland looking asteroids may have resources hidden inside of them and it is generally not worth mining non-resource asteroids.

However, this requires a lot of energy and makes them significantly less effective than \c(0d0)Raw\c() Mining or Salvaging Lasers.